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Chester's Mistake

Gunsmoke · April 12, 1959 · 24 min · 3,396 words

The transcript of “Chester's Mistake”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast April 12, 1959. 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'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. Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violent that moved West with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it.

I'm that man, Matt Dillon, the United States Marshall, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chance, a job, that makes a man watchful, but a little lonely.

Everybody out, end of the line. That's it.

I'll put real now. No. I didn't mean to say anything. I never hear you. I'll never hear you. Hey, Andy, go ahead. There's been a place in the right. You go too, and that's the fact.

Over there, Mr. Dunne. Hello, Chester. Well, I'd say you meetin' somebody on the stage. As a matter of fact, I am. I'd be glad to point him out to you. I got to know everybody really well.

Awful nice bunch of folks. Well thanks, Chester, but I see you. All right. Well, maybe I can introduce you. Which one is he? Follow the name of Chester Proudfoot. You got to know him fairly well.

Well, Mr. Donut, you mean you come down here just to meet me? Well, any law against it? Well, no, sir. Well, say now that's awful nice. You miss you don't have awful money. Do you have a nice trip, Jesse?

Yes, sir. Sure. I just said, my sister can be why they couldn't have treated me no better if I had a benefit. That's good. You find your family all right. Well, sure. They was right there.

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