Final ‘Gunsmoke’ episode airs on CBS-TV 40 years ago this hour (Mar 31 1975)


Video: 'Gunsmoke S20 E24 The Sharecroppers'

(Monday, March 31, 1975, 8:00 p.m. EST) — A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers as the television Western drama series Gunsmoke closed out 20 seasons on CBS with its final first-run episode, “The Sharecroppers.”