Dr. Sixgun
"Across the rugged Indian Territory, rides a tall young man on a mission of mercy; his medical bag strapped on one hip and his six-shooter on the other. This is Dr. Sixgun. Grey Matson, M.D. was the gun-toting frontier doctor who roamed the length and breadth of the old Indian territory; friend and physician to white man and Indian alike, the symbol of justice and mercy in the lawless west of the 1870s.”
Dr. Sixgun is an American Western radio drama that aired on NBC from September 2, 1954 to October 13, 1955 as a 30-minute sustaining series. All known surviving episodes of Dr. Sixgun are from rebroadcasts from the Far Eastern Network in Japan of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Dr. Grey Matson, played by Karl Weber, is a frontier physician based in a small western town in the 1870s called Frenchman's Ford. The stories are told by a recurring character named Pablo, played by Bill Griffis, a gypsy peddler who has a talking raven named Midnight as his sidekick. As his name implied, Matson was equally at home with using a gun or using his medical skills to solve problems.
Stories include the topics of immigrants in the "The Night Riders", gun control in "No Guns in Rail End", and water rights in the show "Valuable Water Rights".
The series was written by Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts. The announcer is Fred Collins and was directed by Harry Frazee.
Dr. Sixgun is fully restored by Radio Archives for outstanding audio quality.
#1 Mody Pony, Poisoned
Thursday, July 1, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#2 Jerrod P. Kale / High Finance
Thursday, July 8, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#3 Belle and the Baby
Thursday, July 15, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#4 Colonel Turo and Harvey Frazier
Thursday, July 22, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#5 Trouble at Ft. Apache
Thursday, July 29, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#6 Fred Garth is Accused of Murder
Thursday, August 5, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#7 Valuable Water Rights
Thursday, August 12, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#8 The Night Riders
Thursday, August 19, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#9 The Last of the Aztecs
Thursday, August 26, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#10 No Guns in Rail End
Thursday, September 2, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#11 Pop Wheddon
Thursday, September 9, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#13 Ringo Kane
Thursday, September 23, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#14 Jeb Oliver
Thursday, September 30, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#15 Schoolteacher
Thursday, October 7, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#16 Sing-For-A-Drink-Cowboy
Sunday, December 12, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#17 A Pony for Christmas
Sunday, December 19, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#31 Trial for Willie the Mouse
Sunday, March 27, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
#38 Murders Landowner for Watering Hole
Sunday, 1955 - 30:00 - NBC/AFRS, sustaining
