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Gunsmoke on Television

Season 3 of Gunsmoke (1957-58) was the first of 4 consecutive seasons that Gunsmoke was the #1 show on network prime time television.  Airing on Saturday nights at 10:30pm on CBS tv, it would have the record for most seasons as #1 until 1975-76 season when "All in the Family" would set the new standard with its 5 consecutive season as the top show on network television.  Oddly enough "Gunsmoke" was the #4 show of the 1971-72 season when "All in the Family" started its record setting run.

Kitty Lost

Season 3 Episode 15

originally aired December 21st 1957

Gunsmoke on TV Guide

March 15th 1958

Gunsmoke on Radio and Television

Today thanks to Buck Benny and his Podcast we bring another installment of Gunsmoke on Radio and Television.

Radio

Last Fling

Season 2 Episode 24

aired February 20th 1954

Television

Last Fling

Season 2 Episode 26

aired March 23rd 1957

Amanda Blake Interview on The Mike Douglas Show 1974

Gunsmoke on TV Guide

August 22nd 1970

Gunsmoke on Radio and Television

Time for this week's double dose of Gunsmoke.  As always its the radio version followed up by the television version of the same episode.
This week we see the basic idea of the radio episode used on tv but the writers (Endre Bohem and Louis Vittes) took the John Meston's original storyline in a different direction and substituted different characters as the protagonist.  The did work in Miss Kitty to be rescued and only the bad guy dies such were the changes beginning on Gunsmoke's tv version.
The radio episode features legendary voice actor Ralph Moody as "Tobiel" the Indian.

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Kick Me

originally aired November 28th 1953

Season 2 episode 12

CBS Radio

Kick Me

Originally aired January 26th 1957

Season 2 episode 18

CBS Television

Golden Age of Radio - Gunsmoke

Here we have another episode from the classic radio western, Gunsmoke  

Obie Tater 

A old prospector lands in hot water when he refuses to tell Matt where he has hidden gold.

Aired on CBS radio August 30th 1954

Last episode of Season 2

Gunsmoke Season 3 - Potato Road

Continuing our look at Season 3 of Gunsmoke (1957-58) in which it was the #1 show in prime time television.  This was the first of 4 straight seasons at the #1.

"Potato Road"

aired October 12th 1957

Season 3 episode 5

Gunsmoke Season 3 (Kitty's Outlaw)

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

"Kitty's Outlaw"
Season 3 episode 4
aired October 5th 1957

The Story of Gunsmoke

Thanks to Buck Benny and in celebration of its 60th anniversary, here in 6 parts is a retrospective of Gunsmoke the radio version. This was done in the early 70s and contains interviews with William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester), John Meston and Norman McDonnell (the creators,writers and producers) and Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty).

This is a great show with a lot of behind the scenes stories and even discusses the beginning of the television version.

Gunsmoke - Bad Seed

From Season 6 Episode 216  originally aired Feb 4th 1961

Gunsmoke on Radio - The First Episode

Thanks the wonderful work of Buck Benny and his OTR Podcast here is the first episode in the regularly scheduled Gunsmoke series.  The debut was April 26th 1952,  the title "Billy the Kid", written by Walter B Newman.