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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 436233" data-attributes="member: 57984">This W.E.S.T. station airs the installments with minimal-if-any edits. And yet the commercials occur jarringly midway through scenes, like old broadcast TV used to do all the time. In today&#039;s market, it seems kookie.Today, the first two color episodes reran (Season 12, the 1966-67 year). With Philip Leacock still in as executive producer, the show switches from its original B&amp;W noir to a slightly different, more cinematic look: bigger camera movements, dramatic angles, a more claustrophobic Long Branch with active gambling tables, an aloofly authoritative tone.That will mostly end as Leacock leaves. As line-producer John Mantley rises to the helm, for the next year, Season 13 (following GUNSMOKE&#039;s second cancelled cancellation in 1967), the series will become less majestic, but friendlier.One drawback for the switch to color: it&#039;s harder to obscure the multiple use of store fronts along Front Street, an interior set pretending to be an exterior location (e.g., the Dodge House hotel becomes the &quot;Star Hotel&quot; and the &quot;Poppy Hotel&quot; within minutes, with little attempts to mask it). In B&amp;W, such sins seemed less obvious.Next up: Bette Davis. <img src="https://cdn.imago-images.com/bild/st/0138489226/s.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 756px" /><img src="https://cdn.imago-images.com/bild/st/0481081896/s.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 767px" /><img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.5eeac2a49414a48a98597ddc1098cacd?rik=YORENbbcBNBC%2fQ&amp;riu=http%3a%2f%2fwesternclippings.com%2fimages%2ftreasures%2fwt85_misskitty.jpg&amp;ehk=IFCE%2fSfKW%2fKV8uzo1a%2fBIAdDS2kJkSSSTmZDy5izKpE%3d&amp;risl=&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 750px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 436233, member: 57984"] This W.E.S.T. station airs the installments with minimal-if-any edits. And yet the commercials occur jarringly midway through scenes, like old broadcast TV used to do all the time. In today's market, it seems kookie. Today, the first two color episodes reran (Season 12, the 1966-67 year). With Philip Leacock still in as executive producer, the show switches from its original B&W noir to a slightly different, more cinematic look: bigger camera movements, dramatic angles, a more claustrophobic Long Branch with active gambling tables, an aloofly authoritative tone. That will mostly end as Leacock leaves. As line-producer John Mantley rises to the helm, for the next year, Season 13 (following GUNSMOKE's second cancelled cancellation in 1967), the series will become less majestic, but friendlier. One drawback for the switch to color: it's harder to obscure the multiple use of store fronts along Front Street, an interior set pretending to be an exterior location (e.g., the Dodge House hotel becomes the "Star Hotel" and the "Poppy Hotel" within minutes, with little attempts to mask it). In B&W, such sins seemed less obvious. Next up: Bette Davis. [IMG width="756px"]https://cdn.imago-images.com/bild/st/0138489226/s.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="767px"]https://cdn.imago-images.com/bild/st/0481081896/s.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="750px"]https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.5eeac2a49414a48a98597ddc1098cacd?rik=YORENbbcBNBC%2fQ&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwesternclippings.com%2fimages%2ftreasures%2fwt85_misskitty.jpg&ehk=IFCE%2fSfKW%2fKV8uzo1a%2fBIAdDS2kJkSSSTmZDy5izKpE%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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