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Posted on 1/12/25 at 5:39 pm
Posted by Team Purple
Member since Feb 2009
1287 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 5:39 pm
At what age should you be to start watching Gunsmoke on a daily basis? I always said I would never watch it, but have started to do so.
Posted by drexyl
Mingovia
Member since Sep 2005
23347 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 6:39 pm to
Amazing how freaking big that guy was. 6’ 7” and not really playing a character that featured his size.
Posted by MemphisGuy
Germantown, TN
Member since Nov 2023
13813 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 6:40 pm to
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At what age should you be to start watching Gunsmoke on a daily basis?

4 or 5
Posted by SpartanSoul
Member since Aug 2016
2673 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 6:46 pm to
Gunsmoke is an all-time great.

It is fun to watch for some of the famous or eventually be famous that showed up on the show as early starts to their careers or as children.

Everyone from Scotty to Han Solo.

https://dev.decades.com/articles/these-60-famous-actors-all-appeared-on-gunsmoke
Posted by Allthatfades
Mississippi
Member since Aug 2014
8797 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 6:51 pm to
Do you watch it with the volume turned up to about 60? If so, you should come watch with my dad.
Posted by L1C4
The Ville
Member since Aug 2017
16180 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 6:57 pm to
Are you watching Matlock too?
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
8521 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 7:19 pm to
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Amazing how freaking big that guy was. 6’ 7” and not really playing a character that featured his size.


James Arness was a WW2 vet that was shot in the leg in Italy, that’s why he had the limp on the show. Gunsmoke is great.
Posted by WheyCheddar
Member since Aug 2024
1241 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 7:25 pm to
Miss Kitty
Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
12227 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 7:59 pm to
I got hooked on Tales of Wells Fargo a year ago. It was an every night happening.
Posted by SpartanSoul
Member since Aug 2016
2673 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 8:20 pm to
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Are you watching Matlock too?


Can only be watched as a double feature with Murder She Wrote.
Posted by BradHawpe
Member since Jan 2025
292 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 8:23 pm to
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4 or 5
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
8521 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 8:24 pm to
INSP on DIRECTV, channel 364 has a lot of these type of shows airing everyday.
Posted by BradHawpe
Member since Jan 2025
292 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 8:24 pm to
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Are you watching Matlock too?



did this bum just compare Matlock to gunsmoke
Posted by dirtsandwich
AL
Member since May 2016
6554 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 8:27 pm to
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Murder She Wrote

Please respect the comma.
Posted by SpartanSoul
Member since Aug 2016
2673 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 8:47 pm to
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Please respect the comma.


Oh no, now I'll be Jessica's next victim.(We all know she was a serial killer)
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
20906 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 9:09 pm to
My FIL would put the TV on the Western Channel and watch Gunsmoke all day. One morning, he was in the kitchen and not even watching the episode airing in the living room, which he’d probably seen 10 times, when MIL said she was going to change the channel. He heard her and yelled, “Don’t you touch that TV!” I still chuckle about it when I run across Gunsmoke.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
62816 posts
Posted on 1/12/25 at 10:16 pm to
One of my earliest memories of watching television was watching Gunsmoke and Bonanza way back in the 1960's.
Posted by CollegeFBRules
Member since Oct 2008
25395 posts
Posted on 1/13/25 at 5:56 am to
Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and the Rifleman…man, I remember watching those with my grandfather. My grandmother loved Father Knows Best. Good times.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
73905 posts
Posted on 1/13/25 at 7:29 am to
watched this all the time with my dad. Now I watch the reruns a few times a week just remembering those days.

There was a video i saw where they compared the gun drawing speed of some of the top guns from westerns. Matt Dillon, Cheyenne and a few others and they determined Dillon was the quickest.

Festus>Chester
This post was edited on 1/13/25 at 7:30 am
Posted by Donkus
Shreveport
Member since Feb 2013
1479 posts
Posted on 1/13/25 at 8:25 am to
Just like The Andy Griffith Show, stop watching when the show goes from black & white to color. I think the color era of Gunsmoke is actually trying to be The Andy Griffith Show,
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