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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke" - Monopoly (05-22-54)

January 11, 2013
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke" - Monopoly (Aired May 22, 1954)


The radio series aired from April 26, 1952 ("Billy the Kid," written by Walter Newman), until June 18, 1961, on CBS. It starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Dillon's assistant Chester Wesley Proudfoot. Conrad was one of the last actors who auditioned for the role of Marshal Dillon. With a powerful, distinctive voice, Conrad was already one of radio's busiest actors. Though Meston championed him, MacDonnell thought Conrad might be overexposed. During his audition, however, Conrad won over MacDonnell after reading only a few lines. Dillon as portrayed by Conrad was a lonely, isolated man, toughened by a hard life. MacDonnell later claimed, "Much of Matt Dillon's character grew out of Bill Conrad." Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality.

THIS EPISODE:

May 22, 1954. CBS network. "Monopoly". Sustaining. A "businessman" from St. Louis named Ivy is planning to take over the freight business in Dodge, with a gunfighter to help him do it! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on October 4, 1958. William Conrad, John Meston (writer), Joseph Kearns, Jack Kruschen, Parley Baer, Herb Ellis, Vic Perrin, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Walsh (announcer), Roy Rowan (announcer). 25:21. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.


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