Gunsmoke | Ep100 | "Old Friend"

[@oldjake912]

thanks for posting gunsmoke i enjoy the old-time radio shows at night when I was just a young boy my brothers and I would listen to it programs whatever was playing we didn't have TV show this was our form of entertainment normally at night when we would listen now when I can't sleep at night I listen and usually I can go to sleep much easier as I reminisce back in those days as a young boy soaking up everything said by these play actors thanks again for posting

[@oldjake912]

83 likes 24.7 k subscriptions 7 comments you would think they would be more likes and more comments on this wonderful old time radio show Western I know some people think that they are cheesy ads post cereals ads and lame westerns compared to today's technology but back in their day they were top-of-the-line gin my opinion when many people did not have TVs and the only entertainment they had was the radio at night Orem bad weather days when they could not be out working in the fields Exedra as someone said just shut up and listen to the shows make your comments and go on

[@markanderson4699]

They are all 10 or11 years before I was born even the ads are better than todays tv

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally broadcast on March 20, 1954. Virtually the same script as "How To Kill A Friend" [October 3, 1953]- only Matt uses his gun at the end of this version (apparently, when General Foods [Post] sponsored the original version of this episode, they insisted Matt not fire his gun at anyone. When they withdrew their sponsorship at the end of December 1953, Norman MacDonnell and John Meston wanted to present the script as it was written- and this was their chance to do that).

[@vincentsartain3061]

I appreciate the backstory, Barry. I was wondering why Ep 100 seemed to be a remake of an episode from just a few months earlier. And I'm glad Post Cereals, as you mentioned, withdrew their sponsorship after just a few months (the Post commercials are preserved in the episodes in this KZbin compilation of the Gunsmoke radio series) -- because those ads were simply gawd-awful! Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say!

[@fromthesidelines]

Probably because MacDonnell and Meston were finally free of sponsor restrictions, and could stage the script the way *they* wanted to. They often used "refreshed" versions of previous scripts- especially in later seasons.

[@vincentsartain3061]

@@fromthesidelines I've recently listened to the ads of the Post Cereals sponsors, and boy were they EVER gawdawful! But soon after, the tobacco companies took over sponsorship, and the show resumed its more edgy tone than Post had been allowing.

[@fromthesidelines]

Liggett & Myers [Chesterfield] began their sponsorship in July 1954, after six months of "sustaining" episodes (yes, it took THAT long for CBS to find another sponsor).

[@anlze9557]

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