Miker wrote re William Conrad and Gunsmoke:
I believe that Conrad was considered and rejected for the TV
show, but I wouldn't swear to it.
There's a story, possibly true, that after meeting with the
television producers, as he got up to leave, the armchair in
which he'd been sitting got up with him. In those days,
Arness must have been thin enough to stand alone. Conrad did
appear as Matt Dillon, sort of, in the fifties movie The Ride
Back. Though he was a sheriff and not a marshal and his name
was not Dillon, the western was based on one of the Gunsmoke
radio shows in which the lawman hunts down an escaped
criminal and then is faced with the ordeal of bringing him
back to justice. The star of the movie was Anthony Quinn, who
played the escapee, but Conrad is the protagonist. At least
that's how I, a Gunsmoke fan, remember it.
For the record, he was also the first TV Nero Wolfe.
Dick Lochte
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