Gunsmoke 1955 - 1975 Opening and Closing Theme

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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. Marshal Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the wild west where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, standover tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgement and brave actions: of which Marshal Dillon has plenty. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961. John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts,
"Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and stands as the United States' longest-running prime time, live-action drama with 635 episodes. In 2010, Law & Order tied Gunsmoke for most seasons for a live action drama series when it finished its twentieth and final season, but the show finished 179 episodes short of Gunsmoke's final total; in terms of prime-time scripted series with continuing characters,
The Simpsons is the only program to exceed 20 seasons. At the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote: "Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by [Ned] Buntline, [Bret] Harte, and [Mark] Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend.

[@sidneypoe2986]

I'm 78 and watch Gunsmoke reruns almost every day. Brings back great memories of my Dad & I watching every week during the 50's & 60''s. My favorite TV western ever!

[@stormwarning1235]

My dad loved Gunsmoke. It was a Monday night ritual in the late 1960s-70s. I hear the theme music and cry. Better days. Better people. What has happened to us all?

[@surfrescue3232]

Drugs and multi culturalism.

[@butterflycomb]

They don't make tv show like these anymore! Pure gold pure classic! EPIC.

[@karenmurphy6749]

I'm nearly 70, I watched Gun Smoke as a kid & I'm retired & I still watch it every day!! It's still the BEST !!

[@karenmurphy6749]

@@teresamartin3080 yes, I got your reply!! Tell your mom I also watch Gunsmoke on insp. I've been retired for 5 years. Since this pandemic I've really done alot of watching my favorite westerns!! I work on my quilts while watching!!

[@karenmurphy6749]

@@teresamartin3080 I am so very sorry about your asthma. I know it can be quit challenging. I have crippling arthritis. It's in my knees, hip & hands. I just learn to take life alot slower. HA!HA! I finally had to break down last year & purchase a scooter because I do like to get out & shop. Did you & your mom watch the marathon of Gunsmoke over Labor day on insp?? I was on the couch with my English Bulldog watching. Loved every minute!!

[@karenmurphy6749]

@@teresamartin3080 Omg!! Yes, I have seen the one where John Wayne introduced Gunsmoke!! I ate chips thru out the marathon!! I'm a 5 year survivor of Indomentrial cancer. I had to have 5 weeks of radiation. It was quit a shock a year after I retired. I love the most famous phrases of our favorite characters of Gunsmoke....."I'll pour you a cup of coffee," & "let's eat at Del Monicos! Yes, I'm have always been huge fan of Steve McQueen. I watch Wanted Dead or Alive every chance I get. Not to mention watching Johnny Reb.

[@karenmurphy6749]

@@teresamartin3080 I know that was really hard on you when you precious mom was on the hospital. I lost my mom2010 due to brain cancer. We were extremely close. I worked in a factory, when the Saturday came she was ready to go to eat out & just go looking in the stores. Yes, I even lived with my parents. I also lost my daughter in 2004 due to a heart anuresum. She was 29. Her death really made us closer. Dad passed away a year before I retired in 2014. So I've been on my own since then. I love it when Festus & doc got into a HILLARIOUS conversations.

[@karenmurphy6749]

@@teresamartin3080 you bet!!

[@rpotter6147]

In the early 70's I ran home from school to watch Gunsmoke on a black and white TV and loved every minute of it. A man is only as good as his word (Matt Dillon)

[@liliencalvel6151]

Love that. Thanks for sharing, my cowboy friend.

[@melvinhunt6976]

He wasn't talking about a liberal!

[@bettybridges1635]

Me too

[@jimmysanders4813]

My grandfather was born in 1897 and my grandmother in 1905.I watched this show from time to time with them.It was a show that spoke about right and wrong.There was a moral to the story and a hero.The bad guys would lose and the good guys won.I miss this absolute truth.

[@408Magenta]

In my opinion, one of the greatest musical tracts for a tv series ever.

[@lenasegrest3731]

I watched these with my dad every day growing up and still love gunsmoke to this day!

[@thomaschacko6320]

Best rendition of the closing theme! Moves your heart to this day!

[@TheZeno4444]

Its a great piece of music. The ending (1960) has those clippity-clop horse hoof beats with a slower pace, it tugs at the heart in a more subtle way. All the renditions are great..

[@scottmiller6495]

The 1968 version is even better!

[@cedarabbey]

The opening theme is from the 1969-1971 era, while closing theme is 1966.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

The best Western in TV history.

[@Berzelmayr]

Gunsmoke's theme song was better, sorry.

[@BeingRomans829ed]

Right _after_ Bonanza?? You've got to be kidding. Gunsmoke, Rawhide and The Rifleman (not to mention several other westerns) make Bonanza look like a kid's show. Bonanza tried too much to please everybody, particularly women and teenagers. Way too many episodes of Bonanza centered around women, kids, romance, emotion, and teenagers. Also, had way too many episodes centered around courtrooms, and episodes where one or more of the Cartwrights were being wrongly jailed. There were good episodes of Bonanza, to be sure, but when they started trying too hard to please the wider demographic, the show just didn't seem like a real western anymore.

[@jln55]

The Cartwrights killed about 350 people during the shows run, and no murder charge ever stuck!

[@lisetteeliseparis5264]

Did not Gunsmoke play on Monday nights on CBS? Bonanza on Sunday nights! Right?

[@shazbatagatha6100]

Grew up with this at grandma's house..i can still feel the days like yesterday..still watching it and bonanza

[@timothystalnaker3186]

I remember watching Gunsmoke as a kid on Saturday night with my mom and dad. It was the best then and it is still the best. None better than James Arness.

[@t4texastom587]

When I was a little kid, The Rifleman was my favorite weekly TV show. But as I grew into adulthood, Gunsmoke became my favorite, and STILL is, although I still love to watch The Rifleman. 🤠🐮🐴🐂🐎🤠

[@justinsublett5880]

I watched this in reruns as a kid in the 80s, and I still absolutely love it. The opening and theme song is iconic. Pure Americana. Anyone over the age of 35 in American has seen at least one episode of this show

[@yohei72]

I'm not sure I ever watched a single episode all the way through, but yeah, growing up in the '70s and '80s, I saw the opening and closing and bits of episodes countless times, especially when visiting my grandparents.

[@vashisl33t]

Im 35, I used to watch gunsmoke with my grandfather when I was young I wana say I was around 5 years old

[@edd7657]

Watching for my dad! We watched this everyday when i was a kid. Miss that dude!!

[@susanadams7704]

Watched Gunsmoke as a child with my parents and am in my 60's and still watching it. James Arness ruled as Matt Dillon!

[@davidchereneimmel8820]

Such a wonderful classic. remember watching as a kid with the family, and watch it still today with my children.

[@HannahRoot55]

David

[@ladycharsw]

I still watch it almost everyday. I listened to it when I was 9 and 10 on the radio too

[@niftyvintagevideos]

Just listening to the theme music puts me in a happy place. As a kid, my introduction to gunsmoke was the seasons in color. I watched it every Saturday night before the Channel 7 Super Scary Movie came on. Those were my favorite nights of the week.

[@jayb5225]

The best western tv show ever!

[@The_Novu]

This was my Grandpa's favorite show. Miss you.

[@gregorybeckett7194]

I can remember in the late 60s and early 70s I watched Gunsmoke with my Father a few times. I was too young to really understand the show but now since watching reruns of the show I can see why it was good to watch.

[@sincerelyzee521]

my great grandma used to watch vhs tapes of this with me. i'm 16 and she's gone now, but it's nice to have a piece of her live on through these recordings. it was her favorite show. thank you for uploading this.

[@heatherscott3936]

The theme music for all these shows was exceptional. My 90 yr old grandfather loved this show. Probably gave him good memories of his early days before horseless carriages came along

[@paulanoble2220]

This is my favorite song ever how comforting

[@Sanman95]

I'm a 90s kid and I used to watch the TV Land reruns with my dad growing up. They only showed the color episodes and I had NO idea the show was ever filmed in b&w until the DVD complete seasons came out. The color episodes naturally hold a very special place in my heart and I have seasons 12-20 on DVD now!

[@deemoe7301]

Mom and Dad would watch this every week. When I was very young I didn't always understand the plots, but I saw all the adults around me enjoying it. Then as I got older I began to understand the show better and began to love it even to this day! Great show!

[@HannahRoot55]

Scoot

[@tommythomason6187]

My mother let us two boys stay up as late as we wanted to on Saturday nights in the 1960s, and we never missed Gunsmoke - or Mannix. And, we'd get inspired by it - shoot our little sparking cap pistols in the dark, had the cowboy hats and all that stuff. Matt Dillon was my idol back then and Gunsmoke was just part of Saturday nights. I didn't care for the move to wednesday nights in the show's later years. I still watch it on MeTV at 1:00 p.m. every day, and the show never became dated or lost it's luster. That music just reminds me of those wonderful saturday nights of long, long ago.

[@tonysiebig3043]

The greatest TV western of all time!! The best cast and crew of any Western!!

[@HannahRoot55]

Siebig

[@ivellbullock7503]

This program is perhaps my father's all time favorite westerns to watch on television. In my time as a child, I remember days of black and white televisions long before we ever have color.

[@jamesm.carter1633]

Great classic, everytime I see the intro it brings back childhood memories of my family and I watching tv together. Wonderful show.

[@bobveinne2439]

Got a liquid substance in my eye here, God now it's down my face. I didn't grow up in the 60's but watching my father's collection of VHS tapes through the 90's was a major section of my childhood, along with MacGyver.

[@kvb44]

Thanks for sharing that. I get the same. Only with me it's from watching with my mother.

[@nicolekenna7822]

I watch this awesome masterpiece multiple times a day💕💕

[@denises.8203]

Just call me crazy,in love with Gunsmoke!! 2023

[@buck546]

Greatest tv show in the history of television. Back in the day when writers and actors had to have talent unlike today. "My heroes have always been cowboys" or in this case Marshall Dillon.

[@HannahRoot55]

Buck 54

[@nathansmith8888]

I'm 26 and growed up watching this show and loved it and still watch it to this day and nuthing has changed I love it even more

[@caroltaylor7894]

John Wayne was offered this job, but he was making movies. He told them about the great actor, James Arness and he became Matt Dillion. Can you imagine anyone else playing that part?

[@johnnyhollingsworth7494]

i think pee wee herman mabey.

[@stevenblackwell4903]

Not even

[@maestroclassico5801]

Duke would have never played the role for 20 years. I believe when the show first came on he introduced it.

[@tonyarceneaux286]

At one time it was TV longest lasting show.

[@patrickgreene2593]

And now The Simpsons has since passed that record! NCIS is a close second.

[@williamphillips6049]

It still is.

[@parnamsaini4751]

Is it?

[@williamphillips6049]

@parnamsaini4751 Simpsons is animation, I don't know about NCIS, and Law & Order technically beat it. . . 'But Gunsmoke had almost all of it's original cast.

[@andrewlenart2703]

I missed most of the first 8 years of Gunsmoke growing up. It was on past my bedtime curfew. But after that, I never missed a show and now thanks to INSP, I am watching the western I liked the most, Gunsmoke.

[@JayDogTitan]

I have over 30 episodes recorded on my playlist, watch em anytime I want. TV today is great!

[@elderhardaway5674]

I Watched "Gunsmoke" From The Age Of 5 Years Old, To My Adulthood, Of 22 Years Old!!!!!** 'Enjoyed Every Minute Of It!!!!!**

[@peterharris302]

Matt's intense horseback ride at the beginning was actually taken from "Nitro' Part 2" which was aired at the end of the 1966-1967 season, several months after this show "The Jailer" aired. The opening credits with Newly were filmed in 1969, after Newly had become a full-time member of the cast.

[@imanicovington3277]

Love Gunsmoke, I'm 73 watched it growing up, watch it everyday, almost All day..

[@suzannewillis817]

I hear that theme music playing in the back of my head everyday.this show has to be strongly in the top 5 of all of the greatest westerns of all time along with have gun will travel ,wagon train and even hec Ramsey and many others.

[@liamroberts9047]

Hello Suzanne, How are you doing?

[@suzannewillis817]

@@liamroberts9047 I'm fine had a long day how are you?

[@gailwinds]

Take notice of something. Matt puts his hand on his gun for a long moment. There are some rare opening episodes where he actually drew the gun and shot. I saw it for the first time in years, a few months back and a sudden realization hit me. It definitely reminded me of another old favorite that I had just started watching again - The Lone Ranger!! I think that is why they edited the shooting scene out of Gunsmoke (maybe being accused of stealing the intro). I wish they hadn't. I loved that little connection.

[@janicebledsoe5886]

I fortunately Imißthat one I have pretty much have seen them all. I have watched the reruns so many timeO know the lines by hea I were unaware of how many episodes gunsmoke were. I am still trying to catch up with the ones I haven't seen yet.

[@BM-ru7ef]

When I was a kid, we'd watch this with my mom & dad (a show from when they were kids!). I still remember Doc, Miss Kitty, Chester, Festus and of course, Sheriff Dillon! Some great memories :)

[@liliencalvel6151]

"Yes", great memories o'l cowboy.

[@suzannewillis817]

Glory days of only three channels and show that are not terrible are long gone too bad.wish they would all come back.

[@christinasanderford5849]

I'm 18 and (despite what boomers may think) I'm living proof that Gen z'ers aren't all uncultured swines. My dad was always watching a western of some sort.... In hindsight I think he just didn't know how to work the remote🤔 because he literally never changed the channel! I could care less about most westerns, but when Gunsmoke came on I would "watched with him". Meaning he'd end up falling asleep and I'd end up binge watching it anyway 🤠 lol. So yeah Gunsmoke has a special place in my heart.

[@petermaier9520]

Great TV Western With great actors 😎👍

[@bettybridges1635]

Love Gun smoke 73and still watching it love ❤️

[@orangebike900]

The guest stars were top notch and really iced the cake!

[@geraldineadams7320]

I still watch it everyday

[@geraldineadams7320]

today on tv it was Gun smoke 65 anaversarey it's on all day it's still on I love it

[@AwesomeBeatles]

When I was a kid I loved that show. I remember in grade school having the Gun Smoke notebook to take to school. It was a picture of Matt Dylan in a dual.

[@tammypowell755]

Loved theses show. And loved James arness

[@ianbell7342]

used to watch this every weekend when visiting dad many happy hrs had rip pop❤

[@1985OldSkool]

September 10, 1955 - First episode June 17, 1961 - Final half-hour episode September 30, 1961 - First hour-long episode May 7, 1966 - Final episode in black-and-white September 17, 1966 - First episode in color April 15, 1967 - Last first-run episode on Saturday night September 11, 1967 - First new episode on Monday night March 31, 1975 - 635th and final episode September 1, 1975 - Final airing on CBS (including reruns)

[@elderhardaway5674]

WOW!!!!!** Great Western Of All Times!!!!!** Matt Dillion Kept Dodge City In Order For The Citizens Well Being.** Great Cast, Crew, Everyone Had Excellent Chemistry About Each Other, And That's Why "Gunsmoke" Had Such "Longevity" As A Western TV Series.** "KUDOS!!!!!"*****

[@sheilaabrown91]

I love watching gunsmoke am elderly and I still be watching

[@cecilharmon1832]

Completely awesome

[@brian.awalker8652]

To me this is the actual theme I remember on TV some other recordings out there sound like remakes . I was just told there was the old radio version

[@jrewing1512]

This is the best intro.

[@rogerross6583]

I never seen much of Gunsmoke when I was a kid. We didn’t have a TV growing, I mainly watched TV at my Aunt and Uncle’s house. I seen a lot of TV . Especially in the summer when school was out. I did a lot of reading. So I guess I was really fortunate, I know a lot of people that don’t read. Many years later the played Gunsmoke on the western channel. I watch them over and over again and again. Except for davy Crockett KIng Of The Wild Frontier. I liked Gunsmoke best. It was Disney’s davy Crockett that got me started into history. It was Davy Crockett that got me and my wife to move to Tennessee from Michigan. I ended up about 45 minutes from the place Davy Crockett grew up. I worked at the Crockett Tavern Museum for about nine Years. The Bible is full of real history. Through archaeology, they have phone, true evidence of Noah, Solomon, Gomorrah, different places that we read about with Moses and the exodus from Egypt the history of the Israelites has been proven true. The life and death of Jesus. Many of the prophecies that he has given has come true. Space because of that, we can rest assure that all the properties that Jesus gave will come true this road I seen a great change in the last hundred years I change that for the good of the Earth. we can see now that some of them on fulfilled prophecies are beginning to be fulfilled. What time is prom for people to pay attention and see that their lives are at stake. The time is come for Jesus and his father to act on behalf of their people and he will take care of his people we think Jehovah very much space. yes, I am very fortunate that I know how to read oh my life to reading and studying the Bible and see what God does require of us to serve him and it is not hard you don’t have to be a fanatic. Just be yourself love God and follow his commandments love is the answer show love.

[@BBQFanNo1]

At the time it was the longest lasting TV series. Back then in the Mid 1970's it was very rare that TV series such as Cop Shows, Comedy Shows, Etc lasted longer than 8 years. Gunsmoke, Bonanza and Hawaii Five O were the few exceptions. The only Show at the time in it's last year in 1975 that ran longer was the Ed Sullivan Show which later was passed by the Lawrence Welk Show, American Bandstand, Soul Train and the Tonight Show. Incredible the series lasted 6 seasons longer than Bonanza and still with fairly good ratings in it's last season in 1974-1975.

[@kennobles6740]

I’m 12 and any time this came in my papaw would only watch western shows like this those were the good ole days before I was in school

[@convoyjack3310]

I remember hearing gunsmoke on the radio

[@JENDALL714]

Weird, I have no recollection of ever watching anything Gunsmoke related, the show or any promo's in the 70's. I was born in '71 and I can remember many shows and even commercials of that era, starting around '73, but Gunsmoke isn't one of them. Maybe, no one in family ever watched Gunsmoke, I remember my mother watching Love American Style and the last season of the Brady Bunch and my Father watching Hawaii Five O on Thursdays and than later on Friday, but no memory of Gunsmoke.

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

By that time, tv westerns had fallen in the ratings and most were gone. I believe GS was the last of them.

[@raymoore8162]

Just something about that coffee pot sitting all alone on that wood atove... its unique, especially with that chip in its side...Aww the good old days

[@JayDogTitan]

I've always thought that as well, I love that coffee pot, Takes me back to when I was 7 or 8.

[@liliencalvel6151]

It's beautiful.

[@tonym994]

@@liliencalvel6151 love my coffee, but I never understand guys out camping at night, drinking coffee. remember in the WILD BUNCH when Edmund O'Brien's coffee burns Ernest Borgnine's hand? people on GUNSMOKE and all Westerns love black coffee.even at night. before bed time.

[@liliencalvel6151]

@@tonym994 "The wild bunch." I've never heard of that one. I love Westerns a lot. There are a lot that I have not seen though. And I love John Wayne too.

[@tonym994]

@@liliencalvel6151 now ,you went and got me started. it might not be a typical film for women, but it was revolutionary in it's time because of the violence.but anyone who loves Westerns and appreciates great performances ,and yes, drama, will really dig it. great photography of Mexico, where it was shot. late great Sam Peckinpah directed. the re-issue DVD is well worth the money, has commentary and a documentary called 'the WILD BUNCH: an album in montage' .but don't miss a chance to see it in a theater if it comes around. now that you're prepared, you will see the coffee scene w/ no spoilers.of course, they're drinking booze ,too. but love their coffee! John Wayne isn't in it, but William Holden gives quite possibly his best performance. and a few GUNSMOKE faces appear. including Warren Oates ,who did many episodes thru the years.

[@UltimateThanos]

Wow! Spanning 30 years! That's crazy for a Western show.

[@davidchereneimmel8820]

And it was a radio program before TV.

[@franciscosalinas8686]

James Arness was a man of class when he and the rest of the cast came to Mission,Tx.and invited my granpa Bernardo and Sara to Breakfast and said to them thanked both for their Service in the Mexican Revolution and thanked them also for my Greatgranpa Joe for his heroism in 🇺🇸America and gave him one of his Medals of ESCOLTURA

[@user-ps5ux2sp6w]

kurokawa kokujin akihito!

[@bentap7714]

I have the whole series on dvd worth it i watch on tv but wanted see em all im 28 an fell in love flipping the channel few years ago

[@raymoore8162]

I want this played at my funeral

[@scoremxcom]

If you want to see some of the guys and gals from Gunsmoke, check out "The Fugitive", "Perry Mason" and "Twilight Zone".

[@rhettadaugherty3989]

Love it still

[@P-hm4gw]

Great show !!!!

[@stevegust2100]

What a great show

[@brownpants3325]

Gunsmoke is on so many channels here in PA. Us young kids get a chance to watch it.

[@rickmay1434]

Gunsmoke , is my all time fate show.

[@TheSarahbeach100]

It's 2018 and I still watch it half the day every day.

[@mathyborgermans596]

I love Gunsmoke.

[@cassidypresley7154]

Remember this show……..use to watch all the episodes, when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s. Now in my mid 60s……..still enjoy them today, some 50 years later.

[@JM-rs7io]

🤔On Saturday night it was Gunsmoke, Palidin then if I could keep the TV low enough in my bedroom it was Death Valley Days. 🙃 THE GOOD OL DAYS.😁

[@dianakeenan1976]

I love gunsmoke

[@liamroberts9047]

Hello Diana, How are you doing?

[@mariacrofford756]

I wish that they can bring gunsmoke back with new look alike actors. That would be awesome. Bring them back, there's a lot of talent outhear.

[@liamroberts9047]

Hello Maria, How are you doing?

[@teastrainer3604]

Nope. Leave it alone.

[@ricks9141]

It's fun to watch the openings and closings of old shows. If you freeze frame the opening shots of Gunsmoke (Arness riding the horse), in the background, you will see a golf course resort, complete with sand traps and modern structures.

[@phillyflash43]

Oh yeah, lol! That's funny, it's like Matt found a time portal to the 70s and is rushing back to Dodge after 9 holes of golf!

[@jameshoran8]

There was one episode from 1961 during the hour long black and white episodes where Matt and Chester were talking to someone and an airplane was flying overhead. Still shocked the editors did not see it.

[@nighttrain438]

I saw that plane also. They probably just didnt bother to redo the scene. Everything didnt have to be perfect back in the day. We just took it with a grain of salt. Life was simpler and less stressful in a lot of ways.

[@liliencalvel6151]

I kinda like the fact that they did not take out those mistakes.

[@djangodjango774]

THERE IS,NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BE ANY WESTERN SHOW THAT CAN TOUCH..GUNSMOKE!PERIOD!!!!!!

[@raymoore8162]

I really love the classic display of guns on the wall, Oh. and that classic old coffee pot on the stove!...That's America baby!

[@mattbates6887]

Why don't they make them like this anymore? TV now is not what it used to be sadly.

[@Michaelbos]

James Arness in full gallop. The difference of yesterday stars.

[@smmackey]

My grandmother and father loved the westerns especially Gunsmoke and Bonanza

[@jacksugden8190]

Used to watch this in the 1960’s with my late father, couldn’t recall those titles and music, but do James Arness at Mat Dillon.

[@teresafedorchuk3198]

Love ME SOME GUNSMOKE THE BEST WESTERN EVER

[@liamroberts9047]

Teresa

[@AldenRDavis]

“GUNSMOKE! Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.”

[@branchwhitney2140]

I just went back 60 years in time, to a much better time.

[@tnridge]

Matt bigger than life

[@BermondseyBoy]

Used to show Gunsmoke in the UK on TNT Classic Movies, and again on TCM. Now there's nothing. Only place that does Westerns is Amazon Prime Video. Tried Netflix, but nothing came up. I was told Paramount America has Gunsmoke, wish the British version had it.

[@testodude]

Heckuva a guest list on this episode. Bette Davis, Bruce Dern, Tom Skerrit. Even Julie Sommars had a nice career. I bet it was a great episode.

[@scottmiller6495]

testodude Great episode to Start the 12th season 1966 1967. First episode in color also. And with Bette Davis in this you know that it would be real good!!!!!

[@teastrainer3604]

The episode is called The Jailer.

[@veraevans6387]

The first 14 seconds is one of the best of all their short openings. The second part with the floating pictures is good but there's actually a better one, and I know the closing theme has been better. But these are great selections. Gunsmoke was hands down the best drama in television history, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone notwithstanding. The writing in Gunsmoke was superior down to the last episode in the 20th and final season.

[@tonym994]

you are one of the most astute observers of TV I ever heard, besides myself, of course.that's what I tell people .it's not just about fast gun hands (specially Matt Dillon),but great drama. can't beat ''Nitro'' Parts 1&2 for instance, for drama as well as suspense.I know how it ends ,but I have to see it again.

[@suzannewillis817]

Love the great classic shows like this even westerns.too bad we don't see shows like this anymore I miss it.

[@petevecchio7512]

Hey Karen me too!!!! I absolutely love Gunsmoke and I watch it every day Never miss an episode I know there's some I've never seen

[@TheCarnivalguy]

I liked this opening the best. And that tympani roll at 0:18 is so cool.

[@davidalen9279]

Great show

[@antoniocarlosbarbi1563]

Que saudades de GUNSMOKE, essa belíssima serie. Que bom que seria se algum CANAL do KZbin conseguisse postar vários episódios desse seriado maravilhoso. Mesmo que fosse legendado em português, seria muito legal. Espero que esse sonho não esteja longe, e seja exibido aqui muito antes do que se espera.

[@hamiltonchieregatti2021]

Torço tbm

[@jrnumex9286]

i believe the last 2 yrs or more had a voice over with intro pics.

[@christopherjudge1138]

I have 7 and a half seasons of Gunsmoke on DVD, and yesterday, I recieved Season 7, Vol. 1 on DVD and I noticed that the bottom of the 5th disc looks smudged and defective! I'm giving up ordering the series on DVD, 'cause I know it ran on CBS for 20 years, and ordering 20 seasons of Gunsmoke is a hard and complicated challenge! "...And that was the west!"