Smoking colts
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Smoking colts |
| Original title | Gunsmoke |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1955-1975 |
| length | 25 minutes (until 1961) approx. 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 635 in 20 seasons |
| genre | Western film |
| idea | John Meston |
| music | Herman Stein |
| First broadcast | September 10, 1955 (USA) on CBS |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 4th 1967 on German television |
Gunsmoke (original title Gunsmoke ) is an American Western - TV Series , the 1955 to 1975 from the transmitter CBS aired. From 1967 she could be seen on German television.
characters
The protagonist was Matt Dillon , Marshal of Dodge City in Kansas around 1873 , played by James Arness . From the mid-1960s, the actor and country singer Ken Curtis joined as a sidekick in the role of Deputy Sheriff Festus Haggen . Gerd Duwner lent his voice to him in the German dubbed version . From 1962 to 1965, Burt Reynolds played the young farrier Quint Asper in 50 episodes .
Initially conceived as a radio show that was broadcast from 1952 to 1961, the material was then made into a television series. Instead of the radio announcer William Conrad , who was seen as too full-bodied, the actor James Arness was chosen to play Matt Dillon for the television version , at the suggestion of his friend John Wayne . In the years from 1955 to 1975 635 episodes were filmed, from 1966 in color. This makes Smoking Colts the longest-running western series of all time. After the series was completed, five feature films were made for television between 1987 and 1994.
In Germany, only 228 of a total of 635 episodes have been shown to date, mostly almost all color episodes that were broadcast in the USA from September 17, 1966. Only a few of the older black and white episodes have been broadcast to date. The German television beamed from 1967 to 1973 a total of 75 episodes, including ten in black and white. Another 70 first broadcasts followed from 1977 to 1983 on ZDF . The broadcaster Sat.1 showed a further 76 episodes from 1989 to 1991, the last seven episodes not being broadcast in 1997 on Kabel eins .
occupation
| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| James Arness | Marshal Matt Dillon |
Arnold Marquis (ARD) Horst Schön (ZDF) Peter Neusser (Sat.1, Kabel 1) |
| Milburn Stone | Dr. Galen "Doc" Adams |
Konrad Wagner (ARD) Anton Herbert (ZDF) Eric Vaessen (Sat.1, Kabel 1) |
| Amanda Blake | "Miss Kitty" Russell |
Ilse Rehbein (ARD) Gisela Trowe (ARD) Ursula Herwig (ZDF) Inken Sommer (ZDF, Sat.1, Kabel 1) |
| Dennis Weaver | Deputy Chester B. Goode | |
| Ken Curtis | Deputy Festus Haggen | Gerd Duwner |
| Buck Taylor | Deputy (formerly armorer) Newly O'Brian | Charles Brewer |
| Glenn Strange | Bartender Sam |
Episode list
Web links
- Gunsmoke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Smoking Colts at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Smoking Colts - TV series (1955-1975). In: German synchronous card index. Retrieved January 25, 2016 .