The mythic west. Sprawling, violent, gorgeous. The enlargement of Us citizens into this huge panorama was America’s very own Illiad, its own Odyssey. These legendary times had been immortalized in display and print straight down the decades but maybe its best canvas was the air waves. And Gunsmoke was possibly the greatest of its breed of dog. Now good versus bad, the epic legend from the American west is back over the airwaves.