Richard Nilsen in Gunsmoke next to shots from Wild Wild West, Little House on the Prairie, Maverick, and The Lone Ranger in a composite image - CBS There was a time when Westerns absolutely ruled ...

Gunsmoke isn’t just the greatest Western TV show ever made. It’s also the longest-running and most prolific in terms of total episodes. Across 20 seasons, 635 installments of the series were produced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Westerns have been riding tall on television since the medium's very beginning. Long before superheroes, police procedurals or ...

Western TV shows spanned a wide range of tones during the genre's heyday in the 20th century. Here's our ranking of the best classic small screen oaters.