the best of the best. I grew up watching it and I still watch it almost every day. I liked Festus a lot better than I did Chester but both was good in their own. Doc and Festus picking on each other was great tv. If only the people that makes movies and tv shows today knew how to make shows like Gunsmoke I think we all would be better off. And you wouldn't need to have a hundred tv channels so you could something worth watching.