All Episodes of Gunsmoke
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Season 1
8.1/10557 votesMatt Gets It
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1955
Dan Grat, a gunman hunted by Texas authorities, seeks refuge in Dodge City. Marshal Dillon goes into action against this outlaw who shoots before he talks.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: Unknown
8.0/10383 votesHot Spell
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1955
Matt intercedes on behalf of ex-con Cope Borden, when Rance Bradley accuses Cope of horse theft and attempts to lynch him. Cope is proven innocent of the charge, but later kills Bradley's nephew in a fair fight during a gambling dispute. Matt is caught in an awkward situation when he must defend the unsavory Cope against the decent people of Dodge.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: E. Jack Neuman
7.7/10323 votesWord of Honor
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1955
Hank Worth, son of wealthy rancher Jake Worth, is kidnapped by three men and held for $20,000 ransom. They shoot him in the back for trying to escape. They call on Doc but Hank dies. The killers decide to let Doc go because he is the only doctor within 400 miles and they fear they might need his services someday. Before sparing his life and freeing him, they force the reluctant Doc to give his word of honor that he will never reveal their identities.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: Unknown
7.9/10339 votesHome Surgery
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1955
When returning to Dodge, Chester and Matt are confronted by Holly Hawtree, whose father is desperately ill with gangrene. His only hope for survival is amputation of the affected leg. Matt performs the surgery, but the gangrene has spread too far and the old man dies. Matt later discovers that the presumed accident leading to Mr. Hawtree's condition was actually caused by Ben Walling, who has his sights on Holly.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: John Meston
7.8/10326 votesObie Tater
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1955
Two outlaws seek the rumored hidden fortune of old prospector Obie. They drag him to get him to tell. Obie forgets his cares and disappears on honeymoon with newcomer Ella May. Matt suspiciously questions the simple Obie about Ella May's motives and finds Obie is deeper than he seems.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: Unknown
7.0/10301 votesNight Incident
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1955
Little Timmy Wyatt witnesses a series of bizarre murders. He has a habit of telling tall tales, so no one will believe him.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: Unknown
7.5/10288 votesSmoking Out the Nolans
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1955
Clay Young is trying to evict Josh Nolan, who says he paid for the property. Matt and Chester are tied up in reluctantly enforcing eviction law unless they can find another way.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: John Meston
7.9/10282 votesKite's Reward
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1955
Matt warns skilled gunman Andy Travis, of his choice between quitting the gun or else being constantly hunted and forced to prove himself. Matt finds a way to foil the $1000 bounty on Andy's head.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: Unknown
7.0/10272 votesThe Hunter
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1955
Buffalo hunter Jase Murdock is warned by storekeeper Ross to stay out of Indian territory. Matt talks with Murdock's skinner, Golden Calf, who determines that Murdock's medicine is no longer good.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: Unknown
7.7/10294 votesThe Queue
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1955
Two bullies cut off Chen's pig-tail, gravely dishonoring him in Chinese culture. Chen vows vengeance.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: Unknown
7.6/10270 votesGeneral Parsley Smith
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1955
Old-timer Smith is a former Army officer considered a butcher. He arrives in Dodge City speading rumors about the new Banker, Drew Holt.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Meston
8.2/10345 votesMagnus
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1955
Chester is embarrassed at a visit by his estranged mountain man brother Magnus. To prove that Magnus is too uncivilized for town, Chester tours him through the highlights of Dodge: card gambling, drinking, and talking with Kitty. Meanwhile, the Long Branch women plan a Christmas Eve dance which is busted by the spiteful Lucifer Jones.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Meston
7.4/10260 votesProfessor Lute Bone
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1956
Doc is enraged by traveling medicine man Professor Lute Bone and his opium elixir, and digs up a gun to shoot him with. A lad also hunts him because his father died drinking his elixir, so Bone reconsiders the patent medicine business.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.1/10247 votesNo Handcuffs
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1956
A dishonest deputy sheriff steals a prisoner from Matt's jail, so Matt and Chester hunt them.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Meston
7.6/10249 votesYorky
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1956
Yorky, a white boy who was brought up by Arapahoes, is victimized by horse thieves. Accused of their crime, he is shot by the vengeful Abe Brandt and his son. Matt is also targeted by the horse thieves.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
8.4/10293 votesHack Prine
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/12/1956
Hack Prine, a friend of Matt's rides into Dodge. However he is there as a gunman, for Matt Dillon.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Meston
8.5/10277 votesCooter
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 5/19/1956
A dishonest gambler (Vinton Hayworth) uses a mentally challenged man (Strother Martin) in a plot against Matt (Robert Vaughn appears).
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
8.4/10303 votesThe Killer
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 5/26/1956
Charles Bronson guest stars as a cowardly gunslinger who only goes after old men or young kids who aren't very experienced with guns. But, when Matt Dillon gives him an ultimatum, he shows his true colors.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
7.4/10268 votesThe Preacher
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/16/1956
Seth, a newcomer to Dodge is bullied by Keeler, a boxer.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
7.8/10231 votesHow to Die for Nothing
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 6/23/1956
The brother of a man Matt was forced to kill vows to kill Matt by any means necessary (Mort Mills appears).
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
7.8/10231 votesDutch George
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 6/30/1956
Matt's Childhood hero, Dutch George is now the leader of a notorious gang of horse thieves he must now stop.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
7.9/10279 votesChester's Mail Order Bride
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 7/14/1956
When Chester's mail-order bride arrives, neither she nor Chester are what the other are expecting (first credited appearance of Bert Rumsey as 'Sam').
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
8.6/10299 votesThe Guitar
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 7/21/1956
An ex-Union soldier is forced to use violence against a pair of diehard Rebels (Jacques Aubuchon appears). First episode without the "Boot Hill" intro.
Director: Harry Horner
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
7.5/10217 votesCara
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 7/28/1956
Matt encounters an ex-girl friend---who's now working on the wrong side of the law.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
7.6/10207 votesMr. and Mrs. Amber
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 8/4/1956
A self-styled religious prophet (Ainslie Pryor) is making life miserable for his daughter and new son-in-law..
Director: Ted Post
Writer: John Meston
