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Gunsmoke

Season 5 1959 - 1960
TV-G

  • 1959-09-05T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 45m
  • 1d 5h 15m (39 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Western, Action, Adventure, Drama
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.

39 episodes

Season Premiere

1959-09-05T04:00:00Z

5x01 Target

Season Premiere

5x01 Target

  • 1959-09-05T04:00:00Z45m

Ironic tragedy results when Danny Kader stubbornly disregards his father's predispositions (and Matt's pragmatic advice) in order to attempt an elopement with a young gypsy woman.

1959-09-19T04:00:00Z

5x02 Kitty's Injury

5x02 Kitty's Injury

  • 1959-09-19T04:00:00Z45m

When Kitty is hurt in a fall from a horse, she and Matt must seek help from shiftless dirt farmers who are oddly uninterested in aiding them.

1959-09-26T04:00:00Z

5x03 Horse Deal

5x03 Horse Deal

  • 1959-09-26T04:00:00Z45m

Horses with Bar S brand are being sold to unsuspecting buyers. Deesha moves in to claim the horses, leaving the buyer with nothing.

1959-10-03T04:00:00Z

5x04 Johnny Red

5x04 Johnny Red

  • 1959-10-03T04:00:00Z45m

A man suddenly turns up in Dodge City claiming to be Billy Crale, the long-lost son of a well-to-do local widow. Matt knows that Billy Crale was reported dead during the Civil War, and he becomes highly concerned for Mrs. Crale's safety when he confirms that the man is actually a onetime outlaw known as Johnny Red.

1959-10-10T04:00:00Z

5x05 Tail to the Wind

5x05 Tail to the Wind

  • 1959-10-10T04:00:00Z45m

A father and son bully a farmer and his wife who won't sell their land, but the farmer is oddly reluctant to let Matt arrest the two, even when they resort to gunfire.

1959-10-17T04:00:00Z

5x06 Annie Oakley

5x06 Annie Oakley

  • 1959-10-17T04:00:00Z45m

Is the homely, sharp-tongued, middle-aged wife of a homesteader really inspiring men to fight to the death for her affections?

1959-10-24T04:00:00Z

5x07 Kangaroo

5x07 Kangaroo

  • 1959-10-24T04:00:00Z45m

Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself.

1959-10-31T05:00:00Z

5x08 Saludos

5x08 Saludos

  • 1959-10-31T05:00:00Z45m

Matt, escorting 3 men back to Dodge, claims a beautiful wounded Indian woman will be able to identify the one who shot her and killed her husband.

1959-11-07T05:00:00Z

5x09 Brother Whelp

5x09 Brother Whelp

  • 1959-11-07T05:00:00Z45m

A man wants to gunfight when he returns home, after years away, and finding his brother married to his girl.

1959-11-14T05:00:00Z

5x10 The Boots

5x10 The Boots

  • 1959-11-14T05:00:00Z45m

Onetime gunman Zeno Smith faces an unenviable choice. If he does not help would-be gambler Hank Fergus rob Mr. Jonas's general store, Fergus will tell 12-year old orphan Tommy the full story of how Zeno's descent into deprivation and alcoholism dates to the day he backed down from facing Fergus in a gunfight.

1959-11-21T05:00:00Z

5x11 Odd Man Out

5x11 Odd Man Out

  • 1959-11-21T05:00:00Z45m

Matt is uncertain what to make of Cyrus Tucker's confused claim that his wife of 32 years "just ran off", especially when a homesteader claims that he saw the old man digging a large hole just behind his house.

1959-11-28T05:00:00Z

5x12 Miguel's Daughter

5x12 Miguel's Daughter

  • 1959-11-28T05:00:00Z45m

A father threatens to kill the two drifters who have been plaguing his daughter.

1959-12-05T05:00:00Z

5x13 Box o' Rocks

5x13 Box o' Rocks

  • 1959-12-05T05:00:00Z45m

A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.

1959-12-12T05:00:00Z

5x14 False Witness

5x14 False Witness

  • 1959-12-12T05:00:00Z45m

A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.

1959-12-19T05:00:00Z

5x15 Tag, You're It

5x15 Tag, You're It

  • 1959-12-19T05:00:00Z45m

When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them.

1959-12-26T05:00:00Z

5x16 Thick 'n' Thin

5x16 Thick 'n' Thin

  • 1959-12-26T05:00:00Z45m

A quarrel between two partners in homesteading escalates to the point of gunfire. Matt tries to make peace between them by locking them up together.

1960-01-02T05:00:00Z

5x17 Groat's Grudge

5x17 Groat's Grudge

  • 1960-01-02T05:00:00Z45m

An ex-Confederate waits to settle the score with the Union man whose unit cost him a loved one and property in the late war.

1960-01-09T05:00:00Z

5x18 Big Tom

5x18 Big Tom

  • 1960-01-09T05:00:00Z45m

Despite a serious heart condition, onetime prizefighter Tom Burr is determined to go through with his plans to fight vicious Hob Creel. The only way Matt can stop the mismatch and save Burr's life is to fight Creel himself.

1960-01-16T05:00:00Z

5x19 Till Death Do Us

5x19 Till Death Do Us

  • 1960-01-16T05:00:00Z45m

Someone takes a shot at a hard man who is brutal to his wife, and someone is overheard claiming he was offered money to kill the man.

1960-01-23T05:00:00Z

5x20 The Tragedian

5x20 The Tragedian

  • 1960-01-23T05:00:00Z45m

Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards.

1960-01-30T05:00:00Z

5x21 Hinka Do

5x21 Hinka Do

  • 1960-01-30T05:00:00Z45m

Matt has reason to believe that the new overweight, gun toting, straight shooting, female owner of the Lady Gay saloon may have killed the previous owner, or did she?

1960-02-06T05:00:00Z

5x22 Doc Judge

5x22 Doc Judge

  • 1960-02-06T05:00:00Z45m

While Matt is away on business, Doc gets threatened by an ex convict (Brice Harp) who claims that Doc Adams sentenced him to a long term in Prison.

1960-02-13T05:00:00Z

5x23 Moo Moo Raid

5x23 Moo Moo Raid

  • 1960-02-13T05:00:00Z45m

Old man Onie has a great swimming cow that can lead herds across rivers, and when they both come up missing, one trail boss accuses another of killing them.

1960-02-20T05:00:00Z

5x24 Kitty's Killing

5x24 Kitty's Killing

  • 1960-02-20T05:00:00Z45m

Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter in childbirth.

1960-02-27T05:00:00Z

5x25 Jailbait Janet

5x25 Jailbait Janet

  • 1960-02-27T05:00:00Z45m

After a train sparks a fire that destroys a family's crops, the man, his son, and his daughter rob another train of fifty thousand dollars. A baggage clerk is killed and the crusty representative of the railroad pressures Matt to solve it.

1960-03-05T05:00:00Z

5x26 Unwanted Deputy

5x26 Unwanted Deputy

  • 1960-03-05T05:00:00Z45m

Determined to avenge his murderous brother's hanging, Vince Walsh begins a self-serving campaign of unofficially helping to keep the peace in Dodge City over Matt's objections. Walsh is certain that his actions and his taunts will eventually goad the Marshal into a gunfight.

1960-03-12T05:00:00Z

5x27 Where'd They Go

5x27 Where'd They Go

  • 1960-03-12T05:00:00Z45m

When Jonas accuses Clint Dodie of robbing his store, Matt and Chester set out in the bitter cold go to Clint's farm to make an arrest.

1960-03-26T05:00:00Z

5x28 Crowbait Bob

5x28 Crowbait Bob

  • 1960-03-26T05:00:00Z45m

When the greedy relatives of a dying man (Crowbait Bob) learn that he might be dying, they come to Dodge to grab anything of value they can get from the dying man.

1960-04-02T05:00:00Z

5x29 Colleen So Green

5x29 Colleen So Green

  • 1960-04-02T05:00:00Z45m

A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but Kitty isn't falling for her charms.

1960-04-09T05:00:00Z

5x30 The Ex-Urbanites

5x30 The Ex-Urbanites

  • 1960-04-09T05:00:00Z45m

Far from Dodge, Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Doc's life after the two are ambushed by a pair of savage prairie wolfers.

1960-04-16T05:00:00Z

5x31 I Thee Wed

5x31 I Thee Wed

  • 1960-04-16T05:00:00Z45m

A man beats his wife and is sentenced to fifty days or fifty dollars by the judge. The beaten woman scrapes together the money for her husband's fine, only to be beaten again.

1960-04-23T05:00:00Z

5x32 The Lady Killer

5x32 The Lady Killer

  • 1960-04-23T05:00:00Z45m

A saloon girl shoots a man who came to her room, claiming he attacked her, but as the dead man was to testify against a man from the woman's past, Matt is suspicious.

1960-04-30T04:00:00Z

5x33 Gentleman's Disagreement

5x33 Gentleman's Disagreement

  • 1960-04-30T04:00:00Z45m

Ed makes no secret of his intention to kill Bert for marrying the girl Ed wanted. So when Ed is the one who turns up dead, folks assume that Bert did it.

1960-05-07T04:00:00Z

5x34 Speak Me Fair

5x34 Speak Me Fair

  • 1960-05-07T04:00:00Z45m

There's a cattle drive near town, and the cowboys are nervous about a series of cattle rustling events that have taken place recently.

1960-05-14T04:00:00Z

5x35 Belle's Back

5x35 Belle's Back

  • 1960-05-14T04:00:00Z45m

Belle Ainesly rides into town after 3 years absence. Seems she ran off with an unsavory character 3 years ago, and all of Dodge feels she's a "bad" woman. Belle says she is coming back to stay at the family ranch.

1960-05-21T04:00:00Z

5x36 The Bobsy Twins

5x36 The Bobsy Twins

  • 1960-05-21T04:00:00Z45m

Two brothers have decided that it is their mission to rid the West of Indians.

1960-05-28T04:00:00Z

5x37 Old Flame

5x37 Old Flame

  • 1960-05-28T04:00:00Z45m

Kitty doubts the veracity of Matt's old friend Dolly Winters, who arrives in Dodge seeking the Marshal's help and claiming to have been robbed, beaten, and jilted by a man named Rad Meadows.

1960-06-04T04:00:00Z

5x38 The Deserter

5x38 The Deserter

  • 1960-06-04T04:00:00Z45m

Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the drop on him and wounds Chester.

Season Finale

1960-06-11T04:00:00Z

5x39 Cherry Red

Season Finale

5x39 Cherry Red

  • 1960-06-11T04:00:00Z45m

The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.

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