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   David Matthews to All   
   Re: Classic TV Westerns   
   06 Dec 07 22:09:20   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.movies.past-films, rec.arts.tv   
   From: dmatthews03@sympatico.ca   
      
   "Jim Beaver"  wrote in message   
   news:Az26j.79548$Um6.73445@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net...   
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   > "endy9"  wrote in message   
   > news:Z4ydnTED1qiYMsXanZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@comcast.com...   
   >> I never appreciated Gunsmoke as a child.  Thought it was too slow paced.   
   >> Now that I watch it on TV Land, I've learned what an adult western it   
   >> was. Very high quality.   
   >   
   > I recall fondly a Gunsmoke episode ripped off from a previous script -- a   
   > 2300 year-old script.  It was about how all the women in town refused to   
   > cook for their husbands if something wasn't done about the rampant   
   > violence. The women's ringleader?  Lizzie Strata.   
   >   
   > Just now, trying to find which episode it was, I can only find a Wanted:   
   > Dead or Alive episode ("To the Victor").  It's possible my memory is   
   > wrong, but I'd have sworn it was Gunsmoke, especially since I don't recall   
   > ever seeing a Wanted:  Dead or Alive episode in all the years since I knew   
   > what Lysistrata was.  At any rate, W:DOA did it, and maybe Gunsmoke, too.   
   >   
   > They refused to _cook_.  Love those updates.   
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   > Jim Beaver   
      
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