Sunday, January 16, 2022

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke" - The Boughten Bride (07-12-52)

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke"
The Boughten Bride (Aired July 12, 1952)

The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961. John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and lasted for 635 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 [Ned] Buntline, [Bret] Harte, and [Mark] Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend."


The 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.  



THIS EPISODE:

 

July 12, 1952. CBS network. "The Boughten Bride". Sustaining. The stage has been robbed of $50,000, and also Mr. Carter's fiance! When the girl is returned to Dodge, she's not very eager to be with her husband-to-be. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Stevenson, James Nusser, Frank Gerstle, John Meston (writer), Roy Rowan (announcer), Norman Macdonnell (director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Lawrence Dobkin, Patricia Walter, Mary Lansing, Herb Ellis, Jonathan Hole. 30:27.  Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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