If you’ve ever heard the phrase, "Get out of Dodge" and wondered where that came from, chances are your research will take you back to Gunsmoke. The famed Western giant of a TV show ran for 20 ...

Like all genres, it's tough for a TV Western to stay consistent for multiple seasons. Here are 10 that did just that, and ...

Of all the great, classic Western television shows out there, it's hard to pick any one of them and label it "the best." So many of them have their merits, after all. Have Gun — Will Travel featured ...

The Western genre had its time in the sun, earning the attention of audiences across the country. John Wayne’s career is sufficient proof of this on the silver screen, but it also saw a significant ...

Western television built some of the medium’s most enduring hits. A look back shows how these series changed prime-time ...

According to John Peel’s book, The Gunsmoke Years, the Western encountered some serious hardships over the course of its airing. It went from having massive success to “slumping” in the ratings, which ...

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

James Arness, the towering actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon, the strong and commanding symbol of frontier justice on the landmark TV western series “Gunsmoke,” died Friday. He was ...

The longest-running primetime series in history, The Simpsons, has already been turned into its own feature film. Now it's time for the runner-up to take a shot. Gunsmoke, the Western series that ran ...

On June 3, 2011, legendary Western actor James Arness, best known for his role as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon on the television ...