Gunsmoke went from a successful radio show to earning high ratings on television screens across the country. Longtime fans were initially upset that the production didn’t bring the radio actors back ...

Matt Dillon has come to Texas. For the better part of a month, he has traveled through the rock and cactus of Southwest Texas, kicking up the same caliche dust as Gus McRae and the Hat Creek Outfit of ...

Pam Polifroni, a longtime casting director for “Gunsmoke” who gave early acting roles to Jodie Foster, Jon Voight, Loretta Swit and others, has died. She was 90. Polifroni died in Columbus, Ohio, on ...

Gunsmoke was originally a radio show that was adapted into a television show. However, the casting process wasn’t so simple. A long line of men tried out to play U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, but Arness ...

Seventy years ago, on September 10, 1955, a gunfighter named Matt Dillon first strode into Dodge City on CBS, Gunsmoke, helping to change the nature of TV Westerns, eventually running for 20 years, ...

Offscreen, James Arness traded Dodge City’s saloon dust for the comfort of his own king-size bed. Photographed in 1956, the towering Gunsmoke star relaxes with a script for an upcoming episode, ...