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The western drama "Gunsmoke" premiered 70 years ago, airing for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975.

MeTV is celebrating the anniversary by airing specially selected episodes, themed weeks, and movies throughout the month.

Seventy years ago this week, on Sept. 10, 1955, CBS-TV premiered the western drama series "Gunsmoke," set in Kansas and starring James Arness as Matt Dillon, a tough-as-nails U.S. marshal.

A TV station available locally is celebrating the anniversary by airing some memorable episodes of that program, the longest-running scripted TV drama of its time.

MeTV, which airs "Gunsmoke" at noon Topeka time on weekdays, since Aug. 30 has hosted a "month-long hootenanny full of specially selected episodes, themed weeks, and made-for-TV movies," it said on its w

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