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The Real Reason Chester Was Written Off Gunsmoke
As noted in a 2002 Television Academy Foundation interview with Dennis Weaver, the decision to exit the hit series was actually made by the actor himself.
"I'd done the show for nine years, and ... I'd pretty much exhausted all creative possibilities with the character, and I just wanted to do something else," he said.
Weaver went on to acknowledge that any actor's decision to leave a certified network hit at the time was a fairly dicey proposition, as far as finding acting gigs on another show or in films.
"I felt it was time to move on. I know it was risky doing that because a lot of actors did the same thing and really disappeared."
Fortunately for Weaver, however, the move proved to be the right one as far as his ongoing career in the industry was concerned.
Shortly after departing "Gunsmoke," the actor was cast in the single-season NBC comedy-drama "Kentucky Jones." Then, in 1970, Weaver landed another role that would see him in a cowboy hat and occasionally atop a horse, as he took on the lead in the modern-day police drama
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