Many episodes were based on man's cruelty to man and woman, in as much as the prairie woman's life and the painful treatment of women as chattels were touched on well ahead of their time in most media. Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and said that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality. Macdonnell later claimed, "Much of Matt Dillon's character grew out of Bill Conrad." Dillon, as portrayed by Conrad, was a lonely, isolated man, toughened by a hard life. During his audition, however, Conrad won over Macdonnell after reading only a few lines. Though Meston championed him, Macdonnell thought Conrad might be overexposed. With a resonantly powerful and distinctive voice, Conrad was already one of radio's busiest actors. Conrad was one of the last actors to audition for the role of Marshal Dillon. Two versions of the same pilot episode titled "Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye" were produced with Rye Billsbury and Howard Culver playing Marshal "Mark" Dillon as the lead, not yet played by Conrad.
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Matt Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. William Conrad in 1952, when Matt Dillon was created on radio
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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The radio series first aired on CBS on Apwith the episode "Billy the Kid", written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18, 1961. Dunning notes, "The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism." Radio cast and character biographies Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. 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. 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. CBS liked the Culver version better, and Ackerman was told to proceed.Ī complication arose, though Culver's contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series. 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. Īckerman 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 mid-1948. Robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task. 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". In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. 1.3 Talk of adapting Gunsmoke to television.
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