Turned it on today and just before the show started, this came across the screen.

The following show has out dated cultural views, viewer discretion is advised

Really, GUNSMOKE has out dated cultural views? That explains a lot about what’s wrong with modern society.

I don’t believe we get that message up here, but will have to watch closer.

L.W.

Don’t see it here.

I watch it most days and nothing of the sort has come across my screen. Nor with any of the other old shows I watch.
You must live in some sort of woke neighborhood.

Same here. I watch it almost every day and haven't seen anything like that.

Political correctness.

Yeah, you can't shoot outlaws anymore. Or Indians.

Yeah, like the idea there are boys and girls, and that these are immutable concepts, and girls and boys marry each other, and have different roles in life, and behave differently, and have different personalities, and that guns serve a valuable role in a free nation, and on and on. All dangerous concepts.

Never had an issue with Indians. Heck, one of my hotties in days gone by was a nifty squaw. Cute as a button, horny as a toad.

Outlaws? Mebbe YOU can't shoot 'em, but I sure as hell can and will if they get in my face....or on my place. Perhaps the twisted puppies in cyber space don't like it, so fuggem all.

Sammy Small

Ruth the Mule was often a John Mule.


DUH!!!

I want to introduce these hos to someone I respect.



Hos, meet Mr. Rittenhouse

The plots were TV Western predictable, but the casting and character acting were superb.

Somebody get lynched or somethin in that episode?

I got that message watching All In The Family over summer.

Seemed like every third episode of The Virginian was based on that theme, i.e., someone standing trial for a murder they didn't commit.

LOL

I watched a Gunsmoke one where two guys cut this ole boy’s neck from ear to ear
Holy fugkkk 😱

It seemed so real.

in black and white on the 13” philco ext to the waffle iron

I watch alot of gunsmoke and have seen that disclaimer many times.

I never see any fugging homo's on gunsmoke.

Thanks for some great episodes LW !

It’s a shame there aren’t any or very few writers left like you.

The writing was sharp and the actors actually knew how to act a part.

Osky

CHESTER !!!!!!

Chester had girlfriends in a number of episodes. He was not gay.

Guess that explains the "boner down the pant leg" limp then.

Festus....what in the tarnation hell is dis gay thang yous fellers is all talkin bout, never herd nor seen no such thang.

... and we never heard 'ah dindu nuffin' from any of them.

Those girl’s identified as guys !!

And Doc always picking his nose, wiping the food off his mouth, and pulling chit out of his ears.

Every time I see them drinking beer (all the time) I gotta go grab a beer, I wonder why?

Insp network?...I've never seen it ... I'd do some digging and see who's behind it!

INSP, both the early 1/2 hour and full hour episodes. The later episodes seem to rehash older story lines.

You don’t have to worry about anyone being misgendered. Decent acting and not any gore. What’s not to like?

I often wondered how many holes

And how much lead

Was in the long branch after it was all done.

Read somewhere that somebody wrote a thesis about Gunsmoke and in the 20 some years the show was on that Dillon killed over 600 people. Don't know if it's true or not.

George

That's probably more than Lucas McCain shot.

Iwatch it every night on insp. Channel, real men taking care of bad guys.i see nothing wrong with it whatsoever

Not enough groids, lgbtq wacko's and mixed race marriages!

Plus every once in awhile it will show some bandit smacking around on a woman so that pisses off the femininists.

Also check out Grit channel and Me TV.

Schit, boomers get criticized for watching GS. WTF ever.

The more I watch it the more I think that how problems were handled then is a big answer to effed up things going on today.

Dodge City. Where the women are women, the men are men, and the sheep are nervous when the cattle drives hit town. Love the show. Watched it as a kid with parents but there’s a whole lot I didn’t catch back then; like Kitty’s girls having their own “room upstairs”. And if there’s any question about the extent of Matt & Kitty’s relationship look up “A Quiet Day in Dodge City”. hint

There was no grey area when it came to crime. With Matt it was one of the other; right or wrong. If there were bad guys…..shootem.

If the A Team could shoot they would have killed thousands.
Gunsmoke was a fantastic show.

My favorite show of all time! The whole family watches it. My UNC Chapel Hill daughter laughs that almost none of her classmates have ever heard of it. She watches it with us most evenings when she is home.

I watch Gunsmoke on INSP through Directv and have not seen any warnings.

A couple of days ago John Wayne spoke before the show, telling us he thought Jim Arness would become a big star. It was season one, show one. I guess after over 600 episodes the Duke was right.

Thanks, Chlinstructor. As a retired screenwriter, all the Gunsmoke writers I knew except one (and myself) have all gone to the "Happy Writers' Room" in the Far Beyond. Sometimes I'm surprised -- but thankful -- I'm still on this side of dirt. Hollywood has changed radically since I was writing scripts.

Happy New Year.

L.W.

Deputy US Marshall Festus Hagen to US Marshall Dillon, "Matthew, it can be did!"

Well break out the ones you broke let me know I'll watch them all grade them for you there's some freaking bad shooting in them there's some bad guys there's some good girls there's some bad issues going on which ones did you write do you know or you're part of a team kind of like the Dick Van Dyke Show

ATVALASKA, there were no staff writers on Gunsmoke, or the other dramatic shows at that time. Gunsmoke was cancelled after the 1975 season. It ran for 20 years. All shows were written by free lance writers. Only the comedy shows had staff writers. I addressed this subject in another thread. Here it is.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...7898443/re-yellowstone-1883#Post17898443

As for "bad shooting," it was all make believe. After all, most actors, directors, and writers knew very little about firearms, ammunition, or how to handle them. There were some efforts at "authenticity" in the use of firearms, but there were many things more important in filming than constantly trying to correct incorrect firearms use by actors.

When John Mantley took over Gunsmoke as Executive Producer, he had the following "letter" put into every script, FIRST PAGE , for actors and directors to read. It follows.



Sometimes an actor or director would take up the offer, other times they just ignored it.

That's Hollywood.

L.W.

That’s interesting, thanks for posting that

It is one thing I have always noted when watching "Westerns." Of course, I am perfectly aware that by necessity all shots fired are blanks with little or no recoil, so I simply ignore it.

One other thing was that emptying and reloading a firearm was seldom if ever shown. A few times, and actor would be seen to reload, but not often.

The thing that REALLY bugged me was seeing all of them riding across country with flat saddle bags, only to later see them encamped with coffee pots, plates, food, silverware, and occasionally even kettles and iron support rods over the fire.

Gut shot in Dodge City? Gotta climb the rickety stairs to see the Doc.

I noticed that over Christmas weekend we're watching that's a hell of a flight of stairs with a bullet in your happy ass or broke leg a hand laugh out loud
I do find myself with that handy DirecTV feature where you can get into the Cat cast of characters and see who that little hottie was ....... oh my

Actors back then had talent

And so did Miss Kitty

Gotta get that bullet out. If I don’t get it out real soon he doesn’t stand a chance

Funny! I watched Gunsmoke today and Carroll O'Connor was the guest star on the show

Good looking young man

Well I never

Yep, and you never will Chester

Hollywood today couldn’t come up with a show that is 1/2 the quality of Gunsmoke, to save their lives.