Gunsmoke, Volume 4

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Gunsmoke

Volume 4

Around Dodge City and in the territory on west -- there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers -- and that’s with a U.S. Marshall and the smell of “Gunsmoke”! “Gunsmoke” starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that moved west with young America -- and the story of a man who moved with it. I’m that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall -- the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It’s a chancy job -- and it makes a man watchful...and a little lonely.

If Gunsmoke had followed the traditional, but strictly constrictive cookie-cutter programming format that most successful radio shows adhered to during the Golden Age of Radio, then it would have been a dismal, half-remembered failure of a great idea for a Western adventure series done in by the rigid production values of the era in which it was first produced. Yet, Gunsmoke’s popularity amongst listeners and ratings successes were allowed to grow because of the network’s willingness to produce a regularly scheduled show without a sponsor of any kind for the program’s first two seasons.

Gunsmoke came into existence because CBS Chairman William S. Paley was a great fan of hard- boiled detective stories – especially those featuring his favorite fictional detective Philip Marlowe. Paley, who was “the” majority stock holder in CBS at this time, was also a fan of the “adult” Western novels of Louis L’amour, Max Brand, and Tom W. Blackburn, just to name of few. Paley wanted a unique, hard-boiled Western radio show that centered on the adventures of the "Philip Marlowe of the old West.”

Thrill to the Sparkling Audio Quality in Radio Archives restoration of Gunsmoke, Volume 4.

#55 The Buffalo Hunter

Saturday, May 9, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#56 The Big Con

Saturday, May 16, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#57 Print Asper

Saturday, May 23, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#58 Fall Semester

Saturday, May 30, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#60 Spring Term

Saturday, June 13, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#70 Gone Straight

Saturday, August 22, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#72 The Sutler

Saturday, September 5, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#73 Prairie Happy

Saturday, September 12, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#74 There Was Never a Horse

Saturday, September 19, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#75 Fawn

Saturday, September 26, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#76 How to Kill a Friend

Saturday, October 3, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, Post Cereals commercials

#77 How to Die for Nothing

Saturday, October 10, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, Post Cereals commercials

Average Customer Review: Average Customer Review: 5 of 5

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Gunsmoke and Rex Koury	May 28, 2022
Reviewer: Richard McLeod from RIVERSIDE, CA United States

With the musical talents of Rex Koury as the musical composer of the theme music for Gunsmoke (the composition actually had words and was named "Old Trails" [aka "Boothill"] later recorded by Tex Ritter in 1955) and the talented writings, primarily of John Meston and others, the program became one of the most successful on CBS. William Conrad and the original radio cast set the standard that was followed by the later television cast in creating one of both radio and television's best remembered shows.

The Radio Archives staff has restored the radio shows of Gunsmoke to a level of crystal clarity in audio, that is probably better than when the show first aired on radio April 26, 1952.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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Clear, clean sounding!	December 5, 2021
Reviewer: Martin Dzik from schererville, IN United States

Thank you for providing these shows in excellent sparkling audio quality!

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