The Six Shooter
by
Steve Napier

Based on Otter Logs Dated Feb 2, 2005

Note: Each episode begins with an intro. After the intro the show itself usually begins with James Stewart as Britt Ponset, The Six-Shooter, narrating or less-often dialogue or narration by someone else. The first lines below are the first lines after the intro. The intro is as follows:

"The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged. His skin is sun-dyed brown. The gun in his holster is grey steel and rainbow mother-of-pearl, it's handle unmarked. People call them both 'The Six-Shooter'".

Date Aired : 53/07/15
Episode Number : ----
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Ben Schofield, Killer
AKA:  Horsehoe Clue, The Sheriff's Son 
First Line : "I hadn’t figured on goin' through Clay City. It was an hour out of my way and I was already a day late for the Jefferson Ranch..."

Date Aired : 53/09/20
Episode Number : 1
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Jenny Garver
AKA:  Love Of A Good Woman
First Line : "It was hot that afternoon. A low crawlin' kind of heat that seemed to be following us as we rode along."

Date Aired : 53/09/27
Episode Number : 2
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Coward
AKA:  Will Fetter, Gunsling Ranch, Will Fetter Is A Coward
First Line : "I had a grandstand seat. A rockin' chair on the front porch of the Temple City Hotel."

Date Aired : 53/10/04
Episode Number : 3
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Stampede
AKA:  The McAdams Brothers, Cattle Drive To Abliene, Rival Brothers
First Line : "There were over 400 head in the McAdam herd. 400 white-faced Texas cattle and only 3 of us to shove 'em along the trail to Abilene."

Date Aired : 53/10/11
Episode Number : 4
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Silver Annie's Mine
AKA:  Annie Hucksley's Mine 
First Line : "The trail to Bircher City was over the crest of Bare Neck Mountain and then down the northern slope."

Date Aired : 53/10/18
Episode Number : 5
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Rink Larkin
AKA:  The Mine, Revenge In Petersville, Sins Of The Father
First Line : "The wind had died down and it was quiet now. Only thing I could hear was the crick tricklin' away..."

Date Aired : 53/10/25
Episode Number : 6
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Red Lawson's Revenge
AKA:  A Bother's Revenge, Red Lawson Wants To Kill Dan Mayler
First Line : "I hadn't seen Mary 'n Dan for purt near 3 years. Not since I left the Panhandle."

Date Aired : 53/11/01
Episode Number : 7
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Ben Scofield, Killer
AKA:  Horseshoe Clue, The Sheriff's Son 
First Line : "The rain had stopped, but the wind still carried slivers of moisture that cut into the boy's face as he rode along the edge of the creek."

Date Aired : 53/11/08
Episode Number : 8
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Capture of Stacy Gault
First Line : "I sure couldn't figure it. I'd ridden down the whole main street all the way from Seth Tooley's Bank to Ma Bensen Grooming house and I hadn't seen a single, solitary person."

Date Aired : 53/11/15
Episode Number : 9
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Escape from Smoke Falls
 AKA:  Love Rivals, Faulk Escapes From Jail, Love Rivals In A Posse
First Line : "I hadn't expected to stay over in Smoke Falls but when I stopped off to see ol' Dad Sommerset and found him all crippled-up with lumbago..."

Date Aired : 53/11/22
Episode Number : 10
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Gabriel Starbuck
AKA:  Put Out To Pasture, Sheriff Gabe
First Line : "How's that Al? Short enough fer ya'? I asked ya' if it was short enough fer ya'.

Date Aired : 53/11/29
Episode Number : 11
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Sheriff Billy Riddle
AKA:  Sheriff Billy, The Sheriff's Old Man
First Line : "The snow was beginnin' to melt by the time I reached Dawson. You could hear it drippin' from the eves and hittin' the boardwalk on the main street."

Date Aired : 53/12/06
Episode Number : 12
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: A Pressing Engagement
AKA:  The Groom, Is Brit Getting Married?
First Line : "Bout the last place I expected to be that Tuesday was the town of Powder Crick."

Date Aired : 53/12/13
Episode Number : 13
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: More Than Kin
AKA:  Barnum And The Thespians, The Actors, Actors Visit Virtue City
First Line : "Confess thee of thy sin Desdemona or indeed thou art to die."

Date Aired : 53/12/20
Episode Number : 14
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Britt Ponset's Christmas Carol
AKA:  A Western Christmas Carol, Christmas Story
First Line : "There was a nip in the air. Not a freezing, biting, angry nip but a sort of tingle that made the morning stars shimmer and swung them out of thier orbits a little closer to the Earth."

Date Aired : 53/12/27
Episode Number : 15
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Cora Plummer Quincy
AKA:  Ned Plummer's Widow
First Line : "The rain shore was comin' down that afternoon in Petersville. It started all of a sudden too."

Date Aired : 54/01/03
Episode Number : 16
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: A Friend in Need
AKA:  Step Brothers, Man On The Run, Fifty Yard Canyon
First Line : "Fifty Yard Canyon, that's what folks called it. Probably there was anoher name, more official written down on a map in the territorial capitol."

Date Aired : 54/01/10
Episode Number : 17
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Hiram's Goldstrike
AKA:  The Prospector
First Line : "It must have been about 4 o'clock in the afternoon when I rode out of the Saucer Mountains and hit the flat...".

Date Aired : 54/01/17
Episode Number : 18
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Silver Belt Buckle
First Line : "The twilight wind carried the sound of the train toward the two figures who waited hidden in the clump of maple trees."

Date Aired : 54/01/24
Episode Number : 19
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Helen Bricker
AKA:  Outlaw's Wife, Mrs Billy Stark
First Line : "The post office at Yellow Crass was in Jim Pincher's General Store. It was just piece of planking and some wooden cubby holes over one side between the soda cracker barrel and the jugs of apple cider."

Date Aired : 54/01/31
Episode Number : 20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Trail to Sunset
AKA:  The Lynching, Wrong Man Lynched, Ace Trassler Lynched
First Line : "It had snowed during the night. A thick, wet snow that bowed the pine trees and banked over the big boulders turnin' them white."

Date Aired : 54/02/07
Episode Number : 21
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Apron Faced Sorrel
AKA:  City Boy, Clay Fenton At The Ranch
First Line : "The 2 PM from Chicago wasn't more than, oh, 'bout 45 minutes late. That was practically a record for this time of year."

Date Aired : 54/02/14
Episode Number : 22
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Quiet City
AKA:  A Town Grows Up, Sheriff's Son Wants To Study Law
First Line : "I sure don't know where the town ever got that name, Quiet City. Every time I came through it was anything but Quiet."

Date Aired : 54/02/21
Episode Number : 23
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Battle at Tower Rock
AKA:  The Blue Ribbon
First Line : "Tower Rock sure was spruced up. Flags on almost every building..."

Date Aired : 54/03/07
Episode Number : 24
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Cheyenne Express
AKA:  Wilbur English, The Gang Falls Out, Black Shooter
First Line : "The fire had almost gone out and the evening chill crept through the chinks in the rough-hewn logs of the cabin walls."

Date Aired : 54/03/14
Episode Number : 25
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Thicker Than Water
AKA:  Gus And Ted Proctor, Gambler's Son
First Line : "I could tell he was a big man from the sound of his steps as he plowed through the trees toward where I was squatted by the fire eatin' my lunch."

Date Aired : 54/03/21
Episode Number : 26
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Duel at Lockwood
AKA:  Wes Singer-Gunslinger, Young Gunslinger, Target-Bret Ponset
First Line : "Whoa. Wes. Wes! What are ya' hollerin' about Jim Cassidy? I'm lookin' for Wes, Mrs. Singer. You know where I can find 'em?"

Date Aired : 54/04/01
Episode Number : 27
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Aunt Ema
AKA:  Aunt Emm From Kansas, Marrying Off Aunt Emm
First Line : "This was my first trip into Powder Crick for oh, oh 3 months I suppose. "

Date Aired : 54/04/08
Episode Number : 28
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: General Gillford's Widow
AKA:  The Widow's Secret
First Line : "We weren't exactly lost, Scar and me, well not completely anyhow."

Date Aired : 54/04/15
Episode Number : 29
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Crisis at Easter Creek
First Line : "[singing] Standin' in the sunshine and the dewey eve. [talk] I hadn't attended a Tuesday evenin' choir practice in quite a spell."

Date Aired : 54/04/22
Episode Number : 30
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Johnny Springer
AKA:  Tracking Down A Killer
First Line : "Well, it sure didn't look like I was goin' to get much sleep that night. The Prospect Hotel was right in the middle of town and from my room I could hear..."

Date Aired : 54/04/29
Episode Number : 31
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Revenge at Harness Creek
AKA:  Harchord Brothers
First Line : "I'd known the Harchord Brothers a good many years. First time I passed through Harness Crick there was just youngsters"

Date Aired : 54/05/06
Episode Number : 32
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Anna Norquest
AKA:  Mail Order Bride, Swedish Bride
First Line : "It was Friday morning when I got to Smoke Falls and my first trip to town in about three months."

Date Aired : 54/05/13
Episode Number : 33
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Double Seven
AKA:  Half-Way Creek, Ranchers Versus Sodbusters
First Line : "Halfway Crick sure wasn't much of a town. Oh there was a general store, cafe, roomin' house, blacksmith shop, that was about all there was to it."

Date Aired : 54/05/20
Episode Number : 34
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Shooting of Wyatt King
AKA:  The Wyoming Kid, Who Shot Wyatt King
First Line : "[knocking] Keep your shirt on. Keep your shirt on. Bank don' open til 9 AM. You got five minutes to wait."

Date Aired : 54/05/27
Episode Number : 35
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Blood Relations
First Line : "It was a little over four years since the last time I worked for the Wilcox Outfit. But when George Wilcox wrote me about his pa's death..."

Date Aired : 54/06/03
Episode Number : 36
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Silver Threads Among The Gold
First Line : "We'll be turnin' in here, Michael. Huh? Long as we're goin' into town anyway we'll be seein'..."

Date Aired : 54/06/10
Episode Number : 37
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The New Sheriff
AKA:  Virtue City Election, Write In Candidate
First Line : "Well, at first I didn't know what I was gettin' into. The town of Virtue City had never looked like this afore."

Date Aired : 54/06/17
Episode Number : 38
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: When the Shoe Doesn't Fit
 AKA:  Shades Of Cinderella, Western Cinderella
First Line : "It was about seven o'clock on a Saturday evening, and I was ridin' down the East Trail that led from Council City over to Crown Ranch."

Date Aired : 54/06/24
Episode Number : 39
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Myra Barker
First Line : [dog barking] "Lem. Lem Pruitt. Oh Where are ya' Lem? this stall here Britt. I'm currying down one of my mares."


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