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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
A young man named Cale may have earned Marshal Dillon's respect, but Tate Gifford says Cale has just ridden off on a stolen horse - Tate's horse.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Ford Rainey, Virginia Gregg, Leonard Nimoy, Raymond Guth, Hank Patterson
Episode 2
An adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, and she starts learning it from the rough-and-tumble characters and loafers she encounters in Dodge.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Joby Baker, Jackie Searl, Dennis Cross, Buck Young, Bob Hastings
Episode 3
A half-Comanche has joined his mother's tribe in killing whites to avenge the murder of his father, but Matt sees the good in the man and the chance to re-integrate him, perhaps, into white society.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Dabbs Greer, Foster Brooks, Burt Reynolds, Earle Hodgins, Harry Carey, Jr., Lane Bradford, Myron Healey, Michael Barrier
Episode 4
Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.
Written by Kathleen HiteGuest stars John Dehner, Sherry Jackson, Howard McNear
Episode 5
A bank robber hides out in Dodge, bringing along his girl. While he's gambling away his loot, his girl casts her eye on Matt.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Burt Reynolds, Ruta Lee, Ron Hayes, Ken Hudgins
Episode 6
Released after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adjusting to the fact that things have inevitably changed with respect to his relationships with his wife, his son, and the citizens of Dodge.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Glenn Strange, Henry Rowland, Richard Bull, Jacqueline Scott, Orville Sherman, Dennis Cross, Jason Evers
Episode 7
A young woman who's heir to her father's land decides to carry out his plan to build a ditch that will impair her neighbors' access to water and perhaps trigger a range war.
Directed by Harry HarrisGuest stars Dehl Berti, Hardie Albright, Christopher Dark, Joanne Linville, Russell Custer, Ted Jordan
Episode 8
A trapper leaves his friend dying alone in order to save his own life, only later to stumble across that friend in Dodge, very much alive and wanting him dead.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Glenn Strange, Doris Singleton, Lane Chandler, Strother Martin
Episode 9
A band of ne'er-do-wells, led by their mother, see in town a young woman that pleases them and decide to take her by force.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Joan Freeman, Dick Peabody, Glenn Strange, Burt Reynolds, Virginia Gregg, Gregg Palmer, Phyllis Coates
Episode 10
Matt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially are kept as prisoners by the farmer and his son.
Directed by Harry HarrisGuest stars Dabbs Greer, Byron Foulger, Hampton Fancher, Robert Middleton, Linda Watkins, Joe Flynn
Episode 11
Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt's, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encroaching on the land he regards as his.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Chill Wills, Dabbs Greer, Glenn Strange, Marshall Reed, Burt Reynolds, Harry Carey, Jr., Wright King, Chuck Roberson
Episode 12
While Matt is out of town, putting lawman's business ahead of Kitty yet again, a new man in her life has plenty of time and attention to give--perhaps too much attention.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Glenn Strange, Claude Akins, Garry Walberg
Episode 13
When a boy witnesses his grandfather's murder, it sends Matt looking for a new found companion's uncle. Festus Haggen is tracking his uncle for killing his twin brother Fergus. Matt is wary but learns to trust Festus when he's shot and in bad shape.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Denver Pyle, Elizabeth MacRae
Episode 14
Chester gets a letter from his uncle Sunday, a 'crook', on his upcoming trip to Dodge city. When he arrives with a niece, he finds he has to watch them both or what they have planned just might work, at his expense.
Directed by Joseph SargentWritten by John MestonGuest stars Dabbs Greer, Glenn Strange, Henry Beckman, Burt Reynolds, Nora Marlowe, Ed Nelson, Rudy Doucette, Joyce Bulifant
Episode 15
A slick city reporter sets out to prove that even a milquetoast can pass for a feared gunfighter, if a few well-placed tidbits of rumor precede him.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Roy Thinnes, Andrew Prine, William Windom, Robert Fortier, Michael T. Mikler
Episode 16
The "town fool" has a chance to change his life when he learns that a famous general, now on his deathbed, believes him to be his long-lost son.
Directed by Harry HarrisGuest stars Dick Whittinghill, John Reed King, J. Pat O'Malley, Vitina Marcus, Frank Sutton, Roy Roberts, George Ford, Wayne Heffley
Episode 17
The town drunk who saw a man drowned, believes it was dream, until he meets up with the guy who did the drowning.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by John MestonGuest stars John Larkin, Woodrow Parfrey, Larry Ward, Rudy Doucette, George Ford, Ted Jordan
Episode 18
Quint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids around Dodge. Working shotgun on the stage, he proves his point when he is attacked, then pursued by those renegades. His "Indian" skills save him and a colonel's daughter who has contempt for half-Comanche Quint.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Bob Steele, Audrey Dalton, Burt Reynolds, Don 'Red' Barry, Jack Lambert, Edward Faulkner, John Pickard, Ben Wright
Episode 19
A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Jesslyn Fax, Mariette Hartley, Roy Barcroft, John Clarke
Episode 20
When a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a would-be robber, she refuses to identify him.
Guest stars Dabbs Greer, Glenn Strange, Booth Colman, Chris Robinson, Burt Reynolds, Michael T. Mikler, Gil Lamb
Episode 21
Chance Hopper is Matt's young foster brother, torn between loyalty to Matt and to his partners in crime, who are counting on Chance to divert Matt from their course and make good their getaway.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Glenn Strange, Michael Forest, John Anderson, Gloria Talbott, Joseph V. Perry, Rudy Doucette, Helen Wallace, Gary Epper
Episode 22
Gib Dawson brings his beautiful Indian wife, Shona, in to Dodge for treatment of a badly infected hand wound, at a time when racial tensions are running high against the Comanches.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by John MestonGuest stars Burt Reynolds, Miriam Colon, John Crawford, Robert Bray, Roy Roberts
Episode 23
The friendship between business partners is jeopardized when one of them sustains a head injury, changing his personality. The injured man threatens to kill West's character, the fiancé of a young saloon woman.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by John MestonGuest stars Glenn Strange, Adam West, John Dehner, Anthony Caruso, Sheldon Allman, William Fawcett
Episode 24
Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance from other men who hate lawmen.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by John MestonGuest stars Will Hutchins, Leonard Stone, Burt Reynolds, Gregg Palmer, Judson Pratt, Crahan Denton, John Alderson, Herbert Lytton
Episode 25
Two ne'er-do-wells come to town and soon cook up a plot under which half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper is framed for the theft of a horse. The atmosphere in Dodge quickly becomes dangerously ugly for Quint.
Written by John MestonGuest stars Patrick McVey, Burt Reynolds, Ruth Phillips, James Griffith, Raymond Guth
Episode 26
Two men want to rob the bank in Dodge, but are unwilling to try it while Matt lives. A man agrees to accept the job of killing the marshal, attaching some rather peculiar conditions to his acceptance.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Joyce Van Patten, Burt Reynolds, Milton Selzer, Warren Stevens, James Westerfield, Howard McNear
Episode 27
O'Ryan and Finnegan, feuding over a girl they both knew back home, are caught in a legal loophole to take ownership of a mine and land they both own. When Matt is forced in the middle of it, he has to work fast so no one else is hurt.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Michael Higgins, Glenn Strange, Kent Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Burt Reynolds, John Mitchum, Garry Walberg, Earle Hodgins
Episode 28
An orphaned Indian boy latches on to a cowboy in need of work and the two of them find all doors closed to them in Dodge.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Edmund Vargas, Harry Bartell, Eddie Little Sky, Sandy Kenyon, Ron Hayes, Leonard Nimoy, Gilman Rankin
Episode 29
A rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his father's wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by John MestonGuest stars Sharon Farrell, Dick Foran, Burt Reynolds, Robert Stevenson, R.G. Armstrong, Gilman Rankin, Linden Chiles
Episode 30
A rancher's widow regrets having spent her life away from the bright lights of a city, and is desperate that her son not share her fate.
Directed by Harry HarrisGuest stars Orville Sherman, Dennis Cross
Episode 31
Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kitty's possessions.
Directed by William ConradWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Dan Tobin, John Clarke, Charles Seel, George Ford, Ollie O'Toole, Jimmy Noel, C. Lindsay Workman
Episode 32
Chester is smitten with Polly, but she has eyes only for Wade, a man new in town and newly her father's employee. Knowing little about Wade, Polly agrees quickly to marry him, but Chester discovers that Wade already has a wife.
Directed by Joseph SargentGuest stars Mitzi Hoag, Sara Taft
Episode 33
A woman newly widowed is powerfully attracted to Quint, but when he gently turns her down, she vows to make him pay for scorning a white woman.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Ben Johnson, Burt Reynolds, Catherine McLeod, Don Keefer, Frank Hagney
Episode 34
Pardoned for his Civil War service, an old outlaw finds his way to Dodge, where there's a lawman who's in his debt.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by John MestonGuest stars Dabbs Greer, Roy Roberts, Michael Constantine, Burt Reynolds, Edgar Buchanan, H.M. Wynant, Howard Culver, Dorothy Neumann
Episode 35
Chester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on marriage but eager to make changes in Chester as well, he has second thoughts--especially after a talk with her child suggests that the widow may still be a wife.
Directed by Joseph SargentWritten by Kathleen HiteGuest stars Morgan Brittany, Dabbs Greer, William Schallert, Herschel Graham
Episode 36
Aaron, sweet on saloon girl Leah and wanting to make her his wife, is attacked and killed by Colie Fletcher. When Matt goes after him, Colie runs into Jubal Tanner, wounds him, and steals his horse. Jubal, ungrateful to those who help him, meets Leah, and each helps the other's outlook.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Paul SavageGuest stars Beverly Garland, Gregg Palmer, Peter Breck, Kevin Hagen, Denver Pyle, Hal Needham
Episode 37
A prized Appaloosa, grazing alone and apparently without owner on the prairie, proves to be the ruin of more than one man.
Directed by Harry HarrisWritten by Paul SavageGuest stars Émile Genest, James Hampton, Glenn Strange, Burt Reynolds, Roy Thinnes, Rand Brooks, Dennis Cross, Buck Young
Episode 38
A young man is convicted of killing the saloon girl he wanted for his own. Matt is so sure that the young man is really innocent that he goes on the road after another suspect to prevent an unjust hanging.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Paul SavageGuest stars Anthony Caruso, Lane Chandler, Jack Lambert, Harry Carey, Jr., Edward Faulkner, Richard Devon, Joseph Sirola, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
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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