Gunsmoke (TV Series)

New Doctor in Town (1971)

Buck Taylor: Newly

Quotes 

• [reading Doc's farewell letter] 

  Kitty Russell : Living in Dodge has been the most rewarding experience of my life, but I've been so out of touch with modern medicine that when I arrived in Baltimore I felt like a schoolboy. I suddenly realized how little I know about medicine and how much has passed me by in the last twenty years... and that's why I've decided to stay on here at the university.

  [Kitty, overcome with emotion, hands the letter to Newly to read] 

  Newly O'Brien : This letter is the only way I know of to tell you my decision. I'll be gone from Dodge for a while. I don't know for how long, but it will not be forever. I will be back... and I'll think of you very often. I pray all of you will remember with affection, your old friend, Doc.