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16/04/2025

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16/04/2025

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25/10/2024

Congratulations to WRCW Radio - Home Of Gunsoke.
On the air now since 1997.

29/07/2024

Gunsmoke 52/05/31
Carmen
�Written by John Meston
With Michael Ann Barrett as Connie Dell, Jeanette Nolan as Big Kate, Harry Bartell as Major Randell/townsman, and Don Diamond as Shiloh/townsman

Two soldiers were killed last Saturday while driving a supply wagon (including payroll) from town to Fort Dodge. The Major confronts Matt telling him to either do something to catch the culprits or he will put Dodge under martial law
Matt tells the Major that if he declares martial law that there will be bad trouble. The Major gives Matt a week to make an arrest or else. Matt goes to see Big Kate. On the way, a drunken Shiloh confronts Matt about the possibility of martial law. Matt fed up with Shiloh's ignorance, slugs him. Big Kate calls one of her girls named Connie Dell to join her and the Marshal for a drink in her room. Connie has been seeing Corporal Bowers from the fort. Bowers is a clerk at the fort. Matt becomes suspicious and finds out from Big Kate that she came from Hays City. Matt tells Chester to wire Sheriff Bill Hickok over in Hays City and find out any info. Later Chester returns from Mr. Hightower's office over at the depot with a reply from Hickok. Hickok says Connie Dell worked at the Golden Horn Bar and left town a month ago with a man named Billie Grounds, "a wild one."�Shiloh comes into the jail and says a soldier has been killed behind the Long Branch. Matt rides out to Fort Dodge to tell the Major about the killing. Matt ask the Major to keep all soldiers out of Dodge for the next 48 hours, in exchange, Matt will find the culprits. Doc tells Matt that the dead private was named Bone and that he was shot with an old Cavalry pistol. Big Kate tells Matt that the "girls" tell her that Connie has been riding out late at night along the Arkansas down by Brandy Bend, maybe to meet Billy Grounds. Connie was seen riding out with Corporal Bowers the night before the payroll robbery. �Matt asks Connie some pointed questions. Afterward Connie invites Matt to ride out along the Arkansas near Brandy Bend. Matt tells Chester to ride to the fort and tell the Major to arrest Corporal Bowers for the murder of Private Bone. Matt tells Chester that he knows he is about to ride into an ambush. Matt tells Chester that Connie is a "nice girl - bad company".

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29/07/2024

GUNSMOKE SHOWS
REAL WEST JUSTICE

GUNSMOKE PROVES tonight that even in the early days of the West justice had its own way of emerging triumphant. Sometimes that way was a bit awkward.

William Conrad, in the role of U. S. Marshal Matt Dillon finds his duties extending beyond the ordinary limits of the law when he discovers that the case against a convicted defendant is incomplete. He sets out to correct the wrong done to an innocent man. Co-starring with Conrad are Georgia Ellis as Kitty, Parley Baer as Chester and Howard McNear as Doc. WFBL carries the program at 8.
Syracuse Herald Journal – Sat. March 12, 1955

29/07/2024

'Gunsmoke' on
Radio Sets
High Standard
By JOHN CROSBY
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—There seems to be a small trend I'd like to explore today toward a higher level of culture on radio these days. And what's more important it seems to be paying off. Prime exhibit is "Gunsmoke," (KCBS, 6 p.m. Tuesdays), CBS's highly literate western radio drama which has been called the ' "High Noon" of broadcasting. ''Gunsmoke” plots are characterized by realism, intelligence, and honest characterization. Perhaps its most surprising aspect is that its hero, Marshal Mat Dillon, whose job is to keep order in Dodge City, Kan., is cast in something less than heroic mold—at least not in the tradition of Hopalong Cassidy.
Marshal Dillon (William Conrad) is a composite of some of the most famous men of the early West—Wild Bill Hickock, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and the Younger brothers. Norman MacDonnell, producer-director of the program, says of him: "He is a lonely, sad, tragic man—a quiet, unhappy, confused Marshal. These days, we'd send him to an analyst."
Shades of William S. Hart! The gratifying thing about "Gunsmoke," which is as far removed from the average western as "Dragnet" -is from the average cops-and-robbers epics, is that it has attracted a healthy audience and a wealthy sponsor — (Chesterfield). It was fourth in the last Nielsen ratings, which just goes to show that there are more egg-heads around than you might suppose.
Source: Oakland Tribune Wens. August 25, 1954