Gunsmoke - The Ride Back (aircheck)

Gunsmoke - 6/28/1952, episode 10
This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers, with special thanks to Dr. Joe Webb.
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[@shellramsey1273]

Great find.

[@JohnSmith-ek8rj]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing!

[@fromthesidelines]

As heard on Saturdays at 7:30pm(et). In Los Angeles, it was heard at 7pm(pt).

[@andthatsthewayitis4173]

I watch Gunsmoke on TV everyday! I've never heard the radio version before and I'm a big William Conrad fan. I was surprised that the theme song transferred from the radio show to the TV show. Awesome!! I'm 51 so I grew up watching Gunsmoke with my grandpa in the early 70's. Just subbed!

[@fromthesidelines]

Most of the half-hour episodes of the TV series were adapted from the radio scripts. This one wasn't.

[@patsaylor8973]

Wow!!!, I love this one. It breaks my heart it isn't on OTR stations. I wonder why.

[@OTRR]

This episode was only located a couple of years ago. Information is in the description.

[@fromthesidelines]

One of the best scripts of the series, written by Antony Ellis.

[@kurtpeterson315]

Georgia Ellis's husband.

[@DavidDillon101]

William Conrad was perfectly cast as Matt Dillon, with a deep, authoritative voice and more than a hint of vulnerability. Dillon was a man who couldn’t be bought and maintained an unyielding sense of justice. To be sure, we need many more like him in the halls of power today.

[@lauraauston6451]

Never seen or heard this before. Thought I heard em all

[@OTRR]

This was only recently discovered, as the link in the description indicates.

[@TheTerryGene]

Antony Ellis later adapted his script for “The Ride Back” into a film of the same title starring Anthony Quinn and William Conrad. Conrad once again plays a lawman, but one that is very different from Matt Dillon. He’s a Marshal who has been dragged down by life and is trying to redeem himself by bringing in outlaw Quinn. It’s a decent western.

[@jmac5755]

Great find.