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    • Gunsmoke Pulp Fiction
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    • Home Pages
      • James Arness' Home Page
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      • Dennis Weaver's Home Page
      • Burt Reynolds Home Page
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    • Where to get a VERY complete book on the history of Gunsmoke
    Books Used as References on this site.

    (Click on links to buy. Those books with a star are the best).

  • G.C. Altschuler & D.I. Grossvogel, Changing Channels: America in TV Guide, University of Illinois Press, 1992. (link)
  • Suzanne Barabas & Gabor Barabas, Gunsmoke : A Complete History and Analysis of the Legendary Broadcast Series With a Comprehensive Episode-By-Episode Guide to Both the Radio and Television (link)Note: The Best
  • Tim Brooks, The Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Stars, (Ballantine Books, New York, 1987).
  • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, (Ballantine Books, New York, 1981). (link)Note: For television junkies, there is no better book summarizing ALL the great TV programs!
  • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, TV's Greatest Hits, (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985)
  • Les Brown, The New York Times Encyclopedia of Television, (The New York Times Book Co. Inc., New York, 1977).
  • Arthus Asa Burger, The TV Guided American, (Walker \& Co., New York, 1976).
  • Tony Chiu, CBS : The First 50 Years, ISBN: 1575440830 (link)
  • William H. Forbis, The Cowboys, (Time-Life Books, Chicago, 1973).
  • Sam Frank, Buyer's Guide to Fifty Years of TV on Video, (Prometheus Books, New York, 1999) link
  • Morrie Gelman & Gene Accas, The Best in Television: 50 years of Emmies, (Worzalla, General Publishing Group, Los Angeles, 1998.) (link) Exhaustive listings and great pictures!
  • Russell Johnson with Steve Cox, Here on Gilligen's Isle, (Harper Perennial, 1993).
  • J. Fred MacDonald, Don't Touch That Dial: Radio Programming in American Life, 1920-1960, (Nelson-Hall, Chicago, 1979).
  • Leonard Maltin, TV Movies and Video Guide, (Signet, New York). (link)There are many books of this type - but this one is the best. Updated annualy. Click on link and enter "Maltin" to search for the latest addition.
  • Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, Video Movie Guide, (Ballantine Books, New York, 1986).
  • Alex McNeil, Total Television, (Penguin Books, New York, 1984).
  • Robert Metz, CBS -Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, (Playboy Press, Chicago, 1975).
  • Paul Micheal and James Robert Parish, The Emmy Awards: a Pictorial History, (Crown Publishers Inc. New York, 1970).
  • Jack Mingo & John Javna, Primetime Proverbs: The Book of TV Quotes, (Harmony Books, New York, 1989).
  • Clayton Moore, I Was That Masked Man, (Taylor Publishing, Dallas, 1998).
  • Amy Paulsen and Annabel Vered, "The TV Guide Book of Lists, (Harper, New York, 1998)
  • E. Pavese and J. Henry, TV Mania (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998).
  • John Peel, The Gunsmoke Years, Pioneer Books, (Las Vegas, 1989).
  • Susan Sackett, Prime Time Hits, (Billboard Books, New York, 1993).
  • Cobbert Steinberg, TV Facts (Facts on File, New York, 1985).
  • Vincent Terrance, Encyclopedia of Television, (New York Zoetrobe, 1985).
  • Paul Trachtman, The Gunfighters, (Time-Life Books, Chicago, 1974).
  • John Walker, Editor, Halliwell's Filmgoers and Video Viewer's Companion, (Harper Perennial, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 1988). Tenth Edition
  • Peter Watts, A Dictionary of the Old West, (Promontory Press, New York, 1977).
  • Ed Weiner, The TV Guide TV Book, (Harper Perennial, New York, 1992.)

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    Periodicals

    • Information Please Almanac, (Simon & Schuster, New York)
    • Things You Never Knew Existed and Can't Possibly Live Without! Johnson Smith Company, Brandon, Florida.
    • USA Today
    • The World Almanac, (Newspaper Enterprise Association Inc., New York).
    • TV Guide
    • People Magazine

     

    Other Resources

    • The Wild West (audio tape) narrated by Jack Lemon), Time-Life, Inc. (1993) (link) Great tapes on the true old west. There is much discussion of Dodge City.
    • The Story of Gunsmoke, broadcast over WAMU-FM, Washington D.C. on 4-25-76, written, produced and directed by Jim Hickman and Norman MacDonnell.
    • Sperdvac (The Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama), Box 1587, Hollywood, CA 90078.

     

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