Gunsmoke — Season 3

Aired 14 September 1957 • 26 min

Matt learns there is a hired killer in Dodge City, the hired killer gives Matt a challenge to find out who paid Nate Springer to kill Matt.

Aired 21 September 1957 • 26 min

Chester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. After Chester is shot, he tells Matt Asa Ledbetter shot him. Matt worries that Chester may be working too hard on finding Asa Ledbetter. Asa Ledbetter claims Chester killed his brother.

Aired 28 September 1957 • 26 min

After Harry Spencer's life is saved Matt receives a wanted poster for Joe Sharpe who robbed a bank. Matt learns that Joe and Shape left Dodge so Sharpe could try and get the reward money.

Aired 5 October 1957 • 26 min

Doc, Chester, and Matt suspect Kitty of helping a bank robber when she invites Matt to an out of the way spot for dinner. What they didn't know was that the bank robber was the first 'man' Kitty had ever known.

Aired 12 October 1957 • 26 min

Budge wants the Marshall to arrest his Pa for murder but when they get to Budge's house they get captured by Bud & his Ma so they can rob the bank.

Aired 19 October 1957 • 26 min

Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.

Aired 26 October 1957 • 26 min

Mavis McCloud comes to Dodge to get married. She marries Barny but Lou Staley comes looking for Mavis and wants to kill Barney and the Marshall.

Aired 2 November 1957 • 26 min

Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.

Aired 9 November 1957 • 26 min

A powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.

Aired 16 November 1957 • 26 min

When Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.

Aired 23 November 1957 • 26 min

The people of Dodge gets suspicious of Jim Cobbett (John Larch) when his second wife (Virginia Christine) vanishes just like his first (Karl Swenson appears).

Aired 30 November 1957 • 26 min

Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.

Aired 7 December 1957 • 26 min

The whole town is caught up in a mystery: where does Joe Nadler get all his money---and where does he go to spend it?

Aired 14 December 1957 • 26 min

Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The man's brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.

Aired 21 December 1957 • 26 min

An eastern dude asks Kitty if she'd like to take a midnight drive, but when she doesn't return the next day, Matt goes looking.

Aired 28 December 1957 • 26 min

A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.

Aired 4 January 1958 • 26 min

Matt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall".

Aired 11 January 1958 • 26 min

Matt & Chester are taken prisoner by two buffalo hunters who are hunting buffalo in Indian territory. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.

Aired 18 January 1958 • 26 min

The Gunner brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty hostage.

Aired 25 January 1958 • 26 min

Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men. Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men. After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.

Aired 1 February 1958 • 26 min

Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.

Aired 8 February 1958 • 26 min

Clifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.

Aired 15 February 1958 • 26 min

Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prarie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.

Aired 22 February 1958 • 26 min

Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.

Aired 1 March 1958 • 26 min

Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married. When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman (Beulah)late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother (Henry Troyman) thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can. When Nat is shot on his wedding day, everyone thinks Polly's Brother committed the shooting. After Matt and Chester do an investigation, Matt comes to another conclusion about the shooting of Nat Seiber.

Aired 8 March 1958 • 26 min

Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.

Aired 15 March 1958 • 26 min

Jake Kaiser and some other ranchers hung Frank Tillman thinking he was a horse thief but they were wrong. Tillman's wife and son won't tell the Marshall who did it.

Aired 22 March 1958 • 26 min

Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.

Aired 29 March 1958 • 26 min

Ernie Stubblefield trying to put his past behind him changes his name to Earl Stafford and is traveling with a laughing gas show. Cloud Marsh tries the gas and gets laughed at by the town. Angry he and his brothers attack Stubblefield/Stafford.

Aired 5 April 1958 • 26 min

The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.

Aired 12 April 1958 • 26 min

Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.

Aired 19 April 1958 • 26 min

Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.

Aired 26 April 1958 • 26 min

A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.

Aired 3 May 1958 • 26 min

Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. When the con begins to unfold, Doc gets kidnapped.

Aired 10 May 1958 • 26 min

Gambler Leach Fields marries Zach Morton's widow Ada thinking she knows where the money Zach stole is.

Aired 17 May 1958 • 26 min

Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.

Aired 24 May 1958 • 26 min

A secret Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers killed. The Major threatens Matt with martial law if the thieves aren't caught. Matt suspects Jenny Lane, a new girl at the Long Branch of being involved.

Aired 31 May 1958 • 26 min

Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.

Aired 7 June 1958 • 26 min

Marcus France, a "Gentleman Gambler" comes to Dodge and falls in love with Bonnie Damon. Tiller Evans thinks Bonnie is his girl. Matt has to keep Tiller from killing France.