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  2. Jun 26, 2022 · Here's why classic Western series Gunsmoke was canceled after 20 years and didn't receive a finale episode. Before it became a TV show, Gunsmoke started life as a radio program.

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    After its last original airing on March 31, 1975, Gunsmoke was canceled after a 20-year run (with reruns continuing to air until September), even though it still ranked among the top 30 programs in the ratings; the Mary Tyler Moore spin-offs Rhoda (which was going into its second year in the Fall-1975 season) and Phyllis (a fall-1975 freshman ...

  4. Apr 25, 2024 · CBS had been trying to cancel Gunsmoke for years, ending the series with an underwhelming finale. Despite the strange ending, Gunsmoke went on to be revived with TV movies, keeping Marshal...

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  5. Gunsmoke, American television western that aired on CBS for 20 seasons (195575), becoming the longest-running TV western in history. Set in Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1890s, it centered on the character of Matt Dillon, a U.S. marshal charged with maintaining law and order in a frontier town.

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  6. Jan 18, 2023 · The end of Gunsmoke was an episode featuring Ken Curtis’ Festus Haggen at the center. Director Leonard Katzman’s “The Sharecroppers” was season 20 episode 24, airing on March 31, 1975.

  7. Aug 10, 2023 · Gunsmoke was the Western TV show that made Burt Reynolds a star, but the '70s icon left the series after just 3 years. ' Gunsmoke remains one of the longest-running television series in history and was popular well before Reynolds was made part of the cast by following Marshal Dillon (James Arness) as he attempts to keep lawlessness from ...

  8. Aug 25, 1995 · There were 30 TV Westerns when the show expanded from 30 minutes to an hour in 1961, but when it was all over, on Sept. 1, 1975, Gunsmoke was the last one left standing.

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