• (T/F) Gunsmoke was the first radio drama to violate the rule that there be little dead air.
  

True




• To within one, how many people performed the sound effects on a typical Gunsmoke radio play?
  

Two or three




• Gun shot sound effects made live in the studio on early Gunsmoke's sounded wimpy. Gunsmoke's sound effects men thus went to a vacant lot and recorded various firings of 45, 38, 32 and 22 caliber guns to use on the programs. Which of these was always used for Dillon's gun?
  

The 45




• (T/F) Foot step sound effects were superbly done on radio's Gunsmoke. So well were they planned, that the same number of footsteps were used every time Dillon walked from the front of his office to the jail in back. The same was true for the trip from Dillon's desk to the stove.
  

True ... but the number of steps used from the jail to the Long Branch were sometimes varied according to whether the show was on schedule or running late.)




• What objects were used to make horse's hoof beat sound effects?
  

Coconuts




• (T/F) Care was taken to give different Dodge City saloons different background sound effects.
  

True

Ray Kemper - Gunsmoke sound man. Click HERE.