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Gunsmoke: Sergeant Holly (1970)
Listening to Sgt. Holly talk is a cross between Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn
Sgt. Holly is a vivacious man, a career military NCO, hard drinking, loud talking buffoon, but to his credit, he's got excellent tastes in women, namely... Kitty Russell, of course. This was more of a comedy of errors as opposed to a drama, and on par for the writing of the latter seasons of Gunsmoke, that's to say horribly written. The highlights of the episode where when Sgt. Holly referred to Marshall Matthew Dillon as, "Big Fist", and "Big Chin", which more episodes would have benefited from. If CBS had given up on Gunsmoke, and to judge by the writing, they had, they should have passed it on to somewhere else that would have invested in better writing, they really hurt the legacy of the series with their terrible cast of writers. 2/10, just for the Big Fist and Big Chin lines directed at Matt.
Gunsmoke: The Noose (1970)
One of the worst Gunsmoke episodes I've ever watched. After production switched from black and white to color, the quality of the epidsodes steadily declined.
Forty-five minutes of drama-building followed by ten minutes of "action" and another five minutes of semi-wrapping up of loose ends, in totality a terribly written episode. Of course the acting was superb as usual and Tom Skerritt made a passably decent villain, but the writing was totally sub-par, as it tended to be in the later seasons of Gunsmoke's run. Whoever wrote this garbage material would have done the series a favor by passing the job on to more talented writers that could have kept the quality out of the basement. Whatever was going on in the late sixties and early seventies with the writing staff of Gunsmoke is truly a crime against television!