Gunsmoke — 1958
52 episodes broadcast in 1958.
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 down-on-his-luck Englishman loses his horse and money at poker, but a scheme is exactly what he came to Dodge with.
A man and his prize lead cow vanish, and a rival cattleman is suspected of foul play to win the river crossing.
A visiting senator is shot the moment he steps off the train in Dodge.
A religious fanatic comes to town to visit the Lord's vengeance on a man he judges a sinner.
Three men lynch a rancher for horse theft; when two are shot, the third lives in fear.
Fresh from prison, a man comes back to face the flirtatious wife who divorced him.
A husband dosing his dying wife with herbal remedies refuses to let Doc perform the operation that could save her.
A simple, penniless drifter arrives with only a mule and a guitar and is promptly set upon by bullies.
A laughing-gas show turns dangerous when one of the Marsh boys is made a fool of on stage.
A young gunman is dispatched to kill Dillon, who is determined to learn who is behind it.
A man is found tortured to death, and Dillon confronts someone whose loathing of Indians has curdled into madness.
A domineering New York tycoon comes to Dodge to drag his grown daughter back home.
A boy reports his father kidnapped and his horse stolen, while the man's stepmother proves to be trouble of another kind.
Fearing her son will follow his father into drink, a rancher's wife vows to torch every saloon in the state.
Two traveling gamblers stage a William Tell shooting act with deliberately bad aim.
A young man resents his father's Arapaho wife, and the family's grief comes from that unexpected source.
After Dillon shoots a drunken cowboy, the dead man's brother swears to gun the Marshal down from behind.
A brute shows off an Indian 'wife' who in truth belongs to an honorable man come to take her back.
A man of bad reputation seizes another man's fine stallion for a debt and mistreats it, to his cost.
Stranded with a shattered leg, Dillon lies helpless before a prisoner bent on murder.
A boastful Missouri man wagers his ranch on a grudge quarter-horse race against a local rancher.
Dillon foils a lynching and jails a man for horse theft, until the accuser's young son tries to break him out.
A beautiful woman from Dillon's past comes to Dodge, and Kitty quickly sees she is up to no good.
A rancher's son loves a gypsy girl, which pleases neither his father nor the other gypsies.
A whiskey drummer warns of a plot on Dillon's life; when the Marshal plays dead, two different men boast of the killing.
Chester catches wind of a daylight bank-robbery scheme and tries to lure Dillon away to shield Doc and Kitty.
A youth bent on proving himself kills a jailed man and forces Dillon at gunpoint to dance in the Long Branch.
Chester's father comes to Dodge and is startled to find his good-for-nothing son is now the Marshal's deputy.
When Doc fails to save a rancher's wife, the grieving husband swears revenge and nearly gets it.
When two men trouble a Mexican girl, her father vows to make them answer for it.
An old man is thrown out of his own house by a son now wanted for murder.
On the trail of two stage robbers, Dillon and Chester find an old Southern lady living in a vanished past.
A good-natured German blacksmith is hounded by a bully once too often.
A beaten wife won't file a complaint against her husband -- she even posts his bail.
A boy accused of shooting a neighbor's turkeys reveals the man has been visiting his stepmother, and his father swears revenge.
A convincing eyewitness whose testimony will hang a man turns out to be anything but reliable.
A saloon girl's old fiance follows her from Philadelphia to Dodge, bent on taking her back.
A young man arrives from Louisiana determined to defend Kitty's honor whether she wants it or not.
A hired killer rides into Dodge and won't say who he has come to gun down -- a man Dillon once called friend.
Doc makes himself the bait to trap the two men who murdered a young boy.
A proud old army scout vows to kill the two men who humiliated him with a cruel practical joke.
A jailbreak looms as a drunken, card-cheating Shakespearean actor complicates matters for Dillon.
A man with a sick wife begs Dillon to guard his locked suitcase.
A man whose brother Dillon accidentally wounded kidnaps the Marshal and tricks him into shooting Chester.
Dillon must travel to the rough town of Elkader to bring back a murderer -- no easy job.
A demanding St. Louis correspondent dogs Dillon for the true, unromanticized story of the West as the Marshal hunts badmen.
A blazing wagon and a corpse on the prairie greet the two lawmen, and the truth holds a surprise.
When a rancher's wife is shot down on Front Street, he is sure one of the newly arrived Texas cowboys did it.
Kitty is hurt in a fall from her horse, and Dillon must beg shelter from hostile Kansans.
A Christmas story: a man accused of armed robbery has a few chores to finish before Dillon and Chester can arrest him.
An outlaw going straight takes work guarding the stage line.
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