Wichita proudly wears its Wild West roots and Gunsmoke connection. In Gunsmoke’s Season Nine episode “Dirt,” Festus and Quint ...

The streets of Dodge City weren’t always a backdrop for television’s Gunsmoke. They were once a real battleground of the Wild ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

CBS Films has hired Gregory Poirier (National Treasure: Book of Secrets) to write a movie based on the TV show Gunsmoke, says The Hollywood Reporter. The original Western series, the longest-running ...