07-13-2022, 04:43 PM
Quote:TV Land apparently prefers to air hourlong episodes of "Gunsmoke" that are in color.
2016 article...
https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/e...s/46323901
His gripe was always that they didn't rerun the earliest seasons on TV...
So maybe those are the ones he didn't see.
Quote:1961–1966 one-hour black-and-white episodes: These episodes have not been widely seen in regular syndication since the 1980s, although selected episodes did air from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s on CBN Cable/The Family Channel, and later on Encore Westerns on a three-year contract that ended around 2006. As of January 2010, Encore Westerns was again airing the episodes. In October 2015, MeTV announced that it would begin airing the one-hour black-and-white episodes on October 26.
1966–1975 one-hour color episodes: The last nine seasons of the Western, the most widely syndicated episodes of the entire series run, are still aired on some local stations, as well as nationally on TV Land and MeTV.
https://gunsmoke.fandom.com/wiki/Gunsmoke_(TV_series)
Okay that makes sense.
So it's the earliest seasons that didn't really get a lot of airtime and weren't that accessible.
For any normal person, it would take ~5 years to watch the whole show, if you had access to all the episodes.
So this 9 season set was released in 2006...
https://www.amazon.com/Gunsmoke-50th-Ann...B000BITUYI
If he could have the DVDs, then why the heck was he watching it on TVLand and sitting through all those God awful commercials??
