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The Correspondent

Gunsmoke · November 23, 1958 · 18 min · 2,051 words

The transcript of “The Correspondent”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast November 23, 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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and in the territory on West, there is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's where the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. William Conrad, state's Marshal, looked for and the last thing we want to meet. It's a chancey job, and it makes

a man watchful. I'm gonna get the date. It did.

I'm gonna name it, it's Bell writing, but all of it. You got what I'm looking to see here now. Sorry. What's up? Didn't see you. Hey, Swiss. What a look where you're going. You're right.

I was saying goodbye to my informant, the stage driver. Information wasn't worth it. Here. Sit your hat. Thank you. You just get off the stage? Yeah. I came all the way from St. Louis. I must say St. Louis is looking better to me all the time.

better to me all the time. My name is Martin Reed Norton. My name is Adam Stockton at it. Anybody forcing you to come here in Norton? I'm a correspondent. I'm after a story on the stage hold up that happened near here several days ago. Heard about that all over the state of Louisiana. I'll be your western shooting matches get a

lot of publicity. If you know all about it, why did you have to come to Dodge? Well I want I want the real story. That's some romantic size to come. Hey maybe you You can tell me what you know about it.

Mr. Norton, since you're so interested in the real thing and all of you, I suggest you get your story from Marshall Dillon. Huh? He'd be the man with the facts. Oh, and a swagger to go with him, I suppose.

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