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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
Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by John MestonGuest stars John Mitchum, Norma Crane, Chuck Hayward, Ed Nelson, Glenn Strange, John George, Charles Bail, Ted Jordan
Episode 2
Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by John MestonGuest stars Dabbs Greer, Joanne Linville, Steve Brodie, Harry Dean Stanton, Warren Stevens, Bing Russell, Dick Rich, Lovyss Bradley
Episode 3
Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Frank Sutton, Dabbs Greer, Glenn Strange, Roger Mobley, Linda Watkins, Andy Albin, John George, John Lasell
Episode 4
A hard man has given his two sons a hard raising, sure that they inherited their mother's bad blood from their murderous ancestor. The old man may be right: one of his sons may be a murderer. Or is it the other son?
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Evans Evans, Peter Whitney, Conlan Carter, Glenn Strange, Chris Hughes, Warren J. Kemmerling
Episode 5
A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, can't do enough for him.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by John MestonGuest stars Glenn Strange, Harry Lauter, John Larch, Buddy Ebsen, Rudy Doucette, George Ford, Jimmy Noel, Cactus Mack
Episode 6
A headstrong young woman will undertake the long, dangerous journey to her fiancé's fort on her own if she must, so Matt nominates himself to escort her.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Alan Baxter, Peggy Stewart, Mabel Albertson
Episode 7
His mother has been dead almost a year, and Cully is troubled by his pa's carousing. When they discuss his getting married again, it seems like a good idea until he returns from a business trip with a new wife, an Arapaho squaw, who he has conflicted emotions about.
Directed by Gerald MayerGuest stars Vitina Marcus, Paul Carr, Bob Hastings, John Dehner, Bill Erwin
Episode 8
Chester becomes engaged more or less accidentally, but he takes to heart his obligation to his betrothed, leaving his job with Mr. Dillon to devote himself to homesteading a barren quarter section.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Earle Hodgins, Rudy Doucette, Lovyss Bradley, John George, Harold Innocent, Herschel Graham, Dal McKennon
Episode 9
The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.
Directed by Richard WhorfGuest stars Malcolm Atterbury, Don Dubbins, Sue Randall, James Griffith, Glenn Strange
Episode 10
Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Pippa Scott, R.G. Armstrong, Anthony Caruso, Lane Chandler
Episode 11
A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Crahan Denton, Robert Sorrells, Ben Cooper, Glenn Strange
Episode 12
A homesteader hires a man to make the appearance of a scandal with his wife so that he can blackmail his wife's wealthy father.
Directed by Tay GarnettWritten by John MestonGuest stars Lois Nettleton, Glenn Strange, William Windom, Johnny Seven, Quentin Sondergaard
Episode 13
Orkey Cathcart is looking for a wife and sets his sites on Miss Kitty.
Directed by Dennis WeaverWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Glenn Strange, Warren Oates, Don Dubbins
Episode 14
Outlaws want Matt to leave Dodge so they can steal from the bank or they will kill a man per day.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by John MestonGuest stars Glenn Strange, Leonard Nimoy, Fay Spain, Val Dufour, Garry Walberg, Ben Wright, James Drake
Episode 15
Prospector Harvey Easter settles in Dodge City after striking it rich in the Colorado Rockies. His heavy handed attempts at philanthropy soon have unintended results.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Adam Williams, Glenn Strange, Shug Fisher, Harry Bartell, Richard Reeves, Abraham Sofaer, Warren Oates, James Anderson
Episode 16
A hired man is sweet on his boss's daughter and disliked by his boss. When the boss is killed, his own daughter claims to have done it, but Matt is suspicious.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Sherry Jackson, Naura Hayden, Jeremy Slate, Hal Taggart, Dorothy Green, Oliver McGowan
Episode 17
Cody is a well-liked citizen of Dodge. He's building a house and getting married. When he befriends a stranger, his perfect life is turned upside down.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Wayne Rogers, Gloria Talbott, Anthony Caruso, Glenn Strange
Episode 18
Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars William Campbell, Dabbs Greer, Edgar Buchanan, Dorothy Neumann
Episode 19
Chester is getting home-cooked meals from, and giving guitar lessons to, a spirited young woman who hopes thereby to make her estranged sweetheart jealous.
Directed by Harry HarrisGuest stars Sue Ane Langdon, Dick Sargent, Quentin Sondergaard, Frank Sutton
Episode 20
A man has been hired to kill Matt, but when he meets and quickly falls in love with a decent girl, he has a change of heart--or does he?
Directed by Ted PostWritten by John MestonGuest stars John Kerr, Elizabeth MacRae, Howard Culver, Herman Hack, Frank Mills, William Bramley, J. Edward McKinley, Jimmie Booth
Episode 21
Taken prisoner by a band of comancheros, Chester is helped to escape by one of the band's women and flees with another who may or may not be worthy of his trust.
Directed by Tay GarnettWritten by John MestonGuest stars Miriam Colon, BarBara Luna, Robert J. Wilke, Claude Akins
Episode 22
While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Orville Sherman, Joseph Ruskin, Jeremy Slate, George Ford, Richard Shannon, William Challee
Episode 23
Oren was a rancher who liked his drink, gambling and women, even though he had a pretty wife at home. Matt is forced to kill him and when he breaks the news to her, all she can see is getting revenge for his death, and Matt is her target.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by John MestonGuest stars Dianne Foster, Grace Lee Whitney, Jason Evers, Harry Antrim, Tom Reese, George Ford, John Breen, Frank Mills
Episode 24
A speculator in land is already unpopular in Dodge, but when he is acquitted of the murder of a man he killed, he finds himself "sent to Coventry": no one in town, not even Kitty, will buy, sell, or even speak to him.
Directed by Christian NybyWritten by John MestonGuest stars William Boyett, Don Keefer, Joe Maross, Paul Birch, James Anderson, John Harmon, Buck Young, Glenn Strange
Episode 25
A young woman comes to Dodge insisting on an escort to Indian country so that the body of her husband, believed to have been killed fighting the Kiowa, may be recovered.
Directed by Ted PostGuest stars Joan Hackett, Rodd Redwing, Alexander Lockwood, Howard Culver
Episode 26
Little Bit and his grandpa, from Texas, are passing through Dodge after buying a breeding bull. When they meet Silva, someone grandpa considers a "fooler", they have their hands full making it back with their stock and their lives.
Directed by Harry HarrisGuest stars Howard Culver, Andy Clyde, Hank Patterson, Rudy Doucette, George Ford, John Kellogg, Ted Jordan
Episode 27
A group of women are going by wagon train to Colorado, lured by the promise of marrying rich miners, but Matt learns that the leader's actual plan for the women is quite different.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Joan Marshall, Dabbs Greer, Ellen Burstyn, William Schallert, Constance Ford, William Wellman Jr., Gilman Rankin, Kevin Hagen
Episode 28
Johnny Cole kills a crooked card dealer in self defense, and then falls in love with the dealer's beautiful daughter, but she resists his advances and wants to seriously hurt him instead.
Directed by Harry HarrisGuest stars Gary Clarke, Judi Meredith, George Ford, Roy Roberts, Ted Jordan
Episode 29
Loy has always felt he could do what he pleased. When he shoots one of his gang members in the back just for the reward, he takes the body into Dodge to Matt Dillon who isn't as ready as he thought to give him his bounty.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Bethel Leslie, Myron Healey, Percy Helton, Howard Culver, John Crawford, Michael Hinn, Cyril Delevanti
Episode 30
Henry and Jake have struck it rich. Now they want to follow their dream and buy a Mississippi river boat. When Henry spots Miss Kitty, he fancies marrying her but she will have nothing to do with his dream or him.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Glenn Strange, Shug Fisher, J. Pat O'Malley, Valerie Allen, Rudy Doucette, George Ford, Gage Clarke, John Breen
Episode 31
Cale is a bullheaded young drifter who takes a nap in a barn he comes across only to wake up to a shootout between a horse thief and the owner. Cale is shot, wounded, and becomes a suspected accomplice.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Glenn Strange, Robert Karnes, Hank Patterson
Episode 32
On his way to a fishing vacation, Chester stumbles into a human drama when he wounds a fleeing Indian he mistakes for a thief, who has touched the heart of a lonely young white woman.
Directed by Joseph SargentWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Peggy Rea, Michael Barrier, Shug Fisher, Eddie Little Sky, Karl Swenson, Garry Walberg, George Ford, John Breen
Episode 33
A charmer escapes from federal prison to Dodge and finds himself caught up in the drama among two brothers, the wife of one of them, and their domineering father.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Dabbs Greer, Andrew Prine, Ed Nelson, William Phipps, Conrad Nagel, Nancy Gates, Dorothy Neumann, George Ford
Episode 34
The market for snake oil is on the decline, so a peddler and his sons expand their con game with murder.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by John MestonGuest stars Arthur Malet, Dabbs Greer, Glenn Strange, Hal Needham, Michael Parks, George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, Malcolm Atterbury
Episode information updated Jul 23, 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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