Gunsmoke — 1953
52 episodes broadcast in 1953.
Dillon and Chester arrest a killer in Abilene to bring him home for trial, but the man's two older brothers mean to stop them on the trail.
Having patched up a wounded outlaw, Doc gives his word never to reveal the man or his hideout -- a promise that puts him in a bind.
A rancher puts up $5,000 in gold for a hired gun to cut Dillon down.
An embittered widow and her drink-sodden son hide a secret bound up with rustled cattle.
Dillon uncovers the hidden past of Doc Adams -- a man once called Calvin Moore, wanted for murder.
A quiet, consumptive musician buys a gun in Dodge to kill a man he has never even met.
When his old friend Zell Matlock pitches in during the round-up, the day ends with Dillon forced to shoot him.
A gang of killers has an entire prairie town paralyzed with fear until Dillon rides in.
The Pueblo gang hits Dodge, robs the stage, and leaves two drivers and a woman passenger dead.
A Texas cattleman's son shoots up Dodge, and the town's merchants would rather Dillon look the other way.
The sudden, secretive sale of the Cyclone Ranch convinces Dillon that something is badly wrong.
A gunfighter who kills only to build his reputation drifts into Dodge hunting a name to add to his tally.
A boastful Missouri man wagers his ranch on a grudge quarter-horse race against a local rancher.
A band of Jayhawkers preys on a Texas cattle drive, and the Marshal takes a hand.
Told to clear out by sundown, Frank Bissell and his gang set up a showdown with Dillon.
Dillon jails two killers, only to have three witnesses swear to their innocence for a strange reason of their own.
Two soldiers run afoul of a rigid commander, and Dillon tries to keep the trouble from turning deadly.
A shy new saloon girl named Tacetta stirs jealousy that erupts into a hanging and two gunfights.
A buffalo hunter hauls a horribly disfigured skinner into Dodge, and soon a homesteader turns up stabbed to death.
A clever con artist works out an ingenious new way to rob a bank.
A crooked lawyer tries to swindle an old rancher out of his land and ends up shot, with the man's son the obvious suspect.
A rancher is being robbed blind by his own foreman, but he cannot figure out how his cattle keep disappearing.
Dillon and Chester find a dying Indian woman on the prairie and suspect foul play in how she got there.
After a stranger is shot dead on Front Street, Dillon realizes the bullet was meant for him, paid for by an earless enemy.
A gambler's lucky charm ruins men at the faro table, and when Dillon orders her out of Dodge she simply refuses to go.
A retired colonel, his hot-headed son, and a cheating gambler collide in a contest that threatens to turn to gunplay.
A wild young man wants to settle down and marry, but his bride's brother swears he will die whether he goes through with the wedding or not.
A lonely homesteader convinced Indians are creeping around his farm shoots a prowler -- who proves to be a cowboy trying to move him off his land.
A boy says his father has been kidnapped, and the old man is found nearly starved to death out on the prairie.
Wild Bill Hickok wires the Marshal that two killers are Dodge-bound, asking him to detain but not jail them.
A smooth operator buys the Long Branch and stocks it with pretty girls, crowding in on Kitty and on Dillon.
A hard-drinking woman is shot dead and the obvious suspect, her would-be husband, flees town in a panic.
A blackjack dealer uses his girlfriend to lure a big winner into an alley, where the man is murdered and robbed.
Dillon and Chester ride two days south to bring back a gunman -- a former partner of Billy the Kid -- who claims he is trying to go straight.
A young man arrives in Dodge with a vicious companion, hunting the man who killed his father.
Dillon breaks up a ring stealing army rifles even though the commanding officer refuses to believe him.
Dodge braces for a dawn Pawnee attack, and Dillon must find who started the panic and why.
The fastest gun alive drifts into Dodge itching for a shootout with the one man who might beat him -- the Marshal.
A woman escapes ten years of Cheyenne captivity, and Dillon must see her and a young Cheyenne girl safely to Dodge.
Two gamblers Dillon is running out of town hire an old friend of his to kill him.
After Dillon shoots a drunken cowboy, the dead man's brother swears to gun the Marshal down from behind.
A boy reports his father kidnapped and his horses stolen, while the man's stepmother proves to be trouble of another kind.
A buffalo hunter hauls a horribly disfigured skinner into Dodge, and soon a homesteader turns up stabbed to death.
A tough hombre Dillon suspects of a stage robbery lives by the creed that every man should kill his own snakes.
Dillon and Chester ride the prairie after two men who shot a rancher and made off with his horses.
A traveling professor peddles a cure-all tonic that works suspiciously well -- because it is laced with opium.
A stranger murders an old man and Dillon cannot prove a thing against him.
A proud old army scout vows to kill the two men who humiliated him with a cruel practical joke.
Colorado's fastest gunfighter comes to Dodge, and so does the man determined to face him down.
When Doc fails to save a rancher's wife, the grieving husband swears revenge and nearly gets it.
A saloon girl's old fiance follows her from Philadelphia to Dodge, bent on taking her back.
A simple, penniless drifter arrives with only a mule and a guitar and is promptly set upon by bullies.
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