Gunsmoke — 1954
56 episodes broadcast in 1954.
Two robbers hold up the stage while Dillon dozes aboard as an unsuspecting passenger.
Three men lynch a rancher for horse theft, and when two of them are shot, the last one lives in fear.
A good-natured big man is about to marry when a practical joker pushes his pranks one fatal step too far.
An army scout parts from his pregnant Mexican wife in town, and a bully's cruelty ends in tragedy.
After the Pawnee wipe out a homestead with smuggled rifles, Dillon and a scout track the Indians to find the white gunrunner behind it.
A burly, gun-handy woman called Lena Wave rolls into Dodge and starts throwing her weight about.
A cowardly gunman who kills only when he is sure of winning becomes Dillon's problem before more men die.
Two seemingly harmless old men visit Dodge and charge that Kitty tried to kill them -- perhaps they aren't so harmless.
A young man is led into cattle rustling and murder by a bad-influence friend.
A Philadelphia gambler in love with a local woman heads for a showdown with a brutal bully.
A fired ranch hand is blamed when his old boss is bushwhacked, and the wounded man swears revenge.
Unable to bribe the Marshal, a gambler hires an old acquaintance of Dillon's to kill him.
A likeable drifter with a bounty on his head saves an ungrateful man's life -- and gets no thanks at all.
A desperate, near-starving man caught stealing seeds finds his wife accused of rustling a rich rancher's calf.
A stage holdup leaves one robber dying and Doc kidnapped by the rest of the gang.
A whiskey drummer warns of a plot on Dillon's life; when the Marshal plays dead, two different men boast of the killing.
A likeable man is ambushed and shot, and the deputy holding a warrant for his arrest is anything but likeable.
A gang rides toward Dodge to rob the bank, and Dillon fears his old sweetheart is riding with them.
May 4, 1954
The Cover-Up
A man plots to kill his enemy, but both turn up dead, and the blame falls on a third man.
May 5, 1954
Going Bad
A young man falls in with a cold-blooded hard case, and one murder leads to the next.
Pressured to ease off, Dillon swears to make no more arrests, so the town hires a most unusual constable to keep the peace.
May 11, 1954
Claustrophobia
A claustrophobic man who would rather hang than be caged is instead sentenced to life in prison.
An arrogant lieutenant wins a horse race against a rancher, but a Cheyenne chief's horse is another matter entirely.
A St. Louis 'businessman' sets out to corner the Dodge freight trade with a hired gun to back his play.
A blood feud out of the Ozark mountains follows two families onto the Kansas plains.
A good-natured German blacksmith who answered a mail-order marriage ad is hounded by a bully once too often.
A man plots to kill his enemy, but both turn up dead, and the blame falls on a third man.
A young man falls in with a cold-blooded hard case, and one murder leads to the next.
A claustrophobic man who would rather hang than be caged is instead sentenced to life in prison.
Having treated a wounded outlaw, Doc gives his word not to reveal his criminal patients -- and it costs him.
A coward hires a professional gunman -- an old friend of the Marshal's -- to shoot Dillon down.
Dillon threatens to bar a Texas trail crew from Front Street unless they surrender their murderer.
An educated Chinese cook comes to Dodge, and when two bullies cut off his queue he swears to kill them.
Accused of murdering a man he ran out of town, Dillon is arrested by Wild Bill Hickok to stand trial.
Dillon quietly kills off the members of a gang who have been scalping settlers and blaming the Pawnee.
A savage 'marshal' rules Elkader by force until Dillon arrives.
A beautiful young woman arrives by wire announcing she has come to marry Dillon -- a man she has never met.
Not long after Dillon guns down Sam Kertcher, the dead man's son comes to Dodge for revenge.
Two toughs beat an old man to make him reveal his hidden gold, and when that fails he suddenly finds himself married.
A wounded fugitive strangles a deputy and slips arrest, and Dillon takes up the hunt.
A hide skinner is told he shot his partner dead in a drunken blackout -- but he remembers nothing of it.
A killer leads Dillon and Chester out of town on a false trail so his partners can rob the bank.
Dillon saves a young man from a rustling lynch mob and gives him a second chance that may prove a mistake.
A killer on the run from Amarillo faces Dillon in a gunfight -- and guns the Marshal down.
A gunman comes to kill Dillon but falls ill first, and Doc's friend must nurse the assassin back to health.
The Karp brothers rob the Dodge bank and carry Kitty off as a hostage.
When her jailed son kills an unarmed man, tough old Ma Tennis arrives shotgun in hand.
A man is shot in the back, and the woman who names the killer and the accused tell very different stories.
A family refuses to leave the forty acres they claim to have bought but cannot prove is theirs.
A man claims a reward for an outlaw's body -- but it is the wrong man, and there is a bullet in his back.
A tough hombre Dillon suspects of a stage robbery lives by the creed that every man should kill his own snakes.
A killing passed off as self-defense doesn't convince Dillon, who digs past a hired gun and a simple-minded bodyguard.
A cholera outbreak deepens a deadly feud between two prairie neighbors fighting over water.
Two bone hunters have been trying to kill each other, and when one knifes the other Dillon senses more than a woman is behind it.
Chester's wild, uncivilized brother Magnus turns up in Dodge -- and means to stay.
Kitty misses three appointments and vanishes, alarming Doc, just as a stranger from the East also fails to return to his hotel.
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