Gabriel Starbuck

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Britt visits a town where the sheriff, Gabe, is aging and facing replacement. The townspeople want to appoint a new sheriff, but they hesitate to break the news to Gabe. Britt refuses to help deliver the difficult message, leaving the town in a moral quandary.

Britt comes to a town where the old sheriff, Gabe, is getting too old for the job and needs to be replaced. The townspeople want to pick a new sheriff, but they don't want to hurt Gabe's feelings by telling him. When they ask Britt to help them break the bad news to Gabe, he says no, leaving the town stuck with a tough choice.

The Six Shooter is a United States Western old-time radio program starring James Stewart as a gunfighter. It was created by Frank Burt, who also wrote many of the episodes, and lasted only one season of 39 episodes on NBC. Initially, it was broadcast on Sundays at 9:30 pm Eastern Time, through October 11. Then it was heard at 8:30 pm for three weeks. Finally, on November 8, 1953, through March 21, 1954, it was broadcast Sundays at 8 pm; beginning April 1, 1954, through the final episode, it was on Thursdays at 8:30 pm. One old-time radio directory called the program "a last, desperate effort by a radio network (NBC) to maintain interest in adventure drama by employing a major Hollywood movie star in the leading role."

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