 Around Dodge City and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers And that's where the US Marshall and the smell of guns smoke 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 Marshall the first man they look for and the last they want to meet It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful And a little lonely You're a stranger in Dodge Marshall. I've been gone a week You got a mirror I left kitty over there. He's got the last bottle Marshall. I'll have some tomorrow when the Santa Fe gets in Meanwhile, I'll see if I can talk to me out of a drink Sure You save in the bottle for me kitty Here's to you thank you It's a closest I've been to civilization in a week. Did you find what you're after? Yeah, I found him all right Hey, uh, what's that stuff you're drinking? Oh, this yeah, I keep the bottle on the floor Looks better. I see it Professor bones wonder medicine Celebrated vegetable pulmonic detergent. Yeah Well, I hope it tastes better than it reads. Oh, it tastes fine that makes you feel fine, too Essential oil of worm seed the new and valuable Curitive professor bone PhD and pulmist Professor of practical and medical botanist natural and civil history. Oh A lot of that that makes sense Can you wear the words you get hold of this? Oh, everybody's taking his math. Oh I forgot you were away when professor bone arrives. Well, you're right. You mean he's here to die For sure came last Thursday. He's got a fancy wagon. He left us from every day But this time as a matter of fact, you should hear a man. He's great Yeah, yeah, you must be no, no, he really is What's in that tiny kitty here? You're kind of misty already. Aren't you? Oh makes you feel great math No, no, thanks. I don't need any worm seed oil Oh Liquor does me all the harm I need. You'll buy some once you've heard him talk. He's awful smart Matt. Yeah, he must be he's a professor. It says so on the bottle. Oh, I don't care He's a professor or not. He makes wonderful turning. Yeah, I can see that he knows Matt. Yes, Matt I'm glad you're back. You come with me. How about that? Sit down? No, you come with me outside I want you to see the spectacle. What are you talking about? This red-nosed old scarecrow loot bone. He ought to be tired and feathered. That's what oh no Right there. There's a bottle of it Kissing me. Is that yours? Well, it's good doc. It's real good. I'm gonna smash this on the street I know if I find you drinking anymore of this I'll paddle you. That's what I'll do really You see you see what it does to people. Come on. Come on, Matt I don't care doc. I might as well find out what this is all about He will excuse us. Won't you get you? Not doc. I mean what I said kitty. Oh boy. Come on. Let's go There's his wagon and look at that crowd of fools What's the wrong with that? I'll tell you later. First, I want you to hear him talk The man's demissive. That's what and he's dangerous Matt. He's deadly dangerous You there boy. Sit up now rooks fry. You step lively This is your great-grandpa and then some My name Oh, I've been called johnny rebb and I've been called billy yank. I'm a soldier civil war What you want to know about soldiering? March oh We did it a plenty both heavy march in order and light march in order See light march in order meant we was to march only with musket ammunition Sack and canteen and be ready for working or for fighting. Well, that was nothing It was the heavy march in order. We didn't like That meant carrying everything you owned on a long march to the next field of battle or else a new camp There was never enough water and sometimes we wouldn't have us nothing to eat for a whole day And us in our heavy woolen's carrying 50 or 60 pounds on our backs Trudging down dusty roads in the summer and muddy ones in the winter Still it was something to see First there'd be the agitants then the scouts then the band and drum corps Then the colonel and the lieutenant colonel then the two surgeons and the hospital knapsack carrier Yeah, we was quite a sight I tell you Even though some of us didn't have shoes and straggled a bit sometimes Now now you boy you got shoes spatial built to last and if you watch yourself Blame that they don't help protect your feet from frostbite and things like that But what's real important lots of times you've got trucks to carry your gear and you too For which you can thank your lucky stars and stripes Oh believe you me son it takes more than just men and guns and generals to make you an army It takes knowing somebody's thinking about your turned all feet and your aching back Like that good transportation corps you've got Dang if it don't There is that Right down there where the crowd is He's standing in the back of his wagon You see he's finished entertaining them now. We're just in time for the serious part Come on very long Oh Has cured more than 3000 cases of a you 2,500 of chronic inflammatory rheumatism 2,000 of green sickness 1,000 of material diseases 1500 of liver infections and 6,000 of general debilitating. He ought to be In purifies cleanses and strengthens the fountain springs life And infuses you bigger throughout the entire body In fact, my friends Professor bones wonder medicine will cure all disorders incident to the human race without exception No matter what the age circumstance or place of residence of the afflicted patient. Hey professor I live over this thinking springs will cure me I You are drunk for today ever since I was weaned professor. I pity you my friend Professor when I was 12, I got drunk and went to sleep in a hack buried tree. I never did find out how I got down Oh, don't laugh Ladies and gentlemen don't laugh Pity the poor man the poor wretch Whisky has him crushed in its foul trap His eyes roomy his brains awash his manhoods gone. Are you shut up whiskey? I tell you whiskey did it any more talk about me and I'll put a bullet in you professor evil man Drunken specter. I'm telling you no more. No no more About to appear on the wagon beside me is a man you all know and respect One of your finest and most worthy citizens A man whose very presence contributes mightily to the progress of your fair town A man whose soul is pure But whose body ah whose body has been the host of five separate diseases Anyone of which would soon have been fatal But now he is saved three bottles of professor bones wonder medicine has done it And here he is to tell you of this miraculous cure in his own words Step forward sir and speak Speak for the sake of your fellow man Great heavens that it's chest Hey chester Oh, hello mr. John get down off there Yes, sir But my my young man you've got to talk to the come on hurry it up. Oh, who are you sir? What are you doing? Are you come back here? You come on with your lecture professor never mind about him Hey professor, what? Let's talk for your cure anything Anything my friend every disorder known to medical faculty. Well, uh, my old man. He's 80 And he got beans stuck in his throat And I shot off his two Professor, how about that? I'll come to see your father, sir I'll visit him as soon as I'm able to pass a few bottles down among the good people gather here Come on, let's get out of here chest Of all people I suppose he's got you all doped up of that stuff too chest. Oh, it makes you feel great doc That's why you were up there. Well, no, sir I got a deal with the professor from a spare time See mr. Dillon he pays me a dollar a day and gives me all the medicine I can drink free Oh, it's idiots like you that make it possible for such cracker ecstasy. Oh now doc. I'm not no idiot What do you think you've been acting like one? Well, that's not what's important Matt, I've analyzed some of bone's so-called medicine It's got opium in it for one thing. Oh, you think it's dangerous Of course it is people can get in the habit and what's worth if something is wrong with them and they're taking that stuff They wouldn't fight it out until it's too late You gotta stop this business man. Yeah, I suppose you're right doc. Either you stop him or buy heaven or shoot him I'm serious. All right doc. I'll talk to him a little later In the meantime, you stay away from him chester I'm sorry mr. Dona I didn't know When in frames of blood causes proxy and count unhappy wives empty larders naked children lost Tows leaky robes and bloody noses broken shins black curses and I'll get out of here for a break a bottle of good whiskey over your head You're you're a destroyer of man's Agent knows the devil. Shut up. Nobody's gonna preach against liquor in this place. I'll fix you good. All right, hold on It's um But that's a bone. I'd like to have a word with you Who are you sir? I'm a u.s. Marshal Now let's sit over at that table over there, huh? Come on. How are you met your service? And what do I owe this on us? That isn't exactly an honor professor I want you to stop putting opium in that stuff at your cell Come now marshal. Surely you don't believe doc adams has analyzed it professor and either you make it harmless Or i'm gonna run you out of dodge Yes, uh I believe you now you're free to sell it and you're free to do all the talking you want, but that's all I i'm a lonely old man marshal an entire the laundry I'll do what you say good I hope you don't get yourself into trouble with that preaching about liquor. I've been fighting against brink ever since I was a youth What about opium? Isn't that just as bad? Oh, it is not enough my medicine to do any harm marshal Maybe Well, why are you so strong about whiskey? Well Marshal when I was a child at 12 My grandfather got drunk and threw a pet owl onto a horse that was standing nearby He did and it frightened the horse into kicking an orphan boy Both the rim of his belly That boy died marshal Ah, I see Professor bond ah mr. Reeves welcome sir, and how is your good father marshal? I'm glad you're here Now what's the trouble? Well, this here professor's a trouble. I tell you The my old man He had a beam stuck in his throat and the professor He told me give him a steam bath and then throw cold water on him and and I was doing it Oh, what for? Well, so as he'd catch a cold and cough and bring up the beam. No, but it didn't work mr. Reeves killed him My old man is dead Dead Good health and I'm going to kill you for it, but no you won't No man can die of a mere cold mr. Reeves Something must have gone wrong something went wrong. All right. Come on. We'll get dark and go see what this is all about And you get the idea of shooting anybody out of your head Reeves. Maybe I will Another visit with joe and daphne foresight Joe Yeah, daphne Look at this story about savings bonds in the paper Yeah, what about it? Do you think that's the best way to tell people about savings bonds? Why not? Look, see it says here that savings bonds are a guaranteed investment Right now they pay off at the rate of four bucks at maturity for every three bucks invested Uh-oh You're not convinced Why not? No salesmanship. No salesmanship What more do you need to know? Well right now more than eight million americans are buying saving bonds regularly through the payroll savings plan. So So what? That's what I say. So what now look daphne if millions of americans are convinced that saving bonds are their best investment Not only financially, but for the future of their country. What the heck is bothering you? Well, I think they could sell a lot more with salesmanship, you know slogans and jingles Listen, if you're spending more and saving less try a savings bond Oh boy, or or maybe uh Savings bond pay good like an investment should daphne You get a lot to like in the savings bond interest earnings guaranteed. Wow Well, did I say you yeah, but I forgot what it was you were selling Savings bond. I'll take a hundred. Oh joe Professor bone wasn't a normal everyday type of citizen, but he wasn't a murderer even And whatever had gone wrong and killed reeves father couldn't be blamed entirely on him The way I looked at it reeves is a fool to follow his advice in the first place Now we found the old man still lying in the steam bath that reeves have made All he done was to dig a big hole in the ground with a fire pit in the middle and then stretch some canvas across the top for a roof Doc climbed down into it After a few minutes he came back out again Yeah Well reeves All I can figure is your father died of a heart attack Well, I don't believe that doc. He was strong as a bull that old man. I know but I don't think there's nothing else that could have cost How long did you have him in there reeves? Oh, maybe a half hour or more He was just having a fine time when I left him He poured a whole bottle of vinegar on them rocks and I just went up the house to get him some more No vinegar. You are sure professor here says it helped make him sweat. Wait a minute. What's wrong? It's the vinegar that killed him reeves But how do you mean that's limestone you use in there? Well, isn't it your limestone? All right Now you put vinegar on hot limestone and it'll make carbonic acid gas And that's what suffocated your old man. Well, I didn't tell you to use limestone. Mr. Reeves You can't blame me for that no But the vinegar was your idea professor I'll still say you murder now. Wait a minute Reeves. You're not being sensible. This thing was an accident. That's all I am not a murderer I never heard anybody in my life. You don't even know what you do. You old buzzard Selling that sloppy yours loaded with narcotics. Did you tell him to stop that match? Yes, he said he would my medicine Is as pure as the douche and pure as do I'm going to analyze it every day You're here and I hope that that won't be much longer I I'm a lonely old man, sir The only home I have is my wakey. I didn't go live in it, but somewhere else you caused enough trouble around here But am I to be banished from the face of the earth? Am I not a man like any other man? Do you think I have no heart no feelings Oh, so why don't you shut up and get out of here professor? I want to bury my daddy I will gladly help you in that task, mr. Reeves. Oh, no No, sir, not you not by a long side You are unkind, sir gentlemen I take my leave of you Good day There's some reason the three of us stood there in silence and watched professor bone walk away He stopped once and glanced back at us for a moment and he went on Later when we got back to front street his wagon was gone and we figured that probably that was the last we'd ever see of him Dodge was fairly quiet that night and when somebody reported seeing a fire or some kind out on the prairie I decided I might as well write out and have a look You know, there's no flames left mr. Jones must be all burnt out I don't remember a house of any kind around here. I wonder what it was Maybe just a prairie fire that didn't really get started Wait a minute. There's something chester over there. See That's right. I can see a few coals Like a wagon mr. Dylan all burnt out It's professor bones wagon chester. My god, you're right And that's his horse too professor Professor bone. Let's take a look I don't know what you reckon he could be mr. Dylan. I don't know chester Look out now. I'm gonna try to move something You think that's the profession? Yeah, I'm afraid so chester Poor old fella He must have been asleep and his wagon caught fire. Yeah, maybe Funny thing he couldn't get out though Unless he was drunk or something Professor bone didn't drink chester I said that's right. I forgot he sure didn't You think maybe somebody did this a purpose mr. Dylan Yeah, they had two or three men pretty mad at him And maybe it was Indians. No, I'm not this close to dodge No No, I guess not I don't know chester A lot of things can happen to People who get too lonely. Yeah, come on. Let's get out of here We'll take care of him in the morning guns smoke Produced and directed by norman mcdonnell stars william conrad as matt dillon u.s. Marshall The music was composed and conducted by rex scurry Sound patterns were composed by ray kepper and bill james Featured in the cast were parley bear as chester Howard mcnear as doc and georgia ellis is kitty george wall speaking Join us again next week for another story of the western frontier of america in the 1870s on gun smoke Is the united states armed forces radio and television service