Gunsmoke es una serie de drama de televisión y radio estadounidense ambientada en el Oeste. Creada por el director Norman MacDonnell y el guionista John Meston, la historia tiene lugar en Dodge City, Kansas y sus alrededores, durante la colonización del oeste americano. El personaje principal es el sheriff Marshal Matt Dillon, interpretado por James Arness.
La serie cuenta con 20 temporadas entre 1955 y 1975 y fue la serie estadounidense de drama más larga con 635 episodios. In 2010, Ley y Orden batió este récord de 20 temporadas. Al final de su transmisión en 1975, el columnista de Los Angeles Times, Cecil Smith, escribió: "Gunsmoke ha sido la dramatización de la legenda épica del oeste americano. Nuestra propia Odisea e Ilíada, creada con los elementos básicos de una novela de bajo presupuesto del oeste".
Cow Doctor 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-09-08
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows,a human patient of Doc's dies. Durning a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed.
Brush at Elkader 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-09-15
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: After his friend Ben Williams is shot down by Lou Shippen, Matt travels to Elkader to bring him him. The only problem, he doesn't know what he looks like and the town is protecting Shippen.
Custer 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-09-22
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial.
The Round Up 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-09-29
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.
Young Man with a Gun 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-10-20
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year old brother arrives to fight Matt.
Indian White 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-10-27
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: At Fort Dodge, home of the third cavalry, Mrs. Mary Cullen tells the colonel that the twelve year old white boy they recovered from the Cheyenne is her son Dennis. The tribe had taken him when he was two years old.
How to Cure a Friend 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-11-10
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt is used by an old friend (Andrew Duggan) in a con game (Simon Oakland appears).
Legal Revenge 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-11-17
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Doc comes upon a homesteader (Philip Bourneuf) with a busted leg and a gun to protect himself from his wife (Cloris Leachman).
The Mistake 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-11-24
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender', but referred to by Chester as 'Sam Noonan').
Greater Love 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-12-01
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: An outlaw (Claude Akins) threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy (Frank de Kova and Amzie Strickland appear).
No Indians 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-12-08
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws (including Mickey Simpson) that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians (Fintan Meyler and Herbert Rudley appear).
Spring Term 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-12-15
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating (Stanley Adams, Jack Kruschen, Paul Newlan, Harry Townes, and H. M. Wynant appear).
Poor Pearl 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-12-22
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt helps a woman (Constance Ford) whose suitors (including Denver Pyle) are about to duel for her affections.
Cholera 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1956-12-29
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear).
Pucket's New Year 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-01-05
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: An old buffalo hunter (Edgar Stehli) swears revenge on the skinner (Grant Withers) that left him to die (Richard Deacon appears as banker Botkin, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender').
The Cover Up 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-01-12
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear).
Sins of the Father 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-01-19
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).
Kick Me 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-01-26
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears).
Executioner 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-02-02
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: A young gunfighter, Tom Clegg, forces farmer Abe Curry into a duel and kills him. Matt can't arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abe's brother Morgan plots revenge. Morgan, who is unarmed, follows Clegg constantly. Clegg soon grows tired of it and attempts to take care of his ""problem.""
Gone Straight 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-02-09
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear).
Bloody Hands 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-02-16
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Lawrence Dobkin, Russell Johnson, and Gloria Marshall appear).
Skid Row 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-02-23
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her.
Sweet and Sour 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-03-02
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kitty's negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, 4 men are dead and Rena is the cause.
Cain 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-03-09
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.
Bureaucrat 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-03-16
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.
Last Fling 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-03-23
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.
Chester's Murder 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-03-30
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Chester is drinking at the Long Branch and gets into an argument with a gambler over a girl. When the marshal breaks it up, he tells Chester to bring the man to jail. On the way there the man is killed and everyone thinks Chester did it. Matt has to prove Chester is innocent.
The Photographer 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-04-06
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Dodge City meets a Photographer who shows the residents how a camera works. Jacoby wants to take pictures of how the Wild West looks. When Matt learns someone died, he thinks the photographer may have hired someone to kill Grubby for a picture of the west.
Wrong Man 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-04-13
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: A cowboy vows revenge for the shooting of his friend, who was mistaken for a criminal (Don Keefer and Catherine McLeod, real-life husband and wife, appear as a husband and wife).
Big Girl Lost 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-04-20
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Philip Locke is looking for Laura Simmons, a saloon girl, but she doesn't want him to know where she works. Laura tells Matt that she and Philip were previously engaged, and she asks him not to say anything about her job. Philip warns Matt that he will be killed if he doesn't tell the truth.
What the Whiskey Drummer Heard 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-04-27
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Sam').
Cheap Labor 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-05-04
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight.
Moon 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-05-11
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: After Charlie Brewer is found dead, Jack Salter who was a friend of Charlie Brewer comes to Matt's office saying Vint killed Brewer. Matt then tries to find out if Jack is right.
Who Lives by the Sword 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-05-18
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed.
Uncle Oliver 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-05-25
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears).
Daddy-O 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-06-01
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Kitty's father, Wayne Russell, arrives in Dodge to meet his daughter after abandoning her and her mother as a baby. He insists that saloon life is not fit for a proper lady and wants to take her back to New Orleans so he can pamper her and invest her savings in his freight business.
The Man Who Would Be Marshal 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-06-15
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: A former Army Officer wants Matt Dillon's job. Matt then takes Mr. Egan on his rounds. Matt lets Egan try his brand of justice that almost costs Egan his life.
Liar from Blackhawk 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-06-22
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: A braggart tries to provoke a gunfight with a harmless drunk.
Jealousy 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 1957-07-06
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Jack Kelly plays a hot-tempered husband who thinks Matt is after his wife.
