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Gunsmoke: The Queue

Gunsmoke · November 17, 1957 · 23 min · 3,265 words

What happens

A Chinese laborer named Chen Wong arrives in Dodge City looking for work. When local bullies Braden and Ryan harass him over a small box he carries, rumors spread that he's hiding money inside. Matt Dillon must protect Chen from those who might rob or kill him for the mysterious box.

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc, Chen Wong, Press Braden, Howard Ryan, Mr. Green

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Transcript

In the town 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. Marshall and the smell of gun smoke, wearing 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 Marshall, 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. In Vicksburg, very catered cough drops, there is a difference.

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It's an organic cold, plus the medication, and makes the difference. Yes, the medication makes the difference. And for a stuffy nose, just one whiff. With a Vicks inhaler, and that miserable feeling of a stuffy nose goes in seconds.

Use it anywhere, anytime. Vicks in hailer. Mr. Dylan? What? Mr. Dylan. He is so riled up about Chester. Press Braden and Howard Brad.

What are those bullies up to now? She won't ever believe it, but these are real china men here in town. A little Chinese fellow with a big tail and all. He just come in to dodge on a freighter, and right now Braden and Rob, they got him pushed up against the wall out there.

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If a bothersome cough accompanies your cold, get welcome relief with new liquid four-way cough and cold medication. You spend directed by Norman McConnell, stars William Comrade at Matt Dillon, US Marshall. The story was specially written for gun smoke by John Bassett.

featured in the cast were Ben Reich, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips and John Dayner. Harley Baer is Chester, Howard McNair is Doc and Georgia Ellis is kidding.

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