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Gunsmoke
In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of the Philip Marlowe radio series, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a "Philip Marlowe of the Old West". Robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task.Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created an audition script called "Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye" based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts, "The Case of the Crooked Wheel" from the...
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4.6 stars from 102 ratings
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“The radio version is so much better than the TV Gunsmoke in my opinion. The characters and the plots in the Radio version are more complex and realistic. Glad I started listening to it.”
Zeegha via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/28/23
A great listen
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“Thanks for posting these. Enjoyable listen, nice way to relax at the end of the day”
lbthdash via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
03/07/22
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by...
Published 09/06/20
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by...
Published 09/06/20
Published 09/06/20
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