Gunsmoke

E01

Episode 1

Cow Doctor

1956-09-08 · 26m

After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows, a human patient of Doc's dies. During a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 8.0

Brush at Elkader

1956-09-15 · 26m

After his friend Ben Williams is shot down by Lou Shippen, Matt travels to Elkader to bring him him. The only problem, he doesn't know what he looks like and the town is protecting Shippen.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 8.0

Custer

1956-09-22 · 26m

Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial.

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E04

Episode 4

The Round Up

1956-09-29 · 26m

Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.

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E05

Episode 5

Young Man with a Gun

1956-10-20 · 26m

After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year-old brother arrives to fight Matt.

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Episode 6

Indian White

1956-10-27 · 26m

At Fort Dodge, home of the third cavalry, Mrs. Mary Cullen tells the colonel that the twelve year old white boy they recovered from the Cheyenne is her son Dennis. The tribe had taken him when he was two years old.

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E07

Episode 7

How to Cure a Friend

1956-11-10 · 26m

Matt is used by an old friend in a con game.

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E08

Episode 8

Legal Revenge

1956-11-17 · 26m

Doc comes upon a homesteader with a busted leg—and a gun to protect himself from his wife.

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E09

Episode 9

The Mistake

1956-11-24 · 26m

Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender', but referred to by Chester as 'Sam Noonan').

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E10

Episode 10

Greater Love

1956-12-01 · 26m

An outlaw threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy.

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E11

Episode 11

No Indians

1956-12-08 · 26m

Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws (including Mickey Simpson) that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians (Fintan Meyler and Herbert Rudley appear).

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E12

Episode 12

Spring Term

1956-12-15 · 26m

Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating.

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E13

Episode 13

Poor Pearl

1956-12-22 · 26m

Matt helps a woman whose suitors are about to duel for her affections.

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E14

Episode 14

Cholera

1956-12-29 · 26m

A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear).

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E15

Episode 15

Pucket's New Year

1957-01-05 · 26m

An old buffalo hunter (Edgar Stehli) swears revenge on the skinner (Grant Withers) that left him to die (Richard Deacon appears as banker Botkin, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender').

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Episode 16

The Cover Up

1957-01-12 · 26m

Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear).

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Episode 17

Sins of the Father

1957-01-19 · 26m

An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).

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E18

Episode 18

Kick Me

1957-01-26 · 26m

A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears).

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Episode 19

Executioner

1957-02-02 · 26m

A young gunfighter, Tom Clegg, forces farmer Abe Curry into a duel and kills him. Matt can't arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abe's brother Morgan plots revenge.

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Episode 20

Gone Straight

1957-02-09 · 26m

Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear).

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Episode 21

Bloody Hands

1957-02-16 · 26m

The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed (Lawrence Dobkin, Russell Johnson, and Gloria Marshall appear).

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E22

Episode 22

Skid Row

1957-02-23 · 26m

An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her.

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Episode 23

Sweet and Sour

1957-03-02 · 26m

Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kitty's negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, 4 men are dead and Rena is the cause.

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E24

Episode 24

Cain

1957-03-09 · 26m

Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.

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E25

Episode 25

Bureaucrat

1957-03-16 · 26m

A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.

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E26

Episode 26

Last Fling

1957-03-23 · 26m

Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.

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E27

Episode 27

Chester's Murder

1957-03-30 · 26m

Chester is drinking at the Long Branch and gets into an argument with a gambler over a girl. When the marshal breaks it up, he tells Chester to bring the man to jail. On the way there, the man is killed and everyone thinks Chester did it.

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Episode 28

★ 8.0

The Photographer

1957-04-06 · 26m

Dodge City meets a Photographer who shows the residents how a camera works. Jacoby wants to take pictures of how the Wild West looks. When Matt learns someone died, he thinks the photographer may have hired someone to kill Grubby for a picture of the west.

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E29

Episode 29

★ 7.0

Wrong Man

1957-04-13 · 26m

A cowboy vows revenge for the shooting of his friend, who was mistaken for a criminal (Don Keefer and Catherine McLeod, real-life husband and wife, appear as a husband and wife).

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E30

Episode 30

Big Girl Lost

1957-04-20 · 26m

Philip Locke is looking for Laura Simmons, a saloon girl, but she doesn't want him to know where she works. Laura tells Matt that she and Philip were previously engaged, and she asks him not to say anything about her job. Philip warns Matt that he will be killed if he doesn't tell the truth.

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E31

Episode 31

What the Whiskey Drummer Heard

1957-04-27 · 26m

Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Sam').

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E32

Episode 32

Cheap Labor

1957-05-04 · 26m

A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight.

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Episode 33

Moon

1957-05-11 · 26m

After Charlie Brewer is found dead, Jack Salter who was a friend of Charlie Brewer comes to Matt's office saying Vint killed Brewer. Matt then tries to find out if Jack is right.

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Episode 34

Who Lives by the Sword

1957-05-18 · 26m

Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed.

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E35

Episode 35

Uncle Oliver

1957-05-25 · 26m

Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears).

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Episode 36

Daddy-O

1957-06-01 · 26m

Kitty's father, Wayne Russell, arrives in Dodge to meet his daughter after abandoning her and her mother as a baby. He insists that saloon life is not fit for a proper lady and wants to take her back to New Orleans so he can pamper her and invest her savings in his freight business.

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Episode 37

The Man Who Would Be Marshal

1957-06-15 · 26m

A former Army Officer wants Matt Dillon's job. Matt then takes Mr. Egan on his rounds. Matt lets Egan try his brand of justice that almost costs Egan his life.

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E38

Episode 38

Liar from Blackhawk

1957-06-22 · 26m

A braggart tries to provoke a gunfight with a harmless drunk.

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E39

Episode 39

Jealousy

1957-07-06 · 26m

Jack Kelly plays a hot-tempered husband who thinks Matt is after his wife.

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