I just saw Ken Curtis in a “have gun—will travel” episode. He was made up to be an old man, the only thing that tipped me off was the voice.
RIP, Matthew. Haggens folk’l miss the best marshal Dodge ever done had anyhow.
Freegards, c’mon Ruth
I thought that perhaps time would have dampened my memory at how good that show was.
It hasn't. That show is better than 75% of the stuff on television today.
..and they are playing them in order. Got about one more season worth of shows before Ward Bond dies.
Speaking of old TV westerns, there’s an episode of “Maverick”, involving a buried Confederate treasure, which I watched for half-an-hour before realizing it was a satire of Gunsmoke, with a small poke at “Have Gun, Will Travel” thrown in for good measure.
The TV Gunsmoke movies, made sometime in the late 80’s, were pretty good. Of course, the geography of the first one is terribly confused — Matt Dillon is shot somewhere in the Rockies and his canoe carries him alive all the way to Dodge City.