Marshal Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the wild west where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, standover tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgement and brave actions: of which Marshal Dillon has plenty.
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- Andrew V. McLaglen (96 episodes)
- Harry Harris (65 episodes)
- Ted Post (56 episodes)
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- John Meston (258 episodes)
- Les Crutchfield (56 episodes)
- Calvin Clements Sr. (43 episodes)
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- Dennis Weaver felt his first audition for Chester did not go well, so he begged them to let him do it again, but this time with his famous country accent. He got the part.
- When Dennis Weaver announced that he was leaving the show, it was director Andrew V. McLaglen's suggestion that Ken Curtis be brought in for a tryout as Festus Haggen in a few episodes.…
[show]When Dennis Weaver announced that he was leaving the show, it was director Andrew V. McLaglen's suggestion that Ken Curtis be brought in for a tryout as Festus Haggen in a few episodes. McLaglen had directed Curtis in a similar role in an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel. "Festus" was given the job of deputy to make him different from Weaver's character of Chester Good (who was never a deputy).
[hide] - Slated to be canceled in 1967 due to low ratings, but then-CBS president William Paley reversed the decision. He moved the show from Saturdays to Mondays (cancelling Gilligan's Island in the…
[show]Slated to be canceled in 1967 due to low ratings, but then-CBS president William Paley reversed the decision. He moved the show from Saturdays to Mondays (cancelling Gilligan's Island in the process), placing it back in the Nielsen's Top Ten (Paley and his wife were both big fans of the show).
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