Once Marshall Dillon left the room, John whipped out his communicator and said, "Mister Scott, you know what to do."

James Arness, the only guy who could make Leonard Nimoy look short.

Even in Gunsmoke, Vulcan logic prevails.

@louf7178

5 жыл бұрын

dkyelak But didn't pick up on the idea of stolen property.

@mattdylan3734

5 жыл бұрын

... noticed it also, even then it says ' Spock ' . 😀

@spockofdune8657

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed !

@snarkleton26

3 жыл бұрын

Logic yes with lots of American Indian-esque metaphors thrown in to de-escalate tension with Matt's concerns.

@hydrolito

3 жыл бұрын

Leonard Nimoy talked about Enterprise on Bonanza and William Shatner was on an episode of Outer Limits starring William Shatner.

Nimoy was actually very natural in this role. And he really looked small next to James.

Leonard Nimoy = Pure awesomeness

@joe9739

9 ай бұрын

Always🖖

This aired in April, 1966 and was Nimoy's last TV work before regular Star Trek filming in May 1966. That first regularly season Trek episode was "The Corbomite Maneuver," in which Spock says "Fascinating" with a lifted eyebrow and gets the dry coolness just right, for the first time, cementing the character. So John Walking Fox here is just before that crucial time. By the time of this Gunsmoke Nimoy has actually already played Mr. Spock twice, once for the early failed pilot The Cage (1964) and later for the series Pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1965). Spock in "The Cage" of course has emotions, and at one point, a big grin. And Spock in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is still not quite yet the canonical Spock, and is a little over the top more than once ("In a month he'll have as much in common with us as we'd have with a shipload of white mice!"). "Corbomite" was broadcast as #10, so it's rarely realized how early in filming it was. Of course "Horse Opera" turned into "Space Opera" in the mid 60's and Roddenberry, a Western writer, went with it. He called Star Trek "Wagon Train to the Stars" and it was. (And later Deep Space Nine becomes Dodge City in the Stars where the adventures come to the frontier outpost, with Dillon played by Odo+Sisko and Miss Kitty as ... Quark. But that's another story). For more on the odd octagonal "coin" which never existed as a coin in 1850 (but a silver "slug" version in 1948), see www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovtv_gunsmoke_treasure.htm. It would not have been possible to track an ordinary gold coin, of course.

@johnholliday5874

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great background. Love that stuff.

@davidlemons5650

2 жыл бұрын

Just an observation: Doc and Festus compare them to Bones and Spock as comedy backdrops. Same lines, same comic relief. I noticed it as a kid, told my Mom. She was surprised 😮. Once you see it, it is really funny how they used the continued arguing as comic relief when all 4 characters were otherwise very serious. Never involving Matt Dillon, or Captain Kirk in the side comic squabble. 🤔 LOL - I loved it! Most predominant at the end of each episode; leaving us with a grin as we go on to the next show, or change the channel. Hahaha!!

@GODCONVOYPRIME

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what happened to that star trek show did it ever catch on? 😉

@Nat3_H1gg3rs

Жыл бұрын

Aliens and Indians I guess 🤷‍♂️

@horaceball5418

4 ай бұрын

Did Nimoy compete for the role of SPock or was it given to hiM?

All I can think about is he's hiding those pointed ears with that wig.

@robertsamson4610

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@dontaylor7315

2 жыл бұрын

Dang it, I just posted about that and now I see you beat me to it by five years.

This is very interesting to see the actor I know as SPOCK playing in a Western! I suppose that all aspiring actors have to start SOMEWHERE!

I like that he's speaking full sentences and not that fractured English you see in so many shows at the time.

@nathandebartolo8330

3 жыл бұрын

Chief, where are your feathers? Me um take um feathers to um laundry.

@youngimages2000

2 жыл бұрын

Was he playing an Indian in disguise or something..?

@willardarmbruster8111

2 жыл бұрын

War dance lot like rain dance, only drier. -Roaring Chicken

@jeffgalus8454

2 жыл бұрын

@@youngimages2000 A Comanche

@youngimages2000

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a good point! I have no idea how Indians spoke English. It would have been broken English with some form of accent, it prolly would have even sounded fake today, I wonder what it was …

He was logical even back then.

He had presence, even then. A great voice.

@rmo52

3 жыл бұрын

Except when he sang. I backed him many years ago on a telethon. He was delightful and funny, but whew, a vocalist not so much, at least that day. Very smart guy too. That Vulcan blood?

Funny how Spock was taller than all of the other Star Trek cast members, yet James Arness towers over Nimoy here.

@caitlyncherro6025

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Arness was 6'7". Crazy tall and built like an oak

@db4a

3 жыл бұрын

Arness was like a giant Apollo.

@Hodaris_Darlin

3 жыл бұрын

@@caitlyncherro6025 My Dad was that height.

@DonMeaker

3 жыл бұрын

James Arness was so tall, that on amphibious landing at Anzio in WWII he was to be the first man out of the landing craft, so it would be obvious how deep was the water.

@dredriesen2827

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget he wears a hat that adds 10 cm (4 inches). I'm 6'6 but when I wear a hat people think i'm 7'.

Dances with logic

I’m always amazed with the number of times you can’t see the top of Leonard Nimoy’s ears. He’s either an Indian with a wig, a soldier wearing a helmet or something similar. It’s almost as if they really were pointed. :)

Oh my god, he talked just like Spock! I was expecting something like his performance in Columbo or Mission Impossible. But this was Spock dead on!

I saw that episode yesterday on MeTv and I thought it was a very good episode. Nimoy's character was trying to give his best fiend who was shot dead earlier, a proper burial.

I absolutely LOVE this scene and dialogue.

Nimoy was superb in this episode. One of the very best Gunsmokes, on top of it. The relationship between Nimoy and the older man was touching.

@horaceball5418

4 ай бұрын

Where did he get the Gold?

@savio807

4 ай бұрын

@@horaceball5418 I think the viewer is supposed to make his or her best guess in that regard. My sense is that he accidentally came into possession of a portion of the stash, but of course this is never explained.

@horaceball5418

4 ай бұрын

50 dollars was a small fortune back then. My dad went to high school with miss kitty in Amherst New York!@@savio807

Stone knives and bearskins! ("City on the edge of forever")

RIP Leonard Nimoy. His wife is on tv now on a commercial telling people to stop smoking cigarettes as that is what killed her husband.

James Arness is right up there with the best of them! 👍💓

There were California $50 gold coins struck but not from the U.S.Mints nor Treasury. The U.S. struck up to $20 gold coins. And yes Leonard's logic was impeccable.

Spock, Bones, Scotty and Kirk all passed through Dodge City early on.

This is one of the best traps ever conceived. Leonard Nimoy was perfect.

@maryschmidt8075

3 жыл бұрын

Episode is "The Treasure of John Walking Fox," and everyone should look for it when a channel is running the old half-hour long episodes. John's best friend and hunting companion is murdered, and John turns the villains against each other so that justice is served to all. At the end, Marshall Dillon says goodbye to him on Boot Hill, and Dillon looks a bit afraid of him and seems glad he's leaving town.

Nimoy talks about this episode of Gunsmoke in an interview he did about his career: He seemed to enjoy the part and liked the story.

@TheMouseAvenger

Ай бұрын

Aaawwwww, that's nice! ^_^ ❤ Where can I find the interview on KZread? :-)

Logic is a bouquet of pretty flowers that smells bad.

For a moment I thought he was constructing a mnemonic memory circuit in the old west.

@marmaly

8 ай бұрын

Stone knives and bearskins!

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." - Early Native American Folk Saying

@alleghenyrebel445

3 жыл бұрын

Amok Time, is it not?

@Rayoscope

3 жыл бұрын

@@alleghenyrebel445 Joy to you, friend. You speak very strangely. Are you from away? Are you not of the Body? Must I summon the Lawgivers to accompany you to the absorption chambers? Are you... are you an Archon? But no matter, if you must know, ask Landru. He remembers. He knows and he watches. “Amok Time, is it not?", you ask. If you mean the Red Hour, yes! Festival is today at six o'clock. Joy be with you. Harmony and contentment. Peace, fellowship, and tranquillity. Hear the Word and obey. The Good is all. Landru is gentle. Happiness is to all of us, blessed by Landru, the Body is one. Blessed be the Body, and health to all of its parts. Happy communing!

He was great at any role

Fascinating

As a hardcore Star Trek fan I am delighted to see Spock (Nimoy) in other roles! :-) Thanx for the upload. Now this one is going to my favourites! ;-)

@unclebillmusic

3 жыл бұрын

I could swear that one of the bad guys was DeForrest Kelly !

Wow he does a Vulcan playing an Indian great! Very logical lol Love it!

Damn, his acting is exactly the same here as in Trek. I was expecting to hear something abouut logic during the video.

watching the episode right now on the western channel :) Spocks voice stood out so obvious I knew before I looked who the voice belonged too. LOVE my Gunsmoke and all the old westerns

@owingsart

9 жыл бұрын

I agree Joe.

he looks good here.

They beamed to a nice planet, Bones wanted shore leave, nope, then things went west.

Most logical native American ever

What's with the Spock obsession? Leonard Nimoy was a fine actor who played in a wide array of movies and TV shows: Bonanza, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Virginian, Combat, Daniel Boone, Night Gallery, Columbo, Get Smart and an entire year as a regular on Mission Impossible. Yet, it seems that some of you can't appreciate anything other than Spock.

@bumblebeemoi

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/foeFlbeqcq6wYNI.html Check out these Man From U.N.C.L.E. scenes with Nimoy, Shatner and Werner Klemperer from Hogan's Heroes. Nimoy was anything but Spock in this.

@jameshoran8

5 жыл бұрын

He was also on Broadway in 1977 in Equus

@jammer3618

5 жыл бұрын

Could not agree more.

@Hodaris_Darlin

3 жыл бұрын

Well, of course he was a great actor outside of Trek, but Spock is very special.

@toddkurzbard

2 жыл бұрын

Your diatribe is most illogical.

I would have given a million to here him say live long a prosper Marshall Dillon.

Nimoy was a tall dude. The marshall towers over him 😮

R.I.P LLAP

Culturally appropriating a Vulcan was bad enough - but this!

@user-vg2eg7oo5n

27 күн бұрын

Mickey Rooney was busy.

Thanks for uploading. I haven't seen this one before.

Sounds so much like Commander Spock.

Live long and prosper, kemo sabe!

Fascinating..................

Very logical response to the Sheriff.

This is gold

Wonderful :)

He is the spitting image of Iron Eyes Cody in this role.

Me: Nimoy nails it by avoiding stereotypical 'Indian' jargon. Them: And how!

@JENDALL714

3 жыл бұрын

Are Jew an Indian?

@commentatron

3 жыл бұрын

@@JENDALL714 That question gives me the heebie-jeebies.

@stevencorrea8032

7 ай бұрын

​@@JENDALL714no but they can play one on TV

Must be a lost time travel episode from OG Star Trek^^

OUTSTANDING - thanks for sharing...

To admit to stealing missing federal coins, Marshall, is HIGHLY ILLOGICAL!"

Yasss Leonard nimoy so handsome

He just gave him a tip! If he follows him, he can find the honey/ coins.

"Stoic mannerisms" intensify

That man could sure play logical.

rip in peace mr spock leonard nimoy

Red brother's reasoning is most logical.

Leonard Memory played a good impression of an American Indian.

This is part of a lost cross-network promotion between NBC and CBS when the crew of the Enterprise travels back in time to Dodge City on a different TV network, like the episode when they go back in time to Tombstone and meet the Earps. Not true, of course, but it would have been a great promotion.

James Arness (RIP) sure was a huge man wasn't he? Nimoy was the tall one on Star Trek and he looks like a shrimp here next to Arness.

@dontaylor7315

2 жыл бұрын

In the 60s I saw him with John Wayne in some old movie on tv. Arness really loomed over the Duke.

I like the Vulcan hairstyle myself. 🖖

Spock went back in time to right am injustice done to his mother's ancestor. He did it brilliantly and logically, of course.

Well ! Everyone has to get their start somewhere !! Even Spock

RIP

Accidentally stepping on a bees nest hidden in a log and being stun by the bee kills the bee and I already know where the bees nest is by then.

@starguy2718

3 жыл бұрын

Furio: "You gotta bee ona you hat!"

Nimoy also played an Indian in an episode of "Rawhide"...

Nicely hiding his Vulcan ears.

That's the most logical and rational Indian I have ever seen...hey wait a minute!

A Jewish Indian, before the Daniel Boone show.

@kiddenme1

5 жыл бұрын

And a Vulcan

@Carl-LaFong1618

5 жыл бұрын

Jewish indian. probably a sue.

@johnminehan1148

5 жыл бұрын

A Jewish Indian acting somewhat like a Vulcan . . . .

@jamesha175

3 жыл бұрын

@@Carl-LaFong1618 maybe a sue chef

@z-z-z-z

3 жыл бұрын

@@Carl-LaFong1618 - he is probably 1/4 cherokee; like every white person in the u.s. claims...

I'd like to see the entire episode.

omg, Leonard Nimoy looks like the famous Crying Indian in the 1970s commercial Keep America Beautiful.

@redcaddiedaddie

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that as well- if you don't already know & are interested, the Indian you're referring to was Iron Eyes Cody...!

@maryschmidt8075

3 жыл бұрын

@@redcaddiedaddie Of course Iron Eyes Cody was an Italian-American who was born Espera DeCorti. Played the Native offscreen as well as on. Was an activist for Native causes and was honored by Hollywood's Native American community in 1995. Would not happen today.

@redcaddiedaddie

3 жыл бұрын

@@maryschmidt8075 Very interesting indeed!!

Logical.

perfect time to get beamed up lol

He found those coins while time traveling on his trip to the planet Vulcan.

I saw this a few nights ago. His friend got killed and he set a perfect trap to get those responsible

my favorite episode but i haven't seen it yet

That isn't "John" the indian. That's Spock dressed up as a Native American! What episode of TOS was this? I thought I've seen them all.

@patriciabennett6381

5 жыл бұрын

Not stead trek gunsmoke

@MIMALECKIPL

4 жыл бұрын

@@patriciabennett6381 Joke

@db4a

3 жыл бұрын

It’s the one that took place mostly in an Holodeck.

@toddkurzbard

2 жыл бұрын

"Spectre Of The Gun"?

Next to Shatner, I always thought Nimoy was really tall. Arness looks like a giant next to Nimoy, but he's only 6'7" which isn't as tall as he looks here. Nimoy's bio says he's 6'

@wadebarnett2542

6 жыл бұрын

Actors sometimes stood on boxes or platforms to seem a little taller.

@bumblebeemoi

6 жыл бұрын

LOL. He was hardly on a box.

@wadebarnett2542

6 жыл бұрын

Also, Shatner had 1 1/2" lifts in his boots, plus higher heels.

@Carl-LaFong1618

5 жыл бұрын

@@wadebarnett2542 shatner was always on a box..... a soap box.

@MrVegas-vm2kp

5 жыл бұрын

6'7" is pretty damn tall... NBA players are often that heighth.... Some taller of course but many shorter. Either way, 6'7" is fucking TALL !

Nimoy is 1/3 Mr Spock, 1/3 Kwai Chang Caine and 1/3 Iron Eyes Cody.

Lindo, no velho oeste como no espaço...

cooooool

stone knives and bare skins

@stevebh9846

4 жыл бұрын

Beat me to it. And he only needs a few pounds of gold. Or is that platinum?

@hungrydragonvsfrightendhob7799

4 жыл бұрын

I love that I get that reference.

@spockofdune8657

3 жыл бұрын

indeed !

@sarahfullerton6894

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha 😅

And he speaks like Spock. :-)

@chickinchainmail James Arness was about 6'7" if I remember correctly.

You can see some Spock in this Indian character. I can see why Roddenberry cast Nimoy as Spock if he saw this episode of Gunsmoke.

JAMES ARNETT..played the original '' THING ''

This problem was solved in "The Rebel"

WOW, Leonard is 6 foot 1....James Arnez was 6 foot 7...what a HUNK! Blows all those other little short men away!

Nerve pinch already.

George Lynch from Dokken

Leonard Nimoy looks tiny compared to James Arnes. I want to see Nimoy play Caine from Kung Fu..

Note how they had to cover his ears with the wig.

Spock vs The Thing

Dang what actor has not been on gun smoke.

@rmo52

3 жыл бұрын

That show launched a few careers indeed as did Bonanza, The Untouchables, Twilight Zone, etc.

We all know that Leonard Nimoy is a tall man. But he looks rather short standing next to James Arness. Arness was certainty a tall man.

@Hodaris_Darlin

3 жыл бұрын

2 very handsome men. 😍

listen to this and look at a picture of morgan freeman

Holy shit! I thought he was a VULCAN!