Gunsmoke
Get out of Dodge!
Created by John Meston
On CBS
A long-running Western procedural centered on a marshal maintaining order in a frontier town, balancing episodic case resolution with occasional deeper character work across 635 episodes.
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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