Gunsmoke - Season 3

Season 3 of Gunsmoke on television, 1957-58, was the first of 4 consecutive seasons at the #1 show on network prime time television.  Gunsmoke aired on CBS at 10pm on Saturday night.

Buffalo Man

Season 3 episode 18

aired January 11th 1958

(with Jack Klugman as Ticks and John Anderson as Siple)

John Anderson was honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and presented with a Western Heritage Award in 1967 for his years of work in television and movie westerns.
The long fight scene filmed for this episode was used by the U.S.C Film School as well as other film schools in the US to train student film editors.