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December 8, 2025 • 18 mins
Gunsmoke was a beloved American radio Western drama series centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad. The program aired from 1952 to 1961 and is widely considered one of the greatest western series ever produced for radio or television. It was gritty, featuring tough and sometimes very violent subject matter. Gunsmoke is a treasured classic that left a permanent mark of the history of radio and westerns.

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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
Guns Smoke Gun, starring William Conrad, the story of the

(00:42):
violence that moved west with young America and the story
of a man who moved with it. I'm that man,
Matt Dillon United States Marshall, the first man they look
for and the less they want to meet. It's a
chance a job, and it makes a man watchful and
a little lonely.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Mmm.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
You better eat up, Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Won't find food that's even this good when you get Kalna.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ronald's a poor Tom And uh ain't now.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
My business doing?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
But why ain't miss Kitty coming back from Arnold on
stage same way she went up there?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Why do you have to go fetch her? I'll tell
you why, Chester.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's the idea of having a US Marshall come up
an escort you back to God.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
The reason, Chester is that.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
There won't be another stage for a week, and Kitty
has to get back here before that.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
That's the reason.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Mm.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
And I suppose it'll be a nice ride for it too.
Of me t yeah, cool match, you have to admit
it's mighty courtly of it.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Squire and Kitty home through the country.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
You gotta be a long, hot ride and you know it.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Isn't the window the towns, it's a company.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Where are you going to go?

Speaker 7 (02:08):
I'm going back to the office.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Where beneat your dessert it was mighty good.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I'm pull of sugar. You eat a Chester?

Speaker 8 (02:16):
Well, now, I sure do things.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Things are too sugary around here for me already.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
Made?

Speaker 5 (02:40):
Man?

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Huh what oh it's ma o.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
For heaven's sake, we usually from the subtle.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Why no, kiddy, of course not. I just my eyes
closed for my office.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Well, I guess I can't blame you.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
My has it taking you most of the night to
get up the line and starting right back this way?

Speaker 7 (03:06):
Still a couple hours to ride.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Uh, I've had tough horison in this one. Kitty, say,
how did your uh visit with your friends out there?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Though?

Speaker 9 (03:14):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:16):
I'm glad to see him?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Man, Uh, this has been pretty sick. I'm glad I
made the trip, really, am h You're.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Not the only one.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Huh what do you mean dark and Chester? I haven't
been able to talk of anything else since they found out.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
That I was coming up after you.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
I can believe that.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
I look out, kitty, hold on, don't let kitty, oh, kitty,
or you hurt?

Speaker 5 (03:53):
I I don't know, man, M sorry, I couldn't hang on.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
M well, never mind, dotty any bones broken?

Speaker 5 (04:04):
I don't know, I don't think so't wan't see if.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
You can sit up and sho oh, let see.

Speaker 9 (04:16):
I can't sit up my head.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I'll take it easy, kitty, m Yeah, let me have
a look. Yeah, yeah, you bumped it alright, I stay
hit a rock?

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Then are are you there?

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah? Sure, kitty, I'm right here. I can't see if
I will.

Speaker 8 (04:42):
Duck.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
But now now, now, don't you worry, kitty y, you're
gonna be alright.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
You get me home.

Speaker 8 (04:50):
Yeah, I'll get your home. O.

Speaker 7 (05:12):
Hey, you in there, open up? Come on, I got
a gun on you, mister, I put it down. I'm
a US marshal art. I need to sell it for
this woman.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
She's injured. You got no right to bust.

Speaker 7 (05:27):
In now, lesten. I made this woman that's badly hurt.

Speaker 8 (05:30):
It ain't none of my doing.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
How you look, hair, lete 'em bring her in right,
ain't no call and.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Bring her in.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Coome on in.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
It's a real pretty woman, far, a real pretty woman
has leave just hurt.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Just set her right down there, mars alright, the us
Marshall moving and fool fools, Ya kidding?

Speaker 8 (06:00):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
You got something to cover up with? Something clean? What's
matter with them blankets?

Speaker 9 (06:07):
I'll get you something, Marshall.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Rank you.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
H h You're alright, kitty, You're gonna be fine here
I get back with darc You hear that far?

Speaker 10 (06:19):
You gonna leave that woman right here with us?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
You shut your mind right? Yeah? Please, I'm just gonna
get dark Kitty.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Here's a covered, marshal I've been keeping it in my
trunk rightly, a table cloth.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
But it's clean, thank you. Remember my mother's Yeah, sure,
and things was always clean you oh woman?

Speaker 10 (06:45):
Alright, kitty, al right, Uh, one of you is gonna
have to go on the dodger and bring Dark Adams back.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Woo.

Speaker 10 (06:56):
I ain't especially feeling like no ride wash. Oh well,
I can see to it that you.

Speaker 7 (07:04):
Feel a lot worse.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
You let me go.

Speaker 7 (07:08):
You'll look here.

Speaker 10 (07:08):
I'm through asking for your help. You're gonna do as
I say.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
That woman needs a.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Doctor and one of you is gonna see that she
gets one right now, you understand.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I guess maybe Loody go.

Speaker 10 (07:21):
Better, Lody, why you know the way to tom the way?

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Alright, Carl?

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Let me go in there two three times?

Speaker 8 (07:30):
Right?

Speaker 10 (07:30):
Then you go now and you find Doc Adams and
you bring.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Him back with you. You understand.

Speaker 11 (07:35):
I don't see why I have to ride all the
way to Dodge.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
I ain't never seen a young woman out here before.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
You'll be here when you get back, Well, I have to.

Speaker 9 (07:49):
You want me to cut you again, Goldy? Ride fast?

Speaker 5 (07:53):
You hear all right?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Fast?

Speaker 6 (07:56):
I want to get back for certain I do.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Go on, then get out of hair.

Speaker 9 (08:03):
Oh lot of cool her heads?

Speaker 8 (08:19):
This?

Speaker 9 (08:20):
Uh, he was sure has took over Marshall. Marshall doing
Oh what oh?

Speaker 3 (08:30):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (08:31):
As come over here?

Speaker 5 (08:36):
I'm trying to keep.

Speaker 9 (08:37):
Her head cool with his damp claws, Marshall, but she's burning.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Up the fair. Huh he doesn't look too good, Kitty kitty,
she can't talk, Marshall seem rightly conscious? Uh a boy
of yours. He should have brought Dark at Hims.

Speaker 9 (08:57):
A couple of hours ago, Yes, sir, he should.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
H We can't wait for him any longer, rap they rap,
come on waking un Uh, come on?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Got up?

Speaker 9 (09:16):
Oh well he's stay light.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah at the sun of yours hasn't shown up. He's
been gone over six hours.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Oooh you never can tell, uh, Rudy and I.

Speaker 10 (09:27):
Better be able to tell about you.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Well you mean get your boots on, run at the dodge.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh more, you don't have Dark back here within four hours.
I promise you're gonna need him a whole lot worse,
and Kiddy does.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
But ru Ludy took the only horse we got.

Speaker 10 (09:44):
We can ride mine.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Go on now, well, or at least get paid for it.
If I go, you'll get paid for it, Puny. If
you don't, man, he got no right here.

Speaker 11 (09:58):
O hm, he seems me Marshall taking on like that.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
You think he'll come back?

Speaker 9 (10:10):
Oh you come back?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
You ain't brave enough not to.

Speaker 9 (10:13):
He's come afraid of you, Marshall. Eh, I better get
some more water from the well.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
Nah here, I'll get it.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Miss.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I've got a gun pointed right at your.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Belly, Marshall. But that sing don Luddy, Oh no, where's
dark Adams?

Speaker 5 (10:38):
You ain't here, that's where he is. Ludy stopped talking. Foolish.

Speaker 11 (10:43):
They me talking foolish?

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Sh stand right when still, Marshall, I can shoot this ring.

Speaker 9 (10:49):
Game up, Yes, Loudy, you can shoot it.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Don't you cause no trouble?

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Now?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Ain't me gonna cause no trouble? Didn't you even go
for dark Ludie? Oh, Marshall. I had me a plan,
A real good plan. Are you young?

Speaker 5 (11:09):
Right there?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Marshall?

Speaker 11 (11:12):
Next time I'll hit you.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm a real good shot.

Speaker 10 (11:16):
What are you trying to do?

Speaker 3 (11:17):
I come back to get to the woman.

Speaker 7 (11:20):
What got it all worked out?

Speaker 3 (11:24):
You know?

Speaker 11 (11:25):
If I didn't come back, you send par And that
ain't so crazy, is it? I don't wait for that, alright,
pardon never let me do.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
It, And I'm not about to let you do it either.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
Tell you the truth, Marshall.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I wouldn't want to kill you. Jillan's bad, but if
I have tissue it you again, I'll hit you.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Surely you can't take that woman out of here.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
She's bad, l hurt.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
I got that all figures out in my head.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
I stole me a why, and I got it here.

Speaker 11 (12:02):
A little ways from here. I'll just carry her out
to it and I'll take her away.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
And when she gets alright, she's gonna be.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
My woman, Loudy, P.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
I've got her right to have a.

Speaker 11 (12:15):
Woman, just like anybody.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
And she's the first woman I ever had a chance
to listen to me. I told you, I don't care
for it till she's well.

Speaker 11 (12:29):
And I see her lying there so pretty, I knew
she was the one I wanted, and I'm.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Gonna take her right now.

Speaker 8 (12:40):
You sit down in that chair, Marshall, why she.

Speaker 6 (12:45):
Now, MA, you gonna get me that rope that's hanging
on the wall.

Speaker 9 (12:56):
Loudy, that'll bring you bad trouble.

Speaker 6 (12:58):
Rope, Ma, you try him up there in that chair.

Speaker 7 (13:07):
I'm going now.

Speaker 8 (13:11):
And give me his gun.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Person.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
I am real good.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (13:19):
I wouldn't wanna hurt you neither, but I.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Would, Marshall, do what it says much as m m.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
Now you just stay there.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Nice and quiet, Marshall, and cause she finishes, I'm gonna bring.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
The wagon now. Hm.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
I ain't looking so foolish now, am I?

Speaker 4 (13:44):
No?

Speaker 3 (13:44):
The it was fine.

Speaker 9 (13:48):
M gotta bit Marshall. I'll tire you now, thaktsh. You

(14:08):
don't have to go after him.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
I will, kiddy, if you see you's.

Speaker 9 (14:14):
Clean out of my reach. And ifhing's gonna stop him now, I'll.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Make a good tray. It's Justine. Yeah, you loose. You
take care of kiddy with him.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
I'll take care of him, Marshall.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
I wait, what is it.

Speaker 9 (14:31):
In the trunk? I saw it yesterday when I got
the pib cross here. Marshall, Now you take it.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Huh. You're giving me a gun.

Speaker 9 (14:48):
I can't let you go.

Speaker 10 (14:49):
Out there without one, not the way the looty is.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
With some bullets acts.

Speaker 9 (14:59):
Try not to hurt him too much, Marshall.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
I'll try him. I'm a praising no more to handle easy, Oh.

Speaker 9 (15:16):
Ludy goody.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
It just ain't no chance for you in this world.
There ain't no place for your kind, od Ody. You

(15:44):
had to kill him, didn't you.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'm sorry, miss Justson.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
He's out there, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'll take care of him.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
No, Marshall, he's my boy. I'll take care of him.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
There wasn't anything else I could do. I know, Marshall.

Speaker 9 (15:59):
I know it's been coming on him, coming on him
for a long time.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
There weren't no.

Speaker 9 (16:06):
Help or no help at all, just beatings in a
twisted way of thinking.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 9 (16:15):
He's all right now. Anie Marshall. I can think he's
all right now Okada, Yes, ma'am, Miss Judson.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
You can think that.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
I got to stop the wagon for doctor at no matter,
something wrong.

Speaker 8 (16:48):
Doctor.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Everything's all right, kid, he's just coming.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
Out of me.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
She wants to see.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (16:53):
I'll be right there.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Ah, she's not.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
She's gonna be all right.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Matter, man, you don't know what to do.

Speaker 7 (17:03):
You mustn't try to sit up yet.

Speaker 9 (17:05):
Oh that's crazy, Doc.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
I'm fine.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
You'll do what he says.

Speaker 10 (17:10):
Kitty, if I have to tie your.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Tongue, Okay, I guess I have caught you enough trouble matter. Uh,
you gave me a turn when you were lying there unconscious.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
I will say that.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
I don't remember a thing after you first carried me
into that shack.

Speaker 9 (17:25):
I guess it was pretty silly.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
What do you mean, oh, consistent like you did, But
you stay with me and not leave me to go
get doc.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
Nothing would have happened to me in that place.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
I guess I would just spooky a party. Uh. It
was a little spooky myself, Kitty. That's what we got through. Well,
what do you mean, Oh?

Speaker 5 (17:47):
Nothing?

Speaker 6 (17:48):
Not it?

Speaker 3 (17:50):
You rest?

Speaker 8 (17:50):
Now?

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Okay to go on, doc.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh, sure, Oh, everything's fine.

Speaker 7 (18:16):
Guns Smoke Prod.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Houston, directed by Norman McDonnell, stars William Conrad as Matt
Dillon US Marshall. The story was specially written for Guns
Book by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
Harley bare Is Chester, Howard mcneer is doc, and Georgia
Ellis is kidding
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