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.
Air date: 1969-09-22
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Outlaw Yancy Tyce and his outlaw gang try to free Tyce's younger brother now under arrest and being taken to Dodge by Matt.
Air date: 1969-09-29
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Former Dodge Marshal Josh Stryker arrives in town just being released from prison for killing a outlaw in cold blood. He holds Matt responsible for the loss of his arm and the years he spent in prison.
Air date: 1969-10-06
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Matt is summoned to Coreyville, a run-down cowtown, by a young woman whose brother is on trial for murder.
Air date: 1969-10-13
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: An old friend of Kitty's learns he is dying comes to Dodge to try to ""go out in style"".
Air date: 1969-10-20
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A white woman refuses to accept her half-breed son, who Festus brings to her home wounded and needing help.
Air date: 1969-10-27
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Abelia, the young widow who once saved Festus' life, returns. She learns that she isn't a widow when her outlaw husband appears and forces her to exchange his stolen gold for cash.
Air date: 1969-11-03
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Matt, his hardened prisoner Charlie Noon, an Indian woman and her white stepson are tracked by the Comanches as they try to cross the desert. The Indians are going to kill all of them unless Matt hands over the woman, because she left the Comanche leader years before.
Air date: 1969-11-10
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Festus gets mixed up with Merry Florene and her hillbilly clan again as they try to hide a moonshining still and a stolen prize bull in the cellar of the local school.
Air date: 1969-11-17
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Louie Pheeters is found at the scene of a murder, the dying man's last words implicate the town alcoholic, who is too drunk to remember what he had just seen.
Air date: 1969-11-24
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Festus acts as guide and driver for a Eastern missionary teacher on route to her first assignment. The only problem is trying to stay ahead of a murderous hillbilly family following them and planning a ambush.
Air date: 1969-12-01
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: In an attempt to help his blind daughter, farmer Ben Hurley steals horses for an outlaw gang. Deputy Newly O'Brien arrives at his farm investigating, followed by the outlaws.
Air date: 1969-12-08
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Ex-guman Jake MacGraw arrives in Dodge after spending 20 years in prison. The townspeople think he has come for revenge.
Air date: 1969-12-15
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Amos Sadler, a dirt farmer faces the loss of his home when a panic closes down the Dodge City bank. To save it he and his wife plan to break into it and steal some money.
Air date: 1969-12-29
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A scoundrel tries to con three nuns.
Air date: 1970-01-05
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Sergeant Holly, a alcoholic loving veteran is getting ready to retire. Just hours before it, a Apache prisoner in his custody escapes with Kitty as a hostage, forcing the Sergeant to go AWOL to get the prisoner back.
Air date: 1970-01-12
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: An orphan steals from Matt but could risk his own life when he tries to help out in an ambush.
Air date: 1970-01-19
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: The feund between Noah Haimes and Clete Bloden gets very bad as romance begins between Haime's son & Bloden's daughter.
Air date: 1970-01-26
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Doc Adams's old friend is thought to be a thief.
Air date: 1970-02-02
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.
Air date: 1970-02-09
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: After a Bank teller tries to foil a bank robber the bank teller takes some money which could cause trouble.
Air date: 1970-02-16
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Matt must rescue a teenage girl from indians and bring her back to her family.
Air date: 1970-02-23
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A friend of Newly's is about the victim of a con game.
Air date: 1970-03-02
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: With Matt out helping the Army deliver a gold shipment, Dodge is wide open for Morgan and his men to come in with a Gatlin gun and take over. Breaking into the Long Branch, Morgan is helping himself to whiskey when Kitty shoots him hitting him in the shoulder and the face. With Matt and the gold on the way and Morgan sitting with a big gun and a fever and a crazy streak from the permanent scar he's gonna have, Dodge can only wait to see what comes next.
Air date: 1970-03-09
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Sam takes a special interest in Eric Tabray, who is running around in a gang committing crimes in Dodge.
Air date: 1970-03-16
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: An ex-convict wants revenge against the partner that ran out on him.
Air date: 1970-03-23
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: After an outlaw becomes a victim of his own gang he tries to Matt bring in the gang that made him a victim.
