The Town That Dreaded Sundown

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Texarkana becomes The Town That Dreaded Sundown after a psycho with a sack over his head starts terrorizing couples necking in secluded makeout spots. Can Oscar-winning Ranger Ben Johnson (Last Picture Show) expect to lead the largest manhunt in US history to this Phantom Killer if his klutzy driver can’t even keep the patrol car on the twisty gravel backroads? And did Dawn Wells survive three seasons of Gilligan’s Island just to be shot dead in her kitchen? Listen and find out if this 1976 docudrama sheds new light on the unsolved 1946 true story.

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0:00.0	It was Sunday, March 3rd, 1946, the beginning of a reign of terror for the people of Texarkana
0:13.0	and surrounding areas of Arkansas and Texas, a terror so indelibly imprinted that today, 30 years later, people still speak of it fearfully.
0:24.9	The incredible story you are about to see is true, where it happened, and how it happened.
0:31.5	Only the names have been changed.
0:35.8	Welcome to now playing podcasts, The Town That Treaded Sundown, Retrospective series.
0:42.7	And then they did retrospective.
0:44.7	A review chosen by now playing patron, Sean Ray.
0:48.8	Glad to know you, sir.
0:51.0	Hosted by Arnie.
0:52.6	Fact is, Chief.
0:53.8	The only thing we really do know is that we've got a very strange person on our hands.
0:59.0	Stuart.
1:00.2	He was the boogeyman, they said.
1:03.2	And Jacob.
1:04.7	The big man himself.
1:06.4	Living legend.
1:07.6	But be warned, this episode will contain detailed plot spoilers and strong language.
1:12.6	I want my entire team to hear what you have to say. If you think it's important, we think it's important.
1:17.6	We hope you enjoy the show.
1:20.6	I must say they do know how to please a man.
1:38.8	Today we're discussing the town that dreaded sundown, starring Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, directed by Charles B. Pierce.
1:43.5	This is the now-playing co-host with a strange, sadistic imagination, Arnie.
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