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Audition

An audition program with Rye Billsbury (often billed as Michael Rye) as Marshal Mark Dillon. A crooked roulette wheel in the town of Gouge Eye means trouble and a bullet for Dillon. See cat. #9461 for the second audition of this program.

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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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“Audition.” Gunsmoke. Radio broadcast, June 11, 1949.

Sound Recording A28m58s

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