“Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that’s using a U.S. Marshal and the smell of … GUNSMOKE!” Radio westerns had been aimed at children until 1952 when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. Produced for adult listeners, the stories had been grim, the deaths brutal and existence on the plains was harsh. Radio audiences experienced never heard anything like Gunsmoke plus they managed to get the #1 traditional western on radio. It shortly made a successful changeover to about The Gunsmoke, Collection 1 tv becoming the longest-running dramatic series in Television 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 carrying on “story of the assault that moved west with youthful America and the tale of a man who transferred with it, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.” 9/19/53 ‘There Was Hardly ever a Horse’

9/26/53 ‘Fawn’

10/3/53 ‘How to Kill a Friend’

10/10/53 ‘How to Die for Nothing’

10/17/53 ‘Yorky’

10/31/53 ‘How to Kill a Girl’

6/19/54 ‘Going Bad’

7/26/54 ‘Matt for Murder’

8/2/54 ‘No Indians’

8/9/54 ‘Joe Phy’

8/16/54 ‘Mavis McCloud’

8/30/54 ‘Obie Tater’