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Gunsmoke
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.
- Created by:
- John Meston
- Cast:
- James Arness, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Milburn Stone
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- CBS
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 12
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
Snap Decision
1966-09-17 · 45mDisturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
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E02
Episode 2
The Goldtakers
1966-09-24 · 45mA gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 7.5The Jailer
1966-10-01 · 45mSix years after her husband's hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt to be hanged on the morning of the second day with Kitty watching as her man died.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 8.0The Mission
1966-10-08 · 45mMarshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
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E05
Episode 5
The Good People
1966-10-15 · 45mA respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 8.0Gunfighter, R.I.P.
1966-10-22 · 45mA gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.
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E07
Episode 7
The Wrong Man
1966-10-29 · 45mHootie Kyle is a poor but honest farmer whose credit has run out. Matt Dillon and Festus lend him some money, then he gets swindled out of it in a poker game. Later Hootie gets circumstantially framed for the murder of the card shark who swindled him.
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E08
Episode 8
The Whispering Tree
1966-11-12 · 45mAfter eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.
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E09
Episode 9
The Well
1966-11-19 · 45mAll of Dodge City is suffering from a drought. A rainmaker (Guy Raymond) tries to put an end to it before the town's public well, their last source of water, runs dry.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 10.0Stage Stop
1966-11-26 · 45mDoc Adams takes up arms to defend a gold shipment from bandits, first during a stagecoach ambush and then at a weigh station. He is aided by a blind man and a wounded man in the battle against the bandits.
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E11
Episode 11
The Newcomers
1966-12-03 · 45mLars Karlgren, a Scandinavian immigrant and his teenage son Petter, find the West even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dodge City. Petter gets framed for a murder of a man who was picking a fight with him.
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E12
Episode 12
Quaker Girl
1966-12-10 · 45mThe identity of a criminal is confused with that of deputy marshal Thad, when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.
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E13
Episode 13
The Moonstone
1966-12-17 · 45mA young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
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E14
Episode 14
Champion of the World
1966-12-24 · 45mBull Bannock (Alan Hale), retired heavyweight champion of the world, attempts to make a home for himself in Dodge City, and tries to buy Miss Kitty's Longbranch Saloon.
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E15
Episode 15
The Hanging
1966-12-31 · 45mTo Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
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E16
Episode 16
Saturday Night
1967-01-07 · 45mA vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 7.0Mad Dog
1967-01-14 · 45mFestus Haggen is mistaken for a hired gunman and offered $300 to fight, and run out of town, the 3 sons of a man his cousin is accused of killing.
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Episode 18
Muley
1967-01-21 · 45mA young gunman (Zalman King) falls for one of Kitty's saloon girls (Lane Bradbury) while waiting to kill Marshal Matt Dillon and rob the bank.
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E19
Episode 19
Mail Drop
1967-01-28 · 45mA boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.
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E20
Episode 20
Old Friend
1967-02-04 · 45mAn embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
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E21
Episode 21
Fandango
1967-02-11 · 45mMatt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice in spite of an onslaught of an crazed vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.
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E22
Episode 22
The Returning
1967-02-18 · 45mAfter eight years as a down-on-his-luck farmer, husband & father, and reformed outlaw (Michael Ansara) tries to make ends meet by rejoinning his old gang to rob the Dodge City freight office.
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E23
Episode 23
The Lure
1967-02-25 · 45mPrivate detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).
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Episode 24
★ 9.0Noose of Gold
1967-03-04 · 45mDeputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able to give himself up.
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Episode 25
The Favor
1967-03-11 · 45mKitty's conscience is torn between her sense of obligation to a man (James Daly) who saved her life and her concern for the law and Marshal Matt Dillon.
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Episode 26
Mistaken Identity
1967-03-18 · 45mOutlaw Ed Carstairs trades identities with a man dying of a snakebite wound, then is suprised when the man is brought into Dodge and seems to be recovering.
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E27
Episode 27
Ladies from St. Louis
1967-03-25 · 45mA group of Nuns traveling out West nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.
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E28
Episode 28
Nitro! (1)
1967-04-08 · 45mPart 1: Down on his luck drifter is offered a dangerous, but profitable job of mixing nitroglycerine for outlaws who are using it to rob banks. George also falls in love with a saloon girl and begins a business venture with his earnings.
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Episode 29
Nitro! (2)
1967-04-15 · 45mPart 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.
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James Arness
Marshal Matt Dillon
Amanda Blake
Kitty
Ken Curtis
Festus
Milburn Stone
Doc
Woody Chambliss
Woody Lathrop