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Gunsmoke

  • TV-G
  • 1955–1975
  • 20 seasons
  • Western, Action & Adventure
  • 6.7

Get out of Dodge!

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.

Episodes

29 episodes
  1. 1Snap Decision

    45 minSep 17, 1966

    Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.

  2. 2The Goldtakers

    45 minSep 24, 1966

    A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.

  3. 3The Jailer

    45 minOct 1, 1966

    Six years after her husband's hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt to be hanged on the morning of the second day with Kitty watching as her man died.

  4. 4The Mission

    45 minOct 8, 1966

    Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.

  5. 5The Good People

    45 minOct 15, 1966

    A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.

  6. 6Gunfighter, R.I.P.

    45 minOct 22, 1966

    A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.

  7. 7The Wrong Man

    45 minOct 29, 1966

    Hootie Kyle is a poor but honest farmer whose credit has run out. Matt Dillon and Festus lend him some money, then he gets swindled out of it in a poker game. Later Hootie gets circumstantially framed for the murder of the card shark who swindled him.

  8. 8The Whispering Tree

    45 minNov 12, 1966

    After eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.

  9. 9The Well

    45 minNov 19, 1966

    All of Dodge City is suffering from a drought. A rainmaker (Guy Raymond) tries to put an end to it before the town's public well, their last source of water, runs dry.

  10. 10Stage Stop

    45 minNov 26, 1966

    Doc Adams takes up arms to defend a gold shipment from bandits, first during a stagecoach ambush and then at a weigh station. He is aided by a blind man and a wounded man in the battle against the bandits.

  11. 11The Newcomers

    45 minDec 3, 1966

    Lars Karlgren, a Scandinavian immigrant and his teenage son Petter, find the West even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dodge City. Petter gets framed for a murder of a man who was picking a fight with him.

  12. 12Quaker Girl

    45 minDec 10, 1966

    The identity of a criminal is confused with that of deputy marshal Thad, when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.

  13. 13The Moonstone

    45 minDec 17, 1966

    A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.

  14. 14Champion of the World

    45 minDec 24, 1966

    Bull Bannock (Alan Hale), retired heavyweight champion of the world, attempts to make a home for himself in Dodge City, and tries to buy Miss Kitty's Longbranch Saloon.

  15. 15The Hanging

    45 minDec 31, 1966

    To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.

  16. 16Saturday Night

    45 minJan 7, 1967

    A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.

  17. 17Mad Dog

    45 minJan 14, 1967

    Festus Haggen is mistaken for a hired gunman and offered $300 to fight, and run out of town, the 3 sons of a man his cousin is accused of killing.

  18. 18Muley

    45 minJan 21, 1967

    A young gunman (Zalman King) falls for one of Kitty's saloon girls (Lane Bradbury) while waiting to kill Marshal Matt Dillon and rob the bank.

  19. 19Mail Drop

    45 minJan 28, 1967

    A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.

  20. 20Old Friend

    45 minFeb 4, 1967

    An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.

  21. 21Fandango

    45 minFeb 11, 1967

    Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice in spite of an onslaught of an crazed vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.

  22. 22The Returning

    45 minFeb 18, 1967

    After eight years as a down-on-his-luck farmer, husband & father, and reformed outlaw (Michael Ansara) tries to make ends meet by rejoinning his old gang to rob the Dodge City freight office.

  23. 23The Lure

    45 minFeb 25, 1967

    Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).

  24. 24Noose of Gold

    45 minMar 4, 1967

    Deputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able to give himself up.

  25. 25The Favor

    45 minMar 11, 1967

    Kitty's conscience is torn between her sense of obligation to a man (James Daly) who saved her life and her concern for the law and Marshal Matt Dillon.

  26. 26Mistaken Identity

    45 minMar 18, 1967

    Outlaw Ed Carstairs trades identities with a man dying of a snakebite wound, then is suprised when the man is brought into Dodge and seems to be recovering.

  27. 27Ladies from St. Louis

    45 minMar 25, 1967

    A group of Nuns traveling out West nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.

  28. 28Nitro! (1)

    45 minApr 8, 1967

    Part 1: Down on his luck drifter is offered a dangerous, but profitable job of mixing nitroglycerine for outlaws who are using it to rob banks. George also falls in love with a saloon girl and begins a business venture with his earnings.

  29. 29Nitro! (2)

    45 minApr 15, 1967

    Part 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.

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Series cast

James ArnessMarshal Matt Dillon635 episodes
Amanda BlakeKitty635 episodes
Milburn StoneDoc635 episodes
Ken CurtisFestus368 episodes
Dennis WeaverChester341 episodes
Glenn StrangeSam (uncredited)192 episodes
Ted JordanCheater127 episodes
Rudy DoucetteConniston Rider (uncredited)53 episodes
Burt ReynoldsQuint50 episodes
Howard CulverHoward45 episodes
Dabbs GreerMr. Jonas36 episodes
Hank PattersonCowboy30 episodes
John GeorgeTrial Spectator (uncredited)28 episodes
Buck TaylorNewly27 episodes
Shug FisherBarkeep25 episodes
Woody ChamblissWoody Lathrop24 episodes
Charles SeelBarney Danches20 episodes
George FordTownsman (uncredited)20 episodes

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