Delia's Father

In the round 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 violence 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 chancey job, and it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely. It's you. Come in, come in.

Yeah, it's me, such as I am. It's a little early for dinner, isn't it? Besides, you didn't have to come up here after me. Oh, this is a professional, Karl Doc. Take a look at my eye, will you?

Sure, I will. Come over here to light. Sit down. Which one is bothering you? You see, Doc? Yeah, I see. There's something in it, I think. You want to sit still? Oh, yes. Yes, now, let's see.

You think you can get it, Doc? Ah, there it is. See it on this piece of cotton? Oh, well, you can hardly see it. It felt like a whole scuttle of coal. Doesn't take much to make your eye feel that way.

I'll give you something to wash it out with for a day. Okay, Doc. You heard from Matt? Huh? Not a word. Seems to me, he expected to be back by now. Well, he did. There's a trial starting up at Hayes City today or tomorrow, I think.

Matt's supposed to testify. Oh, yes. Yes, you're right. I remember that now. Well, maybe he and Chester are making a pleasure trip out of it, huh? Maybe they found some decent weather, aren't hurrying to get back.