James Arness

Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them!? The terror begins when a hard-nosed patrolman (James Whitmore) discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. Whitmore next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing...

Marshal Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the wild west where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, standover tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgement and brave actions: of which Marshal Dillon has plenty.

Blood Alley: A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. The sea chase: As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.

Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order...

A family saga focusing on the lives of the Macahan family in the Old West. Their stories are played out against a realistic recreation of the American West in that lusty, hard-hitting period when laws were frequently broken and progress was charted by individual suffering and survival.

"From Boot Hill to the Kansas plains, Marshal Matt Dillon rides tall in the saddle as he joins cantankerous Doc Adams, game-but-gullible Chester B. Goode and the first lady of Dodge City, Miss Kitty Russell"--Container.

legendary Marshal Matt Dillon on the hunt for a new crop of outlaws, including a ruthless gang of bank robbers, a notorious sharpshooter and a murderous musician. Fighting alongside this frontier gunslinger are medicine man Doc Adams, the Long Branch Saloon's Miss Kitty and loyal deputy Festus Haggen. When it comes to heroes, the best in the west all hail from Dodge City.

"Thanks to shoot-from-the-hip United States Marshal Matt Dillon and stalwart deputy Chester Goode, the residents of Dodge City were able to sleep peacefully through the night knowing that they would be kept safe from clueless reformers, killer bank robbers, and kidnappers with mayhem on their minds"--Container.

"It's never a dull day in Dodge City, Kansas. Luckily, the era's best frontier lawman is on duty, Marshal Matt Dillon, a steadfast hero determined to keep the peace as only he knows how. Alongside is Dillon's dedicated deputy, Chester, town saloon gal Miss Kitty and ornery Doc Adams"--Container.

"TV's longest running western returns. In the history of American popular culture, Gunsmoke rightly staked its claim as a television landmark. In addition to gunfights and saloon brawls, it also concentrated on character relationships and psychological drama"--Container.