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Posted on 1/13/25 at 8:51 am to SpartanSoul
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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.
I randomly saw Richard Dreyfuss in an episode last month.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 9:03 am to ProjectP2294
A lot of famous women from later shows show up in Gunsmoke.
Suzanne Pleshette
Angie Dickinson
June Lockhart
Barbara Eden
Diane Ladd
Loretta Swit
Michael Learned
Mariette Hartley
Jodie Foster
Joan Van Arc
Suzanne Pleshette
Angie Dickinson
June Lockhart
Barbara Eden
Diane Ladd
Loretta Swit
Michael Learned
Mariette Hartley
Jodie Foster
Joan Van Arc
Posted on 1/13/25 at 9:45 am to MorbidTheClown
I watch an episode a day on pluto. Gunsmoke is my favorite tv series.
Anzio.....south of Rome
James Arness on Anzio Beach
20 year old Jim Arness was ordered into the water first, determining its depth for the others. In his autobiography, Jim described it as being “waist high” as he stormed ashore dodging bullets and wounded men falling around him.
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Seriously wounded in the assault by German machine-gun fire in his knee and lower leg, Jim earned the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for bravery under fire. It took 18 months recovery and rehabilitation time in military hospitals before being honorably discharged and sent home.
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Posted on 1/13/25 at 12:01 pm to Team Purple
I started watching Gunsmoke when just a little kid of the 50's so all of the episodes I saw were being first aired. The initial show was just a half-hour series from 52-61 and then they went to full hour long shows from then until the show ended in 1975.
I still watch the occasional rerun on a "Western Channel" in my streaming package and quite a few episodes run daily.
I still watch the occasional rerun on a "Western Channel" in my streaming package and quite a few episodes run daily.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 12:07 pm to MemphisGuy
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4 or 5
My dad exposed my 5 year old son to Gunsmoke and now he asks to watch it all the time.
This post was edited on 1/13/25 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 1/13/25 at 1:44 pm to Donkus
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Just like The Andy Griffith Show, stop watching when the show goes from black & white to color.
I just about lost all interest in "The Andy Griffith Show" after Don Knotts left the show. His Barney character was comedic gold on just about every episode.
When the "Warren" character came aboard as the new deputy it just about turned my stomach the way I disliked that character. He was an annoying frick.
On "Gunsmoke", Festus was my favorite sidekick, and there were several during the duration of the show. Quint, played by Burt Reynolds as a half-breed who was the town's blacksmith and companion for Matt when trouble came.
Chester, played by Dennis Weaver, who never carried a sidearm, had a definite still legged limp and couldn't do much in a crisis situation.
Then Festus was brought in after Chester and remained to the end.
Then they brought in Newley, played by Buck Taylor who lasted until the final show.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 4:00 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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One of my earliest memories of watching television was watching Gunsmoke and Bonanza way back in the 1960's.
Same here, but early 70's for me. Crazy to think that show was on for 20 years.
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Posted on 1/13/25 at 6:46 pm to Team Purple
49. My dad I watched them on Pluto his second to last stint in the hospital. The show is actually pretty good. I now know where shoulda been a cowboy is coming from at the beginning.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 9:17 pm to L5UT1ger
William Conrad (Cannon) did the voice of Matt Dillon when Gunsmoke was a radio series.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 2:59 pm to OlGrandad
IIRC, John Wayne recommended Arness for the TV show
Posted on 1/14/25 at 3:01 pm to Team Purple
I started watching Bonanza when I was 6 or 7. Didn't start Gunsmoke until I was in college.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 3:19 pm to Donkus
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Just like The Andy Griffith Show, stop watching when the show goes from black & white to color.
Me too! And it's not, because I prefer some classic black and white color over actual color. Seems like the quality of the show went down. Andy Griffith is another good example another poster mentioned. I find both these shows very watchable, but not the newer episodes in color.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 3:20 pm to CR4090
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IIRC, John Wayne recommended Arness for the TV show
He did. On the very first episode John Wayne introduces James Arness.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 3:30 pm to MorbidTheClown
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A lot of famous women from later shows show up in Gunsmoke.
Speaking of women in Westerns, I was watching a movie with John Wayne, Rio Lobo, and I noticed a really pretty looking woman I decided to look up.
Sorry to get off track, but her story is wild.
Her name is Jennifer O'Neill.
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Playing an older woman who seduces a teenager may have made her a star, but nothing in the 1971 classic Summer of ’42 can compare to the many dramatic moments in Jennifer O’Neill’s life.
She attempted suicide at age 14, broke her neck and back in a horse riding accident at 15, married her first of eight husbands at 17, checked into a mental institution and, years later, accidentally shot herself in the stomach.
And she's still going and still looks good for her age.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 11:35 pm to MorbidTheClown
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yeah, i didn't care for the episodes when they tried to be funny. It's supposed to be Matt and the good guys vs the bad guys.
I don’t know about that, Harry Morgan was apart of two of the best, and funniest episodes of Gunsmoke, IMO. Gunsmoke went on for so long that a little comedic relief towards the end was well deserved for the viewers.
The Wiving
Brides and Grooms. That’s the two episodes.
This post was edited on 1/19/25 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 1/20/25 at 5:16 am to Team Purple
Matt always wears the same shirt!
Posted on 1/20/25 at 5:24 am to Team Purple
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I always said I would never watch it
What an odd thing to say.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 12:04 pm to drexyl
He is also the brother of actor Peter Graves who starred in the TV series "Mission Impossible" and had many big screen roles over the years.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 2:23 pm to gumbo2176
Two pages and no mention of Festus! Can hear him asking, "Well Matthew, what are going to do now?"
The actor who played him, Ken Curtis, was at the rodeo every year in Monroe. Him being there was why we wanted to go.
Mamma, can we go see Festus?
The actor who played him, Ken Curtis, was at the rodeo every year in Monroe. Him being there was why we wanted to go.
Mamma, can we go see Festus?
This post was edited on 1/20/25 at 2:24 pm
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