This aired in April, 1966 and was Nimoy's last TV work before regular Star Trek filming in May 1966. That first regularly season Trek episode was "The Corbomite Maneuver," in which Spock says "Fascinating" with a lifted eyebrow and gets the dry coolness just right, for the first time, cementing the character. So John Walking Fox here is just before that crucial time. By the time of this Gunsmoke Nimoy has actually already played Mr. Spock twice, once for the early failed pilot The Cage (1964) and later for the series Pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1965). Spock in "The Cage" of course has emotions, and at one point, a big grin. And Spock in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is still not quite yet the canonical Spock, and is a little over the top more than once ("In a month he'll have as much in common with us as we'd have with a shipload of white mice!"). "Corbomite" was broadcast as #10, so it's rarely realized how early in filming it was. Of course "Horse Opera" turned into "Space Opera" in the mid 60's and Roddenberry, a Western writer, went with it. He called Star Trek "Wagon Train to the Stars" and it was. (And later Deep Space Nine becomes Dodge City in the Stars where the adventures come to the frontier outpost, with Dillon played by Odo+Sisko and Miss Kitty as ... Quark. But that's another story). For more on the odd octagonal "coin" which never existed as a coin in 1850 (but a silver "slug" version in 1948), see www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovtv_gunsmoke_treasure.htm. It would not have been possible to track an ordinary gold coin, of course.
Just an observation: Doc and Festus compare them to Bones and Spock as comedy backdrops. Same lines, same comic relief. I noticed it as a kid, told my Mom. She was surprised 😮. Once you see it, it is really funny how they used the continued arguing as comic relief when all 4 characters were otherwise very serious. Never involving Matt Dillon, or Captain Kirk in the side comic squabble. 🤔 LOL - I loved it! Most predominant at the end of each episode; leaving us with a grin as we go on to the next show, or change the channel. Hahaha!!
James Arness was so tall, that on amphibious landing at Anzio in WWII he was to be the first man out of the landing craft, so it would be obvious how deep was the water.
That’s a good point! I have no idea how Indians spoke English. It would have been broken English with some form of accent, it prolly would have even sounded fake today, I wonder what it was …
I saw that episode yesterday on MeTv and I thought it was a very good episode. Nimoy's character was trying to give his best fiend who was shot dead earlier, a proper burial.
There were California $50 gold coins struck but not from the U.S.Mints nor Treasury. The U.S. struck up to $20 gold coins. And yes Leonard's logic was impeccable.
I’m always amazed with the number of times you can’t see the top of Leonard Nimoy’s ears. He’s either an Indian with a wig, a soldier wearing a helmet or something similar. It’s almost as if they really were pointed. :)
Episode is "The Treasure of John Walking Fox," and everyone should look for it when a channel is running the old half-hour long episodes. John's best friend and hunting companion is murdered, and John turns the villains against each other so that justice is served to all. At the end, Marshall Dillon says goodbye to him on Boot Hill, and Dillon looks a bit afraid of him and seems glad he's leaving town.
Except when he sang. I backed him many years ago on a telethon. He was delightful and funny, but whew, a vocalist not so much, at least that day. Very smart guy too. That Vulcan blood?
What's with the Spock obsession? Leonard Nimoy was a fine actor who played in a wide array of movies and TV shows: Bonanza, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Virginian, Combat, Daniel Boone, Night Gallery, Columbo, Get Smart and an entire year as a regular on Mission Impossible. Yet, it seems that some of you can't appreciate anything other than Spock.
ua-cam.com/video/LSQ3UqBKJ0o/v-deo.html Check out these Man From U.N.C.L.E. scenes with Nimoy, Shatner and Werner Klemperer from Hogan's Heroes. Nimoy was anything but Spock in this.
"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." - Early Native American Folk Saying
@@alleghenyrebel445 Joy to you, friend. You speak very strangely. Are you from away? Are you not of the Body? Must I summon the Lawgivers to accompany you to the absorption chambers? Are you... are you an Archon? But no matter, if you must know, ask Landru. He remembers. He knows and he watches. “Amok Time, is it not?", you ask. If you mean the Red Hour, yes! Festival is today at six o'clock. Joy be with you. Harmony and contentment. Peace, fellowship, and tranquillity. Hear the Word and obey. The Good is all. Landru is gentle. Happiness is to all of us, blessed by Landru, the Body is one. Blessed be the Body, and health to all of its parts. Happy communing!
@@horaceball5418 I think the viewer is supposed to make his or her best guess in that regard. My sense is that he accidentally came into possession of a portion of the stash, but of course this is never explained.
This is part of a lost cross-network promotion between NBC and CBS when the crew of the Enterprise travels back in time to Dodge City on a different TV network, like the episode when they go back in time to Tombstone and meet the Earps. Not true, of course, but it would have been a great promotion.
watching the episode right now on the western channel :) Spocks voice stood out so obvious I knew before I looked who the voice belonged too. LOVE my Gunsmoke and all the old westerns
Next to Shatner, I always thought Nimoy was really tall. Arness looks like a giant next to Nimoy, but he's only 6'7" which isn't as tall as he looks here. Nimoy's bio says he's 6'
@@redcaddiedaddie Of course Iron Eyes Cody was an Italian-American who was born Espera DeCorti. Played the Native offscreen as well as on. Was an activist for Native causes and was honored by Hollywood's Native American community in 1995. Would not happen today.
Even in Gunsmoke, Vulcan logic prevails.
dkyelak But didn't pick up on the idea of stolen property.
... noticed it also, even then it says ' Spock ' . 😀
Indeed !
Logic yes with lots of American Indian-esque metaphors thrown in to de-escalate tension with Matt's concerns.
Leonard Nimoy talked about Enterprise on Bonanza and William Shatner was on an episode of Outer Limits starring William Shatner.
James Arness, the only guy who could make Leonard Nimoy look short.
All I can think about is he's hiding those pointed ears with that wig.
lol
Dang it, I just posted about that and now I see you beat me to it by five years.
He was logical even back then.
Nimoy was actually very natural in this role. And he really looked small next to James.
Once Marshall Dillon left the room, John whipped out his communicator and said, "Mister Scott, you know what to do."
This aired in April, 1966 and was Nimoy's last TV work before regular Star Trek filming in May 1966. That first regularly season Trek episode was "The Corbomite Maneuver," in which Spock says "Fascinating" with a lifted eyebrow and gets the dry coolness just right, for the first time, cementing the character. So John Walking Fox here is just before that crucial time.
By the time of this Gunsmoke Nimoy has actually already played Mr. Spock twice, once for the early failed pilot The Cage (1964) and later for the series Pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1965). Spock in "The Cage" of course has emotions, and at one point, a big grin. And Spock in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is still not quite yet the canonical Spock, and is a little over the top more than once ("In a month he'll have as much in common with us as we'd have with a shipload of white mice!"). "Corbomite" was broadcast as #10, so it's rarely realized how early in filming it was.
Of course "Horse Opera" turned into "Space Opera" in the mid 60's and Roddenberry, a Western writer, went with it. He called Star Trek "Wagon Train to the Stars" and it was. (And later Deep Space Nine becomes Dodge City in the Stars where the adventures come to the frontier outpost, with Dillon played by Odo+Sisko and Miss Kitty as ... Quark. But that's another story).
For more on the odd octagonal "coin" which never existed as a coin in 1850 (but a silver "slug" version in 1948), see www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovtv_gunsmoke_treasure.htm. It would not have been possible to track an ordinary gold coin, of course.
Thanks for the great background. Love that stuff.
Just an observation: Doc and Festus compare them to Bones and Spock as comedy backdrops.
Same lines, same comic relief.
I noticed it as a kid, told my Mom. She was surprised 😮.
Once you see it, it is really funny how they used the continued arguing as comic relief when all 4 characters were otherwise very serious. Never involving Matt Dillon, or Captain Kirk in the side comic squabble. 🤔
LOL - I loved it! Most predominant at the end of each episode; leaving us with a grin as we go on to the next show, or change the channel. Hahaha!!
I wonder what happened to that star trek show did it ever catch on? 😉
Did Nimoy compete for the role of SPock or was it given to hiM?
Funny how Spock was taller than all of the other Star Trek cast members, yet James Arness towers over Nimoy here.
Yeah Arness was 6'7". Crazy tall and built like an oak
Arness was like a giant Apollo.
@@caitlyncherro6025 My Dad was that height.
James Arness was so tall, that on amphibious landing at Anzio in WWII he was to be the first man out of the landing craft, so it would be obvious how deep was the water.
Don't forget he wears a hat that adds 10 cm (4 inches). I'm 6'6 but when I wear a hat people think i'm 7'.
I like that he's speaking full sentences and not that fractured English you see in so many shows at the time.
Chief, where are your feathers?
Me um take um feathers to um laundry.
Was he playing an Indian in disguise or something..?
War dance lot like rain dance, only drier.
-Roaring Chicken
@@youngimages2000 A Comanche
That’s a good point!
I have no idea how Indians spoke English.
It would have been broken English with some form of accent,
it prolly would have even sounded fake today, I wonder what it was …
Leonard Nimoy = Pure awesomeness
Always🖖
RIP Leonard Nimoy. His wife is on tv now on a commercial telling people to stop smoking cigarettes as that is what killed her husband.
Dances with logic
I saw that episode yesterday on MeTv and I thought it was a very good episode. Nimoy's character was trying to give his best fiend who was shot dead earlier, a proper burial.
There were California $50 gold coins struck but not from the U.S.Mints nor Treasury. The U.S. struck up to $20 gold coins. And yes Leonard's logic was impeccable.
This is very interesting to see the actor I know as SPOCK playing in a Western! I suppose that all aspiring actors have to start SOMEWHERE!
Wow he does a Vulcan playing an Indian great! Very logical lol Love it!
Damn, his acting is exactly the same here as in Trek. I was expecting to hear something abouut logic during the video.
I’m always amazed with the number of times you can’t see the top of Leonard Nimoy’s ears. He’s either an Indian with a wig, a soldier wearing a helmet or something similar. It’s almost as if they really were pointed. :)
Oh my god, he talked just like Spock! I was expecting something like his performance in Columbo or Mission Impossible.
But this was Spock dead on!
Logic is a bouquet of pretty flowers that smells bad.
This is one of the best traps ever conceived. Leonard Nimoy was perfect.
Episode is "The Treasure of John Walking Fox," and everyone should look for it when a channel is running the old half-hour long episodes. John's best friend and hunting companion is murdered, and John turns the villains against each other so that justice is served to all. At the end, Marshall Dillon says goodbye to him on Boot Hill, and Dillon looks a bit afraid of him and seems glad he's leaving town.
James Arness is right up there with the best of them! 👍💓
Stone knives and bearskins!
("City on the edge of forever")
Me: Nimoy nails it by avoiding stereotypical 'Indian' jargon.
Them: And how!
Are Jew an Indian?
@@JENDALL714 That question gives me the heebie-jeebies.
@@JENDALL714no but they can play one on TV
He had presence, even then. A great voice.
Except when he sang. I backed him many years ago on a telethon. He was delightful and funny, but whew, a vocalist not so much, at least that day. Very smart guy too. That Vulcan blood?
I absolutely LOVE this scene and dialogue.
As a hardcore Star Trek fan I am delighted to see Spock (Nimoy) in other roles! :-) Thanx for the upload. Now this one is going to my favourites! ;-)
I could swear that one of the bad guys was DeForrest Kelly !
Most logical native American ever
Nimoy talks about this episode of Gunsmoke in an interview he did about his career:
He seemed to enjoy the part and liked the story.
Aaawwwww, that's nice! ^_^ ❤ Where can I find the interview on UA-cam? :-)
Spock, Bones, Scotty and Kirk all passed through Dodge City early on.
That isn't "John" the indian. That's Spock dressed up as a Native American!
What episode of TOS was this? I thought I've seen them all.
Not stead trek gunsmoke
@@patriciabennett6381 Joke
It’s the one that took place mostly in an Holodeck.
"Spectre Of The Gun"?
For a moment I thought he was constructing a mnemonic memory circuit in the old west.
Stone knives and bearskins!
Sounds so much like Commander Spock.
A Jewish Indian, before the Daniel Boone show.
And a Vulcan
Jewish indian. probably a sue.
A Jewish Indian acting somewhat like a Vulcan . . . .
@@Carl-LaFong1618 maybe a sue chef
@@Carl-LaFong1618 - he is probably 1/4 cherokee; like every white person in the u.s. claims...
They beamed to a nice planet, Bones wanted shore leave, nope, then things went west.
What's with the Spock obsession? Leonard Nimoy was a fine actor who played in a wide array of movies and TV shows: Bonanza, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Virginian, Combat, Daniel Boone, Night Gallery, Columbo, Get Smart and an entire year as a regular on Mission Impossible. Yet, it seems that some of you can't appreciate anything other than Spock.
ua-cam.com/video/LSQ3UqBKJ0o/v-deo.html Check out these Man From U.N.C.L.E. scenes with Nimoy, Shatner and Werner Klemperer from Hogan's Heroes. Nimoy was anything but Spock in this.
He was also on Broadway in 1977 in Equus
Could not agree more.
Well, of course he was a great actor outside of Trek, but Spock is very special.
Your diatribe is most illogical.
Culturally appropriating a Vulcan was bad enough - but this!
Mickey Rooney was busy.
"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."
- Early Native American Folk Saying
Amok Time, is it not?
@@alleghenyrebel445 Joy to you, friend. You speak very strangely. Are you from away? Are you not of the Body? Must I summon the Lawgivers to accompany you to the absorption chambers? Are you... are you an Archon? But no matter, if you must know, ask Landru. He remembers. He knows and he watches. “Amok Time, is it not?", you ask. If you mean the Red Hour, yes! Festival is today at six o'clock. Joy be with you. Harmony and contentment. Peace, fellowship, and tranquillity. Hear the Word and obey. The Good is all. Landru is gentle. Happiness is to all of us, blessed by Landru, the Body is one. Blessed be the Body, and health to all of its parts. Happy communing!
Nimoy was superb in this episode. One of the very best Gunsmokes, on top of it. The relationship between Nimoy and the older man was touching.
Where did he get the Gold?
@@horaceball5418 I think the viewer is supposed to make his or her best guess in that regard. My sense is that he accidentally came into possession of a portion of the stash, but of course this is never explained.
50 dollars was a small fortune back then.
My dad went to high school with miss kitty in Amherst New York!@@savio807
This is part of a lost cross-network promotion between NBC and CBS when the crew of the Enterprise travels back in time to Dodge City on a different TV network, like the episode when they go back in time to Tombstone and meet the Earps.
Not true, of course, but it would have been a great promotion.
Nimoy was a tall dude. The marshall towers over him 😮
Uh, no. Nimoy was only 6'.
James Arness (RIP) sure was a huge man wasn't he? Nimoy was the tall one on Star Trek and he looks like a shrimp here next to Arness.
In the 60s I saw him with John Wayne in some old movie on tv. Arness really loomed over the Duke.
he looks good here.
Link to an interview in which Nimoy talks about this
ua-cam.com/video/x6lnB4OsFTc/v-deo.html
R.I.P LLAP
watching the episode right now on the western channel :) Spocks voice stood out so obvious I knew before I looked who the voice belonged too. LOVE my Gunsmoke and all the old westerns
I agree Joe.
I would have given a million to here him say live long a prosper Marshall Dillon.
Fascinating
He was great at any role
Live long and prosper, kemo sabe!
Jewish Indian/vulcan
Next to Shatner, I always thought Nimoy was really tall. Arness looks like a giant next to Nimoy, but he's only 6'7" which isn't as tall as he looks here. Nimoy's bio says he's 6'
Actors sometimes stood on boxes or platforms to seem a little taller.
LOL. He was hardly on a box.
Also, Shatner had 1 1/2" lifts in his boots, plus higher heels.
@@wadebarnett2542 shatner was always on a box..... a soap box.
6'7" is pretty damn tall... NBA players are often that heighth.... Some taller of course but many shorter. Either way, 6'7" is fucking TALL !
He just gave him a tip!
If he follows him, he can find the honey/ coins.
Leonard Nimoy looks tiny compared to James Arnes. I want to see Nimoy play Caine from Kung Fu..
Not especially convincing as an American Indian, but very convincing as a great actor
He is the spitting image of Iron Eyes Cody in this role.
stone knives and bare skins
Beat me to it. And he only needs a few pounds of gold. Or is that platinum?
I love that I get that reference.
indeed !
Hahahaha 😅
Dammit Spock, where did you get those gold coins?
Great how Indians speak such great English😁
That's the most logical and rational Indian I have ever seen...hey wait a minute!
omg, Leonard Nimoy looks like the famous Crying Indian in the 1970s commercial Keep America Beautiful.
I noticed that as well- if you don't already know & are interested, the Indian you're referring to was Iron Eyes Cody...!
@@redcaddiedaddie Of course Iron Eyes Cody was an Italian-American who was born Espera DeCorti. Played the Native offscreen as well as on. Was an activist for Native causes and was honored by Hollywood's Native American community in 1995. Would not happen today.
@@maryschmidt8075 Very interesting indeed!!
That man could sure play logical.
Nimoy also played an Indian in an episode of "Rawhide"...
Didn't Gene Roddenberry work on gunsmoke?
Wonderful :)
Spock as Indian weird
It's just one of those itme travellin' episodes - hard to track them all
Thanks for uploading. I haven't seen this one before.
I saw this a few nights ago. His friend got killed and he set a perfect trap to get those responsible
To admit to stealing missing federal coins, Marshall, is HIGHLY ILLOGICAL!"
Logical.
Nimoy is 1/3 Mr Spock, 1/3 Kwai Chang Caine and 1/3 Iron Eyes Cody.
And he speaks like Spock. :-)
Red brother's reasoning is most logical.
Must be a lost time travel episode from OG Star Trek^^
We all know that Leonard Nimoy is a tall man. But he looks rather short standing next to James Arness. Arness was certainty a tall man.
2 very handsome men. 😍
Leonard Memory played a good impression of an American Indian.
I like the Vulcan hairstyle myself. 🖖
Note how they had to cover his ears with the wig.
Very logical response to the Sheriff.
This problem was solved in "The Rebel"
Spock went back in time to right am injustice done to his mother's ancestor. He did it brilliantly and logically, of course.
perfect time to get beamed up lol
I'd like to see the entire episode.
Nicely hiding his Vulcan ears.
rip in peace mr spock leonard nimoy
This is gold
it's time to retroactively cancel Leonard Nimoy for wearing blackface!!!! :)
From Redskin to Greenblood.
Are you out of your Vulcan mind ?
Yasss Leonard nimoy so handsome
George Lynch from Dokken
JAMES ARNETT..played the original '' THING ''
Well ! Everyone has to get their start somewhere !! Even Spock
Nimoy had been acting for 15 years before he took this role.
Nerve pinch already.
Fascinating..................
Accidentally stepping on a bees nest hidden in a log and being stun by the bee kills the bee and I already know where the bees nest is by then.
Furio: "You gotta bee ona you hat!"
You can see some Spock in this Indian character. I can see why Roddenberry cast Nimoy as Spock if he saw this episode of Gunsmoke.
Vulcan and Amerindian
Spock vs The Thing
That is not logical Marshall Dillon!
RIP