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The Six Shooter

The Six Shooter

By: 30 Classic TV Shows on Radio!
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 The Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures.

Stewart was never better on the air than in this drama of Britt Ponset, frontier drifter created by Frank Burt. The epigraph set it up nicely: "The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged: his skin is sun dyed brown. The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow mother-of-pearl. People call them both The Six Shooter." Ponset was a wanderer, an easy-going gentleman and -- when he had to be -- a gunfighter.

Stewart was right in character as the slow-talking maverick who usually blundered into other people's troubles and sometimes shot his way out. His experiences were broad, but The Six Shooter leaned more to comedy than other shows of its kind. Ponset took time out to play Hamlet with a crude road company. He ran for mayor and sheriff of the same town at the same time. He became involved in a delighful Western version of Cinderella, complete with grouchy stepmother, ugly sisters, and a shoe that didn't fit. And at Christmas he told a young runaway the story of A Christmas Carol, Substituting the original Dickens characters with Western heavies. Britt even had time to fall in love, but it was the age-old story of people from different worlds, and the romance was foredoomed despite their valiant efforts to save it.Copyright 30 Classic TV Shows on Radio! Art World
Episodes
  • 01 The Six Shooter Intro

    01 The Six Shooter Intro
    Feb 24 2025
    2 mins
  • 1954-01-03 Ep 16 A Friend In Need

    1954-01-03 Ep 16 A Friend In Need
    Feb 24 2025
    28 mins
  • 1953-12-27 Ep 15 Cora Plummer Quincy

    1953-12-27 Ep 15 Cora Plummer Quincy
    Feb 24 2025
    29 mins
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