59 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S9E31: Trip West
Festus is looking for Professor Ramsay who's been selling his elixir. Doc says Matt ran him out of town. In North Fork, Kansas, Ramsay diagnoses Elwood Hardacre with calcification of the liver. He gives him three months to live and prescribes a dozen bottle of his elixir. The sheriff runs Ramsay...
Airdate: 1964-05-02
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/9/episode/31
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #TV

58 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S10E32: Bad Lady from Brookline
A widow blames Matt for the death of her husband.
Airdate: 1965-05-01
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/10/episode/32
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #tvseries

59 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S9E30: The Promoter
After fifteen years Henry Huckaby is tired of farming. A cavalry Lieutenant tells Henry they're looking for gunrunners. He says he has a crack squad including Johnnie Towers who can track and he's a boxer. Henry checks out the livery stable and blacksmith to make his fortune at. At the Long Bran...
Airdate: 1964-04-25
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/9/episode/30
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #ClassicTV

58 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S10E31: Gilt Guilt
Doc tries to save a mother and son who fight for life.
Airdate: 1965-04-24
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/10/episode/31
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #tvshows

59 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S9E29: Kitty Cornered
Stell Damon checks out the Oasis Saloon and isn't impressed. She likes the Long Branch and wants to buy it. Kitty says it's not for sale. Stella tells Matt she's opening a saloon. She asks Matt what's his cut. None. Stella hires Festus to find some men to rehab her building. Festus clears the...
Airdate: 1964-04-18
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/9/episode/29
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #tvseries

45 years ago today:
How the West Was Won
S2E9: The Judge

Airdate: 1978-04-16
https://themoviedb.org/tv/2562/season/2/episode/9
#HowtheWestWasWon #JamesArness #FionnulaFlanagan #ABC #ClassicTV

44 years ago today:
How the West Was Won
S3E10: China Girl

Airdate: 1979-04-16
https://themoviedb.org/tv/2562/season/3/episode/10
#HowtheWestWasWon #JamesArness #FionnulaFlanagan #ABC #tvseries

35 years ago:
Red River (US)
Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.
1988-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/281444
#RedRiver #BruceBoxleitner #JamesArness #GregoryHarrison #Western #ClassicFilm

59 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S9E27: Owney Tupper Had a Daughter
Widower Owney and his daughter Amity scare a fox from the chickens by banging pots. Matt reminds Owney there's a custody hearing about Amity in town this afternoon. The judge awards custody to Mr. and Mrs. Makepeace, her aunt, until Owney makes his home proper. Owney tells Amity at harvest time w...
Airdate: 1964-04-04
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/9/episode/27
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #tvseries

58 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S10E28: Dry Road to Nowhere
A man tries to make drinking a thing of the past.
Airdate: 1965-04-03
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/10/episode/28
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #JamesWhitmore #LQJones #CBS #tvseries

44 years ago today:
How the West Was Won
S3E9: Luke

Airdate: 1979-04-02
https://themoviedb.org/tv/2562/season/3/episode/9
#HowtheWestWasWon #JamesArness #FionnulaFlanagan #ABC #ClassicTV

49 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S19E24: Disciple
When a lawman's gun arm is shot up, he's essentially a sitting duck. That's what Matt figures when his ability to shoot again is in doubt. So, he leaves the badge and Dodge behind as well as Kitty, Festus, Doc, and Newly. Like vultures circling, outlaws start coming in to gun Dillon down. But, Di...
Airdate: 1974-04-01
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/19/episode/24
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #tvshows

49 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S19E24: Disciple
When a lawman's gun arm is shot up, he's essentially a sitting duck. That's what Matt figures when his ability to shoot again is in doubt. So, he leaves the badge and Dodge behind as well as Kitty, Festus, Doc, and Newly. Like vultures circling, outlaws start coming in to gun Dillon down. But, Di...
Airdate: 1974-04-01
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/19/episode/24
#Gunsmoke #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #TV

48 years ago today:
Gunsmoke
S20E24: The Sharecroppers
A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers.
Airdate: 1975-03-31
https://themoviedb.org/tv/3713/season/20/episode/24
#Gunsmoke #BruceBoxleitner #LisaEilbacher #JamesArness #AmandaBlake #CBS #tvshows

#Gunsmoke w/ #JamesArness binges on Decades Network until Monday 6a ET.

Half-hour episodes from the show's first 3 seasons! Nice-looking transfers.

https://www.decades.com/schedule/ #ClassicTV #Westerns #1950sTV

Tonight in 1976 — The TV movie #TheMacahans starring #JamesArness, #EvaMarieSaint and #BruceBoxleitner aired on ABC.

A year later, it returned as a weekly series called #HowTheWestWasWon.

Both the film and the series were loosely based on the 1962 film of the same name.

#OnThisDay #Westerns #ClassicTV #1970sTV #1970s #Nostalgia