Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock
I feel so old.
Festus was still appearing in first-run episodes of Gunsmoke when I was a freshman in college.
|
First run episodes!?! That merely means you could've been a freshman any time from the beginning of the Republic to March 2020 when the Pandemic ended it.
In reality, it had a radio run from 1952 to 1961. In 1955, it was adapted for TV with episodes that were only 30 minutes long, so it was on radio and TV with different episodes. After 1961 when the radio series ended, the TV episodes were lengthened to 60 minutes long.
The TV show went for 1955 to 1975 with 635 episodes aired on TV! 480 episodes on Radio!
Chester was played by Dennis Weaver in 290 TV episodes
Festus was played by Ken Curtis appearing in ~279 TV episodes.