About this season
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Episodes (29)
1. Snap Decision
Aired 17 September 1966 • 45 min
Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
2. The Goldtakers
Aired 24 September 1966 • 45 min
A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
3. The Jailer
7.5Aired 1 October 1966 • 45 min
Six years after her husband's hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt to be hanged on the morning of the second day with Kitty watching as her man died.
4. The Mission
8.0Aired 8 October 1966 • 45 min
Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
5. The Good People
Aired 15 October 1966 • 45 min
A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.
6. Gunfighter, R.I.P.
8.0Aired 22 October 1966 • 45 min
A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.
7. The Wrong Man
Aired 29 October 1966 • 45 min
Hootie Kyle is a poor but honest farmer whose credit has run out. Matt Dillon and Festus lend him some money, then he gets swindled out of it in a poker game. Later Hootie gets circumstantially framed for the murder of the card shark who swindled him.
8. The Whispering Tree
Aired 12 November 1966 • 45 min
After eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.
9. The Well
Aired 19 November 1966 • 45 min
All of Dodge City is suffering from a drought. A rainmaker (Guy Raymond) tries to put an end to it before the town's public well, their last source of water, runs dry.
10. Stage Stop
10.0Aired 26 November 1966 • 45 min
Doc Adams takes up arms to defend a gold shipment from bandits, first during a stagecoach ambush and then at a weigh station. He is aided by a blind man and a wounded man in the battle against the bandits.
11. The Newcomers
Aired 3 December 1966 • 45 min
Lars Karlgren, a Scandinavian immigrant and his teenage son Petter, find the West even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dodge City. Petter gets framed for a murder of a man who was picking a fight with him.
12. Quaker Girl
Aired 10 December 1966 • 45 min
The identity of a criminal is confused with that of deputy marshal Thad, when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.
13. The Moonstone
Aired 17 December 1966 • 45 min
A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
14. Champion of the World
Aired 24 December 1966 • 45 min
Bull Bannock (Alan Hale), retired heavyweight champion of the world, attempts to make a home for himself in Dodge City, and tries to buy Miss Kitty's Longbranch Saloon.
15. The Hanging
Aired 31 December 1966 • 45 min
To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
16. Saturday Night
Aired 7 January 1967 • 45 min
A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
17. Mad Dog
7.0Aired 14 January 1967 • 45 min
Festus Haggen is mistaken for a hired gunman and offered $300 to fight, and run out of town, the 3 sons of a man his cousin is accused of killing.
18. Muley
Aired 21 January 1967 • 45 min
A young gunman (Zalman King) falls for one of Kitty's saloon girls (Lane Bradbury) while waiting to kill Marshal Matt Dillon and rob the bank.
19. Mail Drop
Aired 28 January 1967 • 45 min
A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.
20. Old Friend
Aired 4 February 1967 • 45 min
An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
21. Fandango
Aired 11 February 1967 • 45 min
Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice in spite of an onslaught of an crazed vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.
22. The Returning
Aired 18 February 1967 • 45 min
After eight years as a down-on-his-luck farmer, husband & father, and reformed outlaw (Michael Ansara) tries to make ends meet by rejoinning his old gang to rob the Dodge City freight office.
23. The Lure
Aired 25 February 1967 • 45 min
Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).
24. Noose of Gold
9.0Aired 4 March 1967 • 45 min
Deputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able to give himself up.
25. The Favor
Aired 11 March 1967 • 45 min
Kitty's conscience is torn between her sense of obligation to a man (James Daly) who saved her life and her concern for the law and Marshal Matt Dillon.
26. Mistaken Identity
Aired 18 March 1967 • 45 min
Outlaw Ed Carstairs trades identities with a man dying of a snakebite wound, then is suprised when the man is brought into Dodge and seems to be recovering.
27. Ladies from St. Louis
Aired 25 March 1967 • 45 min
A group of Nuns traveling out West nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.
28. Nitro! (1)
Aired 8 April 1967 • 45 min
Part 1: Down on his luck drifter is offered a dangerous, but profitable job of mixing nitroglycerine for outlaws who are using it to rob banks. George also falls in love with a saloon girl and begins a business venture with his earnings.
29. Nitro! (2)
Aired 15 April 1967 • 45 min
Part 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.