Gunsmoke Gift Set Cast: James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone
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- DVD Release Date: 01/03/2006
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- Sales Rank: 6,684
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Features
Closed Caption; Special episode introductions by James Arness; Special introduction by John Wayne on series premiere episode "Matt Gets It"; Blooper and gag reels; Rare home movies filmed on the set by Dennis Weaver; Audio commentaries by James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Angie Dickinson, George Kennedy, Barbara Eden, Adam West, Ed Asner, Bruce Dern and Buck Taylor; James Arness as Matt Dillon and Dennis Weaver as Chester on The Ed Sullivan Show; Amanda Blake on The Mike Douglas Show and The David Frost Show; Westerns Channel Gunsmoke Memories; Museum of TV & Radio Q & A with cast; Emmy® Award footage; Original CBS® network promos; Photo galleries
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This deluxe collection, including 29 well-remembered episodes on six discs, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Gunsmoke's TV debut. Originally a dramatic radio show, Gunsmoke presented the adventures of U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness), who kept the peace in Dodge City, that legendarily wild-and-woolly frontier town of the late 19th century. Aided over the years by a slew of deputies that included Chester (Dennis Weaver), Festus (Ken Curtis), Quint (Burt Reynolds), and Newly (Buck Taylor), Marshal Dillon locked horns with some of the West's toughest hombres. In quiet moments he frequented the saloon run by Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake) and traded good-natured barbs with crusty old Doc Adams (Milburn Stone). Westerns were all the rage on network TV when Gunsmoke first hit the airwaves in 1955, but the show distinguished itself from the outset with reasonably intelligent scripts, relying less on traditional horse-opera action and more on character-driven story lines and fairly complex moral situations. A frequent Emmy Award winner, the long-running series played host to innumerable guest stars, some of them well-established actors and others who were then just beginning to climb the ladder of stardom. In this collection you'll see John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Angie Dickinson, Dennis Hopper, Kurt Russell, Adam West, and George Kennedy. You'll also see future Star Trek principals William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and James Doohan -- though not all in the same episode. Paramount's new Giftset collects the finest Gunsmoke episodes in one giant box, which also features a plethora of supplemental features, including interviews and commentaries with various guest stars, blooper reels, and appearances of the principal cast members on other TV shows. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble
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