#ken curtis

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

As a kid, I use to love Gunsmoke for the cowboys and gun fights.

Now I love it to goon over these guys.

Matt Dillon/James Arness

Yes, even Festus/Ken Curtis

But Doc/Milburn Stone get it. HARD.

[retro70s80sandmore]

Ken Curtis as Festus on "Gunsmoke"

[freetheshit-outofyou]

"Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight?"

Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver Mr. Roberts (1955)

[thefandomlesbian]

We're just like two old tumbleweeds who are bobbling and bungling out across the prairie. Directly, we'll hit a barbed wire fence, and we'll just kind of hang up there and just nothing away.

"Maybe before we nothing away together, I'd like another cup of coffee."

[kwebtv]

Series Premiere

Ripcord - Air Carnival - Syndication - July 3, 1961

Action Adventure

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Vance Skarstedt

Produced by Stanley Colbert

Directed by James Clavell

Stars:

Larry Pennell as Ted McKeever

Ken Curtis as Jim Buckley

Stuart Erwin as Justin Rock

Carol Ohmart as Betty Rhodes

Willis Bouchey as Hank

Med Flory as Billy Gibson

Mary Hahn as Ted's Librarian

[backroad-song]

[citizenscreen]

Ken Curtis and Jennifer Holt at the AFRS studio in Hollywood c. 1950. They are portraying characters from the "Li'l Abner" comic strip.

[schlock-luster-video]