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Been watching episodes of Gunsmoke. The IPTV service I subscribe to streams other old westerns - Rawhide, Laredo, Branded....

buy I'm addicted to Have Gun Will Travel.

I've watched 4 episodes today. I love it.

No news or sports for me - just old westerns, at least until I run out.

I believe Gunsmoke was the longest running show ever - 635 episodes. Should be enough to keep you busy for quite a while.

I think you'll find that the Simpsons is the longest scripted show on tv and still is running.

Gunsmoke was the longest running teevee show with LIVE actors, not cartoon characters. It ran 1955 through 1975.

L.W.

Matt always got shot in the left shoulder. CBS only wanted ruin one shirt.

"Here's a compilation of Matt's wounds-I dont remember who gave it to me or who compiled the list, but the person or persons put a lot of effort into it-Which we say, Thank you"

Experts say Matt was shot 59 times and one arrow wound.


Episode name: # of wounds - locations:

Anybody Can Kill a Marshal: 2 - lower right leg
Avengers, The: 1 - left upper thigh
Badge, The (1959): 1 - upper left chest near shoulder, from behind
Badge, The (1970): 1 - left chest/side near badge
Big Man, Big Target: 1 - right arm
Brothers, The: 1 - left shoulder/arm
Cover Up, The: 1 - graze on left forearm
Coward, The: 1 - upper right arm
Cows & Cribs: 1 - upper left arm
Deadman's Law: 1 - left shoulder
Disciple: 1 - right forearm
Foundling, The: 1 - forehead graze
Gallows, The: 1 - left shoulder
Gold Train -The Bullet: 1 - mid-back next to spine
Good Samaritans, The: 1 - left side stomach area
Helping Hand: 1 - graze in left side above waist
Hidalgo: 2 - right mid-chest
Imposter, The: 1 - upper right arm
I Thee Wed: 1 - upper left arm
Joe Phy: 1 - upper left arm or shoulder
Kate Heller: 3 - upper left shoulder from the back
Louie Pheeters: 1 - left arm
Lover Boy: 1 - upper left arm
Lynott: 2 - left shoulder; left chest
Mannon: 1 - left shoulder high above badge
Matt Gets It: 2 - forehead crease; right side lower chest
Matt's Love Story: 1 - forehead graze
Muley: 1 - back
Noose, The: 1 - right leg above knee
Parson Comes to Town: 1 - right side from back
Quest for Asa Janin, The: 1 - upper right leg
Raid, The: 1 - upper left arm
Round Up, The: 1 - upper left arm
Seven Hours To Dawn: 4 - lower right torso; head graze; two others
unspecified
Slocum: 1 - left upper arm
Snow Train: 1 - graze on upper right arm
There Never Was a Horse: 1 - right forearm close to elbow
Till Death Do Us: 1 - left forearm near elbow
Unmarked Grave: 1 - left side stomach area
Us Haggens: 1 - upper left arm
Whelan's Men: 1 - upper left arm
Winner Take All: 1 - left shoulder from behind
Wishbone: 1 - upper left arm
Wonder: 1 - upper left arm
Zavala: 1 - left side behind vest

Gunsmoke Movies:
Return to Dodge: 1 - upper left arm
To the Last Man: 1 - upper right arm
The Long Ride: 2 - crease on left neck; upper left leg
One Man's Justice: 1 - upper left arm

Locations:
Left Arm/Shoulder: 26
Torso: 13
Right Arm/Shoulder: 7
Right Leg: 4
Head: 5
Left Leg: 2
Unspecified: 2

Thanks for all the great TV shows you wrote for LW ! And for giving us many many hours of quality viewing pleasure !
So much of the stuff they write nowadays is just pure ole crap.

No shootin' mf'ers. 😁

Just learned recently that Miss Kitty died of AIDS!
Apparently caught it from her husband.

I grew up watching Gunsmoke. I never saw Have Gun Will Travel until I was 30, but once I did it became my favorite. Paladin quoting Shakespeare right before he ventilates the bad guy is just too cool.

Love all the old westerns! I've been watching a bunch of the "Tales Of Wells Fargo" lately.

Old Jim Hardy was a man's man. Shoots at least one bad guy in every show, in between fist fights!

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I’ll watch MeTV a bunch.

It’s over the air. Saturday’s they play the old westerns.

Maverick. Have gun will travel. Wagon train.


At night I’ll watch green acres and Hogan’s hero’s.

if you binge watch Gunsmoke you'll also notice that Dillon just kind of made up the law as he went.


another thing is, while outside the city he'd bury a man he shot, but in the city, he just left the guy laying in the street, hotel, long branch, etc. I guess the garbage man came around and picked them up.

I've got my wife watching it with me now though.We look forward to finding time to watch an episode.

I'll be that guy. I don't think I could sit through an episode of anything western mentioned here. Could when I was a kid.

Even at 5 years old, Bonanza was my favorite and still is. Loved that house and the gun cabinet.

Law & Order SVU is 21 seasons long

alot of shows are westerns, just not set in the 1800's.

Firefly - a popular sci-fi show is a Western

Heck, you could argue Star Trek is a western - Have Gun, Will Travel was written by Gene Roddenberry

Think about the format of a western - stock plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution, which is often dispensed through a shootout

LAWMAN!

Tough mf'er