Ken Curtis Said Festus Had More To Offer Gunsmoke Than Chester Goode
Ken Curtis fans will tell you that the Gunsmoke episode “Hard Luck Henry” is one of the funniest ones focused …
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Burt Reynolds Had Everyone’S Blessing To Leave Gunsmoke
Burt Reynolds spent nearly three seasons on Gunsmoke, which seems like a relatively short amount of time given the longevity …
Miss Kitty And Marshal Dillon Kissed On Tv In The Late ’50S — But Not On Gunsmoke
If you’ve seen any episode of Gunsmoke, you know the unmistakable romantic tension between U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon and saloon …
There’S Only One Gunsmoke Episode Where Chester, Quint And Festus All Appear
Very few television shows can say they lasted for 20 years, even fewer that were primetime scripted dramas. The classic …
Milburn Stone Got His Inspiration For Gunsmoke’S Doc Adams From An Old Man Who Hit Him On The Street
No one can control when inspiration hits you. Sometimes it can feel like a lightning strike, a great idea that …
Does This Scene Prove That Matt And Kitty Did In Fact Share A Kiss On Gunsmoke?
Gunsmoke was many things to many people. It was a look at the triumphs and trials of the American frontier. …
James Arness On Returning To Dodge For The Gunsmoke Reunion
By 1987, Westerns weren’t exactly “de rigueur” on TV or at the cinema. Although the genre had once been a …
There’S A Good Reason Why The Andy Griffith Show Was So Fond Of Gunsmoke
When The Andy Griffith Show premiered in 1960, it took the small town feel of Westerns and turned it into …
Chester’S Brother In Gunsmoke Was Smarter Than He Looked And The Actor Who Played Him Was A Prodigy ‘Quiz Kid’ On The Radio
In the 1964 movie musical My Fair Lady, a phonetics professor named Henry Higgins bets that he can turn Audrey …
Gunsmoke’S Milburn Stone And Batman’S Madge Blake Were Cousins Whose Parents Drastically Disagreed On Acting As A Respectable Job
When producers were first putting together the campy Sixties TV show Batman, they realized something was missing. It didn’t seem …