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From 1955 to 1961, Gunsmoke was a half-hour show, retitled Marshal Dillon in syndication. It then went to an hour-long format. The series was retitled Gun Law in the UK. The Marshal Dillon syndicated reruns of half-hour episodes lasted from 1961 until 1964 on CBS, originally on Tuesday nights within its time in reruns.
James Arness as Matt Dillon, 1956. Writer John Meston created Matt Dillon, "whose hair is probably red, if he's got any left. He'd be handsomer than he is if he had better manners but life and his enemies have left him looking a little beat up, and I suppose having seen his mother (back about 1840) trying to take a bath in a wooden washtub without fully undressing left his soul a little warped.
James Arness (born James King Aurness; May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011) was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the series Gunsmoke.
(Buck James was loosely based on real-life Texas doctor James "Red" Duke.) He portrayed a Navy rear admiral for 22 episodes of a 1983–1984 series, Emerald Point N.A.S. In 1977, he portrayed a husband who physically abuses his wife (portrayed by Sally Struthers ) in the made-for-TV movie Intimate Strangers , one of the first network features ...
William Alfred "Red" Dawson [3] (born December 4, 1942) is an American former professional football player and college coach. He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles before playing professionally for the Boston Patriots of the American Football League (AFL).
Marshal Dillon may refer to: Marshal Matt Dillon , the lead male character on the U.S. radio and television series Gunsmoke Marshal Dillon , the title sometimes used for the half-hour television episodes of the first six seasons of Gunsmoke after new episodes were expanded to one hour in length
Arvo Oswald Ojala (February 21, 1920 – July 1, 2005) was a Hollywood technical advisor on the subject of quick-draw with a revolver. [1] He also worked as an actor; his most famous role was that of the unnamed man shot by Marshal Matt Dillon in the opening sequences of the long-running television series Gunsmoke.
Marshall Dillon may refer to: Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke), a U.S. Marshal in the TV series Gunsmoke; Marshall Dillon (cricketer), Australian cricketer