“Around Dodge City and in the territory out Western,there’s just one way to handle the killers as well as the spoilers, and that’s with aUS marshal as well as the smell of … Gunsmoke!”

Radio Westerns were strictly for kids until 1952,when Gunsmoke strike the radio airwaves. The tales had been grim,the fatalities brutal, and life over the plains was harsh. Radio audiences got neverheard anything like Gunsmoke, and they made it the number oneWestern on the air. It soon made a successful changeover to television,getting the longest-running dramatic series in television history. JoinWilliam Conrad (Marshal Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Deputy Chester Proudfoot),Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), and Howard McNear (Doc Adams) in the carrying on”story of the violence that moved western with youthful America and the tale of aman who shifted with it,” Matt Dillon, USA marshal.

Episodes include:

“Cain””The Round-Up””Meshougah””Trojan Battle””Absalom””Cyclone””Pussy Felines””Quarter-Horse””Jayhawkers””Gonif””Bum’s Rush””Tacetta”