July 26, 2025 • 21 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):
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 Marshal and the smell of
gun smoke John will Spoil, starring William Conrad. The story
(00:42):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Mister jol And I bet this proves out to be
the hottiest.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Day of the whole year.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I think you're right, Chester. I stuffed my hat full
of grass, but the sun's still crying. Mambraine. I don't
want to take long now that Kate's trying to just
over its ridges and hank Yeah, sure, I'm sorry. Bring
you out in this weather, Marshall. Back home. We never
brought it. The laws something like this always settle. It's
personal that works out better this way.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, seeing how it grow over Kate speels about me.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean, I reckon, you heard how it was me
and Alma before him and her got married, and he
did the right thing, coming to me with a him.
I just thought it wouldn't happen again. I'd forget about it, Marshall.
But it's a third time now going and I can't
afford that kind of a loss. There's no reason why
you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Here's Kate throws out of the bronments.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Don't uh, don't see the boy around?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
No word at all.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Or hates I have to do it. You let me.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I want to grow her.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
How are you, grover Well?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You think you're doing here? Jergging? He's with me. I'm
afraid it's not a social call. It's trying to go over.
I got some business with your son, Eddie. Yeah he
is he here?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What kind of business can you have with a twelve
year old boy?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Didn't you buy any one of those light Winchester rifles
a couple of years ago? What if I did? And
it seems like he's been years in. I've gun pretty freely.
He's been shooting some of Hank's prize turkeys. Who said, so,
I've seen him do it last time. That's a lie?
What your tongue?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And you get off my property and that's enough both
of you.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Marshall. There ain't a word of truth. And if my
boy knows if he was to go do something like that,
I'd will the daylights out of it. I suppose we
talk to him about it. Had nothing to talk about
it because some Turkey farmer starts spreading lies around. I'm
a patient man, Grover, but you stop by talk about lying.
Get off my property if you don't lie. Now what's
that afterno Miss Kates Marshall, Hank, are you well? Well?
(03:46):
She misses Kate's Turkey farmer? And don't you forget it?
You going back to the house. Hum, he he's don't
concern you.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You mean, what is it, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Same as young Edie has been taking pot shots at Hank.
There ain't no truth in it, Alma. Now you stay
out of me, Grover. Let's see what the boy has
to say.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I ain't gonna have a law pushing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
My young and around the law's not going to I
just wanna talk to him. Now. Where is he? He
ain't here. I sent him into town over he shut up.
I think maybe he came back without you knowing about it. No,
he didn't, in fact judging but the way that dog
sniffing around at the cracks, I think maybe he's right
there inside the barn. Listen to it. No, we ain't,
(04:27):
I t Rover. This is a matter of law, not
a personal argument. Now you quit stalaling around and you
call him out. You gonna call your boy out, Grover,
(04:52):
I said, he ain't in there, all right, dy come
why not? I know you're in the barn and there,
I said, come on out here. I don't be too
hard on a marshall. You ain't done nothing in the
(05:12):
Law's not gonna touch me.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
You're the one that told him you trolling. You see
me there in the bar. I didn't Eddy, he was
going to the only post stopped you. You're always doing
something to get me in trouble. I just tried to
be a good mother to you. You ain't lie, Mo,
You're never gonna be Eddie. Me and poyet al right
here before you come.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Wait a minute, DDE. Seems to me you got yourself
in the trouble. You were listening in there. Now, what
about those turkeys?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I don't know nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You see what I told you, Eddie, I seen you
do it. I was walking back up the drawer I
heard the shots, and then I seen you ride off
on that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Pony of yours, and you had your rifle.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
If I hadn't have been a foot I'd had chased
you and caught you.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I ain't been near your place, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Why do you think Hank can tell a story like
that if it wasn't true.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I don't know nothing about it, marshall.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I have known Hank now for quite a while, and
I never know him to lie before. Now, why are
you supposed he to start with you?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I told you I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, and I guess I'll have to take it into
town with us. Eddie. You am in to jail this boy?
Just on. Somebody say he's not gonna jail in Groover.
He can bunk in with Chester and I and we'll
see what Judge Bent has to say about it in
the morning. You know why Jugging made up this story,
don't It's because of all my here, Glover.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Please, he never.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Could stand it because she picked me instead of him,
and he's trying to hit back at the boy to
get out here. All right, Groover, you have said enough,
Come on, let me let's get started.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I don't wanna go to jail.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But if you didn't do it, Eddie, you got nothing
to worry about.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
It just made it up like profit.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Uh why would he do that?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I don't know unless it's because I seen him come
here when Paul was away, Eddie. Sure he come lots
of time, and he mustn't know what I see him.
Not true, It is true. That's why he's trying to
get me out of the way, because he knows I
seen him. It's not true, Glue. I haven't seen hanksonce
before we got married, Rover.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's a fact that I'll swear to it on a bible. Eddie.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Was that true what you said about him coming here?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Of course it was true. Paul.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
All right then, Jurgen, you better start wearing your gun.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Ollo Man, good to see him, Oh Kitty, Hello man, So.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I'm have a bill with it.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I thank you, fine thing, Mattic like the bell with you.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I uh heard you through the Keats boy in jail,
this happening? Uh yeah, heard wrong, Doc. I got Chester
keeping an eye on him, and so oh y, I
did hear wrong? And I've been talking to any most
of the afternoon and evening, and either he's telling the
truth or he's the best dog on liar I ever
saw him.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Hey, youngsters are sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Doc, I wonder if you'd come over in the morning
and try to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Me to well, I don't know anything about kids.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Ye ought to, Doc, you delivered plenty of 'em, but.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Not when they're twelve years old and a doctor. I
don't know something about human nature. So you're the loonman.
Oh and I'll right, and I'll talk to you anember.
I won't guarantee anything. Yeah, here's you be a Marshall. Thanks.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Matt Chester told me.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
The boy says his stepmother's been seeing Hank jacking at
home or Groover's away.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
That's what's kicked up all the trouble. Oh what do
you think Kitty Alma worked here? You knew her.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I don't know that she and Hank.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Were real close.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
And and then she quit work suddenly and Marry Grover
didn't Then I, oh, haven't heard anything.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh, I couldn't see Hank a lion to protect Alma.
And yet Eddie swears at everywhere that his story is true.
They didn't kill those turkeys, and he's seen Hank at
their ranch. I I don't know what to I.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Wait a minute, huh, how are you kitty? Hello, Alma?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Doc sure kid on this case?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
The first time I've been in the long bench, sin
quit and got married.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Well, it hasn't changed as much, Alma.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Lots of other.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Things have though.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Uh don't you wanna sit down?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
No? Thanks, I I don't have a which time, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
How's atty? And he still tell him the same story,
Miss Kates.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
He ain't never liked me, always talked about how much
better everything was before his ma died.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So I've tried. I've tried every way I know how to, well, Marshall,
I was wondering, could I go over to the jail
with him and try talking to him myself.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
He don't know what he's.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Done, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I left Grover out there at the place, just sitting
and drinking and staring at the wall. He won't say
a word to me, won't even look at me. You
walk down with you?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh sure, alright? Uh, come on, miss Kates, let's let's
go talk to him.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I'm sorry, mister Doonan, but he still won't come out.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
You won't.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I could have dragged him, but I didn't figure you'd
wanna pass.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
No, you did ride Chester I'll go back and try
at some time. Are you sure he's a step scared?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Do any of you do mine or something?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Aren't you hungry? Eddie? No? You wanna come up in
the office with Chester and me?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Is she still there?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, your mam lacked crying.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
She ain't my ma.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I shoot your step ma though it's the same thing.
What why would you talk to her?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I don't ever wanna see her again.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know I had a you You said a pretty
bad thing about her. It's true why it may be so.
But now, when a fella says something like that about
a woman, I think he ought to give her a
chance to explain.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I don't wanna see her now.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I can understand when a fella's had a fine maw
and and he's lost her, he's kind of hard for
him to get used to another woman trying to take
her place. But he or try and not go around
carrying a chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
She hates me, She wants to turn prague.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You me, The thing is uh the A story like
that hurts more than just one person. Hurts your paw
and Hank Jergin and you know something in the end,
it'll hurt you more than anybody else.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I told you, I've seen him lot to turn.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I can understand to tell him a lie to get
out of trouble. I did that myself a few times
when I was a boy. Y. You know why I
quit doing that? Why because I found out that it
felt worse to go around knowing that I'd lied than
I did. Uh, admit the truth and take my punishment.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I he didn't lie.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I kill him. A neighbor's turkey's a bad thing, alright,
And your Paul might strap you for it, maybe give
the extra chores to help pay for 'em. But well,
I that's not as bad as knowing every minute of
the day that you've hurt three people without any cause,
(13:33):
and you hurt yourself too.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I said I wasn't lying.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, and in case, you got nothing on your mind,
so there's nothing to worry about, right, Yeah, you're still
not hungry?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Young? No?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Alright, then you better go to bed and get some sleep. Marshall, Yeah, yeah,
what is it that.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I shot them turkeys? And I didn't see mister jurking
over at our place? Not once.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
I'm sorry, I I knew part of the off.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I'm sorry, my.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
God, Alright, that's alright at e. I'm just grat it
told the.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
True Uh mister yelling yella as a chester. Yeah, somebody
just seen rollri Cates in time. He's drunk and he's
looking for hanging. He says he's gonna kill him. Wo,
(15:10):
I see in camp needing one on.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
'em, Thank jerky man.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I hadn't be in town, so I said, well, I.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Go over, told somebody, But Hanks plays and he wasn't gone.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I hope he's not wine m over there in Darmonico's,
there's Hank. Come on now, you must might have heard
Glover looking for him.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Go when he sitting in there eating some peaceful light.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I guess not. Well, marshall, go have yourself in supper, Hank.
We've been looking for you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
What for?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Because Kate's is in town and he's all over you too. Well,
I figured he would sooner or later. I started wearing
my gun, and I guess I won't come to that now.
The boy admitted that he was lying. Oh, I'm glad
for Almo's sake. If I didn't known it was gonna
lead to what it did, Mark, so I'd have buried them.
Dank turkey isn't forgot about all. I'll talk to Grover,
(16:01):
see if he's willing to make good for the world.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Get away, he's out there in the streets.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Stay back, Chester, you're a good he ain't a fear
good for him of your gun. Oh no, it's my fight, Marshall.
I'm going outside. Just here, Chester, take his gun and
keep him covered and don't let him move. I see now,
if you went out there, Hank, you wouldn't get a
chance to talk to him. Now you say, put Robert.
(16:31):
I was your fire, my villain.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
The matter with Jurgen too scared you Stay out of this, Marshall,
between me and him.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
He's in there.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I seen him. I won't he come out because Chester
is holding a gun on him, and I'm gonna take yours. Now,
stay back, Margo.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I fight ain't with you.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You haven't got to fight your boy. Just that, but
that his whole story was alive from start to think
you're making that. I'm not gonna argue. Well you're not
give me that gun. You better start coming to your sensors. Glover.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You you saying boy made it all up about Hank
and Almah.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, you gone over to the jail. And talk to him.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You better figure on.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Paying for Joe's wonder there along with them turkeys.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I I shouldn't know the young man was lying to
get out of trouble.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Marshall. Oh how did yop? Marshall was either oh Clover,
oh h there was no harm done in this case.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I came back to the jail and saw Eddie.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
He told me, I reckon, we better go get him,
Alma and.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Head on out to the place. M you go, Glover.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I'm standing in town a while til I decide.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
What I'm gonna do. Gonna do, well, you're coming to harm,
that's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
No, Gober. You'll believe what he said about me, just
somebody's word against me.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And you believe that our mind.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I'm not going with you now, maybe not ever.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I'll have to study it out. I'll wait in my
minut there. Good night, gentlemen. Alma, Alma, you come back here.
W She can't do this to me, Marshall. She's my wife.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
She she belongs at home, Mary, So you gotta help me.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Sorry, girl, this is something the Lawd's got nothing to
do with. You're on your own.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Mm Gunsmoke produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
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Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. The script was specially
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by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
Rex Cory. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard
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Speaker 2 (21:00):
That Do Don't Get
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 Marshal and the smell of
gun smoke John will Spoil, starring William Conrad. The story
(00:42):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Mister jol And I bet this proves out to be
the hottiest.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Day of the whole year.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I think you're right, Chester. I stuffed my hat full
of grass, but the sun's still crying. Mambraine. I don't
want to take long now that Kate's trying to just
over its ridges and hank Yeah, sure, I'm sorry. Bring
you out in this weather, Marshall. Back home. We never
brought it. The laws something like this always settle. It's
personal that works out better this way.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, seeing how it grow over Kate speels about me.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean, I reckon, you heard how it was me
and Alma before him and her got married, and he
did the right thing, coming to me with a him.
I just thought it wouldn't happen again. I'd forget about it, Marshall.
But it's a third time now going and I can't
afford that kind of a loss. There's no reason why
you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Here's Kate throws out of the bronments.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Don't uh, don't see the boy around?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
No word at all.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Or hates I have to do it. You let me.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I want to grow her.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
How are you, grover Well?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You think you're doing here? Jergging? He's with me. I'm
afraid it's not a social call. It's trying to go over.
I got some business with your son, Eddie. Yeah he
is he here?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What kind of business can you have with a twelve
year old boy?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Didn't you buy any one of those light Winchester rifles
a couple of years ago? What if I did? And
it seems like he's been years in. I've gun pretty freely.
He's been shooting some of Hank's prize turkeys. Who said, so,
I've seen him do it last time. That's a lie?
What your tongue?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And you get off my property and that's enough both
of you.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Marshall. There ain't a word of truth. And if my
boy knows if he was to go do something like that,
I'd will the daylights out of it. I suppose we
talk to him about it. Had nothing to talk about
it because some Turkey farmer starts spreading lies around. I'm
a patient man, Grover, but you stop by talk about lying.
Get off my property if you don't lie. Now what's
that afterno Miss Kates Marshall, Hank, are you well? Well?
(03:46):
She misses Kate's Turkey farmer? And don't you forget it?
You going back to the house. Hum, he he's don't
concern you.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You mean, what is it, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Same as young Edie has been taking pot shots at Hank.
There ain't no truth in it, Alma. Now you stay
out of me, Grover. Let's see what the boy has
to say.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I ain't gonna have a law pushing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
My young and around the law's not going to I
just wanna talk to him. Now. Where is he? He
ain't here. I sent him into town over he shut up.
I think maybe he came back without you knowing about it. No,
he didn't, in fact judging but the way that dog
sniffing around at the cracks, I think maybe he's right
there inside the barn. Listen to it. No, we ain't,
(04:27):
I t Rover. This is a matter of law, not
a personal argument. Now you quit stalaling around and you
call him out. You gonna call your boy out, Grover,
(04:52):
I said, he ain't in there, all right, dy come
why not? I know you're in the barn and there,
I said, come on out here. I don't be too
hard on a marshall. You ain't done nothing in the
(05:12):
Law's not gonna touch me.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
You're the one that told him you trolling. You see
me there in the bar. I didn't Eddy, he was
going to the only post stopped you. You're always doing
something to get me in trouble. I just tried to
be a good mother to you. You ain't lie, Mo,
You're never gonna be Eddie. Me and poyet al right
here before you come.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Wait a minute, DDE. Seems to me you got yourself
in the trouble. You were listening in there. Now, what
about those turkeys?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I don't know nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You see what I told you, Eddie, I seen you
do it. I was walking back up the drawer I
heard the shots, and then I seen you ride off
on that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Pony of yours, and you had your rifle.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
If I hadn't have been a foot I'd had chased
you and caught you.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I ain't been near your place, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Why do you think Hank can tell a story like
that if it wasn't true.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I don't know nothing about it, marshall.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I have known Hank now for quite a while, and
I never know him to lie before. Now, why are
you supposed he to start with you?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I told you I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, and I guess I'll have to take it into
town with us. Eddie. You am in to jail this boy?
Just on. Somebody say he's not gonna jail in Groover.
He can bunk in with Chester and I and we'll
see what Judge Bent has to say about it in
the morning. You know why Jugging made up this story,
don't It's because of all my here, Glover.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Please, he never.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Could stand it because she picked me instead of him,
and he's trying to hit back at the boy to
get out here. All right, Groover, you have said enough,
Come on, let me let's get started.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I don't wanna go to jail.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But if you didn't do it, Eddie, you got nothing
to worry about.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
It just made it up like profit.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Uh why would he do that?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I don't know unless it's because I seen him come
here when Paul was away, Eddie. Sure he come lots
of time, and he mustn't know what I see him.
Not true, It is true. That's why he's trying to
get me out of the way, because he knows I
seen him. It's not true, Glue. I haven't seen hanksonce
before we got married, Rover.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's a fact that I'll swear to it on a bible. Eddie.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Was that true what you said about him coming here?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Of course it was true. Paul.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
All right then, Jurgen, you better start wearing your gun.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Ollo Man, good to see him, Oh Kitty, Hello man, So.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I'm have a bill with it.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I thank you, fine thing, Mattic like the bell with you.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I uh heard you through the Keats boy in jail,
this happening? Uh yeah, heard wrong, Doc. I got Chester
keeping an eye on him, and so oh y, I
did hear wrong? And I've been talking to any most
of the afternoon and evening, and either he's telling the
truth or he's the best dog on liar I ever
saw him.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Hey, youngsters are sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Doc, I wonder if you'd come over in the morning
and try to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Me to well, I don't know anything about kids.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Ye ought to, Doc, you delivered plenty of 'em, but.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Not when they're twelve years old and a doctor. I
don't know something about human nature. So you're the loonman.
Oh and I'll right, and I'll talk to you anember.
I won't guarantee anything. Yeah, here's you be a Marshall. Thanks.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Matt Chester told me.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
The boy says his stepmother's been seeing Hank jacking at
home or Groover's away.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
That's what's kicked up all the trouble. Oh what do
you think Kitty Alma worked here? You knew her.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I don't know that she and Hank.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Were real close.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
And and then she quit work suddenly and Marry Grover
didn't Then I, oh, haven't heard anything.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh, I couldn't see Hank a lion to protect Alma.
And yet Eddie swears at everywhere that his story is true.
They didn't kill those turkeys, and he's seen Hank at
their ranch. I I don't know what to I.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Wait a minute, huh, how are you kitty? Hello, Alma?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Doc sure kid on this case?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
The first time I've been in the long bench, sin
quit and got married.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Well, it hasn't changed as much, Alma.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Lots of other.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Things have though.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Uh don't you wanna sit down?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
No? Thanks, I I don't have a which time, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
How's atty? And he still tell him the same story,
Miss Kates.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
He ain't never liked me, always talked about how much
better everything was before his ma died.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So I've tried. I've tried every way I know how to, well, Marshall,
I was wondering, could I go over to the jail
with him and try talking to him myself.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
He don't know what he's.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Done, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I left Grover out there at the place, just sitting
and drinking and staring at the wall. He won't say
a word to me, won't even look at me. You
walk down with you?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh sure, alright? Uh, come on, miss Kates, let's let's
go talk to him.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I'm sorry, mister Doonan, but he still won't come out.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
You won't.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I could have dragged him, but I didn't figure you'd
wanna pass.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
No, you did ride Chester I'll go back and try
at some time. Are you sure he's a step scared?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Do any of you do mine or something?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Aren't you hungry? Eddie? No? You wanna come up in
the office with Chester and me?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Is she still there?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, your mam lacked crying.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
She ain't my ma.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I shoot your step ma though it's the same thing.
What why would you talk to her?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I don't ever wanna see her again.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know I had a you You said a pretty
bad thing about her. It's true why it may be so.
But now, when a fella says something like that about
a woman, I think he ought to give her a
chance to explain.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I don't wanna see her now.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I can understand when a fella's had a fine maw
and and he's lost her, he's kind of hard for
him to get used to another woman trying to take
her place. But he or try and not go around
carrying a chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
She hates me, She wants to turn prague.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You me, The thing is uh the A story like
that hurts more than just one person. Hurts your paw
and Hank Jergin and you know something in the end,
it'll hurt you more than anybody else.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I told you, I've seen him lot to turn.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I can understand to tell him a lie to get
out of trouble. I did that myself a few times
when I was a boy. Y. You know why I
quit doing that? Why because I found out that it
felt worse to go around knowing that I'd lied than
I did. Uh, admit the truth and take my punishment.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I he didn't lie.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I kill him. A neighbor's turkey's a bad thing, alright,
And your Paul might strap you for it, maybe give
the extra chores to help pay for 'em. But well,
I that's not as bad as knowing every minute of
the day that you've hurt three people without any cause,
(13:33):
and you hurt yourself too.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I said I wasn't lying.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, and in case, you got nothing on your mind,
so there's nothing to worry about, right, Yeah, you're still
not hungry?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Young? No?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Alright, then you better go to bed and get some sleep. Marshall, Yeah, yeah,
what is it that.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I shot them turkeys? And I didn't see mister jurking
over at our place? Not once.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
I'm sorry, I I knew part of the off.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I'm sorry, my.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
God, Alright, that's alright at e. I'm just grat it
told the.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
True Uh mister yelling yella as a chester. Yeah, somebody
just seen rollri Cates in time. He's drunk and he's
looking for hanging. He says he's gonna kill him. Wo,
(15:10):
I see in camp needing one on.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
'em, Thank jerky man.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I hadn't be in town, so I said, well, I.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Go over, told somebody, But Hanks plays and he wasn't gone.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I hope he's not wine m over there in Darmonico's,
there's Hank. Come on now, you must might have heard
Glover looking for him.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Go when he sitting in there eating some peaceful light.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I guess not. Well, marshall, go have yourself in supper, Hank.
We've been looking for you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
What for?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Because Kate's is in town and he's all over you too. Well,
I figured he would sooner or later. I started wearing
my gun, and I guess I won't come to that now.
The boy admitted that he was lying. Oh, I'm glad
for Almo's sake. If I didn't known it was gonna
lead to what it did, Mark, so I'd have buried them.
Dank turkey isn't forgot about all. I'll talk to Grover,
(16:01):
see if he's willing to make good for the world.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Get away, he's out there in the streets.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Stay back, Chester, you're a good he ain't a fear
good for him of your gun. Oh no, it's my fight, Marshall.
I'm going outside. Just here, Chester, take his gun and
keep him covered and don't let him move. I see now,
if you went out there, Hank, you wouldn't get a
chance to talk to him. Now you say, put Robert.
(16:31):
I was your fire, my villain.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
The matter with Jurgen too scared you Stay out of this, Marshall,
between me and him.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
He's in there.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I seen him. I won't he come out because Chester
is holding a gun on him, and I'm gonna take yours. Now,
stay back, Margo.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I fight ain't with you.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You haven't got to fight your boy. Just that, but
that his whole story was alive from start to think
you're making that. I'm not gonna argue. Well you're not
give me that gun. You better start coming to your sensors. Glover.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You you saying boy made it all up about Hank
and Almah.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, you gone over to the jail. And talk to him.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You better figure on.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Paying for Joe's wonder there along with them turkeys.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I I shouldn't know the young man was lying to
get out of trouble.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Marshall. Oh how did yop? Marshall was either oh Clover,
oh h there was no harm done in this case.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I came back to the jail and saw Eddie.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
He told me, I reckon, we better go get him,
Alma and.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Head on out to the place. M you go, Glover.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I'm standing in town a while til I decide.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
What I'm gonna do. Gonna do, well, you're coming to harm,
that's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
No, Gober. You'll believe what he said about me, just
somebody's word against me.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And you believe that our mind.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I'm not going with you now, maybe not ever.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I'll have to study it out. I'll wait in my
minut there. Good night, gentlemen. Alma, Alma, you come back here.
W She can't do this to me, Marshall. She's my wife.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
She she belongs at home, Mary, So you gotta help me.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Sorry, girl, this is something the Lawd's got nothing to
do with. You're on your own.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Mm Gunsmoke produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
(19:53):
Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. The script was specially
written for gun Smote by Less Brunchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
Rex Cory. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard
mcghear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as kidding George Wall Speaking.
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