Movies
Your profile of Boetticher was a superb job on one of our premier Western directors, with one glaring exception: the reference to Charles Marquis Warren as the “creator” of “Gunsmoke,” a too-oft-repeated error.
Dec. 13, 1992
Obituaries
James Arness is best known for his role as Marshal Matt Dillon in ‘Gunsmoke,’ one of the longest-running prime-time series in network TV history. He was a towering symbol of frontier justice in the series that broke the mold for TV westerns.
March 16, 2014
MeTV, Antenna TV, INSP and Cozi TV are among the new broadcast/cable networks serving up a steady diet of ‘Bewitched,’ ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Gilligan’s Island’ and other old favorites.
June 28, 2014
James Arness dies at 88; TV’s Marshal Dillon on landmark ‘Gunsmoke’ series
June 4, 2011
Show Tracker
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June 3, 2011
Entertainment & Arts
TV or not TV. . . .
Aug. 20, 1991
Television
Whether anything good and long-lasting will come out of the new television season that soon will be upon us, no one can know at this point.
Aug. 19, 1995
“I Love Lucy,” which originally aired on CBS, was the highest rated show of its time.
Aug. 13, 1993
Ken Curtis, who as a boy helped out in his father’s jail in Colorado and as a character named Festus Haggen performed similar work for Marshal Matt Dillon in “Gunsmoke,” is dead.
April 30, 1991
Music
Four decades after he was last paid to say them, George Walsh still rattles off thewords in the steady, measured tone once familiar to listeners nationwide: “Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that’s with a U.S. marshal and the smell of ‘Gunsmoke.’ ” At that point the music swelled, a shot rang out and ricocheted, and the radio show that gained even more fame later on TV was on the air for another week.
Sept. 8, 2000