Busey starred as doomed cowboy Harve Daley, playing a surprisingly significant role in the show's closing act.

Gunsmoke aired from 1955–75. One of the first TV Westerns geared toward adults, the show was a huge hit for CBS. It centered on Matt Dillon (James Arness), a U.S. Marshal in the frontier town of Dodge ...

When big-screen legend Bette Davis rode into Dodge City for a small-screen guest appearance on Gunsmoke, it was destined to ...

The CBS series Gunsmoke was set in the frontier town of Dodge City, Kansas. The show revolved around U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness), Deputy Chester (Dennis Weaver), Doc Adams (Milburn Stone), ...

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 ...

(CBS) James Arness, the tall, iconic actor best known for playing Marshal Matt Dillon on the long-running television series "Gunsmoke," has died. He was 88. The Los Angeles Times reports the actor ...

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, ...

For the first nine seasons of Gunsmoke, James Arness' Marshal Matt Dillon was joined on the job by the lovable (albeit simple) Chester Goode, played remarkably by Dennis Weaver. A faithful and ...

The 6-foot-7 actor towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Old West lawman Marshal Matt Dillon. He was 88. James Arness, the Minnesota city boy who became television's ...