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Today in History: Gunsmoke Premiers on Television - UNC Press Blog
It's a Saturday night in mid-September, 1955. Dinner dishes have been cleared away, people in their comfortable homes are settling in for the evening. For entertainment, some turn to their trusty radio, still not sure about that expensive picture-box, the television. Those with television sets aren't too sure this new-fangled thing is all that great, either. Skeptically, many of them want to see what CBS has done with their favorite, hard-boiled-detective-meets-the-old-west program. It's been on the radio since April of '52. William Conrad has been the only Marshal Matt Dillon they've known and the only...
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