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Gunsmoke Season 1 Episodes

39 Episodes 1955 - 1956

Episode 1

Matt Gets It

Sat, Sep 10, 195530 mins

Matt is critically wounded while attempting to arrest super-fast gunman Dan Grat. Grat runs rampant in Dodge while Matt recovers, but is unpleasantly surprised when the recovered marshal challenges him again.

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Episode 2

Hot Spell

Sat, Sep 17, 195530 mins

Temperatures are high, tempers are short, and Matt is unenviably duty-bound to protect despicable gunman Cope Borden from being lynched by a group of normally law-abiding and hard-working ranchers and cowhands.

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Episode 3

Word of Honor

Sat, Oct 1, 195530 mins

Doc is sworn to secrecy to protect a cruel gang guilty of murder.

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Episode 4

Home Surgery

Sat, Oct 8, 195530 mins

The frightened teenage daughter of a rancher enlists Matt to attempt to save her father's life by amputating his gangrenous leg.

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Episode 5

Obie Tater

Sat, Oct 15, 195530 mins

An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.

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Episode 6

Night Incident

Sat, Oct 29, 195530 mins

Matt is dubious of young Timmy Wyatt's stories concerning nighttime robberies and assaults, but he agrees to investigate and is surprised by what he discovers.

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Episode 7

Smoking Out the Nolans

Sat, Nov 5, 195530 mins

Matt has the unpleasant task of evicting some squatters from a rancher's land, but the squatters claim the rancher sold the land to them legally.

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Episode 8

Kite's Reward

Sat, Nov 12, 195530 mins

Dillon takes away the gun of Andy Travis after he kills a man in self defense, figuring no one will challenge an unarmed man to a gunfight, but it's an action that might prove to be very costly.

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Episode 9

The Hunter

Sat, Nov 26, 195530 mins

Marshal Dillon has to keep bullying buffalo hunter Jase Murdock from traveling south into Indian territory on a hunt for hides. Murdock's plan to trespass and wantonly massacre buffalo promises to spark an uprising.

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Episode 10

The Queue

Sat, Dec 3, 195530 mins

Two men cut off a Chinese immigrant's pigtail, and he tells Matt that he can return home to China only with the pigtail or by taking the lives of the men who stole it.

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Episode 11

General Parsley Smith

Sat, Dec 10, 195530 mins

An inveterate liar is loudly insistent that Dodge City's new banker is a swindler who will abscond with the townspeople's savings at his earliest opportunity.

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Episode 12

Magnus

Sat, Dec 24, 195530 mins

Chester is concerned when his nomadic and "uncivilized" brother pays a Christmas visit to Dodge, but Magnus Goode proves worldlier and more adaptable to town life than anyone thought possible.

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Episode 13

Reed Survives

Sat, Dec 31, 195530 mins

Booth Rider is being played for a sucker by the wife of the ranch owner he works for, in the hopes that he will have to kill her husband in self defense.

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Episode 14

Professor Lute Bone

Sat, Jan 7, 195630 mins

Doc Adams complains vehemently to Matt when a medicine man's opium-laden "cure-all" nearly kills an infant girl. Matt initially finds himself unable to intervene legally, but he is finally able to do so when abuse of the elixir results in the death of an elderly man.

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Episode 15

No Handcuffs

Sat, Jan 21, 195630 mins

Hank Springer who claims the sheriff of Mingo framed him for murder, escapes from Matt's jail, wrongly believing he has killed a deputy in the process, and now has the intention of killing the apparently corrupt sheriff.

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Episode 16

Reward for Matt

Sat, Jan 28, 195630 mins

A woman puts a price on Matt's head after he shoots down her husband.

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Episode 17

Robin Hood

Sat, Feb 4, 195630 mins

Holdup man John Henry Jordan repeatedly escapes conviction by robbing only the wealthy and sparing poorer persons who are potential witnesses against him. His luck runs out when Matt's efforts force him to victimize ordinary citizens.

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Episode 18

Yorky

Sat, Feb 18, 195630 mins

A young white boy, taken hostage years earlier by the Pawnee, must steal from or kill a white in order to be accepted by the tribe as a brave.

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Episode 19

20-20

Sat, Feb 25, 195630 mins

Troy Carver is an aging ex lawman with poor eyesight being chased by a dirt farmer who wants revenge for the killing of his brother 2 years before.

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Episode 20

Reunion '78

Sat, Mar 3, 195630 mins

Jerry Shand finds himself facing a hangman's noose after killing jovial hardware drummer Andy Culley, but Matt learns that Culley was a former Quantrill raider and senses that reticent Long Branch hostess Belle Archer is the key to proving Jerry's claim of self-defense.

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Episode 21

Helping Hand

Sat, Mar 17, 195630 mins

Matt saves suspected 18 year old cattle thief Steve Elser, from a would be lynch group, and tries to help him find a job, but discovers he might be a hopeless case.

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Episode 22

Tap Day for Kitty

Sat, Mar 24, 195630 mins

Matt suspects Kitty of shooting and wounding an old man who attempted to abduct her in hopes of forcing her to marry him.

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Episode 23

Indian Scout

Sat, Mar 31, 195630 mins

Amos Cartwright is an Indian scout for the army who's suspected of deliberately allowing his troop to be ambushed by the Comanches. Now, the brother of one of the dead soldiers is planning to kill him.

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Episode 24

The Pest Hole

Sat, Apr 14, 195630 mins

When an epidemic of typhoid fever hits Dodge, some citizens want to take the law into their own hands against the person suspected as the carrier of the disease.

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Episode 25

The Big Broad

Sat, Apr 28, 195630 mins

A large woman and her small companion bring trouble to Kitty's saloon, as the woman has a way of causing guns to be drawn.

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Episode 26

Hack Prine

Sat, May 12, 195630 mins

Far from Dodge and without a horse, Matt Dillon still manages to bring in Lee Timble...a man wanted for murder. Lee's brother Dolph swears that he'll get him out. Meanwhile, an old friend of Dillon's, Hack Prine, has arrived in Dodge to take a job. Happy to see each other, they reminisce about old times, while both are unaware that the job Hack is in Dodge for, is killing Dillon.

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Episode 27

Cooter

Sat, May 19, 195630 mins

After Matt exposes gambler Ben Sissle as a cheat, Sissle attempts to exact revenge by giving brain-damaged Cooter Smith a gun and telling the marshal that Cooter plans to challenge him to a gunfight.

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Episode 28

The Killer

Sat, May 26, 195630 mins

A brutal killer named Crego is in Dodge. His game is to goad slower men into drawing first and then gunning them down and claiming self defense. Each time Dillon confronts him he backs down. If Matt can't rely on the law to provide a solution to this problem he may be forced to resort to Crego's tactics to mete out justice.

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Episode 29

Doc's Revenge

Sat, Jun 9, 195630 mins

Doc bristles at a stranger who has just ridden in with two friends. With the proverbial blood in his eye, Doc fetches an old six-shooter and confronts the stranger. What's going on with the normally mild-mannered town doctor. Fortunately, Matt intervenes in time. We expect the object of Doc's anger, Clem (Chris Alcaide), to be a dis-likable roughneck. But he's not. Instead he's courteous and understanding even after Doc's sworn to kill him.

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Episode 30

The Preacher

Sat, Jun 16, 195630 mins

The stage coach arrives in Dodge carrying two distinct personalities. Sam Keeler, a loud braggart of a man who boasts he can beat any man with his fists and Seth Tandy a quiet, meek man who refuses to raise his hands in violence. Keeler tries to provoke Tandy into a fight and Dillon is forced to intervene to prevent Tandy's beating. Soon Keeler has a grudge against Tandy and Dillon which will lead to an inevitable confrontation between Keeler and Dillon.

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Episode 31

How to Die for Nothing

Sat, Jun 23, 195630 mins

Two drunk trail herders, one of whom draws on Matt. Matt is forced to defend himself, and kills the man. The dead man's brother (Mort Mills), another crew member, swears vengeance and now Matt must deal with the threat.

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Episode 32

Dutch George

Sat, Jun 30, 195630 mins

Slickster Dutch George (that fine actor Robert Middleton) turns up in the middle of the prairie and steals a horse from boyish-looking McQueen (Tom Pittman). Turns out that George is an old friend of Matt's. Matt knows George's reputation as a skilled horse thief from back when Matt was a boy. McQueen comes to Dillon for help, together with Chester they ride to find George and the stolen horse. Matt thinks he may finally have George caught with evidence.

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Episode 33

Prairie Happy

Sat, Jul 7, 195630 mins

Matt tries to quell rumors of a planned Pawnee attack.

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Episode 34

Chester's Mail Order Bride

Sat, Jul 14, 195630 mins

Chester has been writing to a mail-order bride who is now coming to Dodge to marry him. What Chester has neglected to tell Matt and Doc is that the picture he sent her wasn't his but the marshal's.

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Episode 35

The Guitar

Sat, Jul 21, 195630 mins

Weed Pindle is a rather mild mannered wandering guitar player who is in Dodge. A couple of the rowdier cowboys have started having fun at his expense getting him drunk. When they find out he fought for the Union in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry their fun turns serious and they are set on hanging the peaceful player. Chester and some of the other citizens are just as determined to prevent it.

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Episode 36

Cara

Sat, Jul 28, 195630 mins

An old flame of Matt's comes to town, but her presence in Dodge may be motivated by more than sentiment.

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Episode 37

Mr. and Mrs. Amber

Sat, Aug 4, 195630 mins

A struggling prairie couple endures harassment and torment at the hands of the wife's self-righteous brother.

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Episode 38

Unmarked Grave

Sat, Aug 18, 195630 mins

A distraught woman is determined to help an accused young murderer in Matt's custody escape, after she learns of her own son's violent death and unceremonious burial on Boot Hill.

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Episode 39

Alarm at Pleasant Valley

Sat, Aug 25, 195630 mins

While on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester help homesteaders besieged by Indians.

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