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.....
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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 summer of 1948. Two versions were
recorded. The first, recorded in June 1949, was very much like a
hardboiled detective series and starred Michael Rye (credited as
Rye Billsbury) as Dillon; the second, recorded in July 1949,
starred Straight Arrow actor Howard Culver in a more Western,
lighter version of the same script. CBS liked the Culver version
better, and Ackerman was told to proceed.
A complication arose, though; Culver's contract as the star of
Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series.
The project was shelved for three years when producer Norman
Macdonnell and writer John Meston discovered it while creating an
adult Western series of their own.
Macdonnell and Meston wanted to create a radio Western for
adults, in contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare such as The
Lone Ranger and The Cisco Kid. Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City,
Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning
notes, "The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented
realism."
Radio cast and character biographies
The radio series first aired on CBS on April 26, 1952, with the
episode "Billy the Kid", written by Walter Newman, and ended on
June 18, 1961. The show stars 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.
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