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Gunsmoke Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1957 - 1958
Episode 1
Crack-Up
Sat, Sep 14, 1957 30 mins
Who sent the professional killer to Dodge---and why? Matt: James Arness. Nate: John Dehner. Teeters: Jess Kirkpatrick. Uzell: Howard Culver. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 2
Gun for Chester
Sat, Sep 21, 1957 30 mins
Chester's trembling more than usual: a man who threatened to kill him has arrived in town. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Grimmick: George Selk.
Episode 3
Blood Money
Sat, Sep 28, 1957 30 mins
Harry Spener is grateful to Joe Harpe for saving his life, but their friendship is strained when Spener finds that there's a price on Harpe's head. Spener: Vinton Hayworth. Harpe: James Dobson. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Moss Grimmick: George Self. Smith: Lawrence Green.
Episode 4
Kitty's Outlaw
Sat, Oct 5, 1957 30 mins
Kitty is implicated when her ex-boyfriend robs the bank. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Yankton: Ainslie Pryor. Matt: James Arness. Jonas: Dabbs Greer. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 5
Potato Road
Sat, Oct 12, 1957 30 mins
Young Budge Grilk reports his father to Matt---for murder. Matt: James Arness. Budge: Tom Pittman. Grilk: Robert Simon. Ma Grilk: Jeanette Nolan. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 6
Jesse
Sat, Oct 19, 1957 30 mins
Matt tries to calm a young man who has come to Dodge to find the man who killed his father. Matt: James Arness. Karl: James Maloney. Jesse: George Brenlin. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Bill Stapp: Edward Binns. Grimmick: George Selk. Jonas: Dabbs Greer.
Episode 7
Mavis McCloud
Sat, Oct 26, 1957 30 mins
An Eastern girl comes to Dodge to taste life in the West. Mavis: Fay Spain. Barney: Casey Adams. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 8
Born to Hang
Sat, Nov 2, 1957 30 mins
Though saved from a hanging, a drifter plans revenge against his would-be lynchers. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Hank: Anthony Caruso. Roble: Mort Mills.
Episode 9
Romeo
Sat, Nov 9, 1957 30 mins
In this Romeo and Juliet Western, Barbara Eden plays the daughter of a cattle baron. Andy Bowers: Robert Vaughn. Pierce: Barry Kelley. Emmett Bowers: Tyler McVey. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Pete: Robert McQueeney.
Episode 10
Never Pester Chester
Sat, Nov 16, 1957 30 mins
Matt's after the drifters who tried to kill Chester (Dennis Weaver). Matt: James Arness. Stobe: Buddy Baer. Treavitt: Tom Greenway. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 11
Fingered
Sat, Nov 23, 1957 30 mins
The people of Dodge were suspicious when Jim Cobbett's first wife disappeared, and now his second wife has also vanished. Cobbett: John Larch. Matt: James Arness. Lila: Virginia Christine. Hank Luz: Karl Swenson. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Jonas: Dabbs Greer.
Episode 12
How to Kill a Woman
Sat, Nov 30, 1957 30 mins
Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach. Buck: Robert Brubaker. Jesse: Barry Atwater. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 13
Cows and Cribs
Sat, Dec 7, 1957 30 mins
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? Matt: James Arness. Nadler: Val Avery. Mrs. Thorpe: Kathie Browne. Thorpe: Judson Taylor. Mrs. Nadler: Anne Barton. Doc: Milburn Stone. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Bowers: Bartlett Robinson.
Episode 14
Doc's Reward
Sat, Dec 14, 1957 30 mins
Matt refuses to arrest Doc, who has confessed to murder. Doc: Milburn Stone. Myles and Nate Brandel: Jack Lord. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 15
Kitty Lost
Sat, Dec 21, 1957 30 mins
Kitty (Amanda Blake) is deserted by an Eastern suitor on a desolate plain. Rackmal: Warren Stevens. Matt: James Arness. Pete: Brett King. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 16
Twelfth Night
Sat, Dec 28, 1957 30 mins
The last two survivors from two feuding Ozark families meet face to face in Dodge City. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 17
Joe Phy
Sat, Jan 4, 1958 30 mins
Marshal Joe Phy (Paul Richards) tries to maintain order on the strength of his reputation as a gunman. Grimes: Morey Amsterdam. Post: William Kendis. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 18
Buffalo Man
Sat, Jan 11, 1958 30 mins
It's Indians vs. buffalo hunters---with Matt and Chester caught in the middle. Ticks: Jack Klugman. Matt: James Arness. Abby: Patricia Smith. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Sipe: John Anderson. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 19
Kitty Caught
Sat, Jan 18, 1958 30 mins
Kitty (Amanda Blake) is taken hostage by bank robbers. Jed: Bruce Gordon. Billy: Pat Conway. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 20
Claustrophobia
Sat, Jan 25, 1958 30 mins
Two landgrabbers are trying to get a homesteader's ranch ... by killing his cattle. Giles: James Winslow. Dever: Will Sage. Olie: Vaughn Taylor. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Branch: Joe Maross. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 21
Ma Tennis
Sat, Feb 1, 1958 45 mins
Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.
Episode 22
Sunday Supplement
Sat, Feb 8, 1958 45 mins
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.
Episode 23
Wild West
Sat, Feb 15, 1958 30 mins
Matt (James Arness) tries to rescue a child's kidnapped father. Yorky: Paul Engel. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Hattie: Phyllis Coates. Kelly: Philip Bourneuf. Cutter: Murray Hamilton. Rourke: Robert Gist. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 24
The Cabin
Sat, Feb 22, 1958 30 mins
Seeking shelter during a blizzard, Matt (James Arness) finds a cabin---and two bank robbers. Alvie: Dean Stanton. Hack: Claude Akins. Belle: Patricia Barry. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 25
Dirt
Sat, Mar 1, 1958 30 mins
Wedding bells become a funeral toll when the new groom is killed. Beulah: June Lockhart. Nat: Wayne Morris. Polly: Gail Kobe. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 26
Dooley Surrenders
Sat, Mar 8, 1958 30 mins
Did Emmett Dooley kill one of his hunting companions? Matt Dillon doesn't think so, and sets out to find the real murderer. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Dooley: Strother Martin. Colpitt: Ken Lynch. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Faber: James Maloney. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 27
Joke's on Us
Sat, Mar 15, 1958 30 mins
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.
Episode 28
Bottleman
Sat, Mar 22, 1958 30 mins
Tom Cassidy, the town drunk, was a peaceful man until Dan Clell arrived in Dodge. Cassidy: John Dehner. Clell: Ross Martin. Flora: Peggy McCay. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Miss Kitty: Amanda Blake. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 29
Laughing Gas
Sat, Mar 29, 1958 30 mins
Bullies try to provoke a reformed gunslinger. Matt: James Arness. Stafford: Dean Harens. Mrs. Stafford: June Dayton. Marsh: Val Benedict. Teeters: Jess Kirkpatrick.
Episode 30
Texas Cowboys
Sat, Apr 5, 1958 30 mins
The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands. Matt: James Arness. Talley: Allen Lane. Choate: Clark Gordon. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Peeples: Ned Glass. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 31
Amy's Good Deed
Sat, Apr 12, 1958 30 mins
Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.
Episode 32
Hanging Man
Sat, May 17, 1958 30 mins
Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.
Episode 33
Innocent broad
Sat, Apr 26, 1958 30 mins
Linda Bell's boy friend makes trouble for Matt with his constant rages of jealousy. Linda: Myrna Fahey. Basset: Aaron Saxon. Paxon: Edward Kemmer. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 34
The Big Con
Sat, May 3, 1958 30 mins
Three con men take Doc (Milburn Stone) hostage. Matt: James Arness. Papp: Joseph Kearns. Hook: Alan Dexter. Varden: Gordon Mills. Shane: Raymond Bailey.
Episode 35
Widow's Mite
Sat, May 10, 1958 30 mins
A gambler marries a widow to get her outlaw husband's loot. Fields: Marshall Thompson. Ada: Katharine Bard. Matt: James Arness. Morton: Ken Mayer. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 36
Chester's Hanging
Sat, Apr 19, 1958 30 mins
A merchant is found hanged in his office and only Matt thinks it was murder. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Cora: Zina Provendie. Dresslar: Robert Osterloh. Tucker: Luis Van Rooten. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 37
Carmen
Sat, May 24, 1958 30 mins
Major Harris (Alan Gifford) threatens to put Dodge under martial law after three soldiers are killed in a robbery. Jennie: Ruta Lee. Brand: Robert Patton. Atwood: Tommy Farrell. Jones: Ray Teal. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 38
Overland Express
Sat, May 31, 1958 30 mins
The stagecoach carrying a killer to trial is stopped by an outlaw. Nation: Simon Oakland. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 39
The Gentleman
Sat, Jun 7, 1958 30 mins
One of Kitty's hostesses and a gambler have fallen in love---despite warnings from one of the girl's former boy friends. Boni: Virginia Baker. Marcus: Jack Cassidy. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Matt: James Arness. Tiller: Timothy Green. Chester: Dennis Weaver.