The death toll on that show would be amazing. You have how many years of “Marshal Dillon” and how many years of Gunsmoke, something like ‘55-’75. Another interesting thing would be just how many times Marshal Dillon was shot. Like he might have been shot 50-100 seperate times maybe, mostly in the shoulders if I recall.
Freegards
I still like to watch the old westerns, but as I got older and read accurate historical portrayals of the real west, it took a lot of fun out of the shows. Like there was no fast draw gunfighters. And the sixguns of the day were wildly inaccurate, and nobody shot from the hip. And little or no quicksand. Every long-running western seemed to have one episode where the hero got stuck in quicksand.