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 - Friend's Pay-Off
Release Date: 1960-09-03Matt is summoned to help an old friend, Ab Butler, who has been shot in the back and left for dead. However, Matt faces a difficult situation when Ab's partner shows up and tells his side of the story.
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Episode 2 - The Blacksmith
Release Date: 1960-09-17Troublemakers trick an immigrant blacksmith into leaving his house on his wedding night, then burn it down.
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Episode 3 - Small Water
Release Date: 1960-09-24Matt arrests Finn Pickett after recognizing his face from a wanted poster. On the way back to Dodge, Pickett's vengeful sons try to free their father as Matt and Chester face a water shortage.
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Episode 4 - Say Uncle
Release Date: 1960-10-01Lee Nagel suspects his visiting uncle of murder when his father is killed in their store in an apparent accident.
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Episode 5 - Shooting Stopover
Release Date: 1960-10-08While transporting a prisoner with Chester on a stagecoach to Wichita, Matt learns that the stagecoach is also carrying a shipment of gold, and he suspects the coach might be targeted by outlaws.
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Episode 6 - The Peace Officer
Release Date: 1960-10-15Matt is called in to deal with a corrupt sheriff in Tascosa.
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Episode 7 - Don Matteo
Release Date: 1960-10-22Matt's old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.
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Episode 8 - The Worm
Release Date: 1960-10-29Murders follow when a buffalo hunter and his browbeaten partner come to town.
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Episode 9 - The Badge
Release Date: 1960-11-12Out on the prairie, Matt is shot and taken captive by two outlaws, one of whom is a weakling abused and bossed around by the other.
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Episode 10 - Distant Drummer
Release Date: 1960-11-19A young army drummer named Raffie is terrorized by two bullying mule skinners.
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Episode 11 - Ben Tolliver's Stud
Release Date: 1960-11-26Jake Creed accuses his young hired hand, Ben Tolliver, of horse theft.
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Episode 12 - No Chip
Release Date: 1960-12-03The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.
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Episode 13 - The Wake
Release Date: 1960-12-10Gus Mather arrives in Dodge in a wagon, carrying the coffin of his best friend, Orson Boggs, to give him a proper wake. There's only one problem: according to Mrs. Boggs, her late husband didn't have any friends.
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Episode 14 - The Cook
Release Date: 1960-12-17A young drifter takes a job as cook at Delmonico's but accidentally kills a crazy buffalo hunter who complains about his cooking.
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Episode 15 - Old Fool
Release Date: 1960-12-24A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!
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Episode 16 - Brother Love
Release Date: 1960-12-31In a family that believes in taking care of its own--including administering punishment within the family for crime--one of two grown brothers appears to have committed murder, but which one?
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Episode 17 - Bad Sheriff
Release Date: 1961-01-07A man shoots his partner, flees, and is caught by two men claiming to be lawmen.
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Episode 18 - Unloaded Gun
Release Date: 1961-01-14Red and Joe Lime are no-good murderous brothers, and Matt has to track 'em down out on the prairie. Trouble is, Matt comes down with a fever due to missing out on so much sleep in the last couple of weeks. This situation causes some serious problems for all involved when Matt has to return to Dodge because he is too sick to pursue the Lime brothers.
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Episode 19 - Tall Trapper
Release Date: 1961-01-21A man and his wife come across a lone trapper and make camp with him. Next day, the husband comes to Dodge to report to Doc that his wife is sick, but Doc finds the woman beaten to death, and the husband accuses the trapper.
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Episode 20 - Love Thy Neighbor
Release Date: 1961-01-28The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.
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Episode 21 - Bad Seed
Release Date: 1961-02-04Matt rescues teen-aged Trudy Trent from a life of isolated poverty with her incestuous and alcoholic father, but he subsequently learns that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" when he rejects her misguided romantic overtures toward him.
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Episode 22 - Kitty Shot
Release Date: 1961-02-11Dillon goes after cowboy Jake Bayloe after he guns down his partner in the Long Branch , shooting Kitty in the crossfire and critically wounding her.
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Episode 23 - About Chester
Release Date: 1961-02-25While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.
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Episode 24 - Harriet
Release Date: 1961-03-04After witnessing the callous murder of her kindly father, Harriet Horne disregards Matt's advice and unwisely attempts to extract revenge from the perpetrators by making them jealous rivals for her attention.
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Episode 25 - Potshot
Release Date: 1961-03-11A concealed gunman takes a shot at Chester, and it may have been a bank robber, or it may have been someone who's been making trouble at the Long Branch.
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Episode 26 - Old Faces
Release Date: 1961-03-18Hot-headed Tom's new wife used to be a river-boat girl, and when a gunman from her old life recognizes her, a battle between the two men is brewing.
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Episode 27 - Big Man
Release Date: 1961-03-25To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found murdered, oft-inebriated Jud Sloan's claim that the Marshal was the killer seems uncomfortably credible.
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Episode 28 - Little Girl
Release Date: 1961-04-01Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire. Charity insists that she should live with the Dodge City lawman.
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Episode 29 - Stolen Horses
Release Date: 1961-04-08A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.
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Episode 30 - Minnie
Release Date: 1961-04-15Rough and rowdy Minnie comes to Dodge City and sets her designs on Doc Adams, much to the delight of Matt, Chester and Kitty. Trouble comes though when Minnie's husband comes to Dodge and finds out that his Minnie is sweet on Doc.
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Episode 31 - Bless Me Till I Die
Release Date: 1961-04-22Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.
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Episode 32 - Long Hours, Short Pay
Release Date: 1961-04-29A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.
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Episode 33 - Hard Virtue
Release Date: 1961-05-06Hot tempered Andy Coe and his wife want to sell their wagon to Moss, but can't when Ed Fallon's team spooks and crashes into their wagon.
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Episode 34 - The Imposter
Release Date: 1961-05-13A man claiming to be a sheriff from Texas comes to Dodge and asks Matt for help tracking down a named fugitive, but the man may not be a lawman.
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Episode 35 - Chester's Dilemma
Release Date: 1961-05-20A pretty girl arrives in town and chases Chester, who's happy for her to do so, but the young woman has a secret that may land her in jail.
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Episode 36 - The Love of Money
Release Date: 1961-05-27When an ex-marshal passing through town is shot in the back, Matt suspects a new saloon gal might have had something to do with it.
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Episode 37 - Melinda Miles
Release Date: 1961-06-03When Roy Tayloe is murdered following a poker game, quick-tempered Harry Miles is certain that daughter Melinda's suitor Tom Potter is the killer. Miles quickly becomes impatient with Matt's methodical investigation of the crime and threatens to kill Potter himself unless he stays away from Melinda.
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Episode 38 - Colorado Sheriff
Release Date: 1961-06-17Matt and Chester find Rod Ellison shot and paralyzed on the prairie and return him to Dodge for surgery. Ben Witter abrasively advises Matt that he is a deputy sheriff from Pueblo who has come to Dodge to arrest Ellison for robbery, but Matt is suspicious of Witter's refusal to produce a valid arrest warrant.