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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bruce Dern as Guerin smiles against a blue sky in Gunsmoke - CBS The great Bruce Dern will always be a legend of the Western genre ...

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 ...

A close-up of John Wayne in his cowboy getup in the first episode of 'Gunsmoke' titled "Matt Gets It" Image via CBS If you're at all familiar with television Westerns, then you'd undoubtedly have ...

James Arness played Gunsmoke lead Matt Dillon for the entire 20 seasons that the show was on the air. The character was the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, who worked to keep the city safe from ...

In the 1950s and '60s, television Westerns were all the rage. Each of the Big Three networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) had their fair share of horse operas, with one of the biggest being Gunsmoke. The ...

Roger Ewing, who starred in the 1960s western television series Gunsmoke, has died at age 83. Ewing’s family reported that he died on December 18. The actor, a resident of Morro Bay, California, first ...