Gunsmoke — 1956
53 episodes broadcast in 1956.
Left to freeze on the prairie, a man loses his foot to Doc's saw and, feeling less than a man, sets out to rob a bank.
A man is shot in the back not long after Doc Adams was heard threatening his life.
An old friend of Dillon's opens a gambling game in Dodge, and the Marshal knows him for a crooked, deadly-fast dealer.
The children of two feuding cattle barons plan to elope, and one father wants Dillon to jail the boy to head off a killing.
A government inspector arrives to enforce a rigid set of rules on Dodge -- and on the Marshal himself.
The two lawmen call at a prairie cabin where a dying man and his odd wife share an unsettling secret.
A shady stranger comes to town, the bank is robbed two days later, and Kitty appears to be part of the job.
A rancher's plan to build a new hotel enrages the owner of the Dodge House.
Dillon beats down a professional gunfighter, and the humiliated man loses his nerve.
Dillon squares off against an insane buffalo hunter carrying an old grudge, in a story with a sting at the end.
When a trail boss is jailed for murder his young son takes over the herd, and Dillon doubts the obvious killer is guilty.
An ex-army man is so set on becoming Marshal of Dodge that he offers Dillon $50,000 for the job.
A storekeeper is found hanged in his shop, and Dillon suspects murder when a local turns up flush with cash.
Dillon wonders why a stranger will pay $15,000 for an old man's ranch that is barely worth ten.
A widow won't reveal where her outlaw husband hid his loot -- then suddenly remarries.
A fast gunman goads a man into a fatal fight, and the dead man's brother sets out for revenge.
Assured there are no Indians about, a couple settles a new ranch; when the wife is killed, her husband's revenge puts Dillon next on the list.
Doc kills a stranger who tried to keep him from a patient, and the dead man's brother comes to Dodge to watch him.
A photographer who came to capture the violence of the West finds Dodge too quiet -- so he stirs up trouble himself.
A rustler traffics in stolen beef even as his wife tries to take in an orphan child.
An insane buffalo hunter takes Dillon and Chester prisoner, and the Pawnee turn out to be unlikely allies.
An Arizona deputy comes to Dodge certain that Hank Young is the murderer he is hunting -- and Dillon knows better.
A gentle loner who asks only to be left in peace is harried by two Missourians settling a war grudge.
Just after Kitty buys into the Long Branch, the father who abandoned her turns up to talk her into selling and moving to New Orleans.
A man who carries no gun and seems not to need one proposes to a woman whose brother swears to kill him.
Two New York writers looking for Wild West color are pinned as the thieves of a Fox Clan totem amid signs of an Indian uprising.
Chester is convinced a man newly arrived in Dodge has come to kill him over an old grudge he won't explain.
Two cattlemen slaughter a gentle sheepherder's flock, burn him out, and shoot him -- and he still won't name them.
Dillon is forced by a court order to evict a reformed gunfighter from land he never legally filed on.
A man is found lynched, and another sets out to punish the killers his own way.
A boy is found at a murder scene, and the man who hated the victim looks like the obvious killer.
A pretty newcomer sets Dodge men brawling over her almost as soon as she steps off the train.
Two toughs kill an old man's dog for spite, and one of them soon turns up with a knife in his back.
A husband and a neighbor seem to be quarreling over the wife -- but the truth is not what it looks like.
Two hard men pressure Kitty and Sam to sell the Long Branch, and it looks as if they will get their way.
A month after a Wells Fargo robbery and murder, the dead man's old sweetheart pays for her ticket with the stolen bills -- then vanishes.
Belle Ainsley comes back to Dodge after three years spent riding with a gunman.
Two crotchety old friends of many years suddenly fall into a bitter feud.
A man's coffin holds only rocks, and Dillon digs into a faked death and a doctor no one can place.
A young man comes to Dodge to gun down a supposedly fast draw -- who may not be so fast after all.
A riverboat gambler arrives hunting a peaceable, unarmed friend of Dillon's, and the Marshal must learn why the man hates him.
A man with little time left comes back to settle scores with the Mahler brothers, and an old bullet claims three lives.
Someone shoots at Dodge's notorious skinflint from the dark, and Dillon must work out who wants him dead and why.
A woman card dealer newly arrived at the Long Branch is quietly planning to kill a man.
A dying, penniless old-timer leaves a will handing everything he owns to Kitty.
A man with no known enemies is shot in the back, leaving a young and pretty widow.
Back after six years, a gunman finds his old sweetheart wed to his brother and vows revenge.
A bullying father and son terrorize a meek man who refuses to fight back, burning him out to force a sale.
A young Kiowa boy with his tongue cut out comes to Dillon for help as cattle vanish from a nearby ranch.
An Eastern dude comes to Dodge to meet his gunfighter father, who means to make a man of him.
A stage robber shot dead leaves a widow, and the man who gunned him down arrives courting her.
In a Christmas blizzard, a cast-out daughter and her husband must take refuge in her hard father's barn.
A near-blind old man's old blind hound is shot dead, and he sets out for revenge all the same.
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