The Controversial Scene That Took Gunsmoke Off The Air
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The last 30 seconds will tell you a graphic gunshot got the show temporally removed. There. I saved you 11 minutes.
Thank you for that 11 minutes I now have unwasted🙃
Whew! Ty for this post!
Thank you!
Thank you! He should of titled it The Complete History of Gunsmoke.
Thank you!
It is 2023 and I am watching reruns of Gunsmoke TV shows..........still enjoy them.
I watched that for 11 minutes and then you fail to show me the scene That Took Gunsmoke Off The Air. Reeely??
It sounded more like the 'scene' was removed from the show, not the show itself. As a kid in the fifties and sixties, I remember gathering around the television with the 'entire' family. My grandpa and grandma, mom and dad, and four little kids. We grew up with Gunsmoke. When my Dad was in his last years, he watched reruns of Gunsmoke everyday. My sister who is our brothers care giver bought the DVDs and watches Gunsmoke with our brother. When I visit, I watch them, too. My son has been watching Gunsmoke most of his life, but also watches his own DVDs. And his two young daughters watch with him. Our cousins tell us they are all Gunsmoke Fans, from elder to child. Our friends tell us the same thing. Gunsmoke is a family tradition.
In the 1950s my family lived in a remote location in Idaho and couldn't receive TV. Our family listened to radio shows like Gunsmoke, Rin-Tin-Tin, and The Lone Ranger in the evenings. During the 1960s we finally bought our first black & white TV, and I could watch Gunsmoke.
I still watch gunsmoke reruns every day , love it
My Aunt and Uncle and their 2 daughters and youngest son, Chuckie, would gather around the TV and have their dinner in the living room on the night Gunsmoke aired. My Aunt would hand out the plates of food and everyone would settle in. Chuckie was 12 years old on this particular night. Anyone who knew Chuckie felt that he was someone with just a little more specialness about him than most people. He had an old-soul quality about him and was very sweet, helpful, and extremely intelligent for a child his age. Well, just as Chuckie's mom handed him his plate, food flew everywhere. Sweet Chuckie had suffered an undiagnosed brain aneurysm and died on the spot. The family was never the same and Gunsmoke, of course, was never watched in their home again. The memory was too painful. I'm just writing this in his memory and to remind us all that we never know what the next second will hold. Tell everyone you love that you love them. Tell them and show them again and again, repetitively, over and over.
Pisses me off when the headline has nothing to do with the entire video.
It happens WAY too much!
Not only great actors, but remarkable writers unlike today.
Everything now is garbage tv. I watch old westerns like Gunsmoke, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Virginian, Bonanza, etc. We’re in the reality TV era and all I can say is reality “celebrities” are classless, greedy garbage pigs.
lots of great writing in today's shows, you just have to look a little
10:50 You are welcome.
All that 11 minutes for 20 seconds of trivia.
I grew up watching Gunsmoke in the 50's, and on every opening scene I would strap on my "pretend" western holster and try to out-draw Matt Dillon... I think I did a few times, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
This old woman did the same thing when I was a little girl. But I used my brother's pretend western holster. I came away feeling that if not faster, I was at least as good as Matt Dillon.
@@hunnybee971 .
Gun smoke was a great show and John Wayne was right to recommend James Arness for the role. He was absolutely perfect in it. The best episodes were the earliest seasons with Dennis Weaver as Chester. The tone of the show changed after Mr. Weaver left. Gunsmoke was incredibly popular and ran for 20 years! It was rare for any show to last that long at the time. James Arness was supposedly a very kind person on real life. We just don’t have actors like him anymore.
Yes! Chester and his slapstick goofiness made my heart so happy. ❤
You're right, we don't have a lot of actors like him anymore. Now we have better actors than him.
They never mentioned Burt Reynolds got his start as a half breed blacksmith in Dodge that sometimes helped Matt Dillon enforce the law
I still watch Gunsmoke.
I do too
Me too, on metv afternoons at 1
I watch Gunsmoke on INSP Channel #77 weekly at 8 p.m. Watching now (S2 E3) 'Custer'.
Me to. Every afternoon at 1:00 PM
I watch daily. I'm 44.
Ouch! An eleven minute "tease", without the payoff of seeing even a still image of the "controversial scene". This is like being rickrolled. 🤬
When Milburn Stone signed his contract to play Doc, he was business savvy enough to include a clause that he receive residuals. That was 65 years ago. Gunsmoke runs daily on different networks, and has for the nearly 50 years since it stopped production. I wonder how much his estate (and thus his heirs) continue to receive as a result of Stone's keen business acumen.
Gunsmoke fan, Forever
Somehow as a kid i didnt realize i was watching a man being shot to death every Saturday night for years.
When I was little I can remember watching Gunsmoke with my father. We always watched it and Walter Cronkite.
Me too!!
Several times my wife told me how she and her brothers would go shopping on Saturday with their parents and permitted a large bag of potato chips. That evening they would settle down with the chips and Gun Smoke. She has been gone 24 years, but I have the memory of a happy moment in her life.
the prequel to gunsmoke was "have gun ..will travel".......they made a nice combo for western fans....
Yeah my family would visit my grandparents on Sunday and we would sit on the floor and watch Gunsmoke and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Same here
Wagon Train. . . Rawhide. . . Bonanza. . . The Rifleman. . . The High Chaparral. . . Branded. . . The Virginian. . . The Rebel. . .
TV isn't what is used to be.
Get yourself a bag of chips, click off youtube & head on over to pluto tv. "Gunsmoke" has their own network.
I love this show. Watch as a child with my entire family every weekend 💯💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍👍
So did my family. Loved it.
They whole world stopped on Gunsmoke night at our house... until the show was over.
@@coleyounger2540 it...along with Paladin...was a Saturday night staple...Friday nights belonged to "Rawhide"...
I watch the Gunsmoke reruns every day!
Me too. Wagon train also.
@@antmothirteen6540 me too
Me too.
Me too
Jimmy is honestly the best UA-camr L speed
If only we had tv like it now days.
Gunsmoke wasn't taken off the air because of any particular scene. CBS wanted to cancel it after 10 years, but because of audience backlash, they continued it for another 10 years! CBS then thought the series had become dated, and they replaced it with RHODA, a spin off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show!
Supposedly William Conrad was really upset at being passed over for the tv role of Matt Dillion due to his weight,and the fact the tv producers felt he didn’t have the right look. I’d have to agree with them. They made the right decision in choosing James Arness I couldn’t imagine anyone bringing as much to that role as he did.
@Ole Maurice: Or James Arness's brother, Peter Graves.
well, Conrad later had his own show, "CANNON" so he can't complain too much but no way he could have ever been the leading man Arness was. at 6'9" and a kind good face with a strong character for upholding the law and protecting people, Arness was perfection😍. Kitty was a madam but no one "ever went upstairs" and she sure had a different personality to her at the beginning than she had towards the end. At the beginning she played a coy, flirtatious saloon girl who obviously "wanted to go fishing when Matt had the time" but later she was pretty tough, got mad a lot, etc. Quite a change. I liked Dennis Weaver, loved him in Duel (you should see it if you haven't yet) and he used to go to our church and once a month he gave the lecture, very respected and a good person. I preferred Ken Curtis as Festus, he played so many parts! As for Arness, I watched him fight giant ants in Them and did you know that James Arness played the monster in the ORIGINAL Thing movie? So handsome though and manly (swoons inwardly).
Oh well, I can still dream and I still have my taped episodes 💙 Sorry Miss Kitty didn't do so well in real life with men......God bless them all. what a legacy!
Burt Reynolds was in many of my favorite episodes,, he was great way before Smokey and the Bandit.. I hope the reruns never stop.. great show,,,
I, still watch❗️I graduated from high school in 1960‼️I'm watching still today, in 2023. Lawdy🎉🍷👍💞
I still love to watch all the gunsmoke reruns. I love that show
I started with Gunsmoke on the radio a long time ago. The early radio and TV stories showed how rough life was back then on the praries. They did tell of men with a quality to tell the truth and to stand by their words. The last two or so years the stories changed with good stand alone stories. I have almost finished with year number twenty with yet a few missed shows to fill in.
I agree with all of the rememberances. Gunsmoke always, and forever!"
Can you answer in more detail?
every day /.
I grew up watching the early Gunsmoke series with my grandparents. I still watch Gunsmoke everyday. I love the storylines featuring Matt, Chester, Festus, Doc, Miss Kitty, and Newly. Well written and produced. James Arnes was an excellent cowboy.
@@supergas1 Your comments are well taken, even though the spirit of them has ill intent wrap all around them. Your sarcasm simply reflects your own lack intellect in understanding. Yes, you are certainly correct James Arnes was an actor who played an excellent cowboy character in one of the longest running western television classics. Even today, the Gunsmoke series reruns air on several networks. Still popular with many. God bless and I hope that you have a wonderful day.
James Arness was the first man off the Higgins boats at the Anzio landing during WWII.
flllowed smarly by 50 others....
Higgins was the guy that let Thomas Magnum,. P.I. stay at that badass house.
They had him testing the depth of the water's because of his height.
They might have mentioned that Ken Curtis was a great singer.
During 20 years Gunsmoke probably gave more hollywood stars their start than any other show.
It seems every episode someone else got their start. From Charles Bronson to the brady bunch!
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*or Frankenstein or Mary Ann or Lynda Carter or DoLLy Parton,*
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@@antidemonrat974 So who killed Kennedy?
The Twilight Zone was another show with alot of up and comers. Gunsmoke is a great show. Never knew why they gave Chester a bum leg,.I guess for character?
@@RaystownPressureWashing-1996 I gather it was Weavers idea to distinguish in a sense his character.
He soon regretted it after having to fake it all the time.
This AI-generated content pulling millions of views off boomers nostalgiaing each other in the comments while ignoring the video is so bizarre. Kind of genius, really.
No scene in Gunsmoke was to violent for television!
I watch Gun smoke everyday and have never watched the Simpsons,Gunsmoke tells a story,I will catch an episode every night
I do not believe the "shotgun" scene ended the show. Gunsmoke appealed to an older audience, and the western genre was generally declining in popularity. There was also a trend at the time toward sitcoms and dramas with a more contemporary setting that dealt with more timely issues.
I think the nail in the coffin for Gunsmoke was when the producer fired miss kitty . She was asking for something to ware besides the same word robe she wore for several seasons . An he was to cheep to step up an do so. They got into an argument about it an he fired her from the show . It only took one season after that it was done . The whole chemistry of the show was Matt an kitty. People stoped watching an it tanked without her . His bullheaded attitude cost them the series. He knew he screwed up when he let Amanda Blake go too.
@@wideawake7071 In real life Amanda Blake was very good friend's with the man who played her bartender. When he died she really did not want to continue. She also remarked she was glad she didn't have to wear another corset.
@@paulabrown5243 now there’s some history I didn’t know. Thank you for sharing that with me . That’s right , Sam disappeared the same time kitty did.
Festus? ...the man who made us all laugh and love him?
There was one episode where Festus played himself and his character. They did a split screen and Festus was on one side and his normal self was on the other - it was really amazing.
Well that’s 11:30 I’ll never get back. I watch the whole thing and you don’t show the scene! WTF
There were a lot of westerns and detective shows back then. They were really good shows, much better than those of the present day.
Any relation to John Saxon?
Bryanmitlo
11:29
My dad watched this religiously,now I watch it when I can 🤠
it's on every day on at least one channel...
As far as Doc's name choice of Galen, in ancient Greece, Galen was a physician, the choice was perfect.
Hello Barbara
How are you doing today?
My Dad watched Gunsmoke every week, so from age 7, I learned about the Old West and those who helped tame it.
I Love Matt He isy Hero. Always will be.. STILL Watching Gunsmoke Today.
It was GET OUT OF DODGE. The word hell was not used !
I’ll never get those eleven minutes back.
Oh dear, long live the Internet. The scene in question gets a 10 second mention at 11 minutes in.
Yes, surprising, right?
and they would repeat some times twice. kind of bugs a person/
I still watch Gunsmoke a few nights a week!
Gary Busey has got teeth the size of drive in movie screens.😂
Gunsmoke also ran in many other countries and was popular in Australia and New Zealand alongside Laramie, Cheyenne, Bonanza and a number of others.
Yes, it was certainly very popular Down Under, but not so much when Festus came on board.
The controversial scene is saved for the last 3-seconds of this 11-and-a-half minute episode.
must have been taken off, I just have a blue screen
Our go to show all winter...most stars got their start here..love It!
After all that, we didn’t even get to see the scene!
I am a fan I still watch daily over and over it’s one of the best tv shows every made. So rideable to real life
Ken Curtis (Festus) was also a member of the Sons of the Pioneers. Also the man in the opening sequence (the gun fight) is the man who taught James Arnes how to draw and shoot with a pistol.
🤨🤔💡So that's why the other Man's gun fired first⁉😁.
ken curtis was married to John ford's daughter
@@davidrice3337 Thank you I did not know that.
@@davidrice3337 He was in a few movies with John Wayne ( directed by John Ford), as well as playing Dolan in Mr. Roberts.
I'm aware - he was in a bunch of john ford's movies - he was his son in law - and he sang with Tommy Dorsey's band
Ching-ching- ching, Festus was always
needing to shave.
Gunsmoke was a greatest show, I don’t want to hear any
negative about the gunsmoke because we’re watching it everyday,
The stigma that Dennis Weaver's role as Chester had on his acting career was somewhat dissipated when he was cast in the leading role in the TV-movie series "McCloud". Sam McCloud was probably the best role that Dennis Weaver played.
Boy I don't McCloud as a role that showed his ability? It was a good show BUT his role in DUEL show what he was capable of doing!
Dennis Weaver was one of those actors who got better looking with age.
One of my most loved old time shows. I watched as a kid and now love the reruns as an adult. I’m interested to know about ken c changing w Dennis w for second spot. Lots of interesting info on all of this. Really miss those actors!
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Dennis Weaver wanted to leave Gunsmoke to star in his own show! Ken Curtis was in a few episodes of Gunsmoke and wanted to take over for Chester, He created the character of Festus, changing his voice and facial look with the squinty eye. Ken Curtis was actually quite good looking and played the role of Dolan in Mr. Roberts, as well as cavalry roles in John Wayne movies. He could also sing well and his version of " I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen, in one of the movies was great!
@@antidemonrat974 vciyneerrp8ppp
No disrespect to Dennis Weaver but I liked Ken Curtis as Festus better
@@edgarmullins9327 So do I.
I love Gunsmoke..my husband and I watch it every night..the only part of the show that bothers me is the relationship between Matt and Kitty...they have real chemistry...yet never show much affection for each other..the way they look at each other is striking....but they have only hugged in a few scenes..but never kissed or married ( on film )
Anyone from Kansas or it's border states can tell you, the area around Dodge City does not have high hills or low mountains and no alpine-like landscape, large Cacti or desert boulders as seen in the TV Show! Basically today only vast number of cattle feedlots can be seen around Dodge.
I was conceived, born and raised in Kansas and no, there is nothing like that around any place in Kansas.
I have always wondered about that! Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, L.A, I recognized all the scenery as Southern California. But it was continually in the back of my mind that KANSAS IS A PLAINS STATE, so it can't really look like that, right? But never having been there, I figured "what do I know?" Glad to know I was right all along!
its a tv series not reality. nothing bollywood does is real
Actually, the Flint Hills in Kansas are not flat at all, but isn't near Dodge City.
Ppp0p0
I remembered Amanda Blake quit after the bartender died. She was so upset she couldn't do her scenes since they had been in almost every scene together for years. At least that's the way I remembered it! 🤔
*I've Never Owned a TV, in My Life!!!*
*But, unLess you are a MorRon, You Know Who King Kong is,*
*or Frankenstein or Mary Ann or Lynda Carter or DoLLy Parton,*
*Cuz anyOne who is NOT a MorRon, wouLd have Paid ATTention*
*at some Point, just to Know, Who is MariLyn MonRoe????*
*I Know about the Murder Try on HitLer, just cuz I have a Brain!!!!*
*I Now about the 4-GirLs murdered in the Birmingham Church,*
*by the KKK, just cuz I have a Brain!!!!*
*I Know that Ford Gave a Get Out of JaiL Pardon to Nixon!!!!*
*I Know about Lindberg's Kid, Kidnapping!!!!*
*I know who Jack Ruby is!!!!*
You are correct! They were very close and she was distraught by his death.
no women allowed in real saloons...
@@frankpienkosky5688 True, but Gunsmoke was just a TV western and Kitty Russel was the owner of The Longbranch, which had rooms upstairs and women "employees." The Longbranch was not a real saloon but a low key brothel which was underplayed! It seemed more like a Cheers where Kitty, Matt, Doc, Chester, Festus, Newly, Quint, Sam, and others met to shoot the breeze!
I read Amanda died of aids have you heard this
Still a favorite of mine, over the years I’ve almost memorized the lines.
10:58 is where they tell you...
We were ranchero - farmers and we watch the show with our grandpa all the time when he was home he would say look for gunsmoke😅
So was the show removed, taken off the air as your title suggests, or was the scene removed from the episode as the video suggests?
And why did they make this the title of the video, when it is a minor fact mentioned briefly at the end? Pure click baiting, that is why.
I was waiting for the answer 😞
AWESOME NARATING
I just started watching Gunsmoke a few months ago , unbelievable! This show is definitely a mans show. Matt Dillon is the kind of man I grew up with. James Arness plays it perfect. He doesnt look for trouble, but takes care of it when it arises . These sissy boys in todays society would not understand how to be this type of man. I miss the era I grew up in. People reswpected and loved their country and had respect. If you didnt , you would get smacked in the mouth. These things now days would fold up and cry.
Sissy boys? That's ironic given the obvious crush you have on James Arness.
@@roberthill799 Spoken like a true little gay boy, only one of those things would think that way
I bet your getting the operation , you sick rump ranger
@@roberthill799 projecting there ?? lay off the soy --boi
They wouldn't last five minutes back then
Life magazine (IIRC) did an anniversary story on Gunsmoke's 20th season, in which the antagonist of the opening scene was Strange, the bar tender, who was an actual quick draw artist and actually out drew Matt in every filming. As to the popularity of Gunsmoke, the Dodge City museum had to create a special scene dedicated to Matt Dillon-- who, they had to tell viewers-- had never been a Marshal in Dodge City.
Life magazine was wrong. The opening gunfight of the show was Dillon against a man named Arvo Ojala. Ojala was a Hollywood technical advisor with regards to the quick draw with a revolver.
Go to 10:30 min. mark to avoid time wasting monologue to keep you trapped here.
Great TV show! I bought all the seasons and the movies. Though I had to wait each year for the last bunch of seasons to get released. Still love this show!
Canada, by chance do you remember an episode where an orphanage burned down? That's the only thing I know about it other than it was likely in 1962 or 1963. My mom hot my brother into the screen guild and we got jobs as extras. He was in that episode but I've never found it. I did find the episode he was on the Andy Griffith show in December 2020 for the first time. Unfortunately,no one else in my family is alive besides me.
@@TheClimberbob1 Hi there; "Call me dodie on gunsmoke", Season 8, Episode 2. I will watch this episode again. Though I don't remember the burning of the place. I was going to watch all the seasons again.
@@TheClimberbob1 Another one; Season 6, episode 28 - "Little Girl". This one, the girls father dies in a Cabin fire. She becomes a orphan. Something to check out.
I wish gunsmoke was still on TV
It is, as reruns.
Channel 304 TV Land
I LOVE WATCHING GUNSMOKE EVEN THOUGH GUNSMOKE WAS MADE BEFORE I WAS BORN I BELIEVE GUNSMOKE WAS SUCCESSFUL DA WHOLE 20YRS ON AIR
should be titled, gunsmoke History. 8 mins in and still nothing on the controversial scene. Not going to watch anymore.
Only show for me daily is Gunsmoke
I have only seen the radio show except for a few tv episodes, but i have been a huge fan of the show since 2017 when i started listening at work.
Ratings dropped, and that was the real reason it was cancelled. It began to be lackluster. However, i continue to watch it on MeTv
lets not forget my cuz Burt Reynolds.
🤨🤔💡🔆▶ ~ I recall having a drink with Amanda at the Broken Arrow bar in Deer Lodge, Mt. During the middle 1970s. Yup🍹‼💌.
Gunsmoke left TV after miss Kitty left filming. The ratings dropped like a rock. Get the facts straight.
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The real life madam Kitty was called Big Nose Kate and pictures of her are extant. I was a grownup watching Gunsmoke and it’s impossible to explain today just how astonishing, even shocking, it really was-not just it’s deviation from Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tom Mix and such, but all “cowboy and Indian shows” as rhey were called even when Indians weren’t present. People like Festus looked rough and dirty. It seemed nitty gritty. We called the unusual aspects of it “realistic” though today we can see it wasn’t. But Earp didn’t shoot the gun out of his opponent’s hand as was expected of Roy Rogers, et al. People didn’t wear immaculate clothing-you might say costumes-they wore rough clothes, dusty clothes. It was all very new.
Well I watched and waited with baited breath for the "controversial scene that took gunsmoke off the air"......and it never appeared! What gives? Was there ever a controversial scene? Or was it James Arness simply wanted to retired?
Loved & still love Gunsmoke..
A Festus for the rest of us.
I like the fact that the show became socially concious in the late 60's and 70's
And the video never shows the scene. Which did not get the show cancelled. It only put the show on hiatus for two weeks.
Lol. Controversial scene……took to the end to learn that.
Disappointing, can we actually see the scene that led to the show going off air???
Gun smoke was better then any other show
In a lot of episodes, Matt was out of town until the last five or ten minutes of the show.
Show the scene finally? Nope
That's it!!!!
I Watched All That Crap, For One Second of Violence!!!!!
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
thanks for sharing
Still watch it.
I’ve listened to all of the radio shows but never watched a single episode. The radio show is a window into the history and ethics of not necessarily the old west, but the Californian 1950s. They condemned racism, talked about wife and child abuse, and recounted historical events, but didn’t have much regard for Texans! Because it was of it’s time, the bad guy could never win in the end, even if the story might have been better for it.
It was my husbands favorite show. You can catch it on one of the channels that play all the oldies such as The Ponderosa, Mr. Ed, Gunsmoke, Leave it to Beaver, Gilligans Island, and of course the Andy Griffith Show...Channel is
TV Land Classics.
Just loved the show
One of my fav shows
The final words in this video said the shotgun scene (or episode) was not shown. I don't recall any words about "why Gunsmoke was taken off the air." Did I miss something?
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I must have missed it as well...strange.
just another episode of CLICK BAIT
@@richardwilliams9532 Actually, I DO know why it was cancelled. It was mainstream America and the ratings were fine; they (network leadership) just cancelled it. Just like the same types got rid of Jay Leno; all part of "transforming" America. This type of thinking has been around since the first episode of the Dick Van Dyke show. Seen it all first hand.
Never watched Gunsmoke when grandma had it on all the time but now it's wow what a favorite!