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The Piano

Gunsmoke · August 17, 1958 · 23 min · 2,832 words

The transcript of “The Piano”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast August 17, 1958. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gunsmoke plays Gunsmoke free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with the 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 chancey job, but it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely. You want some more pie, Kitty?

You might as well say Doc's paying for him. No thanks, Matt. I've had plenty. What happened to make you such a big spender, Doc? Some forgotten remedy, leave you something in his will. Mike's his will, huh?

What do you mean, Doc? Well, you remember that cowboy, got himself shot up in a long branch brawl. branch brawl that was a year to go and more than one of them I know that but Kitty might remember she helped stop the bleeding until I got there oh I remember Doc you didn't even have enough money to buy a bear and we figured he never would

have what happened to him well sir I had a letter from him this morning he's had some kind of a payoff in California and he sent me a $20 go piece to pay me for what he called my medical service. I'm glad he made up.

Men like him don't know. You don't often get paid. Well, you never know my business. Just a man at the door. He means that back. Excuse me. He's gone back outside. Somebody must be heard.

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