According to an interview with San Jose Mercury News, Arness called 1970’s “Chato” his favorite Gunsmoke episode of all time. Season 16 episode 1 was directed by Vincent McEveety and written ...

Matt Dillon and saloon owner Kitty Russell had amazing chemistry on screen in Gunsmoke, but there's a reason why that romance ...

In a brand-new TV Legends Revealed, find out whether Gunsmoke needed to make special guns because James Arness' hands were so ...

However, it did ultimately reduce its episode times back down to 60 minutes after some time. However, Arness hated the idea of making Gunsmoke a 90-minute affair and pushed against it. He didn’t ...

James Arness, the towering actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon, the strong and commanding symbol of frontier justice on the landmark TV western series “Gunsmoke,” died Friday.

A son shared stories about his father serving in the Army with James Arness during World War II and another reader set a goal ...

(CBS) James Arness, the tall, iconic actor best known ... over those 20 years and reprised his role as Dillon in made-for-TV "Gunsmoke" movies in the 1980s and 1990s. He also starred in mini ...

James Arness, a great Sequoia tree in the forest of TV Western heroes, has died; he was 88. Arness is immortal in TV history as Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, the longest-running network drama ...

James Arness, 88, the iconic actor who rode ... the Western remains unsurpassed in the number of total episodes -- 635. "Gunsmoke," which launched Sept. 10, 1955, aired on three nights, Saturdays ...

James Arness, the towering actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon, the strong and commanding symbol of frontier justice on the landmark TV western series “Gunsmoke,” died Friday.

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor James Arness, the tall man who towered over TV screens for 20 seasons as the iconic Marshal Matt Dillon on CBS’ Gunsmoke, has died. He was 88. As the stoic Marshal ...

James Arness, who presided over the frontier ... Neither show is within 150 episodes of “Gunsmoke’s” total of 635. As the show evolved, the opening credits changed from a main-street ...