Jedro’s Woman | Gunsmoke (11-06-60)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Gunsmoke “Jedro’s Woman” (11-06-60)

Podcast: Gunsmoke | OTRWesterns.com

Host: Andrew Rhynes

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

Original Air Date: November 6, 1960

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Overview:

This gripping episode follows Marshal Matt Dillon, Chester Proudfoot, and Doc Adams as they come to the aid of a battered, starved woman found alone and unconscious near Dodge City. As her story unfolds, it reveals the harsh realities of frontier life, the struggle for survival, and the emotional bonds—even destructive ones—that tie people together. The drama pivots on questions of abuse, personal agency, and society’s limits in intervening in private pain.

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Key Discussion Points & Episode Structure:

1. Trouble on the Trail: Lost Beans and a Desperate Stranger

• 03:17-07:41:
  • Chester complains about wet firewood while cooking beans; Matt teases him about his fussiness.
    • Quote:
      • Chester: “A man likes a few comforts when he's a cookin' his dinner.” (04:02)
  • Their camp dinner is stolen; tracks lead them to discover not an animal, but an unconscious, battered woman (Hallie) in the brush.
    • Quote:
      • Chester (on finding her): “I declare, it's a woman.” (07:26)
  • The compassion of Matt and Chester is shown as they prioritize her care over pursuing the thief.

2. The Rescue and Medical Crisis

• 07:41-12:20:
  • Matt and Chester improvise to get Hallie—badly bruised and starving—back to Dodge using an old wagon.
    • Quote:
      • Matt: “Whoever she was running from gave her plenty of cause.” (09:15)
  • Doc Adams diagnoses the woman: “This woman is nearly starved to death.” (11:39)
  • There’s uncertainty if she’ll survive.

3. Her Husband Arrives: Confrontation with Jedro

• 13:30-16:12:
  • In Dodge, news spreads about Hallie as she recovers.
  • Jedro, her physically abusive husband, arrives demanding to reclaim “his woman.”
    • Quote:
      • Jedro: “I come from a woman. What makes you think I've got her?” (14:07)
      • Matt: “Are you the one who beat her?”
      • Jedro: “That's not rightly none of your business, Marshall.” (14:30)
  • Matt and Doc debate the law and decency, finally allowing Jedro a brief, supervised visit.

4. The Abduction and Pursuit

• 17:54-20:20:
  • Hallie disappears from Doc’s care overnight—Jedro has abducted her, using the same wagon.
    • Quote:
      • Doc: “She's gone, Matt. The woman's gone.” (17:58)
  • Matt and Chester ride out at dawn.
  • They catch Jedro, forcefully stopping him and making clear Hallie’s right to recover and to choose.
    • Quote:
      • Matt: “This woman has a right to decent care until she's well again. She has a right to decide for herself whether she wants to go back with you. … She might even want to file charges against you for the beating you gave her.” (19:10)

5. Hallie's Choice: The Frontier’s Double Bind

• 21:52-25:13:
  • Weeks later, Hallie, recovered and healthier, visits Matt to thank him and Chester.
  • She reveals she’s chosen to return to Jedro, her husband, despite his violence.
    • Key Quotes:
      • Hallie: “I'm going back to Jedrow.” (23:41)
      • Matt: “You don’t have to do that, Hallie. He can’t force you to.” (23:44)
      • Hallie: “He ain't forcing me none. He don't even know it. … If we get a good crop, maybe we'd have enough to eat this year. And Jedrow ain't so mean so often when he's eaten regular.” (23:51-24:10)
      • Hallie: “A woman belongs where her man is. I'm thanking you, Marshal. But I'm going back.” (24:36)
  • Matt and Chester reflect on the limits of their intervention.
    • Quote:
      • Matt, quietly resigned: “I don't know if it's right or not, but that's the way it's going to be.” (25:09)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Compassion and Resigned Humor:

  • Chester (about cooking): “A man gets tired of it sometimes, Mr. Dillon. A man likes a few comforts when he's a cooking his dinner.” (04:02)
  • Chester: “I was just telling you some folks, it's mighty particular about their Mr. Gentleman.” (05:28)

• On Violence and the Law:

  • Matt: “Are you the one who beat her?”
    Jedro: “That's not rightly none of your business, Marshall.”
    Matt: “It is if she dies.” (14:27-14:32)

• Agency and Tragic Loyalty:

  • Hallie: “A woman belongs where her man is. I'm thanking you, Marshal. But I'm going back.” (24:36)
  • Matt: “You mean you ain't gonna keep her from going back?”
    Matt: “Now, Chester, I'm not. Jetro hasn't kept her from going back. Nobody else.” (25:13-25:16)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 03:17-07:41 — Discovery of Hallie and the initial rescue
• 11:08-12:20 — Doc Adams' examination and prognosis
• 13:30-16:12 — Confrontation with Jedro; issues of marital abuse and the law
• 17:54-20:22 — Hallie’s abduction and the pursuit
• 21:52-25:16 — Hallie’s decision and Matt’s resignation

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Episode Tone & Style

The tone is somber, realistic, and nuanced, with flashes of frontier humor and camaraderie between Matt and Chester, balanced by the stark realities faced by women and men on the edge of the civilized West. The dialogue is terse, heartfelt, and at times painfully resigned to the limitations of both law and love.

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Final Reflection

“Jedro’s Woman” confronts the difficult intersection of law, personal choice, and societal constraint. While Matt Dillon can rescue Hallie from immediate harm, he cannot—or will not—interfere with her final decision to return to her abusive husband, laying bare the hard truths of the frontier and the complexities of human loyalty. The episode stands as a testament to Gunsmoke’s willingness to grapple with issues ahead of its time, leaving listeners moved and unsettled.

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Transcript

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[Hallie]

Could you be more specific?

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Chester Proudfoot]

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[Matt Dillon]

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[Chester Proudfoot]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Matt Dillon]

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[Chester Proudfoot]

I don't know why it is. Ain't growing wood like they used to. Well, it can't hardly make itself an even fire no more. You just can't get it to burn. Anybody knows you can't cook none without an even fire. Sorry buddy. Might just as well decide that you want a piece of jerky and Let it go at that.

[Matt Dillon]

Chester. You got the beans ready?

[Chester Proudfoot]

You know they ain't ready, Mr. Dillon. Beans has got to cook long and slow before you can eat them.

[Matt Dillon]

They seem mighty slow to me.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Well, it ain't easy to cook them with this wet wood that's laying around here. It ain't dried out like it needs to do for a decent fire.

[Matt Dillon]

You're getting pretty fussy, Chester, for a fellow who's camped out half his life.

[Chester Proudfoot]

A man gets tired of it sometimes, Mr. Dillon. A man likes a few comforts when he's a cooking his dinner.

[Matt Dillon]

Like that old pot bellied stove back in Dodge.

[Chester Proudfoot]

A decent stove don't hurt none, I can tell you that.

[Matt Dillon]

Come on, Chester, stop your bleeding, will you?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Got me a decent slab of pork.

[Matt Dillon]

A what?

[Chester Proudfoot]

A decent slab of pork for the beans. They ain't hardly worth fussing about. About that.

[Matt Dillon]

You want to ride in the Dodge and get some?

[Chester Proudfoot]

That's a day and a night's ride.

[Matt Dillon]

Well then why don't you quit complaining? Now, how long before we eat?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Well, at least about an hour or two, I expect. Them beans should just set and simmer.

[Matt Dillon]

That's all right. You let them set and simmer. We'll go check that line shack for old man Goss like we promised, huh?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Guess I'll be all right.

[Matt Dillon]

You bet it'll be all right. Come on. I don't smell anything burning, Chester.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Of course not. I wouldn't eat until they burn, Ms. Dylan.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, I'm glad to hear that. Oh, I'm tired and I'm hungry.

[Chester Proudfoot]

You know, there's some crooks on the chuck wagons that won't let you touch their beans till they've sat all night.

[Matt Dillon]

And I'm not about to wait all night. So why don't you dish them up and I'll say to the horses, huh?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Sure. I was just telling you some folks, it's mighty particular about their Mr. Gentleman.

[Matt Dillon]

What?

[Chester Proudfoot]

They're gone.

[Matt Dillon]

What are you talking about?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Them beans, they.

[Matt Dillon]

They're gone. What?

[Chester Proudfoot]

And they wasn't rightly done yet neither.

[Matt Dillon]

Whoever took them wasn't too particular, I guess.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Maybe it was an animal, Mr. Dylan.

[Matt Dillon]

No animal would come in with a fire like that.

[Chester Proudfoot]

I guess you're right.

[Matt Dillon]

There's nothing spilled.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Oh, they ain't.

[Matt Dillon]

Your animal's a two footed one. All right.

[Chester Proudfoot]

I'll be clear. Looks like they was just dragging along, don't it?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah.

[Chester Proudfoot]

You gonna track em?

[Matt Dillon]

I don't begrudge anybody a free meal, Chester. But I wanted some of those beans myself.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes, Sir. Say, you reckon I better go get the horses?

[Matt Dillon]

No, not yet. Let's see where these tracks lead to.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Then. Prince is going right down the creek, ain't they?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. Maybe he didn't have a horse.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Nobody don't go around without no horse, Mr. John.

[Matt Dillon]

Unless you don't have one.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Well, yes, but then.

[Matt Dillon]

Hey, Chester, keep your eyes open in these bushes, huh?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes, sir.

[Matt Dillon]

Down this way.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Looky there. There's my bean pot.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. Look yonder.

[Chester Proudfoot]

I declare, it's a woman.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Come on.

[Matt Dillon]

Just turn her over Easy.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Just sexy. She lying.

[Matt Dillon]

She's still breathing.

[Chester Proudfoot]

You don't look Very good, Ms. John. Just look at them bruises.

[Matt Dillon]

She's been beaten all right. She looks half starved.

[Chester Proudfoot]

She didn't even get to eat them beans she stole.

[Matt Dillon]

We gotta get her to duck.

[Chester Proudfoot]

She fit to ride? She, Mr. Dillon?

[Matt Dillon]

No. Chester.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes, sir?

[Matt Dillon]

You notice that old wagon out back of old man Goss's shack?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes, sir. I seen it.

[Matt Dillon]

You ride up there and get it, huh?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Well, but there wasn't no horse.

[Matt Dillon]

You have to hitch your horse and lead him, huh?

[Chester Proudfoot]

All right. Do you think you settle down enough to pull that wagon?

[Matt Dillon]

It's the only chance we have, Chester. Go on, now.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes, sir.

[Matt Dillon]

Chester. Chester, if there are any old blankets in the shack, put them in the wagon, huh?

[Chester Proudfoot]

All right, Ms. Dylan. I'll do that.

[Matt Dillon]

Hold up a minute, Chester. Want to take a look at her? All right, sir.

[Chester Proudfoot]

How does she see, Mr. Jones?

[Matt Dillon]

It's hard to tell, Chester. She hasn't moved. She's still alive anyway, poor thing. Yeah, Whoever she was running from gave her plenty of cause. All right, you get on my horse, Chester. I'll lead the wagon for a while.

[Chester Proudfoot]

No, no, I ain't tired, Mr. Dillon. I can go on walking.

[Matt Dillon]

Go on, Chester. Mount up. I want to stretch my legs.

[Chester Proudfoot]

All right. I'll say one thing. They're gonna have plenty of time to stretch them between here and Dodge.

[Matt Dillon]

I guess you're right. All right, let's go.

[Chester Proudfoot]

I swear to cry. And I didn't think we'd ever get here.

[Matt Dillon]

I'm just glad the wagon hung together.

[Chester Proudfoot]

I don't suppose you'd go much farther.

[Matt Dillon]

And that's a fact, Al doesn't have to. Come on, let's get her up to.

[Chester Proudfoot]

D. All right.

[Matt Dillon]

You take her shoulders. Lift her together. All right, now. Careful now, Chester. Take her up easy.

[Chester Proudfoot]

I am. Sure do hope Doc's here.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Matt, what's the matter? Who is it? It's a woman, Doc.

[Matt Dillon]

Yes.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes, I see it is. Where'd she come from?

[Matt Dillon]

We don't know, Doc. She was out near Hat Creek when we found her.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes? You didn't get her here any too soon. She pretty bad off, ain't she, Doc? She's in bad shape, Chester. Yes, she is.

[Matt Dillon]

She took a mean beating.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Well, it isn't the beating that worries me so much.

[Matt Dillon]

How's that?

[Chester Proudfoot]

This woman is nearly starved to death. Now, just to. Pour some water in that can for me, will you? Yeah. Doctor? Oh, yes. Thank you. This is an ugly business, Matt.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. Think she'll be all right?

[Chester Proudfoot]

She has a chance. It's a little too early to say how good a chance.

[Matt Dillon]

You'll keep her here?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes, of course I'll keep her here.

[Matt Dillon]

Thanks, Doc. I. I don't know if you'll get paid.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Oh, stop wasting my time. Help me get her into bed.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, Doc. Come on, Chester. Here, give me a.

[Hallie]

And you don't know who she is?

[Matt Dillon]

Don't know anything about her. Just that she was badly hurt and hungry. Shame.

[Hallie]

Is she a young woman then, Kitty?

[Matt Dillon]

That's kind of hard to tell. She was so skinny and so sick.

[Hallie]

Yeah. Well, I hope she comes out of it all right.

[Matt Dillon]

The doc said she was doing a little better this morning.

[Hallie]

That's good. Maybe I could go see her when she feels well enough.

[Matt Dillon]

Would you, Kitty? That'd be nice.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Sure.

[Hallie]

We women have to hang together or hang separately.

[Chester Proudfoot]

That's a lawman's attempt at a joke if I ever heard one.

[Hallie]

Oh, you want me, son?

[Chester Proudfoot]

I came to speak to the marshal, Miss Kitty.

[Matt Dillon]

What can I do for you, son?

[Chester Proudfoot]

That big fella at the bar, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

Down at this end, that's the one.

[Chester Proudfoot]

He's been asking after you. I thought maybe it'd sooner see him over there.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. Sam Banks. See you later, Kitty. I'm the marshal. You were looking for me. You got my woman. Now, what's your name? My name? Jedrow. I come from a woman. What makes you think I've got her? You were seen. You brung her here in the wagon. Are you the one who beat her? I'm her husband. That's not what I asked you. Did you beat her? That ain't rightly none of your business, Marshall. It is if she dies. Allie. Allie ain't gonna die. Well, the doctor isn't so sure. I come to get her. She's in no shape to be moved. I come. You listen to me. No, you listen to me. You ain't going to tell me what to do about my war. All right, come on. Get out of here. No need for telling me. Yes, I am telling you. Now, come on outside. Come on.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Come on.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, now, just stand easy. Maybe we can talk. There's nothing to talk about. A man's got a right to see his wife. That's supposed to treat her decently. I got a right to see her. Now, the law says that. All right, Chudrell. I'll take you to see her more like it. But I'll be there too. Come.

[Chester Proudfoot]

On. Oh, it's you, Matt.

[Matt Dillon]

Hello, Doc. This man's name is Jedrow. He's the woman's husband.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Oh, yes.

[Matt Dillon]

He wants to see her. Well, now, and I got right. Will it hurt her, Doc?

[Chester Proudfoot]

I don't know if she'll even know him. I shouldn't think she'd want to see him.

[Matt Dillon]

She's my woman. Yeah, she's your woman. It's all right, Doc. I'll take him in there for a minute.

[Chester Proudfoot]

All right, man, if you say something, come on in. Don't touch him.

[Matt Dillon]

He won't. Ally. I come to get you, Ally.

[Hallie]

Jetro.

[Matt Dillon]

Come to take you back. She turned her head away.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Let me get to her. She's unconscious again. She won't speak anymore now.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, General.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Come on up.

[Matt Dillon]

I come to get you, Ally. That depends on the dark, General.

[Chester Proudfoot]

And on the good Lord. Sam. Wake up, Matt. Wake up.

[Matt Dillon]

What. Oh, Doc, what are you doing here?

[Chester Proudfoot]

She's gone, Matt. The woman's gone.

[Matt Dillon]

You mean Hallie?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Yes, Matt. I. I had to walk to the Maury place tonight on a call. When I got back, she was gone. She can't stand it, Matt. She's not well enough.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, hand me that other boot, will you, Doc?

[Chester Proudfoot]

Jedrow must have been waiting. Yeah, and that wagon's gone too. That old one you left out back at the office.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, thanks, Doc. I'll go get the horses. Go get Chester for me, will you? And have him meet me at the Liberty stable.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Sure. Matt, I. I'm awfully sorry this happened.

[Matt Dillon]

But don't worry about it, Doc. We'll get her.

[Chester Proudfoot]

I hope so, Matt. I hope so. It been a sight easier if that general would have took his woman off in the daytime.

[Matt Dillon]

He's not interested in it being easy, Chester.

[Chester Proudfoot]

I don't know. Just Ain't no sense in everybody losing a night's sleep.

[Matt Dillon]

I'll kill you. I reckon not. But all things like that might be the wagon there ahead, see?

[Chester Proudfoot]

It does for a fact.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. Come on. Hold up, Jet Row. I keep telling you, Marshall, she's my woman. She's not in Any shape to move, General. And that just ain't none of your affair. I told you once, it's my affair when somebody is killed. And this would be a killing, just like a shooting. Now, come on, snap the wagon. All right, grab the reins, Chester. Now, you listen to me, Jet Rolfe. This woman has a right to decent care until she's well again. She has a right to decide for herself whether she wants to go back with you. No, I do the decide. She might even want to file charges against you for the beating you gave her. She's gonna get the chance. Marshall, her place is with me. Not right now, it isn't. Now, come on, climb down from the wagon. Well, I ain't doing that. I said, climb down. You ain't gonna shoot me, Marshall, because I ain't wearing no gun. Ain't no way for you to get me down. Yes, there is. You're coming down.

[Chester Proudfoot]

No, there ain't.

[Hallie]

My arm.

[Matt Dillon]

You didn't know my arm.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Pull it off.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, get up. Oh, my. You could have broke it. You're lucky I didn't. Ain't no call to break my arm. Now, you listen to me. I'm gonna drive your wife back to Dodge, and if I see you around there again before she's well, I'll lock you up if I have to break both your arms to do it. A woman's got a right. Woman has a right, too, General. All right, come on, Chester. We're heading back.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Look at that. There's one, all right. Well, sir, I tell you one thing, Ms. Young. This new batch of Circlers, these fellows on these wanted posters, sure don't get no better looking, do they?

[Matt Dillon]

Now, we all can't be handsome like you, just.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Dillon. I ain't handsome. But I don't look like no Desperadio, I'll tell you that.

[Matt Dillon]

I guess you don't at that.

[Hallie]

Marshall Dillon?

[Matt Dillon]

Yes, ma'. Am. I'm Marshal Dillon.

[Hallie]

Well, I'm Hallie, and I come to thank you, Hallie. Well, Doc Adams told me all you'd done. Affection me to him and all.

[Matt Dillon]

Hallie. Yes, I. I guess I didn't recognize you looking so well like that.

[Hallie]

Yes, I. I got my strength.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, Hallie, this is Chester Proudfoot. He helped me bring you.

[Hallie]

Yes, I. I come to thank you, too, Mr. Proudfoot.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Oh, my. Well, that. That's all right, ma'.

[Hallie]

Am.

[Matt Dillon]

Doc said that you'd been out at the winter's place for a few weeks. Right.

[Hallie]

They. They took me and Marshall like I was one of them. I'M beholden to them all.

[Matt Dillon]

Sure looks like they fed you all right.

[Hallie]

Yes, I. I've took on some and that's a fact.

[Matt Dillon]

Fine.

[Hallie]

Marshall?

[Matt Dillon]

Yes, Helen?

[Hallie]

I. I got another reason for coming to see you.

[Matt Dillon]

I figured you might. Allie. Well, what do you want me to do?

[Hallie]

Well. Well, that's. That's just it, Marshall. I don't want you to do nothing.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, what do you mean?

[Hallie]

Well, it's. It's. I'm trying to save you some trouble, like Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

How's that?

[Hallie]

I just want to save you the trouble of coming after me.

[Matt Dillon]

But you think Jedrow's coming again?

[Hallie]

No, Marshall, it ain't Jedro. It's me. I'm going back.

[Matt Dillon]

Going back?

[Hallie]

Yes, Marshall. I'm going back to Jedrow.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, you don't have to do that, Hallie. He can't force you to.

[Hallie]

He ain't forcing me none. He don't even know it.

[Matt Dillon]

Then why.

[Hallie]

He'Ll. He'll be needing me.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Marshall.

[Hallie]

The crop's coming in.

[Matt Dillon]

What if he treats you so badly?

[Hallie]

Jedrow don't mean no harm. And if we get a good crop, maybe we'd have enough to eat this year. And Jedrow ain't took mean so often when he's eaten regular.

[Matt Dillon]

Allie, you've been a very sick woman. You better think this over.

[Hallie]

I've been thinking. That's my place out there. I spoke up to the preacher that I'd take Jedrow.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, I'll protect you, Hallie. You don't have to go back to him.

[Hallie]

Yes, I do, Marshall. Yes, I do. A woman belongs where her man is. I'm thanking you, Marshall. But I'm going back.

[Chester Proudfoot]

Ms. Dylan, is that right?

[Matt Dillon]

I don't know if it's right or not, but that's the way it's going to be.

[Chester Proudfoot]

You mean you ain't gonna keep her from going back?

[Matt Dillon]

Now, Chester, I'm not. Jetro hasn't kept her from going back. Nobody else. 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 Marion Clark with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast were Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Christine and James Musser. Harley Baer is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. This is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week when CBS radio presents another story on gun smoke.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Matt Dillon]

It.