Best Episodes
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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A group of bandits attempt to rob a town while masquerading as soldiers.
The episode was rated 7.16 from 19 votes.
Manolo (Robert Urich)is a Basque youth who is not recognized as a man in the eyes of his people because he refuses to fight his father Alejo (Nehemiah Persoff), a traditional Basque custom to prove one's manhood.
The episode was rated 7.35 from 17 votes.
Matt takes a young orphan Bessie Sutherland after her parents were killed on the prairie, to live with her Aunt Rachel. Rachel tells Matt that because of the devastating experiences that she has had, does not want to take in her niece, besides she wants to sell her land.
The episode was rated 7.38 from 13 votes.
Matt Dillon is sentenced to life imprisonment of hard labor for shooting a fugitive in the town of Bedrock.
The episode was rated 7.44 from 16 votes.
Lee J. Cobb and his daughter Julie Cobb appear together for the first time when Cobb guest-stars as a once-proud military officer who is suddenly faced with a painful and unplanned reunion with his daughter.
The episode was rated 7.45 from 11 votes.
Matt is frustrated by Judge Kendall's insistence that the letter of the law be maintained, which could result in Emmett Kaysinger and his boys, all known outlaws, be set free unless there is solid evidence to hold them for a double murder and robbery they committed.
The episode was rated 7.50 from 12 votes.
Matt houses a drunk Will & Friends in the jail they go looking for $300 that they think Bill took. Matt thinks it was a misunderstanding. Will doesn't want to tell Matt that they shot Curly Wills (They buried him before going to Dodge. Doak stops to see his girlfriend and says marriage will need to wait, as Will & Quincy leaves without Doak Quincy and the storekeepers are shot.
The episode was rated 7.50 from 18 votes.
Doc and fellow stage passenger, Lyla are captured by renegade comancheros.
The episode was rated 7.53 from 17 votes.
A series of seemingly random killings have the citizens of Dodge City in near panic, but Dillon believes they are part of a pattern in which Doc is slated to be the next target.
The episode was rated 7.57 from 14 votes.
Henry Decory is a schoolteacher who makes a strong statement for compulsory education for frontier children as a stubborn father feels that books and education are a waste of time and tries to keep his son Tommy out of school.
The episode was rated 7.60 from 10 votes.
Jed Hockett(Harry Morgan), a farmer, orders his three boys to go to town and return with prospective brides.
The episode was rated 7.75 from 12 votes.
Festus is caught in the middle when an Eastern preacher (David Wayne) wants to build a church for the Indians and the townspeople to share, but by all of whom that are filled with prejudice.
The episode was rated 7.79 from 14 votes.
Fleeing from both Matt Dillon and his double-crossed partners, outlaw Gristy Calhoun discovers that his survival in the badlands depends on an Indian woman.
The episode was rated 7.90 from 10 votes.
A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers.
The episode was rated 7.95 from 20 votes.
Matt and former lawman now turned alcoholic, Chauncey Demon go up against land baron Carl Ryker.
The episode was rated 8.21 from 14 votes.
