A long-running TV show with a huge library of episodes making Nielsen’s streaming charts is nothing unusual. It happens multiple times each week, in fact.
But a show making the streaming top 10 almost half a century after it last aired? That is a horse of a different color — or black and white, as the case may be.
Gunsmoke, which had a 20-season run on CBS from 1955-75, claimed a spot among the top 10 acquired series on streaming for the week of March 3-9. The show, which streams on Paramount+ and Peacock (which together carry 404 of Gunsmoke’s 635 episodes), amassed 646 million minutes of viewing time for the week, good for eighth place among library shows. Not surprisingly, the show’s audience skews older than the average streaming series: Nielsen says about half its viewers are 65 or older.
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