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I enjoyed watching "Gunsmoke" reruns on television. The show maintained a wide variety of important issues that portrayed life in general. Concerns over rape, abuse, terminal illness, false imprisonment, morality, and race were knowingly important to the show's credibility and identity during the 20-year run. The finest episodes during the run were from the 1969-1970 Season until the 1974-1975 Season on CBS Television. Two key examples of abuse occurred in episodes titled "The Tarnished Badge" and "Hard Labor" were prevalent during its stint. The former had (the late) Victor French played a brutal sheriff in Ludlow, Kansas -- who had ran a sensible town -- in exploiting and intimidating people in the 1974-1975 Season. The latter: a ruthless (and dotty) sheriff had Marshal Matt Dillon imprisoned for life on (a trumped up) charge of first-degree murder. Dillon had no idea he was railroaded into a kangaroo court. He eventually arrested (with some reluctant help) the crooked officer in some aspect. These episodes dealt with the brutal (but actual) realities of abuse and exploitation in the show's content. These examples are why we have the United States Constitution against illegal detention in this country.
score 10/10
ellisel 22 June 2006
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