I'm just a child of 70 but I like 'em too!😆

Two old pros!

Still watching Gunsmoke on TV. Classic show!

Best show ever I got all 177 disks 20 seasons

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I LOVE the westerns...Me and my mama used to watch them EVERYDAY......Mon- Sat..... I watched gunsmoke 2day as usual . i just like the old fasion way of treating a woman and the storylines are very interesting. . unlike tv shows 2day...

Yeah that's was on just a couple days ago on the Me channel I watch Festus singing to his buddy in jail and he was singing outside of the jail cell!

Don't miss his rendition of "Far Away Hills" It's the best version I've found in the past ten years. Johnny Western sings about "The Streets of Old Dodge City", too.

He was great singers too

Norman Leach - Johnny Western also wrote and sang the Have Gun Will Travel theme ❤️

Grandi uomini film così non se ne vedono più neanche di liapprezzano questi ragazzi di oggi non capiranno mai Ome ci sentivamo nol con questa mail serie al settimo cielo bastavano le cose semplici la mia generazione mitici anni 80

Same here!❤

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You're not alone. I, and some of the others on our discussion forum also only just discovered (or re-discovered) the show in the last few years. Trust me when I tell you, the episodes are even better when you see them complete. All of the channels that currently show them edit out quite a bit, and INSP even refuses to show some episodes atall, due to subject matter. You can view all 635 episodes, clear and uncut on our forum, JamesArness.Proboards.Com (it's free and easy to join).

@@OhShaw Thank you. I just registered.

@@jimdep6542 Ah, that's great! Welcome!

@@OhShaw You're welcome, you ole' skudder. I was just sittin' here a jawin' away at this here ear a corn and saw that right friendly note of yern pop up on ta my screen. Well I just had ta say something nice back to ya.

Madam Butterfly pretty pic of you madam butterfly!and yes..Gunsmoke was the best!

Amen!

They just don't make 'em like that anymore!

I'll bet the Gunsmoke gang had a lot of laughs. I still watch an episode every day at lunchtime.

@@kevino4846 Look up the bloopers for gut busting laugh.

Hi David, I'm happy you enjoyed the video. :) They were indeed, something truly special, I couldn't agree more!

@@OhShaw hello sir, thanks very kindly. Happy Friday!

insp is showing several episodes in April, and the whole series is available at many public libraries.

The dvd's are available at Amazon

@@michaelproctor8100 For a good price, too! The third one is a little pricey, but the first two seasons are cheap enough that it makes up for it.

I'm fairly certain he was in an episode of TV's "Have Gun Will Travel"

@@normanleach9587 There was an episode of Have Gun where Paladin actually mentions Dillon's name to a client. Just wish I could remember the name of that episode.

He was so good,in those pre- Festus roles,the producers of GUNSMOKE created a CHESTER - kind of character to replace Dennis Weaver in 1965.The same happened to BUCK TAYLOR - who played NEWLY OBRIEN.

@@normanleach9587 he sings Noah's Dove.......Palladin calls him Monk, and he has sort of a twangy Festus like voice until he sings........only just saw a clip a few minutes ago, not the whole episode

Yeah, he started appearing on the show in the 50s. James Drury appeared on the show then, too

Actually I just saw an old interview with him, and he said the director based Festus on an old character that Ken played before to the point they were nearly identical characters.

He was disguising his voice in a different way here compared to Gunsmoke. Ken was an accomplished singer before he turned to character acting. He appeared on Gunsmoke in a number of different roles, some good guys, and some bad guys, and he threw different voice styles at all of those characters. In the color episodes (Season 12 and later) Ken Curtis added more "hillbilly" to the character, both in his behavior and vocal inflections. In the B&W episodes Festus was less bumbling, and a little bit is a schemer. This shift seems to have started after Dennis Weaver left the series for good. To me it seems like the writers sort of combined some of Chester's qualities with those of Festus.

LOVE these two...sorry, just being picky!!!!!!!

Where else? When they passed, heaven opened the doors and ushered them right in.

Both class acts for sure! Ken Curtis was a heck of a singer as well! Sure miss those guys!!

@@jettechdonatkins Sorry I just posted the same thing then I read your post, To me he will always be Festus. And a good singer to Boot !!!

It’s like Arness is acting more like Festus and Curtis is acting more like Dillon!

Rio Grande too when Ken was with the Sons of the Pioneers...

He’s in the movie Mr. Roberts too. Absolutely no sign of Festus in that performance.

I will be on the look out for the Alamo, and Ken Curtis's beautiful singing voice. Thanks for letting me know.

Buck Taylor and Roger Ewing are still with us

Yes,Buck is still an entertaining and talented guy,and his character Newly got a good amount of screen time and material to work with during his tenure,Roger Ewing not so much...

I love that line "a lotta little beers"

Doc, Kitty and Chester toured together for years, but Amanda (Kitty) never did any shows with Ken Curtis (Festus) to my knowledge, though Milburn and Ken toured together. Amanda's biography discusses The Gunsmoke Trio (Amanda, Milburn and Dennis), but said nothing atall about performing with Ken, or about making records with any of them.

Hi, Doc! Thank you, I'm happy to hear that :) It's nice to see you here!

Hi Lou. Do you mean the full videos that I take the clips from? youtube would never allow that, unfortunately. They don't have download options either, so to download any of my montages, you need to use a separate program. I hope that answers your question, but if not, let me know. Thank you! Btw, if you're on a certain gunsmoke forum, and PM me, I'd be happy to send you any of the videos. :)

@@OhShaw This particular video is one of the one's I would like to have. It's funny and rare but I can't seem to download it. Sorry, I am not on any forums. I have downloaded full Gunsmoke episodes like "Once a Haggen" and "Prime of Life" with no problems.

That's why it says, "James Arness and Ken Curtis (as a sheriff) in How the West Was Won (Season 3)."

the minow got so drunk he got more courage than was good for him, and went after the big trout!

While Mantley was cheap, Curtis wanted more than Amanda Blake was getting. It's also too bad they didn't bring back Dennis Weaver and/or Burt Reynolds, both of whom showed real interest. In fact, Burt would have done it for practically nothing.

@@OhShaw It would have been great to have Quint, Chester and Festus in the story, but the plot would have made it difficult. I believe there was only one episode where all three were in it. Burt would have been great and did the intro to Arness's book.

@@jameshoran8 That sure would have been a treat for fans to have ALL the guys back. A good writer could have come up with a story to mskr that happen, but as it was, Mantley went for money-saving flashbacks, and was bothered that a script had been unofficially approved by Blake and Arness before he had been consulted, so he had it re-written. Besides wanting more money, Mantley's re-write was the other reason Curtis turned it down.