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 (26)
1. Lyle's Kid
Aired 23 September 1968 • 45 min
Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for his hands.
2. The Hide Cutters
Aired 30 September 1968 • 45 min
Festus is rescued from a rock avalanche by a young hide cutter. His fellow cutters are following a herd of cattle with hopes of stealing them for the hides.
3. Zavala
Aired 7 October 1968 • 45 min
Good western. Mostly action, not too much girl stuff. Gunplay by Dillon very very good in this one. Story is about Dillon taking a warrant into Mexico. He finds the culprit and outdraws him. One of the latter's gang members travels back to the US and tells Jim Davis that Dillon killed his brother. Davis responds with violence, then rides into Mexico and faces Dillon. The human interest part of this movie centers about the likeable Mexican kid, ""Paco"". Dillon and him get along so good that I'm wondering about the sexuality of one of the film bosses. About Rico Alaniz... top-notch performance. He's the guy who, in the movie ""Magnificent Seven"", was always saying 'no, don't anger Calvera, give him what he wants"".
4. Uncle Finney
10.0Aired 14 October 1968 • 45 min
A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.
5. Slocum
Aired 21 October 1968 • 45 min
Grizzily mountain man, Slocum tracks the sons of a man who tried to bushwhack his good friend, Matt Dillon.
6. O'Quillian
Aired 28 October 1968 • 45 min
Leary O'Quillan kills a card cheat in self defense and is pursued to Dodge by the man's brother, Clay Tynan.
7. 9:12 to Dodge
Aired 11 November 1968 • 45 min
Matt and Doc are escorting outlaw Johnny August by train to trail for murder. Also on board and waiting along the line are his men waiting for a chance to free him.
8. Abelia
Aired 18 November 1968 • 45 min
A young woman and her kids and Festus are held hostage from a man Matt is trying to find.
9. Railroad!
Aired 25 November 1968 • 45 min
Matt clashes with maverick railroad builder Wes Cameron and his wild men running a railroad line through Dodge.
10. The Miracle Man
Aired 2 December 1968 • 45 min
Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.
11. Waco
Aired 9 December 1968 • 45 min
While bringing in outlaw, Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with his outlaw band following them while he has to deliver a baby.
12. Lobo
Aired 16 December 1968 • 45 min
Mountain man Luke Brazo joins Matt in a hunt for a vicious wolf terrorizing the area.
13. Johnny Cross
Aired 23 December 1968 • 45 min
Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
14. The Money Store
Aired 30 December 1968 • 45 min
When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.
15. The Twisted Heritage
Aired 6 January 1968 • 45 min
Kitty saves the life of a man during a stage hold-up, taking him back to his ranch she finds his mother a ruthless matron and his daughter alienated from her father.
16. Time of the Jackals
Aired 13 January 1969 • 45 min
A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.
17. Mannon
Aired 20 January 1969 • 45 min
Gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge, after shooting Festus and taking his mule, to face Matt in a gunfight.
18. Gold Town
Aired 27 January 1969 • 45 min
Will Mannon, a sharpshooter who rode with Quantrill's Raiders, terrorizes Dodge City as he waits for Matt to return and face him in a showdown.
19. The Mark of Cain
Aired 3 February 1969 • 45 min
A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.
20. Reprisal
Aired 10 February 1969 • 45 min
Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder and delivering a baby. He choses to save the man first, and the baby dies in childbirth. The baby's father, Tom Butler blames Doc and plans to get even.
21. The Long Night
Aired 17 February 1969 • 45 min
Three bounty hunters hold hostages in the Long Branch to get Matt to turn over a prisoner to them.
22. The Night Riders
Aired 24 February 1969 • 45 min
Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.
23. The Intruder
Aired 3 March 1969 • 45 min
Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Riley's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.
24. The Good Samaritans
Aired 10 March 1969 • 45 min
Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a Judge that will hang a man, the man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Meanwhile, Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading West, and now being pursued by the hunters.
25. The Prisoner
Aired 17 March 1969 • 45 min
Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.
26. Exodus 21.22
8.0Aired 24 March 1969 • 45 min
A friend of Matt's, a former lawman arrives in Dodge to kill the men responsible for his wife's death.