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Hack Prine

A professional gunman, who is an old friend of Marshal Dillon's, is hired by a coward and an enemy of Dillon's to gun down the Marshall. The first show sponsored by Chesterfield. The script was used as the pilot of the Gunsmoke television series and was used as the program of April 28, 1956.

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Gunsmoke is a media franchise centered around the American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

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“Hack Prine.” Gunsmoke. Radio broadcast, July 5, 1954.

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