Matt Gets It: Gunsmoke (October 2, 1954)

“Matt Gets It” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 2, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A Texas sheriff arrives in Dodge City looking for Dan Grat, a gunman wanted for murder in Amarillo. When Grat himself shows up and reveals he killed a man in self-defense before learning the victim was unarmed, Matt must navigate the confrontation between the proud sheriff and the skilled gunman who refuses to be taken without a fight.

Dodge City and surrounding territory in Kansas, with references to Amarillo, Texas

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester Bradford, Jim Hill, Dan Grat

Listen for: A tense standoff develops between Marshal Dillon and two dangerous men with conflicting claims about honor and justice in the Old West.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.