tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30813011.post900727633737896061..comments2023-10-14T08:44:46.615-07:00Comments on The Easy Ace: A Journal of Classic Radio: " . . . and the smell of gunsmoke": The Way It Was, 26 AprilJeff Kallmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00993306002655762270noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30813011.post-3491336280208562902007-04-29T01:10:00.000-07:002007-04-29T01:10:00.000-07:00Gildy---The TV series still airs in syndicated rer...Gildy---The TV series still airs in syndicated reruns on the U.S. cable network TV Land. It's also quite true that the radio cast were a bit miffed not even to be considered for the television show, which is decent as television westerns go but not even close to the writing, sonic, and thespian quality of the radio show. The radio show was just that much more believable.---JeffJeff Kallmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00993306002655762270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30813011.post-30051535180392139502007-04-28T13:48:00.000-07:002007-04-28T13:48:00.000-07:00Superb entry Jeff...Gunsmoke a favourite of mine. ...Superb entry Jeff...Gunsmoke a favourite of mine. Great cast too. Also interesting that a couple of rehersal tapes got out into the public domain...<BR/><BR/>I'm sure that I must've seen the original Gunsmoke tv series but probably was too young to appreciate it and I do know it was relaunched for a short time maybe in the 70's or was it the 80's with James Arness but though I watched it I don't remember it being a long return and not sure it even had a conclusion.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure that I once read that the radio cast were more than unhappy that when it moved to television, they were not given the chance to appear and that a new company of actors was to be used instead.The Great Gildersleevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14645982900310730576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30813011.post-53232465889947431522007-04-28T00:57:00.000-07:002007-04-28T00:57:00.000-07:00Ron---I'm not sure I'd call it the absolute best r...Ron---I'm not sure I'd call it the absolute best radio show ever produced, but I'd probably call it the single best western and one of the three best dramas of any kind or focus. The sound gets the focus because it <I>was</I> so painstakingly realistic, but the writing was probably the best there was for a western. Consider, too, that <I>Gunsmoke</I>'s masterminds had a huge advantage---almost thirty years' radio behind them, a wealth of learning what not to do and how not to do it, too.Jeff Kallmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00993306002655762270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30813011.post-87723006429263446372007-04-27T05:19:00.000-07:002007-04-27T05:19:00.000-07:00Gunsmoke, arguably the best show radio ever produc...Gunsmoke, arguably the best show radio ever produced. It is by far and away my favorite show. Not just the sound effects, which were the best radio had to offer, but the acting and the stories, supreme. It is one show that I can listen to over and over and not tire of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com