'Gunsmoke' has an untouchable reputation among Western fans.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Offscreen, James Arness traded Dodge City's saloon dust for the comfort of his own king-size bed. Photographed in 1956, the ...

When Gunsmoke first rode onto TV screens on September 10, 1955, no one could have predicted it would run for 20 years and more than 600 episodes — or that the show would still be airing daily on ...

The Emmy Award-winning Western set a new standard for television over its 20-season run from 1955 to 1975 ...

If you’ve ever heard the phrase, "Get out of Dodge" and wondered where that came from, chances are your research will take you back to Gunsmoke. The famed Western giant of a TV show ran for 20 ...

Curtis first joined the Gunsmoke family in 1962 with season 8 episode 13, which was called “Us Haggens.” The plot followed Festus tracking down his uncle “Black Jack” Haggen after he murdered Festus’ ...

Of all the great, classic Western television shows out there, it's hard to pick any one of them and label it "the best." So many of them have their merits, after all. Have Gun — Will Travel featured ...

The initial Gunsmoke character of U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon was rather similar to the one represented on the radio iteration. However, actor James Arness and the writers continued to evolve the role to ...

If there's a genre of television that is associated with being iconically American, the Western would be the top contender. Visions of saloon doors swinging open as a spur-spangled stranger stands in ...

CBS Films has hired Gregory Poirier (National Treasure: Book of Secrets) to write a movie based on the TV show Gunsmoke, says The Hollywood Reporter. The original Western series, the longest-running ...

Records, as they say, are made to be broken. But that doesn't mean every record is particularly easy to break. That's certainly true in the field of TV, where producers and networks are primarily ...