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1. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Matt Gets It (1955)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Matt is critically wounded while attempting to arrest super-fast gunman Dan Grat. Grat runs rampant in Dodge while Matt recovers, but is unpleasantly surprised when the recovered marshal challenges him again.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 488

2. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Hot Spell (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Temperatures are high, tempers are short, and Matt is unenviably duty-bound to protect despicable gunman Cope Borden from being lynched by a group of normally law-abiding and hard-working ranchers and cowhands.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, John Dehner

Votes: 332

3. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Word of Honor (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Doc is sworn to secrecy to protect a cruel gang guilty of murder.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Robert Middleton

Votes: 279

4. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Home Surgery (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

The frightened teenage daughter of a rancher enlists Matt to attempt to save her father's life by amputating his gangrenous leg.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Joe De Santis, Gloria Talbott

Votes: 292

5. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Obie Tater (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 281

6. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Night Incident (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Matt is dubious of young Timmy Wyatt's stories concerning nighttime robberies and assaults, but he agrees to investigate and is surprised by what he discovers.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Peter J. Votrian

Votes: 262

7. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Smoking Out the Nolans (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Matt has the unpleasant task of evicting some squatters from a rancher's land, but the squatters claim the rancher sold the land to them legally.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 254

8. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Kite's Reward (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Dillon takes away the gun of Andy Travis after he kills a man in self defense, figuring no one will challenge an unarmed man to a gunfight, but it's an action that might prove to be very costly.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 242

9. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Hunter (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Marshal Dillon has to keep bullying buffalo hunter Jase Murdock from traveling south into Indian territory on a hunt for hides. Murdock's plan to trespass and wantonly massacre buffalo promises to spark an uprising.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, Peter Whitney

Votes: 234

10. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Queue (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Two men cut off a Chinese immigrant's pigtail, and he tells Matt that he can return home to China only with the pigtail or by taking the lives of the men who stole it.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 251

11. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: General Parsley Smith (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

An inveterate liar is loudly insistent that Dodge City's new banker is a swindler who will abscond with the townspeople's savings at his earliest opportunity.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Raymond Bailey

Votes: 233

12. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Magnus (1955)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Chester is concerned when his nomadic and "uncivilized" brother pays a Christmas visit to Dodge, but Magnus Goode proves worldlier and more adaptable to town life than anyone thought possible.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 300

13. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Reed Survives (1955)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Booth Rider is being played for a sucker by the wife of the ranch owner he works for, in the hopes that he will have to kill her husband in self defense.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 277

14. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Professor Lute Bone (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Professor Bone is a well meaning medicine man who shows up in Dodge selling an elixir with potentially deadly side effects.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 223

15. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: No Handcuffs (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Hank Springer who claims the sheriff of Mingo framed him for murder, escapes from Matt's jail, wrongly believing he has killed a deputy in the process, and now has the intention of killing the apparently corrupt sheriff.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Vic Perrin

Votes: 221

16. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Reward for Matt (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A woman puts a price on Matt's head after he shoots down her husband.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 240

17. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Robin Hood (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Holdup man John Henry Jordan repeatedly escapes conviction by robbing only the wealthy and sparing poorer persons who are potential witnesses against him. His luck runs out when Matt's efforts force him to victimize ordinary citizens.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 215

18. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Yorky (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A young white boy, taken hostage years earlier by the Pawnee, must steal from or kill a white in order to be accepted by the tribe as a brave.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Jeffrey Silver, Howard Petrie

Votes: 224

19. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: 20-20 (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Troy Carver is an aging ex lawman with poor eyesight being chased by a dirt farmer who wants revenge for the killing of his brother 2 years before.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 210

20. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Reunion '78 (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Long Branch hostess Belle Archer sees Jerry Shand shoot a former Quantrill Raider dead in self defense, but refuses to say so, and now he faces a murder trial.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 202

21. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Helping Hand (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Matt saves suspected 18 year old cattle thief Steve Elser, from a would be lynch group, and tries to help him find a job, but discovers he might be a hopeless case.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 197

22. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Tap Day for Kitty (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Matt suspects Kitty of shooting and wounding an old man who attempted to abduct her in hopes of forcing her to marry him.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 224

23. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Indian Scout (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Amos Cartwright is an Indian scout for the army and is suspected of deliberately allowing his troop to be ambushed by the Comanches, and now the brother of one of the dead soldiers is planning to kill him.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 207

24. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Pest Hole (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

When an epidemic of typhoid fever hits Dodge, some citizens want to take the law into their own hands against the person suspected as the carrier of the disease.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 236

25. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Big Broad (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A large woman and her small companion bring trouble to Kitty's saloon, as the woman has a way of causing guns to be drawn.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 229

26. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Hack Prine (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Far from Dodge and without a horse Matt Dillon still manages to bring in Lee Timble...a man wanted for murder. Lee's brother Dolph swears that he'll get him out. Meanwhile, an old friend of... See full summary »

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 254

27. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Cooter (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

After Matt exposes gambler Ben Sissle as a cheat, Sissle attempts to exact revenge by giving brain-damaged Cooter Smith a gun and telling the marshal that Cooter plans to challenge him to a gunfight.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 234

28. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Killer (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Matt must go to extreme lengths to stop the killing spree of a psychopathic murderer who provokes gunfights with cowboys, farmers, and others who he knows have no chance against him.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 255

29. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Doc's Revenge (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A stranger comes to Dodge, and Doc bewilders and dismays Chester and Matt by arming himself and vowing to kill the man.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Chris Alcaide

Votes: 193

30. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Preacher (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A brutal prize fighter who has been punching on a meek preacher, kidnaps him and tells Dillon he will beat the man to death.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 220

31. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: How to Die for Nothing (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Trail herder Howard Bulow swears to shoot Marshal Dillon in the back after he kills his drunken brother in self-defense.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Mort Mills

Votes: 200

32. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Dutch George (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Dutch George runs a large horse theft operation. The law can't touch him because others take the risk. He makes a big mistake when he personally steals one horse for himself.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, Robert Middleton

Votes: 202

33. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Prairie Happy (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Matt tries to quell rumors of a planned Pawnee attack.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, Robert Ellenstein

Votes: 200

34. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Chester's Mail Order Bride (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Chester has been writing to a mail-order bride who is now coming to Dodge to marry him. What Chester has neglected to tell Matt and Doc is that the picture he sent her wasn't his but the marshal's.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 234

35. 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: 253

36. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Cara (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

An old flame of Matt's comes to town, but her presence in Dodge may be motivated by more than sentiment.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 190

37. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Mr. and Mrs. Amber (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A struggling prairie couple endures harassment and torment at the hands of the wife's self-righteous brother.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 178

38. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Unmarked Grave (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

A distraught middle-aged woman becomes determined to aid a young murderer in Matt's custody after she learns of her own son's violent death and unceremonious burial on Boot Hill.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 230

39. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Alarm at Pleasant Valley (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

While on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester help homesteaders besieged by Indians.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Lew Brown, Helen Wallace

Votes: 206

40. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Cow Doctor (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Doc is called to a farm to treat a sick farmer, who has always hated doctors.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 230

41. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Brush at Elkader (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Matt must resort to trickery after he and Chester trail psychopathic killer Lou Shippen to a small town whose citizenry is so frightened of Shippen that they refuse to even point him out.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 212

42. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Custer (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

"Rough justice" awaits cocksure Army deserter Joe Trimble after a civilian jury wrongly acquits him of murder and the Army forgoes prosecution in favor of returning him to his unit.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 215

43. 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: 267

44. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Young Man with a Gun (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

After Matt beats fast gun and braggart Sam Kircher in a gunfight, Kircher's inexperienced teen brother comes to town and tells Matt he will learn to use a gun, and then kill him.

Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 194

45. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Indian White (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

When a twelve-year-old Cheyenne prisoner is brought to Dodge by the Cavalry, a woman claims it's her son, who the tribe kidnapped many years earlier.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 191

46. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: How to Cure a Friend (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Matt is put in a difficult position by the arrival of Nick Search, an old friend who has since become a gambler with a fast draw and a reputation for dishonesty.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 174

47. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Legal Revenge (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Doc comes upon a new homesteader confined to bed with a badly infected leg and a gun under the bedclothes for protection against his wife.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Cloris Leachman

Votes: 229

48. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Mistake (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

When a man suspected of murder can't establish his alibi, Matt arrests the man. After the prisoner draws a gun on Chester and escapes, evidence suggests he might not be guilty.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 204

49. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Greater Love (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Killer Jed Butler takes Doctor Adams hostage to help his dying partner, and learns the true meaning of love for a friend, when Matt risks his life to rescue the good doctor.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 218

50. 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: 239

51. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Spring Term (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A man is shot on the streets of Dodge, and Matt realizes that the shot was meant for him.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 186

52. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Poor Pearl (1956)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

A saloon gal past her youth suddenly receives two marriage proposals, one from a sweet country bumpkin, one from a menacing dandy, but it's no embarrassment of riches: each suitor threatens violence if she selects his rival.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 223

53. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Cholera (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A landowner's attempt to evict homesteaders is helped by a cholera outbreak.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Peg Hillias

Votes: 186

54. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Pucket's New Year (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A man, abandoned and permanently crippled by the cold on the prairie, is rescued by Matt and Chester and struggles to find a purpose.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 194

55. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Cover Up (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Matt jails the wife-abusing Sam Baxton on suspicion of murdering two squatters on his land, but after Baxton gets locked up, a third squatter is murdered.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 174

56. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Sins of the Father (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A white man and his Indian wife, passing through Dodge, become targets of violence after it is learned that the wife's father led deadly raids against white settlers.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 200

57. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Kick Me (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

A bank robber murders his partner and comes to Dodge with his terrified wife, hoping to keep a low profile, but an Indian he once humiliated won't let him be.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, Robert H. Harris

Votes: 207

58. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Executioner (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Grief-stricken rancher Morgan Curry proves willing to go to any length necessary to get revenge after cocksure gunman Tom Clegg kills his brother Abe in a needlessly provoked gunfight.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 177

59. 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: 192

60. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Bloody Hands (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 214

61. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Skid Row (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

When a lady comes to town looking for her betrothed, Matt takes it upon himself to sober up the man, who, in his fiancée's absence, has become the town drunk.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 205

62. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Sweet and Sour (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Violence and tragedy result when Matt and Chester persuade a reluctant Kitty to hire flirtatious Rena Decker as a Long Branch hostess.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 184

63. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Cain (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Told he has only two months to live, a man is determined to avenge the suicide of a young woman by killing the womanizer he blames for her death.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 187

64. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Bureaucrat (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A government official from Washington warns Matt that he will relieve him of his duties if he does not start using a firmer hand in Dodge.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 179

65. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Last Fling (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Miss Kitty is suspected of taking a shot at drunkard John Peavy for harassing her earlier, and shortly thereafter someone fires a shot at her.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, Florenz Ames

Votes: 212

66. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Chester's Murder (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

When the drunkard whom Chester escorts to jail is shot dead, Chester is suspected of the murder.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 198

67. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Photographer (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Professor Jacoby is a photographer from back East in Dodge, willing to do anything for a picture, even to the point of committing murder.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 204

68. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Wrong Man (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Sam Rickers shot a man dead in the back to try and claim a $1,000 reward, but it turns out that the dead man was never wanted by the law.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 187

69. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Big Girl Lost (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A saloon gal's old beau is in town, and she expects trouble when he finds out where she is working.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 189

70. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: What the Whiskey Drummer Heard (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A weird whiskey drummer named Wilbur Hawkins makes a claim to Matt that he overheard a man making a offer to pay 300 dollars to kill him, and shortly thereafter an attempt is made on Matt's life.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 178

71. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Cheap Labor (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A man wants to marry a woman whose brother may be willing to resort to violence to keep her from leaving home.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Andrew Duggan

Votes: 203

72. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Moon (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Vint is a crooked card dealer being watched by a gunman hired by a card player to make sure he can not cheat, so he resorts to murder and robbery to recover his losses.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 170

73. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Who Lives by the Sword (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Despicable gunman Joe Delk provokes Lew and Billy Baxter and easily kills the inexperienced young men in gunfights, but Matt's swift and unexpected reaction soon has Delk experiencing nightmares and self-doubt.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 212

74. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Uncle Oliver (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Uncle Oliver arrives in town and believes his simpleton nephew would be a good deputy for Matt, instead of Chester.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 176

75. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Daddy-O (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her back to New Orleans with him.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 184

76. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Man Who Would Be Marshal (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Major Emmett Egan has been approved for the job of marshal by the War Department. Matt agrees to let him have his job if Egan shadows him for a week to see if he can handle it.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 173

77. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Liar from Blackhawk (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Hank Shinn is a newcomer in town bragging about his reputation as gunman, but Marshal Dillon suspects he is nothing more than a liar.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 180

78. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Jealousy (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A card dealer, newly married, wants to kill his old friend, Marshal Dillon, when a crooked gambler starts rumors that Dillon is courting the dealer's wife.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 182

79. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Crack-Up (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Gunman Nate Springer arrives in Dodge with the obvious intention of committing murder, but his nervousness and unpredictability make Matt determined to find out who hired him and why he seems so different from his steel-nerved reputation.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 220

80. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Gun for Chester (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Chester claims the new stranger in town is really there to kill him and Matt investigates, but remains skeptical even after Chester is shot in the arm by an unseen person.

Director: Louis King | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 212

81. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Blood Money (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

When Harry Speener learns that the man who saved his life is a wanted fugitive, he kills the man for the reward, then finds out that the people of Dodge don't like those who kill for money.

Director: Louis King | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 192

82. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Kitty's Outlaw (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

While Kitty dines with Matt on the edge of town, Kitty's old beau robs the bank.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 183

83. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Potato Road (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

An addled and desperate prairie family lures Matt and Chester out of town as a preliminary part of their plan for attempting a violent robbery of the Dodge City bank.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Robert F. Simon

Votes: 211

84. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Jesse (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Young and likable Jesse Pruett teams up with an unlikely "partner" in the person of Bill Stapp, a murderous former Quantrill raider. Stapp has promised to lead Jesse to the man who killed ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 182

85. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Mavis McCloud (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

On her way to Dodge to marry, Mavis McCloud sends a telegram to the Marshal of Dodge City. Chester and Doc want to know "Is she coming here to marry Matt" or is something else going on?

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 193

86. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Born to Hang (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Joe Digger is nearly killed by two men who tried to lynch him. Now he is giving Matt until midnight the next day to bring them to jail, or he will track them down and kill them both.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 166

87. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Romeo (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Like Romeo and Juliet, two young people from feuding families fall in love despite the objections of their fiery fathers.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 175

88. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Never Pester Chester (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Matt sets out with a vengeance to capture two trouble-making Texas cowhands who dragged Chester and left him near death.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 245

89. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Fingered (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Losing his first wife when she disappeared, Jim Cobbett tries marriage again. All seemed fine until she turned up missing too. Did he have something to do with her absence as some think he did with his first?

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 181

90. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: How to Kill a Woman (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Matt investigates why a gunman is harassing station master Jesse Daggett by killing his passengers in cold blood, when things reach a climax after a female passenger is shot dead.

Director: John Rich | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Barry Atwater, Pernell Roberts

Votes: 198

91. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Cows and Cribs (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

An impoverished but hardworking woman's plans to adopt an orphan baby are jeopardized when Matt discovers that her improvident husband is involved in cattle rustling.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 189

92. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Doc's Reward (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Doc, on his way to an accident at a local farmhouse, is confronted by a stranger barring his way. When he feels forced to shoot him, he tells Matt to arrest him for it before the marshal's ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 223

93. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Kitty Lost (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Kitty takes a buggy ride with a dandified stranger. When he makes a pass, her spirited rejection of it results in her being left alone on the prairie.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 197

94. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Twelfth Night (1957)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

A feud begun between two families when they lived in the Ozarks continues with fresh bloodshed, and Matt gets caught in the middle.

Director: John Rich | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 194

95. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Joe Phy (1958)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Matt and Chester travel to the small town of Elkader to arrest would-be killer Carey Post, but find they must first expose a bogus U.S. Marshal in order to lure him into town.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 207

96. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Buffalo Man (1958)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Doc finds a half-dead man on the side of the road and tells Matt. Matt and Chester ride out to a buffalo hunter's camp but before they get far, the occupants show up not treating them much better than the man the doc found.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 213

97. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Kitty Caught (1958)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Kitty is taken hostage during a bank robbery and killer Jed Gunther warns everyone not to follow them, or he will use Dillon's gun to kill her.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 192

98. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Claustrophobia (1958)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Matt and Chester find a man shot in the back in his lonely cabin and the immediate suspects are two men who have been trying to force him to sell his land.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 180

99. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Ma Tennis (1958)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

A strong-willed, shotgun-wielding matriarch helps her son escape from Matt's custody, but the Marshal is equally determined to see the young man tried and sentenced for killing an unarmed man.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 207

100. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Sunday Supplement (1958)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

"There's no law west of Dodge." Two writers in from New York want to see if that's true. When a Pawnee Indian uprising seems to be brewing, they may have found their story.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 183



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