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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.
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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.
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Episode 1
Matt learns there is a hired killer in Dodge City, the hired killer gives Matt a challenge to find out who paid Nate Springer to kill Matt.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by John MestonGuest stars Preston Hanson, Jess Kirkpatrick, Howard Culver, John Dehner
Episode 2
Chester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. After Chester is shot, he tells Matt Asa Ledbetter shot him. Matt worries that Chester may be working too hard on finding Asa Ledbetter. Asa Ledbetter claims Chester killed his brother.
Directed by Louis KingGuest stars Howard Culver
Episode 3
After Harry Spencer's life is saved Matt receives a wanted poster for Joe Sharpe who robbed a bank. Matt learns that Joe and Shape left Dodge so Sharpe could try and get the reward money.
Directed by Louis KingGuest stars Vinton Hayworth
Episode 4
Doc, Chester, and Matt suspect Kitty of helping a bank robber when she invites Matt to an out of the way spot for dinner. What they didn't know was that the bank robber was the first 'man' Kitty had ever known.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Dabbs Greer, Howard Culver, Chris Alcaide, John George
Episode 5
Budge wants the Marshall to arrest his Pa for murder but when they get to Budge's house they get captured by Bud & his Ma so they can rob the bank.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Morgan Woodward, Jeanette Nolan, Robert F. Simon, Tom Pittman
Episode 6
Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Edward Binns, George Brenlin
Episode 7
Mavis McCloud comes to Dodge to get married. She marries Barny but Lou Staley comes looking for Mavis and wants to kill Barney and the Marshall.
Directed by Buzz KulikGuest stars Fay Spain, Howard Culver, Max Showalter
Episode 8
Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.
Directed by Buzz KulikGuest stars Anthony Caruso, Dorothy Adams, Mort Mills, Ken Lynch, Wright King
Episode 9
A powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Robert McQueeney, Barry Kelley, Bill Erwin, Barbara Eden, Tyler McVey, Robert Vaughn
Episode 10
When Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.
Directed by Richard WhorfGuest stars Gary Vinson, Paul Birch, Buddy Baer, Tom Greenway
Episode 11
The people of Dodge gets suspicious of Jim Cobbett (John Larch) when his second wife (Virginia Christine) vanishes just like his first (Karl Swenson appears).
Guest stars Karl Swenson, John Larch, Virginia Christine, Dabbs Greer, Chick Hannan
Episode 12
Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.
Directed by Sam Peckinpah, John RichGuest stars Pernell Roberts, Barry Atwater, John Parrish, George Cisar
Episode 13
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?
Directed by Richard WhorfWritten by John Meston, Kathleen HiteGuest stars Val Avery, Dabbs Greer, Bartlett Robinson, Mabel Albertson, Kathie Browne, Jud Taylor
Episode 14
Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The man's brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.
Directed by Richard WhorfGuest stars Jack Lord
Episode 15
An eastern dude asks Kitty if she'd like to take a midnight drive, but when she doesn't return the next day, Matt goes looking.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Warren Stevens, John George, Gage Clarke, Stephen Ellsworth, Leonard P. Geer
Episode 16
A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.
Directed by John RichGuest stars William Schallert, Rose Marie, James Griffith, John George, Dick Rich
Episode 17
Matt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall".
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Morey Amsterdam, Paul Richards
Episode 18
Matt & Chester are taken prisoner by two buffalo hunters who are hunting buffalo in Indian territory. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars John Anderson, Jack Klugman, Patricia Smith, Abel Fernandez
Episode 19
The Gunner brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty hostage.
Directed by Richard WhorfGuest stars William Keene, Bruce Gordon, Pat Conway
Episode 20
Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men. Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men. After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by John MestonGuest stars Joe Maross, Vaughn Taylor, Jason Johnson
Episode 21
Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.
Directed by Buzz KulikGuest stars Corey Allen, Ron Hagerthy, John George
Episode 22
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.
Directed by Richard WhorfGuest stars Werner Klemperer, Eddie Little Sky, Jack Weston
Episode 23
Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prarie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.
Directed by Richard WhorfGuest stars Phyllis Coates, Murray Hamilton, Philip Bourneuf, Robert Gist
Episode 24
Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.
Directed by John RichWritten by John MestonGuest stars Harry Dean Stanton, Claude Akins
Episode 25
Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married. When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman (Beulah)late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother (Henry Troyman) thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can. When Nat is shot on his wedding day, everyone thinks Polly's Brother committed the shooting. After Matt and Chester do an investigation, Matt comes to another conclusion about the shooting of Nat Seiber.
Directed by Ted Post, Sam PeckinpahWritten by Sam PeckinpahGuest stars Barry McGuire, Ian MacDonald, Wayne Morris, June Lockhart, Gail Kobe, Tyler McVey
Episode 26
Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.
Directed by John RichWritten by John MestonGuest stars Ben Wright, Ken Lynch, Strother Martin
Episode 27
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.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Virginia Gregg, Kevin Hagen, Bartlett Robinson, Michael Hinn, Herbert Lytton
Episode 28
Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.
Directed by John RichWritten by John MestonGuest stars Peggy McCay, Ross Martin, John Dehner, Barney Phillips, John George
Episode 29
Ernie Stubblefield trying to put his past behind him changes his name to Earl Stafford and is traveling with a laughing gas show. Cloud Marsh tries the gas and gets laughed at by the town. Angry he and his brothers attack Stubblefield/Stafford.
Directed by John RichGuest stars Dean Harens, Jess Kirkpatrick, Cyril Delevanti, John George
Episode 30
The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.
Directed by John RichWritten by John MestonGuest stars Allan Lane, Stafford Repp, John Mitchum, Ned Glass
Episode 31
Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.
Directed by John RichWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Jeanette Nolan
Episode 32
Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.
Directed by John RichWritten by John MestonGuest stars Luis van Rooten, Robert Osterloh, Helen Kleeb, Dick Rich
Episode 33
A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.
Directed by John RichWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Ed Kemmer, Myrna Fahey
Episode 34
Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. When the con begins to unfold, Doc gets kidnapped.
Directed by John RichGuest stars Joseph Kearns, Raymond Bailey
Episode 35
Gambler Leach Fields marries Zach Morton's widow Ada thinking she knows where the money Zach stole is.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Marshall Thompson, Ken Mayer, John George
Episode 36
Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Sam Edwards, Charles Cooper, Walter Barnes
Episode 37
A secret Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers killed. The Major threatens Matt with martial law if the thieves aren't caught. Matt suspects Jenny Lane, a new girl at the Long Branch of being involved.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Ruta Lee, Tommy Farrell, Ray Teal, Alan Gifford, Len Lesser, Robert Patten, Roy Engel, Barney Phillips
Episode 38
Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.
Guest stars Forrest Stanley, Jimmy Cross, Clem Bevans, Simon Oakland
Episode 39
Marcus France, a "Gentleman Gambler" comes to Dodge and falls in love with Bonnie Damon. Tiller Evans thinks Bonnie is his girl. Matt has to keep Tiller from killing France.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Timothy Carey, Jack Cassidy, Henry Corden, John George, Howard Culver
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
James ArnessMarshal Matt Dillon
Amanda BlakeKitty
Dennis WeaverChester
Ken CurtisFestus
Milburn StoneDoc
Woody ChamblissWoody Lathrop
Glenn StrangeSam Noonan
Dabbs GreerJonas
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