Gunsmoke

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Episode 1

Friend's Pay-Off

1960-09-03 · 26m

Matt 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 situation when Ab's partner shows up and tells his side of the story.

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Episode 2

The Blacksmith

1960-09-17 · 26m

Troublemakers trick an immigrant blacksmith into leaving his house on his wedding night, then burn it down.

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Episode 3

Small Water

1960-09-24 · 26m

Matt arrests Finn Pickett after recognizing his face from a wanted poster. On the way back to Dodge, Pickett's vengeful sons try to free their father as Matt and Chester face a water shortage.

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Episode 4

Say Uncle

1960-10-01 · 26m

Lee Nagel suspects his visiting uncle of murder when his father is killed in their store in an apparent accident.

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Episode 5

Shooting Stopover

1960-10-08 · 26m

While transporting a prisoner with Chester on a stagecoach to Wichita, Matt learns that the stagecoach is also carrying a shipment of gold, and he suspects the coach might be targeted by outlaws.

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Episode 6

The Peace Officer

1960-10-15 · 26m

Matt is called in to deal with a corrupt sheriff in Tascosa.

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Episode 7

Don Matteo

1960-10-22 · 26m

Matt's old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.

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Episode 8

The Worm

1960-10-29 · 26m

Murders follow when a buffalo hunter and his browbeaten partner come to town.

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Episode 9

The Badge

1960-11-12 · 26m

Out 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.

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Episode 10

Distant Drummer

1960-11-19 · 26m

A young army drummer named Raffie is terrorized by two bullying mule skinners.

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Episode 11

Ben Tolliver's Stud

1960-11-26 · 26m

Jake Creed accuses his young hired hand, Ben Tolliver, of horse theft.

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Episode 12

No Chip

1960-12-03 · 26m

The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.

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Episode 13

The Wake

1960-12-10 · 26m

Gus 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 problem: according to Mrs. Boggs, her late husband didn't have any friends.

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Episode 14

The Cook

1960-12-17 · 26m

A young drifter takes a job as cook at Delmonico's but accidentally kills a crazy buffalo hunter who complains about his cooking.

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Episode 15

Old Fool

1960-12-24 · 26m

A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!

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Episode 16

Brother Love

1960-12-31 · 26m

In a family that believes in taking care of its own--including administering punishment within the family for crime--one of two grown brothers appears to have committed murder, but which one?

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Episode 17

Bad Sheriff

1961-01-07 · 26m

A man shoots his partner, flees, and is caught by two men claiming to be lawmen.

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Episode 18

Unloaded Gun

1961-01-14 · 26m

Red 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 fever due to missing out on so much sleep in the last couple of weeks. This situation causes some serious problems for all involved when Matt has to return to Dodge because he is too sick to pursue the Lime brothers.

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Episode 19

Tall Trapper

1961-01-21 · 26m

A 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 is sick, but Doc finds the woman beaten to death, and the husband accuses the trapper.

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Episode 20

Love Thy Neighbor

1961-01-28 · 26m

The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.

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Episode 21

Bad Seed

1961-02-04 · 26m

Matt rescues teen-aged Trudy Trent from a life of isolated poverty with her incestuous and alcoholic father, but he subsequently learns that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" when he rejects her misguided romantic overtures toward him.

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Episode 22

Kitty Shot

1961-02-11 · 26m

Dillon goes after cowboy Jake Bayloe after he guns down his partner in the Long Branch , shooting Kitty in the crossfire and critically wounding her.

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Episode 23

About Chester

1961-02-25 · 26m

While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.

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Episode 24

Harriet

1961-03-04 · 26m

After witnessing the callous murder of her kindly father, Harriet Horne disregards Matt's advice and unwisely attempts to extract revenge from the perpetrators by making them jealous rivals for her attention.

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Episode 25

Potshot

1961-03-11 · 26m

A 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 the Long Branch.

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Episode 26

Old Faces

1961-03-18 · 26m

Hot-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 brewing.

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Episode 27

Big Man

1961-03-25 · 26m

To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found murdered, oft-inebriated Jud Sloan's claim that the Marshal was the killer seems uncomfortably credible.

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Episode 28

Little Girl

1961-04-01 · 26m

Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire. Charity insists that she should live with the Dodge City lawman.

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Episode 29

Stolen Horses

1961-04-08 · 26m

A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.

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Episode 30

★ 6.0

Minnie

1961-04-15 · 26m

Rough 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 though when Minnie's husband comes to Dodge and finds out that his Minnie is sweet on Doc.

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Episode 31

Bless Me Till I Die

1961-04-22 · 26m

Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.

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Episode 32

Long Hours, Short Pay

1961-04-29 · 26m

A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.

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Episode 33

Hard Virtue

1961-05-06 · 26m

Hot 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.

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Episode 34

The Imposter

1961-05-13 · 26m

A 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 lawman.

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Episode 35

Chester's Dilemma

1961-05-20 · 26m

A 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.

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Episode 36

The Love of Money

1961-05-27 · 26m

When 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.

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Episode 37

Melinda Miles

1961-06-03 · 26m

When Roy Tayloe is murdered following a poker game, quick-tempered Harry Miles is certain that daughter Melinda's suitor Tom Potter is the killer. Miles quickly becomes impatient with Matt's methodical investigation of the crime and threatens to kill Potter himself unless he stays away from Melinda.

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Episode 38

Colorado Sheriff

1961-06-17 · 26m

Matt and Chester find Rod Ellison shot and paralyzed on the prairie and return him to Dodge for surgery. Ben Witter abrasively advises Matt that he is a deputy sheriff from Pueblo who has come to Dodge to arrest Ellison for robbery, but Matt is suspicious of Witter's refusal to produce a valid arrest warrant.

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