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I like them both but for 2 different reasons. . . Watched some home movies on the Gunsmoke set taken by Dennis Weaver in around 1959-60 or so. . .Interesting. . .I guess DW was and still is a vegetarian.. . Was one of the bonus features on the DVD set I bought. . . They treated their outdoor sets (Utah) like a big cook out. . .Looked like great fun. . .Everyone of them (Except Chester) had a cigarette hanging out of their mouth. . .too funny. . .looks funny today. . .normal then. . .
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04-08-2007, 06:51 PM
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Put me down in the Festus camp, that was the Gunsmoke I grew up with.
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04-08-2007, 08:09 PM
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Looks like I should of had a poll. . .So far I think its about even. . .
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04-08-2007, 09:27 PM
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Me and one other guy voted Chester. 10 guys said Festus. You have a broad sense of even.
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04-08-2007, 09:35 PM
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I envy you guys; you at least got to actually watch Gunsmoke. When I was a kid, my local CBS affiliate never carried the show. They always pre-empted it with their own "After Dinner Movie".
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04-09-2007, 02:25 AM
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Looks like 7-2 Festus. . . or there about. . .
I guess I was trying to be politically correct. . .LOL. . .when I had them about even. . . Do you remember when Chester was going to get married??? He was fixing up that old shack when the whole damn thing fell down and he went under ground and struck water. . . I kinda liked that episode.
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04-09-2007, 04:56 AM
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My wife loves old TV westerns,and Gunsmoke in Particular-she records Gunsmoke every morning.Festus drives me nuts.Chews more scenery than a goat.
What I like about Gunsmoke,and Have Gun Will Travel,is that they both are like the old Playhouse 90 with cowboy hats and horses:Good stories,fine actors(often from the broadway stage)interesting themes.I even saw a Bonanza the other day with Ossie Davis.For its time,it was a pretty complex portrayl of race relations. Jimmy
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04-09-2007, 06:07 AM
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I have memories of watching Gunsmoke episodes as a kid, but I also have another kind of fond memories associated with that show...
When I was a kid in Arizona, my family belonged to a Country Club that organized special evenings in connection with ASU football games. Members who signed up could meet at the clubhouse before the game for refreshments, and then all board a bus together to go to the games. After the game, the bus would bring us all back, and there would be more refreshments (I loved the "creamed chip beef on toast"!) and a jazz quartet that would play dance music so people could dance into the wee hours. We had season tickets to the games, so this was a weekly ritual, at least for my parents and me. I really enjoyed those evenings. As it happened, Amanda Blake --Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke-- was a member of the same club, and would sometimes join in. Sometimes I'd get to sit quite near her on the bus, and I talked to her a few times, although mostly I just listened (Hey, I was a teenager and she was a "movie star"!). I remember she would always be a little more dressed-up than most of the people, but was nice to everyone. This was in the 1970s, towards the end of the series and just after it ended. On one or two occasions, one or two of her co-stars showed up with her --I don't think they lived there like she did, but were visiting (or maybe they were filiming in Arizona then? - I don't remember details so well any more), so I got to see and/or meet a few of them. Festus was my favorite, hands down. What a character!
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04-09-2007, 06:39 AM
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Great story. . . Seems to me that Gunsmoke was the longest running show on TV. . .Not sure if it still holds that record but I think it did at the end. . .
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04-09-2007, 12:00 PM
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Chester..if nothing else for the way he said "Mr. Dillon" and the limp..I may be wrong,but I believe the original show was on Sat. night.In fact,Saturdays were filled with quite a few westerns,including some of the all time kid favorites like the Lone Ranger,Cisco Kid,Roy Rodgers,Rin Tin Tin to name a few.I always thought that Gunsmoke was geared more towards the adults,but enjoyed it also.Westerns really ruled during the 50's and early 60's.
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04-09-2007, 02:02 PM
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The Lone Ranger was a Thur. night staple on ABC from 7:30 to 8:00 PM from '49 to '57 ... The Roy Rogers Show was on Sun. nights on NBC ...
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04-09-2007, 04:52 PM
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I think when they went color or to 1 hour shows they moved to Monday night. . .I remember the cast talking about it during one of the bonus features. . .
They were real concerned about the 1 hour show then when they went color all their good writers had nothing more to write so they got new writers. . . Don't know if you noticed but it was during the time when Matt came riding hard instead of a shoot out for the opening. . . Finally they went back to the shootout. . .
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