Seventy years ago, on September 10, 1955, a gunfighter named Matt Dillon first strode into Dodge City on CBS, Gunsmoke, helping to change the nature of TV Westerns, eventually running for 20 years, ...

James Arness played U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon. Gunsmoke stands as one of the most influential television series in American history. Premiering in 1955, it brought the Old West into living rooms across ...

When the classic western drama “Gunsmoke” finished its 20-year run on CBS in 1975, Los Angeles Times critic Cecil Smith made a bold prediction. “I have the feeling that the first moon colony we ...

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 fans first laid eyes on scruffy, bumpkin-voiced Festus Haggan during the beloved Western’s Season 8 episode “Us Haggens,” they didn’t know how much the character would soon impact 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Matt Dillon/James Arness is comfort food for viewers,” he explains. “And not just for the older demographic who grew up on it.