Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke"
The Lynching (08-16-52)
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961, and John Dunning writes that among radio drama enthusiasts "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." The television version ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and still remains the United States' longest-running prime time, live-action drama with 635 episodes ("Law and Order" ended in 2010 with 476 episodes). The half-hour animated comedy "The Simpsons", is slated for a 21st season in Fall 2010. In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series.
THIS EPISODE:
August 16, 1952. CBS network. "The Lynching". Sustaining. Marshal Dillon tries to get proof of the guilt of the leader of a lynch mob. Billy Saxton was hung for being a murderer, without benefit of trial. Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Joan Danton, John Dehner, John Meston (writer), Lee Miller, Parley Baer, Paul Dubov, Ralph Moody, Tom Tully, William Conrad. 1/2 hour. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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