Gunsmoke — Season 5

Aired 5 September 1959 • 26 min

Ironic tragedy results when Danny Kader stubbornly disregards his father's predispositions (and Matt's pragmatic advice) in order to attempt an elopement with a young gypsy woman.

Aired 19 September 1959 • 26 min

When Kitty is hurt in a fall from a horse, she and Matt must seek help from shiftless dirt farmers who are oddly uninterested in aiding them.

Aired 26 September 1959 • 26 min

Horses with Bar S brand are being sold to unsuspecting buyers. Deesha moves in to claim the horses, leaving the buyer with nothing.

Aired 3 October 1959 • 26 min

A man suddenly turns up in Dodge City claiming to be Billy Crale, the long-lost son of a well-to-do local widow. Matt knows that Billy Crale was reported dead during the Civil War, and he becomes highly concerned for Mrs. Crale's safety when he confirms that the man is actually a onetime outlaw known as Johnny Red.

Aired 10 October 1959 • 26 min

A father and son bully a farmer and his wife who won't sell their land, but the farmer is oddly reluctant to let Matt arrest the two, even when they resort to gunfire.

Aired 17 October 1959 • 26 min

Is the homely, sharp-tongued, middle-aged wife of a homesteader really inspiring men to fight to the death for her affections?

Aired 24 October 1959 • 26 min

Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself.

Aired 31 October 1959 • 26 min

Matt, escorting 3 men back to Dodge, claims a beautiful wounded Indian woman will be able to identify the one who shot her and killed her husband.

Aired 7 November 1959 • 26 min

A man wants to gunfight when he returns home, after years away, and finding his brother married to his girl.

Aired 14 November 1959 • 26 min

Onetime gunman Zeno Smith faces an unenviable choice. If he does not help would-be gambler Hank Fergus rob Mr. Jonas's general store, Fergus will tell 12-year old orphan Tommy the full story of how Zeno's descent into deprivation and alcoholism dates to the day he backed down from facing Fergus in a gunfight.

Aired 21 November 1959 • 26 min

Matt is uncertain what to make of Cyrus Tucker's confused claim that his wife of 32 years "just ran off", especially when a homesteader claims that he saw the old man digging a large hole just behind his house.

Aired 28 November 1959 • 26 min

A father threatens to kill the two drifters who have been plaguing his daughter.

Aired 5 December 1959 • 26 min

A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.

Aired 12 December 1959 • 26 min

A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.

Aired 19 December 1959 • 26 min

When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them.

Aired 26 December 1959 • 26 min

A quarrel between two partners in homesteading escalates to the point of gunfire. Matt tries to make peace between them by locking them up together.

Aired 2 January 1960 • 26 min

An ex-Confederate waits to settle the score with the Union man whose unit cost him a loved one and property in the late war.

Aired 9 January 1960 • 26 min

Despite a serious heart condition, onetime prizefighter Tom Burr is determined to go through with his plans to fight vicious Hob Creel. The only way Matt can stop the mismatch and save Burr's life is to fight Creel himself.

Aired 16 January 1960 • 26 min

Someone takes a shot at a hard man who is brutal to his wife, and someone is overheard claiming he was offered money to kill the man.

Aired 23 January 1960 • 26 min

Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards.

Aired 30 January 1960 • 26 min

Matt has reason to believe that the new overweight, gun toting, straight shooting, female owner of the Lady Gay saloon may have killed the previous owner, or did she?

Aired 6 February 1960 • 26 min

While Matt is away on business, Doc gets threatened by an ex convict (Brice Harp) who claims that Doc Adams sentenced him to a long term in Prison.

Aired 13 February 1960 • 26 min

Old man Onie has a great swimming cow that can lead herds across rivers, and when they both come up missing, one trail boss accuses another of killing them.

Aired 20 February 1960 • 26 min

Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter in childbirth.

Aired 27 February 1960 • 26 min

After a train sparks a fire that destroys a family's crops, the man, his son, and his daughter rob another train of fifty thousand dollars. A baggage clerk is killed and the crusty representative of the railroad pressures Matt to solve it.

Aired 5 March 1960 • 26 min

Determined to avenge his murderous brother's hanging, Vince Walsh begins a self-serving campaign of unofficially helping to keep the peace in Dodge City over Matt's objections. Walsh is certain that his actions and his taunts will eventually goad the Marshal into a gunfight.

Aired 12 March 1960 • 26 min

When Jonas accuses Clint Dodie of robbing his store, Matt and Chester set out in the bitter cold go to Clint's farm to make an arrest.

Aired 26 March 1960 • 26 min

When the greedy relatives of a dying man (Crowbait Bob) learn that he might be dying, they come to Dodge to grab anything of value they can get from the dying man.

Aired 2 April 1960 • 26 min

A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but Kitty isn't falling for her charms.

Aired 9 April 1960 • 26 min

Far from Dodge, Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Doc's life after the two are ambushed by a pair of savage prairie wolfers.

Aired 16 April 1960 • 26 min

A man beats his wife and is sentenced to fifty days or fifty dollars by the judge. The beaten woman scrapes together the money for her husband's fine, only to be beaten again.

Aired 23 April 1960 • 26 min

A saloon girl shoots a man who came to her room, claiming he attacked her, but as the dead man was to testify against a man from the woman's past, Matt is suspicious.

Aired 30 April 1960 • 26 min

Ed makes no secret of his intention to kill Bert for marrying the girl Ed wanted. So when Ed is the one who turns up dead, folks assume that Bert did it.

Aired 7 May 1960 • 26 min

There's a cattle drive near town, and the cowboys are nervous about a series of cattle rustling events that have taken place recently.

Aired 14 May 1960 • 26 min

Belle Ainesly rides into town after 3 years absence. Seems she ran off with an unsavory character 3 years ago, and all of Dodge feels she's a "bad" woman. Belle says she is coming back to stay at the family ranch.

Aired 21 May 1960 • 26 min

Two brothers have decided that it is their mission to rid the West of Indians.

Aired 28 May 1960 • 26 min

Kitty doubts the veracity of Matt's old friend Dolly Winters, who arrives in Dodge seeking the Marshal's help and claiming to have been robbed, beaten, and jilted by a man named Rad Meadows.

Aired 4 June 1960 • 26 min

Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the drop on him and wounds Chester.

Aired 11 June 1960 • 26 min

The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.