Gunsmoke, The final season

Resource Information

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Label

Gunsmoke, The final season

Title part

The final season

Title variation

• Final season
• Gunsmoke
• Gunsmoke

Contributor

• Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991
• Ryan, Fran, 1916-2000
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Stone, Milburn
• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc
• Arness, James, 1923-2011
• Taylor, Buck, 1938-

Actor

• Stone, Milburn
• Ryan, Fran, 1916-2000
• Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991
• Arness, James, 1923-2011
• Taylor, Buck, 1938-

Broadcaster

• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc

Distributor

• Paramount Pictures Corporation

Publisher

• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc

Subject

• Law enforcement -- Kansas | Dodge City -- Drama
• Outlaws -- Kansas | Dodge City -- Drama
• Television programs
• Television series
• United States marshals -- Kansas | Dodge City -- Drama
• Western television programs
• Action and adventure television programs
• Dillon, Matt (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Dodge City (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas | Dodge City -- Drama
• Fiction television programs

Genre

• Television series
• Action and adventure television programs
• Drama
• Fiction television programs
• Television programs
• Western television programs

Language

eng

Summary

Even on the wide expanse of the frontier, all things must end--including this beloved series. Savor these gems and more from Gunsmoke's twentieth season. With location filming at Old Tucson, Matt, Festus and Newly pose as outlaws to outwit bandits who've captured Doc. Matt enlists an ex-lawman, now an alcoholic, to help clean up a lawless town. In a multiple award-winning, poignant episode, "Thirty a Month and Found," three itinerant cattle drovers take desperate measures when they sense their cowboy way of life is vanishing. An in the finale, "The Sharecroppers," Festus must help a family of farmers plant a crop before their time runs out

Member of

• Gunsmoke (Television program), Season twenty

Awards note

• Winner, Writer's Guild Award for Best Episodic Drama, 1974.
• Winner, Western Writers of America's Silver Spur Award for Best Western Television Script, 1974.

Cataloging source

QS2

Characteristic

videorecording

Language note

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
• English dialogue ; English subtitles

PerformerNote

James Arness, Ken Curtis, Milburn Stone, Buck Taylor, Fran Ryan

Runtime

0

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action