Crack-Up
Gunsmoke · October 16, 1960 · 25 min · 2,482 words
The transcript of “Crack-Up”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast October 16, 1960. 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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From 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 spell of gun smoke. 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 looked for and the last they want to meet. a chance a job that makes a man watchful. But a little lonely. Marshall dealing.
Come in Marshall. Come in. Oh, see this. And you've got time to give me a haircut. I got a neat one. Yes, you're the only cut your mom head in our Marshall. And you're paying your coat and your gun bill right over there.
And I'm getting ready for you. All right. Yeah, I've seen you around telling me Marshall. I've been over an apple in for a week. Got back late last night. You must have come in on the midnight seat.
That's right. I sure wish I could get out of dodge once in a while. Not the way I do it, you wouldn't. You're just big glad that you can stay here if it is. Yeah, maybe you're right, Marshall.
Listen, no chair you've got? Yes, sure. You had to find this barber chair with the St. Louis. Well, that's pretty fancy. You do, big kid. You comfortable? I'll tell you after I find out if you've raised your prices to pick for it.
Yeah, let me get this cloth over you. Yeah, I had a touch of steel quarter, Marshall. A shave? Yeah, it's too tight around your neck. Oh, it's okay. What about shaves? If I was with you, you'd go up a dime, Marshall.
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