Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:03:43 -0600 From: Zhong Geng To: marks@ee.washington.edu Subject: (Gunsmoke Hi!  Just a quick note to tell you what a splendid site you have here.  I was just browsing through your character biographies--you've got stuff in here I didn't even know about!  (I would love to get hold of the episode in which Festus and Matt are both tracking Uncle Black Jack Haggen and meet for the first time--that must have been some encounter!)  Talking of bio--there's an old segment in which Festus crosses trails with three of his cousins who, if I recall correctly, are now buffalo hunters.  There's Emory (played by Shug Fisher), Claudius (Denver Pyle), and one other (Royal Dano) whose name I don't recall--do you know it?  The three of them popped up again a year or so later, accompanying Festus's nephew Sweet Billy (Bob Random) when he came to Dodge in search of a bride--I can recall a line from the very beginning of the segment: Festus for some reason thinks they mean him ill and tries to run for it, and Sweet Billy creases him with a rifle bullet and knocks him senseless--at which the Dano cousin says, and I quote, "Great jumpin' blue-nosed mules, boy, what's wrong with your eye?  I said pink him, not squomp him!"  (Picturesque speech being apparently a universal Haggen-family trait.)
    Something I would love to see someone do on the Net (if not you, perhaps somebody who reads your page): an episode listing!  (See the one for "Alias Smith & Jones" as a sample.)
    If you care to post this: I'm Chris Jeffords and my e-mail is sevenstars39@hotmail.com.