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* YouLookFamiliar: Over the 20 season run, a few actors came back to play other characters. Creator/JackElam may be the champ, appearing over a dozen times, never twice in the same role.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Over the 20 season run, a few So many actors came are in multiple episodes, sometimes back to play other characters. back episodes, that it would be difficult to list them all. Rarely does an episode go by without a familiar face turning up. Creator/JackElam may be the champ, appearing over a dozen times, never twice in the same role.role. Victor French, Morgan Woodward, Denver Pyle and John Dehner are other top contenders.
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* UnCanceled: Happened most famously after the 12th season when the show was cancelled due to low ratings. The network president's wife was a fan, so she convinced him to keep the show going. Gilligan's Island got the axe instead and Gunsmoke was moved to Monday nights, where it rose to the top of the ratings and ran for another eight years.
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* DirectedByCastMember: Dennis Weaver directed four episodes.
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* DirectedByCastMember: Dennis Weaver Creator/DennisWeaver directed four episodes.
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: James Arness was recommended for the role by his good friend Creator/JohnWayne. This quickly ballooned into a story that Wayne himself had been offered the role and turned it down.
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: James Arness was recommended for the role by his good friend Creator/JohnWayne. This quickly ballooned into a story that Wayne himself had been offered the role and turned it down. [[note]] Charles Marquis Warren jokingly suggested Wayne take the part, knowing full well one of the top stars of the film industry would never take a huge pay cut in a new medium. Wayne responded by dumping alcohol over Warren’s head. [[/note]]
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* RecycledScript: The vast majority of the episodes from the early half-hour seasons were remakes of radio episodes. Some were word for word adaptations, some changed aspects of the original script, such as Tobeel surviving his second episode when he dies in the radio version.
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* {{Corpsing}}: James Arness could control his laughter better than most actors, but often during filming the crew had to stop shooting because Arness got an uncontrollable case of the giggles.
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* {{Corpsing}}: James Arness Creator/JamesArness could control his laughter better than most actors, but often during filming the crew had to stop shooting because Arness got an uncontrollable case of the giggles.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Over the 20 season run, a few actors came back to play other characters. Creator/JackElam may be the champ, appearing over a dozen times, never twice in the same role.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The show was to be cancelled after the 1966-67 season due to declining ratings, but it was the favorite of Barbara Mortimer, who just so happened to be married to William S. Paley, chairman of CBS; it was renewed at the last minute. To make place for it in the schedule, ''Series/GilligansIsland'' [[ScrewedByTheNetwork got the axe]]. Another attempt to cancel it was made after the 1970-71 season as part of UsefulNotes/TheRuralPurge, but the decision was reversed due to Barbara's favoritism and the show's still-excellent Nielsen ratings (#5 in 1970-71; it went up to #4 in 1971-72); this time, ''Series/MayberryRFD'' and ''Series/FamilyAffair'' took the bullet instead.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The show was to be cancelled after the 1966-67 season due to declining ratings, but it was the favorite of Barbara "Babe" Mortimer, who just so happened to be married to William S. Paley, chairman of CBS; it was renewed at the last minute. To make place for it in the schedule, ''Series/GilligansIsland'' [[ScrewedByTheNetwork got the axe]]. Another attempt to cancel it was made after the 1970-71 season as part of UsefulNotes/TheRuralPurge, but the decision was reversed due to Barbara's favoritism and the show's still-excellent Nielsen ratings (#5 in 1970-71; it went up to #4 in 1971-72); this time, ''Series/MayberryRFD'' and ''Series/FamilyAffair'' took the bullet instead.
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* DyeingForYourArt: James Arness was naturally blond, which it was felt didn't fit a western hero.
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** Creator/WilliamConrad, who played Matt Dillon in the radio version, directed two episodes of the TV series.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Spanish-speaking countries, the series is known as ''La ley del revólver'' ("The Law of the Revolver").
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** In Spanish-speaking countries, the series is known as ''La ley del revólver'' ("The Law of theRevolver").Revolver").
** In the UK, the series was initially known as ''Gun Law''.
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The title is used by [[Radio/{{Gunsmoke}} a radio show]], [[Series/{{Gunsmoke}} its TV adaptation]], [[ComicBook/{{Gunsmoke}} a Golden Age comic]] and [[VideoGame/GunSmoke a video game]].
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Spanish-speaking countries, the series is known as ''La ley del revólver'' ("The Law of the Revolver").
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* HeyItsThatPlace: The gunfight between Matt Dillon and an unknown gunman that opened every episode was shot on the same main street as that used in ''Film/HighNoon''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Aaron Spelling appeared in one of the early episodes as a guitar player, a young Kurt Russell appeared in season 8, and Burt Reynolds was a long-running recurring actor on the series.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Various secondary characters were played by whoever was handy at the time- bank manager Mr. Botkin has at least three actors, sometimes rotating. The desk clerk at the Dodge House also rotated(occasionally with one of the men who played Mr. Botkin).
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Aaron Spelling appeared in one of the early episodes as a guitar player, a young Kurt Russell appeared in season 8, and Burt Reynolds was a long-running recurring actor on the series.
