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Saturday, July 11, 2015

The two last days I have watched some of the first episodes of the Western TV drama series 'Gunsmoke'. (That series started as a radio series.) I have done that because I have wanted to look at that TV series again. This American TV series has been very popular. In the United States with 635 episodes from 1955 to 1975. In Norway with 112 episodes from 1969 to 1974. I write about this, because it did something to me, to see some of these episodes again.

After seeing some of the first episodes, I got some crisp and clean thoughts. The main characters and their typical ways of being were easy to recognize.

These crisp and clean thoughts are about how such movies and different literature etc. from that time and the time just before that time again, typical have strong human nature aspects as important pares. In this series, it is easy to understand that there are the good and the bad in humans, which stand up against each other. Typical the good sometimes can win over the bad inside humans. This series and similar literature etc. from that time, typical had that aspect as important parts.

This got me to start thinking about how such things have changed very much since this series was made.

The first episode is 'Matt gets it' from September 10, 1955. The second episode is 'Hot spell' from September 17, 1955. The last episode 635 is 'The sharecroppers' from March 31, 1975.

These episodes have different human natured aspects. In this third episode, the criminals got a doctor to their victim, and they did not kill the doctor. Nevertheless, all the criminals were killed at last. The father of the victim also shows different human natured aspects, and in him, the good wins over the bad. These first episodes all have different strong human natured aspects. I also think that all the rest of the episodes are the same way. And I have thought about how such things have changed today.

David H. Hegg