August 25, 2025 • 22 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 drive 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. John Storry William Conrad, The story of the
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violence that moved.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Least for young America, and the story of a man
who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
All right, now, boy, you said a lot more shop.
I'll have your supper on the table for your back, tad,
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Shot that?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No minute about it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I got put on the sun.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You only should have to suffer. Get along now, I.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Only got a little bit to go, a little bit,
just like the.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
One bad Meadows. Yes, mind you use the soap.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Yes, I'm going, says the man.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Run intward the house, get.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Back inside, close the door.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
I don't know, bet, don't shut me up.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Please open your door.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Let him.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You let me hide.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Hide, don't don't let.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Him get me. Now he was trying to hide. Roar
shooting him. Please, don't you.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Shout of dying man.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, he wasn't dying long.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You're shining up back and you're still daddy the right,
smart boy, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Where's your daddy? Dad? Let the boy talk? Where's your daddy?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I said, she's scared.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
M h you two living there all alone? We scared?
Of course you won't. Yeah, too bad. I had to
happen right in your kitchen, ma'am. Rourke has had that
coming a long time.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
What do he what he gonna do?
Speaker 9 (03:11):
Mister boy?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Just nothing, man, nothing at all, if you will let me.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You just remember this was my affair mining rods, and
now I'll walk right on out of here forget about it.
As long as you two forget about it.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Marshall's gonna commit you sure not had?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, Like I said, he's a real smart boy, any ma'am.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I guess you're right, though I guess he does talking
might too much.
Speaker 10 (03:42):
No, No, he don't talk, though.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I might have glad to hear that, cause it'd be.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
A shame for a bright boy like that to get
his toat cut because he.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Now, wouldn't
it wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
He won't talk. I promise.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's good, real good. And most of you just staying quietly.
I get away from here. Won't be no trouble.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
What what about him and I trouble?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Forgot my manners? Well, like I said, better get him
out of here. Not oh man, anybody here? Oh oh man,
(04:48):
I'm chester.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
I'm all back here and are.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Yeah you see m Fox, he is the one.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you do it? Hold?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Doc?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But what are you taking there?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Son of grays?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Grains?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Doc?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Don't talk like that.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
This here's a garden. What a garden?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But it looks more like a buffalo wallow?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Does man know that you're doing.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
This right outside of his back door? Well know we do,
and I'm kind of surprising him. Besides, I ain't hurting nothing, dog,
just bading up the dirts and I can see that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But let me show you how the garden's gonna be.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
That's eat right, here's where the beans is going, and
here's the carrot and NDErs pee.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
And he's a guy.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Well, I ain't planning it yet, but I got everything ready.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
All I need nonsen see?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Now where did this garden idea come from you me.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Well, sure, don't you remember that time you was talking,
mister Dyalan about how people eat out here on the
front here and how they might get skull right of scaring, Yeah, from.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Not eating enough greens inside.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Oh, all of that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's scurvy testing, not scullery, whatever it is.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I got thinking on it and decided to do something
about it. So I don't get that disease. I mean, oh,
oh that's fine, yess. But as I remember it, that
talk we had was months ago.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
That's right, it was, and I've been worrying about it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Everything You're amount of action.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
And trouble is I'm broke plumb. I can't buy no seed.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well see the little hold on No, no, no, don't
look at me.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Well, now, Doc, you'd like to play the greens every
now and then when you were sure I were, but
not enough to pay for the seeds, you might get.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
Scullery scurvy test and I won't get it.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Wouldn't pay very much by them seed from mister Jones.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
It's just a few pennies, is all dark, And then
none of us wouldn't never have to worry.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, not just now, suppose you did get those seeds.
Now you think everything that you plan is gonna blue
like a sunflower?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Oh, my gracious, Doc, this ain't no problem.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
You just kind of for similar roll seed in the ground,
and before you know it you got veg all your
old My you're quite a.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Fox, all right now, Doc, ain't don't need to smart?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
All right, All right, Chester, All right, here, here's somebody.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Go and get you see.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Well, thank you, Doc, And now i'm you're half owner
of this garden. You can have part of whatever I
grow for all that's good of the Chester. Pretty warm, ain't.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It usually is?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
In the sun?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Must be near noon, dad, Let me see, it's just
about quarter two twelve quarter?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Children.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
My gracious, I'm gonna be laved, lady Leaven order to
meet mister donut den ronco.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Lunch or what about our god?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I'll get to it, Doc, But after all, if dog
ain't had no green vegetables for.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
All this time, it ain't gonna hurt us none. To
wait a little longer, I'll see you leave.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
I don't mind a man making money MIT's.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Doing, but by Jing, I.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Don't think he should be making it all off of me.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
What do you mean, Chester? Why that exactly?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Holding charging fifteen sands for a meal like that.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
I swear that steak still had a piece.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Of a fire, don't it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Prices are going up? Chest Rae just kind of faces,
but he's getting through.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
The man don't hardly have nothing left after feeding this off.
A little after fact, kean.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Miss Doon, and the lady's going into office writing what
she wants.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
She's like most women. We won't be wrong when finding out.
Now you wanted to see me?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You're he is mons, Yes, that's right, Matt telling him
that's a Chester proudfit.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
I ain't do man, how'd you do?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm Cora, Meta's Marshal, my boy and I live. Where's
the town the people?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I want you to sit down as matters sensor.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Uh, mister Jones got Rochester as long as you and
his meda is gonna be talking for spell.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't believe.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
I'll just going back and see Zach holding about charging that.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Out Landy's price for immediately. It's still sticking in my crawl.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Alright, Chester, you do that?
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Us, Brothers.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
M Marshall, I I don't rightly know what to do.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, suppose you just tell me, what's the matter.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, that's just it, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I I'm fear of what will happen if I tell you,
and I I'm fear of what will happen if I don't. Ye.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
You need help, yes, Marshall, I.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I I need help, alright, Uh huh uh, just speak
right out. Well, it's my boy, my boy Tad.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
He's missing.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I think he's taken at after that man, and he'll
kill the boy if he sees him, and he'll kill
me if you knows I've been there.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Wait a minute, Uh, what man are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
The one that that fell out to my place yesterday?
He shot him down just like it was an animal.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You're telling me there was a killing there yesterday and
that your son may have gone after the murderer.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
Yes, muscle I am.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I think you better go back to the beginning and
tell me the whole story.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
He tell you where the man was drugged from? Miss villain.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, if the kitchen doors, as to the track should
be along here somewhere.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Over here chatter's Yeah, it's like hell marks.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Yeah, beating older them bushies.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Come on, I don't think he'd taken much time with him.
Uh yeah, there he is.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Us me good.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
It took the trouble to bury him.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
And when a man shoot you in the back, he's
not gonna worry about your funeral.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Rochester, I haven't seen him before, mister Jones. He was
at the Long runch a lot playing cards. Now it's
a gambler by the name of Rourke.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, I guess the burying's up to us.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yes, sir, oh you man, I'm glad you're hit. I
(12:25):
like him as soon as I got your message. Dark
as there's something wrong.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
Yes, matther Is, come to the other room. No, it's
this youngster, Maat. I found him by the road. What's
the matter with him?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
He's been beaten, cruelly brutally beaten. Look, yeah, I didn't
even know if I could bring him out of it
for a while.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
Did he say who he is? No, that's a funny thing.
He hasn't talked at all. He's been conscious most of
the day, but he he won't see a word. Uh h,
I guess you can blame him.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Whoever did this was trying to scare him to that,
even if it didn't quite kill him. Uh, is it okay?
If I try to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Guess you won't hurt him if he don't talk.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Do you know who he is?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah? I think so?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Hellbout Tad, Tad, Tad. I'm Marshall, Dylan.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Mmy.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
You don't have to turn your head away, Tad. I
I want to help you. I wanna help you and
help your mother. Now you want me to catch a
man who did this, don't you. I can do it
if you will help me. But Tad, I I promise
you won't get hurt anymore, and I promise that your
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mother won't get hurt either.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Dad. Look, the only way to be.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Sure that you're safe is to bring this man in.
I'm not gonna answer that.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No, I guess not.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Alright, Doug, Let's leave him alone.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
How long are you gonna keep him here? I?
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Oh, I expect to be up by a marle. He's quiet.
A boy recovers mighty fast.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Uh will he be willing enough to stay in town
with the kiddy for a few days?
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Sure, man, I guess how.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
But if you know who he is, why don't you
take him home?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'll tell you later, Doc, But Uh, there are a
couple of people I wanna see first.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I I love Sam. Oh, Marshall, did you drink?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
I know?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Thanks? Sam's kiddy around and she's upstairs. Marshall, hard to
be down a minute, a dude. Oh and I'll go on.
I thanks, sir. Oh Ma you looking for me? Uh yeah,
I'd like to talk to you, kiddy.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I'm coming down alright, come on over to a table.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Thanks to don No, no, no, thanks, Kitty, I haven't
got time.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I I would ask you to do a favor for me.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
What's your man?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
What is she? I want you to take care of
a small boy for me for a couple of days.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
I'm boy.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Eh what is the run away?
Speaker 5 (15:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Not exactly, but uh, I'd like to have you keep
him around the Long Branch for a day or two
and give him the run of the place.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Doesn't sound exactly like the best surroundings for a young
boy mine.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You're gonna have to trust my judgment, Kitty. Will you
do it for me? Sure? I I guess so if.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You want me to.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I do want you to. I'll explain later. Thanks, Kitty.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Sure.
Speaker 12 (16:37):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's Matt Dylon. I'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Ms Millers, come in, Marshall, Tad is it about Tad.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yes that if I'm pretty sure where you found him?
All right, he's at Doc Adam's office. He's all right now,
this Meadows. But he's had a bad beating.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I think the killer beat him to keep him.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Quiet, and it worked because Tad won't talk to anybody.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
I'll go get him, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Well, that's what i want to talk to you about,
mis Meadows. I'd like to keep the boy in tom
for a few days.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
A sick boy belongs in his own home. I'll go
get him.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Mark, will you listen to me for a minute of
his metters.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You've got to understand that as long as this man
is on the loose, neither you nor Tad is going
to be safe.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
We're not going to get mixed up in that no more, Marshall,
Me and Tad will stay right out here and never
say a word more.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
But if the killer gets worried about you, no matter
where you are, especially if he knows that you've.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Been to see me, I shouldn't have come.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
No, you did right to come, Miss Meadows. And if
you'll let me keep Tad in town for a few days,
maybe we can get this man. I'm pretty sure or
that he's a gambler and he'll be back.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You mean you want Tad to help you, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
He won't know anything about it, man, he'll be perfectly safe.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
No, Marshall, you've got no rights.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
He's talking about rights, man, I'm talking about I'm talking
about maybe saving your life and your.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Boy's life too.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I want him here at hot you just let him
recognize that gunman for us, and he'll be home safe
and for good.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
He's been hurt by hurt, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Now Chester or I'll be watching him every minute, and
as soon as it's over, I'll bring him right home.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Tend to a good boy. He never had a beatn before,
and I.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Want to see that he doesn't ever have another.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
One now, Tad.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
There's one thing by playing poker that you might as.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Well learn right off.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It ain't so much what you've got in your hand
as what folks thinks you got. And you understand that.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
I think so mis prouder some folks.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Just has a face for it.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
And that's a fact. Now you know what.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The folks calls me.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Poker face proudly because nobody don't never know what I
got in my hand.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Give me one card, please.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
All right now, don't you let on what you've got? Yes,
well that's.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Good, that is good.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
You ain't letting on one bit now. I don't take
one myself, poor wob.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
What's the hand?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I think that this.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Wouldn't happen six months or Sundays, tis thot.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
You weren't supposed to let on?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
You ain't You ain't.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
But you take a hand like it?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Yes, for six and a selling and.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
A mine, and then you whole and draw me and
mine all blue. You get hungry, Tess, you there's no
why I'm gon last an arm his kid him if
you don't come back, how.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
To be here?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Pretty soon? He went out to see your mother, Tad.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
He wanted her to know.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
That you've been doing just fine his last few days.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Oh, yes, I hope she's fine too.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
I'd like to go home, kitty, hell man, mister, doone
you know what I just did?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Oh, she's fine, Tad. She said to tell you not
to worry about anything. And if she sent you some.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Clean clothes, did she say what?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I could come home and I want to be assumed.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Why don't you take those clothes on up to the room, honey, Yes,
And when you come down we'll have sam brings and suffering.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Mister, don't you know what happened? Just men to go?
I was wrong to inside and.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What is it? Boys? That's our man? Take the boy up?
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Oh, it's all the commotion.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Marshall and man walk in here for drink. We uh
been waiting for you, mister.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
The boy and I well, I don't know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
I never saw that boy before in my life.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You never expected to see him again either, at least
not alive.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
After that beating. You gave him a beating.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Now you listen, Marshall, Listen to me. That boy knows you,
and so does his mother.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Sh she ain't here. She'll be here in good time. Marshall,
you ain't taking me.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
You better look out, mister, because I'm not turning my
back on you like Rorke did fool you.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
He's got a mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, well anybody can shoot a Manchester. That's that boy's mother.
What she did took real courage. Come on, let's take
Tad home.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
I think his mother's wait at William
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Gun Smoke but Houston directed by Norman McDonald's William Conrad
as Matt Dylan, Us Marshall the story, especially writing for
Gun Smoke by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
Around drive 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. John Storry William Conrad, The story of the
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violence that moved.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Least for young America, and the story of a man
who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
All right, now, boy, you said a lot more shop.
I'll have your supper on the table for your back, tad,
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Shot that?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No minute about it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I got put on the sun.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You only should have to suffer. Get along now, I.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Only got a little bit to go, a little bit,
just like the.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
One bad Meadows. Yes, mind you use the soap.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Yes, I'm going, says the man.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Run intward the house, get.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Back inside, close the door.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
I don't know, bet, don't shut me up.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Please open your door.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Let him.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You let me hide.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Hide, don't don't let.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Him get me. Now he was trying to hide. Roar
shooting him. Please, don't you.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Shout of dying man.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, he wasn't dying long.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You're shining up back and you're still daddy the right,
smart boy, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Where's your daddy? Dad? Let the boy talk? Where's your daddy?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I said, she's scared.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
M h you two living there all alone? We scared?
Of course you won't. Yeah, too bad. I had to
happen right in your kitchen, ma'am. Rourke has had that
coming a long time.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
What do he what he gonna do?
Speaker 9 (03:11):
Mister boy?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Just nothing, man, nothing at all, if you will let me.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You just remember this was my affair mining rods, and
now I'll walk right on out of here forget about it.
As long as you two forget about it.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Marshall's gonna commit you sure not had?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, Like I said, he's a real smart boy, any ma'am.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I guess you're right, though I guess he does talking
might too much.
Speaker 10 (03:42):
No, No, he don't talk, though.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I might have glad to hear that, cause it'd be.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
A shame for a bright boy like that to get
his toat cut because he.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Now, wouldn't
it wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
He won't talk. I promise.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's good, real good. And most of you just staying quietly.
I get away from here. Won't be no trouble.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
What what about him and I trouble?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Forgot my manners? Well, like I said, better get him
out of here. Not oh man, anybody here? Oh oh man,
(04:48):
I'm chester.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
I'm all back here and are.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Yeah you see m Fox, he is the one.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you do it? Hold?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Doc?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But what are you taking there?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Son of grays?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Grains?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Doc?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Don't talk like that.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
This here's a garden. What a garden?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But it looks more like a buffalo wallow?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Does man know that you're doing.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
This right outside of his back door? Well know we do,
and I'm kind of surprising him. Besides, I ain't hurting nothing, dog,
just bading up the dirts and I can see that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But let me show you how the garden's gonna be.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
That's eat right, here's where the beans is going, and
here's the carrot and NDErs pee.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
And he's a guy.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Well, I ain't planning it yet, but I got everything ready.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
All I need nonsen see?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Now where did this garden idea come from you me.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Well, sure, don't you remember that time you was talking,
mister Dyalan about how people eat out here on the
front here and how they might get skull right of scaring, Yeah, from.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Not eating enough greens inside.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Oh, all of that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's scurvy testing, not scullery, whatever it is.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I got thinking on it and decided to do something
about it. So I don't get that disease. I mean, oh,
oh that's fine, yess. But as I remember it, that
talk we had was months ago.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
That's right, it was, and I've been worrying about it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Everything You're amount of action.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
And trouble is I'm broke plumb. I can't buy no seed.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well see the little hold on No, no, no, don't
look at me.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Well, now, Doc, you'd like to play the greens every
now and then when you were sure I were, but
not enough to pay for the seeds, you might get.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
Scullery scurvy test and I won't get it.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Wouldn't pay very much by them seed from mister Jones.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
It's just a few pennies, is all dark, And then
none of us wouldn't never have to worry.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, not just now, suppose you did get those seeds.
Now you think everything that you plan is gonna blue
like a sunflower?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Oh, my gracious, Doc, this ain't no problem.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
You just kind of for similar roll seed in the ground,
and before you know it you got veg all your
old My you're quite a.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Fox, all right now, Doc, ain't don't need to smart?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
All right, All right, Chester, All right, here, here's somebody.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Go and get you see.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Well, thank you, Doc, And now i'm you're half owner
of this garden. You can have part of whatever I
grow for all that's good of the Chester. Pretty warm, ain't.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It usually is?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
In the sun?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Must be near noon, dad, Let me see, it's just
about quarter two twelve quarter?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Children.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
My gracious, I'm gonna be laved, lady Leaven order to
meet mister donut den ronco.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Lunch or what about our god?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I'll get to it, Doc, But after all, if dog
ain't had no green vegetables for.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
All this time, it ain't gonna hurt us none. To
wait a little longer, I'll see you leave.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
I don't mind a man making money MIT's.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Doing, but by Jing, I.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Don't think he should be making it all off of me.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
What do you mean, Chester? Why that exactly?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Holding charging fifteen sands for a meal like that.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
I swear that steak still had a piece.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Of a fire, don't it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Prices are going up? Chest Rae just kind of faces,
but he's getting through.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
The man don't hardly have nothing left after feeding this off.
A little after fact, kean.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Miss Doon, and the lady's going into office writing what
she wants.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
She's like most women. We won't be wrong when finding out.
Now you wanted to see me?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You're he is mons, Yes, that's right, Matt telling him
that's a Chester proudfit.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
I ain't do man, how'd you do?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm Cora, Meta's Marshal, my boy and I live. Where's
the town the people?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I want you to sit down as matters sensor.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Uh, mister Jones got Rochester as long as you and
his meda is gonna be talking for spell.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't believe.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
I'll just going back and see Zach holding about charging that.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Out Landy's price for immediately. It's still sticking in my crawl.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Alright, Chester, you do that?
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Us, Brothers.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
M Marshall, I I don't rightly know what to do.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, suppose you just tell me, what's the matter.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, that's just it, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I I'm fear of what will happen if I tell you,
and I I'm fear of what will happen if I don't. Ye.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
You need help, yes, Marshall, I.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I I need help, alright, Uh huh uh, just speak
right out. Well, it's my boy, my boy Tad.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
He's missing.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I think he's taken at after that man, and he'll
kill the boy if he sees him, and he'll kill
me if you knows I've been there.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Wait a minute, Uh, what man are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
The one that that fell out to my place yesterday?
He shot him down just like it was an animal.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You're telling me there was a killing there yesterday and
that your son may have gone after the murderer.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
Yes, muscle I am.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I think you better go back to the beginning and
tell me the whole story.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
He tell you where the man was drugged from? Miss villain.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, if the kitchen doors, as to the track should
be along here somewhere.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Over here chatter's Yeah, it's like hell marks.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Yeah, beating older them bushies.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Come on, I don't think he'd taken much time with him.
Uh yeah, there he is.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Us me good.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
It took the trouble to bury him.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
And when a man shoot you in the back, he's
not gonna worry about your funeral.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Rochester, I haven't seen him before, mister Jones. He was
at the Long runch a lot playing cards. Now it's
a gambler by the name of Rourke.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, I guess the burying's up to us.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yes, sir, oh you man, I'm glad you're hit. I
(12:25):
like him as soon as I got your message. Dark
as there's something wrong.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
Yes, matther Is, come to the other room. No, it's
this youngster, Maat. I found him by the road. What's
the matter with him?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
He's been beaten, cruelly brutally beaten. Look, yeah, I didn't
even know if I could bring him out of it
for a while.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
Did he say who he is? No, that's a funny thing.
He hasn't talked at all. He's been conscious most of
the day, but he he won't see a word. Uh h,
I guess you can blame him.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Whoever did this was trying to scare him to that,
even if it didn't quite kill him. Uh, is it okay?
If I try to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Guess you won't hurt him if he don't talk.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Do you know who he is?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah? I think so?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Hellbout Tad, Tad, Tad. I'm Marshall, Dylan.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Mmy.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
You don't have to turn your head away, Tad. I
I want to help you. I wanna help you and
help your mother. Now you want me to catch a
man who did this, don't you. I can do it
if you will help me. But Tad, I I promise
you won't get hurt anymore, and I promise that your
(14:00):
mother won't get hurt either.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Dad. Look, the only way to be.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Sure that you're safe is to bring this man in.
I'm not gonna answer that.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No, I guess not.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Alright, Doug, Let's leave him alone.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
How long are you gonna keep him here? I?
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Oh, I expect to be up by a marle. He's quiet.
A boy recovers mighty fast.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Uh will he be willing enough to stay in town
with the kiddy for a few days?
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Sure, man, I guess how.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
But if you know who he is, why don't you
take him home?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'll tell you later, Doc, But Uh, there are a
couple of people I wanna see first.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I I love Sam. Oh, Marshall, did you drink?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
I know?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Thanks? Sam's kiddy around and she's upstairs. Marshall, hard to
be down a minute, a dude. Oh and I'll go on.
I thanks, sir. Oh Ma you looking for me? Uh yeah,
I'd like to talk to you, kiddy.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I'm coming down alright, come on over to a table.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Thanks to don No, no, no, thanks, Kitty, I haven't
got time.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I I would ask you to do a favor for me.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
What's your man?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
What is she? I want you to take care of
a small boy for me for a couple of days.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
I'm boy.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Eh what is the run away?
Speaker 5 (15:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Not exactly, but uh, I'd like to have you keep
him around the Long Branch for a day or two
and give him the run of the place.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Doesn't sound exactly like the best surroundings for a young
boy mine.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You're gonna have to trust my judgment, Kitty. Will you
do it for me? Sure? I I guess so if.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You want me to.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I do want you to. I'll explain later. Thanks, Kitty.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Sure.
Speaker 12 (16:37):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's Matt Dylon. I'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Ms Millers, come in, Marshall, Tad is it about Tad.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yes that if I'm pretty sure where you found him?
All right, he's at Doc Adam's office. He's all right now,
this Meadows. But he's had a bad beating.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I think the killer beat him to keep him.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Quiet, and it worked because Tad won't talk to anybody.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
I'll go get him, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Well, that's what i want to talk to you about,
mis Meadows. I'd like to keep the boy in tom
for a few days.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
A sick boy belongs in his own home. I'll go
get him.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Mark, will you listen to me for a minute of
his metters.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You've got to understand that as long as this man
is on the loose, neither you nor Tad is going
to be safe.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
We're not going to get mixed up in that no more, Marshall,
Me and Tad will stay right out here and never
say a word more.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
But if the killer gets worried about you, no matter
where you are, especially if he knows that you've.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Been to see me, I shouldn't have come.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
No, you did right to come, Miss Meadows. And if
you'll let me keep Tad in town for a few days,
maybe we can get this man. I'm pretty sure or
that he's a gambler and he'll be back.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You mean you want Tad to help you, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
He won't know anything about it, man, he'll be perfectly safe.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
No, Marshall, you've got no rights.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
He's talking about rights, man, I'm talking about I'm talking
about maybe saving your life and your.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Boy's life too.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I want him here at hot you just let him
recognize that gunman for us, and he'll be home safe
and for good.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
He's been hurt by hurt, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Now Chester or I'll be watching him every minute, and
as soon as it's over, I'll bring him right home.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Tend to a good boy. He never had a beatn before,
and I.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Want to see that he doesn't ever have another.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
One now, Tad.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
There's one thing by playing poker that you might as.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Well learn right off.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It ain't so much what you've got in your hand
as what folks thinks you got. And you understand that.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
I think so mis prouder some folks.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Just has a face for it.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
And that's a fact. Now you know what.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The folks calls me.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Poker face proudly because nobody don't never know what I
got in my hand.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Give me one card, please.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
All right now, don't you let on what you've got? Yes,
well that's.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Good, that is good.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
You ain't letting on one bit now. I don't take
one myself, poor wob.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
What's the hand?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I think that this.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Wouldn't happen six months or Sundays, tis thot.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
You weren't supposed to let on?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
You ain't You ain't.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
But you take a hand like it?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Yes, for six and a selling and.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
A mine, and then you whole and draw me and
mine all blue. You get hungry, Tess, you there's no
why I'm gon last an arm his kid him if
you don't come back, how.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
To be here?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Pretty soon? He went out to see your mother, Tad.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
He wanted her to know.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
That you've been doing just fine his last few days.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Oh, yes, I hope she's fine too.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
I'd like to go home, kitty, hell man, mister, doone
you know what I just did?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Oh, she's fine, Tad. She said to tell you not
to worry about anything. And if she sent you some.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Clean clothes, did she say what?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I could come home and I want to be assumed.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Why don't you take those clothes on up to the room, honey, Yes,
And when you come down we'll have sam brings and suffering.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Mister, don't you know what happened? Just men to go?
I was wrong to inside and.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What is it? Boys? That's our man? Take the boy up?
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Oh, it's all the commotion.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Marshall and man walk in here for drink. We uh
been waiting for you, mister.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
The boy and I well, I don't know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
I never saw that boy before in my life.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You never expected to see him again either, at least
not alive.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
After that beating. You gave him a beating.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Now you listen, Marshall, Listen to me. That boy knows you,
and so does his mother.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Sh she ain't here. She'll be here in good time. Marshall,
you ain't taking me.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
You better look out, mister, because I'm not turning my
back on you like Rorke did fool you.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
He's got a mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, well anybody can shoot a Manchester. That's that boy's mother.
What she did took real courage. Come on, let's take
Tad home.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
I think his mother's wait at William
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Gun Smoke but Houston directed by Norman McDonald's William Conrad
as Matt Dylan, Us Marshall the story, especially writing for
Gun Smoke by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
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