Western Entertainment Series Television-continues to saddle up for its debut month with another week of classic programming that showcases the depth and range of TV's most e ...

“Crack-Up” aired on Sept. 14, 1957, as the first episode of Gunsmoke Season 3. A gunman named Nate Springer (John Dehner) spells out trouble for Dodge City when he arrives with the intention of ...

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, ...

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 ...

Few shows have run on network television for as long as Gunsmoke ran on CBS. For twenty years, the Western series braved television sets after first jumping from a radio drama to the screen, and later ...