Gunsmoke got a whole lot more colorful when its twelfth season debuted Sept. 17, 1966. For the first time, the adventures of Marshal Matt Dillon, Miss Kitty, Doc, Festus, and the gang would be ...

Stepping onto the Kansas Gunsmoke Trail is like riding straight into television history. The trail blends authentic Wild West ...

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, ...

With over 600 episodes of this classic Western television program, it’s hard to nail down one episode that changed everything for Gunsmoke. After all, so many of these Western adventures are ...

Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) stands beside an outlaw in Dodge City in the 'Gunsmoke' episode "Seven Hours to Dawn" Image via CBS With literally hundreds of episodes to choose from, picking the ...

Offscreen, James Arness traded Dodge City’s saloon dust for the comfort of his own king-size bed. Photographed in 1956, the towering Gunsmoke star relaxes with a script for an upcoming episode, ...

Annette O'Toole has been working in Hollywood for decades. One of her first jobs was on the iconic Western TV series 'Gunsmoke.' O’Toole played a character named Edda Sprague in the season 16 episode ...