Gunsmoke, Volume 5

Gunsmoke, Volume 5 - 6 hours [Audio CDs] #RA355

6 hours - Audio CD Set

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Gunsmoke

Volume 5

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.

Gunsmoke was an adult western and was the creation of writer, John Meston, and producer, Norman Macdonnell. With CBS Chairman William S. Paley in their camp, Macdonnell and Meston had a strong ally in creating their version of a gritty, authentic Western that eschewed the established Western pathos that had been set forth in such “juvenile” Western adventure radio programs like The Lone Ranger, Straight Arrow, Hopalong Cassidy, and The Cisco Kid that featured neat and tidy resolutions at the end of each half-hour show. While an argument can be made that The Cisco Kid was more “adult” in nature since almost every episode featured Cisco giving a passionate kiss to the damsel in distress of the moment, once all the action had settled down after the bad guys had been soundly defeated; neither Macdonnell and Meston wanted the stories they told to end with a neat and tidy happy ending with a near perfect hero. They also wanted their edgy – for the era – program to center around a flawed hero who made numerous mistakes and negatively impacted the lives he became involved with.

Listen to the Sparkling Audio Quality in Radio Archives restoration of Gunsmoke, Volume 5.

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Saturday, October 17, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

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Saturday, October 31, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

#81 Stolen Horses

Saturday, November 7, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

#82 Professor Lute Bone

Saturday, November 14, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

#83 Custer

Saturday, November 21, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

#84 Kick Me

Saturday, November 28, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

#85 The Lamb

Saturday, December 5, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

#86 The Cast

Saturday, December 12, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

#88 The Guitar

Saturday, December 26, 1953 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Post Cereals

#89 Stage Hold-Up

Saturday, January 2, 1954 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#90 Joke's on Us

Saturday, January 9, 1954 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

#92 Nina

Saturday, January 23, 1954 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

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