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1.
McClain's Law (1981–1982)
Episode:
The Sign of the Beast: Part 1
(1982)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A crime that has been committed may be drug related.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: James Arness, Marshall Colt, George DiCenzo, Carl Franklin
Votes: 7
2.
McClain's Law (1981–1982)
Episode:
The Sign of the Beast: Part 2
(1982)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Harry goes undercover as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: James Arness, Marshall Colt, George DiCenzo, Carl Franklin
Votes: 7
3.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Gallows
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 363
4. The Red Skelton Chevy Special (1959 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy
Director: Seymour Berns | Stars: Red Skelton, James Arness, David Rose and His Orchestra, Rhonda Fleming
Votes: 10
5.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Caleb
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Childless and poor, farmer Caleb feels like a failure, and his wife assures him he is one. Caleb moves into town to seek some meaning in his life, and soon finds himself--a man who doesn't wear a gun--challenged to a duel.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 276
6.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Sam McTavish M.D.
(1970)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The arrival of the first woman doctor in Dodge City, Dr. Sam McTavish, riles Doc Adams. However, she soon wins his confidence and that of his patients, and the two physicians make a startling medical discovery.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 235
7.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Seven Hours to Dawn
(1965)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Mace Gore's gang has taken over Dodge. When Matt is believed killed, Festus and Doc have a plan to lure Gore into a trap, even though his usual plan is to leave by dawn.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 298
8.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
With a Smile
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his father's wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 303
9.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Island in the Desert: Part 1
(1974)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Festus is shot by the killer he is pursuing in the blazing desert, only to be helped by a crazed hermit and forced to tote water to try and get him to a town 80 miles away.
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor
Votes: 192
10.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Island in the Desert: Part 2
(1974)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Festus and the hermit come upon killer Gard Dixon dying in the desert, and when Festus helps him recover, the hermit forces both of them to tote water and gold dust.
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor
Votes: 179
11.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Long, Long Trail
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A headstrong young woman will undertake the long, dangerous journey to her fiancé's fort on her own if she must, so Matt nominates himself to escort her.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Barbara Lord
Votes: 336
12.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Mannon
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Mannon, arguably the fastest gun in the West, terrorizes Dodge City while he waits for Matt Dillon to return. A cruel, violent encounter with Kitty Russell sets up the inevitable showdown.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 261
13.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Prairie Wolfer
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Local cattlemen hire Festus to hunt wolves that have been killing their beeves, but what he uncovers could cost him his freedom.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 255
14.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Cabin
(1958)
TV-G | 30 min | Western
To escape a potentially lethal blizzard, Matt seeks shelter in a cabin in which two psychopathic bandits have enslaved and repeatedly molested a young woman after murdering her father.
Director: John Rich | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 283
15.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Quest for Asa Janin
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A young man is convicted of killing the saloon girl he wanted for his own. Matt is so sure that the young man is really innocent that he goes on the road after another suspect to prevent an unjust hanging.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Anthony Caruso
Votes: 231
16.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Raid: Part 1
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A band of robbers have hit numerous banks with uncanny precision, planning and ease. They have their sights on Dodge now but they must remove a big obstacle before they can proceed - Marshal Dillon.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 213
17.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Widowmaker
(1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Coltrane may be the fastest gun alive, and all he wants to do is live a quiet life with his beautiful wife, but so many men are out to make a reputation by trying to kill him.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 229
18.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Wishbone
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Festus has a habit of using the wishbone from a dead chicken for making wishes on. When he comes across Doc Adams, alone and snakebit, he uses that wish to help him, if it can. Meanwhile, Matt searches for three outlaws who held up a stage, killing the driver and guard.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 192
19.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Chicken
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Mistakenly hailed as a hero who downed four robbers, a man rethinks his decision to let folks regard him as a gunfighter when protecting the woman he wants calls for a gunman's skill.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 215
20.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Gunfighter, R.I.P
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A gunslinger hired to kill Matt, backs down from his obligation when he gets badly wounded and falls in love with a beautiful Asian woman who is caring for him, and his employers won't stand for it.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 253
21.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Hung High
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
As Matt takes a convicted man to Hays City for hanging, Matt and the prisoner are waylaid, the prisoner lynched, and Matt is framed for the killing, then arrested by a sergeant with a grudge against him.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Robert Culp
Votes: 277
22.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Kate Heller
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 241
23.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Matt's Love Story
(1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Matt is shot and abandoned by a fugitive Les Dean, whom he was tracking. Matt's horse finds his way to the farm of young widow named Mike Yardner, who, with the help of her dog, finds Matt ... See full summary »
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 268
24.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Once a Haggen
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Bucko, a close friend of Festus, is accused of murdering a man to whom he lost at poker. When his alibi witness lies out of fear, Bucko is sentenced to hang, and Festus, who'd begun to see the marshal as a friend, vows Bucko won't swing.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 230
25.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Bounty Hunter
(1965)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Lured out of retirement with the promise of land, a bounty hunter is aimed by his boss at the man who killed his son. He just doesn't tell him the reward and charges had been dropped.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 189
26.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Jailer
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Etta Stone is a very bitter, older, woman who has Kitty and Matt captured, and thrown into a homemade jail, and now she plans on hanging Matt for the execution of her husband 6 years before.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 656
27.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Raid: Part 2
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
When one of the gang is hurt after robbing Dodge, the Doc is taken to patch him up. The posse was preparing to go after them but a new problem has been set they must take care of before they can recover their friend.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 187
28.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Renegades
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Dodge is up in arms about recent raids in the area, which are blamed on Indians, but which Quint is convinced are the work of white renegades.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 213
29.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Zavala
(1968)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
After tracking outlaw brothers into Mexico, Marshal Dillon kills the notorious bandit Jurato and others. His actions start a deadly chain reaction while a 13-year-old boy named Paco and his mother try to keep the wounded marshal around.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, James Arness
Votes: 222
30.
How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
Episode:
The Enemy
(1979)
16+ | 99 min | Drama, Western
Zeb joins a group of soldiers assigned to bring Two Bears back to the fort in hopes of ending Indian attacks on wagons passing west. The group is led by Lt. Ayeless who is fresh out of West Point and clashes with Zeb.
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb
Votes: 91
31.
How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
Episode:
The Judge
(1978)
16+ | 90 min | Drama, Western
Jessie and Teel-O have a fateful encounter with Teel-O's grandfather. While scouting for water, Luke comes to the rescue of Judge Rensen, who offers to seek a pardon for Luke's criminal ... See full summary »
Directors: Bernard McEveety, Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb
Votes: 59
32.
How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
Episode:
Orville Gant
(1978)
16+ | 90 min | Drama, Western
With the sheriff's son held hostage by Flint, the robbery goes forward, leaving two men dead. Jessie's condition worsens as the doctor can't help her. Zeb's and Beth's accounts of her ... See full summary »
Directors: Bernard McEveety, Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb
Votes: 64
33. Wide Wide World (1955–1958)
90 min | Documentary
Using 40 cameras and 12 mobile vans, this live Sunday afternoon program broadcast events in North America, the Caribbean and Europe. The show alternated with other programs during its run. ... See full summary »
Stars: Dave Garroway, Gary Cooper, Ira Hayes, Maria Tallchief
Votes: 23
34.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
A Hat
(1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A badly wounded mountain man kills the son of a powerful rancher in self defense and flees to Dodge, where Dillon provides protection for him against the father and his gang.
Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, James Arness
Votes: 204
35.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
A Matter of Honor
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Louie Pheeters is convicted of killing a man when he cannot remember the circumstance of that night. Facing five years in prison, Louie has one last chance to set the record straight.
Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor
Votes: 179
36.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Blue Horse
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Western
Seriously injured Matt faces a moral dilemma when Blue Horse saves his life and prevents the escape of a prisoner. The Marshal knows that Blue Horse is being sought by the Cavalry as a ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Gene Nelson
Votes: 199
37.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Cotter's Girl
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 296
38.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Crooked Mile
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Mr. Degler is determined to break up the romance between his adult daughter and half Indian Quint, so he sends for his cousin Praylie to help out, but Praylie has murder in mind instead.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 226
39.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Drago
(1971)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
An aging mountain man reluctantly agrees to join the posse pursuing a murderous outlaw gang, but his real intent is to exact murderous vengeance on the men that murdered his female benefactor.
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 189
40.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Durham Bull
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Little Bit and his grandpa, from Texas, are passing through Dodge after buying a breeding bull. When they meet Silva, someone grandpa considers a "fooler", they have their hands full making it back with their stock and their lives.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 223
41.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Gone Straight
(1957)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
When Matt serves a warrant in another town for a wanted man, there are two men answering the possible suspect's description, and they both have gone totally straight.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Carl Betz, Marianne Stewart
Votes: 193
42.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
My Father, My Son
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Fast gunman Jim Barrett kills a man in self defense. Now the man's father and brothers are gunning for him, in addition to a young man who wants Barrett dead for a different reason.
Director: Robert Totten | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 189
43.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
No Indians
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Western
Matt strongly suspects that it is actually white men who are responsible for a murderous series of "Indian raids" that have terrorized prairie-dwelling families.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 240
44.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Tail to the Wind
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Western
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.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 221
45.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Ten Little Indians
(1965)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Someone has placed a fabulous price on Matt's head, and there are many competing to earn it.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 215
46.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Fourth Victim
(1974)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Dillon has to find and stop a serial sniper in Dodge who has been killing one man per night with a silencer equipped .30 caliber rifle.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor
Votes: 186
47.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Guitar
(1956)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
Weed Pindle is a friendly guitar player in Dodge, but when certain cowboys find out he fought for a particular division of the Union Army, they become set on trying to hang him.
Director: Harry Horner | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Aaron Spelling
Votes: 255
48.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Hunger
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Matt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially are kept as prisoners by the farmer and his son.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Elen Willard
Votes: 245
49.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Magician
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 222
50.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Round Up
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Western
Matt goes on a rampage to close down Front Street after he accidentally shoots and kills his old friend (and temporary deputy) while trying to defend himself from a sneak attack by a murderous saloonkeeper.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 268