GUNSMOKE (1955-1975) Cast THEN AND NOW 2023 Who Else Survives After 68 Years? 

Same! I'm a old lady at heart 😂

Happier I watch it today on TV antenna.

I watched Gunsmoke as a child and today I watch Gunsmoke everyday in my elder years. I always loved this show and today I look forward to watching the show, so much. It is a clean show and it is far better than a lot of the shows today 2023.❤😊

Those were the good ole days. Shows you can actually watch with your kids. Not like most of the trash on tv these days.

I still watch all the old westerns.

I agree. Shows today are dumb and crude.

Me too

Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🙏🙏🙏

So Correct You Are.

Me too I also watch every morning afternoon and evening! My grandmother loved the show.

I agree. I love watching the reruns on Saturday afternoons.

I watch the reruns too- every day. Never tire of them.

I WATCH GUN SMOKE EVERYDAY LOVE THE SHOW

I do too. I watch reruns everyday off the internet on the James Arness site.

I also knew that wasnt the elderly Nusser.

Yeah will wright played on Andy Griffith as Ben Weaver… he was a good actor…

..Thankyou..i was just about to comment on this.. how can this video's producer make a mistake like this..

yes I was going to post this as well, a blatant mistake by the creator.

Me too, that was Charles Lane.

I do as well, the show comes on in the afternoon and then later on at night.

Me too. Half hr black and Whites were my youth in early 50's. I too listened to Gunsmoke on radio in 40's.. you can listen to them on you tube. Pretty comical compared to TV versions.

Yeap me too ,still this day at 1:00pm

Your dad sounds like quite a man ! What memories........sorry for your loss. I know what it's like to lose a great dad.

your daddy musta fibbed

@@billstallings5589 - No, I have photos, personal letters and even been to Autry house a time or two. I still have the film when my dad was at Melody Ranch when Gene first bought it. Those Nudie clothes and jacket sold nicely as I did not need them or fit me. - Sorry you can't handle the truth and are mad that you never had a friend. Must be bad to be miserable old Bill

And Death Valley Days. A lot of rich history in that series.

@@supersinger2293 yep

That's an incredible experience to have met such iconic stars from Cheyenne Days, Gunsmoke, and Wild, Wild West. How fortunate and memorable!

All except 2 of them

@@BB-gu9kx .........only Buck Taylor is still alive to this very day........2023.

@@CassidyPresley Correction Roger Ewing is still alive.

@@BB-gu9kx Good ! Glad to hear that.

Nope!..........there is still Buck Taylor who played (Newley) the Dodge City acting sheriff from Marshall Matt Dillon. Mr Taylor is still alive to this very day.........2023 in his mid 80s. So there is still one cast member still alive in well, living in California.

@@CassidyPresley Glad to read this. I always liked Newley. Quick draw, apprentice doc, gunsmith...

It's even sadder because most were gone before I was even thought of 😢

It really is depressing that they're not with us anymore. They had so much energy in their prime.

@@CassidyPresley I forgot........that's right. Buck Taylor is still alive and well. I'd love to be able to sit with him and talk for a while. That'd be awesome. His dad, Dub was great too. Loved him as the steam engine fireman from the Casey Jones television show, with Alan Hale as Casey.

The radio Gunsmoke was the best. William Conrad was good as Matt Dillion.

@@billybob042665 I lived in the country in northern Louisiana and we got 3 channels plus two in UHF or whatever it was. We had a rather tall antenna and an electric rotor so we were always having to move the antenna as 2 stations were north in Shreveport and one was south in Alexandria. Everything was black and white. I remember the national anthem at midnight and then the static image you got all night until broadcasting began the next morning. Imagine being a teenager and the TV stations signing off at midnight!😬😬

May I ask your age I'm 72 myself

@@gino423 I’m 81.

When life was great.

It's amazing to hear about your personal connection to Nehemia Persoff and the other talented actors on Gunsmoke. Their contributions are truly missed!

We didn’t know Caruso, Dehner, or DeKova, but Mr Persoff told us he was friends with DeKova from The Untouchables appearing in episodes together. Nicky also told us at the party that he was friends with that fine actor James Edwards. They both worked in Men in War.,.Maurice HBank

Not as rough as today's violent shows. Gunsmoke, the best!

I thought they all aged well.

That's ok....but others want to see the info,if it's ok with you?

@@sandrakoll9662 it's not but thank you

Well it doesn't matter what anyone thinks. I purchased the whole 20 season DVD set and can watch it all the time,did you love it that much? You'd be surprised how much you miss when you just watch it on the television. I used to think I saw everything there was to see about Gunsmoke because I watched the reruns every single day. No way. You'd be shocked how much you miss when you don't have all the seasons, even if you think you've seeing them all. You haven't. I have every single season and extras.. it was well worth the price.

Doubtful. He is not limping that much. Just during filming. Did he invent his limp?

@@robertgift He died in 2006, but when he had a series after Gunsmoke, I think it was called McCloud, he didn't limp, and he looked taller.

I think the 'invented' limp is what clinched his role as Chester. We used it look at Gunsmoke on Saturday nights!

Funny part is he was the one who invented the limo and bad leg to make his character stand out. The script did not call for it but once he did it he was stuck.

@@clifthorburn776 I can imagine that one issue is that James Arness had a limp from a war wound and Weaver might have done the limp so as to make Arness' limp virtually disappear in comparison. I had no idea about Arness' war injury at the time - after we got TV in March 1956 I never missed an episode for years

Q4

He was in the John Wayne movie The Searchers. In that role, he played the banjo and sang. He was very talented.

Thank you for your heartfelt comment. It's indeed a bittersweet reminder of the passing of beloved stars, but their legacies continue to shine through their timeless work.

Loved Festus!❤️

Saw Festus and Doc at the J bar H rodeo in camdenton mo 1967 ,, they were riding in a new red camaro convertible around the arena,,,

Don't leave us hanging!!!

Ok, first a little back ground. The fair occupied 4 square city blocks. In the front was the Entrance and Fair Office and in the back was the Grandstands/Horse Race Track/Rodeo Grounds. For the public to get from the Entrance to the Grandstands they had to walk through the heart of the fair where all the Exhibit Buildings and a ride on scale model train was located. That year there were 3 head liners. Mac Davis, who at the time was a hot country/western singer/sex symbol (at his night concert, all acts did a afternoon and night show, I was stationed in front of the stage to prevent ladies from crawling up on it!). Tanya Tucker, BEFORE she destroyed her career by breaking up Glen Campbell’s marriage AND Ken Curtis as Festus. After their afternoon show the stars did a press meet and greet in the Fair Office. There was a Trailer on the Race Track’s infield that served as a Green Room. Procedure was, after the show the star was rushed to the Green Room and a limo was sent to pick them up and drive them to the Fair Office for the press and then they would be hustled back into the limo and taken to their hotel until the night concert. I was IN the office and got to see Mac for 1 second and Tanya for 2 seconds! As their handlers rushed them in and out! Then came the day Ken preformed. My Grandfather was a fan of Gun Smoke and Ken so I decided I would get Festus’s autograph for him. You usually had to do that by getting to the Green Room, which was NOT accessible to the public and passing a piece of paper via a handler to the star. NOT Ken! I found him standing alone, back stage, watching his warm up act, a Air Force Dog demonstration. He cheerfully gave me the autograph, also signed one to me and signed a few others for the rodeo people as well. After his sold out show was over he got down from the stage and signed more autographs. THEN he did the unexpected! I was on my way back from a message run and I looked in the direction of the Grandstands, there coming out was Ken, guided by a handler and behind him, EVERY person from the stands as well as EVERY person ON the grounds! He looked like the Pied Piper! Every body was laughing, Ken was signing more autographs. There was a Candied Apple vender just outside the Fair Office and Ken stopped at his stand and tried to buy a apple but the stunned vender just gave Ken one. He entered the Office and did his press meet/greet and then one of the Office Guards (Then it was a cash business so there were two ARMED guards assigned to the Office) had brought a camera and he took time to pose with Fair personnel, including ME! (I still have the autograph and picture). When word came that his ride was waiting, left the Office and waded into the crowd surrounding the Office, walked to the Front Gate where his ride, a convertible sports car was waiting to take him to a friend’s farm for a late lunch. And with a honk and a wave he rode off down the street.@@jenniferharris1508

A wonderful wonderful show

Sam played Frankenstein also. I always thought it was Boris Karloff. But the guy who played Sam also played the big guy

No kidding!

Ma Smalley

As a Dutch, born in '63, I've seen 1.... on Dutch tv, of these US of A series. Flipper, Lassie, Bonanza, Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, alias Smith and Jones........