Westerns describe series featuring recurring characters usually situated in the early American frontier.
Western Series
"If Matt Dillon had to shoot somebody, you’d cut around to him, you could see that he had just hated to have to do that. He felt a sort of revulsion over it. That’s something I think hadn’t really been done much at all up to that point." - James Arness, "Gunsmoke's" Matt Dillon
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Highlights
Announcer Fred Foy performs the memorable opening narration that he did for both radio and TV's "The Lone Ranger" (03m 18s)
James Arness on the concept of Gunsmoke as the first TV Western geared more to adults than children; the process of filming an episode (03m 14s)
Barbara Eden on one of her first TV jobs on Gunsmoke (00m 58s)
Fred Silverman on how CBS Chair William S. Paley insisted on keeping his favorite show, Gunsmoke, on the air (01m 00s)
Leonard Nimoy on his guest appearances on Bonanza and a television movie revival (acting with character actor Ben Johnson) (02m 24s)
Thomas W. Sarnoff on NBC's development of Bonanza (04m 41s)
Gene Reynolds on the beginning of the series Bonzana , when he was a casting director, how he became a director on Peter Gunn- James Arness on the amount of violence on Gunsmoke (01m 42s)
Actor Hugh O'Brian on appearing as a guest-star on the premiere episode of The Virginian (02m 43s)
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