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Gunsmoke - The Cast reused script

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Duration:: 26m
Broadcast on:: 04 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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It's a chancey job that it makes a man watchful, at a little lonely. [Music] Nice day, Matt. The wind's gone down anyway. Mm-hmm. Sure, what blowing last night? Well, where are you last night, Doc? Out of the Caldwell place. This is called about expecting. Huh? Still? It was a false alarm right there. Yeah. Yeah, you ought to get some sleep while you can. No, no, that's right. We're in the head of two. John Adams. Oh, hello, Ruth. I've been looking for you, Doc. Matt, this is Ruth Tucker. She'll tuck his son. Oh, Ruth. We ain't met before, Marshall. No, we haven't. How are you here, Paul? These days. She's just like ever, but it's more I come to get Doc for. Your mom? What's the matter, Ruth? She swallows a nail, Doc, and it's hurting her bad. Follow the nail. How'd you do that? Well, I told her not to, but she was fixing the chicken house anyway, and she had some nails in her mouth. You did. It's hurting her? It's her stomach. She's got a terrible pain in her stomach. That's better. I'll ride out with you right away, Ruth. I ought to warn you, Doc. You know how Paul is. Matt. Hell doesn't like Doc. No. He hates him, but he ain't there right now, Doc. He's been out on the parade the last couple of days. I want to let me be back. I don't know if it's your or Marshall, but Marr said to get Doc anyway. She doesn't want to die. Uh, shall it cause trouble if he found Doc there, wouldn't he? He sure would. He'd beat him half to death. Well, maybe I better ride out with you, Doc, just in case Shell comes home while you're there. That's a good idea, Matt. I think you better. Uh, Ruth, you know, Chester, don't you? Oh, sure. I'll go to the long branch and tell him that I wanted to go with us. Okay, Marshall. [MUSIC] How do you think we're still in? Oh, I don't know, Chester. Doc's still working on him. Well, you ain't no sign of Shell anyway. Yeah, that's some help. What's the matter with him, and I said, "Mr. Dylan, hate and doctor his way he does?" I don't know, Chester, probably. There weren't any doctors around when he was young and well, was good enough for his father's good enough for him, some fool who shall like that, you know. And Shell always wasn't a mean old cuss, except for his horses. He's always treated horses like they're human. Did you ever notice that? No, Shell wasn't really a bad man, Chester, he was just ignorant and prejudiced because of his ignorance. If he'd have been here, he'd have let me tuck or die rather than have Doc operate, and I wouldn't. Yeah, probably. Well, that's bad. To me, it is. Maybe if Doc saved him some day, he might get over his ideas. Doc ain't going to have a chance to help, Shell, any? He never had a sick day in his whole life, I mean, yeah? No. He offered us? Yeah, I offered her. I wish you got it. She's been, I mean, I guess her heart couldn't take her. I don't know. I had to operate, though, she'd have died sure if I had to. That isn't your fault, Doc, you did all you could, you know. But I always feel, maybe, if I'd have done it better, things like this wouldn't have to be. You're not the blame, Doc. Uh, do you want me to tell you? I've already told you. He's in there with us. Huh? How'd he take it? He didn't say a word, man, you know, but I feel must be some war out. All right. Doc? Oh, yes, Ruth. You're too, Marshall. You're going to have to help me. Sure will help you, Ruth. What is it? Oh, it's about Paul, huh? I don't know what to tell him when he comes back. Well, I just tell him the truth, Ruth. Doc tried to save your mother, but he wasn't able to. Nobody could have. You don't know Paul very well, I guess. He just won't stand for it. There's nothing he can do about it now. It's all over. When Paul says the thing, he means it. And he said none of us was ever to go near a doctor. Ruth, do you agree with your Paul's thinking? No. Neither did Ma, but we didn't dare cross him when he was around anyway. I'm afraid of him, Marshall. You have to stay here and tell him. Well, I've got to get over to the Caldwell Place. That babies do anytime else. But you can't go near the doctor. I'll stay here until he comes back, Ruth. Chester, you better ride in the car in case anybody's looking for me. All right, here. Funny thing, how a doctor can lose one life and maybe bring another into the world very same day. Well, come on, Justin. We can ride partway together. I got another one, those Civil War Centennial stamps in my album here. And they knew I kind of liked this the best of all. Because it's the one on Appomattox, where the blue and the gray got together and decided to quit all that shooting and killing. Not today, no. Yeah, mm-hmm. Yes, here. Now, this Appomattox was just a little town in Virginia, but it got into history in a big way on April the 9th, 1865. That's when General Robert E. Lee figured this out and had it. And asked General US Grant to come there and talk it over. They say the Union General showed up wearing a private uniform and kind of money from the ride. But looks didn't much matter. The thing was that Grant took to heart what President Lincoln said, like it's on the steamp with malice toward none. Yeah, and he made the terms of surrender decent enough to go along with. To be real precise, Lee only surrendered for the Army of Virginia at Appomattox and not for the whole Confederacy. But when the word got around about it, all the armies of the South threw away their guns and came back home again. [MUSIC PLAYING] Ah, a lot of good, Ralph. I want a very good one. How 'bout a cross here? You want to put a cross, huh? I'll let Paul decide back. Oh, my gosh, Marshall. Here he comes now. Huh? Oh, yeah. Looks like he's been riding pretty hard, doesn't he? Always rides hard. But he takes my good care of his horse's old thing. He's never hurt one yet. Yeah, I know. Hello there, Marshall. How are you, shell? Well, what are you doing out here? Shell, your wife died. Died. Now, Ralph and I just finished burying her. She died just a few hours ago. We didn't know when you'd get back. So we went ahead and buried her. Would she die of? Oh, she was holding some nails in her mouth and she swallowed one of 'em. Loofed take this horse into the barn and drive off. Sure, Paul? Rub 'em good now. Yeah, I will, Paul. Yeah, don't let him near no water yet. No. What are you doing out here, Marshall? I came out with Doc. Who? Doc Adam. He did everything he could to save her life, shell. He cut on her, didn't he? Now, he tried to get the nail on if that's what you mean. She'd have died from it if he hadn't. Cuttin' on her. That's what killed her. Look, shell, your wife was dying and Doc tried to save her. Now, that's what happened no matter what you think. I got no use for doctors. They're all croakers. That's what my old man called him, croakers, and that's what killed him. Now, well, I cannot figure that's where all this came from. Shall have you ever thought maybe that your old man might have been wrong? Not about them, he wasn't. Who told Doc to come out here? Your wife wanted it. After all the times I've told her to stay away from Doctor-- Well, I guess she didn't want to die, shell. I guess she wanted a chance to live who were a defenseless woman. He'd come out here and kill her. Well, Doc Adams is going to pay for this, Marshall. I'm telling you right now. You lay a hand on Doc, and I'll run you out of a country, shell. Maybe you won't be a hand, I'll use, Marshall. Try anything like that, and you'll hang for it. I'll find you where ever you go. He killed my wife with his bunkers and butchering. He's a murderer. There's an amount of cancers to believe that. Doc's a pretty valuable citizen around here. Not to me, he ain't. It's an eye for an eye, Marshall. Like it says in the book-- You'll even try it, now, throw you in jail. I don't try nothing, then you'll hang. Will I, Marshall? I left shell tuckers standing by his wife's grave, and I rode back to Dodge. But narrowly, shell was feasible enough, but there was no telling what he might do now. Doc stayed at the Caldwell Place that night in the next day, too. I thought he'd be safe there, so I didn't worry about him. Until the next evening, Kitty and I were having supper at the Dodge house. Now, for a ton of livers in the cattle trade, you'd think that they're able to eat decent steak. You should have the prairie chicken, Kitty. It didn't have to walk all the way from Texas. Oh, no, sir. I got carried with too old a walk. Sound of eating prairie chicken, that was a taste like that. Well, I'd take it, Kitty. It's a little chicken with an awful lot of prairie. I didn't know you better. I'd say you'd been drinking. And if I know you, you'll order steak next time, anyway. Oh, I don't give up eating that. Yeah, I know. Well, remember it, man. Yeah, sure. You don't know much about women, do you, madam? Well, I'm learning. Yeah, that's the case you've said. I'll be in my grave before you're out of first grade. You know, it took me 10 years to learn how to handle a six gun. Well, that's the nicest compliment I've had all day. With a drink of coffee, I got to get out of here. Sir, Mr. Dylan. Oh, hello, mate. Hi, Doc. Oh, Doc, when you get back. Oh, just now. What's it in? Oh, thank you. How did you recall, well, Doc? She gave birth to a 12-pound boy this afternoon. Oh, that's fine. That's not what I came to talk about, though. Matt, somebody tried to shoot me on the way back from the cold little place, huh? Oh, it wasn't. I didn't see him. Since I didn't have a gun, I rode straight ahead fast. Oh, where this happened? About a mile the other side to go. Yeah, I should have come out there and ridden back with you. Then you know something about it? Yeah. Shell Tucker, he came back after you and Chester left, Doc. You made some threats. Yeah, I might have known that. But I'm not going to be a target for Shell every time I go on a call on the country. I'm going out and seeking that. We'll have this out face to face. I don't think he can change his mind, Doc, but I'll go with you. If he admits shooting at you this afternoon, I'll bring him back to jail. Maybe I'll bring him back anyway. Home towns in America have a lot in common. And yet they're each one of a kind. Say, for example, Niagara Falls, New York. In addition to serving as a honeymoon capital of the world, Niagara Falls finds it necessary to consider its own 100,000 citizens, most of whom are not just marriage, but year-round residents. They work at DuPont Chemical or Union Carbide and shop at Beer Brothers. On a clear day, they can see Toronto from the pool at the country club. And in the evening, they read the gazette and dine at the treadway. Meanwhile, aside from the newlyweds, others take the plunge. Literally, one of these was Red Hill, a champion of the Falls whose battered barrel is at the Falls Museum. Others of sheer grit have gone over in everything from light presivers to rubber balls. Fortunately, most prefer the view from Prospect Point or the cave of the wind's capwa, where you catch the spray in a yellow slicker. But if your hometown is Niagara Falls, you already know it. We only wanted to remind you it's still here. [MUSIC PLAYING] [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING] Somebody in the crowd there, man. Yeah, it looks like a shell. Here's a human roof bolt. All right, let's leave them here. There we go, Sam. They got a horse tied down in there. What's he doing? Well, he's down, Chester, but he's not tied. Oh, my gosh, here he is. There we go. Look at that. All right, broke his leg, and it's just a band. Oh, hell yeah. Doc's not going first in case Shell gets excited. All right, go ahead, I'll call you. How about a shell? A roof? Hello? You bring that croaker out here to kill my horse, warn me more-- On our shell? Wait a minute, Doc. I am. I'm sorry about your horse, Shell. That bays the finest animal I ever own. What happened? Well, he's just popping them off when it fell. What's this, a leg? Is that a blender? Oh, man, that's too bad. A roof going up the house and touching my rifle. OK, Pa. Terrible thing to lose a horse like this. Yeah. I'll go to the shooting room if you like, Shell. No, thanks. I'll kill him myself. It's my job. It's a funny thing. Well, shoot a horse if it breaks a leg, but we wouldn't think of shooting a man when he does. You croakers got other ways of getting rid of people. I'll overlook that, Shell. But I'll tell you something. I don't want to hear nothing. You don't like that horse, social. Horse, I do. Then don't shoot him. Don't shoot him, look, Shell. That horse is done for anyway, so it won't hurt to let me try to fix his leg the same way I would with a man. It just might work. You mean put a cast on him? I do. I never heard a put my cast on a horse. You're crazy. It's up to you, Shell. I wouldn't let you near my wife by being here, but I'm not going to let you fool with my horse. All right, Shell. You shoot your horse, and then I'm taking you back to Dodge. What for? You're going to jail for taking a shot of Doc yesterday. I didn't exactly say a shot of Doc. I ain't going to no jail. Yes, you are. Unless maybe Doc changes his mind about charging you with attempted murder. And then I couldn't put him jail. You know, Shell, I might get so busy working on this horse, I'd play and forget about everything else. And I might even save the animal to boot. I'll make up your mind, Shell. I've got to get back to Dodge. No. All right, but you better make it work, Doc. I said I'd try that the best I can do ever, no matter who the patient is. OK, Doc, you try. But you try real hard. I always do, Shell. Real hard. [MUSIC PLAYING] Chester and Ruth made a fast trip on the Dodge for a plaster of Paris and some muslin to go under it. And when they got back, Doc went to work. And now our later he had a heavy cast on our horse's leg. And after giving Shell some final instructions, he was finished. And he promised to come back in a couple of weeks and put a lighter cast on him, and we left. Shell didn't say much, but I knew if anything went wrong with that horse, he'd be after Doc again. However, six weeks went by before anything happened. Doc and I were to these offers with a game of chess that we started a few days earlier. And Doug, look where you are sitting down in there. If I move my bishop, you'll be right in on my queen. Yes, the only movie got, Doc. All right. There you are. Yeah, let's see what you can do there. Couple more of those, and I'll get that queen. Doc. Oh, hello, Shell. Doc, I've been looking everywhere. You blasted. Why'd you put a sign on your door saying you were out, so how come you weren't a gun? A man be a fool, that's where I've gone in this town, Marshall. It'd be a worse fool to try to use it. Doc, don't you rile me. I'm in a bad enough camp for already. What's wrong, Shell? Something happened to your horse? No, no, he's tied up right outside, Doc. What? Yeah, I took that second cast off myself. And then I wrote him in here. Of course, I took it easy with him, Doc. Do you? What do you know about him and his horse? Well, that's fine, Shell, but what do you say, hit it up a box? Well, you'd be here that too, Marshall. If you've been carrying a bed, twos in your jaws, long as I have to. What? You mean you're looking for a doctor, Shell? Well, I'm mad enough to admit it, Marshall. Oh, well, now, you can just sit down right over there. Is it there? I'll see what I can do. OK, Doc. Hey, this is the one right here. I see. Let's try to get her out, wouldn't you? Outside, Shell. That's the best I can ever do, ever. That's good enough for me, Doc. [MUSIC PLAYING] It seems that my best source, for examples, of usage of political terms is that old political character of a politician Elijah Cuddlestone to give you an example. I say-- I say there are too many factions. That is, if you had too many factions are working against each other, what we need is harmony. I mean, within the party, harmony is essential that is. Well, what Elijah said is true. There must be order and harmony of purpose for a group to successfully reach a goal. Too many factions struggling against each other within a group can defeat the purpose of the group without outside help. It's peculiar, but faction met a fighting group in the days of the Romans. They divided the combatants in the circus into groups of classes called factions, each class wearing their own spatial colors. These combatants entertained as strong as pre-decores, they strolled against each other. Because of the competitiveness and spirit of these factions, the term faction was easily applied to political partisans. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke. [MUSIC PLAYING] This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] (music)