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Release Date:
10 September 1955 (USA)
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Plot:
Marshall Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Golden Globes.
Another 11 wins
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14 nominations
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User Comments:
"The Deadly Innocent" in Cowboy Hall of Fame
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| Andrew V. McLaglen | | (96 episodes, 1956-1965) |
| Harry Harris | | (64 episodes, 1961-1966) |
| Ted Post | | (55 episodes, 1956-1963) |
| Bernard McEveety | | (53 episodes, 1967-1975) |
| Vincent McEveety | | (46 episodes, 1965-1975) |
| Gunnar Hellström | | (33 episodes, 1967-1975) |
| Charles Marquis Warren | | (26 episodes, 1955-1956) |
| Robert Totten | | (24 episodes, 1966-1971) |
| Jesse Hibbs | | (20 episodes, 1958-1961) |
| Richard Whorf | | (18 episodes, 1957-1961) |
| John Rich | | (14 episodes, 1957-1969) |
| Irving J. Moore | | (14 episodes, 1966-1974) |
| Philip Leacock | | (12 episodes, 1969-1972) |
| Mark Rydell | | (10 episodes, 1964-1966) |
| Marc Daniels | | (10 episodes, 1965-1967) |
| Arthur Hiller | | (9 episodes, 1959-1960) |
| Joseph Sargent | | (7 episodes, 1962-1965) |
| Robert Stevenson | | (6 episodes, 1956) |
| Buzz Kulik | | (5 episodes, 1957-1959) |
| Allen Reisner | | (5 episodes, 1965-1967) |
| Herb Wallerstein | | (5 episodes, 1971-1972) |
| Victor French | | (5 episodes, 1974-1975) |
| Christian Nyby | | (4 episodes, 1956-1964) |
| William D. Russell | | (4 episodes, 1957) |
| Dennis Weaver | | (4 episodes, 1961) |
| Jerry Hopper | | (4 episodes, 1963-1964) |
| Michael O'Herlihy | | (4 episodes, 1964-1974) |
| Richard C. Sarafian | | (4 episodes, 1965-1968) |
| Paul Stanley | | (4 episodes, 1971-1972) |
| Alf Kjellin | | (4 episodes, 1972-1973) |
| Seymour Berns | | (3 episodes, 1958-1959) |
| Gerald Mayer | | (3 episodes, 1960-1961) |
| Jean Yarbrough | | (3 episodes, 1960) |
| Tay Garnett | | (3 episodes, 1961-1966) |
| John English | | (3 episodes, 1963) |
| Robert Butler | | (3 episodes, 1967-1972) |
| Marvin J. Chomsky | | (3 episodes, 1968-1969) |
| James Sheldon | | (2 episodes, 1957-1965) |
| Louis King | | (2 episodes, 1957) |
| R.G. Springsteen | | (2 episodes, 1959) |
| William Conrad | | (2 episodes, 1963-1971) |
| Joseph H. Lewis | | (2 episodes, 1965) |
| Alvin Ganzer | | (2 episodes, 1966-1968) |
| Bernard L. Kowalski | | (2 episodes, 1966) |
| Herschel Daugherty | | (2 episodes, 1968-1969) |
| Leo Penn | | (2 episodes, 1968-1969) |
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| John Meston | | (257 episodes, 1955-1965) |
| Les Crutchfield | | (56 episodes, 1955-1967) |
| Calvin Clements Sr. | | (42 episodes, 1964-1974) |
| Kathleen Hite | | (41 episodes, 1957-1965) |
| Jim Byrnes | | (34 episodes, 1968-1975) |
| Paul Savage | | (26 episodes, 1963-1975) |
| John Dunkel | | (25 episodes, 1955-1967) |
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| Clyde Ware | | (18 episodes, 1965-1967) |
| Ron Bishop | | (15 episodes, 1967-1974) |
| Jack Miller | | (14 episodes, 1970-1973) |
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| William Kelley | | (9 episodes, 1969-1972) |
| Harry Kronman | | (7 episodes, 1965-1973) |
| Preston Wood | | (7 episodes, 1966-1970) |
| Earl W. Wallace | | (7 episodes, 1974-1975) |
| Charles Marquis Warren | | (5 episodes, 1955) |
| Gil Doud | | (5 episodes, 1956-1957) |
| Norman MacDonnell | | (5 episodes, 1960-1961) |
| Richard Carr | | (5 episodes, 1965-1969) |
| Paul F. Edwards | | (5 episodes, 1970-1973) |
| Tom Hanley | | (4 episodes, 1956-1966) |
| Frank Paris | | (4 episodes, 1961-1964) |
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| James Landis | | (2 episodes, 1966-1967) |
| Charles Joseph Stone | | (2 episodes, 1967-1972) |
| Don Ingalls | | (2 episodes, 1967) |
| Ron Honthaner | | (2 episodes, 1968-1972) |
| Jack Turley | | (2 episodes, 1968-1969) |
| Robert Vincent Wright | | (2 episodes, 1971-1974) |
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| Leon Klatzkin | | (7 episodes, 1967-1969) |
| Jerry Goldsmith | | (6 episodes, 1960-1966) |
| Wilbur Hatch | | (5 episodes, 1960-1964) |
| Leith Stevens | | (5 episodes, 1960-1962) |
| Van Cleave | | (5 episodes, 1961-1963) |
| Nathan Scott | | (4 episodes, 1960-1964) |
| John Carl Parker | | (4 episodes, 1970-1971) |
| Bruce Broughton | | (4 episodes, 1973-1975) |
| Lyn Murray | | (3 episodes, 1960-1966) |
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| Richard Shores | | (2 episodes, 1964-1965) |
| Harry Geller | | (2 episodes, 1965) |
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| Michael Pozen | | (4 episodes, 1957-1958) |
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| James Dowell Vance | | (9 episodes, 1963-1965) |
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| Joseph R. Jennings | | (6 episodes, 1967-1970) |
| Marvin J. Chomsky | | (4 episodes, 1966-1967) |
| Malcolm C. Bert | | (3 episodes, 1965) |
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| Glenn Cook | .... | production manager / production supervisor (52 episodes, 1955-1959) |
| Robert M. Beche | .... | production manager (45 episodes, 1963-1969) |
| Dewey Starkey | .... | production supervisor (31 episodes, 1959-1961) |
| Howard Joslin | .... | unit production manager (16 episodes, 1959-1960) |
| Paul Nichols | .... | production manager (3 episodes, 1970-1973) |
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| Robert M. Beche | .... | assistant director (49 episodes, 1957-1962) |
| Paul Nichols | .... | assistant director (48 episodes, 1964-1970) |
| Glenn Cook | .... | assistant director (47 episodes, 1955-1957) |
| Al Kraus | .... | assistant director (41 episodes, 1966-1969) |
| Christopher N. Seiter | .... | assistant director (30 episodes, 1964-1971) |
| Wesley J. McAfee | .... | assistant director (16 episodes, 1961-1964) |
| Robert L. Rosen | .... | assistant director (8 episodes, 1962-1965) |
| Nathan Barrager | .... | assistant director (7 episodes, 1958-1959) |
| Howard Joslin | .... | assistant director (6 episodes, 1956-1958) |
| W.B. Eason | .... | assistant director (4 episodes, 1957) |
| Jack Voglin | .... | assistant director (2 episodes, 1957-1958) |
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| Clem Widrig | .... | property master (101 episodes, 1959-1971) |
| Mike Gordon | .... | property master (54 episodes, 1955-1958) |
| Ted Cooper | .... | property master (20 episodes, 1957-1959) |
| Paul Sylos | .... | set designer (8 episodes, 1958-1959) |
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| Gene Eliot | .... | sound effects editor / sound effects editor: 1959-1965 (81 episodes, 1959-1965) |
| Vernon W. Kramer | .... | sound mixer / production sound mixer (81 episodes, 1960-1968) |
| Joel Moss | .... | sound re-recording mixer (32 episodes, 1960-1963) |
| Jack A. Finlay | .... | sound effects editor / sound effects supervisor (17 episodes, 1965-1973) |
| Terrance Emerson | .... | sound cable man (10 episodes, 1968) |
| Andrew Gilmore | .... | production sound mixer (4 episodes, 1970-1973) |
| Jerry Rosenthal | .... | sound effects supervisor / sound effects (3 episodes, 1970-1971) |
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| Louis DeWitt | .... | special photographic effects / optical effects (26 episodes, 1955-1958) |
| Jack Rabin | .... | special photographic effects / optical effects (26 episodes, 1955-1958) |
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| Louis DeWitt | .... | optical effects / special photographic effects (36 episodes, 1955-1957) |
| Jack Rabin | .... | optical effects / special photographic effects (36 episodes, 1955-1957) |
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| Fred W. Berger | .... | supervising editor / supervising film editor (77 episodes, 1955-1959) |
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| Rex Koury | .... | composer: theme music (104 episodes, 1955-1974) |
| Gene Feldman | .... | music editor / supervising music editor (100 episodes, 1959-1973) |
| Glenn Spencer | .... | composer: theme music (80 episodes, 1955-1966) |
| Bob Bain | .... | musician: guitar (39 episodes, 1955-1956) |
| Herschel Burke Gilbert | .... | music supervisor / conductor (12 episodes, 1964-1965) |
| Fred Steiner | .... | conductor (11 episodes, 1960-1965) |
| Morton Stevens | .... | music supervisor (3 episodes, 1966-1967) |
| Leith Stevens | .... | conductor (2 episodes, 1960-1962) |
| Jerry Goldsmith | .... | conductor (2 episodes, 1960) |
| Lyn Murray | .... | conductor (2 episodes, 1961-1966) |
| Wilbur Hatch | .... | conductor (2 episodes, 1961-1964) |
| Nathan Scott | .... | conductor (2 episodes, 1961-1964) |
| Van Cleave | .... | conductor (2 episodes, 1961-1962) |
| Leon Klatzkin | .... | conductor (2 episodes, 1967-1968) |
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| Paul Savage | .... | story consultant (83 episodes, 1966-1969) |
| Mary Chaffee | .... | script supervisor (73 episodes, 1955-1959) |
| Edle Bakke | .... | script supervisor (60 episodes, 1961-1968) |
| Adele Cannon | .... | script supervisor (33 episodes, 1959-1961) |
| Frank Paris | .... | assistant to producer (25 episodes, 1960-1961) |
| Herbert DuFine | .... | assistant to producer (23 episodes, 1964-1968) |
| John Mantley | .... | story consultant / script consultant (8 episodes, 1964-1965) |
| Jack Miller | .... | executive story consultant (8 episodes, 1971-1974) |
| Michael Kennedy | .... | production assistant (5 episodes, 1974) |
| Paul F. Edwards | .... | assistant story consultant (4 episodes, 1970-1973) |
| Lloyd Nelson | .... | script supervisor (4 episodes, 1970-1973) |
| Gana Jones | .... | script supervisor (3 episodes, 1961) |
| Eleanor H. Donahoe | .... | script supervisor (2 episodes, 1957-1958) |
| Jim Byrnes | .... | assistant story consultant (2 episodes, 1968-1969) |
| Ron Honthaner | .... | assistant to producer (2 episodes, 1968-1969) |
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Additional Details
Also Known As:
Gun Law (UK)
Marshal Dillon (USA) (rerun title)
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Runtime:
USA:30 min (1955-1961) (233 episodes) (including commercials) | USA:60 min (1961-1975) (402 episodes) (including commercials)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Trivia:
The series was set in the 1870s. Kansas entered the Union in 1861. The Marshals Service provided local law enforcement in territories, not in states. The duties Matt Dillon performed would have been handled by a town Marshal or county sheriff (in this case, Ford County). Each state (or federal court district) had one US Marshal, who was in charge of all the Deputy US Marshals in that particular jurisdiction; Matt Dillon would have been a Deputy US Marshal.
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Quotes:
U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon:
[
to any man seemingly planning to go gunning for somebody.] If you're gonna to use that gun, you better start on me.
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Soundtrack:
The Old Trail
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This episode, "The Deadly Innocent", filmed in 1973-75, guest starring Russell Wiggins as Billy, was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame for the sensitive portrayal of mental retardation. It portrayed Marshall Dillon and Festus as helping a mentally handicapped man find a productive place in society in the Old West.