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November 17, 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 (00:08):
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(00:58):
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with it.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And a little lonely. Where's everybody?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Never saw? Front Street said?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Is it that'll look different about twelve hours from now?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
That twelve hours? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
You mean midnight?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Is eh? I hope I'm in bed with them? You
usually I am, But I'd like to have a dollar
for every night's sleep I've lost.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh, you can't have everything, Doc, What do you remember
that a man can't expect I get a lot of
sleep if he's not bucking the tiger all night.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Me gambling and where do you think I get the money.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
For the minister under the sick, same as any doctor.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's not the sick. I minister too in this town.
So much as the wound, well, what difference does it make?
And the wounded usually die before I get paid. Booth here, patience,
since you know you ought to try to pull more
up and throw doc Oh sure, yes, cut up, shot up,
beat up, so wondering.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I can't argue with you about that. Oh say you
mind if we stop in the general store here. Mister
Jonaths was supposed to order me a new saddle blanket.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh man, always frittering away your money on doo Dad.
It's for my horse dog, not me, Oh man. Look
who's hello, kitty?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Doc man?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
How are you, kiddy?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I'm hung He came in here fifteen minutes on the
way to dinner, and nothing's happened yet.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
We listen, mister Jill here. If he is, he's hiding,
and he's probably on his way to dinner. Way out.
I got a wagon and robbed this place. That'll teach
him to walk off and leave it. You'd only spend
your money.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
If he's here, kiddy, he shouldn't complain.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I've already spent it. I paid him in advance with
three petticoats a month ago.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
You know they're here yet I don't. There's a big
box behind the counter there with Santa Fe railroad stands
all over it.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
The shipsman of some kind.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh, why don't you open it?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I got caught doing that. Some US marshall might walk
in here and shoot.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, I'll do it.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm not afraid, kiddy, mister Dillionaires. A fellow come in
the opposite. Darn's looking man you ever saw? He very old, but.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
He's got a long yellow hair, and his teeth are
kind of long and yellow.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Two and he's so thin all over what I swear
to take two to.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Make a shadow?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Why don't you bring him along, Chester, I'd like to
meet him. Oh no, you wouldn't miss getting.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Out this fellow.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
There's something really mean about him, if he wasn't so crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, while we're figuring that out, why don't you tell
me what he wants?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Chester?

Speaker 5 (04:14):
He wants you to come arrest his paw. Why he's
out in the country somewhere, he didn't say, he did, poor.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Why does he want me to arrest his paw?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
He didn't say that neither, But he said you'd better hurry.
He said, it's real serious.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
All right, I'll go back with him.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
So I'm kidding, Doc. See Matt a good bart.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
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(06:30):
And I hope you still hear me? All?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I hope so too, Chess. Hello, Hello, I'm Marshall Dylan.
You wanted to see me?

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Found him? What I mean him? You found you. Yeah,
I found him. Now tell him what you came for.
I come for you, Marshall, and I know Chester told
me that it's something about your paw. Oh, Paul needs
rest and what for? He killed a man? Shot him dead?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Who is your paw?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I'm budget grilled, Marshall, all right, hold your paw kill budget.
I don't know some stranger, but he's laying there dead.
Paul won't even bury him, laying where? What had happened
your home? Well? Uh? Where's home? Out young? Oh? Forevermore?

(07:42):
I don't know. I don't know how to tell him
to get to Well, maybe you couldn't show me how
to get there. Huh, that's what I comfort.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Uster. Look, I understand if you don't want to go along.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm kindly dizzy already, but I'll go let you.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Don Okay, Then let's get started.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
That there's a house, the house you can't call a
one room start?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
How the house got a cheeter seller out back? Yeah?
Who lives in the tato sellers? It a good place
to keep somebody, wouldn't it. Boh you thank you? Pause
around budget, Mall be here. They're not right, No closer
thinks are mad?

Speaker 7 (08:53):
All right, ma ma, she ain't be she'll be out gunning.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Cash. You come on, I got it more.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
This one here, the other one I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Fella called Chester. He was hanging around, so I brought
him too. Now look at here Chester. Never mind I
miss grogged.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Uh I take it.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
You know about your husband too, married thirty years?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
No, I mean about his killing this man.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
You can talk to Paul about that when he gets here.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Ain't none of mine, faire.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
But you go get that rifle off in your saddle.
There's no place to leave it.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
Sure, ma, you people stay here, you sit down, you well,
I'll go boil up some coffee.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
And bring it out.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Uh uh no, yeah, don't a bottle man.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
No bo.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Sat down on what she's crazier and here is what's done.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, and they're half starved to.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
This isn't much of a homestead.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
He ainy terrible.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah, but even a lead him and can do something
with him.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's not the best land I ever saw Chester.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Mark gonna make you some coffee, Yeah, that's what she said.
Maul likes folks to come visit sometimes. Sure ah sure,
uh y, yes, ma'am, gonna show you the house. You
come here, and Chester Feller can see it later. You

(10:53):
better go, Marshall. Mar don't always ask people in only sometimes.
Y'all right, just let me know. I don't get no
coffee or you'll get some chick lettle scrugg none and Marshall.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Doors open, ye'ah, catt here.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I ain't it no windows, it's slight enough, and don't
move Monsha.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
I have this rifle.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Aim to bust your heart open. Yeah, I'll do it too.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Put your hands up by your shoulders.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
Marshal, I'll kill you if you don't sure, Budge, I
got 'em off.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
And give me your hand. Here, I'll come.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
He rifles hair triggered at Marshall.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
You stand right there, chick here, I can shoot with
one hand. Step back.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Tells it to it, Marshall.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Getty's gun, Budge, I got it more. Let's move outside,
Marshall go he proved one you had that rifle. If
you don't know, I couldn't do a thing that happened
to me, So Chester, it's lock him up, Budge, lock

(12:26):
us up, imitato. Let's us all about Budger. I'll tell
you when he comes, where is it he's waiting? You'll
come in late tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Your pa didn't shoot anybody, did I.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
No, But he's gonna shoot somebody. Marshall, he sure he is.

(13:11):
This cussed seller don't make much of a hotel, doesn't
muster done, no.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Now it doesn't trust it.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
No light, not much air, damp, no blankets, nothing to eat,
and they've tried on their potatoes.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
They're moldy.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Must be afternoon.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
But uh yeah, you think they're miserable idiots? Is ever
gonna let us out?

Speaker 2 (13:49):
I've been thinking all the last night and this morning,
test down. I'm right back where I started. I don't
know what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Uh what? That gun out of it?

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Sure beats me mad. That old woman pulling a dirty
pick like that? You think she meant, mister Dylan, she
really shot you?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Share met it?

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Okay? I hear somebody coming. Don't you try nothing now?

Speaker 4 (14:26):
We got guns. Open it.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Clear up, Budge. They can't fight with nothing but Taylor. Okay, pause,
step out here in the light where we can see
the big one, Pawky. That's some Marshall party. M keep

(14:53):
your gun on them. Budget. I guess you know who
I am, Marshall. Yeah, I am about the smartest fella
in the whole country does that's all You're one man
who was to know the why I got you caught?

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Eather? Does that make you smarter?

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Or tell him? Tell him It won't hurt a bud
if you tell me what to do. We got a plan, Marshal,
We got a real fine plan, and it was all
my thinking. We're gonna rob a bank, Marshall, right there
and Dodge. We're gonna hold it up and take all

(15:39):
the money.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Now that's quite applying.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
The girl cleans it, and you see how we're gonna
do it. There won't be nobody to stop us, cause
we'll we'll already have you day they didn't marry? What sure?
What do you think we got you out here for?
You can't do that?

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Now?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Your side going with him? Chester, he's crazy, crazy because
I'm going to get rich. You call him that crazy.
I don't call him out, but we're going to shoot him.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Now, ma, Mark, come on out. You want to watch
us kill him?

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Broke? What what makes you think if you wrap the bank,
I'd be the only man after you, and you're the
Marsham and the money in that bank belongs to a
lot of people. There'll be fifty men after you, Me
and Ma and Bud, we're going to kill everybody in
the bank. They won't nobody know nothing about it too.

(16:37):
We're going you want to love to get as far
as a straight It's my planet. It's not your shutout.
You stand there to here.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Get away here, mam. You want to walk.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's doing They were were going to shoot up Chester.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
But beyond them, out near that.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Clump of elder there, somebody's comming first bank.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, well, let on, we don't have to move fast.
If we get a chance, he sho walk.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Look, oh they him see him. Get out of sight.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Bud, get behind the house in case he gets too nosey.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'll fix some what he does, go Calhoun's tide of fall.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Mm. There's no time for him to be paying a visit.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Keep back in the cellar. Get back in the cellar, Marshall,
go on, both of you. Go on, I'll shoot you
right out.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
He needs to be doing here.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
Uh you keep quiet in there now.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
We gotta do something. And if I get jobs got
close enough to one of 'em.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
There's that riding. Yeah, what are you doing here, Caloun
We're too busy to be visiting today. Say shut call you.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
But what do you do that for? A you leave
him alone?

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Pall?

Speaker 4 (18:00):
We didn't mean nothing.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
We standing up for him. Gonur it out. But when
you shot that Calhoun fella. Now he's dead. Yeah wait
heard him?

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Oh oh what were you yelling at me like that?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
For? What's wrong with shooting him? We're leaving you? I
mean we we don't need no names, darn fool? Why Paul?
Now we gotta bury him? Don't gray sure? Or three gradess?
Too many to dig before dark? And then we'll have
to wait till tomorrow. Or we can take care of
Marshall and Chester hair mm well you think about that?

(18:44):
You never think about nothing. What's worse? You'll have to
feed him. Can't let nobody go hungry that long? Go
tell 'em all, I'm going huh uh you you too,
set card, but you'll bring you something. Well. If that

(19:04):
don't be all.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Little Budge comes back Chester, that's gonna be our chance.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
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(20:12):
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Speaker 3 (20:15):
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Speaker 6 (20:18):
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Speaker 4 (20:21):
It's the best.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
If you think we ought to eat whatever brings first, mister.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Jim, we've made any time, Schuster we can.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
How come I had a bite since we left off?
I mean, now you let me handle this. Yes see,
ma biled your little pot of tato peels.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh my goodness, and a lot sounds fine of me.
Bun here, and I'll say it.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
I don't put no salt in it about our care.
Now let me.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Shut up, or I'll bring you. He's got a knife
on his bout got a Chester.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I got it all right, come on, get a bunch
on you. But I'd had my rife or you wouldn't
have done this.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Give me the knife Chester al right outside, Budge, don't
and don't figure I got this knife right in your back.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Don't you stick me?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Then do what I tell him?

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Or fix you? Paws.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
You cut me, you'll holler gun and I'll put it
all the way.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
And what you're doing?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, I see him Chester. Let's wait here.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I'm gonna get me a rock. Oh, it's gonna be awful,
mad at you, Marshall? Is he.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
What's going on here?

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Make him? Let me go? Paul, shut up.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
I'm holding a knife and his back broke. He'll throw
it down the rifle or I'll shove it into him.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Won't work. Mark, You ain't stopping me.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Bojo die If you don't know what I say, you ain't.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
He's smart as me. Marsha, you gonna understand.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Stop that gun. Girl, you're gonna chow get him. I
did it. I hit him right in my head.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Come on, I want that right.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
You think he's killed him? Yeah, it looks like it.
It's a big rock.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Oh. That woman will be out here in a minute.
Come on, let's get around on the side of the
house around here.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I thought sure she was gonna come out shooting.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
She'll be out. I just wait here. We're looking to
hear the door when it opens.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
What are you gonna do? With you now. And you
can't shoot a.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Woman now, but maybe I can scare her.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
What about him shooting his own sign.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Well that's something I asked sure and never figured on.
I would have been on rail trouble it hadn't been
for you. I'm gonna have to hang your picture on
my wall for that, she said, Oh.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Wasn't, wouldn't. I used to go hunting with rocks when
I was a kid. What one time?

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Oh there she is. Look if she comes around the corner,
maybe I can knock that rifle out of her hands.
You stay back.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Here, coming, No, come on, come, I trusted.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Rac she's over there by Budge. Take a look.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Oh say that ain't a right if she's holding.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's a shovel.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Come on.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
I guess she decided to know youth playing a fight now, And.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
It wouldn't have surprised me if she had nothing surprising
about these people. Your uh, your husband shot him, miss Grope.
But oh, bunch, I didn't figure her man and shoot

(24:48):
his own son.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
But you wasn't his. But he was nice out of his.

Speaker 6 (24:59):
He his budge, He always hated him. Oh, my first
husband died. He is a good man.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
He liked Bude.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
How Grok was right.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
I didn't understand everything he made me do.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
What I did, and that he didn't whop me terrible.
If I didn't uh.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Tell me, ma'am, would you have shot me yesterday? If
I hadn't put my hands up?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Course I would. I told you instead. I had to that.
No matter what am I gonna do without Budge? I
ain't got no money.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Now what am I gonna do? I don't know, ma'am,
but will bury him for you?

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Mm? You bury them too?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Very bad?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Can I have the shovel m?

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Come on cha, I feel cleanly sorry for what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah. She's had it too rough Chester. She doesn't know
what she's doing anymore. Blaming her be like blaming the
night for being dark. I guess there's nothing we can
do for her, not a thing in the world.

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Speaker 1 (28:05):
Guns Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. Our story was specially
written for Guns Smoke by John Weston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory, sound patterns by Tom Hanley
and Ray kemper.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Featured in the cast were.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
John McIntyre, Virginia, Greg and Vic Perrin, Harley Bear is Chester,
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