‘Gunsmoke’ aired from 1955 to 1974 and set a new standard for TV drama Gunsmoke stands as one of the most influential television series in American history. Premiering in 1955, it brought the Old West ...

On September 10, 1955, television audiences were introduced to a new kind of Western hero when Gunsmoke premiered on CBS. Though it wasn’t the first Western show on TV, the network took pains to ...

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 ...

Before he ruled the box office in the 1970s with Smokey and the Bandit, The Longest Yard and Deliverance, Burt Reynolds was pounding iron in Dodge City. Reynolds is remembered today as a magnetic ...

For 20 years, television audiences rode into Dodge City with Marshal Matt Dillon on a weekly basis, and when Gunsmoke finally ended in 1975, James Arness had quietly become one of the most familiar ...