“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 ...

When John Meston created "Gunsmoke" for radio in 1952, he intended it for a mature audience, given the no-nonsense fierceness of its protagonist, Marshal Matt Dillon, and the lowlife, sadistic ...

In the 1950s and '60s, television Westerns were all the rage. Each of the Big Three networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) had their fair share of horse operas, with one of the biggest being Gunsmoke. The ...

If you're at all familiar with television Westerns, then you'd undoubtedly have heard of Gunsmoke. The long-running horse opera premiered on CBS in 1955 and ran through 1975, spanning for 20 years on ...