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Gunsmoke

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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

21 available

Season 12

Episodes

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Episode 1

Snap Decision

1966-09-17 · 45m

Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.

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Episode 2

The Goldtakers

1966-09-24 · 45m

A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.

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Episode 3

★ 7.5

The Jailer

1966-10-01 · 45m

Six 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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Episode 4

★ 8.0

The Mission

1966-10-08 · 45m

Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.

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Episode 5

The Good People

1966-10-15 · 45m

A 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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Episode 6

★ 8.0

Gunfighter, R.I.P.

1966-10-22 · 45m

A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.

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Episode 7

The Wrong Man

1966-10-29 · 45m

Hootie 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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Episode 8

The Whispering Tree

1966-11-12 · 45m

After 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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Episode 9

The Well

1966-11-19 · 45m

All 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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Episode 10

★ 10.0

Stage Stop

1966-11-26 · 45m

Doc 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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Episode 11

The Newcomers

1966-12-03 · 45m

Lars 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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Episode 12

Quaker Girl

1966-12-10 · 45m

The 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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Episode 13

The Moonstone

1966-12-17 · 45m

A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.

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Episode 14

Champion of the World

1966-12-24 · 45m

Bull 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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Episode 15

The Hanging

1966-12-31 · 45m

To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.

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Episode 16

Saturday Night

1967-01-07 · 45m

A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.

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Episode 17

★ 7.0

Mad Dog

1967-01-14 · 45m

Festus 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 · 45m

A 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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Episode 19

Mail Drop

1967-01-28 · 45m

A 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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Episode 20

Old Friend

1967-02-04 · 45m

An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.

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Episode 21

Fandango

1967-02-11 · 45m

Matt 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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Episode 22

The Returning

1967-02-18 · 45m

After 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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Episode 23

The Lure

1967-02-25 · 45m

Private 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

★ 9.0

Noose of Gold

1967-03-04 · 45m

Deputy 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 · 45m

Kitty'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 · 45m

Outlaw 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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Episode 27

Ladies from St. Louis

1967-03-25 · 45m

A 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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Episode 28

Nitro! (1)

1967-04-08 · 45m

Part 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 · 45m

Part 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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Cast

James Arness

James Arness

Marshal Matt Dillon

Amanda Blake

Amanda Blake

Kitty

Ken Curtis

Ken Curtis

Festus

Milburn Stone

Milburn Stone

Doc

Woody Chambliss

Woody Chambliss

Woody Lathrop

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