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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 9

Episodes

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Episode 1

Kate Heller

1963-09-28 · 45m

A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.

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Episode 2

Lover Boy

1963-10-05 · 45m

A charming cowboy apparently is guilty only of breaking hearts until he gets to Dodge, where he finds two women who may make a killer of him.

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Episode 3

Legends Don't Sleep

1963-10-12 · 45m

A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.

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Episode 4

★ 0.5

Tobe

1963-10-19 · 45m

Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.

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Episode 5

Easy Come

1963-10-26 · 45m

A mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.

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Episode 6

★ 7.0

My Sister's Keeper

1963-11-02 · 45m

A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.

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Episode 7

★ 8.0

Quint's Trail

1963-11-09 · 45m

Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.

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Episode 8

Carter Caper

1963-11-16 · 45m

A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.

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Episode 9

Ex-Con

1963-11-30 · 45m

On his way to Larned, Matt, feverish, spends the night at an abandoned shack. When he wakes up after losing a day, a recently released convict who swore to kill Matt, is himself found against a wall, dead, unarmed, shot twice, and the murder weapon appears to belong to the marshal.

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Episode 10

Extradition (1)

1963-12-07 · 45m

When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.

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Episode 11

Extradition (2)

1963-12-14 · 45m

Matt finally catches up to killer Charlie Hacker in Mexico, and has to make a deal with the greedy Mexican police to get Hacker back to the border, with revengeful Mexican bandits in pursuit.

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Episode 12

★ 8.0

The Magician

1963-12-21 · 45m

A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.

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Episode 13

Pa Hack's Brood

1963-12-28 · 45m

A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.

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Episode 14

★ 10.0

The Glory and the Mud

1964-01-04 · 45m

A retired lawman and showman wants only to settle down with the Dodge seamstress he left behind twenty years ago, but a young whippersnapper hopes to make a name for himself by challenging the aging gun to a duel.

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Episode 15

Dry Well

1964-01-11 · 45m

It's a test of wills when Quint witnesses a murder and the father of one of the prime suspects lowers Quint into a well to try to force him to promise his silence.

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Episode 16

Prairie Wolfer

1964-01-18 · 45m

Festus returns to Dodge from wolfing and is hired by the Cattleman's Association to hunt down the wolves killing everyone's cattle. What he finds is that what's been doing the preying may wind him up in prison if he doesn't get Matt's help.

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Episode 17

★ 7.0

Friend

1964-01-25 · 45m

A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.

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Episode 18

Once a Haggen

1964-02-01 · 45m

A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.

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Episode 19

No Hands

1964-02-08 · 45m

The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Will's hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he can't carve wood anymore.

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Episode 20

May Blossom

1964-02-15 · 45m

Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus

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Episode 21

The Bassops

1964-02-22 · 45m

A family in search of a doctor find Matt and his prisoner unconscious and handcuffed to each other on the prairie. The prisoner wakens first and announces that Matt is the condemned man he is transporting for hanging.

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Episode 22

The Kite

1964-02-29 · 45m

Festus finds a little girl out on the prairie. He learns she saw her mother get killed by a stranger. When he takes her to Dodge, Matt hears she was hiding when this happened but can identify this man who may already be in town.

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Episode 23

Comanches Is Soft

1964-03-07 · 45m

After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's equipment. To repair or get anew, they travel to Wichita and meet a saloon girl who tells them she needs to get away from town but her jealous boyfriend is now hot on their trail.

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Episode 24

Father's Love

1964-03-14 · 45m

A saloon girl spurns a man's advances in Wichita and moves to Dodge, where she becomes a respectable married woman, only to be confronted with her past when she discovers that her rancher husband is the nephew of the man she refused.

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Episode 25

Now That April's Here

1964-03-21 · 45m

Festus, returning to Dodge after doing some trapping, sees his girl, April, and they argue over a gift she received. Running off, she hides but her perch gives her a bird's eye view of a murder, one no one believes she witnessed but the killers.

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Episode 26

Caleb

1964-03-28 · 45m

Caleb Marr comes to Dodge in search of a meaningful life after finally acknowledging his failure at farming.

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Episode 27

Owney Tupper Had a Daughter

1964-04-04 · 45m

To earn money to recover the custody of his daughter, an aging man accepts the job of Dodge's first in-town hangman, work no one else wants.

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Episode 28

Bently

1964-04-11 · 45m

A dying man confesses to a murder of which he was acquitted, but Chester suspects the man was lying.

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Episode 29

Kitty Cornered

1964-04-18 · 45m

Competing with Kitty is a fancy new woman in town with plenty of money to build a new saloon and a secret from the past life she recently left behind.

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Episode 30

The Promoter

1964-04-25 · 45m

Henry Huckaby, a local farmer and fed up with a sore back and an empty belly leaves to seek his fortune in Dodge. After several failed ideas he hits on one that may make him rich but could also cost him his life.

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Episode 31

★ 7.5

Trip West

1964-05-02 · 45m

Given three months to live by a quack peddler of patent medicines, a mousy bank clerk quits his job, withdraws all his money, makes ready to go to California, and falls for a girl who may endanger what time he has remaining.

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Episode 32

Scot Free

1964-05-09 · 45m

Rob Scot considers himself a man who could stay or go when it came to women. He may have met his match though when a woman he desires, along with her husband, take over an abandoned homestead, and they come to where Rob works to look over some stock.

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Episode 33

The Warden

1964-05-16 · 45m

A traveling salesman meets up with Bull Foot, an Indian who mainly sells vegetables. When goods are traded for a squaw, he is upset when she runs away and into the arms of Festus, whose mule she steals, only to return home awaiting sale to the next customer.

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Episode 34

Homecoming

1964-05-23 · 45m

Orval returns from seven years in prison for killing his wife's lover, vowing to reclaim his house and business. Edna tries to goad her new husband and Orval's son into a plot to kill Orval; then her head is turned by a traveling salesman.

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Episode 35

The Other Half

1964-05-30 · 45m

Jess, Jay's twin, is shot and killed by an unknown assailant while working late at the family business. When a stranger to Dodge is suspected, Matt does his best to track him down and bring him to justice.

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Episode 36

Journey for Three

1964-06-06 · 45m

Two brothers traveling to California are joined by a third man who soon proves to be a wrong 'un, manhandling and killing a young woman they encounter on the prairie and turning on Quint when he shows up to share his rabbits with them.

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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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