>>That's funny. I just wrote the exact opposite. I think the show started getting better when Henry Blake and Trapper left.
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>>Really? Wow. I prefer the early years, because it was so zany. I think the tone of the series changed after Henry/Trapper left. There were some good episodes in the later years (most of them dealing with Winchester in some way).
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>And it was the realism that we appreciate from the later years. Still funny, but not zany.


To me it was great right up until it started taking itself too seriously. The kiss of death.