Men's Adventure Magazine of the Week

STAG

August 1958

WE LOVE GUNSMOKE (TV)

March 10th 1958

San Diego, CA

CBS television actor James Arness (US Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke) was invited by U.S. Air Force Recruiting to take a ride in a F-102A Consolidated-Vultee (Convair) fighter jet. He is photographed as he visits the Miramar NAS in San Diego. In this frame: USAF Captain R.J. Harris (left) presents a model of the F-102A Convair fighter jet to James Arness. 

Men's Adventure Magazine of the Week

STAG 

January 1958

What's My Line? - Miyoshi Umeki; Robert Ryan [panel] (May 11, 1958)

What's My Line? 

May 11th 1958

Mystery Guest :  Miyoshi Umeki 

(from the 1957 movie Sayonara)

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

ST. LOUIS BLUES

1958

Gunsmoke on Radio and Television

Claustrophobia

Radio

Season 2 episode 42

aired June 26th 1954

Television

Season 3 episode 20

aired January 25th 1958

Gunsmoke on Radio and Television

This week's presentation of Gunsmoke on Radio and Television is the episode that was the television version's season 4 premiere.  The 1958-59 television season would be the 2nd of 4 straight seasons that Gunsmoke was the #1 show on prime time network television.

Matt For Murder

July 26th 1954

season 2 episode 46

Matt For Murder

September 13th 1958

Season 3 episode 1

Gunsmoke - Season 3

Season 3 of Gunsmoke on television, 1957-58, was the first of 4 consecutive seasons at the #1 show on network prime time television.  Gunsmoke aired on CBS at 10pm on Saturday night.

Buffalo Man

Season 3 episode 18

aired January 11th 1958

(with Jack Klugman as Ticks and John Anderson as Siple)

John Anderson was honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and presented with a Western Heritage Award in 1967 for his years of work in television and movie westerns.
The long fight scene filmed for this episode was used by the U.S.C Film School as well as other film schools in the US to train student film editors.

Gunsmoke - Season 3

1957-58 was the 3rd season of Gunsmoke on CBS and the first of 4 consecutive seasons as the #1 show on primetime television.

Joe Phy

Season 3 episode 17

January 4th 1958

(guest star Morey Amsterdam)

Gunsmoke on TV Guide

March 15th 1958

Your Classic Movie Poster of the Day

The 1958 movie starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones and Walter Matthau.  Originally written for James Dean, it was shelved when he died in 1955.  The film was revived in 1957 after a successful off broadway run, Hal Wallis suggested they use the young superstar Elvis Presley in the title role and change it from a boxer in New York City to a singer in New Orleans.  Elvis got a deferment for his enlistment in the US Army to film this in New Orleans.
The soundtrack produced the #1 Elvis classic "Hard Headed Woman"

Gunsmoke - Season 3 (Blood Money)

The 3rd season of Gunsmoke on television (1957-58) was the first of 4 straight as the #1 show in prime time.

 Blood Money

Season 3 episode 3

aired September 28th 1957

Gunsmoke - Season 3

The 3rd season of Gunsmoke  on television,(1957-58), was the first of 4 straight seasons that it ranked as the #1 show in Prime time.

Here is the first episode of Season 3, Crack Up.  This episode featured long time radio star and frequent radio Gunsmoke guest star John Dehner, here he plays a gunman on the edge of insanity.

Season 3 episode 1

aired September 14th 1957

The Story of Gunsmoke Followup

In yesterday's posting of the 6 part series "The Story of Gunsmoke" (courtesy of Buck Benny's Podcast) they had the episode of "Marshall Proudfoot" which aired July 20th 1958 on CBS radio season 6.

The TV version of the episode also called "Marshall Proudfoot", but instead of Chester's father coming to visit it was his uncle but otherwise the script stay pretty close to the radio version.  This aired January 10th 1959, season 4 episode 18.

Gunsmoke - Chester's Hanging

Gunsmoke on Radio and TV 

Chester's Hanging

Season 3 episode 23

aired Feb 12th 1955

The TV version

Season 3 episode 36

aired May 17th 1958

Billboard All-Time Top 100 Songs ( 1958 - 2008 ) - 50th Anniversary

Have Gun Will Travel

On Saturday at 930pm, September 14th 1957 CBS television debuted a western that was to become just as legendary as Gunsmoke in the annals of TV westerns,  Have Gun Will Travel.

Starring Richard Boone this was the story of a man called Paladin, a gun for hire in San Francisco.

The show ran on tv until the end of the 1962-63 season, a total of 225 episodes and became almost more famous for its tremendous closing theme song "Ballad of Paladin" written and performed by Johnny Western.

The premiere episode was titled "Three Bells to Perdido" 

November 23rd of 1958 "Have Gun Will Travel" debuted on the CBS Radio network as one of its last radio dramas to feature continuing characters. This version featured radio veteran and Gunsmoke regular John Dehner as Paladin.

The radio version ran until November 22nd 1960 and initially each episode was a radio version of the episode that aired on television earlier in the week.  Eventually original stories were written and produced for the radio show including the finale when Paladin left San Francisco to collect an inheritance back east.

Thanks again to the great Buck Benny podcast for the posting of the debut radio episode and the second episode of Have Gun Will

Gunsmoke on Radio - Amy's Good Deed

"Amy's Good Deed"

 aired on CBS radio November 27th

1955 Season 4 episode 14,  

written by John Meston.

Aired on CBS television April 12th 1958 
Episode 109 season 3 
written for tv by Kathleen Hite

Guest star Jeanette Nolan as Amy

Gunsmoke

Even though I like the radio version much more than the tv show, my father never missed it. It was such a part of growing up I never realized it had been around so long.

Here from 1958-59 the 4th season - Stage Hold Up written by co creator John Meston (who wrote over 95% of the radio and tv episodes.

Van Cliburn

Today in 1958 Van Cliburn of Kilgore, TX earned 1st prize in the Soviet Union’s Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow.
He won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. He came home to the USA to a ticker tape in New York City.


Here he is as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line?