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 biographiesThe
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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