Gunsmoke
Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.
- 1955-1975
- 20 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure
- TV-PG
Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.
Season 5 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
Target
Sat, Sep 5, 1959 30 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.
Episode 2
Kitty's Injury
Sat, Sep 19, 1959 30 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.
Episode 3
Horse Deal
Sat, Sep 26, 1959 30 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.
Episode 4
Johnny Red
Sat, Oct 3, 1959 30 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.
Episode 5
Tail to the Wind
Sat, Oct 10, 1959 30 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.
Episode 6
Annie Oakley
Sat, Oct 17, 1959 30 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.
Episode 7
Kangaroo
Sat, Oct 24, 1959 30 mins
Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself.
Episode 8
Saludos
Sat, Oct 31, 1959 30 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.
Episode 9
Brother Whelp
Sat, Nov 7, 1959 30 mins
A man wants a gunfight with his brother when he returns home, after years away, and finds him married to his girl.
Episode 10
The Boots
Sat, Nov 14, 1959 30 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.
Episode 11
Odd Man Out
Sat, Nov 21, 1959 30 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.
Episode 12
Miguel's Daughter
Sat, Nov 28, 1959 30 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.
Episode 13
Box O' Rocks
Sat, Dec 5, 1959 30 mins
A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.
Episode 14
False Witness
Sat, Dec 12, 1959 30 mins
A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.
Episode 15
Tag, You're It
Sat, Dec 19, 1959 30 mins
When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them.
Episode 16
Thick 'N' Thin
Sat, Dec 26, 1959 30 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.
Episode 17
Groat's Grudge
Sat, Jan 2, 1960 30 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.
Episode 18
Big Tom
Sat, Jan 9, 1960 30 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.
Episode 19
Till Death Do Us
Sat, Jan 16, 1960 30 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.
Episode 20
The Tragedian
Sat, Jan 23, 1960 30 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.
Episode 21
Hinka Do
Sat, Jan 30, 1960 30 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?
Episode 22
Doc Judge
Sat, Feb 6, 1960 30 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.
Episode 23
Moo Moo Raid
Sat, Feb 13, 1960 30 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.
Episode 24
Kitty's Killing
Sat, Feb 20, 1960 30 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.
Episode 25
Jailbait Janet
Sat, Feb 27, 1960 30 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.
Episode 26
Unwanted Deputy
Sat, Mar 5, 1960 30 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.
Episode 27
Where'd They Go
Sat, Mar 12, 1960 30 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.
Episode 28
Crowbait Bob
Sat, Mar 26, 1960 30 mins
A dying man's relations are much displeased when they learn that he's willed all he owns to Kitty.
Episode 29
Colleen So Green
Sat, Apr 2, 1960 30 mins
A Southern belle, originally from Virginia, charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but not including Kitty.
Episode 30
The Ex-Urbanites
Sat, Apr 9, 1960 30 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.
Episode 31
I Thee Wed
Sat, Apr 16, 1960 30 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.
Episode 32
The Lady Killer
Sat, Apr 23, 1960 30 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.
Episode 33
Gentleman's Disagreement
Sat, Apr 30, 1960 30 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.
Episode 34
Speak Me Fair
Sat, May 7, 1960 30 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.
Episode 35
Belle's Back
Sat, May 14, 1960 30 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.
Episode 36
The Bobsy Twins
Sat, May 21, 1960 30 mins
Two brothers have made their mission to rid the West of Indians.
Episode 37
Old Flame
Sat, May 28, 1960 30 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.
Episode 38
The Deserter
Sat, Jun 4, 1960 30 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.
Episode 39
Cherry Red
Sat, Jun 11, 1960 30 mins
The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.