(Paul) Fix Was In (A Gunsmoke Episode)

In a season 2 episode of “Gunsmoke” that originally aired in 1956, a “good guy” on “The Rifleman,” which began two years later, played a villain/bad guy.”

Paul Fix was that actor and he had a distinguished career.

“The Rifleman’s” star, Chuck Connors was also a “bad guy” on “Gunsmoke.”

Bad guys and good ones were easily defined in the old West, not so today.

Connors played a good man named McCain.

A rare, real life, clearly good man also from the west, died this week, his name was also McCain, John McCain.

Both “Gunsmoke” and “The Rifleman” air each day on MeTV.