While Taylor Sheridan has, without a doubt, defined the modern Western genre for TV and film, especially thanks to Yellowstone, this authentic classic laid the foundation decades before and has now ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Would you have enjoyed a visit from John Wayne to your living room every Saturday night? If the producers of "Gunsmoke" had gotten their wish granted, that's just what would have happened, as The Duke ...

Carl Amari and Lisa Wolf bring you the best from the Golden Age of Radio on the WGN Radio Theatre from January 17, 2016. This week: The Burns & Allen Show: Keep George From Decision (2/19/48); Crime ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actor James Arness, who became a television icon with his role as Marshal Matt Dillon in the long-running television series “Gunsmoke,” died today at age 88. On his website, www.jamesarness.com, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weigel Broadcasting has announced a fall launch for WEST (Western Entertainment Series Television), a new network that will be ...

Nina Capriola, speaking for the Actors Collective, says “Gunsmoked” — a lovingly funny parody of “Gunsmoke” and the TV western in general — is the next in line of the TV-style pieces they”ve explored.

James Arness, the 6-foot-6 actor who towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Dodge City lawman Matt Dillon in “Gunsmoke,” died Friday. He was 88. The actor died in his sleep ...

When it comes to classic TV Western programs, there was never a series quite like Maverick. The Roy Huggins-created drama dealt largely in humorous takes on the Old West genre, spanning five seasons ...