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Gunsmoke Season 5 Episodes

39 Episodes 1959 - 1960

Episode 1

Target

Sat, Sep 5, 195930 mins

Ironic tragedy results when Danny Kader stubbornly disregards his father's predispositions (and Matt's pragmatic advice) in order to attempt an elopement with a young gypsy woman.

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Episode 2

Kitty's Injury

Sat, Sep 19, 195930 mins

When Kitty is hurt in a fall from a horse, she and Matt must seek help from shiftless dirt farmers who are oddly uninterested in aiding them.

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Episode 3

Horse Deal

Sat, Sep 26, 195930 mins

Horses with a "Bar S" brand are being sold to unsuspecting buyers. A man named Deesha comes into town to reclaim the horses saying they were stolen from his ranch, leaving the buyers bereft.

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Episode 4

Johnny Red

Sat, Oct 3, 195930 mins

A man unexpectedly turns up in Dodge City claiming to be Billy Crale, the long-lost son of a well-to-do local widow. Matt knows that the war office reported Billy Crale killed in the Civil War at the battle of Shiloh, so he becomes highly concerned for Mrs. Crale's safety when he confirms that the man is actually a former outlaw known as Johnny Red.

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Episode 5

Tail to the Wind

Sat, Oct 10, 195930 mins

A father and son bully a farmer and his wife who won't sell their land, but the farmer is oddly reluctant to let Matt arrest the two, even when they resort to gunfire.

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Episode 6

Annie Oakley

Sat, Oct 17, 195930 mins

Attention-starved Kate Kinsman claims that her husband Jeff was murdered by their handsome (and unattached) neighbor Ed Dolliver. The physical evidence points to Dolliver's guilt, but Matt is unconvinced and sets a trap to expose the killer.

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Episode 7

Kangaroo

Sat, Oct 24, 195930 mins

Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself.

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Episode 8

Saludos

Sat, Oct 31, 195930 mins

Matt rounds up three men (Steed, Foss, and Pegger) knowing that one of them is guilty of murdering a Pawnee brave while attempting to rape his wife Sochi. The Marshal tells the three that Sochi can identify her attacker, but he hopes that the guilty man will give himself away during the tense ride back to Dodge.

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Episode 9

Brother Whelp

Sat, Nov 7, 195930 mins

A man wants a gunfight with his brother when he returns home, after years away, and finds him married to his girl.

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Episode 10

The Boots

Sat, Nov 14, 195930 mins

Onetime gunman Zeno Smith faces an unenviable choice. If he does not help would-be gambler Hank Fergus rob Mr. Jonas's general store, Fergus will tell 12-year-old orphan Tommy the full story of how Zeno's descent into deprivation and alcoholism dates to the day he backed down from facing Fergus in a gunfight.

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Episode 11

Odd Man Out

Sat, Nov 21, 195930 mins

Matt is uncertain what to make of Cyrus Tucker's confused claim that his wife of 32 years "just ran off", especially when a homesteader claims that he saw the old man digging a large hole just behind his house.

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Episode 12

Miguel's Daughter

Sat, Nov 28, 195930 mins

Drifters Ab Cole and Rusk Davis repeatedly bother virtuous Chavela Ramirez and their actions eventually cause serious injury to the young woman. Matt takes Cole into custody and warns Chavela's proud father Miguel that there will be serious consequences if he defends his daughter's "honor" by going after Davis himself.

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Episode 13

Box O' Rocks

Sat, Dec 5, 195930 mins

A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.

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Episode 14

False Witness

Sat, Dec 12, 195930 mins

A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.

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Episode 15

Tag, You're It

Sat, Dec 19, 195930 mins

When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them.

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Episode 16

Thick 'N' Thin

Sat, Dec 26, 195930 mins

A quarrel between two homesteading partners escalates to the point of gunfire. Matt tries to make peace between them by locking them up together.

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Episode 17

Groat's Grudge

Sat, Jan 2, 196030 mins

An ex-Confederate waits to settle the score with the Union man whose unit cost him a loved one and property in the late war.

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Episode 18

Big Tom

Sat, Jan 9, 196030 mins

Despite a serious heart condition, onetime prizefighter Tom Burr is determined to go through with his plans to fight vicious Hob Creel. The only way Matt can stop the mismatch and save Burr's life is to fight Creel himself.

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Episode 19

Till Death Do Us

Sat, Jan 16, 196030 mins

Someone takes a shot at a hard man who is brutal to his wife, and someone is overheard claiming he was offered money to kill the man.

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Episode 20

The Tragedian

Sat, Jan 23, 196030 mins

Matt Dillon tries to help a has-been actor who is cheating at cards in the Long Branch Saloon. Meanwhile, a jailed criminal held on murder charges taunts Matt; claiming that his gunman brother is coming to Dodge City to kill the Marshal.

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Episode 21

Hinka Do

Sat, Jan 30, 196030 mins

Matt has reason to believe that the new overweight, gun toting, straight shooting, female owner of the Lady Gay saloon may have killed the previous owner, or did she?

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Episode 22

Doc Judge

Sat, Feb 6, 196030 mins

While Matt is out of town an ex-convict comes hunting Doc believing, despite the doctor's protests, that he is the judge who sentenced the man to a long stretch in prison.

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Episode 23

Moo Moo Raid

Sat, Feb 13, 196030 mins

Old man Onie has a great swimming cow that can lead herds across rivers, and when they both come up missing, one trail boss accuses another of killing them.

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Episode 24

Kitty's Killing

Sat, Feb 20, 196030 mins

Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter in childbirth.

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Episode 25

Jailbait Janet

Sat, Feb 27, 196030 mins

Three people rob a train of $50,000 and one of them is forced to fatally shoot a baggage clerk. Before dying, the clerk is only able to tell Matt there were three of them. A railroad agent who happened to be on the train adds to the details including where the robbery occurred and he expects quick results from Matt believing he should create a posse. Matt and Chester ride out to investigate the site. They find a man and his son camped with a wagon but a third person is spotted in the brush. Matt arrests Dan and his kids Jerry and Janet Everly for robbing the train and killing the baggage clerk. However, he is sympathetic to the hard-pressed family's claim that they are entitled to compensation from the railroad, and he resents the implications of the obnoxious railroad agent Krocker who accuses the Marshal of having "eyes" for the spunky teen-aged Janet and planning to run off with her and the missing money.

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Episode 26

Unwanted Deputy

Sat, Mar 5, 196030 mins

Determined to avenge his murderous brother's hanging, Vince Walsh begins a self-serving campaign of unofficially helping to keep the peace in Dodge City over Matt's objections. Walsh is certain that his actions and his taunts will eventually goad the Marshal into a gunfight.

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Episode 27

Where'd They Go

Sat, Mar 12, 196030 mins

Accused of being the masked robber of the general store, a homesteader agrees to come along quietly with Matt and Chester, but he asks that they help him complete a few chores about the place for his poor wife, who's in the family way.

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Episode 28

Crowbait Bob

Sat, Mar 26, 196030 mins

A dying man's relations are much displeased when they learn that he's willed all he owns to Kitty.

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Episode 29

Colleen So Green

Sat, Apr 2, 196030 mins

A Southern belle, originally from Virginia, charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but not including Kitty.

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Episode 30

The Ex-Urbanites

Sat, Apr 9, 196030 mins

Far from Dodge, Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Doc's life after the two are ambushed by a pair of savage prairie wolfers.

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Episode 31

I Thee Wed

Sat, Apr 16, 196030 mins

A man beats his wife and is sentenced to fifty days or fifty dollars by the judge. The beaten woman scrapes together the money for her husband's fine, only to be beaten again.

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Episode 32

The Lady Killer

Sat, Apr 23, 196030 mins

A saloon girl shoots a man who came to her room, claiming he attacked her, but as the dead man was to testify against a man from the woman's past, Matt is suspicious.

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Episode 33

Gentleman's Disagreement

Sat, Apr 30, 196030 mins

Ed makes no secret of his intention to kill Bert for marrying the girl Ed wanted. So when Ed is the one who turns up dead, folks assume that Bert did it.

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Episode 34

Speak Me Fair

Sat, May 7, 196030 mins

There's a cattle drive near town, and the cowboys are nervous about a series of cattle rustling events that have taken place recently.

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Episode 35

Belle's Back

Sat, May 14, 196030 mins

Belle Ainesly rides into town after 3 years absence. Seems she ran off with an unsavory character 3 years ago, and all of Dodge feels she's a "bad" woman. Belle says she is coming back to stay at the family ranch.

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Episode 36

The Bobsy Twins

Sat, May 21, 196030 mins

Two brothers have made their mission to rid the West of Indians.

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Episode 37

Old Flame

Sat, May 28, 196030 mins

Kitty doubts the veracity of Matt's old friend Dolly Winters, who arrives in Dodge seeking the Marshal's help and claiming to have been robbed, beaten, and jilted by a man named Rad Meadows.

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Episode 38

The Deserter

Sat, Jun 4, 196030 mins

Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the drop on him and wounds Chester.

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Episode 39

Cherry Red

Sat, Jun 11, 196030 mins

The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.

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