Season 1
39 episodes · Sep 9, 1955
This is a list of episodes from the first season of the television series version of Gunsmoke.
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S1E1Matt Gets It
Sep 10, 195526mDan Grat, a gunman hunted by Texas authorities, seeks refuge in Dodge City. Marshal Dillon goes into action against this outlaw who shoots before he talks.
S1E2Hot Spell
Sep 17, 195526mMatt intercedes on behalf of ex-con Cope Borden, when Rance Bradley accuses Cope of horse theft and attempts to lynch him. Cope is proven innocent of the charge, but later kills Bradley's nephew in a fair fight during a gambling dispute. Matt is caught in an awkward situation when he must defend the unsavory Cope against the decent people of Dodge.
S1E3Word of Honor
Oct 1, 195526mHank Worth, son of wealthy rancher Jake Worth, is kidnapped by three men and held for $20,000 ransom. They shoot him in the back for trying to escape. They call on Doc but Hank dies. The killers decide to let Doc go because he is the only doctor within 400 miles and they fear they might need his services someday. Before sparing his life and freeing him, they force the reluctant Doc to give his word of honor that he will never reveal their identities.
S1E4Home Surgery
Oct 8, 195526mWhen returning to Dodge, Chester and Matt are confronted by Holly Hawtree, whose father is desperately ill with gangrene. His only hope for survival is amputation of the affected leg. Matt performs the surgery, but the gangrene has spread too far and the old man dies. Matt later discovers that the presumed accident leading to Mr. Hawtree's condition was actually caused by Ben Walling, who has his sights on Holly.
S1E5Obie Tater
Oct 15, 195526mTwo outlaws seek the rumored hidden fortune of old prospector Obie. They drag him to get him to tell. Obie forgets his cares and disappears on honeymoon with newcomer Ella May. Matt suspiciously questions the simple Obie about Ella May's motives and finds Obie is deeper than he seems.
S1E6Night Incident
Oct 29, 195526mLittle Timmy Wyatt witnesses a series of bizarre murders. He has a habit of telling tall tales, so no one will believe him.
S1E7Smoking Out the Nolans
Nov 5, 195526mClay Young is trying to evict Josh Nolan, who says he paid for the property. Matt and Chester are tied up in reluctantly enforcing eviction law unless they can find another way.
S1E8Kite's Reward
Nov 12, 195526mMatt warns skilled gunman Andy Travis, of his choice between quitting the gun or else being constantly hunted and forced to prove himself. Matt finds a way to foil the $1000 bounty on Andy's head.
S1E9The Hunter
Nov 26, 195526mBuffalo hunter Jase Murdock is warned by storekeeper Ross to stay out of Indian territory. Matt talks with Murdock's skinner, Golden Calf, who determines that Murdock's medicine is no longer good.
S1E10The Queue
Dec 3, 195526mTwo bullies cut off Chen's pig-tail, gravely dishonoring him in Chinese culture. Chen vows vengeance.
S1E11General Parsley Smith
Dec 10, 195526mOld-timer Smith is a former Army officer considered a butcher. He arrives in Dodge City speading rumors about the new Banker, Drew Holt.
S1E12Magnus
Dec 24, 195526mChester is embarrassed at a visit by his estranged mountain man brother Magnus. To prove that Magnus is too uncivilized for town, Chester tours him through the highlights of Dodge: card gambling, drinking, and talking with Kitty. Meanwhile, the Long Branch women plan a Christmas Eve dance which is busted by the spiteful Lucifer Jones.
S1E13Reed Survives
Dec 31, 195526mLucy professes her love for handsome Booth Rider, and concocts a scheme against Ephram. Booth becomes the unwitting pawn in a homicide that culminates in an ironic twist of fate.
S1E14Professor Lute Bone
Jan 7, 195626mDoc is enraged by traveling medicine man Professor Lute Bone and his opium elixir, and digs up a gun to shoot him with. A lad also hunts him because his father died drinking his elixir, so Bone reconsiders the patent medicine business.
S1E15No Handcuffs
Jan 21, 195626mA dishonest deputy sheriff steals a prisoner from Matt's jail, so Matt and Chester hunt them.
S1E16Reward for Matt
Jan 28, 195626mMatt kills a man and his widow posts a $1,000 bounty in vengeance. Everyone from sodbusters to gunslingers are out for that reward.
S1E18Yorky
Feb 18, 195626mYorky, a white boy who was brought up by Arapahoes, is victimized by horse thieves. Accused of their crime, he is shot by the vengeful Abe Brandt and his son. Matt is also targeted by the horse thieves.
S1E1920-20
Feb 25, 195626mA former lawman tries to keep his failing eyesight a secret from his enemies.
S1E20Reunion '78
Mar 3, 195626mA well-liked hardware drummer is actually a man wanted for multiple murders.
S1E21Helping Hand
Mar 17, 195626mA would-be tough guy picks on the wrong man in an attempt to make a name for himself when he tries to involve Marshal Matt Dillon by staging a street fight.
S1E22Tap Day for Kitty
Mar 24, 195626mAn old sodbuster comes to town and decides he wants to marry Kitty. When he won't leave her alone she declares she'll shoot him if he pesters her anymore.
S1E23Indian Scout
Mar 31, 195626mWhen an old Indian scout (Eduard Franz) murders a man (DeForest Kelley), Matt pursues him into Comanche territory.
S1E24The Pest Hole
Apr 14, 195626mDoc must find a way to thwart a typhoid epidemic in Dodge (Howard McNear appears).
S1E25The Big Broad
Apr 28, 195626mMatt has to figure a way around a six-foot-tall, 200-pound woman with a six-gun.
S1E26Hack Prine
May 12, 195626mHack Prine, a friend of Matt's rides into Dodge. However he is there as a gunman, for Matt Dillon.
S1E27Cooter
May 19, 195626mA dishonest gambler (Vinton Hayworth) uses a mentally challenged man (Strother Martin) in a plot against Matt (Robert Vaughn appears).
S1E28The Killer
May 26, 195626mCharles Bronson guest stars as a cowardly gunslinger who only goes after old men or young kids who aren't very experienced with guns. But, when Matt Dillon gives him an ultimatum, he shows his true colors.
S1E29Doc's Revenge
Jun 9, 195626mA stranger comes to Dodge, and Doc bewilders and dismays Chester and Matt by arming himself and vowing to kill the man.
S1E31How to Die for Nothing
Jun 23, 195626mThe brother of a man Matt was forced to kill vows to kill Matt by any means necessary (Mort Mills appears).
S1E32Dutch George
Jun 30, 195626mMatt's Childhood hero, Dutch George is now the leader of a notorious gang of horse thieves he must now stop.
S1E33Prairie Happy
Jul 7, 195626mA bitter old man spreads rumors of an impending Indian raid on Dodge.
S1E34Chester's Mail Order Bride
Jul 14, 195626mWhen Chester's mail-order bride arrives, neither she nor Chester are what the other are expecting (first credited appearance of Bert Rumsey as 'Sam').
S1E35The Guitar
Jul 21, 195626mAn ex-Union soldier is forced to use violence against a pair of diehard Rebels (Jacques Aubuchon appears). First episode without the "Boot Hill" intro.
S1E36Cara
Jul 28, 195626mMatt encounters an ex-girl friend---who's now working on the wrong side of the law.
S1E37Mr. and Mrs. Amber
Aug 4, 195626mA self-styled religious prophet (Ainslie Pryor) is making life miserable for his daughter and new son-in-law..
S1E38Unmarked Grave
Aug 18, 195626mA young outlaw uses an old woman as a pawn in his bid for freedom.
S1E39Alarm at Pleasant Valley
Aug 25, 195626mWhile on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester discover a homsteading family fleeing Pleasant Valley, which is besieged by Indians.