MeTV Celebrates Gunsmoke's 70th Anniversary (2025)

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This year, in honor of Gunsmoke's 70th Anniversary, MeTV is celebrating with a month-long celebration featuring select episodes of TV's most popular western series, and all of the post-TV movies every Saturday!

List of highlights, all times Eastern:

August 30th:

11am-Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (OAD: September 26, 1987)
1pm-S19E3: "Matt's Love Story" (OAD: September 24, 1973)

September 1-5 (A Week of Firsts):

September 1st-

1pm-S1E1: "Matt Gets It" (OAD: September 10, 1955)
1:30pm-S3E24: "The Cabin" (OAD: February 22, 1958)

September 2nd-

1pm-S7E1: "Perce" (OAD: September 30, 1961)

September 3rd-

1pm-S8E13: "Us Haggens" (OAD: December 8, 1962)

September 4th-

1pm-S8E3: "Quint Asper Comes Home" (OAD: September 29, 1962)

September 5th-

1pm-S13E9: "The Pillagers" (OAD: November 6, 1967)

September 6th-

11am-Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (OAD: March 18, 1990)
1pm-S12E1: "Snap Decision" (OAD: September 17, 1966)

September 8-12 (Best of Matt Dillon):

September 8th-

1pm-S7E22: "The Gallows" (OAD: March 3, 1962)

September 9th-

1pm-S9E26: "Caleb" (OAD: March 28, 1964)

September 10th-

1pm-S16E4: "Sam McTavish, M.D." (OAD: October 5, 1970)

September 11th-

1pm-S11E1: "Seven Hours to Dawn" (OAD: September 18, 1965)

September 12th-

1pm-S8E29: "With a Smile" (OAD: March 30, 1963)

September 13th-

11am-Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (OAD: January 10, 1992)
1pm-S16E1: "Chato" (OAD: September 14, 1970)

September 15-19 (Best Characters of Dodge City):

September 15th-

1pm-S3E14: "Doc's Reward" (OAD: December 14, 1957)
1:30pm-S5E22: "Doc Judge" (OAD: February 6, 1960)

September 16th-

1pm-S13E15: "Baker's Dozen" (OAD: December 25, 1967)

September 17th-

1pm-S11E22: "Wishbone" (OAD: February 19, 1966)

September 18th-

1pm-S9E28: "Bently" (OAD: April 11, 1964)

September 19th-

1pm-S19E11: "The Hanging of Newly O'Brien" (OAD: November 26, 1973)

September 20th-

11am-Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (OAD: May 8, 1993)
1pm-S10E2: "Crooked Mile" (OAD: October 3, 1964)

September 22-26 (Guest Stars)

September 22nd:

1pm-S12E3: "The Jailer" (OAD: October 1, 1966) [Guest Star: Bette Davis]

September 23rd:

1pm-S15E7: "Charlie Noon" (OAD: November 3, 1969) [Guest Star: Ron Howard]

September 24th:

1pm-S11E29: "Treasure of John Walking Fox" (OAD: April 16, 1966) [Guest Star: Leonard Nimoy]

September 25th:

1pm-S18E19: "A Quiet Day in Dodge" (OAD: January 29, 1973) [Guest Stars: Margaret Hamilton, Willie Aames and J. Pat O'Malley]

September 26th:

1pm-S8E23: "Ash" (OAD: February 16, 1963) [Guest Star: Adam West]

September 27th:

11am-Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (OAD: February 10, 1994)
1pm-S20E24: "The Sharecroppers" (OAD: March 31, 1975)

Watch Gunsmoke Mondays-Saturdays at 1pm ET on MeTV.