director of photography Film Editing by Albrecht Joseph Casting By Lynn Stalmaster Set Decoration by Raymond Boltz Jr. Initially on the fringes of Dodge society, Festus Haggen was slowly phased in as a reliable sidekick and part-time deputy to Matt Dillon when Reynolds left in 1965. It is the second Western television series written for adults,[18] premiering on September 10, 1955, four days after The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. Curtis replaced Frank Sinatra on Tommy Dorseys band after Sinatra left to become a solo artist. Macdonnell became the associate producer of the TV show and later the producer. Kitty Russell: Let me tell you something, Matt. James Arness and Amanda Blake returned in their iconic roles of Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty, with Fran Ryan returning as Kitty's friend and saloon-owner Hannah and Buck Taylor as Newly O'Brian. Roberts and Cheyenne Autumn. He also had roles in TVs Rawhide, Perry Mason and Have Gun, Will Travel.. The series follows Dillon as he plays peacekeeper in a locale afflicted by problems such as rustling, gunfights and brawling. Melody Ranch actually was purchased by one of the greatest on-screen cowboys ever, Gene Autry, in 1952. [citation needed], The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961. The entire cast was stunned by the cancellation, as they were unaware that CBS was considering it. You just knew they had something going on upstairs at the Long Branch all those years. "[2] The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and lasted for 635 episodes. April 29, 1991. Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. How is Chester still in Dodge? Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created an audition script called "Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye" based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts, "The Case of the Crooked Wheel" from mid-1948. A complication arose when Culver's contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series. Conrad's weight was rumored to be a deciding factor. Jim Buck (stage driver; 19571962) and Floyd (bartender; 197475): Deputy Marshal Clayton Thaddeus "Thad" Greenwood (19651967): Newly O'Brian (gunsmith/Deputy Marshal; 19671975): Bill Pence (Long Branch owner/co-owner 1955?56? In the end, CBS simply took it away from Macdonnell and began preparing for the television version. He was acerbic, somewhat mercenary, and borderline alcoholic, in the program's early years. The Hartland toy company included an 8" (1/9th scale) plastic Matt Dillion figure and his horse Old Faithful Buck in their line of famous TV cowboys and horses during the 1950s. The first, recorded in June 1949, was very much like a hard core detective series and starred Michael Rye (credited as Rye Billsbury) as Dillon;[5][4] the second, recorded in July 1949, starred Straight Arrow actor Howard Culver in a more Western, lighter version of the same script. The episode was based on "Matt's Love Story". A comic strip version of the series ran in British newspapers for several years under the show's UK title. I'm a pretty good judge of men, but I'm a mighty good judge of women. [16] The producers wanted to find a sponsor that would allow them to keep the show the way it was. In the opening, Marshal Dillon has a shootout with what is described as "a generic bad guy" representing all those which Dillon must deal with. Good show. (1 Episode), Bank Teller (1 Episode), Jay Rabb (1 Episode), Bill Miller (1 Episode), Johnny August (1 Episode), John Eagle Wing (1 Episode), Ben Corder (1 Episode), Frank (1 Episode), Col. 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The series was filmed at the present site of California Lutheran University (CLU) and nearby Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California. Other films included Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992), Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993), and Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994). Apart from the doleful tone, Gunsmoke is distinct from other radio Westerns, as the dialogue is often slow and halting, and the outstanding sound effects give a palpable sense of the prairie setting. So what happens is that the cowboys pay Dolly to stand by them and the team of Dolly/Paris wins money either way. When we first see the strapping Whitney Blake we think she is Superstar Kim Novak doing a rare guesting role. It has also been shown on satellite channel CBS Action in the UK, Ireland and Poland. Although Amanda Blake and . Her brother, Leif Garrett, is a singer and actor. [65] In 2015, several of the surviving staff reunited at Wild West Fest in Dodge City, including stars Burt Reynolds, Buck Taylor, Jess Walton, Bruce Boxleitner, and writer Jim Byrnes. Gunsmoke was TV's number-one-ranked show from 1957 to 1961, then expanded to one hour, and slipped into a decline. In syndication, the entire 20-year run of Gunsmoke is separated into three packages by CBS Television Distribution: The program currently airs on four major venues: TV Land, which has carried the show since its inception in 1996, Encore Westerns, INSP, and Weigel Broadcasting's MeTV digital subchannel network. In the episode, Matt loses his memory and his heart during a brief liaison with "Mike" Yardner (played by Michael Learned, better known for playing Olivia in The Waltons). "[3], In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of the Philip Marlowe radio series, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hard core Western series, about a "Philip Marlowe of the Old West". She has appeared in dozens of television series and had featured roles in films such as A Guide for the Married Man and The Cheyenne Social Club, both directed by Gene Kelly, as well as The Rounders opposite Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford and two Elvis Presley movies, Roustabout and Frankie and Johnny.. She began her performing career singing at Radio City . 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. He was the son of a sheriff and worked on a jail farm as a boy. Ritter was backed on that Capitol record by Rex Koury and the radio Gunsmoke orchestra. She was 60. Kitty was played by actress Georgia Ellis on radio, and by Amanda Blake on TV. Best Teleplay Writing (Half-Hour or Less): Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series: James Arness nominated (winner: Best Supporting Actor (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series: Dennis Weaver won. Miss Blake, whose name originally was Beverly Louise Neill, was born Feb. 20, 1929, in Buffalo, her CBS biography prepared during ''Gunsmoke'' states.She was educated in Buffalo, Thirty TV westerns came and went during its 20-year tenure, and Gunsmoke was the sole survivor, with Alias Smith and Jones and Bonanza both leaving the airwaves 2+12 years earlier in January 1973. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. It didnt really ho anywhere. From 1955 to 1961, Gunsmoke is a half-hour show, retitled Marshal Dillon in syndication. Kitty doubts the veracity of Matt's old friend Dolly Winters, who arrives in Dodge seeking the Marshal's help and claiming to have been robbed, beaten, and jilted by a man named Rad Meadows. 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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.It centers on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West.The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. On the Biography Channel's Behind The Scenes: Gilligan's Island (2002), Gilligan's Island producer Sherwood Schwartz states that Babe pressured her husband not to cancel Gunsmoke in 1967, so the network cut Gilligan's Island, instead. Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty Russell Guest starring Marilyn Maxwell as Dolly Winters Lee Van Cleef as Rad Meadows Peggy Stewart as Mary Hal Smith as Dobie Clem Fuller as Clem Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Fred McDougall as Cowboy Getting Loan (uncredited) Chick Sheridan as Barfly (uncredited) Categories The people upstairs decided it was better to leave the show as it was, which I totally agreed with. (*Dolly Varden quote*) - "I'm not responsible for what men do.". That the TV show was not a sham is due in no small part to the continued strength of Meston's scripts."[14]. His real name was Dr. Calvin Moore. The actor got to hang out with Matt Dillion and the gang in the 1966 episode "My Father's . Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City. I have no reason to doubt the story, because Jimmy absolutely knew everybody.". Directed by Arthur Hiller, the episode, which was written by John Meston, was originally broadcast on CBS-TV on March 21, 1959. 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. 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. James Arness, right, who starred as Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke," had a daughter who would later get screen time in the 1990 made-for-TV movie . When aired in the United Kingdom, the television series was . 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Steckey (1 Episode), Sheriff Van Werkle (1 Episode), Barkeep (1 Episode), Telegrapher (1 Episode), Agnes Benton (1 Episode), Maylee Baines (1 Episode), Frank Tilman (1 Episode), Townsman (uncredited) (1 Episode), Barney (1 Episode), Telegrapher (uncredited) (1 Episode), Cowboy in Bushes (uncredited) (1 Episode), Self - Host, Introduction to the Series (1 Episode), Associate Producer (9 Episodes), Producer (635 Episodes), Screenplay (1 Episode), Writer (4 Episodes), Screenplay (1 Episode), Story (3 Episodes), Writer (110 Episodes). SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) _ Actress Amanda Blake, who as Miss Kitty reigned for 19 years as the queen of Dodge City's Long Branch Saloon in the TV series Gunsmoke, died after a long battle with cancer. On April 29, 2018, The Simpsons surpassed the show for the most scripted episodes. John Dunning wrote, "The listener heard extraneous dialogue in the background, just above the muted shouts of kids playing in an alley. [60] Some foreign-made programs have been broadcast in the U.S. and contend for the position as the longest-running prime-time series. Well, if all Paris was doing was dealing, and not buying into many hands, yeah, there would be a profit. During its second season in 1956, the program joined the list of the top-10 television programs broadcast in the United States. Matt is caught between the Army and the townspeople after an apparent Indian raid wipes out a family. Weaver worried he'd never get away from the character. The program was set after the arrival of the railroad in Dodge City (1872) and Kansas had been a state since 1861. After director John Ford hired the Pioneers for the western film, Wagon Master, Curtis began getting dozens of movie and TV roles. However, McNear's performances steadily became more warm-hearted and sympathetic. In one special Christmas episode, however, a handful of recognizable '70s stars happened to appear in the "Gunsmoke" world . At the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote: "Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. The (network) never told anybody they were thinking of cancelling." Gunsmoke is the last fictional primetime show that debuted in the 1950s to leave the air and only three shows from the 1960s that lasted past its final season in 197475. Ellis first appeared in the radio episode "Billy the Kid" (April 26, 1952) as "Francie Richards" a former girlfriend of Matt Dillon's and the widow of a criminal, but the character of "Miss Kitty" did not appear until the May 10, 1952, episode "Jaliscoe". Can't find a movie or TV show? Gunsmoke (TV Series) Old Flame (1960) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Jesse Hibbs Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification Produced by Music by Nathan Scott Cinematography by Fleet Southcott . He then went on to Shep Fields Orchestra. The plot about a card dealer and one of Kitty's saloon-employed gals, named Dolly,is containing a deception. "Gunsmoke: An American Institution, Celebrating 50 Years of Television's Best Western" Written by Ben Costello, Foreword by Jim Byrnes, and Introduction by Jon Voight and published by Five Star Publications, Inc.(now Story Monsters LLC) Published 1 edition (December 22, 2012), Bill Carter, "NBC Will Bring Back All Three, This page was last edited on 6 January 2023, at 00:31. We finished the 20th year, we all expected to go on for another season, or two or three. In addition to his television roles, Curtis acted with John Wayne in some of Hollywoods classic films, including The Searchers and The Quiet Man.. GUNSMOKE, Burt Reynolds, 'Quint Asper Comes Home' (Season 8, aired September 29, 1962), 1955-75 Credit: Everett Collection Legendary actor Burt Reynolds died in 2018 at the age of 82 following a . Dillon, as portrayed by Conrad, was a lonely, isolated man, toughened by a hard life. Mr. Warren asked Wayne if he knew James Arness, and Mr. Wayne said yes. Stone (1 Episode), Bud Grant (1 Episode), Andy (1 Episode), John (1 Episode), Abihu Howell (1 Episode), Bill Lee (1 Episode), Malachi Harper (1 Episode), Tobe (1 Episode), Ivy (1 Episode), Hale Parker (1 Episode), Pezzy (1 Episode), Jess (1 Episode), Ezra Thorpe (1 Episode), Jake Spence (1 Episode), Eben Hakes (1 Episode), Judge Ray Cordelius (1 Episode), Alben Peavy (1 Episode), Capt. Chester's 1st line is "Underwear sure smells good when its fresh" as he's sniffing away. She also appeared in two episodes of The Adventures of Jim Bowie in 1957 and . 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It seemed like James Arness simply couldn't let go of the character who he had played for so long - Matt Dillon. Conrad directed two television episodes, in 1963 and 1971, and McNear appeared on six, playing characters other than Doc, including three times as storekeeper Howard Rudd. Best Supporting Actress (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series: Individual Achievements in Music - Composition: Outstanding Achievement in Musical Composition: Morton Stevens for "Major Glory" (winner: Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama: Milburn Stone won, Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing: Norman Karlin and Richard E. Raderman won (tied with Alex Bamattre, Michael Colgan, Douglas H. Grindstaff, Joe Kavigan, Bill Lee, and Josef E. Von Stroheim for, In 1997, the episode "The Jailer" was ranked No. [64], Dodge City's Boot Hill Museum has a tribute to Gunsmoke, including set furniture from the 1960s and an old television tuned to the show. 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