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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 354891" data-attributes="member: 57984">I&#039;m half-watching a GUNSMOKE marathon on an obscure TV station.It&#039;s no mystery why GUNSMOKE became the #1 show for four consecutive years after LUCY closed up shop. The B&amp;W half-hour episodes are startlingly compact when they&#039;re compared to the later full hour version. And the 30 minute shows feel awfully abbreviated. But compared to other single gunman westerns of the era (there were literally 40 of them by 1958) these early GUNSMOKEs are unusually relaxed and noiresque in directorial style -- and considerably less formulaic than one would think.But given its period elements, some find the &quot;toxic masculinity&quot; too hard to stomach.This is what GUNSMOKE wanted to be in the beginning, but it couldn&#039;t have stayed like this and still run 20 years.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/236x/24/51/c7/2451c7dc2ac4b16726ce03127a048bc3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 531px" /><img src="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1f908d7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/524x425+0+0/resize/840x681!/quality/90/?url=https:%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa7%2F28%2F3e9235a1a7317790b2492191a908%2Flat-actor-james-arness-20110603-001" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 354891, member: 57984"] I'm half-watching a GUNSMOKE marathon on an obscure TV station. It's no mystery why GUNSMOKE became the #1 show for four consecutive years after LUCY closed up shop. The B&W half-hour episodes are startlingly compact when they're compared to the later full hour version. And the 30 minute shows feel awfully abbreviated. But compared to other single gunman westerns of the era (there were literally 40 of them by 1958) these early GUNSMOKEs are unusually relaxed and noiresque in directorial style -- and considerably less formulaic than one would think. But given its period elements, some find the "toxic masculinity" too hard to stomach. This is what GUNSMOKE wanted to be in the beginning, but it couldn't have stayed like this and still run 20 years. [IMG width="531px"]https://i.pinimg.com/236x/24/51/c7/2451c7dc2ac4b16726ce03127a048bc3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1f908d7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/524x425+0+0/resize/840x681!/quality/90/?url=https:%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa7%2F28%2F3e9235a1a7317790b2492191a908%2Flat-actor-james-arness-20110603-001[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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