As the "Prairie Wolfer", a cleared Festus departs Dodge City but answers Dillon if he'll return: "Well, I reckon I will one of these days. Fact is, you can pretty near count on it, Marshal." When ...

Truth is, Chester allowed Festus to become Marshal Dillon's deputy because the actor playing Chester, Dennis Weaver, left to star in his own show.

James Arness, who presided over the frontier town of Dodge City as television’s most enduring western hero, the laconic, fair-minded and incorruptible Marshal Matt Dillon of the two-decade-long ...

Promotional portrait of the cast of the American television series ‘Gunsmoke,’ July 23, 1969. Foreground, American actors James Arness (Marshal Matt Dillon) and Amanda Blake (1929 – 1989 ...

U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) originally had Chester as his royal right-hand man. However, Weaver ultimately thought that he took the character as far as he could take him.

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Jane Marshall Dillon, 85, a Northern Virginia equestrian, riding teacher and horse breeder who had served on the board of the Washington International Horse Show, died Nov. 15 at her home at ...

It looked like the set of "Gunsmoke" the past few days at the Oklahoma City Gun Club, only Marshal Dillon, Festus and Miss Kitty weren't there. However, there were plenty of people dressed like them.

Naji Marshall names Dillon Brooks among select few ‘real dogs’ of NBA “Dillon Brooks is a dog,” Dallas forward Naji Marshall says of his veteran counterpart in Houston. “I give it to him.