There have been some brilliant villains in Western TV shows, but the best of them is this iconic single-episode character ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MeTV is celebrating with a monthlong marathon that will last from Saturday, August 30, to Saturday, September 27. Every week, the network will select a theme and air correlating episodes each weekday ...

Streaming gets attention for buzzy originals, but viewing of classics accounts for a large chunk of the total audience. Nielsen acknowledged as much Monday by including shoutouts to two legacy titles, ...