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Greater Love | Gunsmoke (04-03-60)
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Original Air Date: April 03, 1960Host: Andrew RhynesShow: GunsmokePhone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739) Stars:• William Conrad (Matt Dillion)• Parley Baer (Chester)• Georgia Ellis (Kitty)• Howard McNear (Doc) Special Guests:• Vic Perrin• Virginia Gregg• Ralph...
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With the American Express Platinum card, you can unlock over $1,500 in value annually with statement credits on select purchases and other benefits so you can access more jet setting and more resetting and downward dog. Learn more@americanexpress.com US Explore Platinum Terms app Foreign welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host, Andrew Rines, and I'm excited to bring you another episode absolutely free. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this episode. Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. marshal. And the smell of gun smoke. Gun Sport. Starring William Conrad. 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 Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancery job and it makes a man watchful and a little lone. Well, you call this keeping? Like a farmer and Cindy. Hello, Doc. I wish I was a U.S. marshal. Get paid whether you work or not. What's the matter, Doc? Did you lose a couple of patients last night? Matt, I'm thinking of moving to San Francisco. Huh? What for? You got a monopoly here in Dodge? San Francisco's full of doctors. Yeah, they're probably all rich, too. No, I'm serious, man. Forget it, doc. You're some 20 years too late for the gold rush anyway. We need you here. Dodge can find another doctor. Tired of working day and night and getting paid with promises. Hey, you need some money? I'll call a town meeting and shake it out of these people, Doc. But if you try to go to San Francisco to help me, I'll throw you in jail and you'll practice from there. Good. Good. You don't have to feed me too. Gladly, Doc, gladly. If you can stand Chester's cooking. I take it all back, man. Last time I ate one of Chester's meals, I was groggy for three days. And speak of the devil, here he comes. Hey, Chester. Hello, Doc. Doc wants to know where you learned to cook, Chester boy. My Uncle Leander learned me, Doc. I bashed with him for a time when I was a boy. Poor old fella. He died soon after that. I bet he did. Well, that stage is kindly late today, ain't it? The way Hank's driving, it oughtn't to be. But I haven't got time to loaf around greeting stagecoaches. I'll see you in Lake. So long, Doc. Goodbye, do, Hank. All turned up, eh? Yeah. Wait there, Marshall. I gotta talk to you. I'll get right down. Maybe something's wrong. Maybe we run into a fight, Marshall. Huh? Anybody hurt? Killed a man I had riding shotgun. He fell off and I had to leave him there. I'll send somebody out for him. Where'd it happen? Right where the trail crosses the south fork of the Pawnee. There was three of them bandits, Marshall, but by heaven, we put slugs into two of them. You mean you killed two of them or. No, they. They rode off. But I could see two of them was all humped up over their saddles like they was hurting pretty bad. Recognize any of them? I'd hate to be wrong and get a man into trouble, Marshall, but. Well, I swear one of them was that young Howard Brandt. What? You know the fella that moved out here with his wife a while back? Yeah, I met him. They got a place up near Turkey Creek, Mr. Dillon, but I ain't never saw it. Now, let's ride up and see how they're making out, Chester. I'll go get the horses. I met Howard Brandt when he first come out here. Mr. Young, he thought. Didn't seem like no bandit to me. Real gentle, easygoing fell that's like a horse that won't buck. When you first got on him, Chester? He's waiting to come loose when you least expect it, Mister. Look yonder. Here's Miss Brighton. I must have saw us come. Yeah. Hello, Marshall. Ms. Brent. You remember Chester here. Forgot his name. Chester Proudfoot. Man. Howard at Home is Brent. Anything you want, I can help you, Marshall. Well, I. I like to talk to Howard himself. Yeah, ain't he here? Oh, you mind if we wait for him? I'm real busy, Marcia. Can't you come back later sometime? Well, it's kind of a bus. Important, ma'am. We'll just wait here on the porch. We won't bother you, honey. No use, Marshall. Hyde won't be back till tomorrow. Just him. Look there on the steps. That blood, Ms. Bryant. Chicken blood. I just killed one. I'm sorry, Ms. Brant, but I'm gonna have to talk to Howard. Does he hurt bad? He's dying, Marshall. Leave him alone. I gotta find out who was with him. He won't tell you. Anyway, he's out of his head and not making sense. You want to show me where he is? No. No, Marshall Lee didn't die in peace. He ain't got long. He kill him asking him questions. I don't figure he'll live through the night as it is. Howard and his friends held up the stage, Ms. Branson. They killed a man. Wait, Marshall. I'll tell you. All right. Jed Butler planned it all. Does he live around here, Ms. Brown? Howard knew him down in Oklahoma Territory, Marshall. He and a man named Blake come by here one night a few weeks back. They didn't come into the house, so I can't tell you what they looked like. But they talked Howard into holding up the stage, is that it? I didn't know nothing about it, Marshall, till today. I was inside Redding up the house and I heard a shout and I come out and found Howard laying in the dirt. They just dumped him there and rode off. Which way they ride? I don't know, Marshall. I didn't bother to look. I'm telling the truth. I wish you'd catch him. You think they forced Howard to go along? No. He probably wanted to go. He disappointed me, Marshall. I thought Howard was an honest man. Maybe it's just as well. He's dying. I'm going into him now, Marshall. You want me to send Doc out? No. Wouldn't do no good. Well, if there's anything I can do for you, Ms. Brant, let me know. Thanks, Marshall, but I reckon it's too late now. There. Chester, take this down to Mr. Hightower and have him print up some wanted notices from it, will you? Yes, sir. I guess that's about all I can do about Jeb Butler and his friend right now. Oh, somebody will spot him and come tell you sooner or later. I hope so. It's Already been two days, Matt. Hello, Jesse. Go home, Skitty. What's the trouble, Kitty? Oh, I just went up to Doc's office, Matt. He isn't there. Should he be? Was he expecting you? He wasn't there this morning either. When did you see him? Last night, I come to think of it, not since the day of the stage hold up. Why, I was with him that night. He came into the long branch real late. We were sitting there talking, and some kid brought him a message. He didn't say who it was from, but Doc left, and as far as I can find out, nobody's seen him since. My golly, Mr. Dillon, she's right. I ain't saw Doc either. That was two days ago. Well, you know, sometimes Doc's out on a call longer than that. You're trying to fool yourself. Yeah, I guess I am. I heard about two of those bandits being shot. They sure couldn't have been Ms. Bant who come for Doc. No. You mean one of those men was Howard Brand? They left him at his house. Kitty. I didn't see him, But I believe Ms. Bryant. He probably died that night. I feel sorry for her than him. Yeah, I guess I do too, Kitty. But what about Doc? Matt, what are you gonna do? Kitty, if I knew where those men are, I'd have gone after him before now. They're holding the Matt. They might even kill him. Look, Kitty, I can't go out and ride around on a prairie hoping to bump into him somehow. No, I guess it's better to stay here. Somebody might see him or something and come tell you. I hope so. If anything happens to Doc, I'll go after those men myself. Man. Well, maybe they'll just turn him loose when he's through. Doctor in the man. I wish I could believe that. Yeah, Kitty, so do I. We waited the rest of that day and through the night, but nothing happened. The next morning, however, I was walking down to the office when I saw Ms. Brant drive by in a wagon. I waved and she went on past me without a sign. And as she did, I noticed a figure lying in the back of the wagon wrapped in a blanket. As I watched her drive down the street and on out of town, I realized that she must be headed to Boot Hill. I got Chester and we followed her up to the Berrying Drum. She'd stopped. It was taking the shovel out of the wagon when we walked up to her. I don't need no help, Marshall. Ground's hard, Ms. Brent. We'll dig a hole for you. Leave me be. He's my man and I'll bury him myself, right where he deserves. Among the rest of these murderers and the outlaws. Earl, you said something about a possible murder. What are you looking at, Marshall? Your face. What happened to you? Ever since she was a little girl, Joe's desert. And Jeff Butler did that? Marshall come by yesterday. Knocked me around some. He did? What for? Where is he? I was going to come tell you once I got Howard buried, but tell me now. He's got Doc with him. At least I think he has. Doc was there, all tied up, sitting on a horse. He didn't say nothing. Butler said he'd shoot him if he did. Why'd he beat you? What'd he want? He wanted to know if you'd been around and if we'd told you anything. Howard was still alive, Marshall. I don't know how he lived so long, but he died after Butler got the shaking him and slapping him. What did you tell him? Nothing. That's why he beat me. Does Brady have any idea where his hideout could be? I was in the house crying. I didn't see him go. You couldn't track him anyway, Marshall. There's too many horses running around loose out there. Well, at least we know for sure he's got doc with him, Mr. Jones. But we're no closer to finding him. You. You sure you won't let us help bury your husband, ma'am? I kind of wish you would. Now, Marshall. I'm just about wore to have. How are you, sir? I just can't stand this waiting around doing nothing much longer. Can't we organize a posse or something? A butler'd get scared if he got wind of a posse, Chester. You mean he'd shoot Doc and try to get away? He might. It's a safer bet just to wait it out to Beal. Come on in. How are you, Tobill? Tobill's always good, Chester. Where have you been the last month, anyway? Out scalping a white man. Tobeal? No. Scout white men long time. Maybe too long for a tame Indian. You sure got a wild look in your eye. What are you doing here? Tobil Honda. Pon prairie. Way off. See two white men, one ride. Very funny to be very close. They know she but to be she. What did you say to them? White medicine man, Doc good man. Take bullet out of Tobia long time ago. No like him all tied up in rope. Come quick. Tell Marshall. Do you know where they are? Toil. Can you track them? White man easy to attract. Like buffalo herd always big pool. When was this yesterday long ride from here. Chester, go get our horses and find a fresh one for Toil. Maybe we won't be too late. It was 60 miles to where to be had seen Doc and Jed Butler. But we rode hard and covered it in a very few hours. From there on, however, with Tobill tracking, we had to slow down. It was growing dusk when the trail finally led to the edge of a small bluff and a turned and dropped down around to the side of it. We dismounted, followed it the rest of the way on foot to where we could see a small cabin hidden in the clump of box elder at the base of the cliff. There we waited for the dark. When it came, we sneaked up to the cabin, stood close to the wall, listening. How is he now, doctor? I've told you before, Butler, the man's dying and there isn't a thing I can do to stop it. I don't believe you, Doc. Maybe you're not doing anything on purpose. I'm a doctor, Butler. I do anything in my power to save a life, even out of a murderer. You go on talking like that, I'll blow you open with his shotgun, Doc. Shotgun. Shotgun. Why don't you carry a pistol like ordinary men? I never use nothing but this. And I ain't no ordinary man anyway. Now I'll say that for you. And no decent ordinary man would be seen in your company. Doc, you're either a fool or you're plum crazy. Why? Because I'm not afraid to die. Well, you're going to die as soon as he does. I ain't going to leave you around to spread no tails when I to kill you and get out of here. It won't be very long, Butler. Your friend will go most any minute. Maybe I ought to shoot you now. Just leave him here, Chester, to be. Let's get back. Kill him, Mr. Dylan. We better bust him there before it's too late. Sure we do that. Yeah, to be right, sir. But we can't just leave in there, man. Maybe if we make a big noise, Butler'd come out. No, no, he's too smart for that. We gotta do something. Doc said himself that wounded man's gonna die any minute. I'm thinking, Chester, if plenty time could wait and shoot one come out in morning. But he ain't got time. There might be a chink somewhere in that cabin. I could poke a gun through. Men say him very spooky. Now, one little noise shoot dog fast. Hey, I know I wouldn't dare take the chance. It's terrible Me and this close not able to do a brain. Yeah, so we'll know many trick of all kind. But here nothing, cousin. But pistol Doc might have a bare chance but for that shotgun. Wait a minute, wait a minute. What shotgun? It's not a six shot shooter, but it's not a repeating rifle. I mean, he can shoot it once and then he has to reload once. Does all it takes. Yeah. To kill one man it is. Chester, what are you doing? Here, take my gun belt. Here, take it. I'm going in there. Chester. Unarmed. What? When I get inside, you and to be will sneak up close and be ready to come through that door when you hear his shotgun go off. Mr. Dylan, you can't do that. Yes, I can. You'll kill you sure. Maybe. But if you two don't get in there fast, if he does shoot, you'll club Doc to this. Who's that over by the door? Jack, did you open it? Doc Adams is standing by that door and I got a shotgun aimed at his back. Now who is it? I'm unarmed. Open the door, Matt. I'll come in with my hands in front of me. Any tricks and I'll shoot. Doc. Go ahead, Doc, open. Hello, Doc. He's an armed butler. And get in here and close that door. Who are you? Marshall. That's right. You got some men outside, huh? Well, it won't do no good, Marshall. I'll shoot you before they can get anywhere near me. I've got two men out there, Butler. The second they hear a shot, they'll be in here. It'll be too late, won't it, Marshal? Well, that depends on how you look at it, Buffer. Won't be too late to take you. That shotgun only shoots once. Take me, you'll be dead. Yeah. Matt, you shouldn't have done this. Why not, Doc? It was bad enough me getting killed. He can only kill one of us, Doc. If he shoots me to be. And Chester will get him. If he shoots you, I'll kill him with my bare hands. You think you got it all figured, don't you, Marshall? Just about. Now you know I'd rather kill a U.S. marshal than a doctor. You know that. Matt. Matt, he's right. You. You should have stayed outside, stand there waiting for him to shoot you. Doc. No, I wouldn't like that very much. Maybe he'll shoot me anyway. Maybe. But at least there's some kind of a chance. Now, now shut up for a minute. I don't quite figure this. No? No. You mean you come in here? No. And I'll probably kill you rather than doc. They're right. Yes, Butler, that's right. That's what he did. Why? No reason, Butler. No reason at all. Except for friends, I guess. Something like that. What's being friends got to do with it? You wouldn't understand, Butler. He's willing to die for you. Of course I did. Never heard of nothing like that. Him a marshall and everything and. And you just happen to know he's willing to die? That's your friend, Butler. I better take a look at him. Blake's dead. Frankly, I'd be afraid of any. Make up your mind, buster. Just don't understand a man like that. Greater love hath no man than this. That a man lay down his life for his friends. What's that? You ain't saying that. That come from something? Scripture? Is that what it is? You know, Blake's the only friend I ever had friends. And a while ago, you were willing to leave him here to die alone. Well, you don't know anything about friendship, Butler. No, I guess I don't. Anyway, if I was in a spot like you, there ain't nobody, nobody in the world would have walked in here to do for me what the marshal's willing to do for you. Well, then I feel sorry for you, Butler. Real sorry. Yeah. So still give you pleasure to shoot? Go ahead. No, no, I just get killed anyway. All right, give me your gun, Butler. I just never know people like you and doc before. Marshall. You sure you ain't crazy or something? And I did. Maybe. Maybe we are a little butler. Who knows? Gun Smoke produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, u. S Marshal. The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John meston. Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin, Virginia Craig, Ralph Moody and Barney Phillips. Harley bear is Chester, Howard mcnear is Doc and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. Foreign this has been a presentation of otrwesterns.com and we hope you enjoyed. Please take some time to like and rate this episode within your favorite podcast application. Follow us on facebook by going to otrwesterns.com Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel by going to otrwesterns.Com Become one of our ranch hands and unlock some exclusive content. We want to thank the following ranch hand, Steve, who joined us recently. 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