Buffy star James Marsters has said that Spike would not have survived long without some behind-the-scenes British accent ...

Gunsmoke aired its series finale on March 31, 1975, and decades later, fans still don't want to get out of Dodge. The Emmy-winning Western, based on the eponymous radio show, premiered on CBS on Sept.

The star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke (1955). Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness (formerly had been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to ...

After playing Marshal Matt Dillon for two decades on the hit CBS Western Gunsmoke, James Arness was suddenly without a job when the network axed the series without warning after 20 seasons. But did ...

Because the show was on so long, Gunsmoke holds a number of records. Both James Arness and Milburn Stone played their characters for 20 years, a feat only recently surpassed by Mariska Hargitay on Law ...

On Sept. 10, 1955, the Western premiered on CBS before kicking off a 20-season, 635-episode run. By Hal Landers On Sept. 10, 1955, the iconic Western series Gunsmoke premiered on CBS from 10 ...

"Not everything that is faced can be changed," James Baldwin famously explained in 1962, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced." At the time the late author, who is profiled in a new biography ...

In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously researched biography of James Baldwin, the great writer’s search for the source of his art dovetails with his lifelong search for meaningful relationships.

It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall — all 6 feet, 6 inches of him — on "Gunsmoke" from 1955 ...