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Gunsmoke - "Drop Dead" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Gunsmoke presents “Drop Dead,” episode 22 of the classic CBS radio series, originally broadcast September 20, 1952. In this local archival recording, William Conrad stars as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon; the episode was written by Les Crutchfield and directed by Norman Macdonnell.
As a punishing Kansas drought strains cattlemen and ranchers alike, a dispute over access to Cottonwood Pond threatens to turn violent. Dillon, Chester, Doc, and Kitty are drawn into a tense conflict of property rights, survival, and frontier law.
Gunsmoke presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual…
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