Gunsmoke (1955)
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Episode 1 - Lyle's Kid
Release Date: 1968-09-23Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for his hands.
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Episode 2 - The Hide Cutters
Release Date: 1968-09-30Festus is rescued from a rock avalanche by a young hide cutter. His fellow cutters are following a herd of cattle with hopes of stealing them for the hides.
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Episode 3 - Zavala
Release Date: 1968-10-07Good western. Mostly action, not too much girl stuff. Gunplay by Dillon very very good in this one. Story is about Dillon taking a warrant into Mexico. He finds the culprit and outdraws him. One of the latter's gang members travels back to the US and tells Jim Davis that Dillon killed his brother. Davis responds with violence, then rides into Mexico and faces Dillon. The human interest part of this movie centers about the likeable Mexican kid, ""Paco"". Dillon and him get along so good that I'm wondering about the sexuality of one of the film bosses. About Rico Alaniz... top-notch performance. He's the guy who, in the movie ""Magnificent Seven"", was always saying 'no, don't anger Calvera, give him what he wants"".
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Episode 4 - Uncle Finney
Release Date: 1968-10-14A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.
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Episode 5 - Slocum
Release Date: 1968-10-21Grizzily mountain man, Slocum tracks the sons of a man who tried to bushwhack his good friend, Matt Dillon.
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Episode 6 - O'Quillian
Release Date: 1968-10-28Leary O'Quillan kills a card cheat in self defense and is pursued to Dodge by the man's brother, Clay Tynan.
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Episode 7 - 9:12 to Dodge
Release Date: 1968-11-11Matt and Doc are escorting outlaw Johnny August by train to trail for murder. Also on board and waiting along the line are his men waiting for a chance to free him.
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Episode 8 - Abelia
Release Date: 1968-11-18A young woman and her kids and Festus are held hostage from a man Matt is trying to find.
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Episode 9 - Railroad!
Release Date: 1968-11-25Matt clashes with maverick railroad builder Wes Cameron and his wild men running a railroad line through Dodge.
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Episode 10 - The Miracle Man
Release Date: 1968-12-02Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.
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Episode 11 - Waco
Release Date: 1968-12-09While bringing in outlaw, Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with his outlaw band following them while he has to deliver a baby.
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Episode 12 - Lobo
Release Date: 1968-12-16Mountain man Luke Brazo joins Matt in a hunt for a vicious wolf terrorizing the area.
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Episode 13 - Johnny Cross
Release Date: 1968-12-23Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
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Episode 14 - The Money Store
Release Date: 1968-12-30When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.
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Episode 15 - The Twisted Heritage
Release Date: 1968-01-06Kitty saves the life of a man during a stage hold-up, taking him back to his ranch she finds his mother a ruthless matron and his daughter alienated from her father.
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Episode 16 - Time of the Jackals
Release Date: 1969-01-13A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.
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Episode 17 - Mannon
Release Date: 1969-01-20Gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge, after shooting Festus and taking his mule, to face Matt in a gunfight.
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Episode 18 - Gold Town
Release Date: 1969-01-27Will Mannon, a sharpshooter who rode with Quantrill's Raiders, terrorizes Dodge City as he waits for Matt to return and face him in a showdown.
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Episode 19 - The Mark of Cain
Release Date: 1969-02-03A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.
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Episode 20 - Reprisal
Release Date: 1969-02-10Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder and delivering a baby. He choses to save the man first, and the baby dies in childbirth. The baby's father, Tom Butler blames Doc and plans to get even.
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Episode 21 - The Long Night
Release Date: 1969-02-17Three bounty hunters hold hostages in the Long Branch to get Matt to turn over a prisoner to them.
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Episode 22 - The Night Riders
Release Date: 1969-02-24Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.
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Episode 23 - The Intruder
Release Date: 1969-03-03Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Riley's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.
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Episode 24 - The Good Samaritans
Release Date: 1969-03-10Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a Judge that will hang a man, the man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Meanwhile, Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading West, and now being pursued by the hunters.
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Episode 25 - The Prisoner
Release Date: 1969-03-17Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.
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Episode 26 - Exodus 21.22
Release Date: 1969-03-24A friend of Matt's, a former lawman arrives in Dodge to kill the men responsible for his wife's death.