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The New Hotel

Gunsmoke · February 19, 1956 · 24 min · 3,108 words

The transcript of “The New Hotel”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast February 19, 1956. 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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Gun smoke brought to you by Chesterfield Chesterfield packs more pleasure because it's more perfectly packed thanks to Accuré They satisfy the most Around Dodge City and in the territory on West there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers And that's with a US Marshall and the smell of gun smoke

Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the trans-grud 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 Dolan, United States Marshal.

The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Oh, so that's Enoch Milge's new hotel.

Yeah, well be when they got a bill, Chester. I never heard of a cattle rancher going into the hotel business before me. Enoch Mills is a man of enterprise. Look down, Ratty. He's as proud as a new father, ain't he?

Well, it isn't every day a man builds a new hotel in Dodge. Well, Marshall, Chester. Oh, Mr. Mills? That's gone up pretty fast, isn't it? Well, we've got most a month towards finish. How many rooms are you going to have?

Fifteen. You could have more, but this is going to be a class hotel. Not some hate tent like Jim Dobby's Dodge House. I bet he's yelling. That Dobby's had a monopoly in this town long enough.

You were right about him being jealous, Chester. He's already done everything he can to keep me from building. Oh, what's he done? He tried to buy up all the good lumber and town for one thing.

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