Gunsmoke — 1961
25 episodes broadcast in 1961.
After a stranger is shot dead on Front Street, Dillon realizes the bullet was meant for him, paid for by an earless enemy.
A man challenges another to a gunfight for insulting his wife -- who has kept the truth about her past hidden out of love.
A man arrives in Dodge with his dead friend's body, throws a lavish wake, and keeps spending freely afterward.
A young couple passing through to sell their wagon are drawn in when a reckless man buys it and hires the husband, who does not trust him.
A young woman whose father is murdered by roadmen walks forty miles to Dodge and takes work at the Long Branch to find the killers.
A former Oklahoma marshal who quit for fear of a bullet in the back passes through Dodge, and Dillon worries someone means to collect on him.
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.
Torn between duty and a social he promised Kitty, Dillon rides off for a prisoner while Kitty helps an injured man and falls in love.
A brutal gunman is remade into a gentler man after his shooting hand is crippled.
A man who lost at poker to a player later found shot suddenly has money for a wedding ring, and Dillon grows suspicious.
A pretty newcomer sets Dodge men brawling over her almost as soon as she steps off the train.
A brutal 'marshal' rules the town of Elkader with an iron fist until Dillon rides in.
Dillon quietly kills off the members of a gang who have been scalping settlers and blaming the Pawnee.
Chester dreads a lawyer's letter he assumes is over an old debt, but it brings news of a cousin's death and a small inheritance.
Dillon must release a suspect when Abilene claims another man for the murder -- the freed man's own brother, who could not have done it.
While Dillon is away, a crooked gambler sets up in Dodge and uses a hired gun behind a killing passed off as self-defense.
A father and son beat and rape an Indian woman and shoot her husband, and soon the son is found scalped.
When Doc is shot in the back on the prairie, Chester is forced to operate on him to save his life.
After an old man kills her son for trying to stop a horse theft, a mother shoots the man's son dead and sends her boy for Dillon.
A friend of Dillon's is murdered before he can testify, and the woman who killed him claims self-defense -- which the Marshal doubts.
Chester falls for a new woman in town whose brother is a wanted army deserter.
With Dillon away, a sod-buster's daughter mistakes Chester for the Marshal and sets her heart on him as a freed prisoner and a bank robbery collide.
A rustler sells the meat of stolen cattle while his wife tries to adopt an orphan.
When an old medical-college friend dies, Doc is visited by a Philadelphia doctor offering him the dead man's lucrative practice.
Dillon is forced by a court order to evict a reformed gunfighter from land he never legally filed on.
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