Sat, Sep 27, 1958 30 mins. IF you could keep players in the game. Twelve episodes, from 1955 to 1964, were selected for the Gunsmoke: Volume I box set, and another twelve episodes, from 1964 to 1975, were selected for the Gunsmoke: Volume II box set. Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichs and said that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality. Milburn Stone was given free rein to choose the character's first name, and chose that of the ancient Greek physician and medical researcher Galen. Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden (Whitney Blake), who seems to . I never thought for a moment of offering it to Wayne. Howard McNear starred as Dr. Charles Adams in the radio series, and Milburn Stone portrayed Dr. Galen Adams in the television version. Sue Ane Langdon is an American actress. He was acerbic, somewhat mercenary, and borderline alcoholic, in the program's early years. Creators Charles Marquis Warren (developed for television by) Clyde Ware Stars James Arness Milburn Stone Amanda Blake See production, box office & company info Watch on Paramount+ S7-20 with Prime Video Channels More watch options Add to Watchlist 56 User reviews 36 Critic reviews So he takes it out of Dillon's money. among recordings deemed classics by Library of Congress", "Law & Order: SVU Renewed for Season 21 at NBC, Will Become Longest-Running Live-Action Series in History", "What do Frasier (Kelsey Grammer), Matt Dillon (James Arness) and Doc Adams (Milburn Stone) have in common? Weaver worried he'd never get away from the character. Robert Brubaker as townsman Jim Buck (1957-1961), as bartender Floyd (1974-1975) [3] Kelton Garwood (aka Jonathan Harper) as undertaker Percy Crump (1966-1972) Dabbs Greer as merchant Mr. Jonas (1956-1968) Pat Hingle as Dr. John Chapman (1971) Victor Izay as bartender Bull (1970-1974) Was this review helpful? One died during the run of the show, in 1973, at the age of 74 Glenn Strange, a real New Mexico cowboy who played Sam the bartender. In 2006, as part of Gunsmoke's 50th anniversary on TV, selected episodes were released on DVD in three different box sets. However, McNear's performances steadily became more warm-hearted and sympathetic. Gunsmoke has one spin-off series, Dirty Sally, a semicomedy starring Jeanette Nolan as an old woman and Dack Rambo as a young gunfighter, leaving Dodge City for California to pan for gold. Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. From 1955 to 1961, Gunsmoke is a half-hour show, retitled Marshal Dillon in syndication. Dirty Sally was a humorous western television series about a hard-drinking cantankerous old woman and a young former outlaw traveling to the California gold fields in a wagon pulled by a mule named Worthless. The sassy owner of Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City was played by actress Amanda Blake, a woman who would forever make her mark not only in the western genre of television but also in society. The Gunsmoke brand was used to endorse numerous products, including cottage cheese[68] and cigarettes. It then went to an hour-long format. Individual stations such as KFWD in Dallas also carry the series in their markets. Whitney Blake Dolly Varden Guest Star. After Gunsmoke ended, he found fame in two other classic shows - How the West Was Won and McClain's Law. Series producers said that if the show were sponsored, they would have to "clean the show up". According to Arness, "We didn't do a final, wrap-up show. Wind Gunsmoke Season 4. [59] As of 2017[update], it had the highest number of scripted episodes for any U.S. primetime, commercial, live-action television series. 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In the film, Learned returns as Mike, who reveals to Marshal Dillon that he is the father of their daughter,[48] Beth (played by Amy Stock-Poynton) and asks him for help in saving her from a band on Apaches. Now "Gunsmoke" had its general store, a saloon run by Miss Kitty played by Amanda Blake, and . In the end, the primary roles were all recast, with Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon (on the recommendation of Wayne, who also introduced the pilot), Dennis Weaver as Chester Goode, Milburn Stone as Dr. G. "Doc" Adams (later Galen "Doc" Adams), and Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty Russell. The series was filmed at the present site of California Lutheran University (CLU) and nearby Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California. You need to be logged in to continue. It quickly moved to number one and stayed there until 1961. The Marshal Dillon syndicated reruns of half-hour episodes lasted from 1961 until 1964 on CBS, originally on Tuesday nights within its time in reruns. It centers on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. In the end, CBS simply took it away from Macdonnell and began preparing for the television version. If there's $100 that the guy winning ends up with, and Dolly gets 20%, that's $20. I am taking a few liberties with the dialogue but you know that is exactly what she implies. FRESNO, Calif. (AP) _ Ken Curtis, a singer and actor who starred as Marshal Matt Dillon's sidekick on the long-running television western Gunsmoke, has died at age 74. That the TV show was not a sham is due in no small part to the continued strength of Meston's scripts."[14]. Because Amanda Blake had died the year before, the writers revisited a 1973 episode for the movie. director of photography Film Editing by Otto Meyer Art Direction by Walter E. Keller Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp Western as romanticized by [Ned] Buntline, [Bret] Harte, and [Mark] Twain. Marshal Dillon has his hands full when a saloon girl, Dolly Varden, is believed to be in a rigged card game with a dealer named Frank Paris. 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