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Subject: Re: Re: Another mystery for JJ - any "Gunsmoke" experts out there.

Date: Fri 22/07/05 07:02:39 GMT

Name: MK

Email: wamtec@compuserve.com

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Thanks for the tips folks.....I had initially thought that the term "Saturday Night" in the article was not literal too.

When I first saw the magazine photos....my reaction was....gee...Miss Kitty looks kinda young in those scenes...and in the late 60's and 70's she looked way too old and more like a drag queen....so my initial guess was that this was from a late 50's or early 60's episode....not from a later 60's episode.

One contact said that he remembered seeing it...and it was in one of the black and white episodes (from 1955 to 1966)...and so I doubted it came from the color episodes that started in 1967 (to 1975 or so).

However...another contact disputed that it was from a b&w episode...and was from a color episode....but I still said that Miss Kitty looked way to young in those pics to be from a late 60's episode...and it was more likely from a late 50's episode.

My question to Sleazoid is......you mention the TV GUIDE article....can you recall approx what year was this....was it late sixties or early 60's. If we can "date" those pictures or the magazine article...then we can narrow things down to the 24 or so episodes that were shot that year.

tks

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Re: Another mystery for JJ - any "Gunsmoke" experts out there.

By sleazoid - Thu 21/07/05 20:05:47 GMT

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The only thing I can add is that, a few weeks after that TV Guide article appeared, Amanda Blake's letter to the editor was published, disputing the article's use of the word "gingerly."

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Another mystery for JJ - any "Gunsmoke" experts out there.

By MK - wamtec@compuserve.com Thu 21/07/05 13:34:29 GMT

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Well....here is another mystery for JJ's pending file on VintageWet.

We thought we had FINALLY tracked down that long lost scene from GUNSMOKE where Miss Kitty gets dunked in the water trough...see JJ's pics...here

http://www.vintagewet.com/wfa/scrap2/mm/a08/v93747.jpg

http://www.vintagewet.com/wfa/scrap2/mm/a08/v93906.jpg

Both of these old magazine cuttings mention an episode called SATURDAY NIGHT...and out of 600+ episodes, there was only one episode from 1967 that had that title....and after months of waiting, it finally aired on TVLAND today.....but guess what. No such scene is in this episode....moreover...Amanda Blake was not even in this episode at all. If Amanda Blake were in it, but the scene was missing....then I would blame TVLAND for cutting 3-4 mins from the episode...which they often do...to make space for commercial breaks (i.e. the famous Barbara Eden clothed dunk tank scenes from Harper Valley PTA tv series were only shown on the ORIGINAL airing of that episode...when TVLAND aired it years later...they cut out most of her dunks to make space for commercial breaks). However...the fact that Amanda Blake was not even in this SATURDAY NIGHT episode at all....tends to suggest that the magazine article is wrong...but it was not that episode....but perhaps some other episode made at around the same time....

...so...my hunch says...to watch Gunsmoke for the next few days...cos if might be in one of the subsequent episodes this week.

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