Reviewing Movies

With 20 Seasons in the can CBS will be issuing half-season volumes of
this show for a considerable time to come. Back in those days there
weren't any reruns and a season stretched to 40 episodes. After the
first six years the show converted to an hour-long format; it switched
to colour beginning with Season 11. That opening gunfight on the same
set as High Noon was shot against the man who taught Arness how to
handle a gun, a famous quick-draw artist.

It strikes me that men walk around the streets of Dodge wearing six
shooters in much the same fashion as people drive around the streets of
Austin with guns in the glove compartments. The murder rate equates
fairly closely as well.

The longest standing guessing game on television was the eternal
platonic relationship between Dillon and Miss Kitty, why didn't Matt
ever propose and did they ever get beyond a rather chaste courtship. The
answer, of course is that millions of lovesick female fans would have
been mortified had their idol become unavailable. He just couldn't do
that to all his fans. As Miss Kitty says during a meal with Matt in
Season 4, if Matt is learning about woman he's so slow on the uptake
that she'll be in her grave before he gets out of grade one.

A seemingly straight-shooting, uncomplicated guy the appearance of any
inner conflict is best displayed by those pre-show walks on boot hill
and the inner-voice commentary as he stands brooding over the graves of
the men he placed there.