Gunsmoke - Season 1

Gunsmoke - Season 1

Season 1

This is a list of episodes from the first season of the television series version of Gunsmoke.
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Episodes39
DatesSep 10, 1955 - Aug 25, 1956
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Episodes

Matt Gets It
Season 1Episode 130 min

Matt Gets It

Matt is critically wounded while attempting to arrest super-fast gunman Dan Grat. Grat runs rampant in Dodge while Matt recovers, but is unpleasantly surprised when the recovered marshal challenges him again. 

Sep 10, 1955
Hot Spell
Season 1Episode 230 min

Hot Spell

Temperatures are high, tempers are short, and Matt is unenviably duty-bound to protect despicable gunman Cope Borden from being lynched by a group of normally law-abiding and hard-working ranchers and cowhands. 

Sep 17, 1955
Word of Honor
Season 1Episode 330 min

Word of Honor

Doc is sworn to secrecy to protect a cruel gang guilty of murder.

Oct 1, 1955
Home Surgery
Season 1Episode 460 min

Home Surgery

The frightened teenage daughter of a rancher enlists Matt to attempt to save her father's life by amputating his gangrenous leg. 

Oct 8, 1955
Obie Tater
Season 1Episode 560 min

Obie Tater

An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.

Oct 15, 1955
Night Incident
Season 1Episode 660 min

Night Incident

Matt is dubious of young Timmy Wyatt's stories concerning nighttime robberies and assaults, but he agrees to investigate and is surprised by what he discovers.

Oct 29, 1955
Smoking Out the Nolans
Season 1Episode 760 min

Smoking Out the Nolans

Matt has the unpleasant task of evicting some squatters from a rancher's land, but the squatters claim the rancher sold the land to them legally.

Nov 5, 1955
Kite's Reward
Season 1Episode 860 min

Kite's Reward

Dillon takes away the gun of Andy Travis after he kills a man in self defense, figuring no one will challenge an unarmed man to a gunfight, but it's an action that might prove to be very costly.

Nov 12, 1955
The Hunter
Season 1Episode 960 min

The Hunter

Marshal Dillon has to keep bullying buffalo hunter Jase Murdock from traveling south into Indian territory on a hunt for hides. Murdock's plan to trespass and wantonly massacre buffalo promises to spark an uprising.

Nov 26, 1955
The Queue
Season 1Episode 1060 min

The Queue

Two men cut off a Chinese immigrant's pigtail, and he tells Matt that he can return home to China only with the pigtail or by taking the lives of the men who stole it.

Dec 3, 1955
General Parsley Smith
Season 1Episode 1160 min

General Parsley Smith

An inveterate liar is loudly insistent that Dodge City's new banker is a swindler who will abscond with the townspeople's savings at his earliest opportunity.

Dec 10, 1955
Magnus
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Magnus

Chester is concerned when his nomadic and "uncivilized" brother pays a Christmas visit to Dodge, but Magnus Goode proves worldlier and more adaptable to town life than anyone thought possible.

Dec 24, 1955
Reed Survives
Season 1Episode 1360 min

Reed Survives

Booth Rider is being played for a sucker by the wife of the ranch owner he works for, in the hopes that he will have to kill her husband in self defense.

Dec 31, 1955
Professor Lute Bone
Season 1Episode 1460 min

Professor Lute Bone

Professor Bone is a well meaning medicine man who shows up in Dodge selling an elixir with potentially deadly side effects.

Jan 7, 1956
No Handcuffs
Season 1Episode 1560 min

No Handcuffs

Hank Springer who claims the sheriff of Mingo framed him for murder, escapes from Matt's jail, wrongly believing he has killed a deputy in the process, and now has the intention of killing the apparently corrupt sheriff.

Jan 21, 1956
Reward for Matt
Season 1Episode 1660 min

Reward for Matt

A woman puts a price on Matt's head after he shoots down her husband.

Jan 28, 1956
Robin Hood
Season 1Episode 1760 min

Robin Hood

Holdup man John Henry Jordan repeatedly escapes conviction by robbing only the wealthy and sparing poorer persons who are potential witnesses against him. His luck runs out when Matt's efforts force him to victimize ordinary citizens.

Feb 4, 1956
Yorky
Season 1Episode 1860 min

Yorky

A young white boy, taken hostage years earlier by the Pawnee, must steal from or kill a white in order to be accepted by the tribe as a brave.

Feb 18, 1956
20-20
Season 1Episode 1960 min

20-20

Troy Carver is an aging ex lawman with poor eyesight being chased by a dirt farmer who wants revenge for the killing of his brother 2 years before.

Feb 25, 1956
Reunion '78
Season 1Episode 2060 min

Reunion '78

Long Branch hostess Belle Archer sees Jerry Shand shoot a former Quantrill Raider dead in self defense, but refuses to say so, and now he faces a murder trial.

Mar 3, 1956
Helping Hand
Season 1Episode 2160 min

Helping Hand

Matt saves suspected 18 year old cattle thief Steve Elser, from a would be lynch group, and tries to help him find a job, but discovers he might be a hopeless case.

Mar 17, 1956
Tap Day for Kitty
Season 1Episode 2260 min

Tap Day for Kitty

Matt suspects Kitty of shooting and wounding an old man who attempted to abduct her in hopes of forcing her to marry him.

Mar 24, 1956
Indian Scout
Season 1Episode 2360 min

Indian Scout

Amos Cartwright is an Indian scout for the army and is suspected of deliberately allowing his troop to be ambushed by the Comanches, and now the brother of one of the dead soldiers is planning to kill him.

Mar 31, 1956
The Pest Hole
Season 1Episode 2460 min

The Pest Hole

When an epidemic of typhoid fever hits Dodge, some citizens want to take the law into their own hands against the person suspected as the carrier of the disease.

Apr 14, 1956
The Big Broad
Season 1Episode 2560 min

The Big Broad

A large woman and her small companion bring trouble to Kitty's saloon, as the woman has a way of causing guns to be drawn.

Apr 28, 1956
Hack Prine
Season 1Episode 2660 min

Hack Prine

Far from Dodge and without a horse Matt Dillon still manages to bring in Lee Timble...a man wanted for murder. Lee's brother Dolph swears that he'll get him out. Meanwhile, an old friend of Dillon's, Hack Prine, has arrived in Dodge to take a job. Happy to see each other they reminisce about old times both unaware that the job Hack is in Dodge for is killing Dillon.

May 12, 1956
Cooter
Season 1Episode 2760 min

Cooter

After Matt exposes gambler Ben Sissle as a cheat, Sissle attempts to exact revenge by giving brain-damaged Cooter Smith a gun and telling the marshal that Cooter plans to challenge him to a gunfight.

May 19, 1956
The Killer
Season 1Episode 2860 min

The Killer

Matt must go to extreme lengths to stop the killing spree of a psychopathic murderer who provokes gunfights with cowboys, farmers, and others who he knows have no chance against him.

May 26, 1956
Doc's Revenge
Season 1Episode 2960 min

Doc's Revenge

A stranger comes to Dodge, and Doc bewilders and dismays Chester and Matt by arming himself and vowing to kill the man.

Jun 9, 1956
The Preacher
Season 1Episode 3060 min

The Preacher

A brutal prize fighter who has been punching on a meek preacher, kidnaps him and tells Dillon he will beat the man to death.

Jun 16, 1956
How to Die for Nothing
Season 1Episode 3160 min

How to Die for Nothing

Trail herder Howard Bulow swears to shoot Marshal Dillon in the back after he kills his drunken brother in self-defense.

Jun 23, 1956
Dutch George
Season 1Episode 3260 min

Dutch George

Dutch George runs a large horse theft operation. The law can't touch him because others take the risk. He makes a big mistake when he personally steals one horse for himself.

Jun 30, 1956
Prairie Happy
Season 1Episode 3360 min

Prairie Happy

Matt tries to quell rumors of a planned Pawnee attack.

Jul 7, 1956
Chester's Mail Order Bride
Season 1Episode 3460 min

Chester's Mail Order Bride

Chester has been writing to a mail-order bride who is now coming to Dodge to marry him. What Chester has neglected to tell Matt and Doc is that the picture he sent her wasn't his but the marshal's.

Jul 14, 1956
The Guitar
Season 1Episode 3560 min

The Guitar

Weed Pindle is a friendly guitar player in Dodge, but when certain cowboys find out he fought for a particular division of the Union Army, they become set on trying to hang him. 

Jul 21, 1956
Cara
Season 1Episode 3660 min

Cara

An old flame of Matt's comes to town, but her presence in Dodge may be motivated by more than sentiment. 

Jul 28, 1956
Mr. and Mrs. Amber
Season 1Episode 3760 min

Mr. and Mrs. Amber

A struggling prairie couple endures harassment and torment at the hands of the wife's self-righteous brother. 

Aug 4, 1956
Unmarked Grave
Season 1Episode 3860 min

Unmarked Grave

A distraught middle-aged woman becomes determined to aid a young murderer in Matt's custody after she learns of her own son's violent death and unceremonious burial on Boot Hill. 

Aug 18, 1956
Alarm at Pleasant Valley
Season 1Episode 3960 min

Alarm at Pleasant Valley

While on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester help homesteaders besieged by Indians. 

Aug 25, 1956

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