July 21, 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 (00:00):
Now post Toasties, the Heat Good Conflicts is proud to
present gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Around Dodge City and in the territory Armed West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the U. S. Marshal and the smell
of gun smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Gun smoked.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The story of the violence that moved west with Young America,
the story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon,
United States Marshall, stay there. Next time you hear a
crackling noise in your kitchen, better get up and investigate.
Maybe somebody just couldn't wait for his breakfast of crackling
crisp post toasties. And that's a treat you shouldn't miss.
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Post toasties, you know, are the heat good corn flakes. Why,
after one taste, I'll bet anything you'll agree with me.
Post toasties is just the best thing that's happened to
corn since the Indians discovered it. There's nothing quite like
sweet kernel corn flavor when it's toasted right in toasted
in the crisp fresh corn flakes. Man, oh man, that's
(01:35):
post toasties, heat good corn flakes. Better try himph And
now gun Smoke, starring William Conrad.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You sure are slow with that beard, Doc, I'm ready
for another and you.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Had enough last night Chester Matt.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Told me it was still asleep at nine o'clock this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Oh I was, and it was mighty kind of him
not wake me up.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
So are you sure?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
He said he'd be back this afternoon, That's what he
told me, So I h oh.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Now, what in the world is that fella who had
just come in the door there with Tyler?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
And show him?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
That's Weed, Pendle.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
He rode in on a mule a couple of days ago.
Which has the bigger ears him or the mule?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
He is funny looking, all right, and he acts peculiar too.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
That's a mighty scrawny mule, Pendle. I seen you on
him this morning.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Pindle here is kind of scrawning yourself short. Maybe some
beard fat.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Him up a little.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I'd like some beer, all right, But I got no.
Why don't you sell that guitar you were tell my guitar. No,
I'd never do that.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You must have a nickel at least last money I
had got stole. Now, who'd dare steal money off a
tiger like you?
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Pendle?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I was asleep. I started to wake up, but they
kicked me in the head.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
You call that a head, looks me more like your
neck just growed out and heared it over. I ain't
very handsome, You sure, I ain't it. What's your old
lady think of you when she saw your Pendle?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I don't know she died? Yeah, laughing, I'll bet ah.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Now that's enough, teller, that's too mean.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Pendles are harmless, little fella.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Ain't nobody talking to you?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Chester Bartender? Three beers?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
You buying, Tyler.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
I'm proud too, the fine old soldier like weed pindle.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
How'd you know I was a soldier?
Speaker 9 (03:53):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Where was you a soldier? Pendle?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Third Illinois Cavalry Illinois? You was with the Yankees?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Well? I never done much.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
We had hard luck, never got to seen no real
Confederates tall, just a bunch of ragged tail bushwhackers in
South Missouri.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
They was led by an old chicken thief named of Klin.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Yeah so there was Tell me some Pendle, did you
ever kill any Klein's men?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
A few before I got shot myself. They caught some
of math and hung them. But I never did see
a hanging you never saw a hang nowhere? I never did.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
That's so.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Well, Fendle, you're in luck since we was kind of
in the war together, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm gonna show you a hanging.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Uh you're about ready, ain't you short?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
My ropes on my saddleoge getting me ChiPT back.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
They're gonna be a hanging, real hanging.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Sure is you're a lucky Fendle.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You run into us just in time. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 10 (04:59):
Tyler?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Who you gonna It's a kind of surprise, Chester.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
You can watch too here.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
You know it's against the law to hang people around here.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
I saw Marshall Dylon ride out of town this morning.
When he gets back, it'll be all over. And don't
you try to buck me in short, Chester, you'll die
if you do. Come on, Pindo, you don't want to
miss it. Sure, what do you suppose?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They're up to?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Duck?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And I ain't do no chest a minute, and I'd
like to find out. Yeah, I guess we better not
sure the wish mister Dylan was here, I.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Ain't never did take much of Tyler in short, they
play no good.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I'm worried there they are.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Well, that's Pindle they got a rope around his neck.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Of course you won't see all the hanging pindle, just
the start of it.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well, you hanging me for I ain't done nothing.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
You was in the third Illinois caval right.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Well, sure, we was fighting under that old chicken thief
Klein and so miss it's a real pleasure to hang
a yankee like you.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
But I've only done what they told me to. I
didn't kill nobody on purpose.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Right now, wait a minute, you two.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You've gone far and I shoot him.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Tyler, You go.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Shooting anybody, and you'll be the ones to end up
in a rope.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Doc ain't armed. He never is gone Tyler.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
All right, you can try it, but you're sure gonna
have to kill me.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
For you hang anybody, I'll kill you.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
You'll have to kill me too, Tyler.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Mister Dylan, Ah, where do he come?
Speaker 9 (06:27):
Take your up off that man's neck, Short and door
it quickly?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Sure, Marshall, Sure I told you you shouldn't hang me.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Oh, we was just fun in the Marsha. We wasn't
going to hang it once. It's all about Short. Well,
he's a Yankee. Marshall killed a lot of us in
Missouri during the war. We was gonna scare him and
then run him off.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
Well, you forget about that. I forgot about the war too.
It's over. The next time I catch you up to
anything like this, you're gonna go to jail.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Go to jail, over, dummy, yank. You don't owe nothing
but a skinny mule and a guitar.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
Get out of here, short, are you too, Tyler?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Okay, Marshall, with this yankee, you'd better get out of
here too.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Out of dog got up, Tyler, I got moving.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Sure see you later, findle.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Marshall.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Dillin's here.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
He wants to see you.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I sure do. Thank you for letting me sleeping your
jail last night, Marshall.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Well you've been sleeping before, Pindall with my mule.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I always do.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Huh, I uh hear you broke? What do you do
for a living?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I never did nothing much, Marshall. Just ride around on
a mule. Or what about your guitar? Don't you ever
play and take up a collection or something?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh no, Marshall, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Why not? Can't can't you play well enough?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I don't know, Marshall. I never played it for nobody
to hear except.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Me, Noah, alright, Uh, Chester, take him over to the
Texas trail. Uh. Maybe Sam can give him a job
or some kind.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Well, it wouldn't be steady, would it.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Well I don't know, but uh why shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
It be, cause I'll believing in a day or two, Oh,
where you're headed?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Nowhere?
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Nowhere, just right around.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I'm a mule, always do.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
I don't know where you're from anyway.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I was born San Benito on the Rio Grand Yeah.
I left soon after, took my guitar with me though,
never did go back.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
But if you're from Texas, I'll come here far in
the Union army.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I didn't. One army is just like another. I guess.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Well maybe you're right at that. Uh, Chester, take him
over to Sam's.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
All right, See I left my guitar back. I'll go
get it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He sure he's a peculiar little fellow, Miss Dylon.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Yeah, pretty helpless too.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Do you think Short and Cowler will bother him anymore?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I'll know in them.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I believe they've got hung him yesterday if they could have.
You tell Sampa. Let me know if they even start
talking to him again.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Huh, yes, right, I will. They're about the meanest peramen
I ever knew.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Yeah, they are, and they'll think of something.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well. Pennell said he's leaving in a day.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Or two, and I hope that's soon enough.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Chester say, how are morning appetites at your house? If
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they're pretty drowsy, here's a real good way to wake
him up. Set a bowl full of post toasts the
heat good corn flakes at everybody's place. Just watch your
folks taking notice when they see how crisp post toasties are,
and way will late taste that sweet kernel corn flavor toasted.
In bet your whole tribill agree with you. Post toasties
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are the best thing that's happened to corn since the
Indians discovered it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And here's a thought.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
If you'd like to make a good thing even better,
try topping post toasties with your favorite fruit. You'll find
that's a mighty good way to start the day. The
fact is, it's a downright delicious way. So next time
you shop, be sure to ask for post toasties. They
are the heat good corn flakes. You'll see.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
Host toastis heat good corn bakes. The best thing that's
happened to corn since the Indians has covered it. Keep
good corn flakes, post toasties, Keep good corn flakes.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Now back to gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Sam gave weed Pendle the job sweeping up the saloon
and let him live in a tiny shack out back.
He tried to get him to play his guitar, but
Pendall wouldn't do it, and we all began to think
that he probably didn't even know how. It's hard to
believe that anyone as simple as he was could learn
to do anything. I looked up Short and Tyler and
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warned him again to leave him alone, and they did
until one morning, a couple of days later, Chester and
I had just come out of Delmonico's and we're walking
up Front street.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Look at him, dilant across the plaza.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Yea, I saw him. Let's go over there, Chester.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
He'd pindle and his mule, all right.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Yeah, And Tyler in Short too, told him to keep
away from him.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Where they laughing at.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
Now they're laughing, but he isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
What do you suppose they've done to him? Now?
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Look at his mule? Chester, Well that's what they've done.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh my goodness, mister Dylan, he's lost the ear.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
I thought, yes, his life staring you was that way short,
and he's all and hurt.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
They did.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I guess there's just no pleasing some men.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Tyler, you shouldn't have done that for my mule.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
Well it's the Marshal again. Did youew men do this? Now?
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Marshall, we ain't done nothing to fend?
Speaker 9 (12:34):
Did they do it?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I tried to stop him, but.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Tyler held me and they gave him my mules here,
Marshall right here see.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Yeah, done around? Both of you gone around? I said,
I take the guns.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Chester, yes, can't do nothing that if Marshall, I.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Don't like what you did.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
It was mule.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I got mister Dylan.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
All right, you can turn around again. I order cut
an air off of each of you, but I can't
do that, so I'm gonna do the next best thing.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
I'll look here.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Now, I'll leave him there, Chester, Vandela, I'm sorry about
your mule.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
He ain't much of a mule anymore.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Well you better go take care of him and maybe
these two will leave you alone now or a mule.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
You know what Pindall told me yesterday, Matt.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Teller could have been almost anything. Knowing to him, kiddy, no.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
This kind of makes sense, I asked him, if he
was ever lonely, and he said no, he never stayed
anywhere long enough to get to know anybody that will.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
H he's a little strange.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Now what are they up to, Tyler? In short? They
just came in with pindle? Oh, looking at he's got
his guitar with him.
Speaker 12 (14:25):
Yeah, hey, listen to everybody, Hey, listen everybody.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Well, yet he's gonna play his guitar for him, at
least he's gonna try.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Hey, y, don't shoot my mule.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
We ain't gonna shoot your mule, not if you play good.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Not one god get started.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
If you know how they threatened to kill his mule.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Match you gotta stop.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
No, wait a minute, kitty, what play?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
All right? Oh? That was beautiful.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
I kind of surprised everybody.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Didn't I taller and short them with about it.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
No, the crowds with fiddle now good, leave them better.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Hella yankee, Hello, you've been playing that guitar a long
time in.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
There, ain't you pendle?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
They wanted me to.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
They liked it.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Me in short and waiting to tell you how we
liked it. Do yeah, let me see a guitar pendal. No,
you hurt my mule?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Give it to me, I got a gun in your belly, Pendle,
don't move.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I want my guitar.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
You can have it.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I just want to sort of tune it for you first.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Don't do that.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Another thing that's wrong with this guitar. It's a little
bit too big for a man like you. But I
can make it smaller.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Your Yankee soldier.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Maybe this will learn them.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Let's go Short. Are they both dead?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Duck?
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Myes real dead for several hours at least.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
They must have been asleep when it happened, though it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Looks like Short there struggled a little. I guess Tyler
got his first, and it woke Short up for a minute.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
He wasn't awake very long, man.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Just long enough to see who was cutting his throat.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Probably, But they can't talk now, No, I guet, h'm
allllle through here. What do you wanna do with him?
Speaker 9 (18:10):
Oh? We'll let the hotel worry about him. I guess
it's weat Pendle that I want.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Now, and him such a mild little fell.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Any man can take just so much. Chester.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
They sure hate to see poor PingER hang for killing
these two buzzers.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Man Chester, wait for me to jail I'll bring him
over as soon as.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
I can find him, Sam.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
He want it be Marshall. Where's weat, Pendle? Sam?
Speaker 11 (18:50):
Oh, just send him out back for a bucket? Disawdist
what he want him for?
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Short and Tyler got their throats cut early this morning.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Good.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
I guess they're smashing His guitar was too much for Pendle.
That's all? Oh? Here he is now, Pendle over here.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Morning, Marshall, Good morning, Pendle.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Where was you last night?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I don't know? Here, I guess you don't know.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
Wait a minute, Marshall, Pendle, where was you after the
direct your guitar?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
We hall sat in the alley, awhile and I come
back here?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Yeah, that's right. And he was so broke up about
his guitar. I didn't want to leave him alone.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
So I took him up and let him sleep in
the floor in my room.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
That right, Pindle, Well go.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
On tell him now, sure, Sam? That's right?
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Are you trying to alibi for him? Sam?
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Why no, Marshall, dilim, But I care about him.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Some people care about me.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Who Pendall? He's just talking in Marshall, who cares about
your Pendall?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Tell me man?
Speaker 9 (20:01):
What man? He means?
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Some of the boys that was here when he come
back with his busted guitar.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Marshall, he just told him how sorry he was. It's
all I see. They liked his music, didn't they?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yes, he did. They liked to hear me play.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Who was in here then? Sam?
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Well?
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Now, Marshall Dylon, you know how it is. I'm busy
pouring drinks and I don't pay no mind to who's
here in hu Wayne.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
I couldn't rightly say it all? Okay, Sam, I guess
I can't beat the truth out of you.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Oh now, Marshall Dylan, who cares about Tyler?
Speaker 9 (20:37):
In short?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He's better off without as.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
A law against murder Simon. It's the same for everybody.
And I'll be back later.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What are you gonna do now, mister Dillon?
Speaker 9 (21:05):
Well, I've done all like Conchester the whole time's just
plain quick talking. Nobody knows anything.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Well, I guess they're all trying to protect Pendle.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Yeah they are that he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Well, who did?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Then?
Speaker 9 (21:22):
And if I could prove who did at Chester, I'd
have him in jail. That say, come over here?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
What well?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I declare? Mister Dillon looks to me like he's leaving town.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
Yeah, I told him he could go.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
He looks funnier and never on that one aired mule.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Yeah, now, Dodge treated Pendle pretty rough.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
He sure did.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Poor little fella looks kind of empty like out his guitar,
don't he.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Hm, Well, maybe he'll find another one somewhere anyway. They
sure like to hear him play in this tongue, and
a couple of the boys with particular I guess.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
Yeah, they like to just fie.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Same.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Mother, want to see your small fry eat up better
breakfast than ever? Well, may I suggest that you dish
them up some sugar crinkles to start with. Sugar crinkles,
you know, make breakfast more fun than a circus. Sugar
crinkles is the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet.
It's high time to forget these sugar coated cereals. It's
seemed too sweet to you and those others that don't
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seem sweet enough to the kids. Just pour out crisp,
golden sugar crinkles and see how just right sweet a
sugar coated cereal can be just right sweet. Be sure
to get several packages of sugar crinkles because they're great
for snacks. Kids love them that way, kids love them anyway.
Try sugar crinkles and you'll love them too. Remember New
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sugar Crinkles is the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet.
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Gun Smoke under the direction of Norman MacDonald's stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Feature the cast where Vic Perrin,
John Dayner, Laurence Dobkin and Harry Bartel, Harley Bear Is Chester,
Howard mcneer's doc and Georgia Ellis is Kidding. Special guitar
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effects by Al Hendrickson, Ken Peter Speaking join us again
next week as Matt Dylan Us Marshall Whites to bring
law and order out of the wild violence of the
West in gun Smoke. Gun Smoke was brought to you
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tonight by Post Toasties and Sugar Crinkles.
Now post Toasties, the Heat Good Conflicts is proud to
present gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Around Dodge City and in the territory Armed West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the U. S. Marshal and the smell
of gun smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Gun smoked.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The story of the violence that moved west with Young America,
the story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon,
United States Marshall, stay there. Next time you hear a
crackling noise in your kitchen, better get up and investigate.
Maybe somebody just couldn't wait for his breakfast of crackling
crisp post toasties. And that's a treat you shouldn't miss.
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Post toasties, you know, are the heat good corn flakes. Why,
after one taste, I'll bet anything you'll agree with me.
Post toasties is just the best thing that's happened to
corn since the Indians discovered it. There's nothing quite like
sweet kernel corn flavor when it's toasted right in toasted
in the crisp fresh corn flakes. Man, oh man, that's
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post toasties, heat good corn flakes. Better try himph And
now gun Smoke, starring William Conrad.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You sure are slow with that beard, Doc, I'm ready
for another and you.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Had enough last night Chester Matt.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Told me it was still asleep at nine o'clock this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Oh I was, and it was mighty kind of him
not wake me up.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
So are you sure?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
He said he'd be back this afternoon, That's what he
told me, So I h oh.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Now, what in the world is that fella who had
just come in the door there with Tyler?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
And show him?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
That's Weed, Pendle.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
He rode in on a mule a couple of days ago.
Which has the bigger ears him or the mule?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
He is funny looking, all right, and he acts peculiar too.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
That's a mighty scrawny mule, Pendle. I seen you on
him this morning.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Pindle here is kind of scrawning yourself short. Maybe some
beard fat.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Him up a little.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I'd like some beer, all right, But I got no.
Why don't you sell that guitar you were tell my guitar. No,
I'd never do that.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You must have a nickel at least last money I
had got stole. Now, who'd dare steal money off a
tiger like you?
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Pendle?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I was asleep. I started to wake up, but they
kicked me in the head.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
You call that a head, looks me more like your
neck just growed out and heared it over. I ain't
very handsome, You sure, I ain't it. What's your old
lady think of you when she saw your Pendle?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I don't know she died? Yeah, laughing, I'll bet ah.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Now that's enough, teller, that's too mean.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Pendles are harmless, little fella.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Ain't nobody talking to you?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Chester Bartender? Three beers?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
You buying, Tyler.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
I'm proud too, the fine old soldier like weed pindle.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
How'd you know I was a soldier?
Speaker 9 (03:53):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Where was you a soldier? Pendle?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Third Illinois Cavalry Illinois? You was with the Yankees?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Well? I never done much.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
We had hard luck, never got to seen no real
Confederates tall, just a bunch of ragged tail bushwhackers in
South Missouri.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
They was led by an old chicken thief named of Klin.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Yeah so there was Tell me some Pendle, did you
ever kill any Klein's men?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
A few before I got shot myself. They caught some
of math and hung them. But I never did see
a hanging you never saw a hang nowhere? I never did.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
That's so.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Well, Fendle, you're in luck since we was kind of
in the war together, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm gonna show you a hanging.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Uh you're about ready, ain't you short?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
My ropes on my saddleoge getting me ChiPT back.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
They're gonna be a hanging, real hanging.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Sure is you're a lucky Fendle.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You run into us just in time. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 10 (04:59):
Tyler?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Who you gonna It's a kind of surprise, Chester.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
You can watch too here.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
You know it's against the law to hang people around here.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
I saw Marshall Dylon ride out of town this morning.
When he gets back, it'll be all over. And don't
you try to buck me in short, Chester, you'll die
if you do. Come on, Pindo, you don't want to
miss it. Sure, what do you suppose?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They're up to?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Duck?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And I ain't do no chest a minute, and I'd
like to find out. Yeah, I guess we better not
sure the wish mister Dylan was here, I.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Ain't never did take much of Tyler in short, they
play no good.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I'm worried there they are.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Well, that's Pindle they got a rope around his neck.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Of course you won't see all the hanging pindle, just
the start of it.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well, you hanging me for I ain't done nothing.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
You was in the third Illinois caval right.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Well, sure, we was fighting under that old chicken thief
Klein and so miss it's a real pleasure to hang
a yankee like you.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
But I've only done what they told me to. I
didn't kill nobody on purpose.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Right now, wait a minute, you two.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You've gone far and I shoot him.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Tyler, You go.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Shooting anybody, and you'll be the ones to end up
in a rope.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Doc ain't armed. He never is gone Tyler.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
All right, you can try it, but you're sure gonna
have to kill me.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
For you hang anybody, I'll kill you.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
You'll have to kill me too, Tyler.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Mister Dylan, Ah, where do he come?
Speaker 9 (06:27):
Take your up off that man's neck, Short and door
it quickly?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Sure, Marshall, Sure I told you you shouldn't hang me.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Oh, we was just fun in the Marsha. We wasn't
going to hang it once. It's all about Short. Well,
he's a Yankee. Marshall killed a lot of us in
Missouri during the war. We was gonna scare him and
then run him off.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
Well, you forget about that. I forgot about the war too.
It's over. The next time I catch you up to
anything like this, you're gonna go to jail.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Go to jail, over, dummy, yank. You don't owe nothing
but a skinny mule and a guitar.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
Get out of here, short, are you too, Tyler?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Okay, Marshall, with this yankee, you'd better get out of
here too.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Out of dog got up, Tyler, I got moving.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Sure see you later, findle.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Marshall.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Dillin's here.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
He wants to see you.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I sure do. Thank you for letting me sleeping your
jail last night, Marshall.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Well you've been sleeping before, Pindall with my mule.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I always do.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Huh, I uh hear you broke? What do you do
for a living?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I never did nothing much, Marshall. Just ride around on
a mule. Or what about your guitar? Don't you ever
play and take up a collection or something?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh no, Marshall, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Why not? Can't can't you play well enough?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I don't know, Marshall. I never played it for nobody
to hear except.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Me, Noah, alright, Uh, Chester, take him over to the
Texas trail. Uh. Maybe Sam can give him a job
or some kind.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Well, it wouldn't be steady, would it.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Well I don't know, but uh why shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
It be, cause I'll believing in a day or two, Oh,
where you're headed?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Nowhere?
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Nowhere, just right around.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I'm a mule, always do.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
I don't know where you're from anyway.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I was born San Benito on the Rio Grand Yeah.
I left soon after, took my guitar with me though,
never did go back.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
But if you're from Texas, I'll come here far in
the Union army.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I didn't. One army is just like another. I guess.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Well maybe you're right at that. Uh, Chester, take him
over to Sam's.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
All right, See I left my guitar back. I'll go
get it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He sure he's a peculiar little fellow, Miss Dylon.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Yeah, pretty helpless too.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Do you think Short and Cowler will bother him anymore?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I'll know in them.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I believe they've got hung him yesterday if they could have.
You tell Sampa. Let me know if they even start
talking to him again.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Huh, yes, right, I will. They're about the meanest peramen
I ever knew.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Yeah, they are, and they'll think of something.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well. Pennell said he's leaving in a day.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Or two, and I hope that's soon enough.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Chester say, how are morning appetites at your house? If
(09:48):
they're pretty drowsy, here's a real good way to wake
him up. Set a bowl full of post toasts the
heat good corn flakes at everybody's place. Just watch your
folks taking notice when they see how crisp post toasties are,
and way will late taste that sweet kernel corn flavor toasted.
In bet your whole tribill agree with you. Post toasties
(10:11):
are the best thing that's happened to corn since the
Indians discovered it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And here's a thought.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
If you'd like to make a good thing even better,
try topping post toasties with your favorite fruit. You'll find
that's a mighty good way to start the day. The
fact is, it's a downright delicious way. So next time
you shop, be sure to ask for post toasties. They
are the heat good corn flakes. You'll see.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
Host toastis heat good corn bakes. The best thing that's
happened to corn since the Indians has covered it. Keep
good corn flakes, post toasties, Keep good corn flakes.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Now back to gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Sam gave weed Pendle the job sweeping up the saloon
and let him live in a tiny shack out back.
He tried to get him to play his guitar, but
Pendall wouldn't do it, and we all began to think
that he probably didn't even know how. It's hard to
believe that anyone as simple as he was could learn
to do anything. I looked up Short and Tyler and
(11:30):
warned him again to leave him alone, and they did
until one morning, a couple of days later, Chester and
I had just come out of Delmonico's and we're walking
up Front street.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Look at him, dilant across the plaza.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Yea, I saw him. Let's go over there, Chester.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
He'd pindle and his mule, all right.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Yeah, And Tyler in Short too, told him to keep
away from him.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Where they laughing at.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
Now they're laughing, but he isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
What do you suppose they've done to him? Now?
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Look at his mule? Chester, Well that's what they've done.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh my goodness, mister Dylan, he's lost the ear.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
I thought, yes, his life staring you was that way short,
and he's all and hurt.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
They did.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I guess there's just no pleasing some men.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Tyler, you shouldn't have done that for my mule.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
Well it's the Marshal again. Did youew men do this? Now?
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Marshall, we ain't done nothing to fend?
Speaker 9 (12:34):
Did they do it?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I tried to stop him, but.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Tyler held me and they gave him my mules here,
Marshall right here see.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Yeah, done around? Both of you gone around? I said,
I take the guns.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Chester, yes, can't do nothing that if Marshall, I.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Don't like what you did.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
It was mule.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I got mister Dylan.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
All right, you can turn around again. I order cut
an air off of each of you, but I can't
do that, so I'm gonna do the next best thing.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
I'll look here.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Now, I'll leave him there, Chester, Vandela, I'm sorry about
your mule.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
He ain't much of a mule anymore.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Well you better go take care of him and maybe
these two will leave you alone now or a mule.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
You know what Pindall told me yesterday, Matt.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Teller could have been almost anything. Knowing to him, kiddy, no.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
This kind of makes sense, I asked him, if he
was ever lonely, and he said no, he never stayed
anywhere long enough to get to know anybody that will.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
H he's a little strange.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Now what are they up to, Tyler? In short? They
just came in with pindle? Oh, looking at he's got
his guitar with him.
Speaker 12 (14:25):
Yeah, hey, listen to everybody, Hey, listen everybody.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Well, yet he's gonna play his guitar for him, at
least he's gonna try.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Hey, y, don't shoot my mule.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
We ain't gonna shoot your mule, not if you play good.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Not one god get started.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
If you know how they threatened to kill his mule.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Match you gotta stop.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
No, wait a minute, kitty, what play?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
All right? Oh? That was beautiful.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
I kind of surprised everybody.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Didn't I taller and short them with about it.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
No, the crowds with fiddle now good, leave them better.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Hella yankee, Hello, you've been playing that guitar a long
time in.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
There, ain't you pendle?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
They wanted me to.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
They liked it.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Me in short and waiting to tell you how we
liked it. Do yeah, let me see a guitar pendal. No,
you hurt my mule?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Give it to me, I got a gun in your belly, Pendle,
don't move.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I want my guitar.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
You can have it.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I just want to sort of tune it for you first.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Don't do that.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Another thing that's wrong with this guitar. It's a little
bit too big for a man like you. But I
can make it smaller.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Your Yankee soldier.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Maybe this will learn them.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Let's go Short. Are they both dead?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Duck?
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Myes real dead for several hours at least.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
They must have been asleep when it happened, though it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Looks like Short there struggled a little. I guess Tyler
got his first, and it woke Short up for a minute.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
He wasn't awake very long, man.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Just long enough to see who was cutting his throat.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Probably, But they can't talk now, No, I guet, h'm
allllle through here. What do you wanna do with him?
Speaker 9 (18:10):
Oh? We'll let the hotel worry about him. I guess
it's weat Pendle that I want.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Now, and him such a mild little fell.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Any man can take just so much. Chester.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
They sure hate to see poor PingER hang for killing
these two buzzers.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Man Chester, wait for me to jail I'll bring him
over as soon as.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
I can find him, Sam.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
He want it be Marshall. Where's weat, Pendle? Sam?
Speaker 11 (18:50):
Oh, just send him out back for a bucket? Disawdist
what he want him for?
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Short and Tyler got their throats cut early this morning.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Good.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
I guess they're smashing His guitar was too much for Pendle.
That's all? Oh? Here he is now, Pendle over here.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Morning, Marshall, Good morning, Pendle.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Where was you last night?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I don't know? Here, I guess you don't know.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
Wait a minute, Marshall, Pendle, where was you after the
direct your guitar?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
We hall sat in the alley, awhile and I come
back here?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Yeah, that's right. And he was so broke up about
his guitar. I didn't want to leave him alone.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
So I took him up and let him sleep in
the floor in my room.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
That right, Pindle, Well go.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
On tell him now, sure, Sam? That's right?
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Are you trying to alibi for him? Sam?
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Why no, Marshall, dilim, But I care about him.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Some people care about me.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Who Pendall? He's just talking in Marshall, who cares about
your Pendall?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Tell me man?
Speaker 9 (20:01):
What man? He means?
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Some of the boys that was here when he come
back with his busted guitar.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Marshall, he just told him how sorry he was. It's
all I see. They liked his music, didn't they?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yes, he did. They liked to hear me play.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Who was in here then? Sam?
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Well?
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Now, Marshall Dylon, you know how it is. I'm busy
pouring drinks and I don't pay no mind to who's
here in hu Wayne.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
I couldn't rightly say it all? Okay, Sam, I guess
I can't beat the truth out of you.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Oh now, Marshall Dylan, who cares about Tyler?
Speaker 9 (20:37):
In short?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He's better off without as.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
A law against murder Simon. It's the same for everybody.
And I'll be back later.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What are you gonna do now, mister Dillon?
Speaker 9 (21:05):
Well, I've done all like Conchester the whole time's just
plain quick talking. Nobody knows anything.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Well, I guess they're all trying to protect Pendle.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Yeah they are that he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Well, who did?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Then?
Speaker 9 (21:22):
And if I could prove who did at Chester, I'd
have him in jail. That say, come over here?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
What well?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I declare? Mister Dillon looks to me like he's leaving town.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
Yeah, I told him he could go.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
He looks funnier and never on that one aired mule.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Yeah, now, Dodge treated Pendle pretty rough.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
He sure did.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Poor little fella looks kind of empty like out his guitar,
don't he.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Hm, Well, maybe he'll find another one somewhere anyway. They
sure like to hear him play in this tongue, and
a couple of the boys with particular I guess.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
Yeah, they like to just fie.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Same.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Mother, want to see your small fry eat up better
breakfast than ever? Well, may I suggest that you dish
them up some sugar crinkles to start with. Sugar crinkles,
you know, make breakfast more fun than a circus. Sugar
crinkles is the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet.
It's high time to forget these sugar coated cereals. It's
seemed too sweet to you and those others that don't
(22:59):
seem sweet enough to the kids. Just pour out crisp,
golden sugar crinkles and see how just right sweet a
sugar coated cereal can be just right sweet. Be sure
to get several packages of sugar crinkles because they're great
for snacks. Kids love them that way, kids love them anyway.
Try sugar crinkles and you'll love them too. Remember New
(23:23):
sugar Crinkles is the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet.
(23:46):
Gun Smoke under the direction of Norman MacDonald's stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Feature the cast where Vic Perrin,
John Dayner, Laurence Dobkin and Harry Bartel, Harley Bear Is Chester,
Howard mcneer's doc and Georgia Ellis is Kidding. Special guitar
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effects by Al Hendrickson, Ken Peter Speaking join us again
next week as Matt Dylan Us Marshall Whites to bring
law and order out of the wild violence of the
West in gun Smoke. Gun Smoke was brought to you
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