“The basic message of Gunsmoke was that there's going to be the bad and there's going to be the good. And most of the time, the good will win out.”

—  Dennis Weaver

Archive of American Television interview (24 September 2002) http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/dennis-weaver
Context: The basic message of Gunsmoke was that there's going to be the bad and there's going to be the good. And most of the time, the good will win out. That's an old theme. There are no new themes, it's just the way you do them. It's the way you bring fresh characters to that theme.

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