The Six Shooter - Single Episodes

<blockquote> <p align="center"><i><u><b><font size="4">THE SIX SHOOTER</font></b></u></i></p> <i>The Six Shooter</i> brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures. <br /><br /> 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. <br /><br /> 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 <i>The Six Shooter</i> leaned more to comedy than other shows of its kind. Ponset took time out to play <i>Hamlet</i> 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 <i>Cinderella</i>, complete with grouchy stepmother, ugly sisters, and a shoe that didn't fit. And at Christmas he told a young runaway the story of <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, 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. <br /><br /> So we got a cowboy-into-the-sunset ending for this series, truly one of the bright spots of radio. Unfortunately, it came too late, and lasted only one season. <br /><br /> It was a transcribed show, sustained by NBC and directed by Jack Johnstone. Basil Adlam provided the music and Frank Burt wrote the scripts. Hal Gibney announced. <br /><br /><font size="1">Information from John Dunning’s "Tune In Yesterday The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio".</font> <hr /><p><i><b><font size="3">NOTE: Updated with Version 5.1 files (09-Jan-2020).</font></b></i></p> <p><i><b><font size="2">NOTE: Updated with Version 5 files (25-Feb-2011).</font></b></i></p> <hr /> From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR. </blockquote>