During Gunsmoke's 16th season, the Western giant aired a two-part episode called "Pike" in March 1971, which doubled as a season finale. Sometimes called "Dirty Sally" on streaming, the two-parter ...

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 ...

“Gunsmoke,” the legendary TV series that ran for two decades, had the spotlight in 1966 and 1967 with the rodeo-circuit entertainment duo of Colorado boy Ken Curtis (Deputy Festus Haggen) and ...

"Gunsmoke" featured "iconic characters telling the story of frontier life in the Old West," said a news release put out last week by Visit Wichita, which is teaming up to offer the trail with the ...

He made few films during the 20-year "Gunsmoke" run. (There were 635 episodes produced in the series over its long tenure.) Arness was nominated for three Emmys over those 20 years and reprised ...

The "Gunsmoke" TV series debuted in 1955 and ran strong for 635 episodes over the course of 20 full seasons. It finally drew to a close in 1975, but even then, the franchise wasn't done.