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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 9
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
Kate Heller
1963-09-28 · 45mA 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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E02
Episode 2
Lover Boy
1963-10-05 · 45mA 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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E03
Episode 3
Legends Don't Sleep
1963-10-12 · 45mA 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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E04
Episode 4
★ 0.5Tobe
1963-10-19 · 45mHard-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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Easy Come
1963-10-26 · 45mA 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
★ 7.0My Sister's Keeper
1963-11-02 · 45mA 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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E07
Episode 7
★ 8.0Quint's Trail
1963-11-09 · 45mQuint 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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E08
Episode 8
Carter Caper
1963-11-16 · 45mA 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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E09
Episode 9
Ex-Con
1963-11-30 · 45mOn 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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E10
Episode 10
Extradition (1)
1963-12-07 · 45mWhen 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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E11
Episode 11
Extradition (2)
1963-12-14 · 45mMatt 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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E12
Episode 12
★ 8.0The Magician
1963-12-21 · 45mA 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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E13
Episode 13
Pa Hack's Brood
1963-12-28 · 45mA repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 10.0The Glory and the Mud
1964-01-04 · 45mA 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 · 45mIt'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 · 45mFestus 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
★ 7.0Friend
1964-01-25 · 45mA 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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E18
Episode 18
Once a Haggen
1964-02-01 · 45mA man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.
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E19
Episode 19
No Hands
1964-02-08 · 45mThe 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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E20
Episode 20
May Blossom
1964-02-15 · 45mFestus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus
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E21
Episode 21
The Bassops
1964-02-22 · 45mA 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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E22
Episode 22
The Kite
1964-02-29 · 45mFestus 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 · 45mAfter 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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E24
Episode 24
Father's Love
1964-03-14 · 45mA 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 · 45mFestus, 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 · 45mCaleb 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 · 45mTo 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 · 45mA dying man confesses to a murder of which he was acquitted, but Chester suspects the man was lying.
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E29
Episode 29
Kitty Cornered
1964-04-18 · 45mCompeting 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 · 45mHenry 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
★ 7.5Trip West
1964-05-02 · 45mGiven 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 · 45mRob 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 · 45mA 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 · 45mOrval 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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The Other Half
1964-05-30 · 45mJess, 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 · 45mTwo 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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James Arness
Marshal Matt Dillon
Amanda Blake
Kitty
Ken Curtis
Festus
Milburn Stone
Doc
Woody Chambliss
Woody Lathrop