Gunsmoke — 1957
53 episodes broadcast in 1957.
A woman leaves her abusive husband for work at the Long Branch and a handsome gambler, and her husband's vow of revenge ends in murder.
A rich, mean rancher moves to evict a farmer off land he doesn't even need, and his own son bitterly disagrees.
Dillon and Chester ride into a blizzard to recapture an escaped prisoner who will likely be set free anyway.
After a drifter beats and robs Buffalo Mary of her savings, Dillon metes out an unusual justice.
A bank teller accused of stealing gold is killed resisting arrest, and his mother cannot believe him guilty.
A man is judged to have been killed by his own horse, but his widow is certain a neighbor murdered him.
A young robber killed on a third job turns out to be a sixteen-year-old girl fleeing an abusive home.
February 17, 1957
Doubtful Zone
A string of 'accidents' on an old woman's ranch makes Dillon suspect her hired hand means to kill her.
A penniless, seemingly helpless beauty arrives in Dodge, and every man in town rushes to help her.
Forced to kill a no-good man, Dillon watches the dead man's brother start down the same bad road.
Two wanted men rob the Long Branch, take Kitty, and are cornered in a Dodge building.
A woman rides from the Texas panhandle gunning for the man who cheated her with a sick herd.
A mild chicken farmer is goaded into a brawl with a vicious man vowing revenge.
A retired gunman asks for his gun back when an old enemy comes to town to kill him.
Dillon brings in three men, one of whom murdered a half-Indian woman and her husband -- but which one?
A boastful stable hand fears a newly paroled man has come to Dodge to shoot him -- but the ex-convict has other plans.
A miser wants a traveling tonic peddler and his wife off his land, but the medicine man means to keep selling.
Two gamblers Dillon is running out of town hire an old friend of his to kill him.
A Bible-quoting sheep farmer refuses to hand his son over to Dillon after the young man shoots an unarmed man.
A man hauling a fortune in gold, shadowed by two pursuers, kills one of them -- and Dillon smells deceit.
Chester adopts a poisoned dog, not knowing it belongs to a henpecked man who kept it for protection from his brutal wife.
A man stands accused of taking another's prize stud, and the owner threatens worse than death.
A cattleman despises the book-loving sheepherder his son admires, and the rift between father and son turns dangerous.
A wagon train bound west passes through Dodge and leaves a baby girl behind.
Stranded on the prairie, Dillon must amputate a settler's leg while a suitor circles the man's daughter.
A buffalo hunter hauls a horribly disfigured skinner into Dodge, and soon a homesteader is found stabbed to death.
Having treated a wounded outlaw, Doc gives his word not to reveal his criminal patients -- and it costs him.
Sickened by all the killing, Dillon turns in his badge and quits.
The Karp brothers rob the Dodge bank and carry Kitty off as a hostage.
A man who hates doctors summons Doc Adams to treat his sick cow.
A woman brings her murdered husband's body to Dodge, shot by a big-shouldered stranger -- and a new man in town has just such shoulders.
A band of Jayhawkers preys on a Texas cattle drive, and the Marshal takes a hand.
Dillon ousts the crooked sheriff of Tascosa, who swears revenge, in a story with a surprise ending.
A lonely homesteader convinced Indians prowl his farm shoots a prowler who proves to be a cowboy trying to move him off his land.
A difficult son comes home to his ailing old father after four years away, worse than ever.
An old prospector is sure he has struck it rich, though everyone says it is only fool's gold -- or is it?
A no-good rancher hires two orphan boys to break his wild horses, and everyone knows he is up to something.
A stranger murders an old man and Dillon cannot prove a thing against him.
Dillon struggles to keep two men wed to the same woman from a fatal clash.
With the Marshal laid up sick, the Rook brothers terrorize Dodge until a cold-blooded killing.
Freed for want of evidence, a suspected rustler pushes his accuser toward private vengeance.
A traveling professor peddles a cure-all tonic that works suspiciously well -- because it is laced with opium.
A green special deputy from California arrives to arrest a man far tougher than the young lawman realizes.
A buffalo hunter flush with hide money gets into a fight with a man who is soon found dead.
An out-of-place Baltimore man comes to the prairie, hopeless at ranch work and adrift in Dodge.
An educated Chinese cook comes to Dodge, and when two bullies cut off his queue he swears to kill them.
An old man reports his wife of thirty-seven years has run off, and a stranger turns up wearing some of her clothes.
A frightened woman begs Dillon to hide her from her jealous, abusive husband.
Doc is shot from ambush, and Dillon -- the only man Doc trusts -- must cut the bullet out himself.
A hideously ugly man's mere presence so unnerves Dodge that the townsfolk form a mob to be rid of his 'menace.'
A man walks all the way from the Ozarks to settle an old family feud with a killing in Dodge.
A storekeeper is robbed and tied up in his own shop and names a man Dillon cannot believe would do it.
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