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Mon 2
Gunsmoke: In Performance of Duty — Dennis Weaver
Members of an outlaw family stay beyond the law by killing all witnesses to their crimes. Matt: James Arness. Judge: Eduard Franz. Emmett: David Huddleston.
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Gunsmoke: Island in the Desert: Part 1 — Dennis Weaver
Festus is rescued by a half-loco hermit (Strother Martin). Part 1 of two. Festus: Ken Curtis. Dixon: William C. Watson. Matt: James Arness.
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Tue 3
Gunsmoke: Sweet and Sour — Dennis Weaver
A dance-hall girl deliberately goads her admirers into gunfights. Rena: Karen Sharpe. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Matt: James Arness. Laster: John Alderson. Joe: John Mitchum. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Garrett: Walter Reed. Doc: Milburn Stone.
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Tue 3
Gunsmoke: Byline — Dennis Weaver
Illiterate Festus becomes a reporter for Dodge City's new paper. Angus: Chips Rafferty. Matt: James Arness. Jock: Stefan Arngrim. Jonas: Dabbs Greer. Mrs. Preeker: Maudie Prickett. Chummer: Denver Pyle. Doc: Milburn Stone.
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Wed 4
Gunsmoke: Island in the Desert: Part 2 — Dennis Weaver
A half-crazed hermit forces Festus to pack gold across the desert in the conclusion of a story. Festus: Ken Curtis. Dixon: William C. Watson.
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Wed 4
Gunsmoke: Cain — Dennis Weaver
Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him. Adams: Mark Roberts. Cain: Harry Bartell. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Pritchard: Paul Dubov. Pete: Howard Ledig.
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Wed 4
Gunsmoke: My Father, My Son — Dennis Weaver
After killing a young man out to gain a reputation, gunslinger Jim Barrett faces the wrath of the dead man's family. Matt: James Arness. Jeffords: Lee Van Cleef. David: Teno Pollick. Joey: Zalman King. Bernie: Charles Kuenstle. Will: Del Monroe. Arnie: James Gammon.
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Thu 5
Gunsmoke: Bureaucrat — Dennis Weaver
A Washinton official is determined to tame Dodge City. Propter: John Hoyt. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Husk: Ned Glass. Stroud: Ken Lynch.
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Fri 6
Gunsmoke: Last Fling — Dennis Weaver
Matt fills out a report on Chester after he is believed to have shot a man, Matt wants to take Chester away to protect him.
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Sat 7
Gunsmoke: The Hiders — Dennis Weaver
Festus urges a teenager to leave a scurrilous band of hiders, men who cut skins from dead range cattle. Karp: Ned Beatty. Festus: Ken Curtis. Matt: James Arness. Quincannon: Lee de Broux. Martha: Sierra Bandit.
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Sun 8
Gunsmoke: The Judgment — Dennis Weaver
William Windom as a pawn in a gunman's revenge plan. Musgrove: Ramon Bieri. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Gideon: Tim O'Connor. Fiona: Mariette Hartley. Newly: Buck Taylor.
Air Time & Details for Dennis Weaver, Sun 8, 8:00 pm
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Biography
About Dennis Weaver
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A track star at the University of Oklahoma, Dennis Weaver went on to serve as a Navy Pilot during World War II. After failing to make the 1948 U.S. decathalon Olympic team, Weaver accepted the invitation of his college chum Lonny Chapman to give the New York theatre world a try. He understudied Chapman as "Turk Fisher" in the Broadway production Come Back Little Sheba, eventually taking over the role in the national company.
Deciding that acting was to his liking, Weaver enrolled at the Actors' Studio, supporting his family by selling vacuum cleaners, tricycles and ladies' hosiery. On the recommendation of his Actors' Studio classmate Shelley Winters, Weaver was signed to a contract at Universal studios in 1952, where he made his film debut in The Redhead From Wyoming (1952). Though his acting work increased steadily over the next three years, he still had to take odd jobs to make ends meet.
He was making a delivery for the florist's job where he worked when he was informed that he'd won the role of deputy Chester Goode on the TV adult western Gunsmoke. So as not to be continually upstaged by his co-star James Arness (who, at 6'7", was five inches taller than the gangly Weaver), he adopted a limp for his character--a limp which, along with Chester's reedy signature line "Mis-ter Diillon" and the deputy's infamously bad coffee, brought Weaver fame, adulation and a 1959 Emmy Award. Though proud of his work on Gunsmoke--"I don't think any less seriously of Chester than I did about King Lear in college"--Weaver began feeling trapped by Chester sometime around the series' fifth season.
Having already proven his versatility in his film work (notably his portrayal of the neurotic motel night clerk in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil [1958]), Weaver saw to it that the Gunsmoke producers permitted him to accept as many "outside" TV assignments as his schedule would allow. Twice during his run as Chester, Weaver quit the series to pursue other projects. He left Gunsmoke permanently in 1964, whereupon he was starred in the one-season "dramedy" series Kentucky Jones (1965).
In 1967, he headlined a somewhat more successful weekly, Gentle Ben (1967-69) in which he and everyone else in the cast played second fiddle to a trained bear (commenting upon his relationship with his "co-star", Weaver replied "I liked him, but it was a cold relationship...
Ben didn't know me from a bag of doughnuts.") The most successful of Weaver's post-Gunsmoke TV series was McCloud, in which, from 1970 to 1977, he played deputy marshal Sam McCloud, a New Mexico lawman transplanted to the Big Apple. In addition to his series work, Weaver has starred in several made-for-TV movies over the past 25 years, the most famous of which was the Steven Spielberg-directed nailbiter Duel (1971). Dennis Weaver is the father of actor Robby Weaver, who co-starred with his dad on the 1980 TV series Stone.