Gunsmoke — 1959
52 episodes broadcast in 1959.
An unknown coward stalks Dodge determined to kill the Marshal from hiding.
Accused of killing his employer's colts and inventing a great white wolf to keep his winter job, a wolfer sets out to trap the real beast.
A religious fanatic accuses Chester of interfering with the Lord's work and means to cut off his hand.
A drunken ex-gunfighter is forced into a store robbery to keep his young friend from learning of his disgrace.
The dim-witted Finney twins come to Dodge to hunt Indians -- and prove to be killers.
A man comes to Dodge to kill the former Union soldier who murdered his wife during the war.
A modern-methods doctor draws patients from Doc Adams -- and bodies from Indian graves.
A woman arrives searching for her fiance, who turns out to have an agenda all his own.
A man with a bad heart accepts a fight that could kill him.
A hard old woman forces her sixteen-year-old son to rob the stage carrying $20,000 -- with Chester aboard.
Dillon and Chester meet a cavalry escort bringing home a woman just ransomed from the Arapaho -- and the warrior who loves her.
A judge arrives to dispense a strange brand of justice with a killing and $10,000 in stolen money at stake.
An Easterner courting a Dodge girl finds himself in a shootout and then kidnapped.
Wounded by a bear and left to die by his partner, a trapper survives and comes to Dodge planning to kill the man who abandoned him.
After botching an errand, Chester convinces himself the Marshal no longer needs him.
A young man rebelling against his domineering father falls in with two men and a stagecoach robbery.
A dim bank robber shoots Dillon just to take his badge, while his sharper partner keeps the Marshal alive for his own ends.
A man appoints himself Dillon's deputy while secretly plotting to kill him.
A wealthy grandmother comes to Dodge to bring home her Yale-bound grandson -- who is wanted for a bank holdup.
After a mother and her boy witness a murder, Dillon dangles the child as bait to snare the killer.
The circus comes to Dodge, elephant and all, bringing a strongwoman and her Confederate flag.
A soldier who stole an army payroll and was shot doing it hides with his parents near Dodge and shoots Chester.
Doc and Kitty are seized by Indians whose chief wants his sick child treated -- and Doc agrees, if Kitty goes free.
A jailed robber's men kidnap Kitty and offer to trade her for his release.
With the army payroll stolen and martial law threatened, a good girl in bad company holds the key to the crime.
A father and his son and daughter rob a train and kill a man; Dillon and Chester run them down.
A miser who thinks only of work is found shot, and his wife begins spending freely soon after.
Dillon's old friend is shot in the back, and the gunman comes to Dodge to finish the job -- testing how far loyalty should bind.
Dillon must free a horse thief when the key witness fails to appear -- and there is a grim reason for the man's absence.
A rancher plots to steal the finest lead steer in Kansas, and Doc is drawn into the strange affair.
An Eastern all-star baseball club plays a Dodge team, with Doc Adams umpiring and trouble brewing.
A beautiful young woman arrives announcing she has come to marry a man she has never met, and her troubles -- and Dillon's -- begin.
A boy is sure the silent, tormented old man Pokey Pete has buried treasure, though Pete never says a word.
A scheming woman dupes a young cowboy into shooting her Bible-quoting husband, then reaps more death than she planned.
Bringing a prisoner toward Wichita, Dillon and his fellow travelers are pinned down at a way station by gold-hunting bandits.
Weary of the badge, Dillon nearly quits until an Indian problem and gunrunners show him where he is truly needed.
A man returns to his aged mother seventeen years after running off -- but he is not really her son.
Ed Beaudry comes to town gunning for the blacksmith who married the woman he wanted, but Beaudry is found dead first.
A man threatens to kill Dillon if his jailed brother hangs, then turns that threat on the brother when he admits his guilt.
A tough-talking woman takes over the Lady Gay, and the fate of its former owner is a mystery.
A smooth talker exploits the Marshal's liquor-numbed tooth extraction to loot the bank and gun down a teller while Dillon cannot respond.
A banker forecloses on a family with the law squarely on his side, leaving Dillon little room to act.
A boastful old-timer, humiliated by a local tough, straps on his old pistols once more.
Dillon and Chester arrest a killer in Abilene to bring him home for trial, but the man's brothers mean to stop them.
Dillon uncovers the hidden past of Doc Adams -- a man once called Calvin Moore, wanted for murder.
A woman like no other in Dodge leaves three dead men in her wake before Dillon can stop her.
A rancher puts up gold for a hired gun to cut Dillon down.
A wounded bank robber comes home for his mother's help, only to learn from his little brother that she has died.
A buffalo hunter fresh off the prairie sets his sights on a Long Branch saloon girl and will not take no for an answer.
Dillon's old Mexican friend Esteban rides into Dodge to kill a drifter, and the Marshal must keep him from murder.
A pregnant woman and her husband take refuge in the barn of the father who cast her out.
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 the bank.
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