Gunsmoke, Vol. 1

By: Hollywood 360, CBS Radio

Narrated by: William Conrad, uncredited, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear

"Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a US marshal and the smell of… Gunsmoke!"

Radio Westerns were strictly for kids until 1952, when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. The stories were grim, the deaths brutal, and life on the plains was harsh. Radio audiences had never heard anything like Gunsmoke, and they made it the number one Western on the radio. It soon made a successful transition to television, becoming the longest-running dramatic series in television history. Join William Conrad (Marshal Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Deputy Chester Proudfoot), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), and Howard McNear (Doc Adams) in the continuing "story of the violence that moved west with young America and the story of a man who moved with it," Matt Dillon, United States marshal.

©2014 Hollywood 360 and CBS Radio (P)2014 Hollywood 360 Radio

Re: Outstanding adult westerns

These are excellent, often thought-provoking American western stories set with reoccurring main characters that are equal to the long running television series.

Classic old time radio...the best.

Become friends with Matt, Kitty, Doc & Chester and they become family. Gritty and often heartbreaking, John Meston's stories in particular are the stuff of inspired fiction writing.