September 4, 2025 • 29 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
are just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and The Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story of
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the violence that moved west with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Where are they.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Chester Bistles in the barbershop, mister Dillon. There's three of
his boys waiting outside, and a couple more in with him. Alright,
you think we might better take care of him separate
than all together, mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I take care of him at Alchester unless they do something.
I just so not wait for it to happen. Have
they seen you?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Sure, I don't think so. I've been mostly around the
corner here outside.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's good, alright, keep me covered with.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Him now here. You ain't going in there alone? Yeah, now, now,
you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
They take one look at your badge and they'll draw.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I don't think there'll be any shooting Chester, Yes, m
I started across the street to Stapley's barbershop, and I
saw three gunmen lounging outside. They didn't directly look at me,
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but they knew I was coming over because their hands
slipped down and hung an easy distance from their guns.
One of them I recognized as Buffalo Mason, a cowboy
who found more money working for a Frank Bissell as
a gunman than driving cattle up from Texas. The other
two I'd never seen, but I knew the kind. By
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the time I crossed the street, they'd moved stood on
either side of the door. Do you want something, Marshall?
I hear your friend Frank Bissel's inside. It might be
seems to me I told you you want to show
your nose around here again. Mason? You remember, not rightly, Marshall.
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Did you say that? Yeah? Yeah, I said that. Get
away from the door. I got a word of to
her to say the bistle. How's about you tell me
the word, Marshall. I'll pass it along. Frank is kind
of busy right now. I wanted to tell you I
wouldn't be needing to tell him, would I.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
That's so, Marshall, I'll come you to take all this talk.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Buffalo. Wh aren't you just kick him out in the street.
What's your name? Je? Alright, you two take your pile
over to the water barrel there and pull him off. Movefalo.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
What out of Marcia Darce be within just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Have a chair, thanks, mister Staplin.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Yes, sir, I tell your friend styles is changing. I
seen in the New York magazine the center parting and
knock your eye. I uh, sister mine sent the picture
out to me.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Are you sure you wouldn't like me to try it?
Just cut it like I told you.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yes, sir, you're the customer.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Tom Yes, right. Tell him, mister Dylan, to step around
here where I can see him.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You hear what Frank says, mister. I heard him.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Take it easy, barn where you're pulling my hair in
the back.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
You know what I can see in the mirror, mister Dilon.
Lot of things I guess I can see outside the door.
I saw a friend of mine out there a minute ago,
and I saw a fella whip my the head.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
With his six s gun. It's funny I saw the
same thing.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
My friends don't like being buffalo.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
They should have done something about it. They should. Maybe
they will maybe now I got something to say, Biscile bissile,
Frank Basil, keep on cutting, Barber. I ain't cut no
killer's hair, No, sir.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
If i'd known who you was and you heard.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Him Phinney, it's all right, mister Stapley. You go ahead, Yes, sir,
I know you're a reputation bistle, but right now I
got no cause to arrest him, so far as I know,
you're clean in this territory. Uh, but you're not staying here.
As soon as you're throwing that chair, you and your
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fowls are getting out of dodge.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
We just go out here, mister doone. We thought we'd
put over for spell.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Here.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
You got mighty fine entertainment here.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It doesn't start till after nightfall. You're going to be
gone by then.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Funny thing, mister Dylan, I heard a lot of talk
about you. Buffalo Mason says he had to run in
with you a few months back. I thought you were
a different man to what I see.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So so you're not much. Kind of windy, but not much.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Tom.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Give the marshal a five dollar piece and show him
the door. That's for your duty, mister Dolon.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Now you all through with him, mister Stapley, Yes, sir,
I'm all through, okay. I got up out of that chair. Bistle.
I knew what they meant about Frank Bistle when I
saw him smile as he got out of his chair.
It was the smile of a man who says one
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thing with his lips and another with his eyes. He
reached down to his holster and then around to his pocket,
pulled out a bill and passed it to the barber.
He made his move like he wanted to get me
to but when I didn't bite, he pulled his hat
off a peg and came over to me. The two
boys with him went past us and waited for the door.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
It's like I say, mister Dylon, my boys and I
here for some resting and playing.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Now.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
If you want a private little war, you can start
gunning for us anytime you want.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But you'll have to start it. You have gotten tells
Sundown to leave town. Bistle Marshall, you didn't hear what
I said at all, Sundown. If there's still around after that,
you'll all go to jail. We don't want any trouble.
We want to take it nice and easy.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
You take it easy too.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'll be seen.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
That was him, wasn't it Marshall. That was Frank Bistol.
These Frank Biscol. Oh, mister Dylon, if you shot him
in here, I could have put up a sign, Yes, sir,
I sure could.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Franks shot and killed here.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But I'm sorry I couldn't obliged him. Mister Stapling. Good day, mister.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Dylonychester they're getting out.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I didn't think it is easy. It isn't, yes, sir,
but look they're they're riding right.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I gave him until sundown.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh, oh, that's about two hours. Hey, you know it's
dealing in two hours. The boys can do an awful
lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They try, and there's gonna be trouble.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yes, you want me to foller and see where they go?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
No, now, we'll wait back at the office. On the
way back, I stopped at the saloons and told the
boys to send out word and whistle, and his gang
came in after sundown. I told him I'd be waiting
in the office. When I got to the Texas Trail,
Kitty was leaning against the bar, singing. Half a dozen
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cowboys were standing around, drinking, not clouding, but listening quietly.
Oh day, it was a kind of a sad song.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Oh Home on the way the rain, where the deer
and the anvelope play, where seldom is heard.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Discourage in.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And the skies are not cloudy.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Oh day High mass Chester.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Kitty, Well, never heard that song before.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
I haven't either.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Fellas in a while back brought it by, you know,
wrote out the words. It's nice, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's fine. Uh say kitty there Uh might
be a little trouble tonight. Uh yeah. Frank Bissell and
his boys are in tongue.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
Mm I heard it's all over town.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I know. Let me know if they come in with
you showing that. Okay, I'll see it.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
So on.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Heard words, mighty chautiful, mister Dylan, you feel like stopping
by Zelmonico's and Supper Chester.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, mister Dylan, I'm kind of low this week, you see.
I sent east for on them new suit. Mister high
Tower was telling about you know, the ones who's got
the vest and all the thing got away here and
then fine and tight up here.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm sure you'll look fine at the Chester. Come on,
let's get supper. I got money. It was about sundown
when we got through supper. I had gone in Dormonico's
mostly with the idea that Bissell would head bury himself.
That way I could get the thing over before he
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got really started. But he didn't oblige, not until Chester
and I were getting up from the table.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
My gracious, mister Dylan, I feel swollen like the overped
puppy dog.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You look like what.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Mister Dylon looked coming in here.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I see him. All right, let's go, man, I'm hungry.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I could eat me wanting.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Well. Hello, mister Dylon, say, how's the food in here?
It's sundown, mister Bistle.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Yeah, it's late for me to be eating. The boys
too were hungry. Come outside, mister Dylon, we just came
in for a nice quiet meals.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You don't want trouble with all these people in here,
mister Bistle. Now you do as I say. Outside. Come on,
you wanna stop trouble, mush.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Buffalo, where are your manners? There's women folk in here
that might get hurt.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of shooting start rank you. You heard what I said.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Besides, mister Dillon isn't gonna do anything. He's just got
to make noise like he does so those people will
think he's doing his job.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, mister Yllan.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
I sure would like to stay and talk.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But all right, all right, go ahead and eat pistle.
I'll be waiting for you out side.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Sure you do that, mister Dylan, You wait for me outside.
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Speaker 2 (14:31):
I knew there'd be a lot of talk in Dodge.
Some would say that I should have drawn on Frank
Mistle and his gang right then in Delmonico's. And I
had my own opinion about that. Chester and I waited
outside for Bistle to get through and come out. By
that time, the word was out, and it sounded like
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every cowboy, bullwalker, and buffalo, hunter and Dodge was hanging
around waiting the seal of fun. It was dark then
the moon was rising.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
A lot of them boys has come up from the
other side.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Of the tracks.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Mr Jon, I know.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You got any tobacco on your Chester.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
It's a right here and r you want?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
I should don't get on back?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Hey, uh thanks, h I tell you Chester, most of
those men have come to a show. They want to
see some shooting blood and kill 'em. Well, seeing how
long that's what they came for, I don't figure they
wanna be any part of that show.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Yes, sir, what are you aiming to do when Bissile
comes out?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Arrest 'em? Find Bissile a hundred dollars and the other's
twenty five apiece and lock 'em up for the night.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The crowd got bigger, and I got quieter too, standing
on both sides of the street, with a respectable distance
between themselves and the entrance to Delmonico's where Chester and
I waited. It was going on eight thirty when the
door opened and Frank Bistle stepped out, his boys following
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after him.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
You still waiting, mister Dylon. I thought you'd be somewhere
rolling drunk by.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now you're under a rest, Bistle and all of you.
What are we done? We're real peaceful, you can see that. Uh,
come on, Frank, let's get down the opera house. Hand
over your guns, mister Dylon. I had never done that yet.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I don't expect I'm gonna do it now for you.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We're calling your bluff, dming six of us, go ahead
and start it. Go ahead. I don't want any killing whistle.
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Now you coming quietly? No, mister Dylan. I'd made up
my mind even before he answered, because I knew he
wouldn't back down. And the crowd was watching. And in
that same second, through the window of the restaurant, I
saw the figures of two women and a child making
for the door. They were right in line with any
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shooting I might do Thisstle and the others were directly
in front of him, And now they had their guns
drawn and mine was still in its holster. Y. Oh, no,
I've heard you're pretty fast, Marshall. Talk Frank lots of talk,
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that's all.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Sure, Sure, sure, Now you'd be a good fellow and
go about your business. We're going down to the opera house.
Don't come looking around, because next time we might have to.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Be real painful with you.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'd made two mistakes, first going to Delmonico's and figuring
I could bluff him out of tongue without any shooting,
and then not getting whistles away from the restaurant door
before calling him. And it wasn't good. A lot of
drifters in dots were gonna take advantage of the situation
before the night was out. Law officers don't live long
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when they make mistakes. Chester and I headed for the
Texas Trail.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You're gonna let them get away with that, mister Dillon
for a while, My gracious mister Dylon. They spit right
in your eye, every one of 'em. You ain't gonna
take it, are you.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I made a mistake, Chester, How I gotta make it right.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yes, sir, I know, but this will be all over town.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Mister Dylon.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Well could tell me why you didn't draw and get
it done.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I had my reasons, Chester.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
And the animals play.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Where sound.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Red and the skies.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I'm not cloudy. All they.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Heard you were waiting for bistle over del Monicos.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I was a worried everything's fine, kidding, No, it ain't
find miss Kiddy that brank thistle road on, mister Dylan,
and and and.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What Chester.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You said you had your reasons, mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Join us for a bear kidding shoe man.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
You didn't get them out of town?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, not yet. They liked the song, did you. We
sat in the Texas trail, Chester, nervous and looking to
the door every minute or so, And as a cowboy
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drifted in, and then another, and a couple more, I
could tell the news of what had happened outside Del
Monaicco's had spread. That's the trouble with the reputation. Do
you build it or you get it built for you.
It's like a trap. You got to stay a step
ahead of it. If you don't, there's always the question,
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even with the people you think you know real well,
like Chester and Kidding, and I knew they were wondering
why I'd backed down. About a half hour go by
which I calculated was enough time for Dodge to make
a hero whistle, And then there was time to go.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Where are we going, mister Dylon?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The opera House.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
The opera House, that's where they've gone, ain't it?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Well?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Good?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I want you to stay out of this Chester.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Oh now, mister you heard what I said, Yes, sir,
mister Dylan.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
Yeah, nothing, Remember what I said?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Chester, Keep out of it until you're told.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
All right, mister Dylan, I will.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It was between shows at the opera House. Most all
the customers were in the saloon next door. Missile was
at the bar and his pals around him, and a
dozen or more new fond friends standing him drinks. Ye
haven't us that got around all right? And the gunman
was a hero, he'd made the law back down?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Look who was here?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Boys? Hey?
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Frank?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Looky, marshall Dylan. Didn't I get through telling you while?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Are you drunk? Missile? I never get drunk, mister Dylan,
And I'm glad to hear it. All right, you other
men get away from the bar quick. You six state
where you are. I'm telling him. Anybody who wants to
stay with Bistle and this gang's going to get hurt
now you move, Hey, Sure is tough, Frank, okay, mister Bissell, drawn,
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mister Dylan, you don't want me to do bad you
leave me, leave me, do it, Frank, I need the practice.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
No, no't wait a minute, nor I think he means it. Sure,
mister Dylan, I guess I have been riding you pretty hard.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Sure anytime you.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Dora, What are you gonna draw?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Mister, I'm gonna tell you something. I canna hit you
in the belly, as easy as making a hole in
the wall. But I don't like killing. Now you're under arrest,
all of you. Chester. Yes, keep him with her arms up. Yes,
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Now you take off your guns, Whistle, I said, take
off your guns and do it now, all right? Put
them on the bar. No, I'm putting my gun on
the table here if I'm not on my feet to
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get it. When you and I are finished, it's yours
and I'm through as Marshall here.
Speaker 11 (25:43):
Yeah, Mason, you pick him up, you you'll help him.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
They're all gone out of the jail. Hurry, I'm with you.
So I made a show for the town and a
lot of big words to go with it, and they
swallowed it, and Bistle and his gang lost everything, including
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their conceit. We put him in jail overnight and the
next morning. Each man was fined twenty five dollars bistle
one hundred, and they rode out a dodge. I'd be
a liar if I didn't admit I did a little
more than my job when I threw my gun away
and worked bistle over with my fists. He was a
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hard man, and I might a lost accepted. I had
my reputation to think about.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Gun Smoke Under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for gun Smoke by Anthony Ellis, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Featured in the cast.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Were John Dayner, Lornetce Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Jack Krusian and
Howard mcneer, Harley bear Is Chester and Georgia Ellis is Kiddie.
Gun Smoke is heard by our troops overseas through the
facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Join us again
next week as Matt dylan Us Marshall fights to bring
law and order out of the wild violence of the
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West in gun Smoke.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
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Speaker 1 (28:11):
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Speaker 8 (29:17):
Take
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
are just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and The Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story of
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the violence that moved west with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Where are they.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Chester Bistles in the barbershop, mister Dillon. There's three of
his boys waiting outside, and a couple more in with him. Alright,
you think we might better take care of him separate
than all together, mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I take care of him at Alchester unless they do something.
I just so not wait for it to happen. Have
they seen you?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Sure, I don't think so. I've been mostly around the
corner here outside.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's good, alright, keep me covered with.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Him now here. You ain't going in there alone? Yeah, now, now,
you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
They take one look at your badge and they'll draw.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I don't think there'll be any shooting Chester, Yes, m
I started across the street to Stapley's barbershop, and I
saw three gunmen lounging outside. They didn't directly look at me,
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but they knew I was coming over because their hands
slipped down and hung an easy distance from their guns.
One of them I recognized as Buffalo Mason, a cowboy
who found more money working for a Frank Bissell as
a gunman than driving cattle up from Texas. The other
two I'd never seen, but I knew the kind. By
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the time I crossed the street, they'd moved stood on
either side of the door. Do you want something, Marshall?
I hear your friend Frank Bissel's inside. It might be
seems to me I told you you want to show
your nose around here again. Mason? You remember, not rightly, Marshall.
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Did you say that? Yeah? Yeah, I said that. Get
away from the door. I got a word of to
her to say the bistle. How's about you tell me
the word, Marshall. I'll pass it along. Frank is kind
of busy right now. I wanted to tell you I
wouldn't be needing to tell him, would I.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
That's so, Marshall, I'll come you to take all this talk.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Buffalo. Wh aren't you just kick him out in the street.
What's your name? Je? Alright, you two take your pile
over to the water barrel there and pull him off. Movefalo.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
What out of Marcia Darce be within just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Have a chair, thanks, mister Staplin.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Yes, sir, I tell your friend styles is changing. I
seen in the New York magazine the center parting and
knock your eye. I uh, sister mine sent the picture
out to me.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Are you sure you wouldn't like me to try it?
Just cut it like I told you.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yes, sir, you're the customer.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Tom Yes, right. Tell him, mister Dylan, to step around
here where I can see him.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You hear what Frank says, mister. I heard him.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Take it easy, barn where you're pulling my hair in
the back.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
You know what I can see in the mirror, mister Dilon.
Lot of things I guess I can see outside the door.
I saw a friend of mine out there a minute ago,
and I saw a fella whip my the head.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
With his six s gun. It's funny I saw the
same thing.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
My friends don't like being buffalo.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
They should have done something about it. They should. Maybe
they will maybe now I got something to say, Biscile bissile,
Frank Basil, keep on cutting, Barber. I ain't cut no
killer's hair, No, sir.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
If i'd known who you was and you heard.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Him Phinney, it's all right, mister Stapley. You go ahead, Yes, sir,
I know you're a reputation bistle, but right now I
got no cause to arrest him, so far as I know,
you're clean in this territory. Uh, but you're not staying here.
As soon as you're throwing that chair, you and your
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fowls are getting out of dodge.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
We just go out here, mister doone. We thought we'd
put over for spell.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Here.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
You got mighty fine entertainment here.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It doesn't start till after nightfall. You're going to be
gone by then.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Funny thing, mister Dylan, I heard a lot of talk
about you. Buffalo Mason says he had to run in
with you a few months back. I thought you were
a different man to what I see.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So so you're not much. Kind of windy, but not much.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Tom.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Give the marshal a five dollar piece and show him
the door. That's for your duty, mister Dolon.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Now you all through with him, mister Stapley, Yes, sir,
I'm all through, okay. I got up out of that chair. Bistle.
I knew what they meant about Frank Bistle when I
saw him smile as he got out of his chair.
It was the smile of a man who says one
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thing with his lips and another with his eyes. He
reached down to his holster and then around to his pocket,
pulled out a bill and passed it to the barber.
He made his move like he wanted to get me
to but when I didn't bite, he pulled his hat
off a peg and came over to me. The two
boys with him went past us and waited for the door.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
It's like I say, mister Dylon, my boys and I
here for some resting and playing.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Now.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
If you want a private little war, you can start
gunning for us anytime you want.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But you'll have to start it. You have gotten tells
Sundown to leave town. Bistle Marshall, you didn't hear what
I said at all, Sundown. If there's still around after that,
you'll all go to jail. We don't want any trouble.
We want to take it nice and easy.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
You take it easy too.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'll be seen.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
That was him, wasn't it Marshall. That was Frank Bistol.
These Frank Biscol. Oh, mister Dylon, if you shot him
in here, I could have put up a sign, Yes, sir,
I sure could.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Franks shot and killed here.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But I'm sorry I couldn't obliged him. Mister Stapling. Good day, mister.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Dylonychester they're getting out.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I didn't think it is easy. It isn't, yes, sir,
but look they're they're riding right.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I gave him until sundown.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh, oh, that's about two hours. Hey, you know it's
dealing in two hours. The boys can do an awful
lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They try, and there's gonna be trouble.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yes, you want me to foller and see where they go?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
No, now, we'll wait back at the office. On the
way back, I stopped at the saloons and told the
boys to send out word and whistle, and his gang
came in after sundown. I told him I'd be waiting
in the office. When I got to the Texas Trail,
Kitty was leaning against the bar, singing. Half a dozen
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cowboys were standing around, drinking, not clouding, but listening quietly.
Oh day, it was a kind of a sad song.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Oh Home on the way the rain, where the deer
and the anvelope play, where seldom is heard.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Discourage in.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And the skies are not cloudy.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Oh day High mass Chester.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Kitty, Well, never heard that song before.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
I haven't either.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Fellas in a while back brought it by, you know,
wrote out the words. It's nice, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's fine. Uh say kitty there Uh might
be a little trouble tonight. Uh yeah. Frank Bissell and
his boys are in tongue.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
Mm I heard it's all over town.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I know. Let me know if they come in with
you showing that. Okay, I'll see it.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
So on.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Heard words, mighty chautiful, mister Dylan, you feel like stopping
by Zelmonico's and Supper Chester.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, mister Dylan, I'm kind of low this week, you see.
I sent east for on them new suit. Mister high
Tower was telling about you know, the ones who's got
the vest and all the thing got away here and
then fine and tight up here.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm sure you'll look fine at the Chester. Come on,
let's get supper. I got money. It was about sundown
when we got through supper. I had gone in Dormonico's
mostly with the idea that Bissell would head bury himself.
That way I could get the thing over before he
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got really started. But he didn't oblige, not until Chester
and I were getting up from the table.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
My gracious, mister Dylan, I feel swollen like the overped
puppy dog.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You look like what.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Mister Dylon looked coming in here.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I see him. All right, let's go, man, I'm hungry.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I could eat me wanting.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Well. Hello, mister Dylon, say, how's the food in here?
It's sundown, mister Bistle.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Yeah, it's late for me to be eating. The boys
too were hungry. Come outside, mister Dylon, we just came
in for a nice quiet meals.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You don't want trouble with all these people in here,
mister Bistle. Now you do as I say. Outside. Come on,
you wanna stop trouble, mush.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Buffalo, where are your manners? There's women folk in here
that might get hurt.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of shooting start rank you. You heard what I said.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Besides, mister Dillon isn't gonna do anything. He's just got
to make noise like he does so those people will
think he's doing his job.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, mister Yllan.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
I sure would like to stay and talk.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But all right, all right, go ahead and eat pistle.
I'll be waiting for you out side.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Sure you do that, mister Dylan, You wait for me outside.
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Speaker 2 (14:31):
I knew there'd be a lot of talk in Dodge.
Some would say that I should have drawn on Frank
Mistle and his gang right then in Delmonico's. And I
had my own opinion about that. Chester and I waited
outside for Bistle to get through and come out. By
that time, the word was out, and it sounded like
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every cowboy, bullwalker, and buffalo, hunter and Dodge was hanging
around waiting the seal of fun. It was dark then
the moon was rising.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
A lot of them boys has come up from the
other side.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Of the tracks.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Mr Jon, I know.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You got any tobacco on your Chester.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
It's a right here and r you want?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
I should don't get on back?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Hey, uh thanks, h I tell you Chester, most of
those men have come to a show. They want to
see some shooting blood and kill 'em. Well, seeing how
long that's what they came for, I don't figure they
wanna be any part of that show.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Yes, sir, what are you aiming to do when Bissile
comes out?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Arrest 'em? Find Bissile a hundred dollars and the other's
twenty five apiece and lock 'em up for the night.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The crowd got bigger, and I got quieter too, standing
on both sides of the street, with a respectable distance
between themselves and the entrance to Delmonico's where Chester and
I waited. It was going on eight thirty when the
door opened and Frank Bistle stepped out, his boys following
(16:23):
after him.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
You still waiting, mister Dylon. I thought you'd be somewhere
rolling drunk by.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now you're under a rest, Bistle and all of you.
What are we done? We're real peaceful, you can see that. Uh,
come on, Frank, let's get down the opera house. Hand
over your guns, mister Dylon. I had never done that yet.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I don't expect I'm gonna do it now for you.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We're calling your bluff, dming six of us, go ahead
and start it. Go ahead. I don't want any killing whistle.
(17:22):
Now you coming quietly? No, mister Dylan. I'd made up
my mind even before he answered, because I knew he
wouldn't back down. And the crowd was watching. And in
that same second, through the window of the restaurant, I
saw the figures of two women and a child making
for the door. They were right in line with any
(17:44):
shooting I might do Thisstle and the others were directly
in front of him, And now they had their guns
drawn and mine was still in its holster. Y. Oh, no,
I've heard you're pretty fast, Marshall. Talk Frank lots of talk,
(18:08):
that's all.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Sure, Sure, sure, Now you'd be a good fellow and
go about your business. We're going down to the opera house.
Don't come looking around, because next time we might have to.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Be real painful with you.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'd made two mistakes, first going to Delmonico's and figuring
I could bluff him out of tongue without any shooting,
and then not getting whistles away from the restaurant door
before calling him. And it wasn't good. A lot of
drifters in dots were gonna take advantage of the situation
before the night was out. Law officers don't live long
(19:10):
when they make mistakes. Chester and I headed for the
Texas Trail.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You're gonna let them get away with that, mister Dillon
for a while, My gracious mister Dylon. They spit right
in your eye, every one of 'em. You ain't gonna
take it, are you.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I made a mistake, Chester, How I gotta make it right.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yes, sir, I know, but this will be all over town.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Mister Dylon.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Well could tell me why you didn't draw and get
it done.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I had my reasons, Chester.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
And the animals play.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Where sound.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Red and the skies.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I'm not cloudy. All they.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Heard you were waiting for bistle over del Monicos.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I was a worried everything's fine, kidding, No, it ain't
find miss Kiddy that brank thistle road on, mister Dylan,
and and and.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What Chester.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You said you had your reasons, mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Join us for a bear kidding shoe man.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
You didn't get them out of town?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, not yet. They liked the song, did you. We
sat in the Texas trail, Chester, nervous and looking to
the door every minute or so, And as a cowboy
(21:10):
drifted in, and then another, and a couple more, I
could tell the news of what had happened outside Del
Monaicco's had spread. That's the trouble with the reputation. Do
you build it or you get it built for you.
It's like a trap. You got to stay a step
ahead of it. If you don't, there's always the question,
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even with the people you think you know real well,
like Chester and Kidding, and I knew they were wondering
why I'd backed down. About a half hour go by
which I calculated was enough time for Dodge to make
a hero whistle, And then there was time to go.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Where are we going, mister Dylon?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The opera House.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
The opera House, that's where they've gone, ain't it?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Well?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Good?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I want you to stay out of this Chester.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Oh now, mister you heard what I said, Yes, sir,
mister Dylan.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
Yeah, nothing, Remember what I said?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Chester, Keep out of it until you're told.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
All right, mister Dylan, I will.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It was between shows at the opera House. Most all
the customers were in the saloon next door. Missile was
at the bar and his pals around him, and a
dozen or more new fond friends standing him drinks. Ye
haven't us that got around all right? And the gunman
was a hero, he'd made the law back down?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Look who was here?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Boys? Hey?
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Frank?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Looky, marshall Dylan. Didn't I get through telling you while?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Are you drunk? Missile? I never get drunk, mister Dylan,
And I'm glad to hear it. All right, you other
men get away from the bar quick. You six state
where you are. I'm telling him. Anybody who wants to
stay with Bistle and this gang's going to get hurt
now you move, Hey, Sure is tough, Frank, okay, mister Bissell, drawn,
(24:18):
mister Dylan, you don't want me to do bad you
leave me, leave me, do it, Frank, I need the practice.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
No, no't wait a minute, nor I think he means it. Sure,
mister Dylan, I guess I have been riding you pretty hard.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Sure anytime you.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Dora, What are you gonna draw?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Mister, I'm gonna tell you something. I canna hit you
in the belly, as easy as making a hole in
the wall. But I don't like killing. Now you're under arrest,
all of you. Chester. Yes, keep him with her arms up. Yes,
(25:11):
Now you take off your guns, Whistle, I said, take
off your guns and do it now, all right? Put
them on the bar. No, I'm putting my gun on
the table here if I'm not on my feet to
(25:34):
get it. When you and I are finished, it's yours
and I'm through as Marshall here.
Speaker 11 (25:43):
Yeah, Mason, you pick him up, you you'll help him.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
They're all gone out of the jail. Hurry, I'm with you.
So I made a show for the town and a
lot of big words to go with it, and they
swallowed it, and Bistle and his gang lost everything, including
(26:34):
their conceit. We put him in jail overnight and the
next morning. Each man was fined twenty five dollars bistle
one hundred, and they rode out a dodge. I'd be
a liar if I didn't admit I did a little
more than my job when I threw my gun away
and worked bistle over with my fists. He was a
(26:58):
hard man, and I might a lost accepted. I had
my reputation to think about.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Gun Smoke Under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for gun Smoke by Anthony Ellis, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Featured in the cast.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Were John Dayner, Lornetce Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Jack Krusian and
Howard mcneer, Harley bear Is Chester and Georgia Ellis is Kiddie.
Gun Smoke is heard by our troops overseas through the
facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Join us again
next week as Matt dylan Us Marshall fights to bring
law and order out of the wild violence of the
(28:00):
West in gun Smoke.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Tomorrow Night.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
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to the great national pastime. Your Hall of Fame Playhouse
dramatizes the story of Henry Chadwick, the father of baseball.
Learn about the origin of baseball. Hear of a man's
vision that blossoms forth as America's most popular sport. Tomorrow
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