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Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the
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Gun smoke starring William Conrad, a transcribed 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 chancy job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Hello, Marshal.
Oh, Mr. Hightower, how are you this morning?
Fine, fine, thank you.
Hello, Matt.
Hello, Kitty.
What are you doing in here this time of day?
Just looking for a little shelter.
What?
From the sun. Yeah, I figure I can keep the peace in here as well as out there in that
heat.
Oh, you're that lazy. We better go sit down.
Yeah, you know, that's a good idea.
There's a table over there next to Olive and Kate.
Oh, okay. Say, who's the old man they're sitting with?
I don't know. He came in just for a little bit.
Kitty, Kitty, you're missing all the fun.
I don't hear your friend laughing.
Oh, he's crazy. Hello, Marshal.
Hello, Olive, Kate.
Marshal, sit down.
No, thanks, Kate.
Oh, come on, Marshal, Kitty.
Are we kidding? Okay.
Kitty, you got to hear this. What'd you say your name is, old man?
I ain't so old. My name is Nip Colors.
Nip Colors.
I ain't a day over 60.
Or a day under. Tell me, how come you never been to Dodge before?
I only just bought me a ranch down on Crooked Creek.
What's that got to do with it?
I ain't never been in Kansas before. I made my money mining out in Arizona.
I'm rich now. My ma died.
You mean your wife?
No, no, ma, my mama. Mama, she was real old.
She kinda crippled up, but she died and now I can get married.
You mean that a man your age has never been married?
I was, but she died a long time ago.
You have any kids?
Some, but they all run off soon as they got big enough.
Now this is kind of sad, man.
Yeah.
So you come to Dodge looking for a wife, huh?
Yeah, I'm gonna find me one, too.
What makes you think you're gonna find one here?
Well, there's women here. I figured I'd look them over.
And take your pick?
Well, how else?
Listen, there isn't enough gold in the world to get me to marry an old, ugly coot like you.
Me either. You're about as romantic as a turkey buzzard.
Why, I've seen water dogs I'd sooner cuddled.
I wouldn't get any closer to you than I am now to save me from hanging.
Olive, that's mean.
Well, look at him!
He can't help it. I mean, you don't have to talk to him like that.
He's an old fool.
He isn't doing you any harm, Kate.
No, no. I don't mean to do no harm. But I gotta find a wife.
You don't need a wife. You need a bell around your neck and one leg tied up.
And I've had enough of this.
No kidding.
I'll handle this. Olive, you and Kate, get out of here and leave him alone.
What?
You heard me. Get out, both of you.
Since when did you start running things around here? You ever see me fight?
Kitty, will you take it easy?
You girls will look like scarecrows when I'm done with you.
You're first, Olive. Get up!
Look, I don't want any trouble with you, Kitty. And get away from this table.
I'm going.
You too, Kate.
Sure. We don't want to talk to him anyway.
You gotta excuse him, mister. They learn all that talk from the cowboys and such that come in here.
They say that your name is Kitty?
That's right.
You're very nice, Kitty.
Oh, sometimes a woman can handle women better than a man can.
You're pretty, too.
Yeah. Well, you better stay out of here and go look for a wife someplace else.
Well, I don't have to.
What?
Not now. I found one.
Yeah.
You?
Me.
Sure. I didn't want either of them to. I was just looking them over. But I like you fine. You make a good wife.
Now, look, Nip, don't you go getting any ideas.
It's okay, Kitty. I'll take care of everything. I'll be back in a few days.
Well, wait, I...
We'll get married then.
Ma'am?
Well, well, Kitty, and it looks like you got yourself into something, doesn't it?
Try to be nice to somebody. Try to do a good deed and see what happens.
Oh, well, I wouldn't worry about it. Maybe you'll forget about this.
You think so?
No.
Well, what am I going to do?
Why don't you marry him, Kitty?
You ever see me fight?
No, Kitty.
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Well, the stage has come in, Mr. John.
No, didn't you think it would, Chester?
Oh, yes, sir. Sure, I knew it would.
It was awful late, though.
Oh, was it?
Yes, sir, it was late.
Well, why?
Well, I declare, I don't know. I didn't bother to ask.
Oh, I see. Well, what else is new, Chester?
Well, sir, nothing I know of.
You know, Chester, you ought to stay in the office more and keep out of the sun.
Oh, well, the sun's already went down, Mr. John.
Well, now, that's something new. I hadn't noticed that.
Well, yes, sir, you're right. It has.
Well, yes, sir, it sure has.
Oh, hello, Kitty. Come on in.
Good evening, Miss Kitty.
Chester, Matt, you've got to do something.
What? Well, what's the trouble?
That nip-collar's his back.
Well, say, I want to get a look at him.
Well, you will, Chester.
He's back already, huh?
It's been three days, and he's sure been busy.
Well, what do you mean?
Well, first, he's gone and bought a lot of new clothes.
Got himself all dooted up.
Well, he needed it.
Well, that's not the point. They're wedding clothes.
Oh?
He came into the long branch wearing them.
He's over there now buying drinks for the house, celebrating.
I nearly died of shame, Matt.
Everybody laughing at him and at me.
I left. I got out.
Well, that's funny, Kitty.
I thought you'd have gotten mad or laughed it off yourself.
Matt, he's serious.
I don't know how to stop him.
And what's more, I am mad now.
That's why I came here.
Oh.
I ran into the preacher on the street.
And you know what he said?
He's real pleased he's gonna marry me and Nip Collars tomorrow.
That old fool's gone and set up a wedding.
Oh, my goodness.
It's gotta stop. It's gotta stop, Matt.
You've gotta help me.
Well, Kitty, I... Please, please, Matt.
Oh, sure, Kitty. Of course I will.
I'll go over there now and see what I can do.
Well, I'm going with you.
Well, you don't have to, Kitty.
I want to.
There he is at the bar, talking to Ollie.
Yeah. Now maybe he's changed his mind.
I doubt it.
Now look at that beaver hat.
He must be rich.
Matt, he's crazy. He's awful crazy.
Easy now, Kitty. It's gonna be all right.
Kitty!
Oh, no.
Kitty!
Shut up some drinks, bartender.
Uh, Sam.
No, never mind.
Oh, what?
Oh, you're the marshal, ain't you?
Yeah, that's right.
You come to the wedding too, marshal.
Uh, everybody's invited.
Yeah, I'm going.
I wouldn't miss it for nothing.
You'll miss the next two days if you don't shut up, Ollie.
Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Look, uh, colors.
Kitty says that she doesn't want to marry you.
Yeah.
She told me that too.
You know how women are, marshal.
Kind of bashful, like.
Oh, hi!
Kitty isn't a bashful woman, colors.
She doesn't want to marry you.
Now, can't you understand that?
Madden, she can't back out now.
Oh, for mercy's sake.
It's no use talking to her, Matt.
I'm gonna have me wife, and I decided on her.
That's how it's gonna be.
And I'm coming by for her noon tomorrow.
And we're gonna get church.
You come by at noon tomorrow or any other time,
and I'm gonna be waiting with a shotgun to blow your head off,
and I mean it.
I think she does.
Well, now, that ain't no way to talk, Kitty.
All right, colors, the talking's over.
What?
You get out of town or I'm gonna lock you up.
Lock me up?
In jail, and you'll stay there until you're ready to quit bothering people.
Well, now, whoever heard you go into jail for wanting to get married.
I'm not gonna argue with you, colors.
Now, you take your choice right now.
You're the meanest martial I ever met.
I just ain't going to jail.
All right, colors, come on.
No, let me go now.
I don't want to.
I'll leave.
I don't want to go to jail.
All right, then, get out.
Why, I'm going.
But I'll be back, Kitty.
You'll see.
And I'll be waiting for the shotgun.
Okay.
Oh.
Well, you let me know if he does come back, huh, Kitty?
You'll know.
Thanks, Matt.
Yeah, sure.
Oh, I'm kind of tired tonight.
Well, it was a good dinner, though.
Turkey and chocolate size.
Can you imagine that, turkey and chocolate?
Doc.
Yeah, huh?
Hey, Doc.
Over here.
Oh.
I didn't see you standing there, Matt.
I don't like standing in the light very much.
Oh, no, I don't blame you.
How have you been? On a call?
No, I had a late supper.
You didn't until, oh, after 10 o'clock tonight.
No, I was over at Delmonico's.
No, I wasn't.
I went to that new Mexican place.
I had some of their turkey and chocolate sauce.
Say, you tried that?
Yeah, it's good, too.
Yes, it is.
Well, I think I'll turn in now.
Okay.
Wait a minute, Doc.
Why, it's Chester.
Dylan, you better come too, Doc.
What's the trouble, Chester?
Out back the stable.
Old nip color.
She's been shot.
What?
What?
Oh, now.
Take it easy.
Well, it's all right.
Well, Doc, how does he look?
He looks like a Virginia ham just sprinkled with cloves.
Well, now, that's no way for a doctor to talk.
I've been shot.
It isn't my talk.
You should be worrying about it.
It's whether I can dig all those pellets out.
That's going to be quite a task.
Yes, it is going to be quite a task.
Well, why don't you get started before I die?
Oh, be quiet.
Better get him up to my office, man.
I'll need better light than that lantern of Chester's.
Well, one lantern is all I can get, Doc.
You know, I ain't in the habit of carrying more than a half dozen around with me.
Never mind, Chester.
Excuse me, Doc.
Would you let me get on there, please?
Yes.
Colors, what happened?
Who shot you?
You got Gull asking a dying man foolish questions.
Doc doesn't think you're going to die, Colors.
Now, tell me, did you hear or see anybody?
Well, how could I see who shot me in the back?
I mean before that or after that.
I didn't care after.
I just lay here hoping they wouldn't pepper me again.
And before it happened?
I didn't see nobody.
But I can tell you who it was.
You heard her.
Kitty.
She said she was going to shoot me with a shotgun, too.
Now, wait a minute.
She said she'd shoot you if you came back bothering her, but that would just talk.
Kitty wouldn't shoot anybody.
No.
Look at my back.
Where'd the shot come from, Colors?
Out there by the watercrop.
Chester.
Yes, sir?
Bring that lantern, will you?
Let's see what we can find over there.
What, you mean you're going to leave us here in the dark?
Well, it'll rest your eyes, Doc.
You're going to need them.
Come on, Chester.
Oh, find a way to treat the dying man.
Oh.
Oh.
Hey, what if they're still around, Mr. Dillon?
Won't they take a shot at us?
That's not us they're after, Chester.
Here, hold that lantern down by the ground here where it's muddy, will you?
All right, sir.
Wait a minute.
No.
No, back here, Chester.
There.
Look at that.
Well, I do declare, Mr. Dillon, the man was woman footprint.
Yeah.
Go ahead, Miss Kitty.
Come on in, Kitty.
What's this all about, Matt?
Chester won't tell me a thing.
Well, sit down and I'll tell you.
Must be serious to have me dragged away from work at midnight.
Yes, it is, Kitty.
It hasn't got something to do with old nipped colors again, has it?
Have you heard anything?
No.
What, Matt?
He got shot.
Got shot?
About a half hour ago by a woman.
She used a shotgun.
You're thinking I did it?
Well, you were talking about doing it, weren't you?
I sure was.
And you know something else?
I went out to get some air about an hour ago.
I took a walk, alone, and I got back just before Chester came in.
I don't even have an alibi.
Yeah.
So as soon as the word gets around, there are going to be a lot of people thinking you did it.
Sure.
Olive was there, too.
She heard you threaten him.
She'll be real pleased to testify against me.
Yeah.
Kitty, it might be easier for you if you laid low until I find out who did this, huh?
How do you know I didn't?
Well, I don't know.
Not that way.
Not so as I could prove it legally.
All right, Matt.
I'll lay low.
Mr. Gillin.
Yeah, what is it, Chester?
Somebody just went upstairs to talk.
So?
I seen her out the window here.
Her?
Yes, sir.
It was some old woman.
And she seemed like she was in an awful hurry.
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Hello.
Where is he?
Are you looking for Doc?
They told me he was here, the man at the stable did.
They said the doctor brought him here.
You mean Nipkullers?
Where is he?
Doc's working on him in the back room there.
He got shot.
I know he got shot.
Here, now wait a minute.
Oh, you're the marshal, ain't you?
Who is she, ma'am?
We'd all like to know that.
Who are you, ma'am?
I'm Nettie Bacher.
Now let me go, marshal.
I've got to see him.
He's not going to die.
You sure?
I thought maybe you'd come to finish him off.
No, I come to see him and tell him I'm sorry.
I got mad when I said he was going to get married.
Oh?
Well, were you engaged to him or something?
Man, I thought I was.
I've been with him 20 years, cleaning his house, cooking his food, raising his kids,
nursing his old crippled ma.
All them years he kept saying he'd get married again when he small and died.
You thought he meant you.
Who else would have him in these crazy ways?
I didn't believe it when he said some girl here was going to marry him.
I didn't believe a word of it.
Nettie, I'm the girl he was talking about.
No, well, I'm right, ain't I?
A girl like you marrying him?
I told him no.
If you didn't believe it, why did you shoot him?
Oh, I didn't aim to kill him.
I only wanted to hurt him some.
But why?
Because he never looked at me.
20 years and he never once looked at me.
But I'm sorry now, and that's why I come here.
What's going on in here?
I will tell you later, Doc.
Right now this lady would like to see colors.
Can she come in?
Does she have to?
Yeah, she has to.
All right, but you come with her.
I don't want any trouble in there.
There he is, lady.
Mr. Carlos.
Nip?
Well, what in tarnation are you doing here?
Well, I'm sorry I've done it.
Well, you've done it?
It is me.
You shocked me?
You're making me mad.
You're going off trying to marry some other woman.
They made you mad?
Why?
After 20 years waiting, you asked me that?
What?
You've been waiting for me?
Ever since I come to work for you.
After your wife died.
Well, you never told me that, Nitty.
It ain't for a woman to speak up.
Well, you sure never did.
Till tonight.
Boy, you sure spoke up tonight.
There comes a time when a woman has to, Nip.
Hold your tongue for 20 years and then blow me up with a shotgun?
You're quite a woman, Nitty.
Honey.
I never noticed that.
You ain't looked at me in 20 years.
I'm looking at you now.
Doc.
Yes?
There isn't going to be any trouble.
No.
Come on.
Well, what happened?
Oh, they're talking, Kitty.
Well, of course they're talking. What about?
Well, let's say that you just lost yourself a bride, Crue.
Huh.
Well, I can't say I'm sorry.
But you know something, Matt?
What?
I lost him to a pretty good woman.
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Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Messon, with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey.
Sound patterns by Tom Hanley and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were John Danaer, Michael Ann Barrett, and Virginia Gregg.
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
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