Pam Polifroni, a longtime casting director for “Gunsmoke” who gave early acting roles to Jodie Foster, Jon Voight, Loretta Swit and others, has died. She was 90. Polifroni died in Columbus, Ohio, on ...

Gunsmoke was originally a radio show that was adapted into a television show. However, the casting process wasn’t so simple. A long line of men tried out to play U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, but Arness ...

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, ...

Matt Dillon has come to Texas. For the better part of a month, he has traveled through the rock and cactus of Southwest Texas, kicking up the same caliche dust as Gus McRae and the Hat Creek Outfit of ...

Fox has ordered two more seasons of "The Simpsons" that will make the animated hit the longest-running series in primetime TV history. The 44-episode pickup will bring the show to a whopping 493 ...

In the 1950s and '60s, television Westerns were all the rage. Each of the Big Three networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) had their fair share of horse operas, with one of the biggest being Gunsmoke. The ...