Gunsmoke - Season 1

This is a list of episodes from the first season of the television series version of Gunsmoke.

39 Episodes

Matt Gets It

Season 1 - Episode 1

Dan Grat, a gunman hunted by Texas authorities, seeks refuge in Dodge City. Marshal Dillon goes into action against this outlaw who shoots b...

Hot Spell

Season 1 - Episode 2

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 in...

Word of Honor

Season 1 - Episode 3

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 ...

Home Surgery

Season 1 - Episode 4

When returning to Dodge, Chester and Matt are confronted by Holly Hawtree, whose father is desperately ill with gangrene. His only hope for ...

Obie Tater

Season 1 - Episode 5

Two outlaws seek the rumored hidden fortune of old prospector Obie. They drag him to get him to tell. Obie forgets his cares and disappear...

Night Incident

Season 1 - Episode 6

Little Timmy Wyatt witnesses a series of bizarre murders. He has a habit of telling tall tales, so no one will believe him.

Smoking Out the Nolans

Season 1 - Episode 7

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 ...

Kite's Reward

Season 1 - Episode 8

Matt warns skilled gunman Andy Travis, of his choice between quitting the gun or else being constantly hunted and forced to prove himself. ...

The Hunter

Season 1 - Episode 9

Buffalo hunter Jase Murdock is warned by storekeeper Ross to stay out of Indian territory. Matt talks with Murdock's skinner, Golden Calf, w...

The Queue

Season 1 - Episode 10

Two bullies cut off Chen's pig-tail, gravely dishonoring him in Chinese culture. Chen vows vengeance.

General Parsley Smith

Season 1 - Episode 11

Old-timer Smith is a former Army officer considered a butcher. He arrives in Dodge City speading rumors about the new Banker, Drew Holt.

Magnus

Season 1 - Episode 12

Chester is embarrassed at a visit by his estranged mountain man brother Magnus. To prove that Magnus is too uncivilized for town, Chester to...

Reed Survives

Season 1 - Episode 13

Lucy professes her love for handsome Booth Rider, and concocts a scheme against Ephram. Booth becomes the unwitting pawn in a homicide that...

Professor Lute Bone

Season 1 - Episode 14

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 hi...

No Handcuffs

Season 1 - Episode 15

A dishonest deputy sheriff steals a prisoner from Matt's jail, so Matt and Chester hunt them.

Reward for Matt

Season 1 - Episode 16

Matt kills a man and his widow posts a $1,000 bounty in vengeance. Everyone from sodbusters to gunslingers are out for that reward.

Robin Hood

Season 1 - Episode 17

Witnesses refuse to testify against a notorious outlaw.

Yorky

Season 1 - Episode 18

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 B...

20-20

Season 1 - Episode 19

A former lawman tries to keep his failing eyesight a secret from his enemies.

Reunion '78

Season 1 - Episode 20

A well-liked hardware drummer is actually a man wanted for multiple murders.

Helping Hand

Season 1 - Episode 21

A would-be tough guy picks on the wrong man in an attempt to make a name for himself when he tries to involve Marshal Matt Dillon by staging...

Tap Day for Kitty

Season 1 - Episode 22

An old sodbuster comes to town and decides he wants to marry Kitty. When he won't leave her alone she declares she'll shoot him if he pester...

Indian Scout

Season 1 - Episode 23

When an old Indian scout (Eduard Franz) murders a man (DeForest Kelley), Matt pursues him into Comanche territory.

The Pest Hole

Season 1 - Episode 24

Doc must find a way to thwart a typhoid epidemic in Dodge (Howard McNear appears).

The Big Broad

Season 1 - Episode 25

Matt has to figure a way around a six-foot-tall, 200-pound woman with a six-gun.

Hack Prine

Season 1 - Episode 26

Hack Prine, a friend of Matt's rides into Dodge. However he is there as a gunman, for Matt Dillon.

Cooter

Season 1 - Episode 27

A dishonest gambler (Vinton Hayworth) uses a mentally challenged man (Strother Martin) in a plot against Matt (Robert Vaughn appears).

The Killer

Season 1 - Episode 28

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, ...

Doc's Revenge

Season 1 - Episode 29

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

The Preacher

Season 1 - Episode 30

Seth, a newcomer to Dodge is bullied by Keeler, a boxer.

How to Die for Nothing

Season 1 - Episode 31

The brother of a man Matt was forced to kill vows to kill Matt by any means necessary (Mort Mills appears).

Dutch George

Season 1 - Episode 32

Matt's Childhood hero, Dutch George is now the leader of a notorious gang of horse thieves he must now stop.

Prairie Happy

Season 1 - Episode 33

A bitter old man spreads rumors of an impending Indian raid on Dodge.

Chester's Mail Order Bride

Season 1 - Episode 34

When Chester's mail-order bride arrives, neither she nor Chester are what the other are expecting (first credited appearance of Bert Rumsey ...

The Guitar

Season 1 - Episode 35

An ex-Union soldier is forced to use violence against a pair of diehard Rebels (Jacques Aubuchon appears). First episode without the "Boot H...

Cara

Season 1 - Episode 36

Matt encounters an ex-girl friend---who's now working on the wrong side of the law.

Mr. and Mrs. Amber

Season 1 - Episode 37

A self-styled religious prophet (Ainslie Pryor) is making life miserable for his daughter and new son-in-law..

Unmarked Grave

Season 1 - Episode 38

A young outlaw uses an old woman as a pawn in his bid for freedom.

Alarm at Pleasant Valley

Season 1 - Episode 39

While on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester discover a homsteading family fleeing Pleasant Valley, which is besieged by Indians.