Gunsmoke — 1955
53 episodes broadcast in 1955.
A normally placid old drunk turns violent against a no-good gambler who has come to Dodge with his wife, and means to kill him.
A courtly stage robber who takes only from the rich and spares the poor has Dodge wondering if it is the gentlemanly Teddy Blue Fisher.
A man is shot dead while Chester is escorting him to jail, and every scrap of evidence points to Chester as the killer.
A mountain man's Kiowa wife is despised in Dodge, and old blood between the town and her people threatens to boil over.
Two drifters gun down a rancher in cold blood, planning to help themselves to his cattle, his ranch, and his wife.
The Cheyenne take repeating rifles and leave the reservation for the warpath, and a green army captain only makes things worse.
A jailed outlaw's partner is so desperate to free him that he hires a professional gunman for the break.
A determined man comes to Dodge to claim his bride -- carrying a rifle and warning he will kill anyone who stands in the way.
An ice-nerved hired killer has been in Dodge a week, and Dillon must work out who the man came to gun down.
A naturally fast but decent gunfighter comes to Dodge to start over, only to find an old enemy has done the same.
A judge arrives to dispense a strange brand of justice with a killing and $10,000 in stolen money at stake.
A faro dealer is beaten and robbed, and the suspect's only alibi is Doc -- who happens to be out of town.
A rancher's horses are stolen and peddled openly around Dodge, and tempers rise toward a killing.
Sickened by all the killing, Dillon turns in his badge and quits.
A woman comes to Dodge searching for her brother, who has sunk into being the town's coward and drunk.
Dillon is nearly shot when he steps into a bitter feud between two families over a dead son.
Cut down before a lynching can kill him, a man swears to hunt down the two ranchers who tried to hang him.
A widow, enraged that Dillon killed her husband, offers $1,000 to anyone who will gun the Marshal down.
The bizarre Grelk family traps Dillon and Chester in a potato cellar and plots to kill them.
A rich Easterner's bride is kidnapped off the stage, and the robber returns to surrender for a strange reason of his own.
A newcomer has Dodge cowed by his gunman's reputation -- but Dillon wonders whether Hank Shinn is all talk.
A man who hates doctors summons Doc Adams to treat his sick cow, and tragedy follows.
A troublemaking faro dealer has his hand stabbed to the table mid-deal and vows to make trouble for the Marshal.
Dillon must hand his own prisoner a gun to run down a stage robber.
A scheming woman tricks a man into killing her Bible-quoting husband, then finds the body count higher than she bargained for.
An army deserter running off to marry his sweetheart is spotted by Dillon and Chester on the trail.
A blustering 'general' brands the town's new banker a thief, but it is the general himself who is the liar.
A pair of relatives decide the easiest way to get Chester's job is to shoot him -- and they do.
A poor-sighted gunman, an old friend of Dillon's, is bent on going through with a gunfight he cannot possibly win.
A man stands accused of taking a prize stud horse, and its owner threatens worse than killing.
A crazed old man proposes to Kitty and simply will not accept her refusal.
A young bride-to-be traveling to meet her intended finds danger waiting on the stagecoach.
A man returns to his aged mother seventeen years after running off -- but he is not really her son.
A half-Comanche scout hated by whites and his own people alike becomes the target of a vengeful man.
A new physician sets up in Dodge and gives Doc Adams such stiff competition that Doc quits.
A man means to wed a Long Branch dance-hall girl, and his brother will halt it with gunfire if need be.
A Kiowa war party strikes the Clayburn family, and a battered homesteader resolves to abandon the region.
A flashy stranger with two thoroughbreds and a full pocket buys friends around Dodge, and Dillon suspects the horses are stolen.
A young man raised white but born Cheyenne leaves to join his people during an uprising.
A baggage man is killed and $20,000 taken aboard the Dodge train; the wounded boy who recognizes the robber's voice is now a target.
With the army payroll stolen and martial law threatened, a good girl in bad company holds the key to the crime.
An unknown coward stalks Dodge determined to kill the Marshal from hiding.
Texas drovers attacked by Jayhawkers on the way to Dodge decide to take their revenge out on any Kansan they can find.
Dillon must travel to the rough town of Elkader to bring back a murderer -- no easy job.
A reformed outlaw signs on to guard the stagecoach.
A gunman who went straight in Dodge must go back to Oklahoma to face a murder charge.
A preacher who has lost his faith is beaten senseless by the biggest, meanest red-headed brute Dodge has seen.
The West's biggest horse thief returns to Dodge and appears to be back at his old tricks.
A woman named Amy Slater comes to Dodge set on forcing the Marshal to kill her.
In a hard winter, the town miser hoards the only hay and gouges his desperate neighbors for it.
A swindler sells railroad land that isn't his to immigrant settlers -- and helps himself to a wife on the side.
A decent young man kills a man after a quarrel in the Long Branch and flees town like a frightened boy.
A man walks all the way from the Ozarks to settle an old family feud with a killing in Dodge.
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