This series is considered by many to be the greatest classic radio show of all time. William Conrad is Matt Dillon in this classic western old time radio show.
512 old time radio show recordings
(total playtime 220 hours, 596 min)
available in the following formats:
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Western (1952 - 61)
Gunsmoke, on radio from 1952-1961, is perhaps the greatest radio drama of all - not just the best western radio drama. It is a perfect example of all the elements of creative broadcast radio coming together week after week to create a place and time in your mind (Dodge City, mid-1880's or so), populated with living people who you grow to know personally and care about. Chester, Doc, Kitty and Matt Dillon, US Marshal, "the first man they look for, and the last they want to meet." become as real to us as our neighbors.
The cast featured Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear (who went on to be Floyd the Barber on TV's Andy Griffith Show) as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty, The weekly supporting casts were always well drawn and believable. Producer/director Norm Macdonnell, the creative genius who made the show what it was, always took care that everything sounded just right.
William Conrad, already a major radio actor with terrific work on Escape, was at first overlooked as being ubiquitous. But they tested him anyway, and he was Matt Dillon right from the start. The role became Conrad's greatest achievement, and must be considered as perhaps the best portrayal of show character ever heard on radio. Conrad was distraught that he wasn't considered to play Matt Dillon on TV, being short and heavy, but he went on to a solid career in TV (best remembered for the series Cannon).
Sound engineers Ray Kemper, and Tom Hanley, along with producer/director Norman Macdonnell.The old time radio show is Gunsmoke at its most creative and varied. The gritty dialog of the superb scripts, the honest acting, sound effects and music makes Dodge as real as any place ever created on radio. For example, Kitty's saloon scenes featured a real honky-tonk "pieannah" being played live in a crowd of extras as the show was transcribed. Gunshots were the authentic weapons recorded and carefully mixed. The staff was the best in the business.
Happily, we have the whole run of the old time radio show, so "the story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it" will live on.
See also: Best of Gunsmoke Collection for some of OTRCAT's favorite epsiodes of this classic western show.
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It's a great testimonial to the power of the mind (The theater of the mind) used when listening to a radio show. The same story on TV are less. I think Gunsmoke, when Dennis Weaver was in the cast, is the closest one gets on TV and then it was not as good. A number of the stories on radio were repeated on TV and Dennis Weaver better captured the character Chester but the version he presented was too wimpy.
It also shows what a wonderful writer John Meston was having shows that he wrote used in both the radio and TV version. For the life of me I don't understand why Meston didn't get better recognized for his work since it shows if a story is well written it makes all the difference.
It's too bad that radio and for the most part TV has morphed now into something less than worthless.
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