Gunsmoke (1955)
TVPG
Drama
Western
Marshal Matt Dillon tries to prevent lawlessness from overtaking Dodge City, with the help of saloon proprietor Miss Kitty Russell and Doc Adams.
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Wednesday, November 26
Twelfth Night
Season 3 • Episode 16
Matt gets caught in the middle when an Ozark-mountain family feud comes to Dodge City.
Wednesday, November 26
Joe Phy
Season 3 • Episode 17
Matt and Chester travel to a small town controlled by a corrupt man.
Wednesday, November 26
Buffalo Man
Season 13 • Episode 21
A trapper pursues the five Army deserters who beat his adopted Indian son and left him to die.
Wednesday, November 26
Kitty Caught
Season 3 • Episode 19
Bank robbers take Kitty hostage and threaten to kill her during an escape.
Wednesday, November 26
Perce
Season 7 • Episode 1
A woman thwarts Matt's efforts to help a former outlaw go straight.
Wednesday, November 26
Old Yellow Boots
Season 7 • Episode 2
An unmarried woman is willing to go to any lengths, including murder, to obtain a man.
Thursday, November 27
Kitty's Injury
Season 5 • Episode 2
Kitty is injured after falling off a horse, and Matt must leave her to get Doc Adams.
Thursday, November 27
Horse Deal
Season 5 • Episode 3
Matt concocts a plan to catch a con man who is stealing horses from unsuspecting folks.
Thursday, November 27
Caleb
Season 9 • Episode 26
A discouraged farmer decides to become a marshal, and finds himself challenged to a duel.
Thursday, November 27
The Violators
Season 10 • Episode 4
Indian-style murders panic the citizens of Dodge, but Matt suspects that all is not as it seems.
Thursday, November 27
Claustrophobia
Season 3 • Episode 20
Land-grabbers try to drive a squatter out of his cabin using violence.
Thursday, November 27
Ma Tennis
Season 3 • Episode 21
A widow goes to great lengths to prevent her son's trial for murder.
Thursday, November 27
Sunday Supplement
Season 3 • Episode 22
Two reporters from New York incite a Pawnee uprising to get a good story.
Thursday, November 27
Wild West
Season 3 • Episode 23
Matt meets a boy on the prairie who claims that his father has been kidnapped.
Thursday, November 27
Miss Kitty
Season 7 • Episode 3
Miss Kitty attempts to keep a young boy from his father, who is a fugitive and a killer.
Thursday, November 27
Harpe's Blood
Season 7 • Episode 4
A strict father thinks one of his sons should hang for committing a murder.
Friday, November 28
Johnny Red
Season 5 • Episode 4
A stranger in town claims to be the long-lost son of a wealthy widow, but Matt knows the truth.
Friday, November 28
Tail to the Wind
Season 5 • Episode 5
A bully and his son harass a farmer for his land, but the farmer is reluctant to have them arrested.
Friday, November 28
Owney Tupper Had a Daughter
Season 9 • Episode 27
A widower loses custody of his daughter; he accepts a job as hangman to earn money to get her back.
Friday, November 28
Doctor's Wife
Season 10 • Episode 5
A new doctor's wife spreads malicious rumors about Doc Adams to get patients to the new practice.
Friday, November 28
The Cabin
Season 3 • Episode 24
During a heavy snowstorm Matt seeks shelter in a prairie cabin and encounters two bank robbers.
Friday, November 28
Dirt
Season 3 • Episode 25
A bride's brother is suspected of killing the groom after the wedding.
Saturday, November 29
P.S.: Murry Christmas
Season 17 • Episode 15
Seven homeless children spend Christmas on their way from a Kansas orphanage to California.
Saturday, November 29
Helping Hand
Season 1 • Episode 21
A belligerent young man tries to make a name for himself by challenging Matt to a street fight.
Saturday, November 29
Tap Day for Kitty
Season 1 • Episode 22
An unwilling Kitty is the target of an elderly rancher's marriage plans.
Saturday, November 29
Indian Scout
Season 1 • Episode 23
Matt and Chester pursue an Indian scout accused of murder into Comanche territory.
Saturday, November 29
The Pest Hole
Season 1 • Episode 24
Doc Adams fights to halt the spread of typhoid fever as well as the panic that accompanies it.
Saturday, November 29
The Big Broad
Season 1 • Episode 25
A meek man is challenged by a hulking hunter for the hand of his 6-foot tall fiancée.
Sunday, November 30
Horse Deal
Season 5 • Episode 3
Matt concocts a plan to catch a con man who is stealing horses from unsuspecting folks.
Sunday, November 30
Hack Prine
Season 1 • Episode 26
Matt arrests a man for murder and becomes the target of a gunman hired by the accused's brother.
Sunday, November 30
Cooter
Season 1 • Episode 27
A gambler uses a mentally disabled man as a pawn when Matt exposes him as a cheat.
Sunday, November 30
The Killer
Season 1 • Episode 28
Matt tries to prove a bully is guilty of murder when he provokes slower men into drawing first.
Sunday, November 30
Hinka Do
Season 5 • Episode 21
Matt investigates a saloon's mysterious new owner, who may have killed the previous owner.
Monday, December 1
Annie Oakley
Season 5 • Episode 6
A man is accused by an attention-starved woman of killing her husband in a fight for her affections.
Monday, December 1
Kangaroo
Season 5 • Episode 7
A religious fanatic seeks violent "justice" against Chester for an imagined sin.
Monday, December 1
A Man Called Smith
Season 15 • Episode 6
An outlaw's return to his homestead to claim some hidden loot leads to nothing but trouble.
Monday, December 1
Charlie Noon
Season 15 • Episode 7
A band of Comanches pursues Matt as he crosses the desert with a prisoner.
Monday, December 1
A Matter of Honor
Season 15 • Episode 9
A man is accused of murder after being found drunk beside a dying man.
Monday, December 1
The Still
Season 15 • Episode 8
A schoolmarm's crooked relatives begin a moonshining operation in Dodge City.
Monday, December 1
The Innocent
Season 15 • Episode 10
A family of thieves takes Festus and a woman schoolteacher hostage in Cimarron territory.
Monday, December 1
Take Her, She's Cheap
Season 10 • Episode 6
A man offers to sell his daughter to Matt, who refuses; trouble ensues when the girl falls for Matt.
Monday, December 1
Dooley Surrenders
Season 3 • Episode 26
A man mistakenly turns himself in for murder, and Matt is determined to find the real killer.
Monday, December 1
Joke's on Us
Season 3 • Episode 27
Ranchers discover they have lynched the wrong man, and someone is getting revenge.
Monday, December 1
Bottleman
Season 3 • Episode 28
A usually harmless drunk tries to attack a Faro dealer from out of town.
Monday, December 1
Laughing Gas
Season 3 • Episode 29
A humiliated bully and his brothers attack a pacifist gunman and his wife.
Monday, December 1
All That
Season 7 • Episode 5
Rancher Cliff Shanks mines life as a gold prospector after personal losses.
Monday, December 1
Long, Long Trail
Season 7 • Episode 6
A young Bostonian is determined to meet her Army officer fiance.
Tuesday, December 2
Saludos
Season 5 • Episode 8
Matt brings three men suspected of an attack on an Indian woman back to Dodge to be identified.
Tuesday, December 2
Brother Whelp
Season 5 • Episode 9
Matt tries to prevent a man from killing after his brother marries his beloved.
Tuesday, December 2
Ring of Darkness
Season 15 • Episode 11
A blind girl hampers Newly's attempts to arrest a horse thief.
Tuesday, December 2
Jake MacGraw
Season 15 • Episode 12
Ex-gunfighter may have ulterior motives when he accepts a job at the Long Branch.
Tuesday, December 2
Roots of Fear
Season 15 • Episode 13
A run on the Dodge City bank forces three desperate farmers to resort to robbery.
Tuesday, December 2
Kitty-Cornered
Season 9 • Episode 29
A mysterious, wealthy new woman in town competes for Kitty's business.
Tuesday, December 2
The Sisters
Season 15 • Episode 14
A neglectful father fakes a change of heart when nuns confront him with custody of his two children.
Tuesday, December 2
The Cage
Season 15 • Episode 26
An outlaw victimized by his own gang agrees to help Matt bring them to justice.
Tuesday, December 2
Help Me Kitty
Season 10 • Episode 7
Kitty tries to help an expectant mother, but the two end up on a perilous journey.
Tuesday, December 2
Texas Cowboys
Season 3 • Episode 30
A murderer blames his act on a passing stranger to get Matt off of his trail.
Tuesday, December 2
Amy's Good Deed
Season 3 • Episode 31
An elderly woman comes to Dodge and tells Matt that he is going to kill her.
Tuesday, December 2
Hanging Man
Season 3 • Episode 32
A killer who hangs his victims is jailed, and his cohorts blackmail Matt for the key.
Tuesday, December 2
Innocent Broad
Season 3 • Episode 33
Matt attempts to save a girl, and goes beyond the scope of his authority.
Tuesday, December 2
The Squaw
Season 7 • Episode 7
A young man is angered when his father takes an Indian woman for his second wife.
Tuesday, December 2
Chesterland
Season 7 • Episode 8
Chester gives up his old life in favor of farming when he falls in love.
Wednesday, December 3
The Boots
Season 5 • Episode 10
A gambler threatens to expose a onetime gunman's questionable past.
Wednesday, December 3
Odd Man Out
Season 5 • Episode 11
Matt suspects foul play after a woman disappears, but her husband claims innocence.
Wednesday, December 3
The War Priest
Season 15 • Episode 15
Kitty is kidnapped by the Apache war priest Gregorio, an escaped cavalry prisoner.
Wednesday, December 3
The Pack Rat
Season 15 • Episode 16
A small orphan first steals from Matt, then sets out to help him in an ambush.
Wednesday, December 3
The Judas Gun
Season 15 • Episode 17
The feud between ranchers is rekindled by their children's romance.
Wednesday, December 3
The Promoter
Season 9 • Episode 30
A farmer leaves behind his old life to seek his fortune in Dodge, but soon finds danger.
Wednesday, December 3
Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.
Season 15 • Episode 18
Doc Adams is determined to see that an old friend accused of thievery is brought to justice.
Wednesday, December 3
The Badge
Season 15 • Episode 19
Kitty, seeing Matt wounded again, closes the Long Branch and leaves Dodge.
Wednesday, December 3
Hung High
Season 10 • Episode 8
Matt is framed for the murder of a convicted killer while transporting the prisoner to be hanged.
Wednesday, December 3
The Big Con
Season 3 • Episode 34
Con men take Doc Adams hostage as they flee Dodge after being accused of defrauding the bank.
Wednesday, December 3
Widow's Mite
Season 3 • Episode 35
A gambler courts a robber's widow who may be able to lead him to loot.
Wednesday, December 3
Chester's Hanging
Season 3 • Episode 36
A jailed murderer's partner tries to break him out so they can both avoid punishment.
Wednesday, December 3
Carmen
Season 3 • Episode 37
Matt has 48 hours to capture the thieves who killed two soldiers while stealing an Army payroll.
Wednesday, December 3
Milly
Season 7 • Episode 9
A 17-year-old tries to find a husband in order to make a better life for her and her brother.
Wednesday, December 3
Indian Ford
Season 7 • Episode 10
When Matt attempts to rescue a girl from a band of Indians, he learns she may not welcome his help.
Thursday, December 4
Miguel's Daughter
Season 5 • Episode 12
Matt races to find an injured girl's attackers when the girl's father threatens to kill them.
Thursday, December 4
Box O' Rocks
Season 5 • Episode 13
When an empty coffin is uncovered, Matt searches for a man who faked his own death.
Thursday, December 4
Albert
Season 15 • Episode 20
A mild-mannered bank teller foils a robber but takes some money for himself.
Thursday, December 4
Kiowa
Season 15 • Episode 21
The abduction of a teenage girl by Indians involves Matt in a long trek to rescue her.
Thursday, December 4
Celia
Season 15 • Episode 22
Newley's best friend becomes the victim of a con game perpetrated by a girl and her partner.
Thursday, December 4
Trip West
Season 9 • Episode 31
A timid bank clerk musters enough courage to live when he believes he is going to die.
Thursday, December 4
Morgan
Season 15 • Episode 23
A psychopathic outlaw takes Dodge City hostage while waiting for an expected gold shipment.
Thursday, December 4
The Thieves
Season 15 • Episode 24
Three teenage boys on probation from the county jail are welcomed in Dodge City -- for a while.
Thursday, December 4
Jonah Hutchison
Season 10 • Episode 9
A man returns to Dodge City after 30 years in prison, ready to take back what was his.
Thursday, December 4
Overland Express
Season 3 • Episode 38
Matt must trust his and others' lives to a murder suspect when they are all held at gunpoint.
Thursday, December 4
The Gentleman
Season 3 • Episode 39
A charismatic gambler falls for a woman with a jealous suitor, and must fight for her.
Thursday, December 4
Matt for Murder
Season 4 • Episode 1
Matt is suspended from his job after being accused of murdering a cattleman's partner.
Thursday, December 4
The Patsy
Season 4 • Episode 2
Matt thinks a man accused of murder is being framed, despite an apparent eyewitness account.
Thursday, December 4
Apprentice Doc
Season 7 • Episode 11
Doc Adams, kidnapped to care for a wounded outlaw, is asked to teach one of his abductors medicine.
Thursday, December 4
Nina's Revenge
Season 7 • Episode 12
An underhanded rancher plots to frame his wife with a hired hand to extort money from her father.
Friday, December 5
False Witness
Season 5 • Episode 14
A murderer is convicted on false testimony, and Matt sets out to prove it.
Friday, December 5
Tag, You're It
Season 5 • Episode 15
Matt must rush to save the life of a woman who is targeted by a hired killer who comes to town.
Friday, December 5
Hackett
Season 15 • Episode 25
A vengeful ex-convict seeks reprisal against a former partner who deserted him.
Friday, December 5
Chato
Season 16 • Episode 1
Matt pursues a renegade Indian who killed his friend into the New Mexico mountains.
Friday, December 5
The Noose
Season 16 • Episode 2
A drifter attempts to lure Doc Adams, Festus and Matt to a ghost town by holding Kitty hostage.
Friday, December 5
Stark
Season 16 • Episode 3
A wealthy rancher's son escapes from prison and is captured by a bounty hunter.
Friday, December 5
Sam McTavish, M.D.
Season 16 • Episode 4
Doc feels threatened when a female doctor arrives to become his replacement.
Friday, December 5
Big Man, Big Target
Season 10 • Episode 10
Matt trails a man suspected of framing a farmer for horse-stealing.
Friday, December 5
Gunsmuggler
Season 4 • Episode 3
Matt investigates unknown smugglers who supplied Pawnee with guns for attacking local ranchers.
Friday, December 5
Monopoly
Season 4 • Episode 4
Matt must bluff to uncover a dangerous murderer who is targeting citizens of Dodge.
Saturday, December 6
Kitty Shot
Season 6 • Episode 22
Matt is ambushed while transporting a prisoner, and Kitty is wounded in the crossfire.
Saturday, December 6
About Chester
Season 6 • Episode 23
Chester is taken prisoner after his horse is injured while he is out looking for Doc Adams.
Saturday, December 6
The Warden
Season 9 • Episode 33
An Indian woman seeks refuge with Festus from the man who bought her.
Saturday, December 6
Doc's Revenge
Season 1 • Episode 29
Doc Adams is arrested for murder after he vows to kill a stranger who comes to Dodge.
Saturday, December 6
The Preacher
Season 1 • Episode 30
Matt substitutes himself to save newcomer Seth Tandy from a beating at the hands of a loud braggart.
Saturday, December 6
How to Die for Nothing
Season 1 • Episode 31
A man swears to avenge his brother, whom Matt killed in self-defense.
Saturday, December 6
Dutch George
Season 1 • Episode 32
Matt has an awkward reunion with Dutch George, an old friend who is currently branded a horse thief.
Sunday, December 7
Johnny Red
Season 5 • Episode 4
A stranger in town claims to be the long-lost son of a wealthy widow, but Matt knows the truth.
Sunday, December 7
Tail to the Wind
Season 5 • Episode 5
A bully and his son harass a farmer for his land, but the farmer is reluctant to have them arrested.
Sunday, December 7
Annie Oakley
Season 5 • Episode 6
A man is accused by an attention-starved woman of killing her husband in a fight for her affections.
Sunday, December 7
Prairie Happy
Season 1 • Episode 33
Matt returns to Dodge City to find the town fearing a Pawnee attack.
Sunday, December 7
Chester's Mail Order Bride
Season 1 • Episode 34
Chester's Eastern pen pal is coming to Dodge to marry him, but he has deceived her.
Sunday, December 7
Harriet
Season 6 • Episode 24
A woman disregards Matt's advice and refuses to testify against the men who killed her father.
Monday, December 8
Thick 'n' Thin
Season 5 • Episode 16
Matt tries to reconcile two ranchers whose partnership is threatened by a quarrel.
Monday, December 8
Groat's Grudge
Season 5 • Episode 17
A Southern man vows to avenge his wife's death at the hands of a Union man.
Monday, December 8
Gentry's Law
Season 16 • Episode 5
A heavy-handed land baron refuses to turn his two sons over to Matt for a crime they have committed.
Monday, December 8
Snow Train
Season 16 • Episode 6
Indians trap Matt, Doc Adams, Festus and others on a train in the mountains.
Monday, December 8
Snow Train
Season 16 • Episode 7
Indians trap Matt as he tries to find help for the freezing passengers of a train.
Monday, December 8
Luke
Season 16 • Episode 8
A seriously wounded outlaw is brought to Dodge before he dies to find his long-neglected daughter.
Monday, December 8
The Gun
Season 16 • Episode 9
A young man kills in self-defense and runs afoul of an unscrupulous reporter.
Monday, December 8
Chicken
Season 10 • Episode 11
A cowboy with a false reputation as a gunfighter must decide whether to fight for a woman.
Monday, December 8
Letter of the Law
Season 4 • Episode 5
A rich landowner tries to have a homesteader and his pregnant wife evicted.
Monday, December 8
Thoroughbreds
Season 4 • Episode 6
An odd stranger comes to Dodge with money and two thoroughbred horses.
Monday, December 8
Stage Hold Up
Season 4 • Episode 7
Matt tries to capture bandits who rob a stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding.
Monday, December 8
Lost Rifle
Season 4 • Episode 8
Matt is reluctant to make an arrest when a friend is accused of murder.
Monday, December 8
Marry Me
Season 7 • Episode 13
A Tennessee mountaineer chooses Kitty to be his bride, and kidnaps her to ensure their union.
Monday, December 8
A Man a Day
Season 7 • Episode 14
Ruthless outlaws threaten to kill a man each day until Matt leaves Dodge City.
Tuesday, December 9
Big Tom
Season 5 • Episode 18
Matt steps in to fight a professional boxer to save a former prizefighter's life.
Tuesday, December 9
Til Death Do Us
Season 5 • Episode 19
A drunken stranger claims he was hired to kill a religious man for reforming dance-hall girls.
Tuesday, December 9
Noonday Devil
Season 16 • Episode 13
Pursued by Marshal Dillon, a Mexican bandit seeks sanctuary with a priest -- his twin brother.
Tuesday, December 9
The Witness
Season 16 • Episode 11
A killer's relatives hold members of a family hostage so they can't testify.
Tuesday, December 9
The Scavengers
Season 16 • Episode 10
To save his own life, a man must falsely accuse a band of Indians of wiping out a wagon train.
Tuesday, December 9
The Other Half
Season 9 • Episode 35
Twins run their father's store until one is murdered; Matt suspects a stranger.
Tuesday, December 9
McCabe
Season 16 • Episode 12
An outlaw grabs a hostage while Matt is trying to arrest him and forces Matt to work out a deal.
Tuesday, December 9
Sergeant Holly
Season 16 • Episode 14
An Army sergeant (Forrest Tucker) is accused of desertion and the theft of an Army payroll.
Tuesday, December 9
Innocence
Season 10 • Episode 12
Two jealous cowboys fight over a new saloon hostess the night before her wedding.
Tuesday, December 9
Land Deal
Season 4 • Episode 9
Trouble results when a con man meets an immigrant's wife outside of Dodge City.
Tuesday, December 9
Lynching Man
Season 4 • Episode 10
Rancher Charlie Drain takes matters into his own hands when traveling cowboys lynch a newcomer.
Tuesday, December 9
How to Kill a Friend
Season 4 • Episode 11
Gamblers unwittingly hire Matt's old friend to protect them from the law.
Tuesday, December 9
Grass
Season 4 • Episode 12
A practical joke quickly turns into a deadly feud between friends.
Tuesday, December 9
The Do-Badder
Season 7 • Episode 15
A gold prospector takes it upon himself to reform the townsfolk of Dodge City.
Tuesday, December 9
Lacey
Season 7 • Episode 16
A young woman confesses that she killed her father because he refused to let her marry a farmhand.
Wednesday, December 10
The Tragedian
Season 5 • Episode 20
Matt befriends and tries to help an actor who is caught cheating at cards.
Wednesday, December 10
Hinka Do
Season 5 • Episode 21
Matt investigates a saloon's mysterious new owner, who may have killed the previous owner.
Wednesday, December 10
Jenny
Season 16 • Episode 15
Newley runs afoul of the law when he releases a dangerous outlaw to visit his 9-year-old daughter.
Wednesday, December 10
Captain Sligo
Season 16 • Episode 16
A middle-aged sea captain gives up sailing and decides to settle near Dodge City.
Wednesday, December 10
Mirage
Season 16 • Episode 17
Festus is lost in the desert and stumbles into a ghost town where he is attacked by a killer.
Wednesday, December 10
Journey for Three
Season 9 • Episode 36
A young ruffian traveling to California causes a girl's accidental death.
Wednesday, December 10
Tycoon
Season 16 • Episode 18
His foray into the freight business nearly results in Festus getting married.
Wednesday, December 10
Jaekel
Season 16 • Episode 19
A released convict (Eric Braeden) comes to claim his long-time pen pal -- a married woman.
Wednesday, December 10
Aunt Thede
Season 10 • Episode 13
Festus' gun-toting aunt arrives in Dodge City and settles right in.
Wednesday, December 10
The Cast
Season 4 • Episode 13
Doc finds himself a target after he is unable to save a friend's wife during surgery.
Wednesday, December 10
Robber Bridegroom
Season 4 • Episode 14
The victim of a stagecoach robbery and kidnapping refuses to testify against her abductor.
Wednesday, December 10
Snakebite
Season 4 • Episode 15
A man wrongfully accused of murder dies before the real killer is found.
Wednesday, December 10
Gypsum Hills Feud
Season 4 • Episode 16
In pursuit of a shooter, Matt and Chester become caught in a blood feud between two families.
Wednesday, December 10
Cody's Code
Season 7 • Episode 17
A wandering trail hand attempts to leave Dodge City with the fiancee of his friend.
Wednesday, December 10
Old Dan
Season 7 • Episode 18
Doc Adams attempts the difficult task of rehabilitating a longtime alcoholic.
Thursday, December 11
Doc Judge
Season 5 • Episode 22
Chester prepares to protect Doc from a gunman who believes that Doc is actually a judge.
Thursday, December 11
Moo Moo Raid
Season 5 • Episode 23
Trail bosses accuse each other when a valuable cow goes missing .
Thursday, December 11
Murdoch
Season 16 • Episode 20
An aging marshal tries to capture outlaws for execution, but finds one of the gang is his son.
Thursday, December 11
Cleavus
Season 16 • Episode 21
A childhood friend of Festus' kills a prospector and then loses his mind.
Thursday, December 11
Lavery
Season 16 • Episode 22
Matt is given the opportunity to return the favor for a cowhand who saved him from an ambush.
Thursday, December 11
Blue Heaven
Season 10 • Episode 1
A cowboy wanted for a murder he didn't commit teams up with a runaway.
Thursday, December 11
Pike
Season 16 • Episode 23
The kindness of an elderly junk dealer (Jeanette Nolan) reforms a young outlaw (Dack Rambo).
Thursday, December 11
Pike
Season 16 • Episode 24
The kindness of an elderly junk-dealer (Jeanette Nolan) reforms a young outlaw (Dack Rambo).
Thursday, December 11
Hammerhead
Season 10 • Episode 14
Festus is challenged to a high-stakes horse race, and some may not be playing by the rules.
Thursday, December 11
Young Love
Season 4 • Episode 17
A murder victim's widow loves one of the men suspected of the crime.
Thursday, December 11
Marshal Proudfoot
Season 4 • Episode 18
Matt, Doc and Kitty resort to deception to make Chester look good in the eyes of his visiting uncle.
Thursday, December 11
Passive Resistance
Season 4 • Episode 19
A non-violent sheepherder refuses to identify the people who burned his house and killed his sheep.
Thursday, December 11
Love of a Good Woman
Season 4 • Episode 20
An ex-con whom Matt wrongly arrested years ago comes to Dodge City to get revenge.
Thursday, December 11
Catawomper
Season 7 • Episode 19
Kate Tassel invites suitors to call to make her old love jealous.
Thursday, December 11
Half-Straight
Season 7 • Episode 20
A gunman's plans to kill Matt go awry when he falls in love and hires someone else to do it.
Friday, December 12
Kitty's Killing
Season 5 • Episode 24
Kitty endangers her life when a man seeks revenge on a rancher.
Friday, December 12
Jailbait Janet
Season 5 • Episode 25
A farmer and his family rob a train when they blame a fire on one the the railroad's locamotives.
Friday, December 12
The Lost
Season 17 • Episode 1
A feral child living in the woods helps Kitty after a stagecoach accident.
Friday, December 12
Phoenix
Season 17 • Episode 2
A convict agrees, upon his release, to kill a man he has never met.
Friday, December 12
Waste
Season 17 • Episode 3
Matt delays pursuing an outlaw to help a boy find his mother.
Friday, December 12
Waste
Season 17 • Episode 4
Matt confronts the outlaw whose pursuit he had delayed to help a boy find his mother.
Friday, December 12
New Doctor in Town
Season 17 • Episode 5
Many Dodge City citizens distrust a doctor (Pat Hingle) filling in for Doc Adams.
Friday, December 12
Double Entry
Season 10 • Episode 15
A businessman's interest in gold shipments raises suspicions in town.
Friday, December 12
Jayhawkers
Season 4 • Episode 21
Matt helps a trail boss escape prairie raiders by escorting his cattle herd to Dodge.
Friday, December 12
Kitty's Rebellion
Season 4 • Episode 22
Kitty objects to a visiting friend's attempts to save her honor.
Saturday, December 13
Potshot
Season 6 • Episode 25
Chester is wounded by an unknown attacker who may be a bank robber.
Saturday, December 13
Old Faces
Season 6 • Episode 26
Tensions build when a gunman taunts the new husband of a former river-boat girl.
Saturday, December 13
Old Man
Season 10 • Episode 3
Danny must help an old man framed for a murder that he didn't commit.
Saturday, December 13
The Guitar
Season 1 • Episode 35
Matt Dillon has a problem in preventing two cowhands from hanging a visiting Texan.
Saturday, December 13
Cara
Season 1 • Episode 36
Matt's old flame comes to town, but she has joined with an outlaw gang.
Saturday, December 13
Mr. and Mrs. Amber
Season 1 • Episode 37
A poor homesteader and his wife turn to murder for revenge against her brother.
Saturday, December 13
Unmarked Grave
Season 1 • Episode 38
Matt tries to prevent a young bank robber and killer's escape from jail before his trial.
Saturday, December 13
Alarm at Pleasant Valley
Season 1 • Episode 39
Matt and Chester help homesteaders fight against renegade Indians.
Sunday, December 14
Kangaroo
Season 5 • Episode 7
A religious fanatic seeks violent "justice" against Chester for an imagined sin.
Sunday, December 14
Saludos
Season 5 • Episode 8
Matt brings three men suspected of an attack on an Indian woman back to Dodge to be identified.
Sunday, December 14
Brother Whelp
Season 5 • Episode 9
Matt tries to prevent a man from killing after his brother marries his beloved.
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