Gunsmoke Season 4

September. 13,1958      TV-G
Rating:
8.1
Trailer Synopsis

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.

Episode 39 : Cheyennes
June. 13,1959
Matt seeks the help of wise Chief Long Robe to track down gunrunners who are supplying renegade Cheyenne braves with rifles used to murder prairie-dwelling families. Long Robe provides Matt with the needed information, but warns him that the death of even a single brave could lead to a violent uprising.
Episode 38 : Blue Horse
June. 06,1959
Seriously injured Matt faces a moral dilemma when Blue Horse saves his life and prevents the escape of a prisoner. The Marshal knows that Blue Horse is being sought by the Cavalry as a fugitive from a reservation, and he is well aware that he is duty-bound to assist their search in any way possible.
Episode 37 : The Constable
May. 30,1959
Dodge City's businessmen learn a hard lesson when they reject Matt's advice and hire a meek constable to handle a gang of rowdy but free-spending trail cowboys.
Episode 36 : Print Asper
May. 23,1959
Print Asper is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him, and the lawyer still ends up getting shot later by someone.
Episode 35 : There Was Never a Horse
May. 16,1959
Gunman Kin Creed arrives in Dodge determined to enhance his reputation by outdrawing Matt in a gunfight. He goes to great lengths to force Matt into a confrontation and is able to wound him, but it proves to be a pyrrhic victory.
Episode 34 : The Choice
May. 09,1959
Matt tries to help Andy Hill, a young gunman who is apparently trying very hard to go straight, by getting him a job riding shotgun on the stagecoach.
Episode 33 : Buffalo Hunter
May. 02,1959
Marshal Dillon has to stop a ruthless, cold-blooded, greedy, buffalo hunter who is in the habit of brutally killing his hired help to avoid paying them their wages.
Episode 32 : Change of Heart
April. 25,1959
Matt becomes suspicious when Jerry Cass's plans to marry saloon hostess Bella Grant are complicated by Bella's sudden insistence that Jerry leave his recently-inherited ranch for six months.
Episode 31 : Murder Warrant
April. 18,1959
Matt and Dodge City's businessmen employ an unusual tactic to save ambush victim Lee Prentice from being taken to corrupt Baker City to face certain hanging on a trumped-up murder charge.
Episode 30 : Renegade White
April. 11,1959
A gunfight in the Long Branch forces Matt to arrest a drunk. Letting him go since it was a fair fight, he suspects him of selling guns to the Indians, and goes after him even though he may run into those Indians.
Episode 29 : Fawn
April. 04,1959
After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.
Episode 28 : Wind
March. 21,1959
Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden, who seems to bring gamblers luck just by standing next to them when they're playing cards.
Episode 27 : The F.U.
March. 14,1959
When Onie Becker is shot down on the streets of Dodge after quarreling with Al Clovis in a poker game, everyone thinks Al Clovis committed the shooting. The plot thickens after Matt and Chester pursue Clovis on a train headed out of Dodge.
Episode 26 : The Coward
March. 07,1959
A coward gambler, who's too cheap to hire a gunman, wants Matt dead for a beating he got from him years ago, so he starts some talk around Dodge about the big reputation any person could gain, if they simply killed Matt.
Episode 25 : The Bear
February. 28,1959
Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.
Episode 24 : Doc Quits
February. 21,1959
Doc takes hard the death of a homesteader under his care; then a flashy new medicine man comes to town and takes away many of his patients.
Episode 23 : Sky
February. 14,1959
Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.
Episode 22 : Kitty's Rebellion
February. 07,1959
An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed. Intent on defending her honor wherever she is insulted, he nearly gets himself killed. Kitty finally tells him that she has no honor, and he keeps making a fool out of himself thinking otherwise. It sends him away and saves his life at the same time.
Episode 21 : Jayhawkers
January. 31,1959
Trail boss Dolph Quince sends for his friend Matt to help escort his cattle herd into Dodge because he is having trouble with Jayhawkers (Kansas renegades), and he hopes to ease the animosity his men have towards all Kansans.
Episode 20 : Love of a Good Woman
January. 24,1959
An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunning for him even though he thought he was innocent five years ago.
Episode 19 : Passive Resistance
January. 17,1959
A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.
Episode 18 : Marshal Proudfoot
January. 10,1959
Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant.
Episode 17 : Young Love
January. 03,1959
Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattle from Wheat's young widow.
Episode 16 : Gypsum Hills Feud
December. 27,1958
Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and isolated mountain families.
Episode 15 : Snakebite
December. 20,1958
Claustrophobic plainsman Poney Thompson is arrested for murdering a man who maliciously shot his dog, but an ironic fate awaits him after he breaks free from Chester's custody.
Episode 14 : Robber Bridegroom
December. 13,1958
Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous businessman who threatened to ruin her father if he did not agree to the marriage.
Episode 13 : The Cast
December. 06,1958
When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.
Episode 12 : Grass
November. 29,1958
White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.
Episode 11 : How to Kill a Friend
November. 22,1958
Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matt's close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.
Episode 10 : Lynching Man
November. 15,1958
After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into his own hands and is led tragically astray by the culprits.
Episode 9 : Land Deal
November. 08,1958
When a stranger leading some immigrants planning on settling outside of Dodge wants Matt to give him a badge to avert trouble, Matt gets suspicious and rides out to their camp to see what is really up.
Episode 8 : Lost Rifle
November. 01,1958
Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.
Episode 7 : Stage Hold-Up
October. 25,1958
A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thieves when a "cowboy" appears and offers to show him where one of the thieves may be buried.
Episode 6 : Thoroughbreds
October. 18,1958
Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him later in Dodge, he is much different: friendly and spending money freely.
Episode 5 : Letter of the Law
October. 11,1958
A rich landowner seizes the chance to get a little more acreage when he discovers that a homesteader has failed to file the paperwork to make his quarter section his own.
Episode 4 : Monopoly
October. 04,1958
Two murders result when an unscrupulous Eastern businessman named Ivy hires a psychotic killer to help him establish undisputed control of Dodge City's freight shipment business.
Episode 3 : Gunsmuggler
September. 27,1958
Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.
Episode 2 : The Patsy
September. 20,1958
Matt doubts the veracity of Long Branch hostess Holly Fanshaw's claim that she saw trail drover Fly Hoyt murder young Dave Thorp. His suspicions increase further when Hoyt voluntarily returns to Dodge in order to clear his name.
Episode 1 : Matt for Murder
September. 13,1958
Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man;however, Doc and Matt's old friend Wild Bill Hickok come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder.

Seasons

Season 20
Season 20 1974
Season 19
Season 19 1973
Season 18
Season 18 1972
Season 17
Season 17 1971
Season 16
Season 16 1970
Season 15
Season 15 1969
Season 14
Season 14 1968
Season 13
Season 13 1967
Season 12
Season 12 1966
Season 11
Season 11 1965
Season 10
Season 10 1964
Season 9
Season 9 1963
Season 8
Season 8 1962
Season 7
Season 7 1961
Season 6
Season 6 1960
Season 5
Season 5 1959
Season 4
Season 4 1958
Season 3
Season 3 1957
Season 2
Season 2 1956
Season 1
This is a list of episodes from the first season of the television series version of Gunsmoke.
Season 1 1955

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