Gunsmoke

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Episode 1

Matt for Murder

1958-09-13 · 26m

Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man;however, Doc and Matt's old friend Wild Bill Hickok come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder.

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Episode 2

The Patsy

1958-09-20 · 26m

Matt doubts the veracity of Long Branch hostess Holly Fanshaw's claim that she saw trail drover Fly Hoyt murder young Dave Thorp. His suspicions increase further when Hoyt voluntarily returns to Dodge in order to clear his name.

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Episode 3

Gunsmuggler

1958-09-27 · 26m

Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.

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Episode 4

Monopoly

1958-10-04 · 26m

Two murders result when an unscrupulous Eastern businessman named Ivy hires a psychotic killer to help him establish undisputed control of Dodge City's freight shipment business.

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Episode 5

Letter of the Law

1958-10-11 · 26m

A rich landowner seizes the chance to get a little more acreage when he discovers that a homesteader has failed to file the paperwork to make his quarter section his own.

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Episode 6

Thoroughbreds

1958-10-18 · 26m

Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him later in Dodge, he is much different: friendly and spending money freely.

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Episode 7

Stage Hold-Up

1958-10-25 · 26m

A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thieves when a "cowboy" appears and offers to show him where one of the thieves may be buried.

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Episode 8

Lost Rifle

1958-11-01 · 26m

Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.

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Episode 9

Land Deal

1958-11-08 · 26m

When a stranger leading some immigrants planning on settling outside of Dodge wants Matt to give him a badge to avert trouble, Matt gets suspicious and rides out to their camp to see what is really up.

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Episode 10

Lynching Man

1958-11-15 · 26m

After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into his own hands and is led tragically astray by the culprits.

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Episode 11

How to Kill a Friend

1958-11-22 · 26m

Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matt's close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.

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Episode 12

Grass

1958-11-29 · 26m

White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.

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Episode 13

The Cast

1958-12-06 · 26m

When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.

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Episode 14

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Robber Bridegroom

1958-12-13 · 26m

Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous businessman who threatened to ruin her father if he did not agree to the marriage.

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Episode 15

Snakebite

1958-12-20 · 26m

Claustrophobic plainsman Poney Thompson is arrested for murdering a man who maliciously shot his dog, but an ironic fate awaits him after he breaks free from Chester's custody.

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Episode 16

Gypsum Hills Feud

1958-12-27 · 26m

Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and isolated mountain families.

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Episode 17

Young Love

1959-01-03 · 26m

Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattle from Wheat's young widow.

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Episode 18

Marshal Proudfoot

1959-01-10 · 26m

Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant.

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Episode 19

Passive Resistance

1959-01-17 · 26m

A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.

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Episode 20

Love of a Good Woman

1959-01-24 · 26m

An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunning for him even though he thought he was innocent five years ago.

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Episode 21

Jayhawkers

1959-01-31 · 26m

Trail boss Dolph Quince sends for his friend Matt to help escort his cattle herd into Dodge because he is having trouble with Jayhawkers (Kansas renegades), and he hopes to ease the animosity his men have towards all Kansans.

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Episode 22

Kitty's Rebellion

1959-02-07 · 26m

An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed. Intent on defending her honor wherever she is insulted, he nearly gets himself killed. Kitty finally tells him that she has no honor, and he keeps making a fool out of himself thinking otherwise. It sends him away and saves his life at the same time.

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Episode 23

Sky

1959-02-14 · 26m

Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.

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Episode 24

Doc Quits

1959-02-21 · 26m

Doc takes hard the death of a homesteader under his care; then a flashy new medicine man comes to town and takes away many of his patients.

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Episode 25

The Bear

1959-02-28 · 26m

Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.

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Episode 26

The Coward

1959-03-07 · 26m

A coward gambler, who's too cheap to hire a gunman, wants Matt dead for a beating he got from him years ago, so he starts some talk around Dodge about the big reputation any person could gain, if they simply killed Matt.

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Episode 27

The F.U.

1959-03-14 · 26m

When Onie Becker is shot down on the streets of Dodge after quarreling with Al Clovis in a poker game, everyone thinks Al Clovis committed the shooting. The plot thickens after Matt and Chester pursue Clovis on a train headed out of Dodge.

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Episode 28

Wind

1959-03-21 · 26m

Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden, who seems to bring gamblers luck just by standing next to them when they're playing cards.

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Episode 29

Fawn

1959-04-04 · 26m

After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.

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Episode 30

Renegade White

1959-04-11 · 26m

A gunfight in the Long Branch forces Matt to arrest a drunk. Letting him go since it was a fair fight, he suspects him of selling guns to the Indians, and goes after him even though he may run into those Indians.

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Episode 31

Murder Warrant

1959-04-18 · 26m

Matt and Dodge City's businessmen employ an unusual tactic to save ambush victim Lee Prentice from being taken to corrupt Baker City to face certain hanging on a trumped-up murder charge.

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Episode 32

Change of Heart

1959-04-25 · 26m

Matt becomes suspicious when Jerry Cass's plans to marry saloon hostess Bella Grant are complicated by Bella's sudden insistence that Jerry leave his recently-inherited ranch for six months.

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Episode 33

Buffalo Hunter

1959-05-02 · 26m

Marshal Dillon has to stop a ruthless, cold-blooded, greedy, buffalo hunter who is in the habit of brutally killing his hired help to avoid paying them their wages.

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Episode 34

The Choice

1959-05-09 · 26m

Matt tries to help Andy Hill, a young gunman who is apparently trying very hard to go straight, by getting him a job riding shotgun on the stagecoach.

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Episode 35

There Was Never a Horse

1959-05-16 · 26m

Gunman Kin Creed arrives in Dodge determined to enhance his reputation by outdrawing Matt in a gunfight. He goes to great lengths to force Matt into a confrontation and is able to wound him, but it proves to be a pyrrhic victory.

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Episode 36

Print Asper

1959-05-23 · 26m

Print Asper is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him, and the lawyer still ends up getting shot later by someone.

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Episode 37

The Constable

1959-05-30 · 26m

Dodge City's businessmen learn a hard lesson when they reject Matt's advice and hire a meek constable to handle a gang of rowdy but free-spending trail cowboys.

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Episode 38

Blue Horse

1959-06-06 · 26m

Seriously injured Matt faces a moral dilemma when Blue Horse saves his life and prevents the escape of a prisoner. The Marshal knows that Blue Horse is being sought by the Cavalry as a fugitive from a reservation, and he is well aware that he is duty-bound to assist their search in any way possible.

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Episode 39

Cheyennes

1959-06-13 · 26m

Matt seeks the help of wise Chief Long Robe to track down gunrunners who are supplying renegade Cheyenne braves with rifles used to murder prairie-dwelling families. Long Robe provides Matt with the needed information, but warns him that the death of even a single brave could lead to a violent uprising.

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