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. The Devil's Outpost
Aired 22 September 1969 • 45 min
Outlaw Yancy Tyce and his outlaw gang try to free Tyce's younger brother now under arrest and being taken to Dodge by Matt.
2. Stryker
Aired 29 September 1969 • 45 min
Former Dodge Marshal Josh Stryker arrives in town just being released from prison for killing a outlaw in cold blood. He holds Matt responsible for the loss of his arm and the years he spent in prison.
3. Coreyville
Aired 6 October 1969 • 45 min
Matt is summoned to Coreyville, a run-down cowtown, by a young woman whose brother is on trial for murder.
4. Danny
Aired 13 October 1969 • 45 min
An old friend of Kitty's learns he is dying comes to Dodge to try to ""go out in style"".
5. Hawk
Aired 20 October 1969 • 45 min
A white woman refuses to accept her half-breed son, who Festus brings to her home wounded and needing help.
6. A Man Called Smith
Aired 27 October 1969 • 45 min
Abelia, the young widow who once saved Festus' life, returns. She learns that she isn't a widow when her outlaw husband appears and forces her to exchange his stolen gold for cash.
7. Charlie Noon
Aired 3 November 1969 • 45 min
Matt, his hardened prisoner Charlie Noon, an Indian woman and her white stepson are tracked by the Comanches as they try to cross the desert. The Indians are going to kill all of them unless Matt hands over the woman, because she left the Comanche leader years before.
8. The Still
Aired 10 November 1969 • 45 min
Festus gets mixed up with Merry Florene and her hillbilly clan again as they try to hide a moonshining still and a stolen prize bull in the cellar of the local school.
9. A Matter of Honor
Aired 17 November 1969 • 45 min
Louie Pheeters is found at the scene of a murder, the dying man's last words implicate the town alcoholic, who is too drunk to remember what he had just seen.
10. The Innocent
Aired 24 November 1969 • 45 min
Festus acts as guide and driver for a Eastern missionary teacher on route to her first assignment. The only problem is trying to stay ahead of a murderous hillbilly family following them and planning a ambush.
11. Ring of Darkness
Aired 1 December 1969 • 45 min
In an attempt to help his blind daughter, farmer Ben Hurley steals horses for an outlaw gang. Deputy Newly O'Brien arrives at his farm investigating, followed by the outlaws.
12. MacGraw
Aired 8 December 1969 • 45 min
Ex-guman Jake MacGraw arrives in Dodge after spending 20 years in prison. The townspeople think he has come for revenge.
13. Roots of Fear
Aired 15 December 1969 • 45 min
Amos Sadler, a dirt farmer faces the loss of his home when a panic closes down the Dodge City bank. To save it he and his wife plan to break into it and steal some money.
14. The Sisters
Aired 29 December 1969 • 45 min
A scoundrel tries to con three nuns.
15. The War Priest
Aired 5 January 1970 • 45 min
Sergeant Holly, a alcoholic loving veteran is getting ready to retire. Just hours before it, a Apache prisoner in his custody escapes with Kitty as a hostage, forcing the Sergeant to go AWOL to get the prisoner back.
16. The Pack Rat
Aired 12 January 1970 • 45 min
An orphan steals from Matt but could risk his own life when he tries to help out in an ambush.
17. The Judas Gun
Aired 19 January 1970 • 45 min
The feund between Noah Haimes and Clete Bloden gets very bad as romance begins between Haime's son & Bloden's daughter.
18. Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.
Aired 26 January 1970 • 45 min
Doc Adams's old friend is thought to be a thief.
19. The Badge
Aired 2 February 1970 • 45 min
Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.
20. Albert
Aired 9 February 1970 • 45 min
After a Bank teller tries to foil a bank robber the bank teller takes some money which could cause trouble.
21. Kiowa
Aired 16 February 1970 • 45 min
Matt must rescue a teenage girl from indians and bring her back to her family.
22. Celia
Aired 23 February 1970 • 45 min
A friend of Newly's is about the victim of a con game.
23. Morgan
Aired 2 March 1970 • 45 min
With Matt out helping the Army deliver a gold shipment, Dodge is wide open for Morgan and his men to come in with a Gatlin gun and take over. Breaking into the Long Branch, Morgan is helping himself to whiskey when Kitty shoots him hitting him in the shoulder and the face. With Matt and the gold on the way and Morgan sitting with a big gun and a fever and a crazy streak from the permanent scar he's gonna have, Dodge can only wait to see what comes next.
24. The Thieves
8.0Aired 9 March 1970 • 45 min
Sam takes a special interest in Eric Tabray, who is running around in a gang committing crimes in Dodge.
25. Hackett
Aired 16 March 1970 • 45 min
An ex-convict wants revenge against the partner that ran out on him.
26. The Cage
Aired 23 March 1970 • 45 min
After an outlaw becomes a victim of his own gang he tries to Matt bring in the gang that made him a victim.