"GUNSMOKE" - IN THE BEGINNING

Since we usually fill up the weekends with videos lately, here are a couple about 'Gunsmoke', from the first year the show was on. (Let's just say I'm older than the show by a few months.....)

I realize the focus should be on 'The Rifleman', but since John Wayne was invoked yesterday for our tribute to Lucille Ball's 100th birthday, proper respect should be given to a TV Western in which he was involved.  (Plus there's another good reason coming up later today.....)

First up, the televersion of John Wayne proved to be a tele-cognizant serlinguist, meaning that not only could he talk directly to the people in the Trueniverse (like Rod Serling, George Burns, and Garry Shandling), but he actually knew he was living in a TV-based universe........

And here are the opening credits from the premiere season of 'Gunsmoke':

 
BCnU!