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"If Matt Dillon had to shoot somebody, you’d cut around to him, you could see that he had just hated to have to do that. He felt a sort of revulsion over it. That’s something I think hadn’t really been done much at all up to that point." - James Arness, "Gunsmoke's" Matt Dillon

Westerns describe series featuring recurring characters usually situated in the early American frontier.

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Watch Interview Highlights

  • Announcer Fred Foy performs the memorable opening narration that he did for both radio and TV's "The Lone Ranger"
  • James Arness on the concept of Gunsmoke  as the first TV Western geared more to adults than children; the process of filming an episode 
  • Barbara Eden on one of her first TV jobs on Gunsmoke
  • Fred Silverman on how CBS Chair William S. Paley insisted on keeping his favorite show, Gunsmoke, on the air
  • Leonard Nimoy on his guest appearances on Bonanza  and a television movie revival (acting with character actor Ben Johnson)
  • Thomas W. Sarnoff on NBC's development of Bonanza 
  • Gene Reynolds on the beginning of the series Bonzana , when he was a casting director, how he became a director on Peter Gunn
  • James Arness on the amount of violence on Gunsmoke
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