Editing Gunsmoke (section)

=== Syndication ===
In syndication, the entire 20-year run of ''Gunsmoke'' is separated into three packages by [[CBS Media Ventures]]:
* '''1955–1961 half-hour episodes''': These episodes are sometimes seen in their original format and sometimes in the ''Marshal Dillon'' format. When first-run, prime-time episodes of ''Gunsmoke'' expanded to an hour in fall 1961, CBS-TV reran the half-hour episodes as ''Marshal Dillon'' on the network on Tuesday nights from 1961 through 1964. These were later rerun in syndication. General syndication ended in the 1980s, but they do air occasionally on cable television. Local stations would show the retitled ''Marshal Dillon'' version of the series, while the series under the original ''Gunsmoke'' title (with some episodes under the ''Marshal Dillon'' retitling) were seen in the late 1990s on [[TV Land]] and later [[Hallmark Channel]]. STARZ! [[Encore (TV channel)#Channels|Westerns]] Channel aired this version under the ''Marshal Dillon'' title. [[RetroPlex]] also aired two half-hour episodes under the original ''Gunsmoke'' title, although the episodes are advertised as ''Marshal Dillon'', on Saturday nights from 8 to 9 pm Eastern time. [[MeTV]] announced that it would begin the half-hour black-and-white episodes beginning on January 2, 2017.
* '''1961–1966 one-hour black-and-white episodes''': These episodes have not been widely seen in regular syndication since the 1980s, although selected episodes did air from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s on [[Freeform (TV channel)|CBN Cable/The Family Channel]], and later on Encore Westerns on a three-year contract that ended around 2006. As of January 2010, Encore Westerns was again airing the episodes. In October 2015, MeTV announced that it would begin airing the one-hour black-and-white episodes on October 26.<ref>[http://www.metv.com/lists/6-classic-black-and-white-episodes-of-gunsmoke Classic black and white episodes of ''Gunsmoke''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151021235705/http://metv.com/lists/6-classic-black-and-white-episodes-of-gunsmoke |date=October 21, 2015 }} at MeTV.com</ref>
* '''1966–1975 one-hour color episodes''': The last nine seasons of the Western, the most widely syndicated episodes of the entire series run, are still aired on some local stations, and nationally on TV Land and MeTV.

The program currently airs on three major venues: [[TV Land]], which has carried the show since its inception in 1996, [[INSP (TV network)|INSP]], and [[Weigel Broadcasting]]'s [[MeTV]] [[digital subchannel]] network. Individual stations such as [[KFWD]] in Dallas also carry the series in their markets. It has also been shown on satellite channel CBS Action in the UK, Ireland, and Poland.