Chicken Smith | Gunsmoke (03-31-57)

Summary

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Gunsmoke: “Chicken Smith” (03-31-57)

Old Time Radio Westerns Podcast, Hosted by Andrew Rhynes

Aired: March 15, 2026 (Podcast), Original Episode: March 31, 1957

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Episode Overview

This episode, “Chicken Smith,” is a classic installment of Gunsmoke, originally broadcast in 1957 and lovingly restored for modern listeners. The story centers around Jimmy “Chicken” Smith, a gentle hen farmer, his bright and charming wife Ellie, and a menacing newcomer, Prague Loomer, who has recently bought the Lady Gay Saloon. When Ellie's beauty and friendliness attract Loomer’s attention, tensions quickly escalate, leading to violence, heartbreak, and ultimately, tragic consequences in the unforgiving world of Dodge City.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Breakdown

1. Setting the Scene: Dodge City Tensions

• Introduction to Chicken Smith
  • Chicken Smith, more at home with hens than with guns, is introduced as a quiet farmer prone to keeping to himself.
  • Matt Dillon, Chester, and Doc discuss the AR Kansas river and witness a street fight involving Chicken, revealing his passion for defending his wife and his pride.
• “A man who raises hens and gathers eggs ain't usually one to rear up like that.”
  • Chester on Chicken Smith’s uncharacteristic aggression (07:40)

2. Conflict Spark: Prague Loomer’s Arrival

• The First Fight
  • Loomer, the new owner of the Lady Gay Saloon, is caught flirting with Ellie; Chicken and Loomer trade punches in the street.
  • Matt Dillon intervenes, breaks up the fight, and recognizes Loomer as dangerous.
• Ellie’s Perspective
  • Ellie insists to Matt that she meant no harm and barely knows Loomer, but her beauty and friendliness continue to cause rumors and jealousy.

“She was just passing the time of day with me was all. I didn’t know him from Adam.”
— Ellie Smith, explaining to Matt Dillon (07:57)

3. Rising Tensions and Small-Town Gossip

• Suspicion and Insecurity
  • Chicken Smith expresses increasing anxiety over Ellie’s allure:

    "Ellie's too purty for her own good, that's the trouble. And young kind of strays out of the yard once in a while. She'll learn."
    — Chicken Smith (11:25)

• Loomer’s Influence
  • Loomer draws trade to the Lady Gay by buying Chicken’s poultry, inviting Ellie to deliver hens herself—an arrangement that raises eyebrows and suspicions throughout Dodge.

4. Foreshadowing and Symbolism: The Storm Approaches

• Chicken’s Wisdom on Hens
  • Chicken discusses how chickens avoid predators, hinting at his own protective instincts and the looming danger for Ellie.
• Rumors & Restlessness
  • Ellie is seen visiting the saloon late at night, fueling rumors of improper conduct.
• A Brewing Storm
  • Literal and metaphorical storms gather: heavy rains threaten the town, and Matt warns of a “killing” if the situation escalates.

5. Climax: Tragedy Strikes

• Search for Ellie
  • During a severe rainstorm, Ellie is seen leaving the Lady Gay alone. Loomer taunts Matt, suggesting ominously:

    "I told you there was more than one way of getting even, didn’t I?"
    — Prague Loomer (16:08)

• Search and Loss
  • Matt and Chester find Ellie’s buckboard in the flooded river, and later her lifeless body downstream, confirming everyone’s worst fears.

6. Resolution: Justice, Western Style

• Chicken’s Revenge
  • In the morning, Chicken is found quietly tending his hens. He reveals to Matt that after finding Ellie’s fate, he took his shotgun (rather than a pistol) and killed Loomer:

    "I took my shotgun, the same one I used for hawks. It worked just as good on Cragg. Only took one shot. Of course, you understand I was closer to him than I ordinarily get to a hawk.”
    — Chicken Smith (20:47)

• Aftermath
  • The episode ends with Chicken calmly feeding his hens, isolated by grief and altered forever by violence.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Chester, reflecting on small-town pride and trouble

  “A fellow that raises hens and gathers eggs ain't usually one to rear up like that.” (07:40)

• Chicken Smith, foreshadowing events through talk of poultry defense

  "Man can learn a lot watching a flock of chickens, Marshall. Like the way a rooster will fight to the death to protect his hens. Some people never heard of that." (10:43)

• Loomer, sinister and provocative

  "I told you there was more than one way of getting even, didn't I? You're going to be sorry for that, Marshall." (16:08)

• Chicken Smith, after Ellie’s death and his act of vengeance

  "I took my shotgun, the same one I used for hawks. It worked just as good on Cragg. Only took one shot." (20:47)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [03:08] — Opening narration by Matt Dillon, setting the tone for law and order in Dodge.
• [05:18] — First confrontation and the fight between Chicken Smith and Loomer.
• [07:55] — Chester’s commentary on Chicken’s surprising aggression.
• [10:42] — Chicken’s philosophical perspective on hens, danger, and protection.
• [13:33] — Gossip about Loomer’s chicken purchases and his real motives.
• [16:08] — Loomer’s menacing hint of revenge and Ellie’s perilous departure.
• [17:31] — Discovery of Ellie’s crashed buckboard, the tragedy revealed.
• [19:35] — Chicken’s realization and quiet mourning for Ellie.
• [20:47] — The confession: Chicken’s act of revenge, his emotional numbness, and the metaphor for violence in the frontier.

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Theme & Tone

The episode tells a classic Western tragedy, emphasizing the fine line between gentleness and violence, small-town loyalty and suspicion, and the loneliness that follows loss and revenge. The tone is somber and reflective, with each character’s vulnerabilities and choices shaped by the harsh world they inhabit.

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Final Thoughts

Chicken Smith stands out as a haunting parable about pride, love, and vengeance on the frontier. Through restored sound and storytelling, it invites listeners to reflect on human motives that remain as relevant as ever—underscored by real, lived heartbreak and the sorrowful aftermath of violence.

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Podcast restoration and commentary by Andrew Rhynes. Listen at otrwesterns.com for more classic episodes and behind-the-scenes history.

Transcript

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[Narrator/Host Andrew Rines]

Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and let's get into this episode. This episode is going to be Gunsmoke original air dates March 31, 1957 and the title is Chicken Smith Safeway and

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Gun smoke 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 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 chancy job and it makes

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

a man watchful and a little lone.

[Chester]

He's right. It is a half mile wide and a half inch deep. What is that cussed AR Kansas river is?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

He was right about it.

[Chester]

But I sure wasn't gonna let on.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Ho was right, Chester.

[Chester]

Oh, some fellow from San Antonio. He was in there in Long Branch last night bragging about Texas. I told him they got rivers there that's ever been as bad as this one.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Did you tell him to hang around till the spring rains hit?

[Chester]

I did. I sure did tell him just that, Mr. John.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Whoa.

[Chester]

Hey, Matt. Chester. Hello, Doc. You fellas tired of walking?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Not if it means risking our lives in that broken down buggy of yours. Doc, this will outlast the three of

[Chester]

us good as the day it was made.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

It's the biggest eyesore in Dodge City, Doc. Why don't you take it out of the river bottom and burn it? We'll start a collection to help you get a new one.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Oh, no.

[Chester]

Look here. Let's look you under. There's a fight, Mr. Dun, in front of the lady. Gay.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah. Come on. We'll see you later, Doc. Later, nothing.

[Chester]

I haven't seen a real good fight for a week or more. Why, that's Mr. D. All right.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Will you let me through? Will you let me through?

[Chester]

Well, forever more that Prague bloomer is fight.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

And he's beaten the daylights out of him.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

All right, Bragg, you had enough now. I'll show you who's had enough.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

All right. I'll make a move toward that gun frag.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Some folks should call it self defense, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Chicken Smith never carries a gun and you know it. Get on your feet now and forget it. All right, everybody, move along now. Break it up. Come on, move along now. Now, what started this?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

I reckon we just better say it was something personal, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I see. Doc, suppose you could take this pair over to your office and patch them up a little?

[Chester]

Well, I will if they come separately.

[Ellie Smith]

But I don't want another dog fight

[Chester]

starting right under foot.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Won't be no trouble. As far as I'm concerned, Doc, I already had my Say. Well, I ain't, but I will before I'm through. I'll pass your offer, Doc. I reckon I'll heal all right alone.

[Chester]

Well, then, suit yourself, brag.

[Ellie Smith]

Come on, Chicken. Yeah, let's see if we can restore your normal ugliness.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You know, Chicken Smith's not ordinarily the kind of a man to start a fight.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

And he started this one.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Maybe he figured he had a reason.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Well, I guess it rankled him some that I was talking to his wife. She wasn't objecting none.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Ellie's not one to use her head sometimes.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Is that her name? Ellie?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Forget her.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Prague.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

And him too. If he turned up with a bullet, then he might know where to come.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

There's more than one way of getting even, Marshall. I'll see you later.

[Chester]

Now there's a man that can be mean without even trying, Mr. Dillon.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

A Prague woman.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah, I guess he can. Come on.

[Chester]

I swear, I just wouldn't have figured Chicken Smith had it in him. A fellow that raises hands and gathers eggs ain't usually one to rear up like that.

[Ellie Smith]

Oh, Marshall.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

What?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Oh, hello. How are you, Ellie?

[Ellie Smith]

Marshall, I just wanted to explain that what happened there was just a big misunderstanding. I never saw that man before in my life. No, I took some eggs into the store and he was standing in front. He just passed the time of day with me was all. I didn't know him from Adam. I still don't.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

His name's Prague Loomer. He bought the Lady Gay Saloon a while back.

[Ellie Smith]

Well, he's right handsome. You know, in a kind of a strange way.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

He's a good man to stay clear of, Ellie.

[Ellie Smith]

Oh, Marshall, I hope you don't think that. Well, I mean, I certainly will stay clear of him. I sure wouldn't want another misunderstanding.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Neither would I, Ellie. The next one might be fatal.

[Chester]

Well, what do you think, Mr. Dylan?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I'll try one more. Yeah, let me steady this on the fence rail now.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

All right.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah, it's hidden where it's aiming, all right. I guess Andy got the kink out of it.

[Chester]

He always does. Takes old Andy a month of Sundays to fix a gun, but once it's done, it's done right.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah, well, there's no point in burning up any more ammunition.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Marshall, you out back there?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Oh, yeah, I'll be right with you.

[Chester]

Sounds like chicken smith, Mr. Dillon. First time he's been to town for over a week.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah, I know.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Out shooting one of your prisoners, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

No, no, just testing a gun I had fixed. Well, how's the chicken Business?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Oh, tolerable. Few of the hens starting to set now. Need some more warm days, though. And a couple of rains.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Well, I guess I don't know very much about them.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Smarter than cattle any day.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

How's that so?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Why, sure. Chickens can tell when the weather's gonna change, when the storm's coming. And knowing there's a hawk overhead, hens will run straight to the rooster for a protection. They'll stay there as long as there's any danger. At least the older ones, some of the pullets, they stray once in a while. Them's the ones that get killed off.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I see.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Man can learn a lot watching a flock of chickens, Marshall. Like the way a rooster will fight to the death to protect his hens here. Some people never heard of that.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You mean people like Prague Loomer?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

I reckon he's heard of it now.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Okay, he's heard of it. Let me give you a piece of advice, Jimmy. Last week you knocked prag around some and he got away.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

A man's got a right to fight for what's his.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Prag's not a man to take a beating easy. Not while he carries a gun in his belt.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Maybe I ought to get one.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You never packed a gun in your life, and you wouldn't know what to do with one if you did. Now, why don't you forget it? That's all I'm saying. It's over and it's done with.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Ellie's too purty for her own good, that's the trouble. And young kind of strays out of the yard once in a while. She'll learn. I hope so, Marshall. I sure do hope so.

[Chester]

My land of gracious. Look yonder at that buckboard.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

That's pretty reckless driving.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

That's Ellie, doggone it. I told her once, I told her a thousand times.

[Ellie Smith]

Good morning, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Young lady, you keep handling a team that way and you're going to roll that rig over a cut bank one of these days.

[Ellie Smith]

Well, life ain't worth much without a little danger in it, Marshall. You ready to get on back home now, Chicken?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

We got to try to sell them pullets first, Ellie.

[Ellie Smith]

I already sold them and all we can deliver from now on.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

New customer.

[Ellie Smith]

That's right. And a pretty good one, too.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Chicken.

[Ellie Smith]

Sounds like we're finally getting that brainstorm, man.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I've been building up to it for a week now.

[Ellie Smith]

Well, I suppose the ranchers are happy, but sure hasn't helped business in the long branch this evening. Everybody left early so they wouldn't get Cut off by floods in the washes.

[Chester]

Well, you can still count on us, Miss Kitty. There ain't no wash between this here saloon and the J.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You know, Chester, if there was, you'd still manage to get trapped on this side of it.

[Chester]

Well, if a man's going to get stormed in someplace, he could do a lot worse than the Long Branch.

[Ellie Smith]

Well, they might do better too. Over the Lady Gay, you'd get free fried chicken twice a day.

[Chester]

I ain't been over there even once during the whole two weeks. And I ain't aiming to go. Not as long as Prague Bloomers running the place, giving away free fried chicken at the bar. Class day, I know.

[Ellie Smith]

Oh, to draw trade, so he says. Well, maybe that's his reason.

[Chester]

The boys start calling it the Chicken Smith Hour.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Chicken Smith. So Prague Woomer's their new customer, huh? And I suppose Ellie has to deliver them every day or so.

[Ellie Smith]

It's not only that, Matt. She's been slipping into town at night real late at night forever more.

[Chester]

Close that door, Doc. What's the matter, Hugh?

[Ellie Smith]

I'm all right.

[Chester]

Man can't come through the door without opening it, can he?

[Ellie Smith]

Oh, hello, Matt. Matt.

[Chester]

Kitty.

[Ellie Smith]

You look like a drowned rat.

[Chester]

Well, we're getting ourselves a rainstorm out there, young lady. It's coming down in barrels.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Front Street's already starting to float. Guess who I just saw on the way over here.

[Chester]

Ellie Smith. Out in front of the Lady Gay.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Well, I think it's time I had a talk with her in Kragner. No, Matt, there's no law.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Besides, he won't like it much.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

No, I'm sure he won't like it much.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

All right, what's on your mind, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Craig, I want to talk to Ellie too.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Where is she? Ellie? Oh, well, I guess you mean Ellie Smith. Where is she? What makes you think she'd be here at the saloon this time of night?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

She was seen here Prague tonight and other nights as well. So don't go to the bother of lying.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Man's personal business ain't no concern of the law.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I don't figure it's personal when it's heading toward a killing.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Now, Marshall, it's too late to stand around spinning yarn

[Narrator/Host Andrew Rines]

now.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I ask you a question, Frank. Where is she?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

I don't know.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

She was here, wasn't she? She left 20 minutes ago. All right. Left for where?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Home, I guess. She was driving the buckboard and I saw her off.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You let her leave alone on a night like this? With the flash floods running another gully between Here and her farm.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

She ain't no look out of mind, Marshall. She's Chicken Smith's property. Or at least she was. I told you there was more than one way of getting even, didn't I? You're going to be sorry for that, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Am I? Find anything, Chester?

[Chester]

No. She didn't try to cross here, Mr. Dillon. Looks like you turned north along the bank there.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

There's another port up there about 100 yards.

[Chester]

Couldn't have been too long ago. Wheel tracks ain't rained out yet.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Let's ride up that way, Esther.

[Chester]

Be a whole lot easier if we had some daylight.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

A man can't always pick and choose.

[Chester]

She could have though. Doggoner crazy fool stunt. Carrying around in the middle of the night. Storm like this.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Her life's not worth much according to her. Unless it's got some danger in it.

[Chester]

Well, I wish she'd find some kind of danger. That don't keep me all night riding around in storm.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Look out, Chester. That bank's all undercut along there.

[Chester]

Yeah, I got. Sure. It's breaking off and falling into the water all along the side.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Mr. Dillon, look.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah, I see it.

[Chester]

Horses must have broke clear. It's only the buckboard down there.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Uh huh. Come on.

[Chester]

She might be hanging on the other side.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

It's been rolled. Chester's messed up pretty bad by the current. Well, let's see if we can find her.

[Chester]

But where, Mr. Dillon?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I don't know. Downstream.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Somewhere.

[Chester]

Yonder he is, Mr. Dylan. Feeding his hands.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Morning Marshall. Morning, Chester.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

How about chicken?

[Chester]

Morning.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

It turned out nice after the storm. Yeah.

[Chester]

Good.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Come on, Chick. Come on. Come get it here, Chick. I come out pretty lucky with my poultry here. Only three pullets lost. Run out into the storm. Got drowned for their trouble. Rest of them stayed in their coops and come through safely.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Sound.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Look at them eat. They're always real hungry after a rain. Chicken.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I. I'm afraid I got some bad news for you.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

I reckon I already know what the news is. I went looking for her when the storm come up last night. I found the buckboard. Knowed there was no use looking any further. You found her, huh?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah, about a half mile on downstream.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Kind of where I figured she'd be. Well, she was a good wife, Marshall. Right. Sorry to lose her. She was too pretty. She was too young. Only trouble.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

And I guess the farm will get lonesome without a woman, huh?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

That's how I look at it, Marshall. Ellie been slipping out at night lately, Going into town. I've been puzzling over it. Not rightly knowing what to do now, of course. There ain't nothing to do.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I. I'm sorry about it, Chambers.

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

Mighty kind of you. Ride out and tell me. You just wait till I finish feeding these hens. I'll ride in with you, Marshall. Save you a trip back out.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

What do you mean?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

After I found that buckboard last night, I rode on into town. I wanted to see Bragg Loomer. You'll find him when you get back to town.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Find him?

[Jimmy (Chicken Smith)]

I took your advice, Marshall, about not knowing how to handle a pistol. I took my shotgun, the same one I used for hawks. It worked just as good on Cragg. Only took one shot. Of course, you understand I was closer to him than I ordinarily get to a hawk. Come on. Come on, chickies. Come on, get your breakfast.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Gunsmoke produced and directed by Norman Macdonald. Stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. marshall. Featured in the cast were Parley Baer As Chester, Howard McNear as Doc and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. George Walsh speaking. Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and television Service.

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[Chester]

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[Chester]

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