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Gunsmoke - "Bad Boy" (Old Time Radio, 1954) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: At the Texas Trail Saloon, young Tom Vickers is making trouble,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and Marshal Matt Dillon has reason to worry about the
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: influence of Blades, Tom's older companion. When a stranger is
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: shot on the Vickers range and cattle are reported missing,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Dillon and Chester head out to investigate, mindful of the
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: respected rancher Dolph Vickers and what the inquiry may mean
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: for him. From CBS Radio, this is Gunsmoke, Bad Boy,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Episode 97. Originally broadcast February 27th, 1954, William Conrad stars
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: as Matt Dillon with Parley Bear, Howard McNair, and Georgia Ellis.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: John Meston wrote the program, and Norman MacDonald directed. And now,
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: violence that moved west with young America.
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  Speaker 3: The story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon,
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: United States Marshal.
• 2:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know what got into the boy, Mr.
• 2:06
  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: When I come for you, he was offering to shoot
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: his initials into the mirror behind the bar.
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  Speaker 3: Is he drunk, Chester?
• 2:12
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: But mostly it seems like he just plain wants to howl.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he can howl all he likes as long as
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: he keeps his gun quiet.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, there he goes.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that's the mirror and not some man he's
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  Speaker 4: shooting at.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so do I. Old Dolph would hate to lose
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  Speaker 3: that boy. All right, watch it now.
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  Speaker 4: Look, he's laying on the floor, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: He's been killed.
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  Speaker 5: Look what he done to my mirror, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: You shoot him, Sam? No, I hit him with a
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  Speaker 3: bung starter. He ain't dead.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm about to have to shoot his friend here.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead and try it.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I will. Easy, Sam. All right, what's your name, mister?
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  Speaker 5: My name's Blades.
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  Speaker 4: I work for Tom.
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  Speaker 3: You mean you work for his father, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, sure, the old man owns the ranch, but... Me
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  Speaker 4: and Tom, we work together.
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  Speaker 3: Pick up his gun before he comes too, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Blades. Tom's going to sleep it off in jail.
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  Speaker 3: You want to be locked up with him or you're
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: going to go home quietly?
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  Speaker 4: I ain't done nothing. It was that girl over there
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  Speaker 4: got him started.
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  Speaker 3: No, what girl?
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  Speaker 4: That one sitting at the table in the red dress.
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  Speaker 3: What, Kitty?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's her name. Wait till old Dolph hears you
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  Speaker 4: threw his son in jail.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell him myself. Now you get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going.
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  Speaker 4: He's at the Dodge house right now, Marshal. I'd like
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  Speaker 4: to hear.
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  Speaker 5: You tell him.
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  Speaker 3: Can you get Tom over to the jail, Chester?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I sure can.
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  Speaker 3: All right, lock him up. I'll be back later.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: All right, come on now, Tom. You going to let
• 3:49
  Speaker 4: Chester put him to bed, Matt?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Sam knocked all the fight out of him, Kitty.
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  Speaker 5: I know. I saw it.
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  Speaker 3: Blades said that... You made him mad.
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  Speaker 6: That's one way of putting it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: He made me mad. I don't like fresh kids, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Vickers must be 20.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he's been acting like a kid. You know, Matt,
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  Speaker 6: he's changed lately. He used to be a gentleman like
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  Speaker 6: his father. I don't know what's come over him, but
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  Speaker 6: if he were mine, I wouldn't allow him.
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  Speaker 4: Off the ranch.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you've just forgotten what it's like to be young, Kitty.
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  Speaker 6: I'm young enough to pour this glass of beer over
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  Speaker 6: your head.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Sure. Well, that fellow Blades
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  Speaker 3: is older, though. Maybe he's responsible for Tom's jump in
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  Speaker 3: the fence.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like him at all. I'm sure he isn't
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  Speaker 6: a good influence on Tom.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom's too easily led. Yeah, he isn't the man
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  Speaker 3: his father is.
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  Speaker 5: He sure isn't.
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  Speaker 6: Anyways, he better leave me alone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell him to. Well, I've got to go see
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  Speaker 3: Dolph now.
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  Speaker 6: He isn't going to like your throwing his son in jail.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe not. But a stranger was shot and killed
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  Speaker 3: on his range yesterday. And I don't like that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh? I hadn't heard.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they haven't been talking much about it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, looks like you and Dolph are in for a
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  Speaker 6: pleasant little talk.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, so long, Kitty.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye, Max. Well, come in, Marshal, come in. How are you, doll?
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  Speaker 1: Fine, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: I've been sitting here smoking a cigar before I went
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  Speaker 5: to bed. Have one?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, thanks. Dolph, I got some bad news
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me.
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  Speaker 3: Tom tried to shoot up the Texas Trail a while ago.
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  Speaker 3: Sam laid him out. All right, now he's in jail.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody hurt?
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  Speaker 3: The boy's got a bump on his head, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like the idea of Vickers being in jail.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Dolph.
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  Speaker 5: How do I get him out?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll turn him loose in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: No vicar is as ever in jail before, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's not that important to me, Dolph. If you
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  Speaker 3: want him out now, you can come and get him. No.
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  Speaker 5: He's done wrong. He's got to pay for it. I
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  Speaker 5: thank you for coming to tell me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Dolph, sure. But there's something else I want to
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  Speaker 3: talk to you about.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: I heard that a man was shot and killed on
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  Speaker 3: your range yesterday. It's true. Who did it?
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  Speaker 5: He was wrestling cattle, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Well, were you there?
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  Speaker 5: No, but I've been losing a lot of stock lately.
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  Speaker 5: That fella got caught by my men and put up
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  Speaker 5: a fight. So, there's one less thief around.
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  Speaker 3: You know who this man was?
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  Speaker 5: Never saw him before. But there's nothing wrong with shooting thieves,
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  Speaker 5: is there?
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  Speaker 3: Not if I try to shoot you first.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to hire me some gunmen, Marshal. I'll show them... No, no,
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  Speaker 5: that'll just cause trouble, Dolph.
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  Speaker 3: Gunmen will shoot anybody that happens along and then claim
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  Speaker 3: that they put up a fight. You know what they're like.
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  Speaker 5: Then everybody better stay away.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody won't know about it, Dolph. You don't want innocent
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  Speaker 3: men killed, do you?
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  Speaker 5: Of course I don't. But I don't want my cattle
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  Speaker 5: stole either.
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  Speaker 3: Dolph, uh... You mind if I ride back out to
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  Speaker 3: your place with you tomorrow and have a look around?
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  Speaker 5: I got business in Dodge tomorrow, but I'm going out
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  Speaker 5: the day after.
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  Speaker 3: Be glad to have you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll meet you here then. Okay, Marshal. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: There's some men branding cattle up ahead, doll.
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  Speaker 5: That'll be Tom and Blades. They got a camp near here.
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  Speaker 5: I put Tom in charge of this whole section.
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  Speaker 3: They left Dodge yesterday morning early, doll.
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  Speaker 5: I know. I saw them leave.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you did?
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  Speaker 5: They didn't see me. I was sitting across the street.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: That's Tom, all right. Coming to meet us.
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  Speaker 5: He shouldn't stop work just because we ride by. We'll
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  Speaker 5: wait here. Who now? Who?
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  Speaker 4: Who's what?
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: Howdy, Tom.
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  Speaker 5: Tom. What calves are those, Tom?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's a bunch of men gathered day before yesterday, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Where are the other men? How come just you and
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  Speaker 5: Blades are working them?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we got all but about 20 of them branded yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: I figured me and Blades could finish them alone. Two
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  Speaker 5: men ain't enough with a bunch like that. You'd have
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  Speaker 5: saved time if you'd kept more men to help. Let's
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  Speaker 5: ride over there. I want to look at them. Why
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  Speaker 5: don't you? Blades. Maybe I better stay and help you.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, sir.
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  Speaker 5: We're doing fine.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be all through by evening.
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  Speaker 5: Your herd's getting scattered now.
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  Speaker 1: We'll handle them.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you worry none, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Vickers. I ain't worried none, Blades. Tom, next time you
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  Speaker 5: keep at least three more men with you when you
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  Speaker 5: got a bunch this size. No, sir, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 5: In case you're wondering about the marshal here in Chester...
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  Speaker 5: They're going to look things over for a day or so.
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  Speaker 5: Marshal thinks maybe we can cut the trail of them
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  Speaker 5: cattle thieves.
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  Speaker 3: I sure hope so. We ain't had much luck, except
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  Speaker 3: for that one.
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  Speaker 5: Now, go on back to work. I'll ride out here
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  Speaker 5: next week sometime.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, get that iron ready for another one, Blaze.
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  Speaker 4: It's red hot now.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Marshal. I'm late enough.
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  Speaker 3: It sure is a nice evening, Mr. Dillon, ain't it?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think so?
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  Speaker 3: What? I was just wondering what kind of an evening
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: it is in Dodge, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, if there was any real trouble, somebody would have
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  Speaker 4: rode out and told you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I suppose so. It's been two days now. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: we'd better get back tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: That'll suit me fine. I swear we've rode a thousand
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  Speaker 4: miles over this ranch, and all for nothing, as far
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  Speaker 4: as I can tell.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you come set in the porch, you two?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we're just walking our supper off a little bit, Dolph.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been in the saddle so much the last
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  Speaker 4: few days, I need to stand.
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  Speaker 3: Suit yourselves. Uh, Dolph, from what the men tell me,
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  Speaker 3: you've lost only about a hundred head of calves altogether.
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  Speaker 3: I had the impression that it was a lot more
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  Speaker 3: than that.
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  Speaker 5: I won't put up with one calf being stolen from me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: I'm an honest man, and I work hard. And if
• 11:59
  Speaker 5: a neighbor or stranger needs help, I'll give it to
• 12:01
  Speaker 5: them gladly. But I'll kill the man that steals.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I wish you'd do one thing for me, Dolph.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: The next time you lose any stock, send word to
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  Speaker 3: me before you turn this outfit into an arm camp.
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: Well, Marshal, if it was anybody else, I'd tell him
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  Speaker 5: to mind his own business.
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: But, um, I'll do it. Thank you, Dolph. Oh, by
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: the way, we're going to be riding back to Dodge tomorrow.
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: All right. But I won't give you more in a
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: couple of days next time.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: Well, that's better than nothing, though.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon, we won't never get to Dodge if we stop
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  Speaker 4: in Cali ever heard of cows we come across.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: This is a bunch I wanted to see, Chester. We'll
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: travel as the crow flies from here in. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Why was you so interested in that herd? We must
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: have rode through it ten times.
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  Speaker 3: I was sort of interested in proving something to myself, Chester.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: Now look up ahead there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, a couple of dogs, man, I reckon.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably.
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: Or say.
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  Speaker 4: It's Tom and that fellow Blades.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Where's my old man, Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: We left him at the ranch, Tom. We're going back
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: to Dutch.
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  Speaker 5: Empty-handed, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Not quite.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean, not quite?
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: Well, Blades, I'll tell you. I just looked over that
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  Speaker 3: bunch of stock back there.
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: Sure. We gathered them yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're gonna do a little branding.
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  Speaker 3: You better. We'd better?
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  Speaker 5: You ain't bossing us, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Just get them branded, Tom.
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  Speaker 5: All of them. Of course we'll get them branded.
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  Speaker 3: Say that you do. Come on, Chester.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. I don't understand what you was driving at, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: That's the same herd those two were working the day
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  Speaker 3: we rode by here with Dolph, Chester. Say, now, I
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: didn't notice that. And you probably didn't notice about 20
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: calves in there that are still unbranded.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Tom Vickers and his friend Blades are thieves, Chester. And
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  Speaker 3: probably murderers to boot. The End.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Chester.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: There you are, my boy.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Where's Matt?
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, he'll be back in a minute, Doc. Sit down.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't mind me. Say, he told me about Dolph
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  Speaker 3: Vickers' son last night.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: The only thing I can't figure, Doc, is why he
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: don't tell Dolph.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's got his reasons, I expect. I didn't come
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: here to gossip.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know if he had supper yet? I had
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: early tonight.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: But Mr.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: Dillon will probably go with you.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Good evening, Doc. Ah, you look hungry. You look worried.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: The golf vickers, boy?
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Now, sooner or later, I'm going to have to arrest him, Doc.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: I've been trying to figure some way to do it
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: without breaking the old man's heart.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't suppose there is any other way, Mac.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Well, if there is, I haven't thought of it.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Somebody out back.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: No, stay where you are, Chester. I'll see who it is.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I'll be right with you, Doc.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Sure. Sure, Mac.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: You're going to starve to death waiting for somebody to
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: eat with around here, Doc.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, why, fasting's good for Manchester.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: A little of it wouldn't hurt you.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Seems to me I spent my entire youth fasting, Doc.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: I won't never make up for it.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Uh-oh. What's that?
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: I don't know, but I better go see. Mr.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: Dillon?
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Get out, sir.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Mr. Dillon?
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Somebody shooting at you?
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Quiet. It's okay, Chester. They've gone.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: Somebody was shooting at you. Yeah.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: After they knocked on the door, they ran out behind
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: that far shed there. Bloody poor shooting.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Well, ain't we going after them?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: They had horses hidden there. I heard them right off.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll go buy a couple from the rail.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: No. Now, let them go, Chester.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Dillon, they tried to ambush you.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: I know. But I'd prefer not to shoot them. Especially
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Tom Vickers.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Tom.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: We're right out to the ranch tomorrow, Chester. Maybe we
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: can bring them in without a fight. Anyway, it's worth
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: a try. For Dolph's sake. Dog. Anybody home?
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Here comes somebody.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Hello, Marshall. Hello, Dolph.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Chester.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Hello, Dolph.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Good morning. Thank you. Where are you going, Tom? Ain't
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: you going to say hello? I got work to do.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: What kind of manners is that?
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: There's no use running away, Tom. You wouldn't get far.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: What?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Now come on back and sit down, huh?
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: You do a lot of ordering around, don't you, Marshal?
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I do. What's the matter between you anyway? Be
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: better if you told him, Tom.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: All right. Did you brand those calves the other day?
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: What calves? Wait a minute, Tom. Did you, Tom? Of
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: course we did. You willing to ride out there with
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: us and prove it?
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: I ain't riding nowhere. I've had enough of this. You
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: tell me what you're talking about.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Tom?
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Maybe you better tell me, Marshal.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Well, Dolph, you remember the herd Tom and Blades were
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: working the day we rode out here, will you? Of
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: course I do. Well, I saw that same herd on
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: the way back to Dodge. There were still about 20
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: unbranded calves in it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Say it out, Marshal.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I ran into Tom and Blades just beyond, and I
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: told them to be sure and brand those calves. Go on.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: So they knew I was on to them.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: On to what?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Dolph, I'm willing to bet everything I got that if
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: we find that herd, those calves are either still unbranded
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: or missing.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: What makes you so sure? Tom refuses to ride out
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: there with us. What you're saying is mighty serious, Marshal.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: I hope you won't regret it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Come on, Tom. We'll go see them calves.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: No.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: We're going out there, I said.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I ain't going.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: You'll do what I tell you.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: But not this time. We're going if I have to
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: knock you down and tie you onto your horse.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: And you know I'll do it. Yeah, you would.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Them calves ain't there.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Then where are they?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Twenty calves ain't hard to track, Tom. Blades got them.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Got them where?
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Up by Little Spring. You don't have to say it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I know Little Spring ain't on this ranch.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Go on. There are three other men up there.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: You don't know them. They're holding over a hundred head
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: by now.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: You gonna charge your own son for stealing from you?
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Are you? Tom, you and Blades killed that stranger to
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: help you cover up all this, didn't you?
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: It's too bad we didn't kill you, Marshal.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: What's that? They tried to ambush me in Dodge last night, Dolph.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: My own son. A murderer and a thief. Tom, come
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: into the other room with me. You'll excuse us, gentlemen.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: He's going to help him get away, Mr. Dillon.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Not if I know Dolph he isn't. I expect he
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: just wants to talk to him alone before we take
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: him to jail.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: You know, I feel a whole lot sorrier for Dolph
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: than I do for the boy.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I guess you should. Mr. Dillon.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: It's all right, Marshal.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Where's Tom?
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: I killed him.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Here's my gun, Marshal. I'm sorry you did it, Dolph.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: I had to. Marshal, I'd like to bury him now.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: We'll help you.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: No.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: I'll bury my own dead. Then I'll ride into jail
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: with you.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: You'll get my calves back.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I'll pick up a posse when we get to Dodge.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: The boy was my responsibility, Marshal.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: You understand that. What you did was wrong, Dolph. You
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: can wait here in the cool of the house.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: I'll be back.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: We're waiting.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Marshal.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Tonight's story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the cast were Sam Edwards, Paul Dubov, Charles A. Bastin,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: and John Daner. Parley Bear is Chester, Howard McNair is Doc,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. Gunsmoke has been selected by
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the Armed Forces Radio Service to be heard by our
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: troops overseas. Join us again next week as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: fights to bring law and order out of the wild
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: violence of the West in Gunsmoke.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: You have heard Gunsmoke, bad boy. Until our next radio appointment,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: good night.