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November 29, 2025 • 19 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 (00:11):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers of the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke guns Starry William Conrad, the story of the

(00:44):
violin that moved west with young Americans and the story
of a man who moved with it. I'm that man,
Matt Dylan, United States Marshall, the first man they look
for and the last they want to meet. It's a
chance that up and it makes a man watchful and
a little lonely.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Chester. Yes, but you are going straight to the bar,
not even.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Saying, oh, well, I've figured you would be.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm busy Tellingmandy here about Dodd.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
This is Chester, Crownfoot. He's one of the people you
want to know. This is Andy Hill, Chester, Manchester. Thank you,
Chester words the montrel.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Tellamanda, that'll be a good I'm with a fine job
if you like long hours and boil pay.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
He spends quite a few of those long hours sitting
around the depot waiting for the train to come in
and go out and all.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's just so mister Dilton know where I'm ass. He
wants me. You say long and do any ny. I
don't know yet, sister.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I've been advising him to move on. Why, mostly because
i'd like to myself.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Your name, kitty, I'm busy, mister. They told me her name.
I'm gonna buy you a drink.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Come on the bar, your mister, fun of the ass.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I have no talk from a woman of your guys.
All right, you get out of here, mister, get on, Well,
I don't find me a gun. I'm quick enough. How
about me. I'm on. You're too young to be wearing
a gun. Take it off. You'll do it. You take

(03:06):
it off, I sure will come there. You want to die,
don't you?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I don't want anybody to die. Now, you get out
of here. I'm gonna put a bullet in you. You
can't do it, mister, don't try it. I'll show you.
I told him he couldn't do it. But you killed him,

(03:35):
and he was looking for a fight. I don't even
know who he is. I never saw him before. Who
Marshall doing? Oh? Did you kill this man? I do it?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's a self defense mass. He started and he drew first,
and he.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Had to show him. Passe Tout was doing. He was
treating misty bad, and I didn't have no gun, and
he stood right up to him. Some help and carry
him out of here Chester. So I will al you
and I step over here. You wouldn't Andy? Is it
Andy Hill? Marsham?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
You should have seen it mass That man had his
gun almost up before I hadn't even started his raw.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
So you're pretty fast, And well, I'm alive. Where you're from?
I told you my name, and don't matter where I'm from.
What are you doing? A Dutch? I come here looking
for a job, an honest job.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
He told me the same thing. Man, I believe him.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Why would I be lying o the way Kitty described that.
You're mighty handy with a gun for a man who's
looking for an honest job. All right, I'll move on.
I wouldn't have a chance here with you against me, Nath.
Don't worry about it in this city. I'll make out
someplace else. Wait a minute, and yeah, I don't you

(05:02):
go over to the stage office. That's for Jim Buck.
But Bo, he's a driver. He's looking for Amanda ride shotgun.
You tell him I sent you, all right, Michael, I'll go.
You see he didn't men, Yeah, he wants a job. Kidding,

(05:26):
but he's hiding something, hide something that usually.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Said, But I've got a feeling about him that I
think he's all right.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
That was, it won't be so good if I've recommended
an outlaud, but check the stage. M I didn't see
Andy again that night, but I ran into Jim Buck

(05:59):
and he told me that he'd hired him, and they
were leaving for Hayes City the next morning. It was
two days before they were due. Back before I'd find
out if I had made a mistaken I waited, even
though they were due. I was down at the stage office.
Plus the stage was late, over an hour late. But
finally it came that was Andy up on the box

(06:23):
next to Jim. They bowed up, and Jim jumped down
and came over to me. Marshall. Marshall arrested him right
arrest Who Andy Hill? That's who. If I hadn't heard
how good he is with the gun, under taken him
myself out of shot him dead. I wait a minute, Jim,
wait a minute, what's the trouble. He's mad at me, Marshall,

(06:46):
mad at you. You ought to be tired and feathered.
Now wait, held up Marshall held up by Evan. This
so cold shotgun man sat there like a howl on
a raptor, sat there and didn't do a thing? Is
that true? Andy? Why kill a man from not and
Marshall for nothing? The treasure box was empty and we
carried no passengers this trip. He didn't get a thing.
You didn't know that box was empty until I told you.

(07:07):
After I knew what the fool we left Hay City.
I figured ought to know what I was garden, so
I found out. Sure, And for all I know, you
was in Cahoof for that bandit maybe even you were partner.
There's no proof of that, Jim, I ain't hiring a
man who won't fight. You're fired, Andy. I never want
to see you again. I'm sorry, Marshall. I guess I've

(07:29):
disappointed you because you didn't want to kill a man
for nothing. That's right there. Uh wasn't any other reasons,
was there? Ready? You think I was in on it too?
I didn't say that good night handed Andy. Maybe I

(07:57):
didn't make a mistake. I wasn't sure about Andy that night,
but the next few days changed my mind again. He
went all over town looking for a job. He tried

(08:18):
everybody and everything, but nothing came of it. And finally
I heard that he'd got discouraged, and I quit trying.
I had a long talk with Jim Buck and at
the end of it he was sorry that he lost
his timber, but he still wouldn't rehire him. And that
was that until one night, about a week later, Doc

(08:40):
and I were having a beer at the Texas Trail.
Now what I've seen him, and he's got a lot
of pride, man, maybe too much pride. Doctor, Oh welly young,
he's like that. There's more to it than that dog what.

(09:00):
I don't know. And he doesn't talk much, especially to me.
Well maybe he doesn't trust the law. Most people around
here don't. There is a drink that I'm trying to think, Doc,
I've seen his face that maybe it was his picture

(09:26):
your drink. There's going to be a fight stick around, Doc.
We may need I take. It's bad when a man
won't drink with me, you take anywhere in your life.
I could kill you. Andy, you're drunk. You stay out
of this, Marshall. He's right, Andy, you're too drunk to

(09:47):
fight now me, would you do that for Marsham to
keep you from killing him. Kerrick, you know my name.
I heard Andy say it, but I don't want to

(10:07):
hear it again, and I don't want to see you again.
You'll find your horse and you ride out of town, Kerrick,
and you keep on riding. Now you get moving where
you've got a chance. Sure, Marshall join you should have

(10:28):
rist and he started the whole couble maybe, but right now,
got Andrew's gun and take him to jail. He can
sleep it off there, Yes, I will there. He didn't
need me after all. You know something, that's the first

(10:49):
time I ever turning out law loose? What Carrick. I
saw his picture the other day on some new circulars
the law and Oklahoma Territory. He'd like to have it back.
Why Why didn't juristic Andy's wanted with him? There's no picture,
but I remember the description KRK for murder and Andy
for robbery. They were partners. And you let a murderer

(11:13):
not exactly a dark Krek needs Andy for a partner.
That's why he came here, and that's why he was
coming back. Yeah, he comes back. You're gonna have two
outlaws to deal with, maybe, But if Andy, who's gonna
have to decide that he's still got a choice to make.
Doug while I'm done has given him a chance to

(11:33):
make it. Why should you risk face in the back
of couple to help a man you hardly know me?
A man who hardly knew me went out of his
way one stuck, maybe him kind of paying him back?
Oh well, I was still so he must have a

(11:56):
lot of faith in dy not a lot dark, just
enough to take a gamble. The next morning it looked
like a bad gamble, and he came out of his soul,

(12:18):
sullom and angry. And when I gave him his gun back,
he took it and left without a word. Later, Chester
reported that he'd written out of town and it was
several days before I heard of him again. No, tell
it isn't testing, and he'll's back in town. Oh he's
standing out there on the door walk talking to Jim.
But I went him, said road to him. And you

(12:39):
know what Jim told me. We's went and hired Andy
the ride's hot gun for him again. He has, Yes, sir,
you were kind of laughing about it, he said. Andy
spent most of the morning and arguing into it. But
anybody who could talk that good in that longer lived job.
So I guess he ain't mad at Andy no more.
Jim was bringing a shipment of gold back from Hayes's

(13:00):
city next trip. Maybe Andy knows about it, him and
Carrick both. What's that the circular from Oklahoma with Carrick's
picture on it and Andy's description? What's the dow with
Andy's outside? Just says yes, I'll be back correctly. Hello, Andy,

(13:34):
what do you want? Marshall? Let's jump buck even over
to the stage office. I hear you're writing the Shotgun
for him again? Any objections, Marshall? Andy, if I had
everything on my mind you have. I don't think I
want to be friendly with the law either. Now what
do you mean by that? Here? Take a look at this,

(14:02):
so now you know? Now wait a minute, Andy, I
didn't come to arrest you, so don't make me kidd
you what I wanted you to see that circular. I
didn't think you and Kerrick knew it was up. I
don't understand your march. It was Kerrick who held up
the stage last time when you were writing Shotgun, wasn't it.
They had nothing to do with me. I didn't know

(14:23):
he was in a cont but you didn't should because
you didn't want to kill a man for nothing, especially
a former partner. I think your partner's again. Andy. I
think you've got this one planned. You won't take me alive, Marshall.
I told you I didn't come out here to arrest you.
Why not? Because I think a man who wants it

(14:46):
deserves a chance. Andy, you have Madgers not yet. Maybe
I'm wrong giving it to you, but I'm gonna do it.
What do you mean the stage goes to Hayes tomorrow,
It'll be back Thursday. I'm gonna be waiting for it
any waiting real hard. That stage should have been here?

(15:25):
Are good? Miss? You don't? It's already dark, that's usually
laid Chester. Yeah? But why did it happy late this time?
Are you worried? Yes?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Or?

Speaker 1 (15:34):
And so are you? H and like putting your old
steak on the turn of one card? I guess, mister done? Yeah?
Look it made it? The stage made it? Yeah, the
stage Chester? But there's no shotgun messenger? Cool? How while

(16:00):
you're alive? For worries? And where's Handy Jam?

Speaker 2 (16:18):
I don't know where he is.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I ain't say it since we got the Hey you
mean he quit but I'd call it that. But he
was quitting, he told me, not just disappeared. There's me
right for hiring him again. I got work to do. Well,
come on, Chester, let's go back to the office, right,

(16:45):
And he figured he'd get as far as Hey that
out you ask him, and him and Kerry could learn
from there. What are you looking at? That writer coming
up the street? Didn't that pack horse? Not a pack horse, Chester,
that's a body tied across his saddle. And that's Andy Leadman,

(17:08):
my junior. Right. Well, now what is done? And uh
we'll find out. Oh, Marshall, Hello, Andy, that's Carrick. I
got there. On Marshall, you kill him? I killed him.

(17:32):
No witnesses, no way to prove who drew first. Jim
Buck told me you ran off up in Hayes City.
Jim might have got shot if I hadn't out. Yeah,
Carrick was gonna hold up the stage again, Marshall and
I decided not to let him do it. But I
figured if I tried to fight him while I was
sitting up there next to Jim, it'll go bad. So

(17:55):
he rode back to meet Carrick alone. Run I left
the night. We got to Hayes. I found him and
told him I was through for good. Now. He got
scared and went for his gun. But like I say,
I can't prove it with self defense. Maybe I shouldn't
have come back. Nobody's gonna believe the outlaw. CHESTERA, sir,

(18:21):
get out of your hand with Carrick's body. I got
some work to do where you're going. I'm gonna go
write a letter to the law in Oklahoma Territory. I'm
gonna let him know they can withdraw that wanted circular
on Carrick. Well, what about handing it? Rob returned and
after I tell him how he brought him Carrick and

(18:42):
now he's trying to go straight. I think they won't
be too hard on him. Gunn Smoked produced and directed

(19:07):
by Norman McDonnells William Conrad as Matt Dillon U S. Marshall.
The story was especially written for gun Smoke by John Messon.
Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards, Harry Bartel and
Barney Phillips. Harley Baar is tester, Howard mcneer is doc,
and Georgia Ellis is kidding
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