July 25, 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 (00:10):
Gun Smoke brought to you by Ellen m the modern
cigarette that lets you get full of exciting flavor through
the modern miracle of the pure white miracle. Tip live
modern Smoke. Ellen m Around doug City and in the
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territory on West, There's just one way to handle the
killers and the spoilers, and that's with a US Marshall
and the smell of gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William
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conn The story of the violence that moved west with
Young America and the story.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of a man whill move with it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon the United States Marshall, the
first man they look for and the last they want
to meet. It's a chance a job, and it makes
a man watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Waites, I can.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I want to talk to you Matter, if I ever
to get this cown pound and see the shock whoa oh,
this blasted team.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
They got miles of solid iron, probably trying to win
away from that squeaky wheel. You know, Grace, I think
you're gonna trust off a spindle one of these last.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
As long as I went wholesey Matter, I just drove
in from metal.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Flats, Huh. I reminded of his own pleasure.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
It wasn't pleasure, calm found it. Now I got something
that will wipe that grin off your face too. That's yes,
Burke Reese and that only boy is they've been kicking
up their heels.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Again, were they after this time?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Pezzy Kneller and his wife. They've got that homestead you know,
next to the Rees's.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, I know the place.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
What happened, Well, it seems Burke Reese and his boy
kind of who roted him a little bit last night.
They burnt one of Pezzy's chicken houses and fired off
a few shots. And Pezzy's acting real funny about it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You mean, well, he didn't want.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Me to say anything about it. He claims he doesn't
want any trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Dark with Burke Reese. After it's already got trouble.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
There's old Pezzy Mitter done scratching around the asses.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Eh uh huh, Well, Marshall Ketcher, this is somebody. Pleas
Fry Miller get down, set a spell.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh thank you, Pray has got some coffee on you
ready to directly fine?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
We could do something. It looks like you might have
had a little trouble out here last night.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Up, Marshall. Well, chicken house burned right down the ground.
Oh yeah, David, the studn't ain't hurt much. Do you
know if you were to pick it up close?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Many chickens?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Oh, but it doesn't.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I reckon got most of them.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You're mighty lucky.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Yeah, sure, that just the way I look at it, Marshall,
mighty lucky. I was a downright horror and shame if
you ask.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Me, as I understand, there was some shots fired last night. Look, Marshall, you.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Hadn't ought a road clear out here, just on the
calm this little go around.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But I didn't matter. Hill of beans.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You're a patience man.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Just can't divide trouble. I guess never could for some reason.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The bat the races don't feel the same way. Isn't
that who it was?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Burke Race?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And that bully and son I had spike.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Well, I I just wasn't ready to know for sure.
But offer dark last night, Marshall, and there's two fellas
on horseback. It's all I could tell.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Uh, you've been bothered before.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Oh a couple of nights this week might be the same.
Two fellas might not hard say what they do. Oh,
just galloped around the house a couple of times, shooting
off the guns. Didn't do no harm.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Mu.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So as Burke Race been trying to buy you off,
does he?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Well, he did make me an offer last week, only
about a third.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
What place it work?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Though? Anyhow? I ain't able to sell either?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Was that Talmach? He had the homestead? And author Race?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I remember, yes, I remember a race bought that place
for about a third or what.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It was worth.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Does he from D's with a You.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Know I never could figure who Dragosh did that night?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Look as if you'll sign a complaint, I'll have both
the races locked up inside an eye.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Don't do no good, Marshal.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It is dark.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
I I couldn't swear in court.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It with them, and you know what'll happen.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You don't even pack a gun, does he?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Gun just lead trouble, Marshall. I'm a mole sort of man.
I reckon and a believer in nature. Like with their herd,
cattle storm comes up, they just turned their tail to
the wind and waited out. Man can learn a whole
lot from manimals.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Sure he can, does he? But Burke Race learnt his
from modern lion. Free yourself of old fashioned ideas.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
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Speaker 2 (06:33):
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Speaker 4 (06:35):
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Speaker 1 (06:36):
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Speaker 5 (07:08):
Dot you live the modern ways, the live, live water.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Smoking ladam.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's America's fastest growing cigarette.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
H I declare, mister.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Dylan, the Long Branch ain't never had this biggest Saturday
afternoon before.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Quite a crowd in town. All right.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I don't even think you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Can get up the bar along the side here.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Maybe I can do it empty, but it's you're gonna
be a tight squeeze hooching out full of beer.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You got that palled chest. And I'll lead you you here.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Oh wow, imagine you and here in daylight the.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Chester needed a beer kidding.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Oh he brought you along the chaperon it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hunt, Oh, I gotta hunt you brought me along to
pay for it.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
How you buying it?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
No complaints?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But of his crowd you ever see such.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
A mob yet the looks of things, the fights will
be starting even before it darks.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Uh, I want to have a beer with us.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
No thanks, it's too early for me, but if you're
around about three am, I'll have.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Some supper with it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Sounds good, Try to make it well. He seems happy
and it's old bird crease. Yeah, and spike along with it.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Now there's a pair that's due for a hanging.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
They're over, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, how do you there, Marshall? Mighty nice to find
you on the job, Ain't that right?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
You know, I can usually find some good and anybody,
but those two, especially after they murdered that Talmans last year.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
There was no evidence, kiddy, no witness, all.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Right, Matt, But everybody knew they did it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But the law has to go on proof or it
stops being the log.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
But people are afraid of him, Matt. They're afraid of
him to go on the court and tell what they know.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Matt, right back, come here, I just meant a dog.
Come on, just let's see what he wants. I'll talk
he lent a kitty.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Don't forget Matt supperate three ye out there in the street, man,
some folks stuff.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Themselves in a peck of trouble. Oh uh hes he
Kneller and his missus. When they come out of Julius's
store and started to drive off, the team pulled the
pro acsle out from under the wagon, left the whole
bed drop right down into the street.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I see it like, uh look, uh, you better stay
here a dark yeah, uh excuse me?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Would you let me throw a hairplace? Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Please? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh yeah, something. It looks like you had a little
trouble there as.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
They Oh good, oh hello Marshall, Yeah, I I reckon
the kingpin must fall out.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Kingpins don't fall out as he they fit in from
the top.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
M gets to do with that well, And it uh
must have bounced up and fell out over the top somehow.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Uh huh. Did you see Burke Race take that pen out?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
No, you can't say it did, Marshall. Uh, Me and
Cora was inside the store there all right.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What about the rest of it?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And if you say Burke Race or anybody else falling
around this wagon, not one of your saw a thing huh.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Don't bother about it, Marshall. We just lost little flowers
all but all we bought in packscept the roll of
heavy wire for a cord line.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Of course, it wasn't hurt nine. You are right, miss Lla.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
It ain't nothing, Marshall. Just cut my mouth a little better.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Let the dog take a look at it.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
Oh, the bleeding your stuff, reckon. I bumped it down
the kickboard when I got thrown out.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
As if you don't care about yourself, you might think about.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Your wife here now, don't you go plaguing him Marshall.
Has he's been taking care of me for a good
lot of years.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now, and he ought to keep on doing it.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Man has.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
He's got his principles, Marshall, and I respect him for him.
He's a mild man and he can't abide violence.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Alright, alright, Uh, some of you men give him a
hand though, you know, come out.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Yeah, you sure can't help him much when he won't
left the hand to help hisself.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
There's one way I can Chester. I don't like doing it,
but somebody's got so what's that. I'm gonna show Burke
Reese up for the coward that he is free yourself
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of old fashioned ideas.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Why don't you have modern, modern.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Free on prish it up your tastes smoke and len M.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Only the modern miracle of the pure white miracle tip
can bring all of L and m's full exciting flavor
through to you. And that's the big reason why today
more people are changing to L and M.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Than to any other cigarette.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Remember, L and M draws easy, taste, richer, smokes cleaner.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So live modern.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Change to L and M make you day, You make
red letter day and start to live the modern way,
the live modern smoking.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's America's fastest growing cigarette.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Where they arm that you're gonna over there poker table.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
All right, I'll see you move on down every by
the end of the bar. Just keep him off my back.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
That's so all right.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
But you walking that you're gonna make him be awful me.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
You lost the trouble out there, Matt.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I didn't hear any shooting later, kidding right now, you
better stay clear.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Telling well, Marshall, me and young's getting up little game
like to sit in, would you race?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You're a filthy, murdering coward.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Now you got no call to talk like that.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
You shot at talentage in the back last year so
you could buy out his homestead. That's so now you're
after a pezzy nuller. He shot up his place a
couple of times and burnt one of his buildings.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Pezsy say all that did he as.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
He's not one to stick up for his right, so
somebody's got to do it for him.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Race, I just called you a rotten coward.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
All that Spike had just what he was trying to
get us to do.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It won't work, Marcia.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I ain't gonna draw, and.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You curse not. You're too yellow buff him.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Except for a man like has another who doesn't wear
a gun, he ain't drawn more.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Didn't you hear me back? I called you a lion coward.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I'm sitting right here.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
No you're not, and I get up on your feet.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I know you, marshall. You'd never shoot a man down cold.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That wouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Spike wach over slow done, buffle my gun.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You've touched that belt, Spike in our blast out of
your chair.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Alright, leave it, Spike, But I still ain't making no move.
No I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Maybe this will do it? Alright, what about a race.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I'm I'm staying right here on the floor, Marshall, you
set tight, Spike.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
If I told you, Marshall, no matter what you do,
I ain't gonna draw gast you.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Or a smart one race, yes, smart, just like a rattlesnake.
Now you get up and get out of here, get
out bothered? Yeah, before I kick it or death.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Come on, Spike, Oh.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
I say act like that before.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I'm not kidding, not that I blame. I know
they wouldn't dry.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't wanna.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I just wanted to show 'em up for the cords
they are. Well, I'm afraid there's only one more thing
I can do for as a number.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
What's that matter?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
The tender's funeral?
Speaker 6 (17:32):
It Yeah, old old ch old Chester. This is the
worst coffee I ever tasted. I broke better in Bottom.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
And Fluid, where you kept your mouth shut, darted laughter.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You'd swallowed three whole cuds.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Well, no wonder my flak was still paralyzed from the
first swallow.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
A lot of sass for being paralyzed in the next
you on form it to done.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
No, not right now, Chester, by ging you complain about it,
But I.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Know that you always come pop with over here when
you wake up.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
It's a trial by torture, chesty. If I can live
through Chester's coffee, I can face anything.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
The day brings well forever more.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
What do you know?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Oh does it?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Chester? He does he know it?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Coming down the street there in his wagon.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Oh well, Matt, how do you figure a man like that?
He doesn't want any trouble. He says he can't buy
it violence. He don't even realize he's on Bard time.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I guess not, Doc. All he was worrying about yesterday
afternoon was getting back home and putting up a clothesline,
and missus just.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
A couple of babes in a forest of wolves.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
He stopped right out in front of here, mister Dyllan, Marshall, Marshall, Dylan.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Let's see what he wants? Morning? Pleasant? Here up early?
Aren't you reckon?
Speaker 7 (18:46):
I'm at deb Marshall. Oh hello, Doc, might be glad
to find you here.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I do's something wrong.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Well in the way, I guess there is Marshall at
the next end actor place during the night accident. Who, Doc,
I reckon? You better take a look there in the
wagon bed.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Just throw back the cover, give me a.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Hand, hints, I know matter.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Sorry to have this half of mar shore. But it's
just one of them things couldn't be helped to reckon
what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
It's the reasons. Huh dead dead match both of them.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Huh Uh. The necks have been broken.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
There's marks across the throats.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It's like they've been hanged.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Yes, sir, that's exactly what I said to Core this
morning when we found him laying there.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Looked like they'd been hanged.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
What I said, I'm aware, I say what happened, well, sir.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Me and Cora woke up last night and heard some
shooting and hurro last them other times, only it stopped
all of a sudden and the horses galloped off. So
we went back to sleep. This morning, when I come out,
I found these two laying right there in a chicken
yard that are.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Indoor nails gone.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I figured with that dog gone clothesline, Marshall, I put
it up good and solid because Core always hates to
have her worsh get down in the dirt, and I
reckon these two just didn't.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
See it in the dark, did we.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
That rode right into it.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Man's got a number twenty rigging cable hooked under his
chin and a galloping horse stretching his feet and the stirrups. Well,
sure don't do his neck? No good?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Ah, sure doesn't.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Ill.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Uh, you might have take him down on the undertackers.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Yeah right, I'll ride along with him pass it might
as well then let's see.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
I'm sure sorry to put you fellas out this way,
but man can't be expected to go around warn all
his neighbors every time he puts up a new clothes line.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Ah, I guess not, does it that I got change.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Of durned thing? When to get back home? Put it
a foot and a half too high for some fool reason,
Cora can't even reach it.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Got bad to see us, Marshall, whenever you're.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Out, are we?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, well I see, Oh Chester never sell a mild man,
should you said them?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Reese's was overdue for hanging Mick John.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, they're sure not ever do anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
In a moment Our Star William Conrad, we laugh at
Humpty Dumpty's tumble, We roar at the comedian who slips
on a banana peel. But the unfunny fact is that
almost fourteen thousand Americans died from falls in their own homes.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Why did they fall?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Silly little reasons. Mostly there was a toy on the
stairs that they didn't see. There was that loose board
on the porch they'd always meant to fix, or maybe
the scatter rugs scattered at the wrong moment, or they
climbed on a chair to straighten the drapes. It seemed
so important at the time. Home accidents are second only
to those on the highways and the terrible mortality they cause,
and falls account for almost half of home accidents. Look
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around your house today and see that the causes of
falls are removed wherever possible, that floors and stairs are
in good repair and well lighted, that obstructions are removed
and carpets secured. See that a slick wax job doesn't
slide you into the hospital. Have a proper step ladder
and use it instead of climbing on unsteady furniture. It's
so simple to prevent accidents, so tragic to face their consequences.
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Check your home for fall traps today, and now, William Conrad.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
You know on the frontier there was usually plenty of
fresh meat to be had, analo pnison, fellow prairie chicken,
and yet next week a man dies because of one
small Yearland Can.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And that was the wis gun Smoke, produced and directed
by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Villan Us Marshall.
The story was specially written for gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield,
with editorial supervision by John Messler. The music was composed
and conducted by Rex Corey, sound patterns by Ray Kemper
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and Tom Hanley. Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody,
John Dayner and Helen Cleve Harley, bear Is Chester, Howard
mcneer is doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. Join us
again next week for another story on gun smoke.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
In in in in
Gun Smoke brought to you by Ellen m the modern
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the modern miracle of the pure white miracle. Tip live
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territory on West, There's just one way to handle the
killers and the spoilers, and that's with a US Marshall
and the smell of gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William
(00:59):
conn The story of the violence that moved west with
Young America and the story.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of a man whill move with it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon the United States Marshall, the
first man they look for and the last they want
to meet. It's a chance a job, and it makes
a man watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Waites, I can.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I want to talk to you Matter, if I ever
to get this cown pound and see the shock whoa oh,
this blasted team.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
They got miles of solid iron, probably trying to win
away from that squeaky wheel. You know, Grace, I think
you're gonna trust off a spindle one of these last.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
As long as I went wholesey Matter, I just drove
in from metal.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Flats, Huh. I reminded of his own pleasure.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
It wasn't pleasure, calm found it. Now I got something
that will wipe that grin off your face too. That's yes,
Burke Reese and that only boy is they've been kicking
up their heels.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Again, were they after this time?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Pezzy Kneller and his wife. They've got that homestead you know,
next to the Rees's.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, I know the place.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
What happened, Well, it seems Burke Reese and his boy
kind of who roted him a little bit last night.
They burnt one of Pezzy's chicken houses and fired off
a few shots. And Pezzy's acting real funny about it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You mean, well, he didn't want.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Me to say anything about it. He claims he doesn't
want any trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Dark with Burke Reese. After it's already got trouble.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
There's old Pezzy Mitter done scratching around the asses.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Eh uh huh, Well, Marshall Ketcher, this is somebody. Pleas
Fry Miller get down, set a spell.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh thank you, Pray has got some coffee on you
ready to directly fine?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
We could do something. It looks like you might have
had a little trouble out here last night.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Up, Marshall. Well, chicken house burned right down the ground.
Oh yeah, David, the studn't ain't hurt much. Do you
know if you were to pick it up close?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Many chickens?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Oh, but it doesn't.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I reckon got most of them.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You're mighty lucky.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Yeah, sure, that just the way I look at it, Marshall,
mighty lucky. I was a downright horror and shame if
you ask.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Me, as I understand, there was some shots fired last night. Look, Marshall, you.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Hadn't ought a road clear out here, just on the
calm this little go around.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But I didn't matter. Hill of beans.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You're a patience man.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Just can't divide trouble. I guess never could for some reason.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The bat the races don't feel the same way. Isn't
that who it was?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Burke Race?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And that bully and son I had spike.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Well, I I just wasn't ready to know for sure.
But offer dark last night, Marshall, and there's two fellas
on horseback. It's all I could tell.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Uh, you've been bothered before.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Oh a couple of nights this week might be the same.
Two fellas might not hard say what they do. Oh,
just galloped around the house a couple of times, shooting
off the guns. Didn't do no harm.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Mu.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So as Burke Race been trying to buy you off,
does he?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Well, he did make me an offer last week, only
about a third.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
What place it work?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Though? Anyhow? I ain't able to sell either?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Was that Talmach? He had the homestead? And author Race?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I remember, yes, I remember a race bought that place
for about a third or what.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It was worth.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Does he from D's with a You.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Know I never could figure who Dragosh did that night?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Look as if you'll sign a complaint, I'll have both
the races locked up inside an eye.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Don't do no good, Marshal.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It is dark.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
I I couldn't swear in court.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It with them, and you know what'll happen.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You don't even pack a gun, does he?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Gun just lead trouble, Marshall. I'm a mole sort of man.
I reckon and a believer in nature. Like with their herd,
cattle storm comes up, they just turned their tail to
the wind and waited out. Man can learn a whole
lot from manimals.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Sure he can, does he? But Burke Race learnt his
from modern lion. Free yourself of old fashioned ideas.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Why don't you have modern have modern.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Free freshen up your taste.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Smoke and len.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
M live modern smoke, modern smoke. Le and M enjoy full,
exciting flavor through LL and m's pure white miracle tip.
L and M draws easier taste, richer, smoke's cleaner. That's
why to day more people are changing to L and
(06:59):
M than any other cigarettes. So free up, freshen up
your taste, live body, change to la M. Make your
day your big red letter days.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Dot you live the modern ways, the live, live water.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Smoking ladam.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's America's fastest growing cigarette.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
H I declare, mister.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Dylan, the Long Branch ain't never had this biggest Saturday
afternoon before.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Quite a crowd in town. All right.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I don't even think you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Can get up the bar along the side here.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Maybe I can do it empty, but it's you're gonna
be a tight squeeze hooching out full of beer.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You got that palled chest. And I'll lead you you here.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Oh wow, imagine you and here in daylight the.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Chester needed a beer kidding.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Oh he brought you along the chaperon it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hunt, Oh, I gotta hunt you brought me along to
pay for it.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
How you buying it?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
No complaints?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But of his crowd you ever see such.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
A mob yet the looks of things, the fights will
be starting even before it darks.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Uh, I want to have a beer with us.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
No thanks, it's too early for me, but if you're
around about three am, I'll have.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Some supper with it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Sounds good, Try to make it well. He seems happy
and it's old bird crease. Yeah, and spike along with it.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Now there's a pair that's due for a hanging.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
They're over, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, how do you there, Marshall? Mighty nice to find
you on the job, Ain't that right?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
You know, I can usually find some good and anybody,
but those two, especially after they murdered that Talmans last year.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
There was no evidence, kiddy, no witness, all.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Right, Matt, But everybody knew they did it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But the law has to go on proof or it
stops being the log.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
But people are afraid of him, Matt. They're afraid of
him to go on the court and tell what they know.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Matt, right back, come here, I just meant a dog.
Come on, just let's see what he wants. I'll talk
he lent a kitty.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Don't forget Matt supperate three ye out there in the street, man,
some folks stuff.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Themselves in a peck of trouble. Oh uh hes he
Kneller and his missus. When they come out of Julius's
store and started to drive off, the team pulled the
pro acsle out from under the wagon, left the whole
bed drop right down into the street.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I see it like, uh look, uh, you better stay
here a dark yeah, uh excuse me?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Would you let me throw a hairplace? Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Please? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh yeah, something. It looks like you had a little
trouble there as.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
They Oh good, oh hello Marshall, Yeah, I I reckon
the kingpin must fall out.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Kingpins don't fall out as he they fit in from
the top.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
M gets to do with that well, And it uh
must have bounced up and fell out over the top somehow.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Uh huh. Did you see Burke Race take that pen out?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
No, you can't say it did, Marshall. Uh, Me and
Cora was inside the store there all right.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What about the rest of it?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And if you say Burke Race or anybody else falling
around this wagon, not one of your saw a thing huh.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Don't bother about it, Marshall. We just lost little flowers
all but all we bought in packscept the roll of
heavy wire for a cord line.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Of course, it wasn't hurt nine. You are right, miss Lla.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
It ain't nothing, Marshall. Just cut my mouth a little better.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Let the dog take a look at it.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
Oh, the bleeding your stuff, reckon. I bumped it down
the kickboard when I got thrown out.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
As if you don't care about yourself, you might think about.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Your wife here now, don't you go plaguing him Marshall.
Has he's been taking care of me for a good
lot of years.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now, and he ought to keep on doing it.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Man has.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
He's got his principles, Marshall, and I respect him for him.
He's a mild man and he can't abide violence.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Alright, alright, Uh, some of you men give him a
hand though, you know, come out.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Yeah, you sure can't help him much when he won't
left the hand to help hisself.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
There's one way I can Chester. I don't like doing it,
but somebody's got so what's that. I'm gonna show Burke
Reese up for the coward that he is free yourself
(12:09):
of old fashioned ideas.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Why don't you have modern, modern.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Free on prish it up your tastes smoke and len M.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Only the modern miracle of the pure white miracle tip
can bring all of L and m's full exciting flavor
through to you. And that's the big reason why today
more people are changing to L and M.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Than to any other cigarette.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Remember, L and M draws easy, taste, richer, smokes cleaner.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So live modern.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Change to L and M make you day, You make
red letter day and start to live the modern way,
the live modern smoking.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's America's fastest growing cigarette.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Where they arm that you're gonna over there poker table.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
All right, I'll see you move on down every by
the end of the bar. Just keep him off my back.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
That's so all right.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
But you walking that you're gonna make him be awful me.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
You lost the trouble out there, Matt.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I didn't hear any shooting later, kidding right now, you
better stay clear.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Telling well, Marshall, me and young's getting up little game
like to sit in, would you race?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You're a filthy, murdering coward.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Now you got no call to talk like that.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
You shot at talentage in the back last year so
you could buy out his homestead. That's so now you're
after a pezzy nuller. He shot up his place a
couple of times and burnt one of his buildings.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Pezsy say all that did he as.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
He's not one to stick up for his right, so
somebody's got to do it for him.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Race, I just called you a rotten coward.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
All that Spike had just what he was trying to
get us to do.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It won't work, Marcia.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I ain't gonna draw, and.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You curse not. You're too yellow buff him.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Except for a man like has another who doesn't wear
a gun, he ain't drawn more.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Didn't you hear me back? I called you a lion coward.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I'm sitting right here.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
No you're not, and I get up on your feet.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I know you, marshall. You'd never shoot a man down cold.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That wouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Spike wach over slow done, buffle my gun.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You've touched that belt, Spike in our blast out of
your chair.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Alright, leave it, Spike, But I still ain't making no move.
No I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Maybe this will do it? Alright, what about a race.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I'm I'm staying right here on the floor, Marshall, you
set tight, Spike.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
If I told you, Marshall, no matter what you do,
I ain't gonna draw gast you.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Or a smart one race, yes, smart, just like a rattlesnake.
Now you get up and get out of here, get
out bothered? Yeah, before I kick it or death.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Come on, Spike, Oh.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
I say act like that before.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I'm not kidding, not that I blame. I know
they wouldn't dry.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't wanna.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I just wanted to show 'em up for the cords
they are. Well, I'm afraid there's only one more thing
I can do for as a number.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
What's that matter?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
The tender's funeral?
Speaker 6 (17:32):
It Yeah, old old ch old Chester. This is the
worst coffee I ever tasted. I broke better in Bottom.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
And Fluid, where you kept your mouth shut, darted laughter.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You'd swallowed three whole cuds.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Well, no wonder my flak was still paralyzed from the
first swallow.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
A lot of sass for being paralyzed in the next
you on form it to done.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
No, not right now, Chester, by ging you complain about it,
But I.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Know that you always come pop with over here when
you wake up.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
It's a trial by torture, chesty. If I can live
through Chester's coffee, I can face anything.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
The day brings well forever more.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
What do you know?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Oh does it?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Chester? He does he know it?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Coming down the street there in his wagon.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Oh well, Matt, how do you figure a man like that?
He doesn't want any trouble. He says he can't buy
it violence. He don't even realize he's on Bard time.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I guess not, Doc. All he was worrying about yesterday
afternoon was getting back home and putting up a clothesline,
and missus just.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
A couple of babes in a forest of wolves.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
He stopped right out in front of here, mister Dyllan, Marshall, Marshall, Dylan.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Let's see what he wants? Morning? Pleasant? Here up early?
Aren't you reckon?
Speaker 7 (18:46):
I'm at deb Marshall. Oh hello, Doc, might be glad
to find you here.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I do's something wrong.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Well in the way, I guess there is Marshall at
the next end actor place during the night accident. Who, Doc,
I reckon? You better take a look there in the
wagon bed.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Just throw back the cover, give me a.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Hand, hints, I know matter.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Sorry to have this half of mar shore. But it's
just one of them things couldn't be helped to reckon
what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
It's the reasons. Huh dead dead match both of them.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Huh Uh. The necks have been broken.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
There's marks across the throats.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It's like they've been hanged.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Yes, sir, that's exactly what I said to Core this
morning when we found him laying there.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Looked like they'd been hanged.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
What I said, I'm aware, I say what happened, well, sir.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Me and Cora woke up last night and heard some
shooting and hurro last them other times, only it stopped
all of a sudden and the horses galloped off. So
we went back to sleep. This morning, when I come out,
I found these two laying right there in a chicken
yard that are.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Indoor nails gone.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I figured with that dog gone clothesline, Marshall, I put
it up good and solid because Core always hates to
have her worsh get down in the dirt, and I
reckon these two just didn't.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
See it in the dark, did we.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
That rode right into it.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Man's got a number twenty rigging cable hooked under his
chin and a galloping horse stretching his feet and the stirrups. Well,
sure don't do his neck? No good?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Ah, sure doesn't.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Ill.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Uh, you might have take him down on the undertackers.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Yeah right, I'll ride along with him pass it might
as well then let's see.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
I'm sure sorry to put you fellas out this way,
but man can't be expected to go around warn all
his neighbors every time he puts up a new clothes line.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Ah, I guess not, does it that I got change.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Of durned thing? When to get back home? Put it
a foot and a half too high for some fool reason,
Cora can't even reach it.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Got bad to see us, Marshall, whenever you're.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Out, are we?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, well I see, Oh Chester never sell a mild man,
should you said them?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Reese's was overdue for hanging Mick John.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, they're sure not ever do anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
In a moment Our Star William Conrad, we laugh at
Humpty Dumpty's tumble, We roar at the comedian who slips
on a banana peel. But the unfunny fact is that
almost fourteen thousand Americans died from falls in their own homes.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Why did they fall?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Silly little reasons. Mostly there was a toy on the
stairs that they didn't see. There was that loose board
on the porch they'd always meant to fix, or maybe
the scatter rugs scattered at the wrong moment, or they
climbed on a chair to straighten the drapes. It seemed
so important at the time. Home accidents are second only
to those on the highways and the terrible mortality they cause,
and falls account for almost half of home accidents. Look
(22:21):
around your house today and see that the causes of
falls are removed wherever possible, that floors and stairs are
in good repair and well lighted, that obstructions are removed
and carpets secured. See that a slick wax job doesn't
slide you into the hospital. Have a proper step ladder
and use it instead of climbing on unsteady furniture. It's
so simple to prevent accidents, so tragic to face their consequences.
(22:45):
Check your home for fall traps today, and now, William Conrad.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
You know on the frontier there was usually plenty of
fresh meat to be had, analo pnison, fellow prairie chicken,
and yet next week a man dies because of one
small Yearland Can.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And that was the wis gun Smoke, produced and directed
by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Villan Us Marshall.
The story was specially written for gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield,
with editorial supervision by John Messler. The music was composed
and conducted by Rex Corey, sound patterns by Ray Kemper
(23:29):
and Tom Hanley. Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody,
John Dayner and Helen Cleve Harley, bear Is Chester, Howard
mcneer is doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. Join us
again next week for another story on gun smoke.
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