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I sure do not remember this episode while I was growing up and I was very surprised to see it on tv land today. No i dont generally watch Gunsmoke as an adult, I did see a lot of it as I was growing up though,.
Pretty racy topic for that show in my opinion. Thoughts?
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No idea what this show is or about, but here is a bump for ya:)
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I've never seen it.
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Quoting TruthSeeker.:
No idea what this show is or about, but here is a bump for ya:)
Lol The term get out of Dodge was born of the show Gunsmoke . I guess it dates me, sigh.
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I never watched it... I'm not surprised, though --there was a lot of adult themes in tv before Disney got a channel.
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Gunsmoke was a western that ran from 1955-1975 Starring James Arness as Marshall Dillon the lawman of Dodge:) Festus was the town drunk and Miss Kitty was the saloon owner (madam but that was very understated)
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No it wasn't. In my opinion older movies and tv shows were much better at addressing such issues.
There was a story not too long ago about breaking the abortion taboo in a movie and all I could think is this was done ages ago and more than once.
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Quoting stormcris:
No it wasn't. In my opinion older movies and tv shows were much better at addressing such issues.
There was a story not too long ago about breaking the abortion taboo in a movie and all I could think is this was done ages ago and more than once.
There is truth to that. I know Little House dealt with sexual abuse but it was very subtle. I guess I havent watched Gunsmoke much as an adult.
I recently watched babydoll, an oscar winner fron 56 I think that was really heavy with sexual inuendo.
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I agree! Many of today's issue where discussed on t.v. many years ago. I remember the after school special dealing with teen pregnancy it was back in the late 70's there was no fluff on the outcome it was just straight facts
Quoting stormcris:
No it wasn't. In my opinion older movies and tv shows were much better at addressing such issues.
There was a story not too long ago about breaking the abortion taboo in a movie and all I could think is this was done ages ago and more than once.
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I believe it was the longest running drama of all times. (Not certain if that's correct)
Quoting survivorinohio:
Gunsmoke was a western that ran from 1955-1975 Starring James Arness as Marshall Dillon the lawman of Dodge:) Festus was the town drunk and Miss Kitty was the saloon owner (madam but that was very understated)
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Quincy M.E. is another old show that dealt with tons of social issues in quite direct ways. If there's a social issue involved, you just KNOW that at some point, he's goint to talk with an expert, who runs a clinic, who is passionately speaking about what a terrible injustice is being done to X Y or Z group whether that be airplane safety or battered women or some other cause. For its time period, it's actually pretty heavy handed on the social messages. :-)