By early 1959, when these episodes of the number one show on TV aired, all three networks were loading their prime-time slots with Westerns that offered some new gimmick or fancy gun. Yet Gunsmoke never pandered to audiences who would have positively swooned had Marshal Matt Dillon stepped two inches closer to Miss Kitty. What’s more, it neither fouled nor prettied the West. True to the original vision of John Meston’s radio scripts, it was a rough and dirty time; cretins a-plenty were fo
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