Gunsmoke - Season 5

Run Time: 45 mins
Air Date: Fri, 4 Sept 1959
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.553 (103 votes)
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Target
Season 5 - Episode 1
Ironic tragedy results when Danny Kader stubbornly disregards his father's predispositions (and Matt's pragmatic advice) in order to attempt...

Kitty's Injury
Season 5 - Episode 2
When Kitty is hurt in a fall from a horse, she and Matt must seek help from shiftless dirt farmers who are oddly uninterested in aiding them...

Horse Deal
Season 5 - Episode 3
Horses with Bar S brand are being sold to unsuspecting buyers. Deesha moves in to claim the horses, leaving the buyer with nothing.

Johnny Red
Season 5 - Episode 4
A man suddenly turns up in Dodge City claiming to be Billy Crale, the long-lost son of a well-to-do local widow. Matt knows that Billy Crale...

Tail to the Wind
Season 5 - Episode 5
A father and son bully a farmer and his wife who won't sell their land, but the farmer is oddly reluctant to let Matt arrest the two, even w...

Annie Oakley
Season 5 - Episode 6
Is the homely, sharp-tongued, middle-aged wife of a homesteader really inspiring men to fight to the death for her affections?

Kangaroo
Season 5 - Episode 7
Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself.

Saludos
Season 5 - Episode 8
Matt, escorting 3 men back to Dodge, claims a beautiful wounded Indian woman will be able to identify the one who shot her and killed her hu...

Brother Whelp
Season 5 - Episode 9
A man wants to gunfight when he returns home, after years away, and finding his brother married to his girl.

The Boots
Season 5 - Episode 10
Onetime gunman Zeno Smith faces an unenviable choice. If he does not help would-be gambler Hank Fergus rob Mr. Jonas's general store, Fergus...

Odd Man Out
Season 5 - Episode 11
Matt is uncertain what to make of Cyrus Tucker's confused claim that his wife of 32 years "just ran off", especially when a homesteader clai...

Miguel's Daughter
Season 5 - Episode 12
A father threatens to kill the two drifters who have been plaguing his daughter.

Box o' Rocks
Season 5 - Episode 13
A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.

False Witness
Season 5 - Episode 14
A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.

Tag, You're It
Season 5 - Episode 15
When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them.

Thick 'n' Thin
Season 5 - Episode 16
A quarrel between two partners in homesteading escalates to the point of gunfire. Matt tries to make peace between them by locking them up t...

Groat's Grudge
Season 5 - Episode 17
An ex-Confederate waits to settle the score with the Union man whose unit cost him a loved one and property in the late war.

Big Tom
Season 5 - Episode 18
Despite a serious heart condition, onetime prizefighter Tom Burr is determined to go through with his plans to fight vicious Hob Creel. The ...

Till Death Do Us
Season 5 - Episode 19
Someone takes a shot at a hard man who is brutal to his wife, and someone is overheard claiming he was offered money to kill the man.

The Tragedian
Season 5 - Episode 20
Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards.

Hinka Do
Season 5 - Episode 21
Matt has reason to believe that the new overweight, gun toting, straight shooting, female owner of the Lady Gay saloon may have killed the p...

Doc Judge
Season 5 - Episode 22
While Matt is away on business, Doc gets threatened by an ex convict (Brice Harp) who claims that Doc Adams sentenced him to a long term in ...

Moo Moo Raid
Season 5 - Episode 23
Old man Onie has a great swimming cow that can lead herds across rivers, and when they both come up missing, one trail boss accuses another ...

Kitty's Killing
Season 5 - Episode 24
Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter i...

Jailbait Janet
Season 5 - Episode 25
After a train sparks a fire that destroys a family's crops, the man, his son, and his daughter rob another train of fifty thousand dollars. ...

Unwanted Deputy
Season 5 - Episode 26
Determined to avenge his murderous brother's hanging, Vince Walsh begins a self-serving campaign of unofficially helping to keep the peace i...

Where'd They Go
Season 5 - Episode 27
When Jonas accuses Clint Dodie of robbing his store, Matt and Chester set out in the bitter cold go to Clint's farm to make an arrest.

Crowbait Bob
Season 5 - Episode 28
When the greedy relatives of a dying man (Crowbait Bob) learn that he might be dying, they come to Dodge to grab anything of value they can ...

Colleen So Green
Season 5 - Episode 29
A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but Kitty isn't falling for her charms.

The Ex-Urbanites
Season 5 - Episode 30
Far from Dodge, Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Doc's life after the two ...

I Thee Wed
Season 5 - Episode 31
A man beats his wife and is sentenced to fifty days or fifty dollars by the judge. The beaten woman scrapes together the money for her husba...

The Lady Killer
Season 5 - Episode 32
A saloon girl shoots a man who came to her room, claiming he attacked her, but as the dead man was to testify against a man from the woman's...

Gentleman's Disagreement
Season 5 - Episode 33
Ed makes no secret of his intention to kill Bert for marrying the girl Ed wanted. So when Ed is the one who turns up dead, folks assume that...

Speak Me Fair
Season 5 - Episode 34
There's a cattle drive near town, and the cowboys are nervous about a series of cattle rustling events that have taken place recently.

Belle's Back
Season 5 - Episode 35
Belle Ainesly rides into town after 3 years absence. Seems she ran off with an unsavory character 3 years ago, and all of Dodge feels she's ...

The Bobsy Twins
Season 5 - Episode 36
Two brothers have decided that it is their mission to rid the West of Indians.

Old Flame
Season 5 - Episode 37
Kitty doubts the veracity of Matt's old friend Dolly Winters, who arrives in Dodge seeking the Marshal's help and claiming to have been robb...

The Deserter
Season 5 - Episode 38
Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the...

Cherry Red
Season 5 - Episode 39
The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.