"Texas Cowboys"- Matt Dillon - Keeping a piece of the peace in Dodge. Gunsmoke 1958

[@DanneyTanner]

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[@thesixshooter6506]

Done. Good stuff, and thanks.

[@chipurBillWhite]

Handled - because you answered my question.

[@Anotherway04]

The 1950's Gunsmoke episodes and Matt Dillon were unbeatable and the very best western T.V. show of all time.

[@thesixshooter6506]

Absolutely. This show set the standard by which all other westerns... before or since... are measured. There were several great ones during the genre's heyday, but none better than Gunsmoke.

[@derekbates4316]

At times, it was a bit unrealistic, like the scene of a bunch of Texas gunmen backing down from one man

[@hawkenman.549]

Said it before and I’ll say it again; we need more men like Matt in this world.

[@terryogletree2128]

Still the best show on TV

[@jeffjames4064]

You might take a kitty, but you will PAY dearly for it. How long does it take for the word on Mat Dillon to reach the Texas cowboys. Coming into Dodge city making a ruckus NEVER ends well.👍 My man, James Arness... Rip.😢😢

[@thesixshooter6506]

Take a Kitty, take a bullet. Guess the reason word never got around was because... well... dead men tell no tales.

[@emansnas]

Plus Texas was in a distant galaxy and by time 'word' got there it had morphed into a kind of invitation. Which made for more great episodes. But as with any brand there are good ones and bad ones.

[@naebacsharing7964]

One if my favorite scenes. I love how Marshal defends and protects Ms. Kitty💖

[@mlongpre100]

even though she didn't need it

[@TacitusR]

I have the entire series on DVD and the early 30 minute black & white episodes are my favorites. In those Marshall Dillion had a darker and rougher side to him that came out quicker and more often. One of the finest if not the finest series ever filmed for television, with casting that could not have been more perfect.

[@teastrainer3604]

The trail boss who tried to ht on Kitty was Rocky Lane, who starred in a series of B Westerns in the 1940s. He was also the voice of Mr. Ed.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

OH OH I may have learned something. I'n scared...Hold Me! :-)

[@thesixshooter6506]

Wow, didn't know that. Thanks!

[@durangokid1]

great call. Thought I was the only one to recognise Allan Rocky Lane@@thesixshooter6506

[@discoveryman59]

For a guy that voiced Mr.Ed he sure didn't have any Horse sense going up against Matt Dillon..

[@hannahskipper2764]

One of my favorite scenes in GS. Do not mess with Kitty!!

[@muffs55mercury61]

Kitty wasn't afraid of much especially a drunken cowboy. The broken bottle is a great self defense weapon.

[@downhilltwofour0082]

The guy in the corner feigning being knocked out had to lay there for the entire scene! LOL

[@DanneyTanner]

Good for him..

[@thesixshooter6506]

At least he got a free beer out of it.

[@downhilltwofour0082]

@@thesixshooter6506 LOL Not even real beer though!

[@thesixshooter6506]

@@downhilltwofour0082 That's true, but you get what you pay for. Since I didn't see him put any money on the bar, he got a light beer... as in water. It didn't look like he was gonna be able to hold his liquor anyway.

[@downhilltwofour0082]

@@thesixshooter6506 LOL

[@mariacrofford756]

Don't mess with my kitty, you gonna get scratched. Next, I am ready

[@thesixshooter6506]

Wonder how many men in Dodge who messed with Kitty ended up with a Matt Dillon bullet in their belly. Lol.

[@sharoneasley9717]

@@thesixshooter6506 they loved each other, but couldn't show it in a regular way. It would have put her in constant danger. The badies would have used their relationship to get the upper hand over Matt. It did happen in one episode.

[@thesixshooter6506]

@@sharoneasley9717 Good point... yes, I recall that episode. She was kidnapped if I'm not mistaken. Kitty was tough though... I'd hate to be one of those bad guys and get within striking distance of a Kitty Russell face slap. Lol.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Matt Dillon's job was unbelievably stressful. In many cases he didn't have the moral support of the town. Just Chester, Doc and Kitty. The first six seasons which the episodes are half hour were the best and when they came out on DVD I jumped at it. Some of the later one hour ones are ok but these are the best for me. Most of the common faces in 1950s films and TV had guest spots on the show (with 637 episodes total it was hard NOT to appear on the show) Love the part with Miss Kitty. NEVER mess with her in the wrong way, ever!!

[@jameshoran8]

The best episode of all twenty years was one of the hour B&W called "The Gallows with Jeremy Slate. Matt is totally helpless in saving a man from hanging.

[@muffs55mercury61]

@@jameshoran8 I have that one on DVD. It's depressing knowing what the outcome will be. Sometimes I'm a supporter of the death penalty and other times I'm not.

[@jameshoran8]

@@muffs55mercury61 My rationale for his not taking Matt's help is he considered himself a loser all his life and saw the sentence as a way to end it as his life was never going to get better. Matt carrying Pruitt's hat was so sad.

[@sharoneasley9717]

LOL.... Marshall Dillon is the man! 👍

[@timothysullivan84]

The guy who said he didn't want any part of this was John Mitchum, Robert Mitchum's younger brother.

[@billbertagnoli4226]

Love how the beat up guy is Still slumped in the corner Through the end of the scene.

[@gerrydooley951]

that is the great Allan Rocky Lane , one of the best of the B-western cowboys. He later became the voice of Mr. Ed

[@muffs55mercury61]

He made quite a career in westerns and is well remembered by fans.

[@raymondhebert7016]

The last move was classic.

[@elhijodelchupacabra]

Early Gunsmoke TV 30 minutes episodes scripts were taken from Gunsmoke Radio show. They were the best.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Yesssss. I have all those on DVD but not many of the later one hour shows.

[@wesmcgee1648]

Holycrow this episode aired the year I was born, 64 years ago!

[@martiedoherty5765]

Holycrow, so what?

[@ronrongey1701]

What an excellent scene!

[@anotherboredgenius283]

"Gimme a beer, will ya?" "Don't you want a whiskey, or somethin'?" "No. Beer is fine..." 🤣🤣🤣

[@orlandogarza2965]

You mess with Dillon and you wind up in boothill.some dudes just got to learn the hard way.

[@carlsmith3214]

Ten against one always sounds good until the ten realize that three or four of them will be dead in a few seconds

[@jeffjames4064]

Few seconds nothing, now like a second or two

[@thesixshooter6506]

Would have been all ten if they had stuck around. Not sure how, but it woulda happened. Ten new residents of Boot Hill.

[@wassupdoc2780]

I love it. Beer is fine. Then dumps it on the guy.

[@survivingsicklecell1732]

Wish I could see more episodes of the lovely gun smoke

[@DanneyTanner]

I watch in on the INSP channel.

[@jimquantic]

We get it M-F, like the man said INSP channel, you probably get it.

[@marksmith4346]

Gunsmoke was awesome in the fact that they spun real stories into the story line of the show. The one man facing down a gang or lynching party or even posse was repeated over and over in the "wild" west. In the Tombstone movie at the end, the kid told the story of Wyatt Earp saving his uncle (?) from a lynching party and then the WE's character said, "some said it didn't happen that way." Then his wife number 3 said that it did. Some of the oral histories that circulate say that Earp took on a story about Johnny Ringo where JR did the same thing to a posse. Another story said when JR was somewhat mysteriously shot, that the gambler who was in the jail, who WE saved from the mob, was the person who shot Ringo.

[@emansnas]

Matt Dillon was a lawman but also a man. Had to be that way to maintain control of a town and keep the order necessary to thrive. This btw is how the Right should behave with the Left. Actually how anyone should behave with the Left.

[@garyspence2128]

We leftists don't need a gun to shut down you right wingers. We'll just talk you into submission! Same as it ever was...

[@williamhobbs3258]

I'm 58 I can remember gunsmoke when it was still running greatest show ever produced they've never made a bad one if they have I haven't seen it

[@gerrydooley951]

they made many bad ones, episodes that hardly featured any of the regular cast.

[@rjperez1554]

Still watch it on Metv

[@mauriceb53]

Some episodes are on Facebook too 😊

[@vintagetvandexciting]

​@@mauriceb53 seasons 9-20 and the feature flims are on Pluto TV

[@jameshoran8]

Now I know where Tyson learned that vicious left upper cut. From Matt Dillon.

[@rexfrommn3316]

Gunsmoke was television at its finest. The only show that is as good or better was MASH. Both of these shows were CBS television productions. Gunsmoke took quite few concepts from western history. Lawmen didn't want shootings or gunplay because people always got killed. Lots of the characters in Gunsmoke are women and men you can see in a C.M. Russell painting or read about in a history book. People who shot others for little or no reason often got guilty verdicts and a date with the hangman. Gunsmoke was a popular radio show. So the television show had lots written scripts to work from ready made for television adaptation. MASH worked because it's stories and scripts were taken directly from the experiences of interviews of Korean veterans.

[@hawkenman.549]

It ain’t about clearing the holster, it’s about who pulls the trigger first. Matt was very fast.

[@rjperez1554]

Don't be a fool, always sounds like a challenge.🙂

[@wl45steve61]

That o boy don't. Mess around when it comes to protecting miss kitty

[@wannamonslo9626]

“Who’s gonna win the lottery, and who’s gonna lose...”

[@thesixshooter6506]

If you're planning on slapping leather against Matt Dillon, don't even bother buying a ticket.

[@emansnas]

If a woman breaks a bottle across the bar and aims it at you, probably best to put your tail between your legs, hustle out, and never come back.

[@DanneyTanner]

Never underestimate the power of a woman.Or even a small man at that.

[@emansnas]

@@DanneyTanner Interesting you mention a small man. Once on a business trip to NYC in the eighties I was in a large super crowded noisy disco on a Saturday night. Way down the long U shaped bar there was the sound of violently breaking glass immediately followed by a blood curdling scream. Seconds later not far from me a small guy covered in blood splatter tore through the crowd on his way towards an exit. Pretty sure the blood was not his. Edit: Btw *Everything* that night was like a scene out of a movie.

[@markedly1013]

Beer is fine.

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

I'd rather go upstairs and work out my adrenaline with you, Miss Kitty.

[@thesixshooter6506]

@@jerroldkazynski5480 Haven't you noticed? She's taken.

[@thesixshooter6506]

Never waste the expensive liquor on a dead man. Even one just pretending to be.

[@audieconrad8995]

"Nope...beer's fine."

[@edwardclancy8336]

The cowboy had his gun out first Lol 😂

[@porcospino289]

Whoever made these videos has written dozens of times of a "Matt Dillion". Nat Billion maybe?

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Try me DAMMIT

[@smeyer2964]

Love those illiterates... ... Matt Dillon keeping the PEACE,

[@DanneyTanner]

Thank You Sir ..Love from Festus Hagen

[@rickylmoe4018]

😁😁😁😁😁❤

[@chipurBillWhite]

Always wondered who the guy at 0:17 was and where he went.

[@DanneyTanner]

He was the guy who hugged kitty and got his ass kicked bt Matt.Then he sat in the corner till he got a bath in beer.

[@chipurBillWhite]

@@DanneyTanner That’s the only thing I could come up with, but his hat and looks didn’t match to me. Oh well, I’m sure you’re right. Thanks.

[@DanneyTanner]

I think the guys name is Allen Lane...He was in a lot of westerns.

[@stevebarker1960]

How do you spell peace?

[@DanneyTanner]

Festus Hagen

[@thesixshooter6506]

In Dodge, it was spelled B-U-L-L-E-T.

[@cbobwhite5768]

"Matt Dillion keeping the piece"......... He talking about Miss Kitty?

[@o925now]

Who's next anybody else want to die in here

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

Matt wasted a good beer.

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Ok..

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Bustum mathew

[@cag1763]

But leave it to a girl to get you into an avoidable fight

[@garyspence2128]

Miss Kitty was no girl. If you were a real man, you'd know that, and keep your hands off her. She went gangster with that broken bottle. Wise up, bro...

[@brushcountry6361]

They aren’t from Texas

[@DanneyTanner]

I bet you are...

[@brushcountry6361]

@@DanneyTanner Back in the old days when CA. actors could be trusted.

[@shy9787]

The marshall was Dead!! That man had his gun out before the marshall cleared his holster!! Dillion is Dead!!

[@garyspence2128]

He might have drawn first, but he wasn't ready to pull the trigger. Matt Dillon was. Those hooligans cleared out pretty quick, sort of like Unforgiven, when Clint Eastwood walked in.