‘Around Dodge City and in the place out West, there’s just one single way to handle the killers as well as the spoilers and that is using a US Marshal as well as the smell of … GUNSMOKE!’

Radio westerns were aimed at kids until 1952 when Gunsmoke hit the air airwaves. Produced for adult listeners, the tales were grim, the deaths brutal, and existence in the plains was severe. Radio audiences experienced never noticed anything like Gunsmoke, and they managed to get the #1 Western on radio. It shortly made an effective transition to about Gunsmoke, Vol. 3 tv, becoming the longest-running dramatic series in TV history. Sign up for William Conrad (U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Deputy Chester Proudfoot), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), and Howard McNear (Doc Adams) in the continuing ‘tale of the assault that moved west with youthful America as well as the tale of a man who transferred with it, Matt Dillon, USA Marshal.’

9/24/55 – Indian White10/1/55 – The Barton Boy10/23/55 – Brush at ElKader11/6/55 – Second Choice12/11/55 – Property Deal12/18/55 – Frightened Kid2/26/56 – Who Lives with the Sword3/4/56 – The Hunter3/11/56 – Bringing Down Father3/18/56 – The Man WHO Be Marshal4/22/56 – Indian Crazy4/29/56 – Doc’s Reward5/6/56 – The Photographer5/13/56 – Cows and Cribs5/20/56 – Buffalo Man5/27/56 – Man Hunter