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Hero’s Departure – Gunsmoke (12-18-60)
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Original Air Date: December 18, 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• Sam Edwards• Jack ...
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Narrator / Matt Dillon
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Narrator / Matt Dillon
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. marshal. And the smell of gun smoke. Gun Smoke. Starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man who moved with him. 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 chancy job, and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely when it comes to home insurance. Geico works for you. And since I'm the Geico Gecko, I'm here working for you, too. Hey, Gecko, can you. My voicemail. Greedy. No problemo. You've reached the amazing Rita. She's probably busy right now teaching music theory to neighborhood birds. Or telling a total stranger how they can bundle home and car insurance with Geico to get the discounts they deserve. But rest assured, she'll get back to you once she's done brightening her little corner of the world. Did that sound all right? Nailed it. No notes. Let Geico work for you. Get more with Geico. Well, ho, Ms. Dillon. I thought you'd be gone by this time. Oh, I'm just about to go, Chester. Just wanted to get through these papers I'm working on here first. Well, I could have stayed and helped you if I'd knowed. No that's right. See, I sure did meet up with an interesting fellow. Oh, I tell you, Ms. Dillon, I counted it a privilege to shake his hand. Oh, that's good. I kinda had to wait my turn to do it, though. What? How's that? Well, there's other folks there wanting to do it too. I couldn't just push my way in ahead and all that. Push your way in ahead where, Chester? Why, to shake Jonathan woods hand, Mr. Dillon, like I've been telling you. And who's Jonathan Wood? He's that hero fella that's down at the Long Branch. Hero fella? What's he done? What battle was that? Well, I ain't quite sure about that. He. He. He saved his whole company, though. I do know that much. Oh, you want me to ride out to the Hayes place with you? No, thanks, Chester. There isn't much to attend to. I'll be back by supper time. Yeah, sure. Well, that'll be good. Maybe you'll even get shaky's hand, too. Yeah, maybe. Hey, hello there, Marshall. Hello, Moss. Hey, looks like you've been riding hard. Yeah, I have. Kind of. Rub him down good, will you, Moss? And throw him some extra grain. Sure, sure, Marshall. Oh, I say, that Jonathan Wood folks is sure proud to have him around town, ain't they, Marshal? How's that? Why, because he decided to settle near here. He's gonna live here, is he? Sure, Marshall. It's all over town. Ain't you talk to him about it? No. Oh, well, now, Marshall, you ought to do that. Yes, sir. It's just a privilege to meet a man like that. Yeah, so I've heard. Here comes Doc Adam. Yeah. Hello, Doc. Look, Moss, wait up and I'll walk along with you. Take care of my rig, will you, Mars? Sure you can, Doc. Thank you. How long, Moss? Bye, Marshall. Doc. You were coming along at a pretty good clip there, Doug. You must be hungry. Yeah, you have to be hungry to get the food down in this town. You know, if I kept finding as many things wrong with Dodge as you do, I'd move away. Well, I don't know why I do. Don't know why a smart man like Wood would want to move into this town anyway. Jonathan Wood? Oh, yeah. Why, do you know him? Sure been hearing a lot about him. Sounds like a bigger hero than Molly Pitcher. Yeah, well, I wouldn't laugh about him at. Wood was a fine man. He saved the day at the Battle of the Hogback. No offense, Doc. Chester was raving so much about him, I thought maybe that he'd had the wool pulled over his eyes. No, no, not this time. He's impressed everybody in town. Yeah, it wouldn't hurt you to look him up. I'm bound to run into him sooner or later. Come on, Doc. I'll buy you some supper, huh? You sure you don't want another drink, Mr. Wood? No, thanks, Miss Kitty. You know, if I'd accepted all the hospitality this town offered me, I wouldn't be able to move. Well, people in Dodge respect a brave man. Well, now, there must be a lot of brave men in Dodge. Oh, yeah. Oh, Matt. Matt. Hello, Kitty. Matt, this is Jonathan Wood. Marshall Dillon. Good. I'm glad to meet you, Marshall. Sit down, Matt. Thank you, Kitty. Mr. Wood is thinking of buying a place near here, Matt. Yeah, so I've heard. As a matter of fact, I heard quite a bit about you. Nothing bad, I hope. Nobody's saying anything bad about you, Mr. Woods. They sure aren't. That's quite a story about you at the Hogback. Oh, I should never have told it, Marshall. It was just one of those convivial times when the whiskey was pouring freely at the bar. Sure. Just that I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Marshall, any man could have done the same. But no other man did. That's the important thing. I hope you find a place that suits you. Thank you, Marshall. I'm sure I will. Everybody's being very helpful. Dodge City can use a good man. Isn't that so, Matt? Yeah, sure is. All the good men it can.
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Good morning, Mr. Doby. Well, Mr. Wood, good morning. I certainly hope you slept well. Just fine. Keep a very nice place here. Oh, I try, sir. I certainly try. I'll be out for a little while. Anything I can do for you while you're going, Sir? Well, thanks, Mr. Dovey. Everything's fine, just fine. That man who just went out. You mean Mr. Wood? His name Jonathan Wood? Yes, sir, it certainly is. Mr. Jonathan Wood of the Battle of the Hogback. What did he tell you about the Hogback? He didn't tell me anything. It's all over town, though. What's all over town? The story of how Mr. Wood saved his company by staying behind and manning that gun when the enemy started up the hill. He held them off single handed. Where's he gone? I don't know who you are, young man, but Mr. Wood isn't the kind of man I try to keep track of. I'll find him myself. And if I did know where he was, I see no reason for telling you. You the marshal? Yeah, I'm the marshal. Who are you? My name is Jake Rowe. All right, Roe. What can I do for you? As a man needs throwing out of town. What's he done? He killed my pa. What's his name? Wood. Jonathan Wood. He's a coward and a liar and a killer. You better slow down, Roe, and start from the beginning. Where did he kill your father? In the war. In that battle he's bragging all over town about. Was your father a soldier? He was a soldier, Marshall. A fighting soldier. When a soldier dies in the war, it's not murder. Though that depends on who kills him, don't it? You telling me that Wood and your father were on the same side? They were. And that coward fixed it so my PA would die. He killed him as if he'd aimed the gun. How did he do that? He stood up and he run off, Marshall. He and my PA were holding him off, covering a retreat like he tells the story. Only he couldn't stand it no more. He broke away howling for the shooting to stop it. Led him right to my paw. They killed him like he was a rabbit in a snare. Did the Company get away? Well, they got away, all right, but it wasn't this woods doing. It was my paws. Uh huh. And it ain't right that he's bellying around telling the story, Marshall. Maybe not, but telling the story isn't breaking the law, Ruth. He ain't fit to have around Marshall. That may be, but he hasn't done anything to make me throw him out yet. You mean you ain't gonna do nothing? There's nothing I can do. All right then, Marshall. I'll have to do it. If your story is true, I don't blame you. But it's not gonna help any for you to do anything crazy. If the law won't move in, you're likely to fix it so that the law has to move in. And it might be against you. Now, you'd better forget it. Forgetting it is just one thing I ain't ever gonna do, Marshall. Not ever. Yeah. I was always wondering about one of them guns. Was they? Hard to get the hang of being newfangled and all. You mean the Gatling gun? Yeah. That was the one you used there holding them off, weren't it, Mr. Wood? Yes, that's what we used, all right. Yeah. Ha ha. Oh, it wasn't hard to get the hang of it if it was set up properly. Of course, you had to know how to do that. And you knew how to do that all right, didn't you, Mr. Wood? Well, yes, it just so happens that I did. And you didn't need no help. Now, a man can always use help, I won't deny that. These fellows at the bar here, they all been buying you drinks. One or two have been kind enough to buy me a drink. That's true. Did you buy him a drink, mister? Well, sure I did. I'm proud to because of what he done at the Hogbacker. Well, he was a mighty brave man that day. Then how'd you like to buy a drink for a man named Jed Row? Jed Rowe? Why should I buy a drink for him? I never heard of him. He's dead. Dead? What would. Yeah, he's dead. But I'll tell you why you should buy a drink for him, mister. Now tell everybody. Now, look, boy. Listen here, everybody. You want to hear about the hero of the Hogback? This boy. This boy is much too young to know what he's talking about. My PA wasn't too young. That's right. Everybody move in close. Now, you all been listening to this fella spin a yarn, ain't you? Well, he can tell a better one he doesn't know what he's talking about. But you do, Mr. Wood. You can tell a lot better yarn than you've been telling. And everybody'd like to hear that, wouldn't you? Now, please. Please go away and I'll talk to you later. I'm talking now. Now, here's how the story goes. There was someone else there with you at the hog back, wasn't there, Mr. Wood? Wasn't there? Well, sure, yes, there was someone else just sort of helping you with that newfangled gun. Yes, but. And what was his name? Come on, speak it. Speak it out loud. His name was Roe. Jed Roe. You bet it was. Now, you just go on, Mr. Wooden. Tell the story and you tell it true. These people, they've all heard it. They've all heard how you were supposed to stay there and cover the retreat with that gun. They've heard that. Have they heard that that's what Jed Roe did? Stayed right there, shooting as they come at him? Well, yes. And have they heard what you really did? How you stayed there with your head down till the enemy come close? Now, this is a ridiculous. And then you stood right up and you run and you left Jed Roe there to be shot down like a turkey at a chute. Did you tell him that? It's wild talk. That's all this is. Wild talk. Well, I ain't gonna talk no more. I'm telling you to get out of town, Mr. Wood. I'm telling you that if I see you around anywhere after today, you're gonna have to stand and fight me. I won't be talking and running won't do you. He's a familiar sort of fellow, a nice guy. His manner is affable, his temper serene. He is conspicuously considerate of others. Then he climbs into the family automobile. Immediately, the casual observer notes a none too subtle change steal over him. His eyes narrow, his jaw juts and the beginning of a snarl curls his lips. He's undergoing a transformation. He's a werewolf touched by the first rays of full moon. We'll spare you the picture of his driving manners, his tooth and claw tactics in traffic, the way he streaks down the straightaway, driven by demons. It's a fact. Getting behind a wheel is strong enough chemistry to warp some personalities. If you sense that we're trying to make a point here, you're right. It's simply this. Be sure your driving manners are at least as good as when you're out of the driver's seat. Observing motoring courtesy is another way of taking Care to get there? It isn't that I want you to do anything to the boy, Marshall. I realized that he'd had too much to drink, but I thought it might spare us all a lot of embarrassment if you suggested to him that he leave town. That's funny. How's that, Marshall? He was in here yesterday, and he wanted me to make you leave town. Now, I can understand how he's upset about the death of his father, Marshall Dillon. It seems to have become an obsession with him. Yeah, but I see no reason for me to have to put up with a scene every time we run into each other. So will you talk to him? Marshal, I don't think talking is going to do any good. Now, surely if you exerted the authority of your office. Listen to me, Wood. I'll tell you what I told him. He hasn't done anything to make me send him out of town yet. Well, he's as much as threatened my life. Then maybe you should be the one to leave. I'm sorry, Marshal Dillon, that you take the side of an irresponsible boy. Not taking anybody's side. Well, surely you don't believe his story. I don't know, Wood. Do you? Good day, Marshall. Stop right there, Wood. Now, wait, boy. I'm not armed, Marshall. He's after me, Marshal. Chester, stay with him. Yes, sir. All right, ro, put up your gun. He run for cover again. You saw him, Marshall? Yeah, I saw him. Why don't you go on about your business, Ro? I'll handle this. Ain't nobody going to handle this but me now, Marshall. Come on, Wood. Come on out of there and stand up. Why don't you move on, Ro, before somebody gets hurt? If you don't come out, Wood, I'm coming in after you. You're not going in anywhere. You ain't stopping me, Marshall. Taking sides with him won't stop me. Put up here gun. I'm going in. Mr. Dylan. Yeah, Chester? I'm all right. Why, you. You're hit, Mr. Dillon. I'm all right. The boy is dead. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Marshall. You saved my life. Yeah, I saved your life. The boy just wouldn't listen to reason. Why don't you shut up? What do you mean, Marshall? I mean the boy's story was true and you know it, Marshall. You've been living on the lies you tell, Isn't that right? I didn't mean any harm. The boy just died. I. I just wanted him to leave me alone. I just wanted people to go on thinking I Amounted to something. I wanted them to notice me. They never did before. Before you started telling your story. I just changed the truth a little bit. And I saw it made me seem important. Now you're important. You're important enough to leave Dodge City. Yes. Yes. I guess I'd better go. Yeah, you'd better. I'm afraid nobody will believe me anymore. I'll. Marshal. Thank you. Go on, get out of here. Right now. Well, all right, Marshall. All right. It's a funny thing, Mr. Dunlon. It's more like he killed his boy than you did. It's his fault the whole thing happened. Yeah, Chester, it's his fault. Seems like he'd ought to have to pay for it somehow instead of getting off scot free. And don't worry, Chester, he's paying. He'll be paying the rest of his life. Hi. Maybe you'll recall this tuneful reminder of times past. This is Dennis James with something else worth remembering. It's this. You're so right to stay regular with Kellogg's All Brand. See, it's the normal, natural way to youthful regularity. 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Narrator / Matt Dillon
Become one.
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Narrator / Matt Dillon
Sam.