One of television's best-kept secrets (that nobody went out of their way to keep secret) is the fact that Peter Graves and James Arness, two of the most iconic leading men of their era, were real-life ...

Gunsmoke stands as one of the most influential television series in American history. Premiering in 1955, it brought the Old West into living rooms across the country, offering a gritty, grounded ...

In 1953, Gunsmoke was released, a Western that, by all accounts, was a star-studded affair, inspired by the 1951 Norman A. Fox novel, Roughshod. It mastered the tropes of a genre on the rise and could ...