Posted on 08/12/2013 1:27:59 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CKxnN9YBaw
He remained the side kick until 1964, through 305 episodes (this from IMDB).
“...he always had a hard time in getting out alive. Coundn’t make that today.”
In real life, US federal agents don’t get out alive today, thanks to Eric Holder.
After 1968, it was moved to an early time period, extended to an hour and as Milburn Stone(Doc) said, there were then more kids on the show than he could ever remember. The scripts were so dumbed down it was pitiful. I could never watch it after that.
Gunsmoke switched to 1 hour episodes in September 1961 (Season 7) which was a year before the episode linked in this thread aired. It switched to color in September 1966 (Season 12).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047736/episodes?season=8
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