
Gunsmoke (1955)
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Ted Jordan as Burke
Episodes 86
Parson Comes to Town
A mysterious man rides into town and says he is after one of two men responsible for killing his brother. When he starts crowding a stranger in town, Matt must decide how to make sure he doesn't take the law into his own hands.
Read MoreThe Goldtakers
A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
Read MoreThe Good People
A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.
Read MoreThe Whispering Tree
After eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.
Read MoreThe Moonstone
A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
Read MoreChampion of the World
Bull Bannock (Alan Hale), retired heavyweight champion of the world, attempts to make a home for himself in Dodge City, and tries to buy Miss Kitty's Longbranch Saloon.
Read MoreThe Hanging
To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
Read MoreThe Returning
After eight years as a down-on-his-luck farmer, husband & father, and reformed outlaw (Michael Ansara) tries to make ends meet by rejoinning his old gang to rob the Dodge City freight office.
Read MoreNoose of Gold
Deputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able to give himself up.
Read MoreThe Wreckers
With a well earned vacation disturbed by the arrest of a hardened criminal, Matt and Kitty head back to Dodge. The stage they are on is sabotaged and end up wrecking. Kitty is quick witted enough to switch identities between Matt and the prisoner before the outlaws get to them. Thinking Dillon is dying and Matt is really Monk Wiley, they go on planning to extort money from Dodge to get Dillon back alive.
Read MoreVengeance (1)
Part 1: Bob Johnson, Zack Johnson and Floyd Binnes are accused of cattle rustling by Parker a powerful land baron, Floyd is killed while being drug behind a horse, Zack is crippled by a horse stomping his legs and back. Bob is beaten. Once in Dodge Bob meets Angel, while Zack dies of his wounds. Bob in getting revenge taunts Parker's hot-headed son into a gunfight kills him, and plans to go after Parker.
Read MoreHard Luck Henry
A comedic episode. Festus tries to get a box full of gold coins away from his relatives and back to Dodge, the Dooleys who are feuding with the Haggens are also trying to get their hands on the box.
Read MoreThe Pillagers
Kitty and fellow traveling passenger Newly O'Brien are captured by Mexican outlaw Manez and his gang.
Read MorePrairie Wolfer
In an attempt to get money two prairie wolfers steal money from Dolan, a hardened storekeeper, then when one tries to give it back trouble starts.
Read MoreBaker's Dozen
Three baby boys are born on a stagecoach that arrives in Dodge just after being robbed. Their mother dies and Doc fights to keep the boys together instead of going to an orphange.
Read MoreDeadman's Law
While Matt is out of town tracking outlaws, the cattleman's co-op takes over the town putting their own man in charge of the law.
Read MoreNowhere to Run
A teenage burglar involved in a murder is shot and left to die by his partners.
Read MoreA Noose for Dobie Price
Matt and former outlaw Elihu Gorman go after Dobie Price who has just broken jail.
Read MoreUncle Finney
A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.
Read MoreO'Quillian
Leary O'Quillan kills a card cheat in self defense and is pursued to Dodge by the man's brother, Clay Tynan.
Read MoreJohnny Cross
Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
Read MoreThe Money Store
When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.
Read MoreTime of the Jackals
A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.
Read MoreThe Mark of Cain
A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.
Read MoreThe Long Night
Three bounty hunters hold hostages in the Long Branch to get Matt to turn over a prisoner to them.
Read MoreThe Night Riders
Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.
Read MoreThe Intruder
Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Riley's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.
Read MoreThe Prisoner
Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.
Read MoreExodus 21.22
A friend of Matt's, a former lawman arrives in Dodge to kill the men responsible for his wife's death.
Read MoreA Man Called Smith
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.
Read MoreRoots of Fear
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.
Read MoreDoctor Herman Schultz, M.D.
Doc Adams's old friend is thought to be a thief.
Read MoreThe Scavengers
In order for a black man to save his life he must say that indians held up a wagon train.
Read MoreThe Witness
A family is held hostage so they can't testify at the trial of a killer.
Read MoreThe Tycoon
Festus becomes a rich man.
Read MorePike: Part 1
Sally Fergus, called by many in Dodge ""Dirty Sally"" finds young wounded outlaw, Cyrus Pike at her home and nurses him back to health. His partners in a robbery are searching for him and their stolen loot.
Read MorePike: Part 2
Dirty Sally becomes smitten with the outlaw Pike as he continues to heal up and the gang begins tracking Pike down.The friendship between the two grows as Pike is faced with leaving or standing his ground with the gang.
Read MoreNew Doctor in Town
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 has a bone splinter in his brain and needs an operation. Chapman wins the town by performing the operation and saving Newly's life.
Read MoreThe Legend
Ma Colter tries to dissuade her youngest son from following his older brothers into a life of crime.
Read MoreGold Train: The Bullet (1)
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 bullet he could paralyze Matt and he doesn't want to be the one to do it. So, he contacts a surgeon in Denver, and loading Matt in the baggage car of the train, Kitty, Doc, Festus, and Newly all head for Denver along with a Federal gold shipment.
Read MoreThe Predators
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?
Read MoreThe Judgement
A guy comes to Dodge for revenge on a guy who might just deserve it.
Read MoreThe Drummer
Daniel Shay comes to Dodge City as a drummer who peddles rat traps as a way of making money. While Daniel continues to look for buyers of his rat traps, he sees a Cheyenne boy stealing a horse. As he looks on memories of a battle at Rock Creek return.
While having dinner with Sarah Morgan Mr. Shay wonders about Jimmy Morgan's father who died in the Rock Creek massacre, Sarah mentions that the cavalry ran him down.
Read MoreThe Fugitives
Doc Adams comes into The Long Branch just in time to stop Festus from telling one of his long stories, Doc tells of how his day began and then rest before a baby has to be delivered. Now Doc and Festus have to treat the outlaws younger brother. Festus goes to get Matt as Doc is now left alone to treat the victim.
The outlaws are ready for their brother to ride Doc warns that if moved the brother could die. Matt gets there in time to find that Doc is fine, but Festus is bleeding bad. The outlaws brother is dead. Doc tries to get the bullet out of Festus who is weak.
One of the Stalcup outlaws comes back to get his brother Danny. Festus turns out fine only to drive Doc crazy!
Read MoreThe Brothers
One psychotic brother is after Kitty to avenge his brother's death.
Read MoreArizona Midnight
A midget arrives in Dodge City claiming he will turn into an elephant at the stroke of midnight. Arizona begins asking for someone to care for him along with three bales of hay. Everyone finds the story a bit far fetched.
Read MoreHomecoming
Two outlaws head back to Dodge City to visit their mother who doesn't trust her son's. Who claim to want to work the farm and take care of their mother. They intend to take their mother's money along with Doc.
Read MorePatricia
Newly falls in love with a woman he met while tending the injured after a tornado. It doesn't take him long to decide to ask to marry her. Doc notes an odd bruise on her arm and her lack of energy. After an exam he wars with his conscience over whether to tell Patricia that she's got a rare blood disorder. He tells Kitty, Matt, and Newly before he marries her. She dies shortly after in Newly's arms and prompts Newly to go back to studying medicine.
Read MoreWhelan's Men
A former lawman that Dillon put out of business years earlier comes back with a group of men to gun him down. Since Dillon is out of town, they settle in at the Long Branch to play poker and wait. Kitty does the only thing she can do. She bets the entire town's wealth and Matt's life against the outlaw's hand.
Read MoreThe Widow-Maker
A gunfighter wants to forget his past... and wants everyone else to forget it too. Unfortunately for him, this is not easy to accomplish...
Read MoreA Game of Death...An Act of Love (1)
Bear Sanderson tells his wife Cora is coming home but Mrs. Sanderson is unhappy because she hates her marriage Bear whishes his wife dead He soon finds his wish true. Festus is getting deputies to help with the renegades, Doc Adams tells Cora that her home is gone and her mom has died.
Cora asks how her mom died, Newly continues to track the renegades, Matt tells Bear he is sorry for what happened. Matt warns Bear not take the into his own hands because he wants the Indians dead for killing his wife. Cora wants her dad to let the law handle the raids.
Matt hires a lawyer to defend the Indians in jail but doesn't want to take the case, Cora talks to Cicero Wolfe to take the case but he still won't take it. Matt feels that Bear let him down. Baer brings up the time when Kitty was shot and took off his badge and went to find Kitty's attackers alone with hurting Dodge.
Mr. Wolfe takes the case only to tell Matt that he is an Indian and says the case is a sham.
Read MoreThe Hanging of Newly O'Brien
Newly trying to save a hillbilly's life by inserting a tube in their throat loses his patent causing the family members to plan to execute him.
Read MoreThe Foundling
After being forced to shoot a man who is breaking up the Long Branch, Matt goes off to be alone only to find a young girl and a newborn in a cave. Neither she nor her parents want the child, and they send it with Matt. Matt finds the only logical choice, Miss Kitty, to deposit the baby with till something can be done with it. Matt decides to give it to the widow of the man he just killed but doesn't realize that Kitty is willing to sell the Long Branch to keep the baby for herself.
Read MoreDisciple
When a lawman's gun arm is shot up, he's essentially a sitting duck. That's what Matt figures when his ability to shoot again is in doubt. So, he leaves the badge and Dodge behind as well as Kitty, Festus, Doc, and Newly. Like vultures circling, outlaws start coming in to gun Dillon down. But, Dillon is out and about and a new marshal is in town. He meets a young man who is handy with a gun but refuses to shoot any living creature even if it were for his own life. Circumstances prove to both men that sometimes responsibility to duty requires more than just the ability to shoot.
Read MoreThe Fourth Victim
A series of seemingly random killings have the citizens of Dodge City in near panic, but Dillon believes they are part of a pattern in which Doc is slated to be the next target.
Read MoreIsland in the Desert (1)
Festus, in the desert hunting escaped killer Gard Dixon is wounded by the outlaw. He is found by Ben Snow, a half-crazy hermit who has been living in the desert with his gold for many years.
Read MoreThe Hiders
A farmer comes by and asks Sharp where is cow is, Matt tells the milk cow owner that he has no proof to arrest ""the hiders."" The farmer wants to go after them himself. Matt tells the men that will leave Dodge if anyone else complains.
Dink escapes from Carp after being hurt, Festus finds Dink and treats his wounds. Dink tells Festus he likes waking up in the morning, Martha warns Dink to watch for Carp. Carp asks Dink to help kill Festus.
Read MoreI Have Promises to Keep
Festus is caught in the middle when an Eastern preacher (David Wayne) wants to build a church for the Indians and the townspeople to share, but by all of whom that are filled with prejudice.
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