Gunsmoke · January 20, 1957 · 24 min · 2,821 words
The transcript of “Categorical Imperative”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast January 20, 1957. 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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Brought to you by L&M, the modern cigarettes 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.
Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moves West with young America. and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dallum, United States Marshal. The first man they looked for and the last thing what a meet.
It's a chancey job, but it makes a man watchful. At a little lonely. All right, Matt. You go ahead, man.
Play that goggone double six. I know you got it. Okay, Doc. That's how you want it. There it is. I know that good news. Yeah, he's gonna be fine. He's flying away for a couple of grown-up men to spend the time playing dumb.
Well, it's better than fighting that storm outside, anyway. Maybe you're right, it's bad. I wouldn't go out that way if the men of the plague were raging. Sure play, Doc. Or a dozen babies were about to be born.
Sure play, Doc. Quit stalling with you. Come on, lay one down. Come on, lay one down. Don't rush me, don't rush me, man. Got a think in this game, you know. Not a big encounter.
Twelve, he doesn't. He's like one. The worst business he has, man. Yeah, the store hasn't hit his peak. How's Kitty getting along, Doc? Well, the throat's pretty sore, but it's a touch the grip. I told her, stay in bed for another day or so.
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