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List of Gunsmoke television episodes

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I've listed this article for peer review because Gunsmoke ran for 20 years on television and is generally regarded as a television classic. Therefore it's in need of a good episode list page which, hopefully, I have provided here. The page is patterned after the List of Smallville episodes page, which has achieved featured list status. I'm hoping to make this page a featured list as well.

Thanks, Jimknut (talk) 03:18, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Brianboulton comments: This is pretty impressive listing. Someone other than me will have to check the pin-point accuracy of each of the 600-odd entries, but in overall terms it looks very good. A few quibbly items, however:-

• No images. Have efforts been made to locate a relevant image that might be used, if necessary on a fair use basis?
  • An image has been added with alt text.
• I note that List of Seinfeld episodes, a featured list, precedes its listing with a "Series overview" table which, among other things, gives a key to the colours used in the main tables. The use of colours in the Gunsmoke listing is unexplained (unless I've missed something). Could a rationale be provided?
  • I took out the color scheme. I decided I didn't like it and didn't think it was needed anyway. I've had three filmographies (Gene Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, and Mary Pickford) achieve featured list status and they did not need any color schemes. (Plus, I've gotten complaints about how colorblind people can't see the colors properly.)
• Some overlinking, e.g. "producer", "black and white". I don't see the reasons why the names of the main actors should be linked at the start of every season's listing, and in any event there are inconsistencies; Ken Curtis is linked in the lead but not in the lists. Also, why are the characters "Matt Dillon" and "Festus" repeatedly linked?
  • I've prunded a lot of the links so that there should be only one apiece in the episode log. I've also taken out some refs that seemed superfluous as the intro states my sources.
• From the WP article Gunsmoke I gather that the programme was called "Gun Law" when shown in the UK. Would this be worth mentioning?
  • Added.
• Perhaps a more sensitive description than "half-breed" could be used? "Mixed race", possibly?
  • I removed this.
• Some repetitious prose in the lead, for example successive sentences beginning: "All the episodes of the series" and "The first episode of the series". The word "episodes" occurs four times in the sentence beginning: "During its run..."
  • I reworded the text. It should be better now.

Brianboulton (talk) 19:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for the help. Jimknut (talk) 00:30, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

• Good fast responses! The image is good and I would support the fair use rationale. I think you made the best decision over the colours, too. Other responses fine. Brianboulton (talk) 00:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)