Gunsmoke - Season 4
Run Time: 45 mins
Air Date: Fri, 12 Sept 1958
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.553 (103 votes)
CBS39 Episodes
Matt for Murder
Season 4 - Episode 1
Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man;however, Doc and Matt's old friend Wild Bill Hickok come ...
The Patsy
Season 4 - Episode 2
Matt doubts the veracity of Long Branch hostess Holly Fanshaw's claim that she saw trail drover Fly Hoyt murder young Dave Thorp. His suspic...
Gunsmuggler
Season 4 - Episode 3
Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.
Monopoly
Season 4 - Episode 4
Two murders result when an unscrupulous Eastern businessman named Ivy hires a psychotic killer to help him establish undisputed control of D...
Letter of the Law
Season 4 - Episode 5
A rich landowner seizes the chance to get a little more acreage when he discovers that a homesteader has failed to file the paperwork to mak...
Thoroughbreds
Season 4 - Episode 6
Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him...
Stage Hold-Up
Season 4 - Episode 7
A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thiev...
Lost Rifle
Season 4 - Episode 8
Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.
Land Deal
Season 4 - Episode 9
When a stranger leading some immigrants planning on settling outside of Dodge wants Matt to give him a badge to avert trouble, Matt gets sus...
Lynching Man
Season 4 - Episode 10
After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into h...
How to Kill a Friend
Season 4 - Episode 11
Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan...
Grass
Season 4 - Episode 12
White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.
The Cast
Season 4 - Episode 13
When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.
Robber Bridegroom
Season 4 - Episode 14
Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous busi...
Snakebite
Season 4 - Episode 15
Claustrophobic plainsman Poney Thompson is arrested for murdering a man who maliciously shot his dog, but an ironic fate awaits him after he...
Gypsum Hills Feud
Season 4 - Episode 16
Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and is...
Young Love
Season 4 - Episode 17
Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattl...
Marshal Proudfoot
Season 4 - Episode 18
Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his ...
Passive Resistance
Season 4 - Episode 19
A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.
Love of a Good Woman
Season 4 - Episode 20
An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunn...
Jayhawkers
Season 4 - Episode 21
Trail boss Dolph Quince sends for his friend Matt to help escort his cattle herd into Dodge because he is having trouble with Jayhawkers (Ka...
Kitty's Rebellion
Season 4 - Episode 22
An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed. Intent on defendin...
Sky
Season 4 - Episode 23
Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.
Doc Quits
Season 4 - Episode 24
Doc takes hard the death of a homesteader under his care; then a flashy new medicine man comes to town and takes away many of his patients.
The Bear
Season 4 - Episode 25
Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.
The Coward
Season 4 - Episode 26
A coward gambler, who's too cheap to hire a gunman, wants Matt dead for a beating he got from him years ago, so he starts some talk around D...
The F.U.
Season 4 - Episode 27
When Onie Becker is shot down on the streets of Dodge after quarreling with Al Clovis in a poker game, everyone thinks Al Clovis committed t...
Wind
Season 4 - Episode 28
Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden, who seems to bring gamblers luck just by standing next to them when they're play...
Fawn
Season 4 - Episode 29
After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.
Renegade White
Season 4 - Episode 30
A gunfight in the Long Branch forces Matt to arrest a drunk. Letting him go since it was a fair fight, he suspects him of selling guns to th...
Murder Warrant
Season 4 - Episode 31
Matt and Dodge City's businessmen employ an unusual tactic to save ambush victim Lee Prentice from being taken to corrupt Baker City to face...
Change of Heart
Season 4 - Episode 32
Matt becomes suspicious when Jerry Cass's plans to marry saloon hostess Bella Grant are complicated by Bella's sudden insistence that Jerry ...
Buffalo Hunter
Season 4 - Episode 33
Marshal Dillon has to stop a ruthless, cold-blooded, greedy, buffalo hunter who is in the habit of brutally killing his hired help to avoid ...
The Choice
Season 4 - Episode 34
Matt tries to help Andy Hill, a young gunman who is apparently trying very hard to go straight, by getting him a job riding shotgun on the s...
There Was Never a Horse
Season 4 - Episode 35
Gunman Kin Creed arrives in Dodge determined to enhance his reputation by outdrawing Matt in a gunfight. He goes to great lengths to force M...
Print Asper
Season 4 - Episode 36
Print Asper is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him, and the la...
The Constable
Season 4 - Episode 37
Dodge City's businessmen learn a hard lesson when they reject Matt's advice and hire a meek constable to handle a gang of rowdy but free-spe...
Blue Horse
Season 4 - Episode 38
Seriously injured Matt faces a moral dilemma when Blue Horse saves his life and prevents the escape of a prisoner. The Marshal knows that Bl...
Cheyennes
Season 4 - Episode 39
Matt seeks the help of wise Chief Long Robe to track down gunrunners who are supplying renegade Cheyenne braves with rifles used to murder p...