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Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke rode the airwaves from 1952 to 1961, one of old-time radio's grittiest and most acclaimed westerns, praised for scripts that treated frontier violence with unusual realism. William Conrad brought a weary, morally serious voice to Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City, backed by Parley Baer as deputy Chester Proudfoot, Howard McNear as Doc Adams, and Georgia Ellis as saloon keeper Kitty Russell — the same core cast throughout the show's entire nine-year run. This collection gathers 487…
Episodes
GunsmokeThe Bridegroom's Secret
Aired: Nov 21st, 1952. Homesteader Jim Cobb finally finds happiness when his mail-order bride Lila arrives in Dodge City to marry him — but an old rival's…
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The Square Triangle
Aired: Nov 14th, 1952. When cattle buyer Al Morley turns up knifed in the back on the trail to Buffalo Flat, Marshal Matt Dillon must sort out a tangled trail…
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The Empty Man
Aired: Nov 7th, 1952. Marshal Matt Dillon buys Chester a birthday watch and settles in for a quiet supper with Kitty Russell — until she warns him that young…
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Prisoner on the Overland Stage
Aired: Oct 31st, 1952. Marshal Matt Dillon captures a fugitive killer named Joe Bulldry far from Dodge and must find a way back—only to end up sharing a…
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The Mortgage on Blake Farm
Aired: Oct 24th, 1952. Marshal Matt Dillon is handed a court order he despises: foreclose on the Blake family's hard-won farm over a $420 debt to the wealthy…
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Return of a Rival
Aired: Oct 17th, 1952. When a hot-tempered drifter named Frank Craig rides back into Dodge City just days before his old sweetheart's wedding to another man…
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Mamie Takes the Longhorn
Aired: Oct 10th, 1952. Dodge City wakes up to a stunned Front Street: the Longhorn Saloon has a mysterious new sign, a vanished owner, and a brand-new manager…
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The Long Walk Home for Christmas
Aired: Dec 20th, 1952. Stranded forty miles from Dodge after his horse breaks a leg on Christmas Eve, Marshal Matt Dillon shoulders his saddle and sets out on…
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Boston Jack's Sister
Aired: Dec 13th, 1952. A refined young woman arrives in Dodge City searching for her missing brother, unaware he's sitting in Matt Dillon's jail awaiting trial…
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Two Guns and a Bottle
Aired: Dec 6th, 1952. A defiant farm boy drags Matt Dillon out to a remote homestead after his father rides off drunk with two guns and a saddlebag of bullets…
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Kitty's Invitation
Aired: Nov 29th, 1952. Marshal Matt Dillon musters his courage over morning coffee at the Texas Trail to ask saloon keeper Kitty Russell to a benefit dance for…
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The Dying Man's Gun
Aired: Oct 3rd, 1952. A frail riverboat guitarist named Kane Vestal arrives in Dodge City on his way to Arizona, hoping the climate might ease his losing…
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The Right of Way
Aired: Sep 26th, 1952. A railroad surveyor arrives in Dodge City with federal orders to clear a widow's homestead for the transcontinental line, but Libby…
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Water War at Cottonwood Pond
Aired: Sep 20th, 1952. A brutal drought has turned Dodge City's range bone-dry, and when a trail boss's thirsty herd runs up against a rancher's newly…
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No Doctor for a Hundred Miles
Aired: Sep 13th, 1952. Riding home from a dead-end manhunt, Marshal Matt Dillon and Chester are flagged down by a desperate teenage girl whose father lies…
GunsmokeThe Thompson Brothers' Secret
Aired: Sep 6th, 1952. Two cattlemen ride into Dodge City asking odd questions about Marshal Matt Dillon before they've even sold a single steer — and Matt's…
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The Price of Kindness
Aired: Aug 30th, 1952. Marshal Matt Dillon must arrest gentle, simple-minded Jim Stanley for theft and assault after a saloon dispute over a girl named Dixie…
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The Thespian's Wagon
Aired: Aug 23rd, 1952. A traveling actor named Irving Henry collapses from heatstroke on the trail outside Dodge City, quoting Shakespeare as Matt Dillon and…
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Blood for Blood
Aired: Aug 16th, 1952. When a vigilante posse strings up a man for murder before Matt Dillon can get there, the marshal is left digging for the truth behind a…
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The Kentucky Tolmans
Aired: Aug 9th, 1952. A mountain girl named Hannah Tolman marches into Matt Dillon's office demanding he jail her hard-drinking father for his own protection —…
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Guns for Wildhog
Aired: Aug 2nd, 1952. A shifty drifter named Ward Spicer rides out of Dodge with a secret arrangement with a Cheyenne leader called Wildhog, then returns flush…
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The Price of Big Jack's Boy
Aired: Jul 19th, 1952. An old friend rides into Dodge: the lean, coughing gunfighter Doc Holliday, passing through on his way to Arizona. But before Matt…
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The Boughten Bride
Aired: Jul 12th, 1952. A stagecoach rolls into Dodge City short fifty thousand in gold and missing a passenger: the mail-order bride of a jittery New York…
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The Marshal Rides Unarmed
Aired: Jul 5th, 1952. When two rowdy Texas cowboys harass Kitty and the women of Dodge City, easygoing deputy Chester Proudfoot steps in to calm things down —…
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The White Buffalo Frame-Up
Aired: Jun 7th, 1952. When two buffalo hunters turn up dead outside Dodge City, all the evidence points to an Arapaho raid — but Marshal Matt Dillon isn't…
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A Taste of Marshal Law
Aired: May 31st, 1952. When two soldiers are murdered and an Army payroll vanishes on the road to Fort Dodge, a hotheaded young major threatens to slap Dodge…
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The Faro Winner
Aired: May 24th, 1952. A farmer named Jones wins big at the faro table in Ben Slade's saloon, then turns up stabbed to death on the road home, the third such…
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Night Riders on Mowberry Creek
Aired: May 10th, 1952. A homesteading family is brutally attacked by masked night riders in the Fort County range wars, and Marshal Matt Dillon must track down…
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The Widow's Vow
Aired: May 3rd, 1952. Marshal Matt Dillon faces down the notorious gunslinger Lasseter in a tense showdown at the saloon, only to find the fight isn't over…
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Billy the Kid
Aired: Apr 26th, 1952. A newspaperman's cheap thrill turns grim when bank robber Clay Richards, wanted dead or alive after a botched heist that left two dead…