It seems like it's always playing somewhere. Although many channels show episodes and it's available on some streaming services, I find it hard to find one that has all 20 seasons. Usually they will buy the first 6 seasons which are half hour episodes or season 7-11 which are 1 hour episodes or 12-20 which is in color. I think the best episodes are in seasons 7-11.
Yes, I have noticed that to. Cliff hangers are more common today they weren't 50 or 60 years ago. Also the background story that runs throughout the session or the whole series is common. One things that started in the late 70's and 80's were the cutting of the number of episode per season. In the 50's and 60's most series had 34 to to 37 episodes per season. By the 80's it was down to about 25 to 28. Now it seems to be about 20 to 24.
$450 on Amazon. Might be the Christmas present to give yourself. I think I will.
My mom's first Husband was related to him. so my 2 brothers and one of my sisters is related to him.
I was looking at a list of the guest stars and noticed all the top stars or the original Star Trek series appeared in the Gunsmoke episodes at one time or another. There have been hundreds of guest stars on Gunsmoke. Here's shorter list. The whole list is too long but you'll find Burt Reynolds, Harrison Ford, Bettie Davis, Charles Bronson, ect...
Doc Adams was one of more interesting characters. In real life he was a very talented actor he played on Broadway, silent movies, sound movies, radio and TV. During his career he played in over 170 films, playing just about ever character you can image, from doctor to lawyer to banker to bank robber to pan hander, to cowpoke, to song and dance man, to politician to soldier, to space monster.
Talented guy.
Wow! Now I know I need to get the complete series!
When I was kid, Miss Kitty was my favorite. I thought she was gorgeous. It's funny that throughout the series she played the salon owner who took in wayward girls who's job was drink with customers but with never a hint of prostitutions. In the radio show she was clearly a Madam. Of course, Gunsmoke is part of the western folklore, that never existed. Marshal Dillion killed 407 people far more than any western lawman and Dodge City never had a US Marshal and the area around the real Dodge City did not resemble that in the TV show. But it's always fun to be transported back to the mythical west where criminals meet the speedy justice of Matt Dillion.
