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 ...

If there's a genre of television that is associated with being iconically American, the Western would be the top contender. Visions of saloon doors swinging open as a spur-spangled stranger stands in ...

When considering the vast catalog of Western television programs, there is only one series that reigns not only as the leading champion of the televised genre, but sits on the throne as the "gold ...

When Gunsmoke first rode onto TV screens on September 10, 1955, no one could have predicted it would run for 20 years and more than 600 episodes — or that the show would still be airing daily on ...

The Western genre evolved in the 1970s with groundbreaking TV shows like Little House on the Prairie and Kung Fu that ...