 Down 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. Wearing 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 Dullin, United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chantsy job, and it makes a man watchful, and a little lonely. Let's drive, Milt. You'll be needing to move lively. Hey, Milt, be sure about this job. What's the matter? You scared? Now you know better than to ask me that, holding up a bank right in the middle of the day. I told you, Lute, I know Dodge City. It's a sleep on its feet when the sun gets high. Folks don't even rousin' up to swat flies. Come on, it's your game. So don't you worry. All we do is hang around like we was just trying to stay out of the sun until we wander into the bank about three o'clock. There won't be no trouble. You must be awful sure about the law there. We'll be out of town before that big Marshal can wake up and get there. Well, I hope so. Sit, Norris. Something to bush down there. It's some animal, Lute. You got nerves like a woman. I'm going to look. Somebody sneaking through the brush. What are you doing here, mister? Well, I just been fishin' all. It's Chester. Oh, Milt. You been here long? Oh, dang. I don't really know. I fell asleep. The body gets mighty drowsy, fishin' in the sun. To me, you've got mighty big ears. You hear us talkin', Chester? I told you I've been to sleep. He's lying, Milt. He couldn't help hearing. He'd been right under our feet the whole time. Lute put down the gun. Well, we let him go. We ain't got us a Chinaman's chance of getting him. We kill him the whole of Fort County, I'd be out luckin' for him. He works for Marshal Dillon, Lute. Oh. Well... Well, then, time up. Leave him here. Somebody find him sometime, maybe. Lute, it's the same thing. If he don't get back, the Marshal will start lookin'. Might start lookin' just the wrong time. You can just bet he'll start lookin'. I ain't supposed to be back there at the office that noon and Mr. Dillon ain't want to just sit around and wait. Well, I still say our best bet is just a killin'. Now, wait a minute. And then maybe we can use him. You're a pretty good friend of the Marshal, ain't you? Mr. Dillon's my best friend, and I'm proud of it. Why? You see a lot of the folks he sees, don't you? Like the Doc, for instance? That woman, the one at the Long Branch? Well, I see Doc and Miss Kitty, of course they do. What are you gettin' at, anyway? Well, it just seems to me like maybe you wouldn't want to see nothin' happen to them. For any fault of yours, that is. Just a minute here. You wouldn't want somebody to take a shot at one of them while they was walkin' down the street, would you? Well, no. Of course, I wouldn't want to do it if I didn't have to. But you're the one who's gonna make me decide if I have to. Now, you listen, Hill, I ain't gonna have nothin' to do with shootin' Doc or Miss Kitty. Then you better do what I say. You better see that the Marshal's out of town this afternoon at three o'clock. A good, long way out of town. Well, I can't do that. You'll do it. You'll do it, or you'll have one or two dead friends. And I don't ever talk idle. Not about shootin', he don't. So it wouldn't be healthy for the Marshal's friends if you was to tell him what you heard out here, you understand? Yes, sir. I reckon I do. All right. Go on now, get your horse and head back to town. Then you and the Marshal, it better be a long way off at three o'clock. You ain't no good, Bill Cole. You ain't no good at all. Then just you remember that. Now, get. You think he'll really do it? Get the Marshal out? Sure he will. He's too scared. Anyway, he ain't got enough sense not to. A heap of things in this world could make trouble. But them meanest and orneriest of them all, to my way of thinking, is cancer. Now, that's why the U.S. Post Office put out a spatial stamp for the crusade against cancer. I've got it here. I'll find it. Yes, here. Now, this 1965-5 Center reminds us that getting an early medical checkup can help bring cancer under control. Every year, some two million people in the world die from it, kids as well as older folks, and every year about two million good men and women here in the United States get together to raise money to help the American Cancer Society find ways to fight it. That society's doing a great job. But it's almost all volunteers. It pays for public health education, professional education and training, patient and community services, and most of all, for research. Finding the things like viruses that cause it. And remembering what the stamp says, early diagnosis saves lives. Sam, I gotta find Miss Kitty quick. Oh, she's right over there, Chester. Throw her at that table. Oh, thank you. Sit down, Chester. Is something wrong, Chester? You look upset. Well, whatever would give you an idea like that. Oh, I can't imagine. Except that you come in snorting and all red in the face. I don't know why I should think anything was the matter. Well, I sure am glad you don't think so, Miss Kitty. All right, Chester. What's on your mind? Well, I just got me a wonderful idea, that's all. And what's that? Well, see, I was thinking this would be a fine day for you and Mr. Dillon to take a ride out in the country. In the middle of summer? Well, yes, but it's real pretty out there, Miss Kitty. All them lilocks around. There hasn't been a spring of lilock out there since spring. Not for a couple of months. Oh. Well, I bet the castor beans is blooming. There might be pretty sight in castor beans. Well, not for me, they aren't. They're about as poor an excuse for a flower that I can think of. Miss Kitty, what's that? Look, getting sunstroke isn't going to do me any good, Chester. Well, but now sunstroke ain't... Chester, I'm not going out in that sun this afternoon with Matt or anyone else. And you might as well stop talking about it. Oh, here comes Doc, you ask him. Oh, hello, Kitty. Chester. Hello, Doc. Hello, Doc. Well, what are you two doing to pass the time of day? Why, Chester's trying to talk me into going out riding Matt this afternoon. Oh, wow. It's a pretty hot day for trips around the country, Chester. I just thought it might maybe do him some good to get away from town for a little bit. Oh, you were just acting silly about it, Chester. Well, maybe I got a good reason for it. There's no good reason for sending folks out into the prairie sun. Yes. Well, if you're as smart as you think you are, you'd go along, too. Oh, heaven's sakes. Don't worry, Kitty. I'll take Chester off your hands. Come on, Chester. Come on, let's have a bite of food. He's getting toward noon. Maybe you'll feel better if you have something to eat, Chester. Miss Kitty, food ain't got nothing to eat. Come on, Chester. Goodbye, Kitty. Come on, Doc. Some other time, Chester. Another time ain't the same thing. Sure didn't try. It seems to me you tried too hard. Doc, I thought you folks were supposed to be my friends. You ain't got no call to act as smart alecky and stubborn. Well, it sounds like you've got a touch of the sun yourself. Where have you been this morning, anyway? Fishing. Fishing? I always thought that I was supposed to calm a man down. What happened to it? Nothing. Hey, Doc. Doc, have you got somebody real sick out in the country? You driving out there this afternoon, maybe? Well, not that I know. No, but it could happen. It seems some of the biggest belly aches come on the hottest days. Sure, they do not. Now I expect that can be mighty worrying, can't it? What do you mean? All that driving by yourself. It seems the body should have some company. Oh, Chester, if you think I'm going to go back there and try to get Miss Kitty to go driving with me this afternoon. No, Doc. No, you told me yourself it wouldn't be good for Miss Kitty. I ain't thinking about a thing like that. All right then. I was thinking it might do Mr. Dillon some good to get off with you this afternoon. Oh, now, Chester... Well, he might even help you, like lifting a sick person up or holding him down. Chester, you stop this nonsense right now. Just what is it that you've got on your mind? Nothing. You've got some reason for wanting Matt out of town. No, is that it? No, Doc. No, it ain't nothing like that. All right. Let's hear no more about it. Now come on in here. Come on, let's get some food. Yeah, no. No, I ain't got no time to eat, Doc. I'll see you later. Where are you going, Chuck Chester? Oh, my, that boy. What in the world's the matter with him? The farm's filled out for today's mail. Mr. Dillon? Mr. Dillon, you've been down to read Crick lately? What? Read Crick. The fish sure are biting down there. It's only about an hour's ride. And sure would be a nice day for it. You could go down there and catch a miss a fish for dinner. Chester, what are you talking about? Read Crick. I just thought it'd be kind of nice if you used to go fishing this afternoon down to read Crick. Oh, I thought you went fishing this morning? Yes, sir, I did. That's why I thought maybe you could go... Well, think again, the fish won't be biting in the middle of the day, will it? Oh, now, you can't be sure, Mr. Dillon. I knew the fellow one time... Then why don't you get him to go fishing, huh? Yes, sir, Mr. Dillon. Chester. Yes, sir? Why don't you light someplace? You're worse than a horse fly. Yes, sir. I hear they're bringing in some new stallions out to Lemon Bridge's place, sir. New stallions out to... I might find pieces of horse flies to tell me... some stallions. Make a nice little ride this afternoon to go out there and... Chester. Yes, sir? I'm not going fishing. I'm not going out to Lemon Bridge's place. I'm not going any place but to Hayes City, and I'm late right now. What'd you say? I'm going to Hayes City, and that's all. Oh, Hayes? Now, do you think maybe you might stop talking just long enough to take these envelopes to the post office for me? I gotta get going. Yes, sir. I sure can, Mr. Dillon. Yes, sir. I sure can. Oh, uh... Mr. Dillon? Yes, what is it now? Mr. Dillon, I just want you to know... Well, if anything was to come up, well, you're gone. I sure would do my best to take care of it. Yeah, sure. I don't want to worry about it. I'll handle things. Sure, Chester. I know, I know. I can only say goodbye. All right, Chester. Goodbye. All right. Mr. Dillon, I'd kind of like to shake your hand if it's all saying... Chester, will you get on down to the post office with those letters? Will you please? Huh? Yes, sir. Yes, sir, I'm going. Bye, Mr. Dillon. And yet they're each one of a kind. Take, for example, Phoenix, Arizona. Anyone in town will tell you of the city's fantastic growth, and most of them are part of it. One of the big points of pride in Phoenix is the Arizona State Fair, out at the fairgrounds on McDowell Road. With the New Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the facilities are greater than ever before. Most ten days in November are part of what Phoenix anticipates in the fall. In the spring or summer, when the wind is right, there's the aroma of orange blossoms in the air. And when the wind is wrong, you're reminded that Phoenix is a cow town, too. At Central Avenue and Thomas Road, the young crowd gathers at Bob's Big Boy, housewise, frequently malls of Park Central and Christown shopping centers. All the while, the basin is humbled by Squaw Peak and the Camelback Mountains. But if your hometown is Phoenix, you already know this. We only wanted to remind you, it's still there. Say, Matt, can I see you for a minute? Sure, Doc. Walk along with me to the stable. I'm on my way to Hayes City. Yes, that's what I wanted to see you about. Did Chester talk you in to go in there? Talk me in. I've got government business down there. Why? Well, he's been working to get you out of town all day. He just had his mind set that you'd get out of town. Well, why? Well, I don't know. But he was a kitty about it before noon. He wanted her to get you to go for a ride in the country. I bet she fixed that in a hurry. She sure did. Summer afternoon's ride somehow didn't seem to appear to her. And then Chester started to work on me. On you? Yes, he thought it'd be nice if you'd spend the afternoon riding around with me in my buggy. Well, even Chester isn't that crazy. You know, but something's sure eating him. I just passed him in the alley behind the bank, and he's sure not himself. Now what do you mean? Well, he's got two guns strapped on him. Two guns? That's right. And he's acting like the life of everybody in town depended on him. So what do you think, Matt? There's one thing, sure. What's that? I guess it really is important to Chester that I get out of town. I have to death sneaking into this bank through the back way like that. I got a reason. Now, if I didn't know you better, I'd think you'd come in here to rob us. You wearing two guns. Well, you ought to be glad I'm wearing them. You listen to me, Alvin, and you won't get hurt if you do what I say. What are you talking about? I ain't got much time to do any explaining. I'm just telling you that this bank is about to be held up. Held up? I was talking to the fellas that's going to do the job. Well, why isn't the marshal here then? He had to ride out to Hays City. You mean you knew the bank was going to be held up and you let the marshal ride out of town? I had to do it, Alvin. Look, I come to take care of things. Now, you do like I say. You go right on up front there like nothing was happening, and I'll carry it from back here. I sure you hope you know what you're doing. You don't need to worry, nun. I got you covered. And I got you covered. Now, drop them guns. Loot. Waitin' a second. You drop them. Real smart to get the marshal out of town. I've seen him ride out. But you should have quit when you was ahead. Oh, I should have had more sins. I should have told him. The mill's out front waitin'. You just stand easy till he gets in here, you hear? Because I got this gun right spang in your back. I tried to be some blame-smart. God, I should have known. It's out front. Mill! Where'd he get you, Chester? In the lake here. Huh? It ain't nothin'. What about the other one? Mill. Well, he's dead. I caught him on his way in. Mr. Dillon, as you are, I just send me packin'. Oh? Yes, sir. I sure would. Oh, it ain't as though I didn't mean well and wasn't trying to work things right by getting you out of town because they said they'd shoot Dr. Miss Kitty if you was here. Oh, so that's it. I figured you had a reason. Yeah, but I just ain't a thinker, Mr. Dillon. Now look what happens when you... when you... but you ain't out of town, are ya? You were marching around wearing two guns. You did? Yeah, so I figured I better stick around if I didn't want you to take over my job. Oh. Oh, Mr. Dillon, I... You just rest easy now. I'll go get Doc. Cuddlestone, an old political character, once gave this argument on why he, and not his younger rival, should be elected senator. You... Senex, if you'll pardon the expression, is a Latin word from which senate was derived. That is, the Romans called their senate a senatus. Oh, Senex means an old man. So you see, the senate is supposed to be, I say, it should be a revered council of elders. Men with age and wisdom, that is. Not young upsorts. Yeah, I mean, boys, what behind the ears don't belong. Wisdom that comes with age is needed. I mean, that's what the word means. Well, Elijah was right about the original meaning and the use of the word senate. He did omit, however, the fact that the word senile is also a derivative of the Latin Senex. So if we wanted to stretch a point, a member of the senate could be considered an old man. The men who created that branch of our government, however, also gave us our constitution and defined the age for a senator as not less than 30. Well, if 30 is old, Elijah was ancient. Smoke. Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal. Featured in the cast were Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNeer as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. George Walsh speak. Join us again next week for a specially transcribed story on Gun Smoke. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.