August 30, 2025 • 25 mins
Ride into the Wild West with "Gunsmoke," the legendary radio drama that set the gold standard for Western storytelling. Follow U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon as he enforces law and order in Dodge City, facing outlaws, gunfights, and frontier justice. With gripping stories and rich characters, this is the ultimate Western experience for fans of classic radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall,
the first man they looked for and the last they
want to meet. It's a chance, a job, and it
makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That's the sound of the village school bell, bringing back
memories of our childhood when we learned our ABC's.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And that's a sound similar to.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
The historic ringing of the Liberty Bell in seventeen seventy six.
It serves to remind us of the vital part we
play today in our nation's government. Be an informed American,
know the ABC's of your government. Under the letter L
in the Dictionary of U. S. Government Terms is the
word lobby. A lobby is an organized group which seeks
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to influence legislators for passage or defeat of a bill.
The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all citizens the
right to petition for or against government decisions. Years ago,
people with special favors to ask would stop congressmen.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And the capital lobbies to talk to them.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Soon they became known in political slang as lobbyists. There
are lobbies for and against everything. There are lobbies for
low tariffs, lobbies for high tariffs, lobbies for federal aid
to education, lobbies against federal aid to education, lobbies for
rigid farm price supports, lobbies for flexible supports. Lobbies have
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been referred to as the third House of Congress, which
works behind the scenes keep the spirit of the liberty
bell ringing being informed. American know the ABC's of our
nation's government in action.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oo, you don't much, you don't.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I Shore would feel a lot safer we had Brad
kotta locked up there in jail like his brother's. So
what eye Chester, you'd think if he was around time,
somebody would have ta him.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
May mean he doesn't wanna be seen.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Im mighty upset and feeling not more than if any
minute you might get a board in.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The back, and that's probably the way he'll try it too,
in the back.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeh.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Let's take another look in the long.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Brancher alight.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Tell him out. Oh, kiddy, had he caught Brad Kyler yet?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Not?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I haven't even found a trace.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I didhim kidding.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Seems to me you could make his brother talker. Not
so far he got him locked up in jail. Isn't
it some way of forcing him taking.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
An axe handle to him? You mean, oh no.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
I'm right down to it, miss Giddy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't think even that is breaking down them collar
boys is troping on and you Brad and raised both.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
It's just a pair of cold blooded killers.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
I'm proud of it.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Raced it over there, and he sell bragged about the
things they've done.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Admit it's all of it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
He says he'll never stand trial though it Bride'll get
him out before that. Oh he's just blusting that. No,
Bride'll make a try at least hell out.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
If you want to stop a big fight, maybe a killing.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Uh, you better move in on that poker game over
in the corner.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's peaceful enough to know.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
No, no, it isn't scrooking me.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
I smelled it, so I pulled out just that him
and some of the others are getting kind of achy too.
I think ben started is about to call a showdown
who's doing the cheating? But I figure said he you
see that old fellow over there in the world, Yeah,
in the fancy vest and sold off his boots.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But he's marked the deck somehow, and the way it
looks to me, you know who he is.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Then well, there's a stranger and claims he's a big
I'm stage.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Actor back heats, but I think he's mostly hotty bad whiskey.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Alrights, this has gone fire now there is Yeah, you've
been winning all fired.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Regular pursuit me, mister.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
I I think your pardon my dear.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sir, don't talk me fancy all right? Then all the
technis on. Now what's the trouble? Now, this man's been
cheating on us, that's trouble, sir.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
May I ask if you represent the law.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Here in the US, Marshal yeah, O.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
You, I, sir, have the distinction of being Edward Vanderman,
the name with which you are no doubt familiar.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Now I can't say that I am.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
And may I inform you, Marshals, I am the Edward
Vanderman who has trod the boards for low these many
years before the grown heads of Europe always to the
wildest to Clare's very interesting twenty three weeks, says Hamlet
at the Covent Garden Music Hall thirty one week in
the Unforgetable role.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I was like, alright, but what about this poker game?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
What was a ridiculous accusation? I had the impression I
was playing with gentlemen instead of these copping, heggling creatures.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Let me have him, marshals.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
Let me and the boys take him out back for
just five minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I don't know he was cheating better, he was cheating.
Speaker 10 (06:19):
We all know it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I leart these guards.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Nicked and clip and corners, every one of 'em. He's
been working over for last hour. His luck's been getting
better all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
How about his table stakes? There? Most of that yours,
most all of it. He had only five dollars to
start right, Then keep it and split it up however
you figure it. Come on, Vitamins, I I beg your pardon,
Come on outside, and I moved out the store. Come
on just as you, alright, viantamin, I'm gonna make it short.
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We don't like card sharks and dodge you get out
of town tonight, sir.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I am not a card job.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You weren't cheating on you?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
I was what, Yes, I was cheating, but it was
out of desperation, sir? Is that? And they drink on
an empty stomach? I, marsho, I I can't get out
of town.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh why not?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Well, to put it quite simply, sir, I am broke. Huh,
A matter of unfortunate investments, you might say, at any
rate DoD city. At the end of the line, I
hadn't dissent. And as you can see, I I I
I I've got very well equipped for walking. When did
jew Ey last, who approximately twenty four hours ago? Alright,
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ch as to take him over the jail and give
him some of that stools you made. We'll sleep on
the cot tonight. Maybe we can figure out something in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Enjoyment, Okay, marsho.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
You you have not only earned my undying gratitude, but
I I probably I will never crimp another deck as
long as I live. Furthermore, you may.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Call me Edward, all right, Edward, but it's a savior
gratitude till you taste that.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Still at Chesters.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Times have changed, and so has the man. In the
year seventeen seventy five, a patriotic, enterprising American by the
name of David Bushnell invented a strange craft. It was
constructed of two oak beans resembling two platters, clapped together
and propelled by a water screw attached to a hand
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operated crank. Another water screw regulated the death to which
the craft could descend. This was the American Turtle, the
first United States submarine. One hundred and seventy nine years later,
nineteen hundred and fifty four, the United States came.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Up with another first.
Speaker 11 (09:09):
This time, however, it was a three thousand ton, fifty
five million dollar vessel powered by an atomic reactor. It
was the Nautilus, the world's first atom powered submarine, and
where the American Turtle was a one man operation dependent
on courage and brawn, the Nautilus is a complicated network
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of advanced electronics, the operation of which is dependent upon
a team of highly trained, skilled navymen know their jobs
and do them well. As times have changed, so has
the man.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Yeah, eh mi sail, you have gone clean out of
your mind, you think so, Joe? If they did, are
running that old feller out of town? You stand here
and ask me to give him a job.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Joe, you need a waiter, you said so yesterday. And
where else you're gonna find? Well? Who can fill on
his cook if you wanna take him morning off now?
And then?
Speaker 8 (10:19):
How do I know he can cook?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well? He says he can try him on.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Well, what have you got to lose my restaurant? Maybe
if you was to take a notion to sell it
or my back was certain.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Oh don't you worry about that, Joe.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Nobody'd buy it once they got to look at all
him cockroaches.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
I got no more cockroaches than anybody else in Dodge.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, but yours is bigger. That's cause the food here
is better. Uh, what do you say, Joe? That ridge
waiting outside? You wanna give him a try?
Speaker 8 (10:46):
I can't figure what you're up to, Marshall, spending time
trying to get some stranger job.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
I ain't got much to do with the law.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Unfortunate it might have in the long run. He was
broken desperate. That's why he cheated in that card game.
They still broken desperate? How about it?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Alright, Michael calling him? Thanks Joe Edward, Come on.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
It, hey, Joe, you just don't get in no card
games with him.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
That from the bottom of the This is Joe Carpy,
your new boss, mister Coppy.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
If they're dollar a day and grub and you can
sleep on a cotton the store her use her overwhelming
in your generosity, you can start out washing them dishes
there very well, unaccustomed as I am into exercising my
unique talent in his scullery, I nonetheless approached the task
at hand with a high heart undoubted courage.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Whereas the soap that he always talk this way.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah mostly now come on justin thanks again, Joe.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Uh, just one thing, Marshall behind this mask.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You for the quality.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
I am eternally grateful to you.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Now forget it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But your your.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Trust, sir, is not misplaced. I will not disappoint.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'll drop out of jail when you get a chance,
and let's go Chessea.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Come come, my good man.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
Just as.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
A matter of Chester, you don't look too happy, but
you're glad he got the job.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Yeah, sir, But I just suddenly remembered Brad Kyleer.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
You ain't forgot about him, have it?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Chester? One of mine, like Kyler, is gunning.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
For your years.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You don't forget.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
It's too easy.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
You got tray off picked miss German.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We can take you back to him whenever you're any.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
All right, Chester, let's get it over Awayness.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
That's very trying, that pleasure to fix up somebody that
don't appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
A race, cutlor, I wouldn't appreciate anything we did for him.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Still, don't have to be a mean about it.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It being means. What gun him in jail in the
verse was race. Here's your supper? What is it?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
That same slot you've been bringing every night.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
There, Whatever it is, it's what you get, take it
or leader, I'll take you and make you too happy.
If I was to start alright, got back away from
the cell door, alright, Chester, sent it inside. That's huh.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I can smell that stuff clear over here.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
When I go ahead tomorrow night, I'm gonna cook you
grit tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I may not be alright, Chester, he'll be here a
race until the day you stand trial and then my brother.
The last time to say about that, I don't at
least had plenty of time to say. And what's keeping him?
He'll be here.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Before we leave town, we're gonna get you, Marshall. You'd
do that race. Come on, you'll find ass.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You just wait, I declare that the honest you and
me and I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, Marshall, huh, I come on in. Esn't matter of
Joe Marshall. I am to make you pay the loss yourself.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
That gold down card?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Sharp?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
He got me to take on.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
He's gone. Huh.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Took every cent out of the tiller along with him.
Word knows where he is by now?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I got a pretty good idea of where he is, Joe,
and I wish I didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, right here, man ooping it up down there by
the end of the bar.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I see him.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You had a few drinks before I came in, and
he's having more sense. But where'd he get the money? Now?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You stole it?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
And Joe cart No, you got him the John and
I should have known better, I guess.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But you can see a man down and I'll pushing
against a wall. I'm sorry not I'll see what.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Thurst to the royal blood of the House of Barley Cord.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
All right, I'm sorry, Edward, the party's over it.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
He give me, he shore this nothing this indeed.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
No, No, wait, Marshal, this is merely a net room
is understanding, which I can explain quite easily if you
will only don't bother. But I feel I do under
the circumstances only one moment, Marshall, if you will listen
to that, I I accepted my menial role this morning
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with proper humility, Marshall, and throughout the long day I
labored diligently, conscientiously, gratefully, lovely. Then I even tied drew
and I in master copy is covered. I found a bottle,
so I looked, I sniffed, I tasted, I imbibed, and
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the morality and ethics were flung through the winds. As
I warn you, drink is my weakness and stomach sell I.
I I neglected to add that a precisely similar effect
occurs on a full stomach. I'm I'm sorry, Marshall. No, no,
wait wait, I was quite sincere this morn when I
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promise not to fail your trust, Marshal. Nonetheless, I did
fail it. There is no excuse, of course, I suppose
that I really should face the fact that I have
just be on the worthless side.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm inclined to agree with that. Jan Yeah, what does
the tester just a few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What you're doing? Three different people seen him down to
the depot. Oh, Brad Kyler, he's here all right.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
This is Dixon Clair.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
You know, a great deal of publicity has been given
lately to NATO, an orth atletic treaty organization.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
For over eight years, this Alliance.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
Of the Free World has been protecting the peoples of
its fifteen member nations from Soviet aggression. Its reason for
being echoes the words of Woodrow Wilson back in nineteen seventeen.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Quote.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Our object now is to vindicate the principles of peace
and justice in the life of the world, as against
selfish and autocratic power, and to set up, among the
really free and self governed peoples of the world such
a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth
ensure the observance of these principles.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Unquote.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
No matter how you describe the work of NATO, just
remember it's guarding your freedom.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Huh, who is it?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
It's me?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh hello, Doc. Can't you find any place to loafe
except in front of the jail?
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Where with you and Brad Kyler on the power for.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
Each other, I think they might as well just wait
right here and sail one of you needed.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Now you're watching your time, Doc. I can't find a
hider hair.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Of him easier in tons of us folks have seen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Him, and I'm not one of 'em. Though, Come on in,
uh Chester, has he got it locked?
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I guess uh Chester. Who it's me? Chester? Up? And now?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Oh alright this.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Minute, old Doc.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, Chester, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I'm glad to see you missed the June. I've been
sitting here at this rifle and jumping out of my
skin every time a owl.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Hoody you there are no owls this time?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
He here?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Chester.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Well, I know that Doc is just kind of a
well I brad County.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
It's done.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I'm not a sign of it.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
T Raith Kyl has been yelling for the last fifteen minutes.
He wants to see you when you come in. Man,
a poor old actropelling had much to say, just sets
there and his cell looks at the floor. I think
he's feeling real remorseful for letting you down.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, he should have thought of that before he stole
the money.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yes, right though, but I still didn't get bothered him
considerable her very race yelling again.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Alright, I'll go see what he wants, i'd boil up
some coffee. What do you Chester?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
As you won't take a minute, and I got some
water all ready now as you get me. No, it's
not Chester. Am you finally got back? What do you want? Race?
You didn't run into my brother?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
If I had a being that sell with you right now?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Marshall?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
What?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Never mind him? I got a little business with you myself.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Well, Marshall, he's got a gun, go out shot drop
that gun?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Ray quietly.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
You go alright as you're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, I'm all right, Chester, got the cell case, m Yeah,
i'd take it easy.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Edward.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
Ye, his brother came outside through the garden and through
the cellar window a little while ago.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I don't try to talk everything which one first? Man? Uh,
never mind the Race. I had to kill him here.
Let me get the.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Cell h Marshall.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, I'm right here. Ever it alright? Doctor, say what
you can do for him? Hur Race?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Race planned to shoot you, said he'd kill me if
i'd warn you.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, but you're dead. Warn me of it?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Your s man?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
His his brother is waiting two horses north end of
the river bridge out, I'll get him.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
You cut to be Marshall.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Nobody has for a long time.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
What name.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Never much good that living, But on the stage I
was always very good at dying. Did she live with it?
Always in fight?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
It's Edward, that's it matter.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Muh he knew race that shooting, but he still warned me.
I don't know, docne he was worthless man.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Like he said, he was pretty good at dying.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt villon Us Marshall. The story was questionally
written for gun Spoke by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Mester. Featured in the cast were John Dayner
vic Heron, James Westerfield and James Musser. Harley behar Is Chester,
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Howard mcneer is Doctor, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. This
is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next
week for another story on gun Smoke. Gun Smoke has
come to you through the worldwide facilities of the United
States Armed Forces radio and television servants
Speaker 5 (24:05):
In a
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall,
the first man they looked for and the last they
want to meet. It's a chance, a job, and it
makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That's the sound of the village school bell, bringing back
memories of our childhood when we learned our ABC's.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And that's a sound similar to.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
The historic ringing of the Liberty Bell in seventeen seventy six.
It serves to remind us of the vital part we
play today in our nation's government. Be an informed American,
know the ABC's of your government. Under the letter L
in the Dictionary of U. S. Government Terms is the
word lobby. A lobby is an organized group which seeks
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to influence legislators for passage or defeat of a bill.
The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all citizens the
right to petition for or against government decisions. Years ago,
people with special favors to ask would stop congressmen.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And the capital lobbies to talk to them.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Soon they became known in political slang as lobbyists. There
are lobbies for and against everything. There are lobbies for
low tariffs, lobbies for high tariffs, lobbies for federal aid
to education, lobbies against federal aid to education, lobbies for
rigid farm price supports, lobbies for flexible supports. Lobbies have
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been referred to as the third House of Congress, which
works behind the scenes keep the spirit of the liberty
bell ringing being informed. American know the ABC's of our
nation's government in action.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oo, you don't much, you don't.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I Shore would feel a lot safer we had Brad
kotta locked up there in jail like his brother's. So
what eye Chester, you'd think if he was around time,
somebody would have ta him.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
May mean he doesn't wanna be seen.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Im mighty upset and feeling not more than if any
minute you might get a board in.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The back, and that's probably the way he'll try it too,
in the back.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeh.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Let's take another look in the long.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Brancher alight.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Tell him out. Oh, kiddy, had he caught Brad Kyler yet?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Not?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I haven't even found a trace.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I didhim kidding.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Seems to me you could make his brother talker. Not
so far he got him locked up in jail. Isn't
it some way of forcing him taking.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
An axe handle to him? You mean, oh no.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
I'm right down to it, miss Giddy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't think even that is breaking down them collar
boys is troping on and you Brad and raised both.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
It's just a pair of cold blooded killers.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
I'm proud of it.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Raced it over there, and he sell bragged about the
things they've done.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Admit it's all of it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
He says he'll never stand trial though it Bride'll get
him out before that. Oh he's just blusting that. No,
Bride'll make a try at least hell out.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
If you want to stop a big fight, maybe a killing.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Uh, you better move in on that poker game over
in the corner.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's peaceful enough to know.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
No, no, it isn't scrooking me.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
I smelled it, so I pulled out just that him
and some of the others are getting kind of achy too.
I think ben started is about to call a showdown
who's doing the cheating? But I figure said he you
see that old fellow over there in the world, Yeah,
in the fancy vest and sold off his boots.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But he's marked the deck somehow, and the way it
looks to me, you know who he is.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Then well, there's a stranger and claims he's a big
I'm stage.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Actor back heats, but I think he's mostly hotty bad whiskey.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Alrights, this has gone fire now there is Yeah, you've
been winning all fired.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Regular pursuit me, mister.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
I I think your pardon my dear.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sir, don't talk me fancy all right? Then all the
technis on. Now what's the trouble? Now, this man's been
cheating on us, that's trouble, sir.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
May I ask if you represent the law.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Here in the US, Marshal yeah, O.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
You, I, sir, have the distinction of being Edward Vanderman,
the name with which you are no doubt familiar.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Now I can't say that I am.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
And may I inform you, Marshals, I am the Edward
Vanderman who has trod the boards for low these many
years before the grown heads of Europe always to the
wildest to Clare's very interesting twenty three weeks, says Hamlet
at the Covent Garden Music Hall thirty one week in
the Unforgetable role.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I was like, alright, but what about this poker game?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
What was a ridiculous accusation? I had the impression I
was playing with gentlemen instead of these copping, heggling creatures.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Let me have him, marshals.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
Let me and the boys take him out back for
just five minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I don't know he was cheating better, he was cheating.
Speaker 10 (06:19):
We all know it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I leart these guards.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Nicked and clip and corners, every one of 'em. He's
been working over for last hour. His luck's been getting
better all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
How about his table stakes? There? Most of that yours,
most all of it. He had only five dollars to
start right, Then keep it and split it up however
you figure it. Come on, Vitamins, I I beg your pardon,
Come on outside, and I moved out the store. Come
on just as you, alright, viantamin, I'm gonna make it short.
(06:59):
We don't like card sharks and dodge you get out
of town tonight, sir.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I am not a card job.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You weren't cheating on you?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
I was what, Yes, I was cheating, but it was
out of desperation, sir? Is that? And they drink on
an empty stomach? I, marsho, I I can't get out
of town.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh why not?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Well, to put it quite simply, sir, I am broke. Huh,
A matter of unfortunate investments, you might say, at any
rate DoD city. At the end of the line, I
hadn't dissent. And as you can see, I I I
I I've got very well equipped for walking. When did
jew Ey last, who approximately twenty four hours ago? Alright,
(07:45):
ch as to take him over the jail and give
him some of that stools you made. We'll sleep on
the cot tonight. Maybe we can figure out something in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Enjoyment, Okay, marsho.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
You you have not only earned my undying gratitude, but
I I probably I will never crimp another deck as
long as I live. Furthermore, you may.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Call me Edward, all right, Edward, but it's a savior
gratitude till you taste that.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Still at Chesters.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Times have changed, and so has the man. In the
year seventeen seventy five, a patriotic, enterprising American by the
name of David Bushnell invented a strange craft. It was
constructed of two oak beans resembling two platters, clapped together
and propelled by a water screw attached to a hand
(08:48):
operated crank. Another water screw regulated the death to which
the craft could descend. This was the American Turtle, the
first United States submarine. One hundred and seventy nine years later,
nineteen hundred and fifty four, the United States came.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Up with another first.
Speaker 11 (09:09):
This time, however, it was a three thousand ton, fifty
five million dollar vessel powered by an atomic reactor. It
was the Nautilus, the world's first atom powered submarine, and
where the American Turtle was a one man operation dependent
on courage and brawn, the Nautilus is a complicated network
(09:30):
of advanced electronics, the operation of which is dependent upon
a team of highly trained, skilled navymen know their jobs
and do them well. As times have changed, so has
the man.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Yeah, eh mi sail, you have gone clean out of
your mind, you think so, Joe? If they did, are
running that old feller out of town? You stand here
and ask me to give him a job.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Joe, you need a waiter, you said so yesterday. And
where else you're gonna find? Well? Who can fill on
his cook if you wanna take him morning off now?
And then?
Speaker 8 (10:19):
How do I know he can cook?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well? He says he can try him on.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Well, what have you got to lose my restaurant? Maybe
if you was to take a notion to sell it
or my back was certain.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Oh don't you worry about that, Joe.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Nobody'd buy it once they got to look at all
him cockroaches.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
I got no more cockroaches than anybody else in Dodge.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, but yours is bigger. That's cause the food here
is better. Uh, what do you say, Joe? That ridge
waiting outside? You wanna give him a try?
Speaker 8 (10:46):
I can't figure what you're up to, Marshall, spending time
trying to get some stranger job.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
I ain't got much to do with the law.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Unfortunate it might have in the long run. He was
broken desperate. That's why he cheated in that card game.
They still broken desperate? How about it?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Alright, Michael calling him? Thanks Joe Edward, Come on.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
It, hey, Joe, you just don't get in no card
games with him.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
That from the bottom of the This is Joe Carpy,
your new boss, mister Coppy.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
If they're dollar a day and grub and you can
sleep on a cotton the store her use her overwhelming
in your generosity, you can start out washing them dishes
there very well, unaccustomed as I am into exercising my
unique talent in his scullery, I nonetheless approached the task
at hand with a high heart undoubted courage.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Whereas the soap that he always talk this way.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah mostly now come on justin thanks again, Joe.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Uh, just one thing, Marshall behind this mask.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You for the quality.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
I am eternally grateful to you.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Now forget it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But your your.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Trust, sir, is not misplaced. I will not disappoint.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'll drop out of jail when you get a chance,
and let's go Chessea.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Come come, my good man.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
Just as.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
A matter of Chester, you don't look too happy, but
you're glad he got the job.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Yeah, sir, But I just suddenly remembered Brad Kyleer.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
You ain't forgot about him, have it?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Chester? One of mine, like Kyler, is gunning.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
For your years.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You don't forget.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
It's too easy.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
You got tray off picked miss German.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We can take you back to him whenever you're any.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
All right, Chester, let's get it over Awayness.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
That's very trying, that pleasure to fix up somebody that
don't appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
A race, cutlor, I wouldn't appreciate anything we did for him.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Still, don't have to be a mean about it.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It being means. What gun him in jail in the
verse was race. Here's your supper? What is it?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
That same slot you've been bringing every night.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
There, Whatever it is, it's what you get, take it
or leader, I'll take you and make you too happy.
If I was to start alright, got back away from
the cell door, alright, Chester, sent it inside. That's huh.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I can smell that stuff clear over here.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
When I go ahead tomorrow night, I'm gonna cook you
grit tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I may not be alright, Chester, he'll be here a
race until the day you stand trial and then my brother.
The last time to say about that, I don't at
least had plenty of time to say. And what's keeping him?
He'll be here.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Before we leave town, we're gonna get you, Marshall. You'd
do that race. Come on, you'll find ass.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You just wait, I declare that the honest you and
me and I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, Marshall, huh, I come on in. Esn't matter of
Joe Marshall. I am to make you pay the loss yourself.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
That gold down card?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Sharp?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
He got me to take on.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
He's gone. Huh.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Took every cent out of the tiller along with him.
Word knows where he is by now?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I got a pretty good idea of where he is, Joe,
and I wish I didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, right here, man ooping it up down there by
the end of the bar.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I see him.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You had a few drinks before I came in, and
he's having more sense. But where'd he get the money? Now?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You stole it?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
And Joe cart No, you got him the John and
I should have known better, I guess.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But you can see a man down and I'll pushing
against a wall. I'm sorry not I'll see what.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Thurst to the royal blood of the House of Barley Cord.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
All right, I'm sorry, Edward, the party's over it.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
He give me, he shore this nothing this indeed.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
No, No, wait, Marshal, this is merely a net room
is understanding, which I can explain quite easily if you
will only don't bother. But I feel I do under
the circumstances only one moment, Marshall, if you will listen
to that, I I accepted my menial role this morning
(16:12):
with proper humility, Marshall, and throughout the long day I
labored diligently, conscientiously, gratefully, lovely. Then I even tied drew
and I in master copy is covered. I found a bottle,
so I looked, I sniffed, I tasted, I imbibed, and
(16:36):
the morality and ethics were flung through the winds. As
I warn you, drink is my weakness and stomach sell I.
I I neglected to add that a precisely similar effect
occurs on a full stomach. I'm I'm sorry, Marshall. No, no,
wait wait, I was quite sincere this morn when I
(17:00):
promise not to fail your trust, Marshal. Nonetheless, I did
fail it. There is no excuse, of course, I suppose
that I really should face the fact that I have
just be on the worthless side.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm inclined to agree with that. Jan Yeah, what does
the tester just a few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What you're doing? Three different people seen him down to
the depot. Oh, Brad Kyler, he's here all right.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
This is Dixon Clair.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
You know, a great deal of publicity has been given
lately to NATO, an orth atletic treaty organization.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
For over eight years, this Alliance.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
Of the Free World has been protecting the peoples of
its fifteen member nations from Soviet aggression. Its reason for
being echoes the words of Woodrow Wilson back in nineteen seventeen.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Quote.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Our object now is to vindicate the principles of peace
and justice in the life of the world, as against
selfish and autocratic power, and to set up, among the
really free and self governed peoples of the world such
a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth
ensure the observance of these principles.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Unquote.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
No matter how you describe the work of NATO, just
remember it's guarding your freedom.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Huh, who is it?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
It's me?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh hello, Doc. Can't you find any place to loafe
except in front of the jail?
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Where with you and Brad Kyler on the power for.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
Each other, I think they might as well just wait
right here and sail one of you needed.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Now you're watching your time, Doc. I can't find a
hider hair.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Of him easier in tons of us folks have seen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Him, and I'm not one of 'em. Though, Come on in,
uh Chester, has he got it locked?
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I guess uh Chester. Who it's me? Chester? Up? And now?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Oh alright this.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Minute, old Doc.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, Chester, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I'm glad to see you missed the June. I've been
sitting here at this rifle and jumping out of my
skin every time a owl.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Hoody you there are no owls this time?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
He here?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Chester.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Well, I know that Doc is just kind of a
well I brad County.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
It's done.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I'm not a sign of it.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
T Raith Kyl has been yelling for the last fifteen minutes.
He wants to see you when you come in. Man,
a poor old actropelling had much to say, just sets
there and his cell looks at the floor. I think
he's feeling real remorseful for letting you down.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, he should have thought of that before he stole
the money.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yes, right though, but I still didn't get bothered him
considerable her very race yelling again.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Alright, I'll go see what he wants, i'd boil up
some coffee. What do you Chester?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
As you won't take a minute, and I got some
water all ready now as you get me. No, it's
not Chester. Am you finally got back? What do you want? Race?
You didn't run into my brother?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
If I had a being that sell with you right now?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Marshall?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
What?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Never mind him? I got a little business with you myself.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Well, Marshall, he's got a gun, go out shot drop
that gun?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Ray quietly.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
You go alright as you're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, I'm all right, Chester, got the cell case, m Yeah,
i'd take it easy.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Edward.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
Ye, his brother came outside through the garden and through
the cellar window a little while ago.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I don't try to talk everything which one first? Man? Uh,
never mind the Race. I had to kill him here.
Let me get the.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Cell h Marshall.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, I'm right here. Ever it alright? Doctor, say what
you can do for him? Hur Race?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Race planned to shoot you, said he'd kill me if
i'd warn you.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, but you're dead. Warn me of it?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Your s man?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
His his brother is waiting two horses north end of
the river bridge out, I'll get him.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
You cut to be Marshall.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Nobody has for a long time.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
What name.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Never much good that living, But on the stage I
was always very good at dying. Did she live with it?
Always in fight?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
It's Edward, that's it matter.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Muh he knew race that shooting, but he still warned me.
I don't know, docne he was worthless man.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Like he said, he was pretty good at dying.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt villon Us Marshall. The story was questionally
written for gun Spoke by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Mester. Featured in the cast were John Dayner
vic Heron, James Westerfield and James Musser. Harley behar Is Chester,
(23:29):
Howard mcneer is Doctor, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. This
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