It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall – all 6 feet, 6 inches of him – on “Gunsmoke” from 1955 ...

Bruce Dern had a lot of TV acting gigs in the 1960s and even showed up multiple times on Gunsmoke (playing a different ...

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 ...

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, ...

More than half a century before the likes of Yellowstone and Justified made their mark on television, Gunsmoke ruled the airwaves like no other Western TV show before it. In fact, as groundbreaking as ...

When I was growing up, most kids spent their Saturday mornings watching cartoons. I whiled away those magical weekend hours watching old Westerns - "Bonanza," "Wagon Train," "The Big Valley," and ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall - all 6 feet, 6 inches of him - on "Gunsmoke" from 1955 ...

It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall -- all 6 feet, 6 inches of him -- on "Gunsmoke" from 1955 ...

James Arness, the 6-foot-6 actor who towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Dodge City lawman Matt Dillon in “Gunsmoke,” died Friday. He was 88. The actor died in his sleep ...