September 13, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment DL100: The Choice – Actions Speak Louder Than Words Andy’s actions speak loudly in his favor. He kills a man, but in doing so, his motives shine through. ~ Gunsmoke, The Choice, part 5
August 26, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment DL099: The Choice – Andy Could Be Up To Something ~ Gunsmoke, The Choice, Part 4 Getting Up on the Wrong Side of Bed Andy didn’t appreciate the night in jail. He and Matt don’t see it the same way at all. Matt locked him up for his own good, to protect him while he was drunk. But Andy, too sure of himself for his […]
August 11, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment DL098: The Choice – A Criminal Goes Free ~ Gunsmoke, The Choice, Part 3 Photo: © Bigstock Photo | vectorpocketMatt Dillon:Doc, that’s the first time I ever turned an outlaw loose. Doc: What’s that? Matt Dillon: Kerrick. I saw his picture the other day on one of those circulars. Too Brave for His Own Good Andy gets into a fight in the bar, […]
July 28, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment DL097: The Choice – Andy Gets In People’s Bad Books ~ Gunsmoke – The Choice, Part 2 You’re hired! Andy gets a job – the kind of job that requires a lot of responsibility. He’ll be riding shotgun for Jim Buck, the stagecoach driver. He sits on top of the stagecoach beside the driver and carries a shotgun. If the stage gets held up […]
July 15, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment DL096: Gunsmoke: The Choice, Part 1 – New Guy in Town New Folks Showing Up All the Time Andy Hill is the new guy in Dodge City. It’s the late 1800’s (around the 1870s) when people were moving west across America. Towns were being settled and growing into cities. It’s a fast growing town so there are new folks showing up all the time. The railway […]
August 15, 2014 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL032: The Gambler ~ Racial discrimination: ‘Just’ an Indian Gunsmoke, The Gambler, Part 3 Racial Discrimination: At the climax of the story, we come to the confrontation between Ascombe and Cass. We find out about a situation in the past that Cass had dismissed from his mind. He considered it unimportant and of no consequence. It had to do with how he had treated […]
August 1, 2014 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment DL031: The Gambler ~ Missing Motive Gunsmoke, The Gambler, Part 2: Pro-Active Marshall Goes in Search of Missing Motive Matt Dillon is very perceptive. He can see that Ascombe hates Cass and probably wants to kill him. In Part 2, Matt tries to prevent a murder. Ascombe won’t tell Matt why he wants to kill Cass, so Matt goes in search […]
July 18, 2014 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL030: The Gambler ~ Guilty Remorse Gunsmoke – The Gambler (Aired on CBS Radio, Oct 7, 1956): Gunsmoke, best loved Western of all time: In this episode of Dramatic Listening, we’re starting a new story — and a new genre once again. It’s an episode from the best-loved Western of all time, ‘Gunsmoke’. Gunsmoke was aired on the radio for 10 years from 1952-1961 […]
