This summer, as the Black Lives Matter protests overlapped with “safer at home” practices, I slipped into binge-watching the old TV western, “Gunsmoke” — in particular, the pioneer episodes of the ...
Western television built some of the medium’s most enduring hits. A look back shows how these series changed prime-time ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Offscreen, James Arness traded Dodge City’s saloon dust for the comfort of his own king-size bed. Photographed in 1956, the ...
A close-up of John Wayne in his cowboy getup in the first episode of 'Gunsmoke' titled "Matt Gets It" Image via CBS If you're at all familiar with television Westerns, then you'd undoubtedly have ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As classic 1950s episodes of “Gunsmoke” make it into the Nielsen streaming rankers, Weigel Broadcasting is capitalizing on the ...
When he was a little kid growing up in Collins, Mississippi in the early 1950s, Gerald McRaney and his dad would sit by the radio every week to listen to William Conrad as Sheriff Matt Dillon in the ...