Gunsmoke — 1960
52 episodes broadcast in 1960.
The Pueblo gang hits Dodge, robs the stage, and kidnaps and shoots a woman passenger.
After a man beats him and kills his son, Luke Burris refuses Dillon's help and means to settle the score himself.
Dillon and Chester are held prisoner by two men who beat the woman living with them; the Marshal escapes with her, but one man means to get her back.
A traveling minister clashes with a local man who accuses him of being an escaped convict -- and is right.
Sheltering from a storm while taking in a prisoner, Dillon meets a woman who learns he caused her father's death.
A gentle Civil War drummer boy is set up for murder by the local bully.
A desperate, near-starving man caught stealing seeds finds his wife accused of rustling a rich rancher's calf.
A woman is convinced her husband, drawn to a nearby widow, means to kill her.
A likeable drifter with a bounty on his head saves an ungrateful man's life -- and gets no thanks at all.
A man comes to kill Dillon, who is so weak with fever he can barely stand.
Pressured to ease off, Dillon swears to make no more arrests, so the town hires a most unusual constable to keep the peace.
A white woman found starving on the road with an Indian baby could spark an uprising.
A stage holdup leaves one robber dying and Doc kidnapped by the rest of the gang.
The orphaned son of Dillon's late friends spends the summer in Dodge and, trying to help, believes he has shot an old drunk dead.
A newly widowed woman insists on staying alone on her remote land, and a neighbor takes cruel advantage.
An Indian named Big Foot seizes a killer Dillon is bringing to trial, meaning to deliver his own justice.
Shot in the leg and menaced by renegade Utes, Dillon and Chester take shelter with a mean old woman who charges for everything.
A knife-carrying dude arrested on suspicion of murder may be the long-estranged son of old man Wydell.
A woman is found beaten to death and a silent trapper stands accused of the crime.
Chester's letters, signed as Matt Dillon, draw a mail-order bride who may be a serial husband-killer.
Dillon takes a runaway girl from her cruel father back to Dodge, only to find his troubles with her just starting.
A self-styled professor arrives peddling a machine that supposedly turns dimes into silver dollars, with a price on his head.
A jealous woman accuses Kitty of stealing her diamond pin -- and her husband happens to be sweet on Kitty.
Dillon works to persuade an Indian that the cut telegraph line is not evil magic.
After her stepfather burns to death, Dillon brings a young girl back to Dodge and must decide what to do with her.
An old man crusading against guns and violence comes to Dodge carrying a sack full of gold.
A drunken Indian agent, gone off the deep end, withholds guns and food from the Sioux he is meant to serve.
A friendly sheriff comes to Dodge hunting a bank robber and finds trouble with the wrong couple instead.
After Dillon jails a man, the prisoner's brother smashes the stagecoach and seizes Kitty as a bargaining chip.
A devoted old husband of forty-five years falls for a scheming widow, and his sharp wife sets out to open his eyes.
Dillon meets a man rigging a noose, sworn to hang the killer of his lost love the moment the man admits his guilt.
The Bane brothers steal Dillon and Chester's horses while they bathe, and the bullied younger brother is drawn into a bank robbery.
A traveling hangman arrives with his own portable gallows, and a simple-minded man who befriends him shoots Doc.
Dillon ousts the crooked sheriff of Tascosa, who swears revenge, in a story with a surprise ending.
With Doc missing four days, Dillon and Chester search the ranches, and Chester finds trouble of his own along the way.
A grieving mother swears to kill Dillon if the man who murdered her son is hanged.
A released convict mistakes Doc for the judge who sentenced him and will not be talked out of his revenge.
Chester's itch leads Dillon to the answer behind a rancher's disappearance on his way to town with bank money.
Cut down before a lynching can kill him, a man swears to hunt down the two ranchers who tried to hang him.
An ice-nerved hired killer has been in Dodge a week, and Dillon must work out who the man came to gun down.
A woman reporter in men's clothing joins a cattle drive to chronicle the real West, and the trail boss demands she be jailed.
After two drunken Texans drag Chester behind a horse for sport, Dillon walks in to arrest them -- without his guns.
Dillon and Chester take in a badly beaten, half-starved woman, and the husband who admits abusing her comes to claim her.
A clever con artist works out an ingenious new way to rob a bank.
Two robbers bury their loot to deflect suspicion as an Indian-grave-digging professor stumbles into the case.
A wild young man wants to settle down and marry, but his bride's brother swears he will die whether he goes through with the wedding or not.
While Dillon hunts a back-shooting robber, Kitty nurses a sick friend whose husband turns strangely hostile.
A cafe's new cook makes business boom until a drunken diner demands his eggs be turned and pushes the chef too far.
All Dodge buzzes about a war hero of Hogback planning to settle in town.
A wife shot by her brutish husband grows fond of Doc and taunts the man with talk of a new lover, nearly getting Doc killed.
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