An actor best known for working in sci-fi made a guest appearance on the final episode of Gunsmoke, but that wasn't his last ...

The re-introduction of Festus Haggen was a nice segue into the harder questions Gunsmoke started to address in its first decade on air. In 1964 "Prairie Wolfer" looked at the ambiguity of decision ...

It’s true — where there’s Gunsmoke, there’s fire ... Goode, and Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen. Over its 635 episodes — initially half-hour black and white ones but transitioning to ...