“Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that’s with a US Marshal and the smell of … GUNSMOKE!”
Radio westerns were aimed at kids until 1952 when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. Produced for adult listeners, the stories were grim, the deaths brutal, and life on the plains was harsh. Radio audiences had never heard anything like Gunsmoke, and they made it the #1 Western on radio. It soon made a successful transition to television, becoming the longest-running dramatic series in TV history. Join William Conrad (U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Deputy Chester Proudfoot), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), and Howard McNear (Doc Adams) in the continuing “story of the violence that moved west with young America and the story of a man who moved with it, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.”
9/24/55 - Indian White
10/1/55 - The Barton Boy
10/23/55 - Brush at ElKader
11/6/55 - Second Choice
12/11/55 - Land Deal
12/18/55 - Scared Kid
2/26/56 - Who Lives by the Sword
3/4/56 - The Hunter
3/11/56 - Bringing Down Father
3/18/56 - The Man Who Would Be Marshal
4/22/56 - Indian Crazy
4/29/56 - Doc’s Reward
5/6/56 - The Photographer
5/13/56 - Cows and Cribs
5/20/56 - Buffalo Man
5/27/56 - Man Hunter
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