James Arness on the origin of "Gunsmoke" - TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews

[@pallas1957]

I Still Love GUNSMOKE, And I Still Watch It Today With My 83 Year Old Dad On The TV LAND Network.

[@starr522]

While driving, I heard the news of Mr Arness' passing. I had to pull over and stop. Another one of our Legends has gone on. Longest running drama on television. I still enjoy the show on the Western channel. Marshal Dillion wasn t a singing cowboy. Loved him more for that. He was a man' s man. He loved the people around him. Never had a hard thing to say about them. As we get older, we lose our heros. Sad but true. Thank you for the memories and fun that you gave to me.

[@RonnieTheFish]

I watch this show every day at Noon on Tv Land Then Bonanza and Most of all Thanks Jim for your gift to me and everyone who still watches it I would be Lost without my 2 fav shows GunSmoke & Bonanza

[@MrPatriotOne]

James, you will be missed greatly Patrick

[@jimmymorgan321]

my idol as a kid growing up

[@BARBARAMARSH]

just watched an episode.....wow!!! Memories as a kid in the 60s 70s

[@62Elvis]

j arness was a Great actor.

[@Hein122]

james arness is the manliest actor in the past 100 years of film/television.

[@lashantasmoot6125]

Hien122 yu are so right about James Arness he is the manliest man in television as well as in movies, he is my role model nd my hero, I envy him, meanin I want to b exactly like him.

[@lindahalsey5788]

I really like that show

[@randolph65]

RIP now Big Jim ur up there with the best of the western Star

[@gtrefghuk]

A real man. Like Eastwood, Bronson, and Heston. I hear he's a big man 6foot7 from what I've been told. I also hear he was wounded in the leg in Korea. That gave him his signature Matt Dillon walk.

[@Skauber]

Too bad I never got to meet him, he was the third cousin of my grand father. :)

[@mkko1969]

R.I.P ZEB

[@weepy1001]

It was a tv show about the "wild west"...had to do what had to be done to keep "law & order"...in the real wild west. Looks like the USA is again turning into the wild west the way things are going these days. We sure need some law and order these days and some one "pulling a trigger" besides the criminals!

[@bgrobin66]

@mustaffa1611 You really should give up smoking...you know, those roll your own little dream sticks. It is plain to see the negative affect it has had on your reasoning. A western show to "justify government!" Man you are conpletely gone.