Gunsmoke

1Crack-Up

26 minSep 14, 1957

Matt learns there is a hired killer in Dodge City, the hired killer gives Matt a challenge to find out who paid Nate Springer to kill Matt.

2Gun for Chester

26 minSep 21, 1957

Chester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. After Chester is shot, he tells Matt Asa Ledbetter shot him. Matt worries that Chester may be working too hard on finding Asa Ledbetter. Asa Ledbetter claims Chester killed his brother.

3Blood Money

26 minSep 28, 1957

After Harry Spencer's life is saved Matt receives a wanted poster for Joe Sharpe who robbed a bank. Matt learns that Joe and Shape left Dodge so Sharpe could try and get the reward money.

4Kitty's Outlaw

26 minOct 5, 1957

Doc, Chester, and Matt suspect Kitty of helping a bank robber when she invites Matt to an out of the way spot for dinner. What they didn't know was that the bank robber was the first 'man' Kitty had ever known.

5Potato Road

26 minOct 12, 1957

Budge wants the Marshall to arrest his Pa for murder but when they get to Budge's house they get captured by Bud & his Ma so they can rob the bank.

6Jesse

26 minOct 19, 1957

Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.

7Mavis McCloud

26 minOct 26, 1957

Mavis McCloud comes to Dodge to get married. She marries Barny but Lou Staley comes looking for Mavis and wants to kill Barney and the Marshall.

8Born to Hang

26 minNov 2, 1957

Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.

9Romeo

26 minNov 9, 1957

A powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.

10Never Pester Chester

26 minNov 16, 1957

When Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.

11Fingered

26 minNov 23, 1957

The people of Dodge gets suspicious of Jim Cobbett (John Larch) when his second wife (Virginia Christine) vanishes just like his first (Karl Swenson appears).

12How to Kill a Woman

26 minNov 30, 1957

Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.

13Cows and Cribs

26 minDec 7, 1957

The whole town is caught up in a mystery: where does Joe Nadler get all his money---and where does he go to spend it?

14Doc's Reward

26 minDec 14, 1957

Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The man's brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.

15Kitty Lost

26 minDec 21, 1957

An eastern dude asks Kitty if she'd like to take a midnight drive, but when she doesn't return the next day, Matt goes looking.

16Twelfth Night

26 minDec 28, 1957

A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.

17Joe Phy

26 minJan 4, 1958

Matt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall".

18Buffalo Man

26 minJan 11, 1958

Matt & Chester are taken prisoner by two buffalo hunters who are hunting buffalo in Indian territory. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.

19Kitty Caught

26 minJan 18, 1958

The Gunner brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty hostage.

20Claustrophobia

26 minJan 25, 1958

Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men. Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men. After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.

21Ma Tennis

26 minFeb 1, 1958

Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.

22Sunday Supplement

26 minFeb 8, 1958

Clifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.

23Wild West

26 minFeb 15, 1958

Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prarie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.

24The Cabin

26 minFeb 22, 1958

Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.

25Dirt

26 minMar 1, 1958

Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married. When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman (Beulah)late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother (Henry Troyman) thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can. When Nat is shot on his wedding day, everyone thinks Polly's Brother committed the shooting. After Matt and Chester do an investigation, Matt comes to another conclusion about the shooting of Nat Seiber.

26Dooley Surrenders

26 minMar 8, 1958

Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.

27Joke's on Us

26 minMar 15, 1958

Jake Kaiser and some other ranchers hung Frank Tillman thinking he was a horse thief but they were wrong. Tillman's wife and son won't tell the Marshall who did it.

28Bottleman

26 minMar 22, 1958

Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.

29Laughing Gas

26 minMar 29, 1958

Ernie Stubblefield trying to put his past behind him changes his name to Earl Stafford and is traveling with a laughing gas show. Cloud Marsh tries the gas and gets laughed at by the town. Angry he and his brothers attack Stubblefield/Stafford.

30Texas Cowboys

26 minApr 5, 1958

The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.

31Amy's Good Deed

26 minApr 12, 1958

Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.

32Hanging Man

26 minApr 19, 1958

Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.

33Innocent Broad

26 minApr 26, 1958

A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.

34The Big Con

26 minMay 3, 1958

Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. When the con begins to unfold, Doc gets kidnapped.

35Widow's Mite

26 minMay 10, 1958

Gambler Leach Fields marries Zach Morton's widow Ada thinking she knows where the money Zach stole is.

36Chester's Hanging

26 minMay 17, 1958

Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.

37Carmen

26 minMay 24, 1958

A secret Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers killed. The Major threatens Matt with martial law if the thieves aren't caught. Matt suspects Jenny Lane, a new girl at the Long Branch of being involved.

38Overland Express

26 minMay 31, 1958

Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.

39The Gentleman

26 minJun 7, 1958

Marcus France, a "Gentleman Gambler" comes to Dodge and falls in love with Bonnie Damon. Tiller Evans thinks Bonnie is his girl. Matt has to keep Tiller from killing France.