GUNSMOKE "Harry Pope"

 

July 11, 1953 episode aired on CBS Radio. White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.

GUNSMOKE "General Parsley Smith"

WILLIAM CONRAD 

 

An inveterate liar is loudly insistent that Dodge City's new banker is a swindler who will abscond with the townspeople's savings at his earliest opportunity. William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshal of Dodge City.  Guest actors are John Dehner, Joe Duval and Vic Perrin.

GUNSMOKE "The Boy"

William Conrad stars as the fictional character Matt Dillon, US Marshall of Dodge City Kansas. Episode 67 aired on CBS Radio August 1, 1953.

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GUNSMOKE "Hickcock"

 

Episode 66 aired on CBS Radio July 25, 1953. Gunsmoke is one of those long-running classic Old-Time Radio shows that everyone knows and remembers. It's also one that is still respected for its high values, in all aspects. Gunsmoke first aired on the CBS network on April 26, 1952, billed as the first adult western. It was set in Dodge City, Kansas in the 1870's.

GUNSMOKE "Daddy-o"

 

Episode 218 aired June 10, 1956 on CBS Radio. Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her back to New Orleans with him. Georgia Ellis as Miss Kitty Russell. 

GUNSMOKE "Cows and Cribs"

 

Episode 214 aired on CBS Radio May 13, 1956. Homesteader Joe Nadler (Vic Perrin) turns to cattle rustling while Ma Smalley (Jeanette Nolan) raises an orphaned infant. Also starring John Dehner as Bowers and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. (William Conrad) as Marshal Matt Dillon.

GUNSMOKE "Wild West"

 

Episode 65 aired July 18, 1953 on CBS Radio Network. Gunsmoke, the radio series, aired from April 26, 1952 until June 18, 1961 on CBS. It starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon. Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prairie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.

GUNSMOKE "Grass"

 

Episode 64 aired July 11, 1953 on CBS Radio. White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.

GUNSMOKE "Spring Term"

 

Episode 60 aired June 13, 1953 on CBS Radio. In 1952, radio listeners were introduced to the adventures of Marshal Matt Dillon and an assortment of characters. The TV show based on the radio program wouldn’t air for another three years in 1955. The genesis of the radio program can be traced back to the 1940s. The head of CBS absolutely loved the radio series “Philip Marlowe,” which was about a seasoned private-detective. But he wanted to transport a similar character back to the Old West and put scriptwriters at work on the idea. Thus, Matt Dillon was born in the rough and perilous Wild West. Unlike other shows like the “Lone Ranger,” “Gunsmoke” featured realistic violence such as massacres, scalpings, and even drug addictions. Much of this was later toned down when the show was adapted for television.

GUNSMOKE "Sundown"

 

Episode 59, written by William Conrad, aired June 6, 1953 on CBS Radio network. With William Conrad (Matt Dillion), Parley Baer (Chester), Georgia Ellis (Kitty), Howard McNear (Doc), John McIntire (PHOTO) (Great Eagle), Michael Ann Berret, Lawrence Dobkin and John Dehner.

GUNSMOKE "Print Asper"

 

Episode 57 aired May 23, 1951 on CBS Radio. A man is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him. The lawyer is shot later by... Print Asper. William Conrad stars as U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon.

GUNSMOKE "Buffalo Hunter"

 

Episode 55 aired on CBS Radio May 9, 1953. Gatliff brings a dying buffalo skinner into Dodge. His face had been pushed into a pan of hot lead. Soon afterwards, a nester is found stabbed to death.

William Conrad as Matt Dillon U.S. Marshall, Dodge City, KS.

GUNSMOKE "Tacetta"

 

Episode 54 aired on CBS Radio May 2, 1953. An attractive woman named "Tacetta" causes a hanging in the jail and a gunfight with Chester, and another gunfight with Marshal Dillon. Tacetta was a new girl in town and very shy and a troublemaker named Dorgan wasn’t letting anyone else in the town get close to her.

GUNSMOKE "Soldier"

 

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Episode 53 aired April 25, 1953 on CBS Radio. Howard McNear (Doc), William Conrad (Matt), Parley Baer (Chester) & Georgia Ellis (Kitty) with Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Paul Frees, and Vic Perrin.

GUNSMOKE "Johnny Red"

 

Episode 174 aired August 13, 1955 on CBS Radio. Billy Krale returns to his old mother seventeen years after he ran away from home. But he's not really Billy Krale. William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U S Marshall, Dodge City Kansas. Script was a bit short with some extra padding for time at the end of this episode. (Photo Conrad and Georgia Ellis).

In addition to her work on Gunsmoke, as Miss Kitty Russsell Ellis was a member of the cast of Rogers of the Gazette. Ellis played a number of small roles on the Dragnet TV series in the 1950s. Ellis appeared in the films Dragnet (1954), Penny Serenade (1940), Doomed Caravan (1941), and Light of the Western Stars (1940).

Ellis also used the name Georgia Hawkins, making her film debut under that name in The Light of Western Stars. A news story at that time referred to her and another actress as "discoveries of Victor Jory.

GUNSMOKE "Where Did They Go"

 

December 1958 on CBS Radio. William Conrad stars as Marshall Matt Dillon. Accused of being the masked robber of the general store, a homesteader agrees to come along quietly with Matt and Chester, but he asks that they help him complete a few chores about the place for his poor wife, who's in the family way.

GUNSMOKE "Beeker's Barn"

 

Repeat broadcast on CBS December 20, 1959. Beeker's Barn tells the story of a young lost couple trying to make their way in the cold snowy storm in the area. Starring William Conrad, originally broadcast December 23, 1956.

GUNSMOKE "Bums Rush"

 

Episode 52 aired April 18, 1953 on CBS Radio. Marshal Dillon captures two killers and brings them back to Dodge. Three witnesses come forward to prove them innocent...but why did they do this?

GUNSMOKE "Gonif"

 

Episode 51 aired April 11, 1953 on CBS Radio. Frank Bissell and his gang arrive in Dodge. Marshal Dillon gives them until sundown to get out of town. William Conrad and John Dehner star.

GUNSMOKE "Kangaroo"

 

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Episode 354 aired on CBS Radio January 18, 1959. A religious fanatic accuses Chester Proudfoot of interfering with the work of the Lord, and plans to cut off Chester's hand. Jim Bride was riding on his way to Dodge City and was stopped by the preacher's sons for riding on the Lords day. The crazy man took as his duty to punish all sinners.