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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

36 episodes
  1. 1Kate Heller

    45 minSep 28, 1963

    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.

  2. 2Lover Boy

    45 minOct 5, 1963

    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.

  3. 3Legends Don't Sleep

    45 minOct 12, 1963

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

  4. 4Tobe

    45 minOct 19, 1963

    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.

  5. 5Easy Come

    45 minOct 26, 1963

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

  6. 6My Sister's Keeper

    45 minNov 2, 1963

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

  7. 7Quint's Trail

    45 minNov 9, 1963

    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.

  8. 8Carter Caper

    45 minNov 16, 1963

    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.

  9. 9Ex-Con

    45 minNov 30, 1963

    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.

  10. 10Extradition (1)

    45 minDec 7, 1963

    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.

  11. 11Extradition (2)

    45 minDec 14, 1963

    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.

  12. 12The Magician

    45 minDec 21, 1963

    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.

  13. 13Pa Hack's Brood

    45 minDec 28, 1963

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

  14. 14The Glory and the Mud

    45 minJan 4, 1964

    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.

  15. 15Dry Well

    45 minJan 11, 1964

    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.

  16. 16Prairie Wolfer

    45 minJan 18, 1964

    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.

  17. 17Friend

    45 minJan 25, 1964

    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.

  18. 18Once a Haggen

    45 minFeb 1, 1964

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

  19. 19No Hands

    45 minFeb 8, 1964

    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.

  20. 20May Blossom

    45 minFeb 15, 1964

    Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus

  21. 21The Bassops

    45 minFeb 22, 1964

    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.

  22. 22The Kite

    45 minFeb 29, 1964

    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.

  23. 23Comanches Is Soft

    45 minMar 7, 1964

    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.

  24. 24Father's Love

    45 minMar 14, 1964

    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.

  25. 25Now That April's Here

    45 minMar 21, 1964

    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.

  26. 26Caleb

    45 minMar 28, 1964

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

  27. 27Owney Tupper Had a Daughter

    45 minApr 4, 1964

    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.

  28. 28Bently

    45 minApr 11, 1964

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

  29. 29Kitty Cornered

    45 minApr 18, 1964

    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.

  30. 30The Promoter

    45 minApr 25, 1964

    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.

  31. 31Trip West

    45 minMay 2, 1964

    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.

  32. 32Scot Free

    45 minMay 9, 1964

    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.

  33. 33The Warden

    45 minMay 16, 1964

    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.

  34. 34Homecoming

    45 minMay 23, 1964

    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.

  35. 35The Other Half

    45 minMay 30, 1964

    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.

  36. 36Journey for Three

    45 minJun 6, 1964

    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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Series cast

James ArnessMarshal Matt Dillon635 episodes
Amanda BlakeKitty635 episodes
Milburn StoneDoc635 episodes
Ken CurtisFestus368 episodes
Dennis WeaverChester341 episodes
Glenn StrangeSam Noonan192 episodes
Ted JordanShiloh127 episodes
Rudy DoucetteDeputy (uncredited)53 episodes
Burt ReynoldsQuint50 episodes
Howard CulverHotel Clerk45 episodes
Dabbs GreerJonas36 episodes
Hank PattersonLivery Man30 episodes
John GeorgeBarfly (uncredited)28 episodes
Buck TaylorNewly27 episodes
Shug FisherMule Skinner (1)25 episodes
Woody ChamblissWoody Lathrop24 episodes
Charles SeelGorth20 episodes
George FordDiner Patron (uncredited)20 episodes

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