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Twenty-two of Kathleen Hite's Gunsmoke scripts were directed by Harris. A bigger mystery than the fact that Harris sometimes affixed a Jr. to his name and at other times did not, is that when Kathleen Hite wrote a script & Harry Harris directed it, the episode was almost always... magic. Season 7
Call Me Dodie: Directed by Harry Harris. With James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Joby Baker. An adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, and she starts learning it from the rough-and-tumble characters and loafers she encounters in Dodge.
It is difficult not to think of Mary Kathleen Hite as the best writer Gunsmoke ever had, after reading and watching and listening to her works. This in spite of John Meston's gargantuan output and consistent excellence thoughout nine seasons of radio and ten of television, and the significant presence of Les Crutchfield and Marian Clark.
Kathleen Hite October 14, 1961 ( 1961-10-14 ) Dodge's rumor mill is running full overdrive when Kitty whisks a young boy off the stagecoach and hustles him out into the country, but much to Kitty's dismay, the gossip finds the wrong ears.
So you can catch all the references. This episode of the Lux Summer Theatre aired on August 3, 1953, when Kathleen Hite's relationship with CBS radio was several years old. Hite playfully drops a number of words and phrases which are obviously intended. to be in-jokes with her CBS pals, e.g. escape, Kansas, Princess Theatre, reconquer the West ...
Kathleen Hite March 14, 1969 ( 1969-03-14 ) Will and Jeff meet a farmer, his wife, and their young son who have had a string of bad luck but who helped Jim a year ago when he needed a place to rest, so they decide to stay awhile and offer to help build their new home, plow their field, and move a valuable piano the wife cherishes as a reminder ...
and then again on Romance (when it was an independent show) in 1953. In Kathleen Hite's case, it would seem that her 'romance' scripts, either by her doing or that of the CBS mill, found their way either to Romance or to one of Lux's various incarnations, i.e. these programs in a large sense were interchangeable. October 28, 2005.
