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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 333133" data-attributes="member: 57984">Wishful thinking seems to be your posting style -- I do that sometimes, too, but I realize when I&#039;m doing it.The Parmalee storyline was finished before the audience saw it... And Steve Forrest was the only choice to play Mannon in the 1987 GUNSMOKE reunion movie because it was based on a 1968 episode of the series -- heavily flashed-back to == guest starring Steve Forrest. So they couldn&#039;t have gone with another actor.That said, Forrest claims the DALLAS producers told him that Stivers/Parmalee was indeed Jock, but that may have only been so he would play it a certain way.Speaking of GUNSMOKE, Katzman used the name &quot;Parmalee&quot; in an important episode in 1974 for a character played by Gene Evans (Miss Ellie&#039;s brother, Garrison) in &quot;Thirty a Month and Found&quot; --- Katzman really did a bang-up job with the first half of Season 20 of GUNSMOKE before leaving mid-season to produce PETROCELLI with Susan Howard -- and GUNSMOKE&#039;S rating dropped quickly as Katzman was replaced with John G. Stephens who turned the western too ponderous for the remainder of the year.A year earlier Punk Anderson was Abby Cunningham&#039;s father in &quot;A Game of Death.. An Act of Love&quot; two-parter on GUNSMOKE.It&#039;s all so cozy! But I digress.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6f/9e/8a/6f9e8a3c5e153a6bbd79994a2e33c39e.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />&#039;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 333133, member: 57984"] Wishful thinking seems to be your posting style -- I do that sometimes, too, but I realize when I'm doing it. The Parmalee storyline was finished before the audience saw it... And Steve Forrest was the only choice to play Mannon in the 1987 GUNSMOKE reunion movie because it was based on a 1968 episode of the series -- heavily flashed-back to == guest starring Steve Forrest. So they couldn't have gone with another actor. That said, Forrest claims the DALLAS producers told him that Stivers/Parmalee [B][I]was [/I][/B]indeed Jock, but that may have only been so he would play it a certain way. Speaking of GUNSMOKE, Katzman used the name "Parmalee" in an important episode in 1974 for a character played by Gene Evans (Miss Ellie's brother, Garrison) in "Thirty a Month and Found" --- Katzman really did a bang-up job with the first half of Season 20 of GUNSMOKE before leaving mid-season to produce PETROCELLI with Susan Howard -- and GUNSMOKE'S rating dropped quickly as Katzman was replaced with John G. Stephens who turned the western too ponderous for the remainder of the year. A year earlier Punk Anderson was Abby Cunningham's father in "A Game of Death.. An Act of Love" two-parter on GUNSMOKE. It's all so cozy! But I digress. [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6f/9e/8a/6f9e8a3c5e153a6bbd79994a2e33c39e.jpg[/IMG]' [/QUOTE]

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