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This boldness did not make the show an instant hit, butīy its second season, it had cracked the top 10 in the ratings, and by year 3 Story "a tramp," a descriptor that she said almost got her fired in Kitty at one time was a lady of the evening, or as Blake told TV Guide in a Decemcover Of senseless tragedy and even a whiff of scandal, as it was assumed that Miss And Gunsmoke certainly portrayed its share Weaver as the renamed Marshal's assistant Chester Goode.Įven in its radio incarnation, the series was seen by itsĬreators, producer Norman MacDonnell and lead writer John Meston, as a westernįor adult audiences, in contrast to the child-oriented westerns like Hopalong Cassidy and The Cisco Kid then in vogue. The rest of the cast was new for television as well withĪmanda Blake playing Kitty, veteran Milburn Stone as Doc, and a young Dennis To persuade the easy-going Arness to take what would be the role of his lifeīecause at that time television was seen as a step down from feature-length In fact, Wayne introduced the TV pilot and had Play well in the mid-50's TV landscape, and the TV role was given to 6'7" Though Conrad possessed aĬommanding voice perfect for the radio Matt Dillon, his portly figure would not Though the radio version continued until 1961. Has a well-chronicled history that hardly needs to be retold in detail.īeginning as a radio drama in 1952 with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, GeorgiaĮllis as Kitty Russell, Howard McNear (who would later play Floyd the barber onĪnd Parley Baer as Chester Proudfoot, the series was adapted for TV in 1955, Most popular western series of all time, Gunsmoke Show before The Simpsons and Law & Order came along and still the
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