The Six Shooter - Single Episodes
by Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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<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 ra