The various Gunsmoke opening themes highlighted the cast, including Arness as Matt Dillon. It played some adventurous Western music, but the production changed over its 20-season run from 1955-1975.

Once you've visited Dodge City, you find that it - and the classic TV show that called it home, Gunsmoke - never really leaves you. It might have something to do with the fact that it aired for 20 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Matt Dillon/James Arness is comfort food for viewers,” he explains. “And not just for the older demographic who grew up on it.

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 ...

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, ...