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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 8
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 6.5The Search
1962-09-15 · 45mA young man named Cale may have earned Marshal Dillon's respect, but Tate Gifford says Cale has just ridden off on a stolen horse - Tate's horse.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 4.0Call Me Dodie
1962-09-22 · 45mAn adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, and she starts learning it from the rough-and-tumble characters and loafers she encounters in Dodge.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 6.0Quint Asper Comes Home
1962-09-29 · 45mA half-Comanche has joined his mother's tribe in killing whites to avenge the murder of his father, but Matt sees the good in the man and the chance to re-integrate him, perhaps, into white society.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 7.0Root Down
1962-10-06 · 45mChester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 6.0Jenny
1962-10-13 · 45mA bank robber hides out in Dodge, bringing along his girl. While he's gambling away his loot, his girl casts her eye on Matt.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 8.0Collie's Free
1962-10-20 · 45mReleased after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adjusting to the fact that things have inevitably changed with respect to his relationships with his wife, his son, and the citizens of Dodge.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 6.0The Ditch
1962-10-27 · 45mA young woman who's heir to her father's land decides to carry out his plan to build a ditch that will impair her neighbors' access to water and perhaps trigger a range war.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 6.0The Trappers
1962-11-03 · 45mA trapper leaves his friend dying alone in order to save his own life, only later to stumble across that friend in Dodge, very much alive and wanting him dead.
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Episode 9
★ 5.0Phoebe Strunk
1962-11-10 · 45mA band of ne'er-do-wells, led by their mother, see in town a young woman that pleases them and decide to take her by force.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 7.0The Hunger
1962-11-17 · 45mMatt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially are kept as prisoners by the farmer and his son.
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Episode 11
Abe Blocker
1962-11-24 · 45mCivilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt's, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encroaching on the land he regards as his.
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E12
Episode 12
The Way It Is
1962-12-01 · 45mWhile Matt is out of town, putting lawman's business ahead of Kitty yet again, a new man in her life has plenty of time and attention to give--perhaps too much attention.
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E13
Episode 13
Us Haggens
1962-12-08 · 45mWhen a boy witnesses his grandfather's murder, it sends Matt looking for a new found companion's uncle. Festus Haggen is tracking his uncle for killing his twin brother Fergus. Matt is wary but learns to trust Festus when he's shot and in bad shape.
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Episode 14
Uncle Sunday
1962-12-15 · 45mChester gets a letter from his uncle Sunday, a 'crook', on his upcoming trip to Dodge city. When he arrives with a niece, he finds he has to watch them both or what they have planned just might work, at his expense.
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Episode 15
False Front
1962-12-22 · 45mA slick city reporter sets out to prove that even a milquetoast can pass for a feared gunfighter, if a few well-placed tidbits of rumor precede him.
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Episode 16
Old Comrade
1962-12-29 · 45mThe "town fool" has a chance to change his life when he learns that a famous general, now on his deathbed, believes him to be his long-lost son.
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E17
Episode 17
Louie Pheeters
1963-01-05 · 45mThe town drunk who saw a man drowned, believes it was dream, until he meets up with the guy who did the drowning.
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Episode 18
The Renegades
1963-01-12 · 45mQuint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids around Dodge. Working shotgun on the stage, he proves his point when he is attacked, then pursued by those renegades. His "Indian" skills save him and a colonel's daughter who has contempt for half-Comanche Quint.
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Episode 19
★ 8.5Cotter's Girl
1963-01-19 · 45mA father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 3.0The Bad One
1963-01-26 · 45mWhen a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a would-be robber, she refuses to identify him.
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Episode 21
The Cousin
1963-02-02 · 45mChance Hopper is Matt's young foster brother, torn between loyalty to Matt and to his partners in crime, who are counting on Chance to divert Matt from their course and make good their getaway.
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Episode 22
Shona
1963-02-09 · 45mGib Dawson brings his beautiful Indian wife, Shona, in to Dodge for treatment of a badly infected hand wound, at a time when racial tensions are running high against the Comanches.
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Episode 23
★ 7.0Ash
1963-02-16 · 45mThe friendship between business partners is jeopardized when one of them sustains a head injury, changing his personality. The injured man threatens to kill West's character, the fiancé of a young saloon woman.
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Episode 24
★ 10.0Blind Man's Bluff
1963-02-23 · 45mBilly Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance from other men who hate lawmen.
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Episode 25
Quint's Indian
1963-03-01 · 45mTwo ne'er-do-wells come to town and soon cook up a plot under which half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper is framed for the theft of a horse. The atmosphere in Dodge quickly becomes dangerously ugly for Quint.
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Episode 26
★ 10.0Anybody Can Kill a Marshal
1963-03-08 · 45mTwo men want to rob the bank in Dodge, but are unwilling to try it while Matt lives. A man agrees to accept the job of killing the marshal, attaching some rather peculiar conditions to his acceptance.
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Episode 27
★ 7.0Two of a Kind
1963-03-16 · 45mO'Ryan and Finnegan, feuding over a girl they both knew back home, are caught in a legal loophole to take ownership of a mine and land they both own. When Matt is forced in the middle of it, he has to work fast so no one else is hurt.
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Episode 28
I Call Him Wonder
1963-03-23 · 45mAn orphaned Indian boy latches on to a cowboy in need of work and the two of them find all doors closed to them in Dodge.
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Episode 29
★ 8.0With a Smile
1963-03-30 · 45mA rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his father's wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.
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Episode 30
The Far Places
1963-04-06 · 45mA rancher's widow regrets having spent her life away from the bright lights of a city, and is desperate that her son not share her fate.
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Episode 31
Panacea Sykes
1963-04-13 · 45mKitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kitty's possessions.
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Episode 32
★ 9.0Tell Chester
1963-04-20 · 45mChester is smitten with Polly, but she has eyes only for Wade, a man new in town and newly her father's employee. Knowing little about Wade, Polly agrees quickly to marry him, but Chester discovers that Wade already has a wife.
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Episode 33
Quint-Cident
1963-04-27 · 45mA woman newly widowed is powerfully attracted to Quint, but when he gently turns her down, she vows to make him pay for scorning a white woman.
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Episode 34
Old York
1963-05-04 · 45mPardoned for his Civil War service, an old outlaw finds his way to Dodge, where there's a lawman who's in his debt.
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Episode 35
★ 8.5Daddy Went Away
1963-05-11 · 45mChester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on marriage but eager to make changes in Chester as well, he has second thoughts--especially after a talk with her child suggests that the widow may still be a wife.
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Episode 36
The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner
1963-05-18 · 45mAaron, sweet on saloon girl Leah and wanting to make her his wife, is attacked and killed by Colie Fletcher. When Matt goes after him, Colie runs into Jubal Tanner, wounds him, and steals his horse. Jubal, ungrateful to those who help him, meets Leah, and each helps the other's outlook.
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Episode 37
Jeb
1963-05-25 · 45mA prized Appaloosa, grazing alone and apparently without owner on the prairie, proves to be the ruin of more than one man.
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Episode 38
The Quest for Asa Janin
1963-06-01 · 45mA young man is convicted of killing the saloon girl he wanted for his own. Matt is so sure that the young man is really innocent that he goes on the road after another suspect to prevent an unjust hanging.
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James Arness
Marshal Matt Dillon
Amanda Blake
Kitty
Ken Curtis
Festus
Milburn Stone
Doc
Woody Chambliss
Woody Lathrop