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Thick 'n' Thin

Gunsmoke · September 16, 1956 · 24 min · 3,290 words

The transcript of “Thick 'n' Thin”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast September 16, 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 L&M, the modern cigarette that lets you get full, exciting flavor through the modern miracle of the pure, white miracle tip. Live modern, Smoke L&M. 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.

Unsmoke, starring William Conrad, The transcribed 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 Marshal. 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. Oh my goodness, now if that sure don't be at all...

Oh, it's a matter, Chancellor. Odie Perkins coming down the street there with a mad on so thick you can feel it right through the wind. Odie's not a man to get tempered easy. Well he sure is now Mr. Dylan.

He said dog on Riley's leaving a blue streak behind him. It's a gospel truth look. I can't be anything serious. Marshall Dylan. Oh, morning Odie. Marshall, I'm here to call on the power and protection of the law and all its majesty and might.

Well, that's a pretty tall order, Odie. You've got some reason for needing the law? Reason. I've got reasons that go back as far as fifteen years. Marshall, I want to swear I'd have to complaint. In Junction, a bench warrant, whatever it is it takes to get a certain low-life scum evicted from the premises.

Run out of dodge, banished from the territory, and horse-wipped a moat if you can work it in somehow. Well, what's a certain person done, Odie? To deserve that kind of... I think what he's done as much as what he is.

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