Gunsmoke

1955
Gunsmoke

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EP1 Matt Dillon Must Die Sep 09, 1974

A mountain family in an attempt to avenge the death of one of their own capture Matt.

EP2 Town in Chains Sep 16, 1974

A group of bandits attempt to rob a town while masquerading as soldiers.

EP3 The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1) Sep 23, 1974

Doc and fellow stage passenger, Lyla are captured by renegade comancheros.

EP4 The Guns of Cibola Blanca (2) Sep 30, 1974

Matt, Festus and Newly attempt to rescue Doc and Lyla from Shindrow's camp.

EP5 Thirty a Month and Found Oct 07, 1974

Matt houses a drunk Will & Friends in the jail they go looking for $300 that they think Bill took. Matt thinks it was a misunderstanding. Will doesn't want to tell Matt that they shot Curly Wills (They buried him before going to Dodge. Doak stops to see his girlfriend and says marriage will need to wait, as Will & Quincy leaves without Doak Quincy and the storekeepers are shot.

EP6 The Wiving Oct 14, 1974

Jed Hockett(Harry Morgan), a farmer, orders his three boys to go to town and return with prospective brides.

EP7 The Iron Men Oct 21, 1974

Matt and former lawman now turned alcoholic, Chauncey Demon go up against land baron Carl Ryker.

EP8 The Fourth Victim Nov 04, 1974

A series of seemingly random killings have the citizens of Dodge City in near panic, but Dillon believes they are part of a pattern in which Doc is slated to be the next target.

EP9 The Tarnished Badge Nov 11, 1974

Matt's friend, Sheriff Harker runs his town ruthlessly, punishing anyone disobeying him.

EP10 In Performance of Duty Nov 18, 1974

Matt is frustrated by Judge Kendall's insistence that the letter of the law be maintained, which could result in Emmett Kaysinger and his boys, all known outlaws, be set free unless there is solid evidence to hold them for a double murder and robbery they committed.

EP11 Island in the Desert (1) Dec 02, 1974

Festus, in the desert hunting escaped killer Gard Dixon is wounded by the outlaw. He is found by Ben Snow, a half-crazy hermit who has been living in the desert with his gold for many years.

EP12 Island in the Desert (2) Dec 09, 1974

While Matt and Newly hunt for Festus, Ben Snow and Festus attempt to haul his gold out of the desert.

EP13 The Colonel Dec 16, 1974

Lee J. Cobb and his daughter Julie Cobb appear together for the first time when Cobb guest-stars as a once-proud military officer who is suddenly faced with a painful and unplanned reunion with his daughter.

EP14 The Squaw Jan 06, 1975

Fleeing from both Matt Dillon and his double-crossed partners, outlaw Gristy Calhoun discovers that his survival in the badlands depends on an Indian woman.

EP15 The Hiders Jan 13, 1975

A farmer comes by and asks Sharp where is cow is, Matt tells the milk cow owner that he has no proof to arrest ""the hiders."" The farmer wants to go after them himself. Matt tells the men that will leave Dodge if anyone else complains. Dink escapes from Carp after being hurt, Festus finds Dink and treats his wounds. Dink tells Festus he likes waking up in the morning, Martha warns Dink to watch for Carp. Carp asks Dink to help kill Festus.

EP16 Larkin Jan 20, 1975

Newly finds himself in a strange alliance with a professional killer as he tries to return to Dodge City with his prisoner (Jaeckel) before they are both killed by a trio of bounty hunters.

EP17 The Fires of Ignorance Jan 27, 1975

Henry Decory is a schoolteacher who makes a strong statement for compulsory education for frontier children as a stubborn father feels that books and education are a waste of time and tries to keep his son Tommy out of school.

EP18 The Angry Land Feb 03, 1975

Matt takes a young orphan Bessie Sutherland after her parents were killed on the prairie, to live with her Aunt Rachel. Rachel tells Matt that because of the devastating experiences that she has had, does not want to take in her niece, besides she wants to sell her land.

EP19 Brides and Grooms Feb 10, 1975

Farmer Jed Hackett (Harry Morgan) decides it's time for his three sons marry the women they brought back from Dodge City.

EP20 Hard Labor Feb 24, 1975

Matt Dillon is sentenced to life imprisonment of hard labor for shooting a fugitive in the town of Bedrock.

EP21 I Have Promises to Keep Mar 03, 1975

Festus is caught in the middle when an Eastern preacher (David Wayne) wants to build a church for the Indians and the townspeople to share, but by all of whom that are filled with prejudice.

EP22 The Busters Mar 10, 1975

Two bronco busters try to raise money for a ranch in Montana, only to have the dream ruined when one of them gets a death threatening head injury when thrown off by a wild stallion.

EP23 Manolo Mar 17, 1975

Manolo (Robert Urich)is a Basque youth who is not recognized as a man in the eyes of his people because he refuses to fight his father Alejo (Nehemiah Persoff), a traditional Basque custom to prove one's manhood.

EP24 The Sharecroppers Mar 31, 1975

A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers.
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Released: 10 September 1955 Ended
Producted By: CBS
Country: United States of America
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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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Tracy Winters MATT DILLON was cool, always saying "Hold it right there" when he had the bad guy cornered. Most of the rest of the show was good, except for.......DOC - If this guy had pulled on his ear one more time, it would have fallen off into his magic elixir. Then he rubs his nose with the fresh earwax still on his fingers... eeeeewwwwww! FESTUS - What a stinky, goofy, mentally-challenged yahoo this fool was. And he rides a mule around town just to make himself look even more stupid. Go argue with Doc, you smelly bumpkin.'Gunsmoke' was great (especially the early episodes called 'Marshall Dillon'). Recommended over 'Schmonanza' any day.
rbseaking1 I watch this on the Encore westerns channel and I must say I love it as much today as I did when I first saw it. Thankfully there are like 20 seasons of episodes for them to run. This is absolutely the best of the 50's and 60's westerns and that's quite a feat considering there were quite a few good ones including Rawhide, The Virginian, Bonanza, Have Gun Will travel, Wagon Train etc. Dillon wasn't an angel, he was conflicted at times, but he was wise and had integrity knowing what's right and wrong. He didn't hesitate to deal out some frontier justice to people who deserved it so he was no Gene Autry. The cast of characters was always good but I must admit I've always found Chester kind of annoying.
bkoganbing When you're talking TV westerns there are only two really that are at the top, interchangeably as it were. One is CBS's Gunsmoke and the other is NBC's Bonanza. Then you discuss anything else.It's interesting to speculate how John Wayne's career might have taken a different turn had he accepted the offer to star in a weekly half hour television show about the Marshal of Dodge City. But of course he didn't do it, but instead pushed hard for an even taller marshal for the Kansas frontier town. James Arness had co-starred with the Duke in Big Jim McLain, Island in the Sky, and Hondo. He certainly brought a Duke like presence to the role of Marshal Matt Dillon.A lot of people forget that Gunsmoke was a radio series for several years before it came to television. It ran parallel on radio in the declining years of radio drama and the voice of Matt Dillon on the radio was William Conrad. Certainly a capable enough actor, Conrad's squat appearance just didn't match the description on radio of Dillon. Why do you think John Wayne was the first choice?Besides the regulars on every week which included Dennis Weaver as the stiff legged somewhat mentally challenged Deputy Chester Goode, Milburn Stone as testy and cantankerous Doctor Galen Adams, and Amanda Blake as Matt's significant other, Kitty Russell of the Longbranch saloon, the writers were smart enough to make sure the producers kept a recurring cast of regulars as the townspeople. Roy Roberts the banker, Eddy Waller as the livery stable owner, Glenn Strange as the bartender in the Longbranch, and for a while Burt Reynolds as a blacksmith, popped up in several episodes a year, even just with a line or two. It kept a great sense of continuity and the whole community of Dodge City became like familiar friends.Poor Dennis Weaver who related the stiff leg was his idea to establish individuality of his character and that he had to study yoga in order to walk with it and mount a horse said that he would have done something different if he knew how difficult it was going to be. He read for the Matt Dillon part and took the role of Chester because he needed the work. But after several seasons, he naturally did not want to spend his career typecast as a half wit. He quit and the rustic Festus Hagen came on as the Deputy. Festus was uneducated, but was by no means stupid. His arguments with the cantankerous Doc Adams were classic. Festus was played with real flair by Ken Curtis.If Gunsmoke is remembered for something other than a really great western series, maybe the best we ever had on television, it's the show that was saved by White House intervention. Along about 1965 because of declining ratings CBS was considering giving it the axe. But in an interview Lady Bird Johnson happened to mention that Gunsmoke was her favorite television show. That offhand comment revived interest in the series and CBS kept Gunsmoke on for another decade.Gunsmoke was an adult western, the plot situations were adult, but it's characters were both real and morally upright. Matt Dillon was no kid's cowboy hero like Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, but he was honest and decent and a fine role model who was incorruptible. And he and Kitty Russell had an adult romance going in the same manner as Perry Mason and Della Street. It was unspoken that sex as well as liquor was to be had at the Longbranch, but Miss Kitty had eyes only for the Marshal.As did America for twenty satisfying years.
edwagreen "Gunsmoke" was an amazing show because the cast was like one big happy family.Marshall Dillon epitomized what decency meant to us. A fair and compassionate man, Dillon knew what he was up against when the dregs of society rode into town.We had Festus, with his memorable limp and Amanda Blake's Miss Kitty, a dance hall queen, with a heart of gold. Too bad that she was never able to get her man, Matt Dillon, lord knows how much she loved him and he loved her. Where were the script writers to produce the inevitable wedding between the two?Milburn Stone made his mark playing Doc. He fixed up many a bullet-ridden victim but also had a pure heart.This was basically a story of very decent human beings who were caught up in the founding of the west.