Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke"
The Juniper Tree (Aired 08-30-52)
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 was the United States' longest-running prime time, live-action drama with 635 episodes. In 2010, Law & Order tied this record of 20 seasons (but only 456 episodes). At the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote "Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend.
THIS EPISODE:
August 30, 1952. CBS network."The Juniper Tree". Sustaining. Jim Stanley, a slow thinking rancher, is framed by Mingo and accused of stealing from his gambling table. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Dehner, Paul Dubov, Vivi Janis, Michael Ann Barrett, William Lally, Herb Purdum (writer), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Roy Rowan (announcer), Norman Macdonnell (director). 29:39. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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