August 19, 2025 • 23 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 (00:09):
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 Gons, 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.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful.
Little man.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh hi, Matt, Sam said, you were waiting to see me.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, I thought maybe I could buy you a beer, kiddie.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hm, on a hot day like this, that'd go pretty good.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
You said, still mad, I'll get it alright.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
What's Chester?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
He was hanging around down the moss g remix.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I brought a picture for k for you, jes In Casey.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, thank you. Dog days man, it's days like this.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I wish I was back in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yah, just as bad there. Well, at least.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
There's something happening to keep your mind off of.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's really a quick camer Oh what is it? Chester?
They's opened out here here in the street.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Oh oh, all right, allright, elephant right here on the plaza.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I could use an elephant my stake today.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Man, you are the thing that you learn doing tricks
and everything.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Chester when you get in out of the sun is gone.
You know, Chester sees things even on a good day.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh hey, that you in here?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, Doc, I'm in here.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's sudden, some bright out there. I can hardly see you. Man.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, i'm in here, Doc. What do you want where?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I thought it was mercy around here. You'd be interested
in knowing that there's an elephant out on the street.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, so I hear it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But it's true, It's really true. I can't stand it
any longer.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I neither can I. Kenny, all right, Doc, what's it really?
All of it?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You think that? You think?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, my god, you're right, doctor. Is an elephant out here.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, he's advertisment circus there. See him right right over there?
See him?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
See him to see him there? See him?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Ju Why I can't hardly wait building that man with
Jenny there, give me this Handbill, Jenny, Yeah, that's all Jenny,
And let me send the handbell.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Bannock's Grand International Circus and Menagerie.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
The show is going to be here tomorrow, mister don
two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Mister as a matter of him, mischief.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Must do. I'd like to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Me.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Uh huh oh for it in all Jenny, salute to Marshall.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Trunk up.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Yeah, it's the girl.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
That's very fine, very good.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I'm Jim Conger.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Marshall. Maybe you heard to me. I used to be
building a human fly. I could find him anything anywhere,
but I got too old for it. Now I'm the
best bull man there.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Is, mister Conger, Are you with a Bannock show? Yes, sir,
Now you're planning to play here in Dodge.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Yeah, tomorrow, Raid ten show two. Of course, no tickets needed.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
For the laws. You have to have a permit to
play in Dodge.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Well, we know that, Marshall. You wasn't in your office
when I came looking for one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Mister Conger. I'm responsible for the peace in Dodge City,
and I'm not gonna sign a permit for the circus
to play here.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Why is aunt Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You know as well as I do. Why for what
happened in Hayes City and a few other towns where
that show is played. I don't want any riots here
in Dodge.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Oh you know about them things.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Two people were killed in Hayes when they.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
When I reckon show. But Marshall, that don't see it
happen here.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I can't take that chance. Now, you go on back
to your boss and you tell him that I won't
let you play Dodge.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Oh, they can't do that, Marshall, Why not?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
She would list to me. He's a strong woman.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
She yeah, Maggie Bannock, she's my wife, Maggie is She
used to be known as Dainty Margarita, the strongest woman
in the world. Where Marshall, she could lift five men
at one time when she was younger. Luck, mister Connor,
I'd rather not have to tell her what you said.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
All right, mister Conger. You show me where I can
find Maggie Bannock and I'll tell her.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You know, mister, Now, when I was back in Texas
and the weather got extra dry, and it was.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Hot, and sheep begun getting on each other's touch bones
more than usual, you know what happened?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh? What wells it?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Just when it seems like everything else had gone wrong,
the circus had come to town.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh, Chester, What are you trying to say?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Well, back in Texas, actually the circus had came and went,
everything was different.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It was Oh yes, sir, somehow it didn't seem.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Near so hot, nurse the dry and you even forgot
what you was fighting with your friends about.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That's the way it works in Texas. Yes we did, Chester.
I know it's been hot and Dodge has been pretty dull.
But this particular circus isn't gonna help any Oh why
because there's trouble connected with this show.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
What kind of trouble I.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Don't really know, Chester, but two people got killed over
in a haze, and there's been trouble in other places.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yes, sure.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They are done to the creek.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Oh look at that spring old wagon, will you with?
Hey looks me like one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Is stuck in the creek bed.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Come on, let's get down there.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Ah man, God visit us this stranger.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Hello, ma'am, I'm Magabinar partner. I'm I dealing from DoD City.
Glad to know you, Dylan.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
You look like that other team we've been needing.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
To move this wagon.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You live lige, won't you sure? How have I folk
staff there?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Sir Chester Chirk come on, give us his hand telling.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
You, mister, don't you see what's in that wagon. Don't
let that lion worry. That's all terrible Tom.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
He hasn't got a tooth in his head. Say what
are you dealing to, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yes, ma'am, that's right boy. We made the big time.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I told you we would.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Come on, Marshalls, let's get that ball came out of
that water.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
All right, ma'am, come on, tester, all right, lam white man. Now,
I gotta Maggie, come on by, get your shoulders.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I thought we could do it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
We can, ma'am. Tess sir, let me have that corner.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Huh watching me?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, you'll be more help where you can't see him.
Get over there, I said, all right, Maggie, here we
go again. All right.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Well, I'm never for that need I gane Marshall, but
I guess you can't help being what you are.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Thanks, Maggie.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You are leaving Dodge are you?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
We're gonna put on the show there tomorrow, That's what
I came to talk to you about. Well, then talk, Maggie.
You can't bring your show to Dodge City.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Hey, you are a big time Marshall aren't you.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Your performance in Hayes left two people dead.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
They came looking for trouble and they got it. Marshall,
I'll get out of my way.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I'm hidding for dog.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It started the trouble, Maggie.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I told you who started.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It, Robera and Kinsley too, and Atcherson. Seems like trouble
follows your show, Maggie.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Now want you got a big badge on you, Marshall.
Why don't you figure it out for yourself?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's god boy, Maggie. You're not gonna play dodge, all right, Marshall, we.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Won't play dodge.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
That make you feel better?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Man. Seems like an awful determined lady that Dylan. Yeah,
and I guess you have to be the run of circus, Joseph.
All right, come on, let's get back to Tom. Why
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just wearing mister Billing's easiest preade. Swear you'll just have
hisself a fit one day.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't know where's Matt miss kidding.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
He slept in this morning. I just ain't got the
heart to wake him to this breaks where.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
He's gonna have a conniption fit when he sees that
lady's planning to go ahead of her circuit.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well that I don't wake him, I because i'mthing else. Guy,
good going picks it?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Where's the kill jaw of this heart?
Speaker 7 (11:33):
You mean Matt that says that he's still slay sleepment
with the parade going by in his normo?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
And ain't it fine?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Doc et?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It gets fine? Look at this you you look like
three crubb.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Hill.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I didn't no use of Why did that start? Chester? Oh?
About fifteen minutes ago he did?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
He just went by with a big sign on our
back sand circus had two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Why didn't you come and wake me up?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I just o, mister jilln You kind of go to
pieces around a circus, don't you chi?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Most people don't.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It looks to me like you didn't scale that circus
owner too bad man. And I don't mind admitting that
I am black. I'm enjoy the innocent entertainment for James.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Henderson dock of the circus takes place. All the entertainment
you're gonna gott'll be mending ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Oh man, Look at all the people on the street
work all over the country.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I bet people come miles around for this.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Why would they make trouble?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I don't know, Kenny, but there must be something that
says them off. It's happened too many times.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And the dog, the dog, look at that clown.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
He took it right out of the hue.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But the horse, yeah, I just look. What's all the
horses every sing like that in p t be hor.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I never work well, I don't you should do this?
Could rid blood pun Oh look at those people, you know, man, Doc,
I have to lookit. There's something money flying about here
on the music and seeing those animals on the clown.
Aw you sharing the clown?
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Look at that man, mister, don't need standing on four
horses at one time.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'm gonna try the day. Hey, you have enough trouble
with one hard well, I.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Defare I feel like I could do it this kidding.
They are mad to see there's the magul misides.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
I cut you all like Casing and company ride four
horses and he ever does or not doesn't make.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Any difference at all.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Yeah, sure, Doc, Now you're gonna take that away from
the hard working people of this county.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Doc, I like a circus as much as anybody.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But they prove it. Don't try to stop it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You're not changing my mind.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh, stubboring. That's what you are.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I may be.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The way I see it, match, you will have a
rat on your hands if you do stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Mister, don't look coming around the corner, Miss Bannet riding
a big white worse. Oh looking there when she's gone,
she's carrying a Confederate flag.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So that says that's where the trouble starts.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
What are you gonna do, matter, Marshall, tell us the kindly.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The circus, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hold up, Maggie, I want to talk to you. Hold up,
Let go that.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Bridal, Marshal.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
There's no law says we can't have the circus outside
the town limits.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That's not what's bothering me now, Maggie. It's that flag.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Ah, that even bothers the law.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Dude, that's not what I mean.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
This flag is all I got left, Marshall. My son's
died holding it high. Since then, I swear I'd hold
it for them.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
No yankee yet has told me I had to burnt?
Are you going to?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I'm not telling you to burn it. I'm just saying
you're shouting't parade it through, cancel.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I do what I want, Marshall, whether it dogs did
it Kangas or Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Let go of that bridle, all right, but if you
keep showing that flag, I can't be responsible for what
happens to you or your men.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
We take care of ourselves, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
How what are you gonna do about it? Mister Jill?
I hope I'm wrong Chester. It's about all I can
do right now.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, another hour and the circus will be starting money. Yeah,
and that's one thing in your favorite minute.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh, I'm glad to hear that, Doc.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Eh?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
We've been in the Long Branch almost an hour, and uh,
I don't think more than ten or twelve men have
been in for a drink.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That'll help some with Chester. Oh, I imagine he's watering
the elephant right now. Matt.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Why don't you deputize ten or fifteen men and take
him out out of the circus?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Stop the trouble beforest.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I thought of that. Anybody won't work. Why not do
I put guns in the hands of fifteen Yankees? Here?
Fifteen cellarer?
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Last cast?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Where you want ye?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Hey, Barkie, I've had some service here.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We're in a hurry. We got something to do. Ay,
we're born you stay here. M Yeah, ah, boy, look
at you, circus lover itself hurt. I don't know why
you're dressed that way.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
It's little Confederate cot Marshal, whatdy you care?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I've never seen you wear on any part of your
uniform before he had reason to wear it since the
war ended. And why today? Ain't you heard?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
This is my passport to the circus all us Johnny Ribs, Maggie,
lets us see in free as long as we got
a piece of old uniform on.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I paced the uniform and a gun. It's not your
ticket to the circus, marsh Or. You're making the big
thing out of this. We just come in for some drink,
long branches clothes, Baxter. Since when sons, Justina boys have
had enough to drink, just drinking our way out to
the circus. Marshal. You ain't gonna try to kill that
one too, are you? And what is that supposed to mean?
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Why the whole town knows how you try to keep
the circuits from playing.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
People are saying you're stepping outside your do these Marshal.
Ain't that right?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Boy? You saying a toe box?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm saying it too. Only difference is I'm saying it
this way. I don't if anybody else want to try
me get in for it's just another jangle the next mine,
(17:54):
I make some moves. I'm shooting on my leg all right,
walking all of this, walking ware to jail. Marshall, you
can't lock ushl We're going to search now, you're not.
You're going to stay well? What we ain't done nothing? Doctor,
he's better luck drunk to me? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Never seen anything worse?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
What are you talking? All right? Your man? The doctor
says you're drunk. I started walking.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Hey, Jenny, you're going to feature this Apple? Yeah you
hear that, Jenny? That was my music from my climbing
act back in the old days. Yes, sir, I go
in there and climb that turn of pool faster than
any man in the business.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
That's fuck Jenny, You're the only woman I ever loved
outside of Make It Kid. That's the more Apple man.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Come on, had Jim that?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Oh how did Marshall? You didn't know anyone was around?
Suppose you heard me talking to Jenny here?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, I heard Jim.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
She should probably think I'm kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
No, I got Jim. Look, I need to help that
crops get mailing there, and I gotta swarm down.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I know, Marshall, he hangs that bag off the top
of that Turnipoli. Then they fight the war all over again.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Maybe if Maggie had sons in the war, she would
have let it in proper like.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Huh uh. She told me her sons died.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
No, no, no, Marshall, we never had no children. A
we want to jum. When the war came along, Maggie
went in as nurse. She saw a lot of the
boys die, and each one would just like her own.
And he just never got over it. And so I said,
what can I do, Marshall, You thing you've got to stop.
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I tried to tell Maggie, but she just won't listen
to me.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I'll tell her what she can do. Jill. You can
find me six members think the way you do, and
have them meet me by the main tent right away.
(20:19):
Now that you men understand what I want you to do.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah, they got it, Marshall. They cut the rope when
you give the word that God's getting meaner every minute.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, all right, then you men go on before it's
too late.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
So you let me do him.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You just swallow me and do what I thought. Where
are you going in there, Hie, I'll.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Go to Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well that's the start of it. Come on, Chester, all right,
left me fire a couple of rounds from here, A shy,
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you keep out of this. Then they started the trouble.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
That's not everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I've got men stationed around outside this tenth. If any
man leaves the safe before the shows, rubber, I haven't
cut the ropes and dropped the tent. No, you buffalo
ya he wouldn't tell Raggy. I will if you'll make me.
It's that flag up there that's calling all this trouble.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I'm gonna bring you down.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
No, Jim, your fall.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Who's to do? Looking at you climbing up?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Jam, Jim, Jim, please please, Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You can't climb no more. I Maggie, you can, Maggie.
I I got it.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I got your flag, Maggie.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The war, the war's over.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Lord. Stand back Chester.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Now you take it easy, Gym. It's alright now. Jim Jaim,
Oh my boy, Jim, Why did you try?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Maggie? I I had to.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You wouldn't let h the war end?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
But I wait a Jim, don't die.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
I WoT probably I'd never put the flag of a
kitten Jim may h.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I'm sorry, uh uh.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Oh, Maggie, I'd lost the last of my boy's march.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Jim was the last of 'em. Would you.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Lay him out gently?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Man Chester.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
And Marshall, you can bury the flag with him.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Gun Smoke but Houston, directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan us Marshall. The story especially written
for Gun Smoke by Tom Hanley, with editorial supervision by
John Meston.
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 Gons, starring William Conrad. The story of the
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violence that moved west with young America and the story
of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful.
Little man.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh hi, Matt, Sam said, you were waiting to see me.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, I thought maybe I could buy you a beer, kiddie.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hm, on a hot day like this, that'd go pretty good.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
You said, still mad, I'll get it alright.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
What's Chester?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
He was hanging around down the moss g remix.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I brought a picture for k for you, jes In Casey.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, thank you. Dog days man, it's days like this.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I wish I was back in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yah, just as bad there. Well, at least.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
There's something happening to keep your mind off of.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's really a quick camer Oh what is it? Chester?
They's opened out here here in the street.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Oh oh, all right, allright, elephant right here on the plaza.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I could use an elephant my stake today.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Man, you are the thing that you learn doing tricks
and everything.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Chester when you get in out of the sun is gone.
You know, Chester sees things even on a good day.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh hey, that you in here?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, Doc, I'm in here.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's sudden, some bright out there. I can hardly see you. Man.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, i'm in here, Doc. What do you want where?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I thought it was mercy around here. You'd be interested
in knowing that there's an elephant out on the street.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, so I hear it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But it's true, It's really true. I can't stand it
any longer.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I neither can I. Kenny, all right, Doc, what's it really?
All of it?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You think that? You think?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, my god, you're right, doctor. Is an elephant out here.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, he's advertisment circus there. See him right right over there?
See him?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
See him to see him there? See him?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Ju Why I can't hardly wait building that man with
Jenny there, give me this Handbill, Jenny, Yeah, that's all Jenny,
And let me send the handbell.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Bannock's Grand International Circus and Menagerie.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
The show is going to be here tomorrow, mister don
two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Mister as a matter of him, mischief.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Must do. I'd like to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Me.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Uh huh oh for it in all Jenny, salute to Marshall.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Trunk up.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Yeah, it's the girl.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
That's very fine, very good.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I'm Jim Conger.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Marshall. Maybe you heard to me. I used to be
building a human fly. I could find him anything anywhere,
but I got too old for it. Now I'm the
best bull man there.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Is, mister Conger, Are you with a Bannock show? Yes, sir,
Now you're planning to play here in Dodge.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Yeah, tomorrow, Raid ten show two. Of course, no tickets needed.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
For the laws. You have to have a permit to
play in Dodge.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Well, we know that, Marshall. You wasn't in your office
when I came looking for one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Mister Conger. I'm responsible for the peace in Dodge City,
and I'm not gonna sign a permit for the circus
to play here.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Why is aunt Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You know as well as I do. Why for what
happened in Hayes City and a few other towns where
that show is played. I don't want any riots here
in Dodge.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Oh you know about them things.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Two people were killed in Hayes when they.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
When I reckon show. But Marshall, that don't see it
happen here.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I can't take that chance. Now, you go on back
to your boss and you tell him that I won't
let you play Dodge.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Oh, they can't do that, Marshall, Why not?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
She would list to me. He's a strong woman.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
She yeah, Maggie Bannock, she's my wife, Maggie is She
used to be known as Dainty Margarita, the strongest woman
in the world. Where Marshall, she could lift five men
at one time when she was younger. Luck, mister Connor,
I'd rather not have to tell her what you said.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
All right, mister Conger. You show me where I can
find Maggie Bannock and I'll tell her.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You know, mister, Now, when I was back in Texas
and the weather got extra dry, and it was.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Hot, and sheep begun getting on each other's touch bones
more than usual, you know what happened?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh? What wells it?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Just when it seems like everything else had gone wrong,
the circus had come to town.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh, Chester, What are you trying to say?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Well, back in Texas, actually the circus had came and went,
everything was different.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It was Oh yes, sir, somehow it didn't seem.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Near so hot, nurse the dry and you even forgot
what you was fighting with your friends about.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That's the way it works in Texas. Yes we did, Chester.
I know it's been hot and Dodge has been pretty dull.
But this particular circus isn't gonna help any Oh why
because there's trouble connected with this show.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
What kind of trouble I.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Don't really know, Chester, but two people got killed over
in a haze, and there's been trouble in other places.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yes, sure.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They are done to the creek.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Oh look at that spring old wagon, will you with?
Hey looks me like one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Is stuck in the creek bed.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Come on, let's get down there.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Ah man, God visit us this stranger.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Hello, ma'am, I'm Magabinar partner. I'm I dealing from DoD City.
Glad to know you, Dylan.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
You look like that other team we've been needing.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
To move this wagon.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You live lige, won't you sure? How have I folk
staff there?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Sir Chester Chirk come on, give us his hand telling.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
You, mister, don't you see what's in that wagon. Don't
let that lion worry. That's all terrible Tom.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
He hasn't got a tooth in his head. Say what
are you dealing to, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yes, ma'am, that's right boy. We made the big time.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I told you we would.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Come on, Marshalls, let's get that ball came out of
that water.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
All right, ma'am, come on, tester, all right, lam white man. Now,
I gotta Maggie, come on by, get your shoulders.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I thought we could do it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
We can, ma'am. Tess sir, let me have that corner.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Huh watching me?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, you'll be more help where you can't see him.
Get over there, I said, all right, Maggie, here we
go again. All right.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Well, I'm never for that need I gane Marshall, but
I guess you can't help being what you are.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Thanks, Maggie.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You are leaving Dodge are you?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
We're gonna put on the show there tomorrow, That's what
I came to talk to you about. Well, then talk, Maggie.
You can't bring your show to Dodge City.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Hey, you are a big time Marshall aren't you.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Your performance in Hayes left two people dead.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
They came looking for trouble and they got it. Marshall,
I'll get out of my way.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I'm hidding for dog.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It started the trouble, Maggie.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I told you who started.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It, Robera and Kinsley too, and Atcherson. Seems like trouble
follows your show, Maggie.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Now want you got a big badge on you, Marshall.
Why don't you figure it out for yourself?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's god boy, Maggie. You're not gonna play dodge, all right, Marshall, we.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Won't play dodge.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
That make you feel better?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Man. Seems like an awful determined lady that Dylan. Yeah,
and I guess you have to be the run of circus, Joseph.
All right, come on, let's get back to Tom. Why
(11:01):
just wearing mister Billing's easiest preade. Swear you'll just have
hisself a fit one day.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't know where's Matt miss kidding.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
He slept in this morning. I just ain't got the
heart to wake him to this breaks where.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
He's gonna have a conniption fit when he sees that
lady's planning to go ahead of her circuit.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well that I don't wake him, I because i'mthing else. Guy,
good going picks it?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Where's the kill jaw of this heart?
Speaker 7 (11:33):
You mean Matt that says that he's still slay sleepment
with the parade going by in his normo?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
And ain't it fine?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Doc et?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It gets fine? Look at this you you look like
three crubb.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Hill.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I didn't no use of Why did that start? Chester? Oh?
About fifteen minutes ago he did?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
He just went by with a big sign on our
back sand circus had two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Why didn't you come and wake me up?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I just o, mister jilln You kind of go to
pieces around a circus, don't you chi?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Most people don't.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It looks to me like you didn't scale that circus
owner too bad man. And I don't mind admitting that
I am black. I'm enjoy the innocent entertainment for James.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Henderson dock of the circus takes place. All the entertainment
you're gonna gott'll be mending ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Oh man, Look at all the people on the street
work all over the country.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I bet people come miles around for this.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Why would they make trouble?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I don't know, Kenny, but there must be something that
says them off. It's happened too many times.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And the dog, the dog, look at that clown.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
He took it right out of the hue.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But the horse, yeah, I just look. What's all the
horses every sing like that in p t be hor.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I never work well, I don't you should do this?
Could rid blood pun Oh look at those people, you know, man, Doc,
I have to lookit. There's something money flying about here
on the music and seeing those animals on the clown.
Aw you sharing the clown?
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Look at that man, mister, don't need standing on four
horses at one time.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'm gonna try the day. Hey, you have enough trouble
with one hard well, I.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Defare I feel like I could do it this kidding.
They are mad to see there's the magul misides.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
I cut you all like Casing and company ride four
horses and he ever does or not doesn't make.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Any difference at all.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Yeah, sure, Doc, Now you're gonna take that away from
the hard working people of this county.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Doc, I like a circus as much as anybody.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But they prove it. Don't try to stop it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You're not changing my mind.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh, stubboring. That's what you are.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I may be.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The way I see it, match, you will have a
rat on your hands if you do stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Mister, don't look coming around the corner, Miss Bannet riding
a big white worse. Oh looking there when she's gone,
she's carrying a Confederate flag.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So that says that's where the trouble starts.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
What are you gonna do, matter, Marshall, tell us the kindly.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The circus, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hold up, Maggie, I want to talk to you. Hold up,
Let go that.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Bridal, Marshal.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
There's no law says we can't have the circus outside
the town limits.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That's not what's bothering me now, Maggie. It's that flag.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Ah, that even bothers the law.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Dude, that's not what I mean.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
This flag is all I got left, Marshall. My son's
died holding it high. Since then, I swear I'd hold
it for them.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
No yankee yet has told me I had to burnt?
Are you going to?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I'm not telling you to burn it. I'm just saying
you're shouting't parade it through, cancel.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I do what I want, Marshall, whether it dogs did
it Kangas or Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Let go of that bridle, all right, but if you
keep showing that flag, I can't be responsible for what
happens to you or your men.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
We take care of ourselves, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
How what are you gonna do about it? Mister Jill?
I hope I'm wrong Chester. It's about all I can
do right now.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, another hour and the circus will be starting money. Yeah,
and that's one thing in your favorite minute.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh, I'm glad to hear that, Doc.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Eh?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
We've been in the Long Branch almost an hour, and uh,
I don't think more than ten or twelve men have
been in for a drink.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That'll help some with Chester. Oh, I imagine he's watering
the elephant right now. Matt.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Why don't you deputize ten or fifteen men and take
him out out of the circus?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Stop the trouble beforest.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I thought of that. Anybody won't work. Why not do
I put guns in the hands of fifteen Yankees? Here?
Fifteen cellarer?
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Last cast?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Where you want ye?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Hey, Barkie, I've had some service here.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We're in a hurry. We got something to do. Ay,
we're born you stay here. M Yeah, ah, boy, look
at you, circus lover itself hurt. I don't know why
you're dressed that way.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
It's little Confederate cot Marshal, whatdy you care?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I've never seen you wear on any part of your
uniform before he had reason to wear it since the
war ended. And why today? Ain't you heard?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
This is my passport to the circus all us Johnny Ribs, Maggie,
lets us see in free as long as we got
a piece of old uniform on.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I paced the uniform and a gun. It's not your
ticket to the circus, marsh Or. You're making the big
thing out of this. We just come in for some drink,
long branches clothes, Baxter. Since when sons, Justina boys have
had enough to drink, just drinking our way out to
the circus. Marshal. You ain't gonna try to kill that
one too, are you? And what is that supposed to mean?
(17:24):
Why the whole town knows how you try to keep
the circuits from playing.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
People are saying you're stepping outside your do these Marshal.
Ain't that right?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Boy? You saying a toe box?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm saying it too. Only difference is I'm saying it
this way. I don't if anybody else want to try
me get in for it's just another jangle the next mine,
(17:54):
I make some moves. I'm shooting on my leg all right,
walking all of this, walking ware to jail. Marshall, you
can't lock ushl We're going to search now, you're not.
You're going to stay well? What we ain't done nothing? Doctor,
he's better luck drunk to me? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Never seen anything worse?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
What are you talking? All right? Your man? The doctor
says you're drunk. I started walking.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Hey, Jenny, you're going to feature this Apple? Yeah you
hear that, Jenny? That was my music from my climbing
act back in the old days. Yes, sir, I go
in there and climb that turn of pool faster than
any man in the business.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
That's fuck Jenny, You're the only woman I ever loved
outside of Make It Kid. That's the more Apple man.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Come on, had Jim that?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Oh how did Marshall? You didn't know anyone was around?
Suppose you heard me talking to Jenny here?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, I heard Jim.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
She should probably think I'm kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
No, I got Jim. Look, I need to help that
crops get mailing there, and I gotta swarm down.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I know, Marshall, he hangs that bag off the top
of that Turnipoli. Then they fight the war all over again.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Maybe if Maggie had sons in the war, she would
have let it in proper like.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Huh uh. She told me her sons died.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
No, no, no, Marshall, we never had no children. A
we want to jum. When the war came along, Maggie
went in as nurse. She saw a lot of the
boys die, and each one would just like her own.
And he just never got over it. And so I said,
what can I do, Marshall, You thing you've got to stop.
(19:55):
I tried to tell Maggie, but she just won't listen
to me.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I'll tell her what she can do. Jill. You can
find me six members think the way you do, and
have them meet me by the main tent right away.
(20:19):
Now that you men understand what I want you to do.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah, they got it, Marshall. They cut the rope when
you give the word that God's getting meaner every minute.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, all right, then you men go on before it's
too late.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
So you let me do him.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You just swallow me and do what I thought. Where
are you going in there, Hie, I'll.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Go to Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well that's the start of it. Come on, Chester, all right,
left me fire a couple of rounds from here, A shy,
(21:06):
you keep out of this. Then they started the trouble.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
That's not everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I've got men stationed around outside this tenth. If any
man leaves the safe before the shows, rubber, I haven't
cut the ropes and dropped the tent. No, you buffalo
ya he wouldn't tell Raggy. I will if you'll make me.
It's that flag up there that's calling all this trouble.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I'm gonna bring you down.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
No, Jim, your fall.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Who's to do? Looking at you climbing up?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Jam, Jim, Jim, please please, Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You can't climb no more. I Maggie, you can, Maggie.
I I got it.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I got your flag, Maggie.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The war, the war's over.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Lord. Stand back Chester.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Now you take it easy, Gym. It's alright now. Jim Jaim,
Oh my boy, Jim, Why did you try?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Maggie? I I had to.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You wouldn't let h the war end?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
But I wait a Jim, don't die.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
I WoT probably I'd never put the flag of a
kitten Jim may h.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I'm sorry, uh uh.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Oh, Maggie, I'd lost the last of my boy's march.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Jim was the last of 'em. Would you.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Lay him out gently?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Man Chester.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
And Marshall, you can bury the flag with him.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Gun Smoke but Houston, directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan us Marshall. The story especially written
for Gun Smoke by Tom Hanley, with editorial supervision by
John Meston.
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