Gunsmoke got a whole lot more colorful when its twelfth season debuted Sept. 17, 1966. For the first time, the adventures of Marshal Matt Dillon, Miss Kitty, Doc, Festus, and the gang would be ...
For 20 years, television audiences rode into Dodge City with Marshal Matt Dillon on a weekly basis, and when Gunsmoke finally ended in 1975, James Arness had quietly become one of the most familiar ...
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 ...