Dillon's favorite line when someone's getting ready to draw on him,"Don't be a fool!" BAM! 
Dang that Marshall Dillon is mean
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10 year old me was always sweet on Miss Kitty... 
(Maybe eight to 18 YO me...)
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Those arguments got old quickly. Maybe they used them to take up time.
The very worst gunsmoke episodes were those where the dim-witted relatives of Festus come to town for a visit. I don't recall ever watching one such episode in its entirety; just couldn't. They were never funny as intended, only bad.
I grew up watching Gunsmoke and I still enjoy watching it, but I prefer the B&W episodes, especially the thirty minute ones. Matt had integrity, he never stole anything and he stood for justice. He wasn’t always “by the book” but any real lawman knows the answers aren’t always in some book. He stood up for what was right and sometimes that calls for violence. He was quicker to use his fists than he was to use his Colt, what we now call the Use-of-Force Continuum. (I knew it was time to retire when my wife noticed one of my knuckles was swollen from a fight I’d been in. I thought, “I wonder how many sixty-two year old men are having a conversation like this with their wives?”).
I never thought Matt was heavy-handed, there are people in this world that will come looking for trouble and Matt was the guy they shouldn’t have messed with.
BTW, “The Roundup” episode reminds me of when Wild Bill Hickok accidentally shot Mike Williams.
I never thought Matt was heavy-handed, there are people in this world that will come looking for trouble and Matt was the guy they shouldn’t have messed with.
BTW, “The Roundup” episode reminds me of when Wild Bill Hickok accidentally shot Mike Williams.
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10 year old me was always sweet on Miss Kitty...
Kitty was attractive, more so as she aged, but there were a number of guest star saloon girls that left Kitty way behind as far as looks.
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Gunsmoke got kinder & gentler as the age of color television emerged. If you pay attention, in the later years even the open gunfight scene was eliminated because it was deemed too violent.
