Gunsmoke

About Gunsmoke

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.

Gunsmoke is an action-adventure and western series made for CBS. James Arness stars as Marshal Matt Dillon, Amanda Blake as Kitty, Ken Curtis as Festus, and Milburn Stone as Doc.

It ran for 20 seasons and 635 episodes between September 1955 and March 1975. That is around 32 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under wild west, 19th century, gun fights, and marshal. It streams on Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV channel, and Paramount Plus Essential in the United States. It scores 6.7 out of 10 from 119 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-G rating.

1883, Little House on the Prairie, and Deadwood make useful companions to Gunsmoke.