GUNSMOKE "I married James Arness" with Janet Arness & Bruce Boxleitner on A WORD ON WESTERNS 

Still My Favorite Luv The Cast!!!

Gentle giants.

I knew Clint and his wife quite well. He and Arness were friends. I never met Arness but can attest to the fact that Clint had a big heart and was one of the finest gentlemen I've ever known. If Clint liked "Jim", and I know he did, then I know Arness must have been a good man, too.

debco12 Clint was my hero when I was a kid, I wanted to look just like him, I named my youngest son after him, must have been an honor to have known him & Susan👍

Kenny Huskisson you got that right lol arness was hung like a bull elephant

Always seemed to be a respectful man , good for a good story about an actor

cgarrand1 Don't forget about Chester.

I liked Gunsmoke, my Dad & I used to watch the show. Later on in life, I met Chester, thru a friend of mine, Maria of Kingwood. She was filming wth. him. We were both Actresses, at the time.

cgarrand1 i also love gunsmoke and watch it everyday andcwatch recordings. Theres nothing on tv as good as gunsmoje.!

Yep!

cgarrand1 don’t forget Chester. He was great also.

Good taste, David!

Paul, I never watch the networks. I prefer classic TV. I don't need to see sex, profanity and the glorification of satan and everything magic on Network TV. I'm laid back, but the poison our children are being fed today is absurd.

Paul 124 Amen brother

Me too

The production quality and acting of those old shows goes far beyond the garbage today presented as " popular TV series" and let me include movies of today.

@@rickdaystar477- Today it's far more important to look like a model and be sexy. Yes, the quality is horrible today, but it doesn't matter because young people have nothing to compare it to. And that's because it's all but impossible to get them to sit thru something that wasn't made yesterday. My daughter will say (she's 10): "Daddy, that's old fashioned" and she's not referring to the story, or the quality of the characters. Again, it's all about how they look and dress. This means, she's not going to watch it. I am trying to slowly get her acclimated to older stuff and I think once she's a couple years older, she'll get it. She's a good girl, but she has this shallow, how you look is most important Hollywood "image" constantly thrown at her everyday, so I fight to keep her grounded. Even worse, she has the looks that are going to get her a lot of attention as a teenager and again, even girls her age on TV and movies are made to appear 2 or 3 yrs older. Entertainment media sexualizes kids in subtle ways. In fact, they have people who's job it is to gain subconscious power over the viewer and plant messages and ideas. That's not my opinion, it's fact. This is done in every facet of our lives from entertainment all the way down to the way clubs are laid out to induce a psychological effect. Facebook and other platforms use very sophisticated tactics to plant ideas and messages into our subconscious. This puts children at an extreme disadvantage. My wife and I have not given our daughter a phone. We feel she's too young, yet parents are giving kids phones as young as 5 or 6 and then they wonder why they are acting like moody 15 yr olds at 7. Sorry, I went a little sideways with the subject and should have broken it up into paragraphs, but it's early. The point is, not only is today's entertainment media bad, but those in charge don't really care because they focus on the outer image and create these perfect looking androids that look like 17 yr old models and have sex coming out of every pore. I don't want to get preachy, but I also see that the content is moving further and further away from God in favor of witches being cool and ghost hunting, casting spells, etc...The kids cartoons are riddled with these themes where they make the evil character into your buddy. "Oh, it's harmless!" No, it's not harmless. Kids are like vacuums. They suck this stuff in and once the associated toys are out, they do the same things they see on the cartoons. Give me the old time stuff and other than *some shows* on AP, H, DA and Disc, you can throw the rest in the dumpster. Thanks to those who got thru this redundant rambling of mine. Have a great weekend and God Bless!

I remember my mom and my grandma would always make us be able to watch Gunsmoke on Monday night and they always tell us make sure we were quiet because they were crazy about Matt Dillon you're right they just don't make shows like at anymore I'll be honest with you I know I'm 66 years old going on 67 but honestly I'm still hooked up on old-timey Western I enjoyed your video

To sad there all gone, today if the Law tries to do there job they get defunded and out of a job. Merle Haggard said it best, were rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell, nothing more true.

@@francisswayer4954 When they took God out of the schools and off of network television programming, it began that snowball headed for Hell. Courage and moral behavior have been substituted by extreme violence and very immoral behavior.

@@bantumwt I agree 100%

I.also grew up with gun smoking instill love watching Gunsmoke one of my best movie

Amen

I'm still watching gunsmoke on my cable every day

I love my western s

I love gunsmoke still watch the reruns

I love Gunsmoke watch all the reruns

Love me some Gunsmoke to watch it every night and I agree with you 100%

Greatest TV series ever made and I don't think any in the future will be better!

I love gunsmoke. I watch it everyday. I also watch old westerns, it makes me think of a simpler time when people loved one another and had a mutual respect for life, love, and one another. Those were the days.

All the depravity and perversions consuming the American spirit can be summed up in one word : Immorality! I've said this for years, and you nailed it. Madness, mayhem, violence, death, and much suffering lie ahead. It will last for decades.

@@philcarrington3763 Immortality or immorality?

I like the original cast 30 minutes it's got to have Chester Good ,Doc and Kitty

@@Ms2blackcats Nobody holds a candle to Festus Hagen, when he was with Doc it made the whole show nothing like it.

David B so true!!!!

"Almost"? Thanks, Jack.

Nice role model, Darla.

Me too!!!

Jim Arness was also a "surfer boy" when he was young. He had a tragic first marriage that ended in divorce. He finally found happiness with this young lady. I also heard that James Arness was very silly on the set of Gunsmoke. He was always laughing and joking. The cast and crew loved him. I have dvds from the beginning of the early episodes to the mid 60s. A great show!

Ed, John Wayne was to do the show. Suggested James Arness. 5-14-2022

Heck...I STILL watch Gunsmoke (and got my wife into it!) The true classics never fade...

I was in the 11th-12th grade when Gunsmoke went off the air suddenly with no warning. I was literally devastated. It was the ine show our family watched together, no matter what else was going on. My dad, being old fashioned Irish, right off the boat, May He Rest in Peace, was a bit picky about certain shows, and too much unnecessary trashy stuff on TV, but he just loved Gunsmoke, as dismay mom, May she Rest in Peace. The USA, in fact every country could really use a Marshall Dillon the way things are. Really miss him, amazing actor. The greatest Lawman of all time ❤ May he Rest in Peace and all the Gunsmoke folks🙏

I think

I LOVED GUNSMOKE! PARTICULARLY MARSHALL DILLON!

@@francestopp1198 I had some notion, as a young lad, that he was immortal and would always look like he did in those early shows. Andy Griffith and Clint Walker seemed that way also. I imagine I realized at some point that wasn’t true. 😀

As a child I loved all western shows. Sets were a bit phonety but stories were good. .

Watched gun smoke as a kid... still watching now 2019 at 66 years old!! Great show loved all the characters, especially Festus!!

I've watched Gunsmoke for years, I still love the show, watch it whenever I can ! Loved all the actors and actresses onthe show! I will keep watching ! Thank you for making the show!

Hellcat Redeye -G much better than the trash they have today.

He didn't have the attitude of a " celebrity "...down to earth Gentleman...Arness

Marcia Tallman you are exactly right!!👍👍

@@marciatallman3073 When we lived in Mpls, Mn. Jim lived behind us. My folks used to have him and his brother, Peter come over and babysit my brother occasionally. I remember hearing stories but never had the honor of meeting him. Just a few years back, Lol enjoyed LISTENING to the show!! Oh, p.s. did meet Bruce once, tho. Another nice man!! 🤗

It really annoys me that when I watch the Virginian and hit the "info" screen via the remote control, I can never get the guest stars listed for that episode. One of the reasons I like watching old shows is to see who the guest stars are. If it was up to me all the old shows would run the credits before the show starts instead of at the end and slower.WRZ 2021-07-11 I

Lol ,when I was a little kid I called it the Bujinian .My Grandfather (Big Roy ) never let me forget that . I watched alot of westerns and Daniel Boone sitting in his lap .

Yes, she is very articulate.

Yeah and the reason she was impressed by him picking up all the litter, reflects right back on her good character.

she knew everything about him from his make up artist wife who was her boss. she knew just how to be with him. He is a very controlling person wants every thing his way; Thats why his ex girlfriend left him.

Ken Mine too. I still watch it about every week day on MeTV. I wish i could have met him. He was a TRUE American Hero. He was badly wounded in his right leg in WW II. It hurt him the rest of his life. I heard from one of his neighbors that his right foot was shredded.

@@johnyoung468 I watch it on MeTv too.

I'll make it a trifecta and add pal Richard Boone. You can't go wrong with Paladin...

Right you are, James!

Well said.

Jim Arness is the greatest

Amen

Fenway do you hear the echo? 5-14-2022

Nancy Poidomani Tge storied had a moral value

I watch gun smoke every day

Likes to delete all of Arness comments.

I have watched Gunsmoke since 1955 when it started. I love Jim Arness and the entire cast. Then I just started watching it again in Oct.2020. Can't stop watching love them all. I 'am not 78 years old and still love Jim Arness.What a wonderful actors and actresses in that cast. I feel the same way about M*A*S*H.

@@judykackley217 There were a lot of good westerns on but my favorite was Gunsmoke, Doc, Kitty, Dooley, Chester, and Marshall Dillon. I miss them.

Joyce,you can still see Gunsmoke everyday on channel TV Land or The Westerns channel ISRP. Hope you can find them.I ' am watching Gunsmoke now.Have a good day.

Thanks, John.

I didn't know that was his brother..

Quarter horses? Do four quarter horses make a full horse?

@@HansDelbruck53 , Do four boxes of rocks make HansDelbruck53 smart?

@@libertyforever4270 It was Young Frankenstein that made Hans Delbruck smart. So, blame Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder if you can't take a joke.

@@HansDelbruck53 , I would have made that snarky reply to Mel Brooks and he would have taken it for what it was. A repartee. Jokes on you, Hans!

@@libertyforever4270 There's no enmity or disdain in my remark or rejoinders. Can't we all just get along here?