July 29, 2025 • 24 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will spoke, starring William Conrad, the story
(00:44):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first man
they look for and the last.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
They want to meet.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's a chance that it makes a man watchful and
a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
If you're going, you want me to keep this parking
built up.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Here?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You're going, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well what you say, Chester, I say, do you want
me to keep this fire going on the court? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
No, let it go out. Oh I've got this shoe
shape right now. I never will you know, Quincian to say,
hort fits your own horse.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Next thing, you'll be cutting your own hair. Haircuts different,
I said, hold him studying. Now, let's see how the
shoe fits.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Huh and e boy a hole?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Why is it different? Mitter, Dan?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Not? A bad haircut will never leave you a stranded
on the prairie. Twenty miles from dodge reach me that hammer?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Will you here?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You are.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Dreamy?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Gain that bad blacksmith.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Our moss is all right, but I can still right
easier when I shot the horse myself with spinnaka.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That's all? Oh maybe masters all on my horse.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I ain't throwed but one shoe in the.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Last six months. Yeah, that's just one too many.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
There. Oh ho, I I'll tremble the hoof now and
I'll stay on till the wears off. After all that
trouble at ar two, I swear to goodness mister Jill
night here. Yeah, I guess so, celebrity stable. I'll give
my extra half rash and grain the road hard today.
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How's that saw where you come in from? Man gotta
tell his life history before he can leave a horse.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, all you gotta do is find the stable man.
Ain't you him?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
He's up the street and getting himself a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'm a marshal.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh I didn't mean no offense, marsh that's none taken.
My name is Argo, Ben Argo might be proud to
make your acquaintance.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How do you doing.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I was aiming to come looking for you as soon
as I got my horse. Took care Why you see
these These are saddle bags.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, what about him?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They look kindly heavy, they are. I got a year's
hard work up north to here, Goldhill diggings, and them sacks,
but near fifteen thousand dollars splash of gold.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh hell huh.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
They had quite a strike up there. Oh it's bigger
though a few months a hard work, a man could
quit rich, providing he is lucky enough to keep what
he makes. Now, what do you mean, oh, Marshall, there's
more crooks and outlaws up there, and there is honest miners.
The only way I hung on to this was taken
out to the diggings with me in the daytime, and
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sleep on at nights with a gun in my hand.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I aggress, easy, I go.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Things are different here in Dodge maybe, so still like
to put these saddle bags up in a safe place
for the night. I'm leaving tomorrow. Kind of like to
be free to look the town over this evening. Never
been here before, and the bank's already closed.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The fellow downstreet tells me there's a store keeper takes
care of for folks. Sometime I thought it'd be Wilbert Jonas,
but only in case of an emergency, like when the
stage passengers hit tom Leach and know some of that kind.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well, Marshall, maybe you could tell him that this is
an emergency. How is it?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I ain't a man to spook easy, But there's fellas
up in gold Hill. Know how much I left with?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Know where I was headed? I might have been followed.
All right, I're go.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'll send Mars to take care of your horse, and
you meet me over Jonas's store.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I'll wait for you there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I'm much oblige.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Marshall's no trouble.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Come on, Chester is mighty grateful to both of you.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You think somebody could have follered him and the dog,
Mitch John.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I don't know. Chester just depends on what his reasons
are for lyon Lion. Yeah, what are you gonna do
about him?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
For the time being, nothing's gonna happen a week. Look,
you better take him around and keep an eye on
him anyway, Yes, sir mister John, Hello, there, aren't you
(06:19):
that memory expert?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yes, I guess I am. At the What are you
committing to memory? Now?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I'm reminding myself to get my wife a new ID card.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yes, she needs it to get medical care under the
Dependence Medical Care Program.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And how do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What to get your wife a new ID card so
she can use medicare? Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
By association, I association, I associate.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
What were we talking about making sure your dependents have
an ID card?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I associate cards with thinking, thinking with headaches, headaches with pain,
and pain with doctors.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And then, just to be sure, I've already down, And
this is.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Little book you. Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I could have sworn. I brought it with me.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
For more about Medicare.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Get the pamphlet Dependence Medical Care Program. Look at that?
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Look at it? That doesn't that's the final straw. Look
at that hold you mad?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Look at what the.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Stuff they slap on a place and call food in
this town.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Just look at that. What you don't like?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Beef steak?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Beef steak, Matt, that is buffalo, Buffalo's good mate. Not
when it's a seven year old bull and tough in
the cavalry boot match you or something.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, I am pulling steaks. Yes i am.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm going back east, I'd say. Last time he just
said that was about a month ago. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I mean it's I am through riding herd on a
bunch of shiftless, no good prairie rats that never pay
their doctor bills. Nothing but drifters, cutthroats, saddle.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I thought I was the food jib Jack said too.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I could be living like a civilized human being back east,
eating at all the finest restaurants in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh like Bernheimer's.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
They passes sugar with you here. Yes, I could go
back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yes I could, And by Heaven, I think i'll do
it too. I'm going to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I am not taking another case in this town, not one.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And our doc is gonna be kind of hard to
get used to. Shaven, regular, talking, polite, putting.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
On clean shirts and keeping your color.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
But I haven't always lived like a roughneck sidbuster. I
don't know how to act like a gentleman. Why when
I came out of medical school, I was one of
the most promises.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Here you are, Doc Chester. I thought you were with
the long branch keeping an eye on Ben.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I go, oh, yes, I was till he snuck out,
mister Dillon. See what snuck out? See there's a couple
of men come in, and I heard him ask him
for him. When I looked around, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But we don't have to worry that Mitchdonia.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
He ain't gonna leave town, not why he's got all
that gold, and mister Jones is safe.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I guess you're right, sid Doc. What I come for
is you're wanted out at the Renser place?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
What for?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Because Ms Rensler is about to have a baby.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They sent word for you.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
By golly, isn't I I forgot she was that close
handing that bag. You Yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Pray gone, Well, I'm going on to the Where the
time is you think I'm going back east?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Just said?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, I I couldn't even vetown game.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Why are you?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Shut up the.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Good night die?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, come on Chester, let's go over to the Long
Branch and have a talk with those men.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Now, I'm glad you dropped in, Matt.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I'm just gonna send for you what I finally came
a month later, course, and only one instead of six,
But I guess it's better.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Than none.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
One. What kitty? What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Deer?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But beer?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Just one barrel came in on the Santa Fey today.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Oh, by dog on, let's kidding mym off in.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Water and for a month you and five hundred other Menchester,
you better hurry, not gonna last long, how about.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You, Matt.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Couldn't we just take time for one glass?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Then?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Fellas ain't going no worries right away? You go ahead, Chester,
I'll join you in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yes, or I'll be right down there next to the burro.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Say, Kitty, you know those two men down there at
the end of the bar.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I came in about an hour ago. I've never seen
him before, prospectors, I think, somebody said from the way.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Up around gold Hill.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I see they were asking for somebody named Van Argo,
but I'd never heard of him either.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
They don't look very much like.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Prospectors, do they matter.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I'll see a little later, Kitty, I say, glasses beer
from me?
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Sure, but you better hurry, mass.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Ainty Marshall, mister Jonas, you care to join me in
the glass a little later?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Very well?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
How are you, gentlemen? I understand you just got in
from gold Hill. Mister.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
If you're looking for talk, go find somebody else. You're
a partner, feel the same way you heard him. You
boys are pretty edgy, aren't you. You got some reasons
for him? Suppose that bad you're wearing means you're the
Marshall around here.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, that's right. My name is Dylan, Matt Dylan.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
My mine's Pete Wells. My friend here is Rocky Martin. Look,
you ain't got any business with us, Marshall. We just
hit the time and we don't know a soul here,
not even ben Igo never heard no Ben Argyll.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I thought you might have followed him from Gold Hill.
I said, we never heard of.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Him, and you wouldn't know that he was carrying fifteen
thousand dollars in gold Look, Marshalls, so naturally you wouldn't
be thinking of trying to take it away.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
From him, won't you?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Why should we? What kind of menu you think we are?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Not?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
If you boys just happened to meet anybody with ideas
like that, you tell him to forget it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Because we got laws here in Dudge City.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It's been real nice talking to you, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Rock don't leave on my account.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Figure, me and Rocky better turn in before we break
one of them laws, yours anything, It fell up to something.
I don't know for suree on us, but they're lying,
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Ben Our goal is lying too, and I'm not just
sure why.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Ben I go the fellow who put his goal my safe.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah. He told me he thought he might have been
followed from gold Hill.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That's better than four hundred miles.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And then these men ride in and ask for our goal,
and now they tell me that they don't even know him.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I'm going to stop letting people use my save.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Marshall.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I got nearly forty thousand dollars in it tonight, and
that's too much to be responsible for forty But you
got that much money, fella.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I had accommodated before.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Gold Buyer from East he got in on the late
stage this evening, and Hevin Marshall.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He came down from gold Hill too.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now that I think of it, well, I maybe the
two of them another visit with Joe and definitely foresight.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Joe, Honey, uh huh, Joe Darling, put down the paper.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
I've got something important to ask you, okay, Joe, all right,
all right? What how many savings bonds do we have?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
What kind of a question is that a good one?
How many? I'm not sure I'd have to count, and
I'm reading the paper, and what do you want to know? For?
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Have we got enough to make things comfortable for us?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Very comfortable?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's why buying a payroll savings plan upon the month
will give us quite a mistake for the future.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Enough for a college education eventually.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But who's going to college our children? Silly, we don't
have any yet.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh what do you mean? Oh, better buy some more bonds, honey, Daphne,
You mean we've got a new investment. How about that?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, let me throw here? What do you please get
out of the way? What do you let me throw?
Told you somebody followed me.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Marshall had jumped me, the two of them right here
in the street.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
All right, I go. Let me have a look at it.
I must have figured I was packing.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
That gold around with me.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, well that's one of them fellas.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Who's in the long branch what you're doing? His name
is Martin according to his partner. That's turning more riches. Yes, sir,
let me go see if dogs left you what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
There's no hurry.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Me.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
He's dead? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Or the other one go? I go, dang?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
If ID know, just lit out like.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
A scared rabbit.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
He didn't have such easy mark as they thought.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I reckon, have you ever seen him before? Why?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Shore up around gold Hill? The other one's name is
Pete Wells got a bad reputation up there, is that
some h well, the prospect you've never done days work
in their life, just rob off of them. It does
how they missed this time. But it's luck, is all.
I just got a glimpse of them, and they stepped
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out of little shadows over there, and then give me
just enough edge to beat him. I said, I've been
for that. I'd be the one laying dead right here
in the streets. Yeah, I had to hunt. Somebody was
going to make a truck for that gold Well. I
guess the next thing to those around up Pete Wells,
one killing a night is enough. You figure he's still
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around somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised. I'm going to try
to get even, Marshall. I ain't safe here. I'm not
going to wait until morning. I'm gonna pull stakes and
ride out of here tonight. Maybe that's what he wants you. No, No,
it ain't the last thing he'd be looking for. And
when he does find out, he won't know which way
I headed.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
That's up to you.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'll be out of here in ten minutes, Marshall, provided
you find that storekeeper for me. So I get my
goal out of hiss safe, and I'll have to look
around for him. May take a little time, all right,
but you John, I thought he was back to Chester.
Suppose you stay with Argo in case Pete Wells has
another try at him.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Man, all right, Well it will.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Take long, will live Marshall, soon as I get out
of dodge easier outfield.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
No, I don't think it'll take very long.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Suppose you and Chester made me over at Jonas's store
in about thirty minutes. I think you're there waiting for us.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, looks that way that you, mister.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Jon That's right Chester to find the storekeeper. Marshall, yes,
he did. I go.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
If you have a habit of bothering folks in the
middle of the night, I'll thank you to keep your
valuables elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Sho Fred.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
They likely I'll be coming through here again.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
And I see now it was just the key.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Come in, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yes, sir, the only burglar proof safe between here and
Kansas City, not counting bank boss, of course.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And I just hope I can remember the new combination.
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And don't worry.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I go.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
He always said that when he opened been saying it
for six months evers as he got this news.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Safe here Mmm, back to here and then order.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Well let's see now his bag in front belongs to
someone else. The buyer knows are yours right behind it?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
If I can reach you take them all out. You
get your hands up, Marshall, you too all three a year.
What do you think you're up to? Nobody says Chester,
got your hands up. This is what you were after
all along, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Argo. They got your hands on that buyer's money.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's right, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I know he was on his way here from gold Hill.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Noody only leaves his cash overnight in his store keeper safe,
so you put that gold to yours in the safe,
so you have a reason.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
They get Jonas to open it later.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Figure things out this fine, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
After it's too late to do any good.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I know you well lie on the minute I met you,
but I had to wait and find out what you
were up to.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Lion.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh, yes, said you've been working a plaster claim all
that she made a big mistake by shaking hands with me.
Your hands were as soft as a baby's. Mm I
suppose you stole the gold? Why? Sure? From Wells and Martin.
That's why they come after me. Of course, Welles don't
trust the law.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He'd told you. I think he trusted. Now you're covered,
are doing drop that guy?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Wells? You found me, Marshall, You set me up on this,
says why you stole me off?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Do what he says, drop your kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Drop me a pool. There wasn't nothing else to do.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Marshall, No, there wasn't.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
He didn't give Rocky no chance at all before he
tried that kind of fool move.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You ought to remembered Rocky.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He remembered, all right, That's why he tried to kill you.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You bet he remembered.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Gun Smoke, Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. The script was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
Rex Cory. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
And Bill James.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Featured in the cast were Parley Bayer as Chester, Howard
McGear as Doc, and Georgia Eliss kidding George Walls speaking
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Speaker 2 (24:00):
In intent, put
Speaker 4 (24:05):
On impact is opening or a pot of appla
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will spoke, starring William Conrad, the story
(00:44):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first man
they look for and the last.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
They want to meet.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's a chance that it makes a man watchful and
a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
If you're going, you want me to keep this parking
built up.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Here?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You're going, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well what you say, Chester, I say, do you want
me to keep this fire going on the court? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
No, let it go out. Oh I've got this shoe
shape right now. I never will you know, Quincian to say,
hort fits your own horse.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Next thing, you'll be cutting your own hair. Haircuts different,
I said, hold him studying. Now, let's see how the
shoe fits.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Huh and e boy a hole?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Why is it different? Mitter, Dan?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Not? A bad haircut will never leave you a stranded
on the prairie. Twenty miles from dodge reach me that hammer?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Will you here?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You are.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Dreamy?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Gain that bad blacksmith.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Our moss is all right, but I can still right
easier when I shot the horse myself with spinnaka.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That's all? Oh maybe masters all on my horse.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I ain't throwed but one shoe in the.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Last six months. Yeah, that's just one too many.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
There. Oh ho, I I'll tremble the hoof now and
I'll stay on till the wears off. After all that
trouble at ar two, I swear to goodness mister Jill
night here. Yeah, I guess so, celebrity stable. I'll give
my extra half rash and grain the road hard today.
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How's that saw where you come in from? Man gotta
tell his life history before he can leave a horse.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, all you gotta do is find the stable man.
Ain't you him?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
He's up the street and getting himself a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'm a marshal.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh I didn't mean no offense, marsh that's none taken.
My name is Argo, Ben Argo might be proud to
make your acquaintance.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How do you doing.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I was aiming to come looking for you as soon
as I got my horse. Took care Why you see
these These are saddle bags.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, what about him?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They look kindly heavy, they are. I got a year's
hard work up north to here, Goldhill diggings, and them sacks,
but near fifteen thousand dollars splash of gold.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh hell huh.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
They had quite a strike up there. Oh it's bigger
though a few months a hard work, a man could
quit rich, providing he is lucky enough to keep what
he makes. Now, what do you mean, oh, Marshall, there's
more crooks and outlaws up there, and there is honest miners.
The only way I hung on to this was taken
out to the diggings with me in the daytime, and
(04:36):
sleep on at nights with a gun in my hand.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I aggress, easy, I go.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Things are different here in Dodge maybe, so still like
to put these saddle bags up in a safe place
for the night. I'm leaving tomorrow. Kind of like to
be free to look the town over this evening. Never
been here before, and the bank's already closed.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The fellow downstreet tells me there's a store keeper takes
care of for folks. Sometime I thought it'd be Wilbert Jonas,
but only in case of an emergency, like when the
stage passengers hit tom Leach and know some of that kind.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well, Marshall, maybe you could tell him that this is
an emergency. How is it?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I ain't a man to spook easy, But there's fellas
up in gold Hill. Know how much I left with?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Know where I was headed? I might have been followed.
All right, I're go.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'll send Mars to take care of your horse, and
you meet me over Jonas's store.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I'll wait for you there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I'm much oblige.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Marshall's no trouble.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Come on, Chester is mighty grateful to both of you.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You think somebody could have follered him and the dog,
Mitch John.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I don't know. Chester just depends on what his reasons
are for lyon Lion. Yeah, what are you gonna do
about him?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
For the time being, nothing's gonna happen a week. Look,
you better take him around and keep an eye on
him anyway, Yes, sir mister John, Hello, there, aren't you
(06:19):
that memory expert?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yes, I guess I am. At the What are you
committing to memory? Now?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I'm reminding myself to get my wife a new ID card.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yes, she needs it to get medical care under the
Dependence Medical Care Program.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And how do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What to get your wife a new ID card so
she can use medicare? Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
By association, I association, I associate.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
What were we talking about making sure your dependents have
an ID card?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I associate cards with thinking, thinking with headaches, headaches with pain,
and pain with doctors.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And then, just to be sure, I've already down, And
this is.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Little book you. Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I could have sworn. I brought it with me.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
For more about Medicare.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Get the pamphlet Dependence Medical Care Program. Look at that?
(07:41):
Look at it? That doesn't that's the final straw. Look
at that hold you mad?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Look at what the.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Stuff they slap on a place and call food in
this town.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Just look at that. What you don't like?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Beef steak?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Beef steak, Matt, that is buffalo, Buffalo's good mate. Not
when it's a seven year old bull and tough in
the cavalry boot match you or something.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, I am pulling steaks. Yes i am.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm going back east, I'd say. Last time he just
said that was about a month ago. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I mean it's I am through riding herd on a
bunch of shiftless, no good prairie rats that never pay
their doctor bills. Nothing but drifters, cutthroats, saddle.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I thought I was the food jib Jack said too.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I could be living like a civilized human being back east,
eating at all the finest restaurants in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh like Bernheimer's.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
They passes sugar with you here. Yes, I could go
back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yes I could, And by Heaven, I think i'll do
it too. I'm going to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I am not taking another case in this town, not one.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And our doc is gonna be kind of hard to
get used to. Shaven, regular, talking, polite, putting.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
On clean shirts and keeping your color.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
But I haven't always lived like a roughneck sidbuster. I
don't know how to act like a gentleman. Why when
I came out of medical school, I was one of
the most promises.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Here you are, Doc Chester. I thought you were with
the long branch keeping an eye on Ben.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I go, oh, yes, I was till he snuck out,
mister Dillon. See what snuck out? See there's a couple
of men come in, and I heard him ask him
for him. When I looked around, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But we don't have to worry that Mitchdonia.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
He ain't gonna leave town, not why he's got all
that gold, and mister Jones is safe.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I guess you're right, sid Doc. What I come for
is you're wanted out at the Renser place?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
What for?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Because Ms Rensler is about to have a baby.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They sent word for you.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
By golly, isn't I I forgot she was that close
handing that bag. You Yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Pray gone, Well, I'm going on to the Where the
time is you think I'm going back east?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Just said?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, I I couldn't even vetown game.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Why are you?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Shut up the.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Good night die?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, come on Chester, let's go over to the Long
Branch and have a talk with those men.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Now, I'm glad you dropped in, Matt.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I'm just gonna send for you what I finally came
a month later, course, and only one instead of six,
But I guess it's better.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Than none.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
One. What kitty? What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Deer?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But beer?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Just one barrel came in on the Santa Fey today.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Oh, by dog on, let's kidding mym off in.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Water and for a month you and five hundred other Menchester,
you better hurry, not gonna last long, how about.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You, Matt.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Couldn't we just take time for one glass?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Then?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Fellas ain't going no worries right away? You go ahead, Chester,
I'll join you in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yes, or I'll be right down there next to the burro.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Say, Kitty, you know those two men down there at
the end of the bar.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I came in about an hour ago. I've never seen
him before, prospectors, I think, somebody said from the way.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Up around gold Hill.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I see they were asking for somebody named Van Argo,
but I'd never heard of him either.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
They don't look very much like.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Prospectors, do they matter.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I'll see a little later, Kitty, I say, glasses beer
from me?
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Sure, but you better hurry, mass.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Ainty Marshall, mister Jonas, you care to join me in
the glass a little later?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Very well?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
How are you, gentlemen? I understand you just got in
from gold Hill. Mister.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
If you're looking for talk, go find somebody else. You're
a partner, feel the same way you heard him. You
boys are pretty edgy, aren't you. You got some reasons
for him? Suppose that bad you're wearing means you're the
Marshall around here.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, that's right. My name is Dylan, Matt Dylan.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
My mine's Pete Wells. My friend here is Rocky Martin. Look,
you ain't got any business with us, Marshall. We just
hit the time and we don't know a soul here,
not even ben Igo never heard no Ben Argyll.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I thought you might have followed him from Gold Hill.
I said, we never heard of.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Him, and you wouldn't know that he was carrying fifteen
thousand dollars in gold Look, Marshalls, so naturally you wouldn't
be thinking of trying to take it away.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
From him, won't you?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Why should we? What kind of menu you think we are?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Not?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
If you boys just happened to meet anybody with ideas
like that, you tell him to forget it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Because we got laws here in Dudge City.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It's been real nice talking to you, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Rock don't leave on my account.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Figure, me and Rocky better turn in before we break
one of them laws, yours anything, It fell up to something.
I don't know for suree on us, but they're lying,
(13:54):
Ben Our goal is lying too, and I'm not just
sure why.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Ben I go the fellow who put his goal my safe.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah. He told me he thought he might have been
followed from gold Hill.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That's better than four hundred miles.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And then these men ride in and ask for our goal,
and now they tell me that they don't even know him.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I'm going to stop letting people use my save.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Marshall.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I got nearly forty thousand dollars in it tonight, and
that's too much to be responsible for forty But you
got that much money, fella.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I had accommodated before.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Gold Buyer from East he got in on the late
stage this evening, and Hevin Marshall.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He came down from gold Hill too.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now that I think of it, well, I maybe the
two of them another visit with Joe and definitely foresight.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Joe, Honey, uh huh, Joe Darling, put down the paper.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
I've got something important to ask you, okay, Joe, all right,
all right? What how many savings bonds do we have?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
What kind of a question is that a good one?
How many? I'm not sure I'd have to count, and
I'm reading the paper, and what do you want to know? For?
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Have we got enough to make things comfortable for us?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Very comfortable?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's why buying a payroll savings plan upon the month
will give us quite a mistake for the future.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Enough for a college education eventually.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But who's going to college our children? Silly, we don't
have any yet.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh what do you mean? Oh, better buy some more bonds, honey, Daphne,
You mean we've got a new investment. How about that?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, let me throw here? What do you please get
out of the way? What do you let me throw?
Told you somebody followed me.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Marshall had jumped me, the two of them right here
in the street.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
All right, I go. Let me have a look at it.
I must have figured I was packing.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
That gold around with me.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, well that's one of them fellas.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Who's in the long branch what you're doing? His name
is Martin according to his partner. That's turning more riches. Yes, sir,
let me go see if dogs left you what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
There's no hurry.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Me.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
He's dead? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Or the other one go? I go, dang?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
If ID know, just lit out like.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
A scared rabbit.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
He didn't have such easy mark as they thought.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I reckon, have you ever seen him before? Why?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Shore up around gold Hill? The other one's name is
Pete Wells got a bad reputation up there, is that
some h well, the prospect you've never done days work
in their life, just rob off of them. It does
how they missed this time. But it's luck, is all.
I just got a glimpse of them, and they stepped
(17:38):
out of little shadows over there, and then give me
just enough edge to beat him. I said, I've been
for that. I'd be the one laying dead right here
in the streets. Yeah, I had to hunt. Somebody was
going to make a truck for that gold Well. I
guess the next thing to those around up Pete Wells,
one killing a night is enough. You figure he's still
(18:00):
around somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised. I'm going to try
to get even, Marshall. I ain't safe here. I'm not
going to wait until morning. I'm gonna pull stakes and
ride out of here tonight. Maybe that's what he wants you. No, No,
it ain't the last thing he'd be looking for. And
when he does find out, he won't know which way
I headed.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
That's up to you.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'll be out of here in ten minutes, Marshall, provided
you find that storekeeper for me. So I get my
goal out of hiss safe, and I'll have to look
around for him. May take a little time, all right,
but you John, I thought he was back to Chester.
Suppose you stay with Argo in case Pete Wells has
another try at him.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Man, all right, Well it will.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Take long, will live Marshall, soon as I get out
of dodge easier outfield.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
No, I don't think it'll take very long.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Suppose you and Chester made me over at Jonas's store
in about thirty minutes. I think you're there waiting for us.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, looks that way that you, mister.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Jon That's right Chester to find the storekeeper. Marshall, yes,
he did. I go.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
If you have a habit of bothering folks in the
middle of the night, I'll thank you to keep your
valuables elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Sho Fred.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
They likely I'll be coming through here again.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
And I see now it was just the key.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Come in, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yes, sir, the only burglar proof safe between here and
Kansas City, not counting bank boss, of course.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And I just hope I can remember the new combination.
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And don't worry.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I go.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
He always said that when he opened been saying it
for six months evers as he got this news.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Safe here Mmm, back to here and then order.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Well let's see now his bag in front belongs to
someone else. The buyer knows are yours right behind it?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
If I can reach you take them all out. You
get your hands up, Marshall, you too all three a year.
What do you think you're up to? Nobody says Chester,
got your hands up. This is what you were after
all along, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Argo. They got your hands on that buyer's money.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's right, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I know he was on his way here from gold Hill.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Noody only leaves his cash overnight in his store keeper safe,
so you put that gold to yours in the safe,
so you have a reason.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
They get Jonas to open it later.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Figure things out this fine, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
After it's too late to do any good.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I know you well lie on the minute I met you,
but I had to wait and find out what you
were up to.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Lion.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh, yes, said you've been working a plaster claim all
that she made a big mistake by shaking hands with me.
Your hands were as soft as a baby's. Mm I
suppose you stole the gold? Why? Sure? From Wells and Martin.
That's why they come after me. Of course, Welles don't
trust the law.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He'd told you. I think he trusted. Now you're covered,
are doing drop that guy?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Wells? You found me, Marshall, You set me up on this,
says why you stole me off?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Do what he says, drop your kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Drop me a pool. There wasn't nothing else to do.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Marshall, No, there wasn't.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
He didn't give Rocky no chance at all before he
tried that kind of fool move.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You ought to remembered Rocky.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He remembered, all right, That's why he tried to kill you.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You bet he remembered.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Gun Smoke, Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. The script was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
Rex Cory. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
And Bill James.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Featured in the cast were Parley Bayer as Chester, Howard
McGear as Doc, and Georgia Eliss kidding George Walls speaking
join us again next week for another especially transcribed story
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Speaker 2 (24:00):
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