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Welcome to the old time radio westerns. I'm your host, Andrew Rines. And let's get into this episode. This episode's going to be Gunsmoke Original Air Date September 1, 1957 and the title is Job's son. Let's get into it, and I hope you enjoy.
Narrator (Gunsmoke)
Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers. And that's where the U. S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke.
Job Harley
Gun smoke.
Narrator (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.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
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
Job Harley
a man watchful and a little lonely.
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Doc Adams
There you go, Job. Drink her down.
Joe Forsyth
Yeah.
Job Harley
What's in it?
Doc Adams
It's just something that tastes bad so you'll remember. Doctor's been here. Hey, go ahead.
Job Harley
Go ahead, drink it. I remember you being here, all right.
Doc Adams
Oh, I don't know why I keep coming by all the time either. You know, you don't need doctor and Job. You're going to outlive us all.
Job Harley
If it's the money, doctor.
Doc Adams
Now, forget about the money. If I'd wanted to get rich, I'd have gotten out of this game a long time ago.
Job Harley
But I'll be able to pay regular now that the boy is back.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
The.
Doc Adams
You mean Tad's bash?
Job Harley
Yeah, he come in day before yesterday. Riding up like he'd just been to town for the mail instead of being gone four years.
Doc Adams
Well, what he say where he'd been?
Job Harley
No. No, doc, he didn't. But it don't matter none now that he's home.
Doc Adams
Ah, Say, do you a lot of good haven't Tad around?
Job Harley
That's a fact, doc. I just about give it up being out here alone all the time. Didn't seem like it was worth keeping going.
Doc Adams
A man should never do that job.
Job Harley
Well, sure not. But a man's wife dies and his boy lights out. Seems there weren't nothing left. I just got punier and punier. It's gonna be different now, though.
Doc Adams
I hope so. Well, I gotta be getting along now.
Job Harley
Thanks for coming, doc. Oh, say, Tad's outside there someplace. Why don't you stop and see him? That boy sure growed up man size.
Doc Adams
Yeah, you bet. Job, I wanna see him. Goodbye.
Tad Harley
Bye.
Doc Adams
Oh, you Ted?
Tad Harley
Yeah, I'm Ted.
Doc Adams
Well, it's been quite a spell since I've seen you, lad. I'm Doc Adams.
Tad Harley
I remember.
Doc Adams
I just been with your pa.
Tad Harley
I seen you drive up.
Doc Adams
Yeah, well, I thought you might like to know what shape he's in.
Tad Harley
He's crumbling like everything else around here.
Doc Adams
Well, you know you can help him. Well, you know, it's a good thing you're home, Tad.
Tad Harley
How do you figure?
Doc Adams
Well, there's not much that I can do for him. He's old and he's tired and he's
Job Harley
just about worn through. Well, but you. You can do a lot for him.
Tad Harley
You mean you want me to nurse him?
Doc Adams
No, I don't want you to nurse him. But you can do the chores for him or you can keep the place going. Most of all, you can talk to him.
Job Harley
Talk to him?
Doc Adams
Yeah, that's right. That's mostly what I've been coming around here for. To give him somebody to talk to once in a while.
Tad Harley
Now, look, Doc, I ain't his little boy anymore. I ain't gonna hold his hand.
Doc Adams
Well, I don't remember asking you to.
Tad Harley
Maybe not. But if you think I come back here to take care of a broken down old man and a broken down farm, he got another thing coming.
Job Harley
What did you come home for?
Tad Harley
I come home because I didn't have
Job Harley
nowhere else to go.
Tad Harley
But I'm taking care of that right soon.
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Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsyth.
Doc Adams
Oh, ouch. Oh.
Daphne Forsyth
What's wrong, Joe?
Joe Forsyth
Daphne, have you been using my razor again?
Daphne Forsyth
Just a little. I was peeling peaches.
Joe Forsyth
Oh, fine. Why didn't you change the blade? It feels like you've been sharpening pencils with this thing.
Daphne Forsyth
Now just a minute, buddy. It was you said we could use more economy around here, and I've been saving wherever I can. And by shaving the skin off the peaches.
Joe Forsyth
But look at my face. Think how the Red Cross could have
Job Harley
used all this blood.
Daphne Forsyth
It's your own fault. You and your economy.
Joe Forsyth
Well, being penny conscious isn't such a bad idea. Not if you use common sense. Take savings bonds, for instance.
Daphne Forsyth
Uh, here it comes.
Joe Forsyth
Go right ahead and scoff, but I got 8 million Americans who agree with me. We all buy savings bonds on the payroll saving plan because we know that investing in bonds is the best way to use our money.
Daphne Forsyth
We could use some of that money around here.
Joe Forsyth
Well, maybe. Or maybe we just think we can. When we buy bonds, we guarantee we'll have the money in the future when we'll certainly need it more.
Daphne Forsyth
Stop waving that razor. You're splattering me with soap.
Joe Forsyth
Well, I don't mean to get excited, but who wouldn't? Where else can a man make an investment that's guaranteed to pay off $4 for every 3? And guaranteed by the credit of the whole US of A. So there.
Tad Harley
Bravo.
Doc Adams
Bravo.
Joe Forsyth
All right, all right. Now let me change the blade and get back to shaving.
Daphne Forsyth
I think I'll stay and watch.
Joe Forsyth
Why?
Daphne Forsyth
Because you're so cute when you cut yourself.
Joe Forsyth
Oh, fine.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Have some coffee, Doc. Might make you feel better.
Doc Adams
I don't know Chest to make it. Yeah, that'd make me feel worse. But I guess I'd rather have dyspepsia than problem Job's got. All right, pour me in.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Okay. Job's boy, huh? You know, as I remember him, he wasn't worth much as a kid.
Doc Adams
Well, he's grown up the same way. I tell you, Matt, that boy's as
Job Harley
worthless as they come.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
It's too bad his four years away didn't do him any good.
Doc Adams
He's just bigger and meaner, that's all.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Hello.
Doc Adams
Well, what's the matter with you two?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Doc just had some of your coffee. That always makes a man pretty sober.
Doc Adams
Oh, now, mister, Donut ain't that bad. That was a fresh egg I used in it this time. Matter of fact, it wasn't as bad as usual chesting. Well, now, Doc, I'm glad.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Doc's just been telling me about seeing old Job this morning.
Doc Adams
Say, don't he have a boy named Tad?
Job Harley
That's right.
Doc Adams
It's about all he has got. Well, it's a shame.
Tad Harley
No.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
What do you mean?
Doc Adams
I've been watching him down through Long Branch this evening.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You mean he's there now?
Doc Adams
He was when I left. And I must say, Mr. Doane, he don't look to me like he's gonna be much comfort to his pa. Is he causing trouble? Well, not trouble exactly. He just bellying up to the bar, swilling down drinks and acting like he wants everybody to know how big and growed up he is. Well, he'd be in trouble if anybody treated him that way. That's just what I think. Doc and some of the boys are riling him up pretty good too.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I think maybe I'll go down there.
Doc Adams
Want me to come with you, Mr. Dillon?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
If you want to, Chester. I just want to reacquaint myself with Ted.
Doc Adams
It'll be no pleasure.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I'm sort of curious to see just how big a man he really is.
Tad Harley
Why don't you move over, mister?
Doc Adams
All right, boy. There's room for both of us at the bar.
Tad Harley
Just don't crowd me.
Doc Adams
Ain't you Job Harley's boy?
Tad Harley
Yeah.
Job Harley
Here.
Doc Adams
Your pa's been feeling poorly lately. Getting any better?
Tad Harley
I ain't noticing.
Doc Adams
He's real sick, ain't he?
Tad Harley
He's done. The place is done.
Joe Forsyth
Yeah.
Doc Adams
Hey, good thing you come home, you
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
can look after him a little bit.
Tad Harley
That any of your business?
Doc Adams
Just sort of figured you can keep
Tad Harley
your figuring to yourself. Every low living bum in town thinks I come home to nurse the old man.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Now, easy, boy.
Tad Harley
I quit being a boy when I left here. Mister. I've been doing man size things for four, four years.
Doc Adams
Why don't you shut up shoving me and straighten yourself up out of my drink. Go now. Get.
Tad Harley
I'll show you.
Doc Adams
Shove me, will you?
Tad Harley
You're going to die for that, mister. Right now.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
All right, hold it there. Drop the gun.
Tad Harley
You stand back.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I said drop it.
Daphne Forsyth
Blast you.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Pick up the gun, Chester.
Job Harley
Yes, sir.
Doc Adams
Give me that.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Yes. Stand where you are. All right, Tanner, what happened here?
Job Harley
I shoved him, Marshall. Why?
Doc Adams
Because he's a mean, ornery, no good. And I got tired of listening to him talk, that's all.
Tad Harley
I got a right to have my gun here.
Doc Adams
Now you hammer down.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You're Tad Harley, aren't you?
Tad Harley
How do you know?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I've been hearing about you. Listen, Marshall, you got some special trouble with Tanner here.
Tad Harley
He's been crowding me just like everybody else in this town.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
About what?
Tad Harley
About the old man. About how I should be looking after him.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
What's wrong with that?
Tad Harley
It ain't what I come here to do, that's what's wrong with it. And it ain't nobody's business what I do.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Not as long as you mind your own, it isn't.
Tad Harley
You got no call to tell me what to do.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I'm not telling you what to do. I'm telling you what not to do.
Tad Harley
You're gonna give me back my gun now.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
All right. Give it time, Chester.
Doc Adams
Well, I.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
All right.
Tad Harley
Someday this town's gonna find out about me. Find out?
Doc Adams
Good. Well, I sure am glad to see that one go. I swear he's been keeping this place stirred up ever since he come in this afternoon. So let's have us a beer, Mr. John.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
All right, Chester.
Doc Adams
I'll be proud to buy.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You will?
Doc Adams
Yes, sir.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Well, good. Hey, Sam. Couple of beers, huh? Two beers.
Doc Adams
You know, there's gonna be more trouble from that boy, Mr. Dillon.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I don't know, Chester. He could be just a loud bragging kid or the Badness could be full grown in him. I don't know.
Doc Adams
Either way, it's mighty hard on poor old Job. Well, he's done nothing for four whole years but just wait for the day his boy would come home.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
He was better off waiting.
Doc Adams
I wonder when Job will find out this boy's no camp.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Well, Job's old and sick, but he's not blind, Chester.
Doc Adams
But he don't deserve a disappointment like this.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
No, he doesn't. Jobe's a good man.
Doc Adams
I remember Ms. Harley telling me one time she had five babies and Tad was the only one that lived.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
That must be the exception to the rule.
Doc Adams
How's that, Mr. Dillon?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Doesn't sound much like the survival of the fittest.
Doc Adams
I swear it's so hot. Man works up a sweat just whittling with the sun burning down like this, Mr. Jones. Makes it hard for a body to remember the cold and shivering and misery of the wintertime, don't it?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You suffer pretty bad in the winter, don't you, Chester?
Doc Adams
Well, I guess I don't exactly suffer. But wouldn't you think there'd be some way of taking some of this heat and packing it away so as you could spread it around in the wintertime?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You work on that, Chester. We sure don't need it a whole today. That's a fact.
Doc Adams
Say, you know, then maybe they could save up some of the cold of the wintertime and use it on days like this.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I'm gonna spell you a riddle, Chester. They already do that. They do in our eyeshouse.
Doc Adams
Any sure are in a ice house. Sure enough they do, don't they? Look, ain't that Lynn Baylor riding up there?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Yeah.
Doc Adams
Hello, Marshall. Chester.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Hello.
Doc Adams
L. Hello, Lyn.
Job Harley
Hey, Marshall.
Doc Adams
I just come by Job Harley's place. He's awful anxious to see you.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Oh, it's trouble.
Doc Adams
Well, you didn't tell me. Marshall. He said to ask you to come out there right away.
Job Harley
Oh, my.
Doc Adams
I hope that boy of his ain't been acting up none.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Oh, I better go out there and see, I guess. You watch the store, will you, Chester?
Doc Adams
Yes, Sir, I will, Mr. Dillon.
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Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsyth.
Daphne Forsyth
Joe. Yeah, Daphne, look at this story about savings bonds in the paper.
Joe Forsyth
Yeah, what about it?
Daphne Forsyth
Do you think that's the best way to tell people about savings bonds?
Joe Forsyth
Why not? Look, see, it says here that savings bonds are a guaranteed investment. Right now. They pay off at the rate of four bucks at maturity for every three bucks invested. Uh, you're not convinced? Uh, why not?
Daphne Forsyth
No salesmanship.
Joe Forsyth
No salesmanship. What more do you need to know? Why, right now more than 8 million Americans are buying saving bonds regularly through the payroll savings plan.
Daphne Forsyth
So?
Joe Forsyth
So what?
Daphne Forsyth
That's what I say, so what?
Joe Forsyth
Now look, Daphne, if millions of Americans are convinced that saving bonds are their best investment, not only financially, but for the future of their country, what the heck is bothering you?
Daphne Forsyth
Well, I think they could sell a lot more with salesmanship. You know, slogans and jingles. Listen, if you're spending more and saving less, try a savings bond.
Joe Forsyth
Oh, boy.
Daphne Forsyth
Or maybe savings bond. Pay good like an investment should. Daphne, you get a lot to like in the savings bond. Interest earnings guaranteed.
Joe Forsyth
Wow.
Daphne Forsyth
Well, did I sell you?
Joe Forsyth
Yeah, but I forgot what it was you were selling.
Daphne Forsyth
Savings bond.
Joe Forsyth
I'll take a hundred.
Daphne Forsyth
Oh, Joe,
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
A job.
Doc Adams
A job.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Matt dillon.
Job Harley
Come in, marshall. Come in.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You got trouble out here, Job. Sure.
Job Harley
I'm glad you could come out, Marshall. Been wanting to see you.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Oh, what about?
Doc Adams
Sure.
Job Harley
It's a bright, hot day, ain't it, Marshall? Yeah, I don't take to the heat as well as I used to.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Jove, you didn't call me out here to tell me it's hot. What's on your mind? Is it about your boy?
Job Harley
You seen him, Marshall?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Yeah, a couple of weeks ago. The Long Branch.
Job Harley
He's growed big, ain't he?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Too big, maybe.
Job Harley
Job.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Is he here?
Job Harley
He's gone off. You know anything about raising boys, Marshall?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
That's a little out of my line, Job.
Job Harley
Well, the man wants his boy to carry on all the good things he's got none of the bad.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
No. That's a pretty big order, isn't it?
Job Harley
But that's what a man wants for his son to be good, to be better than he was.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Some boys never grow up to be the men their fathers were, Job.
Job Harley
It ain't easy raising them. Man don't want to mother his boy to death. Nor ride herd on him too much, neither.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You're gonna tell me something, Job.
Job Harley
What's a man to do when he finds his son has just picked up all the bad ways and none of the good? What's a man to do then, Marshal?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Let go of him, Job.
Job Harley
But a man's son, Marshall, he's carrying his name. He can't let him carry it to perdition.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
He can't hurt your name, Job, only his own.
Job Harley
That ain't true, Marshall. I ain't been much. The people I come from weren't much neither. But we always kept the name clean, Marshal.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
What's Tad done, Job? Where is he?
Job Harley
A man don't expect his son to strike it rich. Maybe, but he expects him to keep the name clean.
Doc Adams
Job.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Will you tell me?
Job Harley
Well, Tell you what, Marshall?
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Why did you call me out here? You just didn't want to talk about
Job Harley
your boy, did you? I always like to talk to you. You've always been a good friend.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I am your friend, Joe. But you better start talking straight or I'm heading back to town.
Job Harley
You're going to find out. Marshall.
Doc Adams
Mr. Dillon.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Well, what's Chester doing out here? Yeah, what's the matter? Mr. Dillon?
Tad Harley
There's just been a hold of Bunny.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
What? Any shooting?
Doc Adams
Yes, sir, there was.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
How many were there?
Doc Adams
Just one.
Job Harley
Did he get away?
Doc Adams
No, sir, Mr. Harley, he didn't.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Was he hurt?
Doc Adams
Worse than that, Mr. Dunn.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Well, who was it?
Job Harley
Well, he's dead, ain't he? Tad's dead.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Tat. Was it Tad Chester?
Doc Adams
Yes, sir, it was.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I'm sorry, Job.
Job Harley
It had to be.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You don't seem surprised.
Job Harley
No, Marshall. I've been seeing it coming ever since
Doc Adams
the boy come home.
Job Harley
He was bad clear through Marshall. He's robbed before and killed, too.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
He told you that?
Job Harley
He carried pieces out of newspapers around with him. Pieces there had been written about him. He was proud of it. Marshall said it made him feel big.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Some of them feel that way for a while.
Job Harley
I couldn't talk him out of it. I couldn't hold him. But I could see it was stopped.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
You knew about today?
Job Harley
I knew.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
Why didn't you tell me about it?
Job Harley
I figured you'd take his gun. Maybe lock him up for a while. He had to be stopped for good, Marshall.
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
I might have done that if I'd been in Dodge, Joe.
Job Harley
I know that, Marshall. But it would have gone hard with you to have to kill my boy. You're my friend, Marshall. That's why I seen to it you'd be here. Then I said word to the bank that Tad was coming.
Doc Adams
Oh,
Matt Dillon (Marshal)
you made a hard choice, Job.
Job Harley
Well, like I told you, Marshall, man has to keep his name clean.
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Narrator (Gunsmoke)
Gun Smoke produced and Directed by Norman McDonald. Stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. marshal. The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper and Bill James. 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.
Job Harley
Sam.
Daphne Forsyth
Foreign.
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Host: Andrew Rhynes
Podcast Date: May 31, 2026
Original Air Date: September 1, 1957
This episode of Old Time Radio Westerns features a meticulously restored Gunsmoke drama, “Jobe’s Son.” The story unfolds in Dodge City, focusing on the return of Tad Harley after four years’ absence and how his reappearance shatters the frail hopes of his ailing father, Job Harley. The drama explores themes of family, disappointment, and the burden of one’s legacy, pitting the optimism of a father against the grim realities of a son gone bad. Marshal Matt Dillon is drawn into a tense situation that culminates in a tragic conclusion.
[23:15] News arrives that Tad has been killed in a failed robbery attempt.
Chester: “There’s just been a holdup. Tad... He’s dead.”
[23:50] Job is resigned, not surprised by his son’s fate.
Job Harley: “I’ve been seeing it coming ever since the boy come home. He was bad clear through, Marshal. He's robbed before and killed, too. He carried pieces out of newspapers… he was proud of it.”
Job Harley (On raising sons) [21:24]:
"You know anything about raising boys, Marshal?"
Matt Dillon: "That's a little out of my line, Job."
Job: "The man wants his boy to carry on all the good things he's got, none of the bad."
Matt Dillon (On Tad’s path) [15:04]:
"Doesn't sound much like the survival of the fittest."
Tad Harley (On coming home) [06:27]:
"I come home because I didn't have nowhere else to go. But I'm taking care of that right soon."
Job Harley (On his legacy) [24:16]:
"A man's son, Marshall, he's carrying his name. He can't let him carry it to perdition."
Job Harley (Admitting painful responsibility) [24:44]:
"That's why I seen to it you'd be here. Then I sent word to the bank that Tad was coming."
Matt Dillon (Summing up Job’s burden) [25:09]:
"You made a hard choice, Job."
Job Harley (Resolute to the end) [25:13]:
"Well, like I told you, Marshall, a man has to keep his name clean."
“Jobe’s Son” is a poignant, hard-edged exploration of family ties, lost hope, and the necessity of painful choices on the frontier. Through grounded, unromantic dialogue, the cast brings to life a tale as sharp as prairie wind, laced with stoic regret. The episode’s restored audio—complete with vivid ambient sound—delivers an authentic immersion into the world of classic radio Westerns.
(Advertisements, sponsor bumpers, and extraneous chatter have been omitted for clarity.)