Q 01/05

On the TV version of Gunsmoke, who played Marshal Matt Dillon?

A) Richard Boone

B) William Conrad

C) Hugh O'Brian

D) James Arness

Answer · why

D) James Arness

James Arness: at 6 ft 7 he was ordered off the landing craft first at Anzio in 1944 to test the water's depth, and the leg wound he took there trouble...

Q 02/05

Gunsmoke is set in which Kansas cattle town?

A) Wichita

B) Abilene

C) Dodge City

D) Ellsworth

Answer · why

C) Dodge City

Dodge City: the series was shot on Hollywood backlots and California ranch land, never in Kansas, yet the real town embraced it, and its Boot Hill Mus...

Q 03/05

Which actress played Miss Kitty for 19 of Gunsmoke's 20 seasons?

A) Dale Evans

B) Amanda Blake

C) Gail Davis

D) Angie Dickinson

Answer · why

B) Amanda Blake

Amanda Blake: she once brought her pet lion, Kemo, onto the set, and she and her husband ran one of the first successful cheetah-breeding programmes i...

Q 04/05

Which Gunsmoke deputy, played by Ken Curtis, replaced Chester in 1964?

A) Newly O'Brien

B) Quint Asper

C) Festus Haggen

D) Thad Greenwood

Answer · why

C) Festus Haggen

Festus Haggen: the scruffy deputy's nasal twang was put on, because Ken Curtis was a smooth-voiced crooner who had sung with Tommy Dorsey's band and t...

Q 05/05

Which first name did actor Milburn Stone choose for his Gunsmoke character, Doc Adams?

A) Ezekiel

B) Josiah

C) Ambrose

D) Galen

Answer · why

D) Galen

Galen: Doc went years without a first name until the producers let Stone pick one, and he borrowed that of the ancient physician who treated Rome's em...