Fans of Bruce Broughton might be interested in this as a) it is Bruce’s first television score credit (S18, from January 1973) b) Bruce appears in the episode as the saloon piano player (was twenty-seven at the time).
Aside from this it’s just a very good episode of “Gunsmoke” (a rare, for the series, comedic story).
Some cool FYI:
This episode broadcasts on ME-TV nearly forty-seven years to the day of the original CBS-TV broadcast.
The DVD release for both S18 and 19 of “Gunsmoke” is the following week (4 February, 2020).
