 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 the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. 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, the United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chance, they job, that it makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Those who think Young, pick the right one. The modern life one. Now it's Pepsi. For those who think Young, so go ahead and pick the drink that lets you drink Young as you think. Yes, get the right one. The modern life one. Now it's Pepsi. For those who think Young. I'm a working man. I have to keep a regular hours, you know? Then what were you doing in the long branch of two o'clock this morning? Well, sometimes it's a regular 24 hours, like you. Well, it means I make good money at it. Kitty, would you really like to see me settle down and run a saloon? You might get the like of it. All right, I'll do it. When? So... Good morning, Kitty. Hello, Chester. Yes, sir. What are you doing? Here's a letter for you. Yeah, thanks. The envelope says it's in Judge Rambo over in Wichita. Uh-huh. Anything important? Well, because Brandon Teak didn't file legally on his land over by Wagon Mountain. Did you say Brandon Teak? Yeah. Well, where did you know him, Kitty? Well, everybody knew him. Ron Aveline. Yeah, he had a pretty bad reputation then. Doesn't he still? No, I haven't seen him for some time, Kitty, but he's married and he's trying to prove up some land. Well, I don't envy you trying to put him off it. Brandon Teak never shoved very easy that I would call. Well, don't you have to evict him off? Maybe the judge made a mistake or something. No, I'm no admirer of Judge Rambo, but he knows his law. Well, we'll write out that this afternoon, Chester. Be sure your gun's loaded, Matt. Maybe I won't need it, Kitty. You want a bet? No. No, I guess not. If you don't ask me, Teak's went and built himself a mighty nice place out here. Yeah, it's been fun. All right, Teak. What brings you out this way? What's this all about, Marshall? That's just what it says. Well, I got my deed to this place. Yeah, but you failed to register at the land office. Well, now, nobody told me about that. Oh, sorry, Teak. You're going to be a whole lot sorry or you try to put me off this land, Marshall. Brandon, who are you talking to? You, you stay inside, Sarah. It ain't nothing. If I come out. This is my wife, Marshall Dillon and Chester Proctor. I do, ma'am. Marshall? Is there trouble, Brandon? They say we got no legal right to this place, Sarah. I didn't register the deed or some fool thing. No. Now, don't you worry. Ain't nobody going to move us off. Law or no law. It's a court order. I ain't wore a gun since I got married, Marshall, but I can sure go put one on. Brandon. Now, Sarah, you... You can't forget your promise. Especially now you can't. It's all the more reason for fighting, Sarah. We're going to have a child, Marshall. Most any day now. Well, and we ain't moving. We ain't starting over. If we have to, we can do it. I'd rather die than see you go to fighting again, Brandon. Now, you think on it. I'm sure it'll make it easy on me, Marshall. What are you going to do, Tick? It's a hard thing for a man like me to swallow, but I can't go against her head. I ain't putting on my gun. Why don't you go in and tell her that? And when will I tell her we got to get off the place? There's no hurry? Well, what about that immediate eviction? I'll be responsible for that. Guess I ought to be grateful to you. No, no. No, Tick, not to me. Goodbye, Marshall. Chester Hughes. Bye, Tick. These things are mint there. I thought he was going to make trouble sure. When are you going to put them off? What's it doing? I'm going over to Wichita, Chester. I'll find out there. Arthur Godfrey time, for instance. You can enjoy quips from the redhead himself, plus the fine singing of Richard Hayes and the Mary Mayo singers with Dick Hyman in the orchestra. Genial Gary Moore will be joshing with his sidekick, Edward Kirby, on the Gary Moore radio show. Art Linkwetter's house party will play host to more merriment, and Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney will regale you with grand songs, grandly sung. Listen to a lineup like that five mornings a week, and you'll never have a blue Monday or any other work day again. And then Tick up his last trouble. He's putting up a fight now. True must be changed. I remember Tick around here. He's married now, judge. I expect I'm a child any day. A child? I told him that I could take their time about moving. Take their time? I was the victim at once, Marshal. I know that. Tick's been on that land over a year, judge. How come this business about failing to register his deed just came up? It was only recently brought to my attention. And who brought it to your attention? Lee Sprague. Not that it makes any difference. Lee Sprague owns a lot of land around Wagon Mountain. And he's filed on this piece, too. There's nothing irregular about it, Marshal. That's what you're thinking. Legally, I'm sure everything's correct, judge. Just guess it isn't my kind of law, that's all. There's only one kind of law. The way you see it, maybe. You can't argue with facts, Marshal. Now, stop being sentimental fools. Brandon takes a change, man. He's done more than prove up that land. He's proved himself up, too. Homestead Act, 1862. Paragraph 12 after one year of the deed to such land that it's not duly recorded that there's... Never mind, judge. I know how it reads. And start acting like a... acting the whole evening of U.S. Marshal in contempt of court, you know? Yeah, sure. I know. You've got a lot of power, judge. There's just one thing wrong. What's that? You never learned how to use it. It's bothering you, Marshal? I'm making out mighty well. No man can accuse me of ever doing anything illegal or dishonest. But everybody knows I've practiced. I'll go on practicing sharp, too. Even against a man like Tick, who's hung up his gun and steeled down and tried to make a life for him and his family? What do you mean, his family? Well, there's a child coming any day now. I'm doing Tick a favor. You've got an awful easy conscience, Sprig. Well, there's no use arguing, Marshal. You got your order, now you go put them off. No, Sprig, I'm not gonna do it. What? I couldn't hold my head up if I had any part of the kind of law you and Judge Rambo want. You mean that? Yeah, I mean that. You stand in my way, Marshal. You're in for trouble. Fully on him, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, you recognize him, Chester? Oh, sir, I don't. He's a stranger to me. Standing out in the heat of the day that way. Let me let Marshal Dillon settle this, Hayley. You got nothing to do with it no more. That's a trouble here, Tick. You told me there was no hurry about our leave in, Marshal. Wait a minute. Where'd you get that badge? Hayley, Marshal, Deputy Sheriff from Wichita. Wichita? How'd you get here? Well, I took the train to Dodge and then I rented me a horse. Answer me, Hayley. Judge Rambo sent me. I guess he felt the law needed a little enforcing down this way. He's got a court order, Marshal, just like the one you had. Plum legal. I want you people to pack up. Be out of here by tomorrow. Just a minute, Hayley. I can take care of him, Marshal. No, Brandon, there'll be no fighting. No, Sarah, I can't. You ain't gonna do nothing except move, Tick, and right now. No. Let go, Marshal. No! Here's his arm. He's gone and hurt her, Marshal, flinging her off like that. Chester. Yes, sir? Jump on your horse and ride for Dodge. But that didn't mean to hurt her. You just keep quiet, Hayley. Nobody wants to hear from you. I'm still in there, Doc. Yeah. He's been over two hours. We don't look none do happy, do we? The baby's dead, man. There was a chance of saving the baby. It's her I've been working on. She's gonna be all right now, man. Oh, good for that anyway, Doc. Sorry, too. But you can't blame me for it. Hayley, I just now promised my wife I wouldn't kill you. Now, don't make me break it. Come on, Hayley. I'm gonna take you into Dodge with me. Now, look here. Ain't you forgetting I'm a lawman too, Marshal? I'd like to forget it. It doesn't make me very proud of being one. I come here to do a job, and I'm gonna do it. Soon as his wife can be moved, of course. Now, this is all over. There's no reason for waiting long. I promised her I wouldn't kill you now, Hayley, but you come back here. I promise you I will. A man can take only so much. I'll be back. No, you won't. I'm gonna throw you in jail for a while. What? Take as soon as your wife's better you come and see me. I don't know what I can do, but things aren't going on this way. Foot from you? Now, stop Athlete's Foot from spreading through your family. NP-27 treatment roots out Athlete's Foot, penetrates below skin surface where others can't reach, even into toenails. NP-27 liquid stops itch, relieves pain, promotes healthy tissue. NP-27 powder guards against new infection. NP-27 treatment roots out Athlete's Foot, or your drugist will refund your money. You be talking to him, isn't it? I'd say so. Hey Doc, you sure Brandon T is coming to die today? That's what he told me. There's a neighbor woman staying with his wife. Not that she really needs anybody now. Well, I'm proud to hear that. It's only been a week, but she's a strong woman. Oh, here we are. Oh, he did come in. I was a patient. Oh, pretty good Doc. She's being awful brave about it. I know how she feels. Only time will cure that. Yeah, I guess so. Uh, Teek, Miss Dondon's in the office. He warned you to go right on in when you got here. Okay. Do you help him with this, Marshall? I wanted to be sure that they weren't in a loophole. And there aren't any, huh? No. You know, if it wasn't for my wife, you people would have to shoot me off that place. But I warned her, I can only stand so much. You send Jim Haley out there, I'll kill him on sight. I sent Haley back to Wichita this morning. Teek, I want to tell you something. Ain't you sent enough spray? No. I'm a greedy man, Teek, and I'll take anything I can get. Talking pretty hard to me. Sure, I've been listening to him, too. Blame Teek, it's me. What? I guess I'd have gone right on, and I could have. She's that matter to you. My son, Teek. I lost my wife, too. Taking my land, gonna help you? You tell him, Marshall. Teek, he's not taking your land. Now that deed's in his name, ain't it? Didn't you go along to be sure he didn't make any mistakes? No mistakes this time. Sprig can deed that land to anybody he wants to now. All clear. Well, what about it? It's yours, Teek. You mean you're giving it to me? I'm not giving it to you. It's yours anyway. I'll tell Sarah. She was right all along. That's right, she was. Well, what about you, Marshall? Ain't there gonna be trouble in your jail and the deputy sheriff? Well, as soon as he gets back to Wichita, there'll be trouble. Don't you worry about that. I always wanted to see California anyway. Remember how relieved you were when you heard there was at last a vaccine to stamp out polio? Remember the early doubts and fears that it hadn't really been perfected? Those days are behind us. Areas where the Salk vaccine has been taken by substantial numbers of children and adults under 40 have shown remarkable results. But studies made last year show that the most susceptible group have been neglecting themselves. Almost 41 million adults under 40 years of age have not taken as much as one polio shot. Do you doubt that this is important? If so, please note carefully that after two years of rewarding statistics, in 1958, the incidence of polio started to climb again. The vaccine won't work on people who don't take it. At least three shots, spaced as your doctor or clinic recommends, is vital for maximum protection from polio. The CBS radio network and its affiliated stations joined the United States Department of Health in urging, get your polio shots. Get them starting now. For Houston, directed in Hollywood, by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Messon. Featured in the cast were Vic Perron, Gene Bates, John Daner, Barney Phillips Parley Baer is Chester, Howard McNeer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. This broadcast concludes the current Gunsmoke series. Next week at this time, the CBS radio network and its affiliated stations will welcome back the distinguished dramatic favorite suspense. The premiere of this new suspense cycle will be Alan Sloan's gripping original play, Call Me at Half Pass. Be with us next Sunday at this same time for the return to these stations of suspense. This is George Walsh speaking. That's Serana Arthur Godfrey, weekdays on the CBS radio network.