[26] The original radio version was conducted by Koury. 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". It was Silly fun. 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. 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. Dunning writes that Meston was especially disgusted by the archetypal Western hero and set out "to destroy [that type of] character he loathed". The series follows Dillon as he plays peacekeeper in a locale afflicted by problems such as rustling, gunfights and brawling. He then went on to Shep Fields Orchestra. 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Amanda Blake Kitty Strother Martin Dooley Ken Lynch Colpitt James Maloney Faber Ben Wright Mr. Ross George Selk Moss Grimmick James Nusser Nelson Director John Rich Writers John Meston (story by) (screenplay by) (based on the radio series created by) Norman MacDonnell (based on the radio series created by) (uncredited) The project was suspended for three years, when producer Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston discovered it while creating an adult Western series of their own. Best Continuing Supporting Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic or Comedy Series: Dennis Weaver nominated (winner: Best Dramatic Series with Continuing Characters won, Best Editing of a Film for Television: Mike Pozen for "How to Kill a Woman" won. So what happens is that the cowboys pay Dolly to stand by them and the team of Dolly/Paris wins money either way. A complication arose when Culver's contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series. It remained among the top-20 programs until 1964. In the end, CBS simply took it away from Macdonnell and began preparing for the television version. 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Mr. Warren asked Wayne if he knew James Arness, and Mr. Wayne said yes. In addition to his television roles, Curtis acted with John Wayne in some of Hollywoods classic films, including The Searchers and The Quiet Man.. When Dillon isn't fighting for peace and justice, he's trying to win over the usually ambiguous affection of Kitty (Amanda . The belief that Wayne was asked to star is disputed by Warren. Doc wandered throughout the territories until he settled in Dodge City 17 years later under the name of Charles Adams. In the early years, most of the TV episodes were adapted from the radio scripts, often using identical scenes and dialogue. Curtis, whose real name was Curtis Gates, was born in Lamar, Colo. For other uses, see, Television series (19551975) and TV movies. [59] As of 2017[update], it had the highest number of scripted episodes for any U.S. primetime, commercial, live-action television series. 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. 10 out of 15 found this helpful. Conrad borrowed the surname from cartoonist Charles Addams as a testament to Doc's initially ghoulish comportment. Second, Ewing appeared on "Gunsmoke" between 1965-67. Appearing in films like "Norma Rae," "Greased Lightning," and "Jerry Maguire," Bridges actually got his start in sitcoms and westerns. The cast and crew read the news in the trade papers. 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 Curtis, who played deputy Festus Haggin from 1963-75, died in his sleep Sunday at his home here, family members said Monday. Lowell Toy Manufacturing Corporation ("It's a Lowell Game") issued Gunsmoke as game No. 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. "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. 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. [16] The producers wanted to find a sponsor that would allow them to keep the show the way it was. So he takes it out of Dillon's money. It seemed like James Arness simply couldn't let go of the character who he had played for so long - Matt Dillon. The television series was the longest-running, primetime, live-action television series at 20 seasons, until September 2019 with the 21st-season premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Eden married first husband Michael Ansara in 1958 and divorced him in 1974. During its second season in 1956, the program joined the list of the top-10 television programs broadcast in the United States. Click here to login or here to sign up. Macdonnell and Meston continued the radio version of Gunsmoke until 1961, making it one of the most enduring vintage radio dramas. Brave gunslinger Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) presides over Dodge City, a Wild West town often overrun with the lawlessness of the frontier. Sometime in 1959, Ellis was billed as Georgia Hawkins instead of Georgia Ellis. Can't find a movie or TV show? The TV version was thought to have been first conducted by CBS west coast music director Lud Gluskin. God knows we have a right to as not only does the very versatile-looking Miss. For nine seasons, the opponent was played by Arvo Ojala, who taught Arness to shoot. It centers on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. He was acerbic, somewhat mercenary, and borderline alcoholic, in the program's early years. The series consisted of 14 half-hour episodes that aired on CBS Fridays, 8:00 to 8:30 p.m., from January 11, 1974, to July 19, 1974. And I'll bet you a a barrel of whiskey that this Dolly Winters is not what she's pretending to be. Both sets are also available as a combined single "Gift Box Set". When aired in the United Kingdom, the television series was initially titled Gun Law,[1] later reverting to Gunsmoke. [25] This seemed to have been a habit of CBS. 'GUNSMOKE,' Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, 1955-1975 / Everett Collection Dennis Weaver stayed with the show for nine years before he started chafing creatively. [22][23][24], In 1975, CBS made the decision not to renew Gunsmoke for a 21st season, without making any public announcement or informing the producers or cast members ahead of time. 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. Episode Info. 28 on, In 2019, the radio episode "The Cabin" was selected by the. Roberts and Cheyenne Autumn. He also had roles in TVs Rawhide, Perry Mason and Have Gun, Will Travel.. Many episodes were based on man's cruelty to man and woman, in as much as the prairie woman's life and the painful treatment of women as chattels were touched on well ahead of the time of most media. Dunning wrote, "That radio fans considered the TV show a sham and its players impostors should surprise no one. Three other popular shows, Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space, and The Incredible Hulk, met the same abrupt fate. During his audition, however, Conrad won over Macdonnell after reading only a few lines. Looks like a gambler's lucky charm has materialized in the winsome form of Dolly Varden (Blake). Additionally, Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS DVD have released the series in its entirety on DVD for 13 years between 2007 and 2020 in Region 1 (all of the seasons except for season one and seasons sixteen through twenty were split into two volumes). "[20] It has long been rumored that John Wayne was offered the role of Matt Dillon; according to Dennis Weaver's comments on the 50th Anniversary DVD, disc one, episode "Hack Prine", John Wayne was never even considered for the role; to have done so would have been preposterous, since Wayne was a top movie leading man. 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. Dunning writes that Dillon "played his hand and often lost. 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. 822. [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. [60] Some foreign-made programs have been broadcast in the U.S. and contend for the position as the longest-running prime-time series. Matt Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. The episode was based on "Matt's Love Story". Matt gets a tiger-by-the-tail in this episode. 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Although Amanda Blake and . Strauss once said that the situation in the Old West was an excellent representation, unintentional or not, of what Hobbes meant by the state of nature."[67]. Matt suspects the new saloon girl of being affiliated with a crooked gambler. After director John Ford hired the Pioneers for the western film, Wagon Master, Curtis began getting dozens of movie and TV roles. [58] The original Law & Order, which was canceled in 2010 after tying Gunsmoke's longevity record for a live-action, primetime television series, began its 21st season in February 2022. 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 . "[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". Chester . Blake look just like her but the special way the camera focuses on Dolly when we first see her convinces us this is indeed Novak. Two versions of the same pilot episode titled "Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye" were produced with Rye Billsbury and Howard Culver playing Marshal Mark Dillon as the lead, not yet played by Conrad. My favorite part of th show is when Kitty approachs Matt and basically says I don't believe her because it takes a prostitute to know a prostitute . Makeup Department This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group At Yahoo and at www.otrr.org-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com In the radio series, Kitty's profession was hinted at, but never explicit; in a 1953 interview with Time, Macdonnell declared, "Kitty is just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while". Macdonnell later claimed, "Much of Matt Dillon's character grew out of Bill Conrad."[10]. From 1955 to 1961, Gunsmoke is a half-hour show, retitled Marshal Dillon in syndication. 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. Tomatometer Not Yet Available . Every time anyone says her name, it sounds like Dolly Parton. John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time. Many episodes end on a somber note, and villains often get away with their crimes. He was the son of a sheriff and worked on a jail farm as a boy. Privately, Macdonnell had a guarded interest in taking the show to television, but publicly, he declared, "our show is perfect for radio", and he feared, as Dunning writes, "Gunsmoke confined by a picture could not possibly be as authentic or attentive to detail. 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 Heraclio Cantrell and Father Hernando Cantrell. But Matt doesn't believe in luck like that and suspects something crooked is going on. I'm a pretty good judge of men, but I'm a mighty good judge of women. 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 . As originally pitched to CBS executives, this was to be an adult Western, not a grown-up Hopalong Cassidy. Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City. Series producers said that if the show were sponsored, they would have to "clean the show up". rschlueter@bnd.com. Gunsmoke, American television western that aired on CBS for 20 seasons (1955-75), becoming the longest-running prime-time television western in history. The popular Western series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975. April 29, 1991. Curtis, who played deputy Festus Haggin from 1963-75, died in his sleep Sunday at his home here, family members said Monday. FRESNO, Calif. (AP) _ Ken Curtis, a singer and actor who starred as Marshal Matt Dillons sidekick on the long-running television western Gunsmoke, has died at age 74. 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