r/Gunsmoke

I am 50 yrs old, and as a kid growing up I did enjoy John Wayne movies when they aired, but never really watched reruns of Gunsmoke. The last few yrs though, I have truly enjoyed watching them on streaming, I watch it almost everyday. One thing I have noticed is that of all the tv characters I have seen over the yrs, Matt Dillon is the best role model. What I like is not only is he a morally upright person, but he is pragmatic as hell, and does the right thing without a shred of self righteousness in him. He never tells anyone how to live their life, or lecture them about their drinking or personal issue, or to even change. He just tells it straight and leaves it at that, in other words, he's not a goody two shoes, that is very unlike so many other tv characters.

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Which Gunsmoke episodes do you really hate and why.

There's a number of them but two that come to mind are: "Never Pester Chester" (S3 ep10), and "Cholera" (S2 ep14).

In "Never Pester Chester" a big, mean, violent cow hick drag Chester nearly killing him just for asking him to stop harassing the ladies. This angers Matt, he throws him in jail until he finds out if Chester is going to die.

Chester pulls through of course, Dillon says he can't charge him and has to release him, but he gets a good ass beating before he rides off free to drag and assault his next victim (it wasn't even a good ass whipping, not even close).

I hate these stories where they claim no laws have been broken, like you can beat some poor person for no good reason within an inch of their life, then set free. The bad guy doesn't even lose a tooth.

I wonder if Arness ever complained that "man, you're really painting Marshal Dillon as a real asshole!" "the marshal would never, say, do, act like that".

The "Cholera" episode is really bad too, another example of "duh gee, my hands are tied, I can't charge him..." even though he catches the guy in the process of committing arson, admitting to it, then later following through with the crime; also confessing to kidnapping Doc, then let's the guy walk away, no punishment. Matt: "it's okay, he caused his son to die, the lord won't let him get away with it, it'll have to be enough for now" They all lived happily ever after, uh huh.

Which episodes do you really hate?

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Gunsmoke seems to be missing on PlutoTV? I’ve searched the channels and looked at the search function too, but I can’t seem to find it. Is it off Pluto?

P.S. I’m not entirely sure what the age range is here generally, but I’m 18 and only got into it recently. I grew up on technology so I doubt it’s something missed technologically speaking. Still an possibility but Pluto isn’t too hard to get around.

Edit: Maybe it’s a location issue? I’ve done all that everyone has recommended to no avail. It would make sense it’s only available in the US, but I’m in Canada and have watched it here no problem until now. Someone from the UK also said it wasn’t there.