Bringing Down Father
Gunsmoke · March 11, 1956 · 25 min · 3,054 words
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Gun smoke brought to you by Chesterfield. Chesterfield packs more pleasure because it's more perfectly packed thanks to Acure. 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 U.S. marshal and the smell of gun smoke.
Gun smoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of the violence that moved west with young America. And the story of a man who moved with... I'm that man.
Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they looked for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely. You get caught in the rain last night, Matt?
I never left the office, Doc. I stayed home, too. Yeah. For once. Ordinarily bad weather brings a rash of broken legs and babies with it. All out in the country, someone. Ah, you always told me, living in the open is good for a man, Doc.
I said, son is good for a man. Well, you'll get some son next summer. And you'll complain just as hard about that. When I think I could have an office, back in Baltimore. We're nice, clean people come to see me.
Yeah, but nobody needs you in Baltimore, Doc. They get sick there, too, don't they? I don't know. I've never been there. You've never been? He's never been. Hello, John. You wouldn't last two days in Baltimore, Mac?
No. No. People are too polite and well-mannered. Well, you teach me what it's like, Doc, but there's some other time. Ah, there. Now, you see what I mean? Yeah, that's what I mean. Oh, oh, and Chester here.
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