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 ...

Gunsmoke Season 2 Episode 21, “Bloody Hands,” aired on CBS on Feb. 16, 1957. U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) shot and killed several members of an outlaw gang in self-defense, but the impact ...

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 ...

The western drama "Gunsmoke" premiered 70 years ago, airing for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975. MeTV is celebrating the anniversary by airing specially selected episodes, themed weeks, and movies ...

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. James Arness in Gunsmoke - Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Records, as they say, are made to be broken. But that doesn't mean ...

Nowadays, one wouldn't think that a show like Gunsmoke ought to be considered terribly "dark" as far as dramas go. The popular Western program starred James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, a brave and ...

“Fawn” is Gunsmoke Season 4 Episode 29, which came out on April 4, 1959. Local Native Americans set a white woman (Peggy Stewart) and her half-Native American daughter (Wendy Stuart) free after their ...

Records, as they say, are made to be broken. But that doesn't mean every record is particularly easy to break. That's certainly true in the field of TV, where producers and networks are primarily ...