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Gunsmoke: Awards
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- (T/F) In TV Guide's April 17, 1993 celebrating
40 years of televion, the all-time-best-TV programs were chosen.
Gunsmoke was named the all-time-best-western.
True. `No contest, this was the TV Western.'
- (T/F) Gunsmoke won an Emmy its first year of television
broadcast.
False
- (T/F)
James Arness won two Emmies for ``Best continuing performance
by an
actor in a leading role in a dramatic
or comedy
series".
False ... Arness has never won an Emmy.
 Click
on statue for information about Gunsmoke Emmy nominations and awards.
- How
many times did Gunsmoke win an Emmy for ``Best dramatic series
with
continuing characters"?
Once in 1958 for 1957 at the 10th Annual Awards.
- Did Dennis Weaver ever win an Emmy for his portrayal
of Chester on Gunsmoke?
 Dennis
Weaver as Chester.
Yes
... for ``Best supporting actor in a dramatic series" at
the 1958-59 awards. Click HERE for
a picture.
- Did Ken Curtis ever win an Emmy for his portrayal
of Festus on Gunsmoke?
No
- Did Milburn Stone ever win an Emmy for his portrayal
of Doc on Gunsmoke?
Yes
... for ``Best supporting actor in a dramatic series" at
the 1967-68 awards.
- Did Amanda Blake ever win an Emmy for her portrayal
of Kitty on Gunsmoke?
No
- Mike
Pozen was awarded an Emmy for ``Best editing of a film for television" for
work he did on a 1957 Gunsmoke. The name of the award winning
episode was ``How to Kill ...
- Time".
- Your
Best Friend".
- a
Woman".
- a
Killer".
- Matt
Dillon".
- a
Prairie Chicken".
Answer: ... a woman
- (T/F)
Gunsmoke won two Emmies in the category of ``Best Western".
False... this was an Emmy category at one time,
but was never won by Gunsmoke.
- (T/F) Gunsmoke has won more Emmies than any other
weekly television series.
False
- In 1983, the 54,107 members of the Screen Actor's
Guild were asked to name their favorite television shows of all
time. Did Gunsmoke make the top ten?
Yes ... it was number ten.
- In its special issue celebrating 50 years of television,
TV Guide (May 6, 1989) placed both James Arness and Amada Blake
into its Hall of Fame.
False. No Gunsmoke character made the list nor
was a runner up. In the same issue, though, there is an article
entitled `What Would Matt Dillon Have Thought of Sonny Crockett?'.
- The producer of Gunsmoke's earliest episodes,
Charles Marquis Warren, also produced some of the episodes of
Rawhide.
True
- (T/F) The author who penned the largest number
of Gunsmoke scripts for both radio and television, John Meston,
never wrote an hour long Gunsmoke script.
False... he didn't, however, write the scripts
to any of the color episodes. Meston wrote the script of the
first television episode.
- (T/F) Considering the violent reputaion of early
Gunsmoke episodes, John Meston thought television was too violent.
True
- John Meston abhored the fictional goody-goody
cowboys of kiddy westerns. In regard to them, he said ``I spit
in their
- watered
down whiskey".
- eye".
- milk".
- ear".
- sarsaparilla".
Answer: ... milk
- (T/F) Les Crutchfield, who penned a number of
early Gunsmoke scripts, went to Cal Tech.
True
- M ore Gunsmoke Awards are given in Gunsmoke
Lists. Click on the picture below to connect.
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