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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.
Seasons & episodes
E1Matt 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 situati…
E2Troublemakers trick an immigrant blacksmith into leaving his house on his wedding night, then burn it down.
E3Matt arrests Finn Pickett after recognizing his face from a wanted poster. On the way back to Dodge, Pickett's vengeful sons try to free th…
E4Lee Nagel suspects his visiting uncle of murder when his father is killed in their store in an apparent accident.
E5While transporting a prisoner with Chester on a stagecoach to Wichita, Matt learns that the stagecoach is also carrying a shipment of gold,…
E6Matt is called in to deal with a corrupt sheriff in Tascosa.
E7Matt's old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.
E8Murders follow when a buffalo hunter and his browbeaten partner come to town.
E9Out 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.
E10A young army drummer named Raffie is terrorized by two bullying mule skinners.
E11Jake Creed accuses his young hired hand, Ben Tolliver, of horse theft.
E12The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.
E13Gus 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 pr…
E14A young drifter takes a job as cook at Delmonico's but accidentally kills a crazy buffalo hunter who complains about his cooking.
E15A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some seriou…
E16In a family that believes in taking care of its own--including administering punishment within the family for crime--one of two grown broth…
E17A man shoots his partner, flees, and is caught by two men claiming to be lawmen.
E18Red 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 feve…
E19A 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 i…
E20The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.
E21Matt rescues teen-aged Trudy Trent from a life of isolated poverty with her incestuous and alcoholic father, but he subsequently learns tha…
E22Dillon goes after cowboy Jake Bayloe after he guns down his partner in the Long Branch , shooting Kitty in the crossfire and critically wou…
E23While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.
E24After witnessing the callous murder of her kindly father, Harriet Horne disregards Matt's advice and unwisely attempts to extract revenge f…
E25A 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 th…
E26Hot-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…
E27To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found…
E28Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire.…
E29A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.
E30Rough 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…
E31Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is act…
E32A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.
E33Hot 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.
E34A 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 la…
E35A 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.
E36When 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.
E37When Roy Tayloe is murdered following a poker game, quick-tempered Harry Miles is certain that daughter Melinda's suitor Tom Potter is the…
E38Matt and Chester find Rod Ellison shot and paralyzed on the prairie and return him to Dodge for surgery. Ben Witter abrasively advises Matt…
Cast
James ArnessMarshal Matt Dillon
Amanda BlakeKitty
Ken CurtisFestus
Milburn StoneDoc
Woody ChamblissWoody LathropYou may also like
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