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Tremendous, heartfelt tribute to Amanda Blake, Scott! Wow, and mentioning Lucille Ball is apropos. If anyone else could have given Lucy a run for the title of "The First Lady of Television", it would likely be Amanda Blake.

Skylar, I was hoping you would continue here, reviewing Gunsmoke episodes--- perhaps for the hour-long B+W episodes starting in season 7 (1961-62)?, which I can assure you has many good and several great episodes. I understand you have the complete series set? There's plenty of room here for...

Nehemiah Persoff was an absolutely terrific character actor with a multitude of great and memorable performances in his epic career! Of course, his work on Gunsmoke, Naked City, Route 66, Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff's Thriller, The Untouchables, Mr. Novak, The Big Valley, I Spy, Wild Wild West...

Skylar, I'm enjoying your reviews and screen caps as you journey through Gunsmoke...insightful and compelling. Please keep going! And great to hear of your adventure with Alan, he is a very fine man and I appreciated his friendly and helpful conversations with me here in PMs in the past. The...

Jeff is certainly correct with his help to you, Skylar! CBS/P finally made good on the mistake when they released season 4 volume 1 in 2010. That similarly titled episode How to Cure a Friend, (that should have been in the season 2 releases of 2008), is included as a 'bonus' on disc three of...

Great work here, Skylar! Nice screen caps too. Keep it coming! Maybe it's a good idea that episode titles weren't displayed onscreen until later in Gunsmoke's long run...and while episode titles still went unseen for the time being, the show's writers, producers, crew and cast could have some...

Many great episodes in Gunsmoke season three, Skylar! Including one of my absolute favorites from the whole run, The Cabin (Feb. 22, 1958), with Matt taking shelter from a blizzard at a remote cabin, and finding a tormented young woman (Patricia Barry) held hostage for over a month by two...

Good stuff, Skylar! Robert F. Simon and Andrew Duggan, two reliable old stalwarts of vintage TV! As to Chester...poor guy, by this relatively early point, he's already had plenty of heartbreak, with a hell of a lot more to come! When it came to women, Chester needed to develop the same coping...

John, great screencaps for a great Gunsmoke episode...If you like Wayne Rogers doing Westerns pre-MASH, you should check out the recent R2 UK DVD release of Stagecoach West (1960-61, Four-Star)...I started a thread for that show and posted many of my screencaps taken from the new release...

I'm a big fan of the lovely Kathy Nolan. I took these screen caps from Call Me Dodie a few year's ago. I think her guest appearances on many shows were often highlights. Also love her appearance the next season as the grifter in Comanches is Soft...

Hey John, enjoying your season eight reviews and screen caps! This season has always been among my favorites. Here's a Coffee mug you might like? By the way, do you have Ken Curtis' previous TV series (with Larry Pennell) on DVD, Ripcord? I've got both seasons in the nice DVD sets...

Unfortunately, they do not. But anyone who loves Gunsmoke and wants it on DVD should get the complete series mega-set, even if it's somewhat unwieldy in those tightly packed and stacked cases that I hate. I'm glad to have the entire series in the original half season and full season releases...

I got my season 20 Gunsmoke set more than a month ago, and all was well with my set. Sorry to hear about your flubbed set, which is definitely surprising! Such flubbed DVD sets with the wrong discs are something I associate with some Warner Archive DVD-R sets I've received in the past. I've...

I have a great history book recounting the fascinating epic of the nomination races and the ensuing Federal Election of 1960 where JFK won a very narrow victory over Richard Nixon...one of the chapters is entitled: "Matt Dillon ain't popular for nothing!"...describing an incident in a Los...

One of our favorite locations, used for Dodge City and redressed over the years as various other towns (and ghost towns, such as 'old Dodge City')...a then and now comparison, highlighting the explosive growth of California suburban sprawl, as the state's population has nearly doubled (to 40...

It took a full week for me to finally receive Gunsmoke season 20, with Amazon tracking revealing it took an unusual route from an Amazon fulfillment center to various postal sorting plants that presumably were struggling to function during the current pandemic. I also received a much-overdue...

Wow, that's crazy. I just did a search this evening on Amazon USA for Gunsmoke season 20...it didn't come up. I even added "final season" to my search, and it still didn't come up. The complete series box set came up both times in my search. I hate to think that CBS/P might have done a more...

Ashley, you are certainly correct in your observations. But as with many fans, I choose to suspend my disbelief on this and many other observable incongruities when watching shows set in the 19th century old west or earlier. I of course agree that the ostentatious '60s era ladies make-up, wigs...

Thanks for another fine review of this memorable episode, John! In addition to the lovely Michelle Carey who delivers a fine performance, this has to be one of the best Newly episodes with a strong performance by Buck Taylor, along the well-worn lines of many a Dennis Weaver outing of season's...

Dan, after seeing your post I pulled out my copy of season 19 and took these screen caps from this very enjoyable episode... Festus: "If that ain't an ornery lookin' polecat...Look at them beady eyes, you can tell right off the bat that that's a desperate yahoo!" As Ben Rando (the great...

John, enjoying your posts. These episodes of season 17 you have reviewed, and now the truly excellent trilogy that is The Bullet, (which certainly must be one of the immortal touchstones in the last 4 seasons of Gunsmoke), illustrate just how this great series renewed itself into immortality in...

This wonderful picture of James Arness with his brother Peter Graves visiting their father in the late 1970s, posted by author Charles Tranberg on FB...

Gunsmoke Season 19E21 Trail of Bloodshed (Mar.4, 1974) D: Bernard McEveety, W: Paul Savage, a classic tale of tragedy and revenge, features several familiar faces from classic TV history, both the old guard and a new generation. The old guard being represented by Harry Carey jr., and Craig...

Greenland's Gunsmoke book, at 575 pgs with photos, follows the same template as his book on Rawhide...introduction with cast bios, and for each individual season, a brief intro citing his various favorite episodes and noteworthy events concerning the cast, the show and it's ongoing relationship...

Ben and Becky Discuss Gunsmoke season 19...Continued...my screen caps from the video bonus feature... Kitty's Love Story... Kay Lenz in The Foundling... Donna Mills in A Game of Death...An Act of Love... Ben Costello and Becky Burgoyne, authors and dedicated aficionados of...

John, I can recommend David R. Greenland's The Gunsmoke Chronicles - A New History of Television's Greatest Western (Bearmanor, 575 pgs., fully illustrated throughout). It's available from Amazon in hardcover and a very affordable larger format paperback...

One of the many great latter day episodes in Gunsmoke's long run...S18's The Sodbusters (Nov. 20 1972)...guest starring Morgan Woodward in one of his 18 Gunsmoke episodes...co-starring Alex Cord, Katherine Justice and a young Harrison Ford, purportedly considering giving up on his acting...

That's a new shelving unit, and thus far very unorganized as to what I stuffed into it. But I did tidy up that one shelf to take the photo of my Gunsmoke collection, forgetting that one half season volume (S15V2) was elsewhere, with a disc in one of my four players for two TVs...eagle eye Ben...

Aha! You have discovered my Easter egg, Ben! Congratulations! I deliberately left out my S15V2 set from that photo, as one of it's discs is currently elsewhere in one of my four players...having recently watched the delectable Beverly Garland in The Badge...she's one of my personal favorite...

My Gunsmoke on DVD collection, thus far. I need to pick up the latter two TV movies from Kino-Lorber, The Long Ride and One Man's Justice, and of course the upcoming season 20 set from CBS/P to complete my run. I'd hate to know how much I've spent on this one series alone. But, worth it! Back in...