January 26, 20242 yr Author According to what I could find on the internet Amanda Blake did play the part of Kitty on the first episode. But she was just a saloon girl then. On episode 27 she became the proprietor and owner of the Longbranch and wore the beauty mark for the first time. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
January 27, 20242 yr On 1/26/2024 at 5:00 AM, birdguy said: According to what I could find on the internet Amanda Blake did play the part of Kitty on the first episode. But she was just a saloon girl then. On episode 27 she became the proprietor and owner of the Longbranch and wore the beauty mark for the first time. Noel By gosh you are right! I went back to check and was sure Kitty was played by someone else. But she was Kate, not Kitty. Kate owned the saloon back then. Red arrow is Kate. Green arrow is Kitty She was so young looking, I didn't recognize Amanda Blake, LOL. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 29, 20242 yr Author I've seen two more early episodes of Gunsmoke last week. Neither one was very good or in keeping with the later episodes. Acting still kind of stiff and the actors haven't meshed yet. But Kitty now owns the Longbranch and is Matt's woman but she hasn't got the beauty mark yet. On one of the episodes Matt suspects a man of a killing and jails him. He claims his innocence and escapes. He leaves Dodge and Matt goes after him.. He finds him and wounds him in the shoulder and brings him back to jail. Then Matt finds out the guy actually is innocent and has to apologize for shooting him. In the next episode I watched a gang of white men are stealing cattle from small ranchers and killing the family and making it look like Indians did it by scalping them. Matt sets up a decoy ranch and lures the guys in. Then he ambushes and kills three of them without warning. The rest surrender. Those plots wouldn't make it in the later episodes after the show caught on and matured. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
February 1, 20242 yr Now that Miss Kitty was one little gal who could sure hold her liquor. She could drink any time of day then all night entertaining cow pokes with no effect. And ole Doc. First thing in the mourning he would walk past Mat and Chester or Festus and ask them to join him at the Longbranch for a cold one. And how many cow pokes died right in front of Kitties bar due to a shootout. I believe if Marshall Dillon would close down the Longbranch and run Kitty out of town the homicide rate in Dodge would be cut about 3/4. Does anyone really think those ladies working there were just to sell drinks to the drovers? I suspect a town madam in cahoots with the town Marshall. Small town corruption. All in fun in case a devoted fan should take issue with this post and call me out to meet on Main Street at high noon.🤠 Vic green
February 2, 20242 yr Editorial in the Dodge City Daily News: Deputy Festus is too busy telling entertaining anecdotes down at the saloon while the bank is being robbed. Chester has a bum leg and can't catch rioting cowboys. Doc has a soft heart and charges too little when bandits get wounded. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
February 2, 20242 yr 14 hours ago, Patco Lch said: Does anyone really think those ladies working there were just to sell drinks to the drovers? I hate to admit how old I was when I first asked, "Wait... what kind of woman owns a saloon?" They hid this *very* well. I heard about an early episode when Chester is questioning why Miss Kitty knows so much about men. "Mister Dillon" responds, "Chester, Kitty knows a LOT of men." Apparently this happened twice in this episode. I didn't see this one myself so someone else will have to verify it. Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
February 2, 20242 yr Administrators Some interesting reading! https://www.quora.com/On-Gunsmoke-why-were-the-women-of-the-Long-Branch-referred-to-as-saloon-girls-when-in-the-Old-West-they-were-more-likely-to-be-prostitutes-Miss-Kitty-excepted-Was-this-50s-TV-morals Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
February 2, 20242 yr Moderator Gunsmoke is good; it had a Spin Off (remember Dirty Sally?), but personally I prefer Arness' and Manley's subsequent project, How The West Was Won. Zeb Macahan was one tough hombre.
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February 5, 20242 yr Other cowboy shows i remember growing up were, The Lawman, Sugarfoot, Trailmaster, Wagon Train, The Rebel.
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