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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 437521" data-attributes="member: 57984">This W.E.S.T. channel runs GUNSMOKE for 8 hours -- eight episodes -- every Sunday. Missed some of them today (unlike last week, when I was left bleary-eyed after watching the thing all damned day long).Season 18&#039;s &quot;A Quiet Day in Dodge&quot; is one of the rare comic episodes of the series (and a lot better than all those crap &quot;funny&quot; installments that BONANZA dished out over the years as pointless filler). It focuses on Matt&#039;s return home from being on the road, bringing in a prisoner, and no sleep for 48 hours. Naturally, no one will give Marshal Dillon any chance to rest, a series of banal interruptions preventing his nappy-nap time, driving Matt to exasperation... (By reputation Arness was a terribly witty man, something one never gets to see on the show itself, but he plays the humor in an understated way which works well). Meanwhile, Miss Kitty is trying to get laid and invites the marshal to a homemade dinner in her Long Branch boudoir -- when he falls asleep, fully clothed, on her bed, she drops a tureen of soup or gravy or bouillabaisse or somethin&#039; onto the floor of her room, but Matt&#039;s snoring is too deep to be disrupted. So Kitty goes downstairs, and before she can wander out into the streets after dark, bartender Sam warns his employer that she might &quot;get molested.&quot; To which she responds contemptuously, &quot;Really...?,&quot; and strolls out into the night.<img src="https://static0.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/gunsmoke-hobey-harrison-ford-card.jpg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Then there&#039;s Season 18&#039;s &quot;Whelan&#039;s Men&quot; which highlights a strategic card game in the saloon between Miss Kitty and a gang of thugs, her intention being to save Matt, out of town and headed home, from the man determined to face the marshal down and kill him...&nbsp; The episode is tailor made for Amanda Blake style of dry sarcasm... And a nubile Harrison Ford pops up!.. It&#039;s not the first episode where Kitty cleverly tries to psych-out a villain who lays in wait for Dillon due back in Dodge any hour now (&quot;Mannon,&quot; with Steve Forrest, comes to mind in Season 14 in 1968).And the prints are so vivid, I&#039;d think they were filmed this morning. Except everybody&#039;s dead, so it&#039;s impossible.[ATTACH=full]58582[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 437521, member: 57984"] This W.E.S.T. channel runs GUNSMOKE for 8 hours -- eight episodes -- every Sunday. Missed some of them today (unlike last week, when I was left bleary-eyed after watching the thing all damned day long). Season 18's "A Quiet Day in Dodge" is one of the rare comic episodes of the series (and a lot better than all those crap "funny" installments that BONANZA dished out over the years as pointless filler). It focuses on Matt's return home from being on the road, bringing in a prisoner, and no sleep for 48 hours. Naturally, no one will give Marshal Dillon any chance to rest, a series of banal interruptions preventing his nappy-nap time, driving Matt to exasperation... (By reputation Arness was a terribly witty man, something one never gets to see on the show itself, but he plays the humor in an understated way which works well). Meanwhile, Miss Kitty is trying to get laid and invites the marshal to a homemade dinner in her Long Branch boudoir -- when he falls asleep, fully clothed, on her bed, she drops a tureen of soup or gravy or bouillabaisse or somethin' onto the floor of her room, but Matt's snoring is too deep to be disrupted. So Kitty goes downstairs, and before she can wander out into the streets after dark, bartender Sam warns his employer that she might "get molested." To which she responds contemptuously, "[I]Really...?[/I]," and strolls out into the night. [IMG]https://static0.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/gunsmoke-hobey-harrison-ford-card.jpg?q=70&fit=crop&w=825&dpr=1[/IMG] Then there's Season 18's "Whelan's Men" which highlights a strategic card game in the saloon between Miss Kitty and a gang of thugs, her intention being to save Matt, out of town and headed home, from the man determined to face the marshal down and kill him... The episode is tailor made for Amanda Blake style of dry sarcasm... And a nubile Harrison Ford pops up!.. It's not the first episode where Kitty cleverly tries to psych-out a villain who lays in wait for Dillon due back in Dodge any hour now ("Mannon," with Steve Forrest, comes to mind in Season 14 in 1968). And the prints are so vivid, I'd think they were filmed this morning. Except everybody's dead, so it's impossible. [ATTACH type="full" width="822px" alt="mattkitty.jpg"]58582[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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