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Gunsmoke - Marshal Proudfoot

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Duration:: 26m
Broadcast on:: 18 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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And that's with the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. ♪♪♪ Gun moves forward, starring William Conrad, the 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 at a little lonely. ♪♪♪ Hey, Matt. You here? Yeah, I'm here, Doc. Come on in. Oh, well, how come you're in bed so early? I'm not in bed, Doc. I'm just restful. Oh, I see the cost of governments going up again. Uh-huh. Let me just say that. The souls, you boots. They're worn almost through. I don't care. That's a matter. Aren't you feeling good? Sure, I feel fine, Doc. I always lie in bed, too, no. Well, it just doesn't look right for you to be like, oh, for heaven's sake. What's the matter now? That's cold. The coffee's cold and the rattlesnakes belly. Don't drink it. And it's no better hot here. No, Matt, like I was saying, a man in your position should have more to do than just lie around. Oh, maybe I'm just tired, Doc. Oh, and I don't try to tell me it was brought on by upholding law and order all night because I don't want to hear about it. I had a bad night myself. Well, then sit on and rest. Yes, he got it. Aren't you going to ask me what I was doing? No. Amen. Well, I spent the whole night working for four dollar fees. Oh, there must have been somebody who didn't know you. He knew it was Jeb Doorn. His wife had a baby girl. Jeb, huh? He was hoping for a boy, as I recall it. And that's what worries me. Oh, why? He refused to pay me. Well, no wonder you're tired. He, he, he, he, he. What's this poster on? It says right there, didn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it does. Wanted, get her alive, jacked cargo for the torture and the subsequent murder of... And, sis, sis, sis, sis, sis, sis, sis, sis. Oh, this man is noted for armed hold-up and is believed heading in the general direction of Missouri, Kansas, or Nebraska. Oh, that's a mean-looking devil, isn't it? Well, I can see that he'll certainly find his come up, and if he sticks his head and dogs. Oh, I'll tell you, Doc. I'll worry about that if he comes here. Oh, well, that gives me a nice, safe feeling. Marshall, here he is. Yeah, yeah, I'm the Marshall. I'll tell you, Marshall Proudfoot, here about you see. Marshall Proudfoot? Huh? Oh, neither one of you. Neither one of you ain't Marshall I can tell. I was Paul. I didn't know him anywhere. Uh, Doc. Go find Chester, would you? Sure, man. No, no, no. Need to get up. Just come see my boy. Marshall Chester Proudfoot. Made good somehow, he did. Chester never was one of my brightest boys. Eleven boys, I had, I remember. Say, I ain't your hand here yet. What's your name, Sonny? Dylan. Matt Dylan. Dylan? I have a funny name for a man. I knew a man one time had the name of Harold Grove. Harold Grove. I thought that was the funniest up till now, but Dylan. Oh, Doc. You better go get Chester. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's that fella? Well, that's Doc Adams. Yeah, nice to tell you, sir. Saying something is a... I said it's nice. Oh, my name is Wesley Proudfoot. Sorry that Marshall turns out. Yes, sir. Eleven boys, I had. Chester was nowhere near the brightest. No, sir. He'd rate about number nine. That's very interesting. That's excellent. Chester Bordered on being ignorant, I'd think. Oh, no. Can't you imagine how he ever got to be a Marshall? Chester Wesley Proudfoot, Marshall of Dodge City. Look, Mr. Proudfoot. It named all them boys with a middle name of Wesley. After me, it did. Hope at least one of them would mount some, like me. Yes. But say name was? It's Adam. Dr. Adams. Dr. Adams. Chester had a horse or people. What? What matter if you? I see a doctor, horses or people. Yes, people. Oh, it's too bad for you. I wouldn't ever let a people doctor work on me. And I got a great many things wrong with me, too. Where's Chester? He's out getting the mail from me. Oh, good for him. Got spunk. Probably running down some of them bad, man. He always writes about. You'd have an assistant name of Dylan working for him. What are we coming here? Dylan, that's me, Mr. Proudfoot. Matt Dylan, that's me. Oh, yeah. Well, you'll do a fair job, Gordon Chester. Says he can usually depend on you. Well, that's very nice of him. I looked, Mr. Proudfoot. Maybe you should know something tonight. Oh. Hello, Don. Yes, Chester. There wasn't one too much mail, Mr. Dylan. Forget it, Chester. What? Chester. You've got company. Who's the fatballer? That's Chester. That's the Marshall Proudfoot. Oh. You know, Mr. Dylan, that's... Oh, poor. At you, Chester. Yeah, that's him, Mr. Proudfoot. Ah, you fatted up. Good deal, Chester. Your assistant here looks better than you do. I'd like an explanation. Matter of fact, so would I, Chester. Mr. Dylan, that's... Doc, I... Oh, Paul. Doc, I... Oh, Paul. Now, some folks, I guess, think that the stamps are just for licking. And some go in for that flatly stuff. You know, looking for misprints and hard to get ones. But me, well, I just collect them for fun. But I learned a lot that way, and maybe you can, too. Now, that's cause our United States stamps all got the stamp of history on them. If you've got a minute, I'll open my album here, and I'll show you what I mean. Let me see here. Ah, now, here. Here's a 4 cent one the post office put out in 1962 for the 75th anniversary of the Association of State University. And Land Grant Colleges. I ain't had any of that higher education myself, but I know it's mighty important in making your way these days. And you're never too old to learn. No, even from stamps. Found out from this one that Abe Lincoln signed the Land Grant Act into law during the Civil War. Now, that act still gives the money from sale and use of public lands to help make 68 colleges and universities some of the biggest and finest we've got. And seeing as how they turned out 25 of our 42 live and no bell prize winners, I guess you could just say it's paid off real good. What are you going to do about Matt? Nobody wants us. Chester, telling his father that he's the marsh. What can I do? Right, not going to let him be by with it, are you? I don't know, Doc. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me by. And her sister doesn't make too much, you know. Easy, Doc. Hello, Doc. Doc, you're looking pretty strange today, how come? Tell her, Matt. You tell her, Doc, you're the one looking strange. Well, come on, somebody tell me. Get it out. Very cute, thank you. Have you seen Chester, Kitty? No, right. We may never see him again. What? What happened? Not how much, really, but I'm sure he wishes he was dead right now. Oh, what's this all about? Chester's father came to town today. Well, it's a terrible about that. But, sir, to me, he thinks Chester is the marshal here. What? Yeah, that's right, Kitty. Chester wrote to his father, and he probably stretched the truth a little bit, like we all do sometimes. Oh, no. Well, where are they now? Oh, at the Dodge House, he's getting the old man of room there. And it was all Chester looked so scared in my life, Kitty. You should have seen him. He grabbed his pond, he lived out of the office like his coat was on fire. Don't be hard on him, Matt. I'm not going to be hard, only. Well, his father must be pretty old. Oh, he's older, I guess. I can't hear good, and he can hardly see him. But he's a bright old father. Boy, you can't let the old man be disappointed, Matt. Well, what would you suggest that too, Kitty? I don't know. Just don't hurt him. That's all. I'm not going to hurt him, Kitty. I don't care if the old man thinks Chester is a marshal. Matt, we should think of something to make Chester look good while his father's in town. Yeah. I heard the old man tell Chester that he was only going to stay for a few days. Oh, see, Matt, now maybe you could lie low for a while. I wouldn't mind that, I need a rest. Hey, I got it. Why didn't you get somebody to pretend to hold up and then let Chester play marshal and take him in? You can turn him loose when his father leaves. Oh, Kitty, I couldn't do a thing like that. Well, something's got to be done, Matt. Yes, did you? I could put you to bed, Matt. What are you talking about, Doug? Yeah, you get sick and I'll examine you, and say that you've got a rare blood disease. And you have to go to bed for a few days. Get my work, Matt. I can't let that old man go away thinking Chester's been lying to him all this time. No. We'll get Miles Grimmick to stage a fake hold up, you see? Then we'll come and get Chester, and right in front of his father, he'll capture the bandit. You're the one with a rare disease, Doc, and it's not in your blood, it's in your brain. I'll do it, Matt, you got to. No, I don't got to, I don't want any part of a fake hold up. Now, you just get that out of your head. Oh, Matt. Well, I'm going back to the office. Oh, sure, go ahead. Yeah, go ahead, ruin an old man in his last days. Um, what do you think, Doc? Yeah, right. Old Matt'll come around all right, Kitty. He always does. I'll go talk to Miles Grimmick and have it all set. ♪♪ Anybody here? Say anybody in here? Oh, there you are, Dylan. Oh, took to your bed kind of early, didn't you? Eight, but four o'clock. Hello, Mr. Broadfund. Where's Chester? Yes. Well, I guess you got such a dead little town on your hand. You can do that, you and Chester. I say, where is Chester? Saying something? I said, where's Chester? Don't yell like that. Hurts me your panda when you bell her out like that. It's got a pretty big voice on you there, Dylan. What's the matter with you? Uh, feeling poorly, are you? I say, feeling poorly, are you? I feel terrible. Uh, too bad. Chester ain't feeling too good, neither. Oh, been lolling around on my bed over at the room and house all day. Good thing you boys got this dead town on your hands. Yeah. Yeah, people be up the creek with both the Marshall and his sister in bed. Who's over there? I say, who's over there? Let me take a look at you. Let me look at your eyes. Tell everything about how a man feels by looking to his... Look at me, Dylan. I can't help looking at you. That's it. That's coming. Yes, sir. You got bad. I was there, Dylan, at one in particular. You got a good voice, but bad eyes. And my reminds me of Chester's uncle Hector. Last time he looked all slack-jawed like that, he died the next day. Huh? What's that? Uh, nothing. I didn't say anything. Oh, that's talked. That's, sir. Hector was Chester's pregnant uncle. I reckon that's where Chester gets all his. Get up and go. Uh-huh. That's where Chester gets all his. Get up and go. Uh-huh. Well, some different, though. Hector fought again the law, Hector did. Ever seen a man stir it up again the law all the time? My goal, Hector, where? Have you had your dinner yet, Mr. Price? Oh, indeed. He was a winner. You're right there. One law is battle. Kill two marshals, Hector did. Kill them dead. Good thing Chester's on the side of the law. Man, that's a terrible. I got out of here on the side of the law. Yeah. Hello, Mr. Price. You, huh? Oh, you're here. Look here. You got a sick memory here, Adam. Gonna go get a horse doctor and get him straightened out. Oh. Hey. What are you doing in bed, man? I'm in bed because I'm sick, Doc. Did you ever hear of anything like that? You're sick? Uh-huh. You are, man? Oh, see, that's fine. Yeah, well, I figured you'd think so. Doc, would you do me a favor and take Mr. Proudfoot up to dinner? Anything? Just get him out of here. Yeah, sure. Now you're about to open. See, your eyes look kind of beady there. Yeah, well, we've been through all that. Yeah, well, look, I didn't know that. I'd say that you had a fever. Adam, I say you got a sick boy there. Doc, would you go right now? Yeah, OK. Oh, sure. Mr. Proud, did you ever hear of it? How many of them? I'll take you to dinner. Yeah, dinner? Oh, no. Too early for dinner. Take a little glass of dust water with you though, but don't let on Chester with you. Yeah. I'll see you later, Matt. And I'll let Kitty know you're with us. Oh, fine, Doc. Good. You let Kitty know I'm with you. You just go. Yeah, sure, Adam. Got a boy there who's sicker than a pig. What? Let Kitty know I'm with you. Doc! Doc, you come back here! Hey! Home towns in America have a lot in common. And yet they're each one of a kind. Take, for example, Chicago, Illinois. The land of the Spiegel catalog in the Playboy Bunny beacon is a totland town. And at the summer music festivals in Grand Park, the price is right. But standing at Marshall Field on state in Randolph, you're on the windiest corner in the world as your body braces for the blast. The colorful neighborhoods of the west side are gone to urban development. But the University of Illinois is getting a new campus there. In theater, there's the second city on the near north side, or the theater on the lake in Lincoln Park. Shopping in the suburbs offers old orchard in Skokie, Randhurst in Mount Prospect, and Oakbrook near Hinsdale. Chicago can't win them all, though. In 1948, the Tribune said, "Do it if it's Truman." And in the fall of '66, the Convention Center burned. But if your hometown is Chicago, you already know this. We only wanted to remind you, it's still there. [MUSIC PLAYING] Hey, Kitty. Where's Doc? I don't know, Matt. He was here a little while ago, am I? He's at a half hour looking at all the eating houses for him. He's got Chester's father with him, I've got to stop him. Seven from what? From that full idea that you already had. What do you mean full idea? Doc came by and said it was on, that you were playing sick in bed. Kitty, I was in bed because I really was sick and I still am sick. Have you and Doc lost your senses? Well, we're just trying to help Chester, that's all. Now, look, what if somebody else sees that hold up, must, cremic, and stage him? How do they know that he's just playing games? Doc and I aren't going to let anybody get hurt, Matt. And you know, Chester, he'll play along all the way. That's exactly what I'm afraid of. Oh, Kitty. Oh, said Kitty. Oh, hello, Matt. Oh, you're on your feet for the phone. You call this thing off right now, Doc. Oh, no, no, no, it's too late, Matt. Chester and his father up at the Dodge House in exactly three minutes from now, must, cremic, is going to rush up there and say there's a hold up at the library statement. And I'm putting a stop to her before somebody gets hurt. Well, that's it. I don't know. It's not time yet. Oh, come on, Doc. You can watch the fun you started. Come on. You know, somehow to knock your head off from there. Now, Matt, now take it easy, Matt. What are you doing? What? You better hurry. Chester just shot a man at the Dodge House. Hooked Lord. Come on. Let me through here. Will you please move aside. Let me through. Yeah, right, Matt. Matt, wait. Look. Chester, sitting on somebody. Chester, what are you doing? Get off of that, Matt. Doc, check that one line over there. I will. He shot and wounded one fellow, and we subdued the other one. All right, Mr. Cole. We did that ain't a bad night for you. Oh, Chester, will you get up? No, he tried to kill me in power. Get up. I said he's unconscious. Oh, Matt, wait a minute. Look here. What is it, Doc? Look at this man. It's Jack Pargo. What? You're the man on that wanted poster? Yeah, that is Pargo, all right. Mr. Dillon, a fellow friend of yours released. He tried to hold up the hotel officer. No, Mr. Proudfoot is not a friend of mine. Ah? What's that? Anybody catch that car then? Oh, Chester. What? Chester! Hurry up, Chester. There he is. Hold up that delivery stable. Moss. Go home. Yeah, but Doc told me that. Just go back to your delivery stable and call off the hold up, huh? Yeah, forget it, Moss. Forget it. We've had the real thing, right? Well, well, well. Well, goodbye, Moss. Well, yeah, sure. Sure, goodbye, goodbye. Yeah, goodbye. Yes, goodbye. Wait, what? Now, pull it over here. Notice something here, did you, Dillon? Chester was right on the spot. He was. That's the reason he took my bed for so long. Uh-huh. He got an instinct for these things. Chester has put him right here on the spot for this hold up. Now, there's a reason for everything. I'll always say it. Yeah, well, there's a reason. All right, sir. What's he doing? Mr. Dillon, I can explain all this. No, Chester. You and your father take care of things here. I'm sick, and I'm going to bed. Don't count on me taking care of things, Dillon. I'm leaving on the modern stage. Now I saw my boy in action. Yeah, well, all right, Mr. Proudfoot. Goodbye, and good luck to you. You wait right here a minute, Paul. Mr. Dillon. Yeah, what? Mr. Dillon, I can explain. You don't have to, Chester. But yes, I do have to explain. That's where I've never been so humiliated in all my whole life. I've been thinking about it all day, Mr. Dillon. I never wrote, but two letters to Paul. Well, maybe I did stretch a couple things. Well, Paul, he put it all together and made me out more important than what I am. But I'll set him straight, Mr. Dillon. I'll tell him the truth, and I'll do it right now. Chester. You do, and you're fired. You go on back and help your father take care of things. OK. Yes, sir, Mr. Dillon. When I want an example of how a term or phrase is used, I generally find a colorful example in some speech of that old political character, Elijah Cuddlestone. For instance. Now, I admit, I say, of course, I'm a grassroots candidate. You know, I work from the bottom up. That is, I get down to the basics of a matter. Down to the grassroots. Now, I want to know how I mean you're my people. And I insist on knowing how you might be affected. That is why you elected me, because I am one of you. And it's like I say, I am elected by you and working for you. Well, getting down to grassroots seems to be what politicians and office seekers report themselves is doing most any time, but more especially preceding an election. It's a folksy American phrase that simply means getting down to the underlying principles are basic facts of a matter, and may be used at any time by any one. The actual origin of the phrase is unknown, but it's reported usage predates 1885. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke. [MUSIC] This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 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