EPISODE · Apr 7, 2026 · 24 MIN
Gunsmoke -- Target
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Gunsmoke is the gold standard of radio Westerns — a half-hour of hard, morally complex drama set in Dodge City, Kansas, where Marshal Matt Dillon keeps an uneasy peace at the edge of civilization. In "Target," a broken-down wagon brings a band of gypsies to the wrong landowner's property, and when his son falls for a young gypsy woman, a bad situation turns dangerous fast. Danny steals a horse and a gun and rides after the only person he cares about — ignoring his father's fury and Dillon's hard counsel alike. The title says everything: some people just can't stop riding toward the thing that will destroy them.
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Gunsmoke is the gold standard of radio Westerns — a half-hour of hard, morally complex drama set in Dodge City, Kansas, where Marshal Matt Dillon keeps an uneasy peace at the edge of civilization. In "Target," a broken-down wagon brings a band of gypsies to the wrong landowner's property, and when his son falls for a young gypsy woman, a bad situation turns dangerous fast. Danny steals a horse and a gun and rides after the only person he cares about — ignoring his father's fury and Dillon's hard counsel alike. The title says everything: some people just can't stop riding toward the thing that will destroy them.
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