![]() It is perhaps time to shelve the hill people and develop more interesting characters. It was nice to see Merry Florene and Newly together again but little else is remarkable in this episode. Which we all knew was not going to work out well for anyone. ![]() They send for Merry Florene and grand-ma to help start the new city. There is a rush to pay ten dollars to dig near the mine which Elbert and Shorty named Gold Town. Gunsmoke Season 14 - Episodes Guide and Summaries Lyle's Kid. Now Albert and Shorty go into Dodge and show off the gold flakes and pretend they just dug the gold up in hours. ![]() The old timer was leaving and gave the two his bag of gold flakes that obtain for the last twenty years. ![]() It began when Elbert and Short came across an old-timer miner that had been working for twenty years with little to show in this mine. From 'Hill Girl' in season 13, this season 14 episode features the same cast of clowns as Merry Florene's cousins Elbert and Shorty come up with a scheme to get the residence of Dodge to invest in spot of land in an abandon gold mine. Unfortunately, since Festus had started out as a hardcore cowboy, and a tough deputy, every time the writers used Festus as the village idiot, it just degraded his original character.Merry Florene and family should have stayed in the hills but seem fit to return in this episode. These episodes all harken back to Barney Fife and the Andy Griffith Show. CTVA The Classic TV Archive - US Western series Season 14 (CBS)(1968-69) (60 min color) Episode Guide compiled by The Classic.Now Gunsmoke was doing it with dimwitted Festus as the lead. Amanda Blake left the series at the end of season 19 (197374) and was replaced in the final season by a new character, Miss Hannah, portrayed by Fran Ryan. Bonanza had been doing comedy Western episodes (usually with Hoss as the lead) for years. Towards the last years of Gunsmoke, the writers decided that spoofing the Old West for comedy was a great idea. Matt Dillon is busy not working on the show in this episode, as he is out of town. I saw this as a kid, and I never thought it was funny, just sad and boring. So you get a comedy about alcoholics taking advantage of a mentally defective deputy. He did get to be the main villain once that I know of, in a Hunter TV episode. He spent his career as a lackey and got beaten up in a few Clint Eastwood movies. Gunsmoke: Season 14 - Tomatometer 0 Reviews Episode Info Matt befriends a 13-year-old Mexican boy who believes the marshal can rid his village of a group of bandits. Anthony James was a lifetime thug and henchman. 144 YOUR RATING Rate Western A buffalo hunter stumbles on the fact that a local man was head of an abusive Confederate prison camp during the war. It centers on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. I never liked his acting on Gunsmoke, because it seemed like he was always either a drunken thug, a drunken henchman, a drunken farmer, or some other lowlife character who did very little except act like a nasty drunk. (September 2020) Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. ![]() Victor French later went on to work on Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven with his best friend Michael Landon. James and French have a plan to turn in their uncle for an old $50 reward so they can use the money to open a sleazy bar where they sell bootleg liquour. The pretty Lane Bradbury is back as their sister. Anthony James and Victor French are back as a couple of alcoholic lowlifes that pass for comic characters in the last years of Gunsmoke. ![]()
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