Gunsmoke — Season 6

Aired 3 September 1960 • 26 min

Matt is summoned to help an old friend, Ab Butler, who has been shot in the back and left for dead. However, Matt faces a difficult situation when Ab's partner shows up and tells his side of the story.

Aired 17 September 1960 • 26 min

Troublemakers trick an immigrant blacksmith into leaving his house on his wedding night, then burn it down.

Aired 24 September 1960 • 26 min

Matt arrests Finn Pickett after recognizing his face from a wanted poster. On the way back to Dodge, Pickett's vengeful sons try to free their father as Matt and Chester face a water shortage.

Aired 1 October 1960 • 26 min

Lee Nagel suspects his visiting uncle of murder when his father is killed in their store in an apparent accident.

Aired 8 October 1960 • 26 min

While transporting a prisoner with Chester on a stagecoach to Wichita, Matt learns that the stagecoach is also carrying a shipment of gold, and he suspects the coach might be targeted by outlaws.

Aired 15 October 1960 • 26 min

Matt is called in to deal with a corrupt sheriff in Tascosa.

Aired 22 October 1960 • 26 min

Matt's old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.

Aired 29 October 1960 • 26 min

Murders follow when a buffalo hunter and his browbeaten partner come to town.

Aired 12 November 1960 • 26 min

Out on the prairie, Matt is shot and taken captive by two outlaws, one of whom is a weakling abused and bossed around by the other.

Aired 19 November 1960 • 26 min

A young army drummer named Raffie is terrorized by two bullying mule skinners.

Aired 26 November 1960 • 26 min

Jake Creed accuses his young hired hand, Ben Tolliver, of horse theft.

Aired 3 December 1960 • 26 min

The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.

Aired 10 December 1960 • 26 min

Gus Mather arrives in Dodge in a wagon, carrying the coffin of his best friend, Orson Boggs, to give him a proper wake. There's only one problem: according to Mrs. Boggs, her late husband didn't have any friends.

Aired 17 December 1960 • 26 min

A young drifter takes a job as cook at Delmonico's but accidentally kills a crazy buffalo hunter who complains about his cooking.

Aired 24 December 1960 • 26 min

A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!

Aired 31 December 1960 • 26 min

In a family that believes in taking care of its own--including administering punishment within the family for crime--one of two grown brothers appears to have committed murder, but which one?

Aired 7 January 1961 • 26 min

A man shoots his partner, flees, and is caught by two men claiming to be lawmen.

Aired 14 January 1961 • 26 min

Red and Joe Lime are no-good murderous brothers, and Matt has to track 'em down out on the prairie. Trouble is, Matt comes down with a fever due to missing out on so much sleep in the last couple of weeks. This situation causes some serious problems for all involved when Matt has to return to Dodge because he is too sick to pursue the Lime brothers.

Aired 21 January 1961 • 26 min

A man and his wife come across a lone trapper and make camp with him. Next day, the husband comes to Dodge to report to Doc that his wife is sick, but Doc finds the woman beaten to death, and the husband accuses the trapper.

Aired 28 January 1961 • 26 min

The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.

Aired 4 February 1961 • 26 min

Matt rescues teen-aged Trudy Trent from a life of isolated poverty with her incestuous and alcoholic father, but he subsequently learns that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" when he rejects her misguided romantic overtures toward him.

Aired 11 February 1961 • 26 min

Dillon goes after cowboy Jake Bayloe after he guns down his partner in the Long Branch , shooting Kitty in the crossfire and critically wounding her.

Aired 25 February 1961 • 26 min

While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.

Aired 4 March 1961 • 26 min

After witnessing the callous murder of her kindly father, Harriet Horne disregards Matt's advice and unwisely attempts to extract revenge from the perpetrators by making them jealous rivals for her attention.

Aired 11 March 1961 • 26 min

A concealed gunman takes a shot at Chester, and it may have been a bank robber, or it may have been someone who's been making trouble at the Long Branch.

Aired 18 March 1961 • 26 min

Hot-headed Tom's new wife used to be a river-boat girl, and when a gunman from her old life recognizes her, a battle between the two men is brewing.

Aired 25 March 1961 • 26 min

To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found murdered, oft-inebriated Jud Sloan's claim that the Marshal was the killer seems uncomfortably credible.

Aired 1 April 1961 • 26 min

Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire. Charity insists that she should live with the Dodge City lawman.

Aired 8 April 1961 • 26 min

A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.

Aired 15 April 1961 • 26 min

Rough and rowdy Minnie comes to Dodge City and sets her designs on Doc Adams, much to the delight of Matt, Chester and Kitty. Trouble comes though when Minnie's husband comes to Dodge and finds out that his Minnie is sweet on Doc.

Aired 22 April 1961 • 26 min

Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.

Aired 29 April 1961 • 26 min

A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.

Aired 6 May 1961 • 26 min

Hot tempered Andy Coe and his wife want to sell their wagon to Moss, but can't when Ed Fallon's team spooks and crashes into their wagon.

Aired 13 May 1961 • 26 min

A man claiming to be a sheriff from Texas comes to Dodge and asks Matt for help tracking down a named fugitive, but the man may not be a lawman.

Aired 20 May 1961 • 26 min

A pretty girl arrives in town and chases Chester, who's happy for her to do so, but the young woman has a secret that may land her in jail.

Aired 27 May 1961 • 26 min

When an ex-marshal passing through town is shot in the back, Matt suspects a new saloon gal might have had something to do with it.

Aired 3 June 1961 • 26 min

When Roy Tayloe is murdered following a poker game, quick-tempered Harry Miles is certain that daughter Melinda's suitor Tom Potter is the killer. Miles quickly becomes impatient with Matt's methodical investigation of the crime and threatens to kill Potter himself unless he stays away from Melinda.

Aired 17 June 1961 • 26 min

Matt and Chester find Rod Ellison shot and paralyzed on the prairie and return him to Dodge for surgery. Ben Witter abrasively advises Matt that he is a deputy sheriff from Pueblo who has come to Dodge to arrest Ellison for robbery, but Matt is suspicious of Witter's refusal to produce a valid arrest warrant.