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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Radio gets out of Dodge
Gunsmoke was arguably the best ever radio drama series. In 1959 it moved to television, signalling the beginning of the end of network radio in the US. Unfortunately, William Conrad was thought too fat to play his character Marshall Matt Dillon on TV, as Ed Walker explains on The Big Broadcast on WAMU, Washington DC.
