Showing posts with label #Gunsmoke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Gunsmoke. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

#1 in 1960: Gunsmoke


 

Gunsmoke would have its final year as the number one show in America. The show's popularity didn't really decline, though the glut of Westerns on television would begin to affect all of them in the ratings.

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

#1 in 1959: Gunsmoke


 

Miss Kitty and the Gunsmoke gang would enter their final two years on top- coincidentally their final two years as a thirty minute show. Soon a cavalcade of westerns would hit the airwaves.

Friday, February 24, 2017

#1 in 1958: Gunsmoke


 

By its third season, Gunsmoke had taken its place at the top of the ratings, settling in for the long haul. America had fallen in love with Marshall Dillon and the woman of questionable employment Miss Kitty.

Thursday, February 23, 2017

#1 in 1957: Gunsmoke


 

The country would begin its infatuation with westerns in the mid-1950's. The granddaddy of them all was Gunsmoke, which would begin a staggering twenty year run in 1955. In 1957 it would finally reach the ratings peak of #1.