Besides watching a lot of TAGS and old westerns, one of my hobbies is listening
to old radio shows from the golden age of radio. Anyways, last night I was
listening to a Gunsmoke radio show from 14 November 1953. Here is the premise
of the show: While Matt Dillon is out of town for a few days, a snake oil
salesman comes to town and starts selling all of the town his elixer. Kitty
and Chester get hooked on the elixer. Then when Matt comes back to town he
has Doc analyze the elixer and it turns out to contain opium. So Matt runs
the seller, whose name was Professor Lute Bone, out of town. Does that script
sound the least bit familiar?
Now here is the kicker, Professor Lute Bone was played by none other than John
Doehner, who you might remember also played Colonel Harvey, the elixer salesman
on TAGS. Wonder if Doehner told the story to the writers of TAGS?
As an additional note, as many of you probably know, on the Gunsmoke radio
show, Floyd was Doc and Mayor Stoner was Chester. They are really good shows.
Orville Hendricks - Selling Butter and Eggs. You know if it were not for the
old television shows, I would probably sell my TV. Well not exactly, I would
have to keep one TV to watch the OU Football team.
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