Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) In the opening of most radio episodes, the announcer would describe the show as "...the story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it." William Conrad's Matt would take over, saying, "I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshalthe first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful ... and a little lonely." Conrad's Matt provided bits of narration for many of the radio episodes, usually to help set the scene for the listener or to
Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) would have Pickle being less hostile to the brothers. In "The Simpsons" episode "Forgive and Regret" in the cold opening, Maggie Simpson had a gunfight with "Marshall Matt Dillon" which celebrated the show surpassing "Gunsmoke" as the longest-running scripted American primetime television series by number of episodes. Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of "Gunsmoke". He serves as the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s. The character was created by writer John Meston, who envisioned