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Friday January 5, 2024


MORNING
10AM GUNSMOKE - Western, 1 hr.
Kitty has a festering sore tended to by Doc while Matt is engaged in ridding the jail house of flies.
11AM GUNSMOKE - Western, 1 hr.
In a compassionate moment Miss Kitty mortgages the Long Branch to pay Matt's tab at the hotel. Dillon has the town declared "dry" and buys Kitty's mortgage for ten cents on the dollar.

AFTERNOON
2PM GUNSMOKE - Western, 1 hr.
Matt punishes Chester for accidentally allowing Billy the Kid to escape. Kitty complains to Doc that the liniment he supplied to the Long Branch girls still isn't potent enough to keep the fleas away for more than a couple of hours.
3PM GUNSMOKE - Western, 1 hr.
Chester hauls Kitty in for running a brothel without a "Dillon Permit", a local variance known only to a few legal eagles, rare in frontier Kansas, and one without which the penalty is the forfeiture of any wine and spirits owned by the offender.
4PM GUNSMOKE - Western, 1 hr.
Dillon is upset when Miss Kitty goes to a barn dance with another man. Recent technological breakthrough allows viewers to call in and choose ending : Dillon tries to impress Kitty by wrestling with (1) an alligator, (2) another marshal, (3) Doc and Chester simultaneously, (4) his own conscience, (5) Chester's conscience.

EVENING
9PM GUNSMOKE - Western, 1 hr.
Matt Dillon stumbles into a time warp and ends up playing bari sax in an October 1967 edition of the Lawrence Welk Show.

GUNSMOKE

"Blowing a Low A"

 

EXT: IN A FOG

DILLON, STILL GROGGY FROM HIS FALL INTO A CANYON, WANDERS ABOUT TRYING TO FOCUS.

DILLON

What the ... ? Where am I? HELLO!?

SUDDENLY HE GETS TO THE EDGE OF THE FOG AND BEGINS TO HEAR MUSIC.

STEPPING FULLY INTO THE CLEAR, HE FINDS HIMSELF STANDING AMONG SOME MEN DRESSED ALL THE SAME WITH OTHER MEN BEHIND THEM AND BESIDE THEM, ALL PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

DILLON

This doesn't look like the bottom of Dry Canyon! What the ...?

MR. LAWRENCE WELK WALKS OVER TO DILLON, DRESSED VERY INAPPROPRIATELY IN WELK'S OPINION, TO ADMONISH HIM.

WELK

Excuse me, sir. You must-a be our fill-in bari-a sax player for this rehearsal. Are you-a going to get-a your horn or what?

DILLON
(puzzled)

Get-a my horn?

WELK

Come on-a, man. Let's-a get with it. You're on-a my time now.

MATT

Where am I? What is that?

(points to guitar amp near him)

WELK

What? Now, listen. You get-a your horn out or we'll just-a have to get the union over-a here to settle this.

MATT JUST STARES AT WELK, STILL NOT KNOWING WHERE HE IS OR WHAT IS GOING ON.

MATT

I thought I was in a canyon.

WELK WALKS OVER TO A STAGE PHONE.

WELK

Hello? Local-a 54? Please send-a over a bari sax-a player right away. The guy here now is-a killing our tempo... Yes... No. I don't know where his-a horn is. Wait a second, I'll ask.

WELK

Sir? Where is your horn?

DILLON

What? Horn?

WELK

Bari sax. Your horn?

WELK WALKS RIGHT UP TO DILLON, WHO TOWERS OVER HIM.

WELK
(screaming)

Your-a HORN!!

MATT

I don't know who you are or where I am, but you better back off!

WELK

What? And-a where is your gig-suit? We dress-a for rehearsal around-a here. Nobody said anything about wearing-a the western out-a-fit tonight.

(beat)

Or did you-a forget that?!

DILLON

Chester?? CHESTER??

MYRON FLOREN WALKS TO WELK AND WHISPERS SOMETHING TO HIM.

WELK
(to Floren)

Really?

WELK

Excuse me, sir. I believe-a you are in another-a dimension.

DILLON

Another what?

WELK

Dimension.

DILLON
(condescendingly)

Oh, well, why didn't you say that earlier? I'll just wander about and try to find another rip in the fabric of this here universe I have gotten myself into and try to worm-hole myself back to my jail house.

WELK

Well, now-a you're talking.

DILLON JUST STARES BLANKLY AT WELK.

WELK

I'll-a bet your-a horn was a rental anyway!

ALL BAND GUYS YUK IT UP.

DILLON

As a matter of fact if I WAS living in this dimension I would have not a two-bit 70's Conn like these clowns here have.

(pointing)

I would have had an Eppelsheim or Keilwerth. How does that grab you?

(beat)

Oh, and by the way, I'd lose the fake foreign-a accent. Lame.

DILLON DRAWS HIS GUN AND SHOOTS WELK'S CONDUCTOR WAND OUT OF HIS HAND.

 

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