Gunsmoke

Season 3

TV-G

Marshal Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the wild west where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, standover tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgement and brave actions: of which Marshal Dillon has plenty.

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39 Episodes

Crack-Up
E1
Crack-UpGunman Nate Springer arrives in Dodge with the obvious intention of committing murder, but his nervousness and unpredictability make Matt determined to find out who hired him and why he seems so different from his steel-nerved reputation.
Gun for Chester
E2
Gun for ChesterChester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. After Chester is shot, he tells Matt Asa Ledbetter shot him. Matt worries that Chester may be working too hard on finding Asa Ledbetter. Asa Ledbetter claims Chester killed his brother.
Blood Money
E3
Blood MoneyIn order to collect a reward of $500, Harry Speener kills Joe Harpe even though Harpe had recently saved his life on the prairie. Matt grudgingly pays the reward, but unwittingly sends Speener to an ironic fate when he orders the opportunistic ex-bartender out of Dodge.
Kitty's Outlaw
E4
Kitty's OutlawDoc, Chester, and Matt suspect Kitty of helping a bank robber when she invites Matt to an out of the way spot for dinner. What they didn't know was that the bank robber was the first 'man' Kitty had ever known.
Potato Road
E5
Potato RoadBudge wants the Marshall to arrest his Pa for murder but when they get to Budge's house they get captured by Bud & his Ma so they can rob the bank.
Jesse
E6
JesseYoung and likable Jesse Pruett teams up with an unlikely "partner" in the person of Bill Stapp, a murderous former Quantrill raider. Stapp has promised to lead Jesse to the man who killed his father so he can avenge his death, but the young man is tragically unaware of Stapp's true intentions
Mavis McCloud
E7
Mavis McCloudMavis McCloud comes to Dodge to get married. She marries Barny but Lou Staley comes looking for Mavis and wants to kill Barney and the Marshall.
Born to Hang
E8
Born to HangJoe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.
Romeo
E9
RomeoA powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.
Never Pester Chester
E10
Never Pester ChesterWhen Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.
Fingered
E11
FingeredLosing his first wife when she disappeared, Jim Cobbett tries marriage again. All seemed fine until she turned up missing too. Did he have something to do with her absence as some think he did with his first?
How to Kill a Woman
E12
How to Kill a WomanPernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.
Cows and Cribs
E13
Cows and CribsThe whole town is caught up in a mystery: where does Joe Nadler get all his money---and where does he go to spend it?
Doc's Reward
E14
Doc's RewardDoc, on his way to an accident at a local farmhouse, is confronted by a stranger barring his way. When he feels forced to shoot him, he tells Matt to arrest him for it before the marshal's reputation comes into question by everyone in town.
Kitty Lost
E15
Kitty LostAn eastern dude asks Kitty if she'd like to take a midnight drive, but when she doesn't return the next day, Matt goes looking.
Twelfth Night
E16
Twelfth NightA hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.
Joe Phy
E17
Joe PhyMatt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall".
Buffalo Man
E18
Buffalo ManDoc finds a half-dead man on the side of the road and tells Matt. Matt and Chester ride out to a buffalo hunter's camp but before they get far, the occupants show up not treating them much better than the man the doc found.
Kitty Caught
E19
Kitty CaughtThe Gunther brothers rob the Dodge City Bank and take Kitty hostage. Matt and Chester follow at a discreet distance, waiting for their chance, knowing that sadistic Jed would be happy to make good on his threat to kill Kitty.
Claustrophobia
E20
ClaustrophobiaOllie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men. Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men. After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.
Ma Tennis
E21
Ma TennisAndy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.
Sunday Supplement
E22
Sunday SupplementClifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.
Wild West
E23
Wild WestHattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prarie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.
The Cabin
E24
The CabinMatt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.
Dirt
E25
DirtThe brother of a prospective bride-to-be witnesses her fiance visiting Beulah, one of Kitty's saloon floozies. Outraged that his sister would marry a man of such low character, the brother vows to kill him if the wedding takes place.
Dooley Surrenders
E26
Dooley SurrendersAddle-brained hide skinner Emmett Dooley believes that he killed a man after getting drunk and demands to be put in jail. Matt discovers that Dooley was not the culprit and tries to lure the real killer into giving himself away.
Joke's on Us
E27
Joke's on UsJake Kaiser and some other ranchers hung Frank Tillman thinking he was a horse thief but they were wrong. Tillman's wife and son won't tell the Marshall who did it.
Bottleman
E28
BottlemanThere's a new Faro dealer at the Long Branch. When the town drunk, the meekest man in town, tries to attack him, the dealer swears he'll kill him if he ever tries that again. But he also swears he "never seen him before in his life."
Laughing Gas
E29
Laughing GasErnie Stubblefield trying to put his past behind him changes his name to Earl Stafford and is traveling with a laughing gas show. Cloud Marsh tries the gas and gets laughed at by the town. Angry he and his brothers attack Stubblefield/Stafford.
Texas Cowboys
E30
Texas CowboysThe friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.
Amy's Good Deed
E31
Amy's Good DeedAmy Slater gets to Dodge and tells Matt she came to die. He suggests seeing Doc Adams, she says she's not sick but that Matt could help. When asked how, she says "you're going to kill me." Learning the truth, he decides how to handle it.
Hanging Man
E32
Hanging ManSomeone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.
Innocent Broad
E33
Innocent BroadLou and Linda met in St. Louis and are engaged to be married. Lou is waiting in Dodge for her but a man he says he never met rides in on the stage too and makes Matt suspicious when Lou says he doesn't know him.
The Big Con
E34
The Big ConThe Dodge City Bank's acting manager loses $20,000 of the bank's money when he imprudently makes a loan secured by a seemingly "can't lose" poker hand. Matt makes it apparent to the three "players" that he believes they actually worked together to defraud the bank, so they flee Dodge with Doc as a hostage.
Widow's Mite
E35
Widow's MiteMatt is strongly suspicious of the character and the intentions of gentleman gambler Leach Fields, especially when he proposes marriage to a recently-widowed woman who may know the location of $10,000 in stolen money.
Chester's Hanging
E36
Chester's HangingMatt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.
Carmen
E37
CarmenA secret Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers killed. The Major threatens Matt with martial law if the thieves aren't caught. Matt suspects Jenny Lane, a new girl at the Long Branch of being involved.
Overland Express
E38
Overland ExpressMatt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.
The Gentleman
E39
The GentlemanSuave and enigmatic gambler Marcus France falls in love with Long Branch hostess Boni Damon. France is curiously unwilling to marry Boni, though he is willing to risk death to protect her from the unwanted advances of vicious Tiller Evans.