• Air date: 13 Sep '71 24 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.
  • List of Episodes (24)
    • 1. The Lost

      13 Sep '71
      Kitty is in a stage wreck and dazed and confused she sets out in the wild. Meeting up with a wild girl who does not speak, she winds up at a shack where a family takes her and the wild girl hostage. Intent on turning the child into a sideshow, they tie Kitty up but are stopped before they can get too far.
    • 2. Phoenix

      20 Sep '71
      After convict wants to kill a man he has never seen before after he gets out of prison.
    • 3. Waste (1)

      27 Sep '71
      Matt helps a young boy find his mom while finding an outlaw.
    • 4. Waste (2)

      04 Oct '71
      Matt helps a young boy find his mom while finding an outlaw.
    • 5. New Doctor in Town

      11 Oct '71
      Dr. Chapman is arrested by Festus when he tries to sleep in Doc's office even though he has explained that Doc went to Baltimore to hone his medical skills. A letter explains that Doc felt so badly about a little girl's death that he could have prevented if he had been more in tune with modern medicine, that he had to leave. Not many in town are very cordial to Dr. Chapman and when Newly's shop blows up with Newly and Festus in it, they dislike him even more. Festus is all right, but Newly ha
    • 6. The Legend

      18 Oct '71
      Ma Colter tries to dissuade her youngest son from following his older brothers into a life of crime.
    • 7. Trafton

      25 Oct '71
      Matt is out to find a gunfigther who killed two people.
    • 8. Lynott

      01 Nov '71
      A former Marshall helps Matt by filling in for Matt, after he is wounded and sent to bed so he can rest.
    • 9. Lijah

      08 Nov '71
      A jury has the fate of a mountain man in it's hands.
    • 10. My Brother's Keeper

      15 Nov '71
      While trying to hide from a storm Festus finds old Indian is about to die. Festus keeps trying to stop the indian from dying.
    • 11. Drago

      22 Nov '71
      Drago wants to find the person who killed a woman who helped him.
    • 12. Gold Train: The Bullet (1)

      29 Nov '71
      A hidecutter starts trouble in the Long Branch and Matt comes to the rescue throwing him out of town. When Festus goes up to fetch Dr. Chapman, he finds the old scudder there himself. Offering to buy Doc a drink, he can't resist and they surprise everyone down at the Long Branch. While they are all excited to see Doc, Matt is out checking the town and ends up shot in the back by the hidecutter he just threw out. Doc's homecoming is ruined when he realizes that if he tries to remove the bulle
    • 13. Gold Train: The Bullet (2)

      06 Dec '71
      As the train moves along to Denver we meet several passengers. One is a Pinkerton man handcuffed to Beth Tilton, a woman who doesn't want to go back to Colorado to her husband. The other, Allie Dawson, is a young girl that Newly befriends who does not believe in violence. The train is taken over by Jack Sinclair, an old enemy of Matt's. Matt had shot his hand off before sending him to prison. Making it look like Matt is a dead body in the baggage car, he is safe for now with Doc standing gua
    • 14. Gold Train: The Bullet (3)

      13 Dec '71
      The conclusion to this three parter. Dillon kills the guard that was gunning for him and the passengers take the train back over. The only problem, all the fuel has been destroyed so they have to get more fast. Festus and Newly are still out with the gold leading the men from the train on foot. Dillon's legs are numb and Doc has no choice but to operate whether he cripples him or not. Leaving the gold shipment and taking the mules, Newly and Festus head back to the train to try to get it go
    • 15. P.S. Murry Christmas

      27 Dec '71
      The meanest outlady in the US is coming to Dodge, at least that's what Festus has heard, but it's really Emma Grundy out to retrieve her seven orphans from Titus Spangler and take them back to the orphanage where they belong. The town finds it ludicrous that these children have never had a Christmas and plan on putting one on in the Long Branch. The problem arises when Mrs. Grundy arrives, and she has her own personal reasons for not giving the children Christmas. Kitty steps in to solve the
    • 16. No Tomorrow

      03 Jan '72
      Ben Justin must try and clear his name of false charges.
    • 17. Hidalgo

      10 Jan '72
      After Matt is hurt, He makes friends who must help him stay alive.
    • 18. Tara

      17 Jan '72
      Newly falls in love with a woman who could put him in danger, once her past is known.
    • 19. One for the Road

      24 Jan '72
      Lucius's daughter wants her dad locked up so she and Tom can have the estate. Judge Broker thinks Mr. Prince is sane and Mr. Prince proves he can be a dad.
    • 20. The Predators

      31 Jan '72
      A former gunfighter returns to Dodge which worries Matt because Howard Cane was the one to survive the rage war. Can Matt stop him before more trouble comes to Dodge?
    • 21. Yankton

      07 Feb '72
      A drifter wants to marry the rich family's daughter
    • 22. Blind Man's Buff

      21 Feb '72
      A man gets shot, loses his memory, and gets taken in by a lonely woman
    • 23. Alias Festus Haggen

      06 Mar '72
      Festus is mistaken for a killer.
    • 24. The Wedding

      13 Mar '72
      A father disapproves of the man her daughter marries.