List of Gunsmoke television episodes

United States Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness)[33] is critically wounded while attempting to arrest gunman Dan Grat (Paul Richards). Grat runs uncontrolled in Dodge while Matt recovers but is surprised when the Marshal challenges him again.

Guest Cast: Paul Richards, Robert Anderson, Malcolm Atterbury and Howard Culver

Notes: The premiere episode was introduced by John Wayne.[34] He also recommended his friend, James Arness for the role of Matt Dillon.

Matt is duty-bound to protect gunman Cope Borden (John Dehner) from being hanged by a group of normally law-abiding ranchers for a crime he didn't commit.

Guest Cast: John Dehner, James Westerfield, Marvin Bryan and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Notes: John Dehner's first of 12 appearances, who also performed in approximately half of the 480 radio episodes of Gunsmoke. He was an American stage, radio, film and television actor, often cast as the eccentric villain or questionable authority figure.

Doc is sworn to secrecy by three kidnappers who killed a rancher's son.

Guest Cast: Robert Middleton, Claude Akins, Dick Paxton, Thom Carney, Ray Boyle and Will J. White

Notes: Claude Akins plays Harry, his first of ten appearances. He was an American character actor best known for his role of Sheriff Lobo in the 1979-1981 NBC action comedy television series, B. J. and the Bear and its spin-off The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo.

Matt attempts to save a rancher's life by amputating his gangrenous leg.

Guest Cast: Joe De Santis, Gloria Talbott and Wright King

Notes: "Home Surgery" was presented as a radio broadcast before it aired on television. In the radio version, the daughter's name was "Tara Hantree."

Gloria Talbott who played Holly Hawtree, became the first guest star to appear in both of the 1955 season's new adult westerns. She played Abby Crandall in the second episode of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, (Mr. Earp Meets a Lady) which aired on September 13, 1955, three weeks before this episode.

First of eight appearances for Wright King portraying Ben Walling, who in three years will play Jason Nichols on the 1958-1961 CBS western television series, Wanted Dead or Alive.

Townspeople and outlaws want to know where an old prospector has hidden his gold.

Guest Cast: Royal Dano, Kathy Adams, Jon Shepodd and Pat Conway

Notes: First of thirteen guest appearances by Royal Dano, who played the lead character Obie Tater. He was an American actor whose career spanned 46 years. Dano provided the voice of Abraham Lincoln in Walt Disney's Audio-Animatronic Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln attraction at the 1964 World's Fair which was brought to Disneyland in 1965.

First of four appearances by Pat Conway who played Quade. He may be best remembered as Sheriff Clay Hollister in the 1957-60 western television series, Tombstone Territory.

Nobody believes a young boy's tales of nighttime robberies and assaults, including Matt and the boy's mother.

Guest Cast: Robert Foulk, Amzie Strickland, Peter Votrian, Anne Warren, Lance Warren, Jeanne Bates and Lou Vernon

Notes: Robert Foulk portrayed Edward Hinton in this episode and may be best remembered for his role of Sheriff H. Miller in the 1958-1962 CBS television series Lassie.

Amzie Strickland was a versatile character actress who began on radio and made some 650 television appearances. This was her first of four roles on Gunsmoke playing Lennie Hinton.

Anne and Lance Warren (who played White Fawn and Maggie) are the daughters of Director/Producer/Writer Charles Marquis Warren.

A rancher asks Matt to evict a couple from a home on part of his land, but the couple insists they purchased it legally and they're refusing to leave.

Guest Cast: John Larch, Ainslie Pryor, Jeanne Bates and Edward Platt (as Ed Platt)

Notes: First of seven appearances for John Larch, who played Clay Young.

A bounty hunter is denied his reward after Matt convinces a wanted gunslinger to give up his gun for a better life.

Guest Cast: Adam Kennedy, James Griffith, Herbert Lytton, George Selk, Jon Locke (as Joe Locke) and Chris Alcaide

Notes: Herbert Lytton portrayed Jake Crowell, his first of seven appearances. He was known for playing Admiral Reynolds in the 1962-1966 ABC American sitcom television series McHale's Navy.

George Selk makes his first credited appearance as Moss Grimmick, the owner of the livery stables.

First and only time Matt wears a black hat during an episode. He's seen wearing a black hat in nine of the first season's Boot Hill introductions.

Marshal Dillon must stop a buffalo hunter from breaking a treaty by trespassing into Indian territory on a hunt for hides.

Guest Cast: Peter Whitney, Richard Gilden, Lou Vernon and Robert Keene

A Chinese immigrant faces dishonor when two brothers cut off his pigtail.

Guest Cast: Keye Luke, Sebastian Cabot, Robert Gist, Dennis McCarthy (as Devlin McCarthy) and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Notes: Keye Luke who played Chen, was a Chinese-born American film and television actor. He is best known for playing many roles which include; Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939-1941 The Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the 1972-75 television series Kung Fu and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films.

Sebastian Cabot who portrayed Bailey, may be best remembered as the man servant, Mister (Giles) French in the 1966-1971 [CBS] television sitcom Family Affair.

This is the first of 11 episodes which Sam Peckinpah wrote for Gunsmoke.

A Confederate Civil War General who's an incorrigible liar claims the new town banker is plotting to make off with the depositors' money.

Guest Cast: Raymond Bailey, James O'Rear, John Alderson and Budd Knapp (as Wilfred Knapp)

Notes: The first of two appearances for Raymond Bailey playing the lead character, General Parsley Smith. He may be best known for his role portraying Milburn Drysdale in the 1962-1971 CBS television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.

John Alderson's first of three appearances. He was Sergeant Bullock in the obscure 1957-1958 syndicated western television series, Boots and Saddles.

Viewers learn through dialogue in this episode that Doc Adams served in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry in the American Civil War.

Chester is appalled when his "uncivilized" country-bumpkin brother comes to Dodge for a Christmas visit.

Guest Cast: Robert Easton, James Anderson, Than Wyenn, Tim Graham and Dorothy Schuyler

Notes: Robert Easton also played Magnus in the radio broadcast of this episode. He was a prolific actor with numerous film and television roles. His mastery of the English dialect and unique range earn him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices".

A young conniving rancher's wife orchestrates a clever plan to murder her older husband by seducing a recently hired drifter.

Guest Cast: John Carradine, Lola Albright, James Drury and Virginia Chapman (as Virgnia Arness) (credit only)

Notes: First of two appearances for John Carradine whose role was the elder rancher Ephraim Hunt. The prolific actor holds 351 film and television credits. He was the patriarch of the Carradine family which included four sons and four grandchildren who were also actors.

Lola Albright plays Lucy Hunt and was an American singer and actress. She may be best known for her starring role, the sultry singer Edie Hart in the television detective series Peter Gunn.

James Drury makes his first of four appearances. He portrays Booth Rider in this episode and is best known for playing the lead in 1962-1971 NBC western television series The Virginian.

First television screenplay written by Les Crutchfield. He's credited with writing 138 radio and television Gunsmoke stories and scripts, second only to the number written by the series co-creator, John Meston. Crutchfield created the character Festus Haggen. Sadly, he would pass away from cancer in 1966 at 50 years old. Three episodes written by him will be telecast after his death.

Virginia Chapman was the wife of James Arness. She is credited as Gypsy in this episode but is not seen. She will again play Gypsy in episode 28 "The Killer" but will not receive credit.

Professor Bone (John Abbott) and his traveling medicine show comes to Dodge pedaling an elixir with potentially deadly side effects.

Guest Cast: John Abbott, Jester Hairston, Gloria Castillo, Don Gardner, Strother Martin and Sally Corner

Notes: Jester Hairston was a composer, song writer and actor. He was the first black performer to appear in Gunsmoke. Hairston was regarded as a leading expert on Negro Black spirituals and choral music.

A wanted man wrongly accused of murder in a nearby town escapes to Dodge which necessitates Matt and Chester to investigate his claims of corruption.

Guest Cast: Vic Perrin, Mort Mills, Marjorie Owens, Herbert Lytton, Cyril Delevanti and Charles H. Gray

Notes: Vic Perrin who played Hank Springer was an American radio, film and television actor. Interestingly, he was the "Control Voice" in the 1963-1965 science fiction television series The Outer Limits. Perrin also did extensive work in animation, providing voices in numerous cartoons including but not limited to Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Jonny Quest and Space Ghost.

Mort Mills was an American film and television actor with over 150 credits. He often played the town lawman or local bad guy in many popular westerns including a recurring co-starring role as Marshall Frank Tallman in the 1957-1959 western Television series, Man Without a Gun. This episode, his first of six appearances he played August Brake and would later play another bushwhacking deputy who comes to Dodge chasing a fugitive in the season 4, Gunsmoke episode 31, "Murder Warrant."

Cyril Delevanti was an English character actor with a long career in American films and television. Here, with his very familiar face played Turnkey, his first of eight appearances.

A vengeful rancher's wife puts a $1,000 bounty on Matt's head after he shoots down her husband.

Guest Cast: Helen Wallace, Paul Newlan, Val Dufour (as Val DuFour), Jean Inness and John G. Lee

Notes: Paul Newlan played Jeremy Stoner. His best-known role was Captain Grey in the 1957-1960 NBC American crime drama television series M Squad.

Val Dufour portrayed Day Barrett. He had many roles in the soap operas, Another World, The Edge of Night and Search for Tomorrow for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1977.

Jean Inness was Nurse Beatrice Fain in the 1961-1966 NBC American medical drama television series Dr. Kildare. In this episode she played Mrs. Reeves.

Matt devises a plan to capture a charismatic outlaw who has a reputation for only robbing the rich.

Guest Cast: William Hopper, Barry Atwater, Nora Marlowe, James McCallion, Budd Knapp (as Wilfred Knapp) and S. John Launer

Notes: William Hopper who portrayed John Henry Jordan was the only son of actor DeWolf Hopper and legendary Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper. He may be best known as private detective Paul Drake in the 1957-1966 CBS television series Perry Mason.

First of five appearances for American character actor Barry Atwater. He was Mr. Bowen in this episode.

Nora Marlowe was boardinghouse owner Flossie Brimmer from 1973 to 1977 in 27 episodes on the American historical drama television series The Waltons. She was Mrs. Bowen in this episode, her first of six appearances.

S. John Launer who played "The Judge", also had a reoccurring role as a criminal court judge on Perry Mason.

The title of this episode is not based on the legend, Robin Hood and his Merry Men. The only similarities are they both robbed from the rich. Here the protagonist kept and spend the money he stole and was not the "good guy".

Matt saves the life of a white boy raised by Indians who was shot trying to fulfill his coup by retrieving horses stolen from his Arapaho tribe.

Guest Cast: Jeffrey Silver (as Jeff Silver), Howard Petrie, Dennis Cross, Malcolm Atterbury and Mary Gregory

Notes: The Yorky character is assumed to be about 14 years old. The actor Jeff Silver was a week shy of 19 years old when this episode aired.

Viewers find out in this episode how Matt Dillon possibly acquires his horse "Buck".

Matt's friend and mentor, an aging ex-lawman arrives in Dodge, but he's followed by a man who wants revenge for the killing of his brother two years before.

A Long Branch saloon girl witnesses a killing in self-defense involving a man from her past but she refuses to testify which jeopardizes his innocents.

Guest Cast: Val Dufour, Marion Brasch (as Marion Brash), Maurice Manson, Joseph V. Perry (as Joe Perry), Mason Curry and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Matt attempts to help a quarrelsome young man turn his life around, after a group of ranch hands try to hang him for cattle rustling.

Guest Cast: Brett Halsey, K.L. Smith (as Ken L. Smith), Russell Thorson (as Russ Thorson), Michael Granger and James Nusser (uncredited)

Notes: James Nusser makes his first appearance in Gunsmoke as the wounded clerk. He will make seven guest appearances (five credited) before being cast as the regular town drunk Louie Pheeters in season seven.

An unpleasant elderly rancher (John Dehner) up and decides that he is going to marry Kitty.

Guest Cast: John Dehner, John Patrick, Mary Adams, Evelyn Scott, Dorothy Schuyler, Charlene Brooks and George Selk (uncredited)

Notes: John Dehner's second of twelve appearances, this one in heavy makeup which makes him appear 20 plus years older than his actual 40 at the time. He also played the same character in the radio version.

This is the first appearance of Wilbur Jonas, the shopkeeper character, played by John Patrick. His role will be short lived as Dabbs Greer will settle into the part in future episodes.

An elderly Army scout married to an Indian woman is suspected of intentionally leading his troop into a Comanche ambush and now becomes the target of the townspeople's anger.

Guest Cast: Eduard Franz, DeForest Kelley (as DeForrest Kelley), William Vaughn, Harold "Tommy" Hart (as Tommy Hart) and Pat Hogan

Notes: DeForest Kelley is perhaps best known for his iconic role, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the science fiction television and film series Star Trek.

Doc investigates the beginning of a typhoid epidemic which hits Dodge and panics the townspeople.

Guest Cast: Howard McNear, Patrick O'Moore, Norbert Schiller, Evelyn Scott, Phil Rich, Gordon Mills, Lisa Golm and Howard Culver

Notes: Howard McNear was the original voice of Doc Adams on the radio version of "Gunsmoke". He played Mr. Bradley in this episode and may be best remembered for portraying Floyd Lawson, Mayberry, North Carolina's loveable barber in the CBS 1960-1968 American situation comedy television series, The Andy Griffith Show.

This was actor Phil Rich's final role, passing away at the age of 57 on February 22, 1956. This episode aired on April 14, 1956, seven weeks after his death. His brother, Dick Rich was also an actor who appeared seven times in Gunsmoke.

A belligerent and imposing female bully uses her situation as a woman to push around the men of Dodge.

Guest Cast: Dee J. Thompson, Joel Ashley, Terry Becker, Howard Culver, Henry Brock (as Heinie Brock) and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Matt's friend from the past, a gunfighter for hire, comes to Dodge with a job offering. Unbeknownst to both of them, that job is to kill the Marshall.

Guest Cast: Leo Gordon, George D. Wallace (as George Wallace), Hal Baylor and Wally Cassell

Notes: This is the actual pilot episode of the television series, Gunsmoke. Watching the program, you will notice that the sets are totally different. The jailhouse has no door on the back wall replaced by the gun rack which usually sits on the side wall, Matt's desk is a high rolltop positioned against the wall as opposed to the flat desk more situated out into the room, the pot-belly stove and bulletin board with the wanted posters is missing, the safe is where the stove was, and the front door is not the same. The Long Branch saloon has the following changes: a longer bar with a high shelve on the wall above it, the huge brass adornment that sits center stage is missing, unfamiliar taxidermy and wall decor, and the most notable change is a bartender that we have never seen in past or future episodes.

The beginning boot hill introduction is also different, revealing for the first time Marshall Dillon walking down the hill towards the fake backdrop of Dodge City in the background.

Matt uses a six-shooter with a much shorter barrel in this episode, not the eight-inch barrel we normally see throughout the series.

Leo Gordon who portrayed Hack Prine, was an American character actor and writer. He was often cast as the heavy playing brutish bad guys in more than 40 years in film and television. Where life imitates art, Gordon came by his toughness through his own early experiences. Growing up during the Great Depression, a two-year stint in the Army ending with an undesirable discharge and a five-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison for armed robbery when he was shot by arresting officers for pulling a gun.[36]

George D. Wallace playing Dolph Timble, was an American stage and screen actor. He may be best remembered as Commando Cody in the Republic Pictures serial Radar Men from the Moon.

A dishonest gambler and coward in his own right, uses a mentally challenged man (Strother Martin) in a plot against Matt.

Guest Cast: Strother Martin, Vinton Hayworth, Brett King and Robert Vaughn

Notes: First episode where Kitty is seen wearing her new beauty mark on her right cheek. In real life, Amanda Blake did have a light reddish mole in the same spot which was covered with make-up in all previous episodes.

Second of eleven appearances for Strother Martin, cast in title role as Cooter. He was so in love with the story and his character that he ordered a print for personal viewing. Martin would go on to play in many more features with Sam Peckinpah as writer and/or director.

Vinton Hayworth who played Ben Sissle, was the uncle of Hollywood's most glamorous screen idol of the 1940's, Rita Hayworth. He was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter who appeared in over 90 films and numerous television credits. His final role was General Winfield Schaeffer in the 1965-1970 NBC fantasy sitcom television series, I Dream of Jeannie. He died of a heart attack on May 21, 1970, five days before the last episode aired.

Robert Vaughn portrayed "the kid", was an American stage, film and television actor. Perhaps best known for his role as Napoleon Solo in the NBC 1964-1968 spy fiction television series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

Matt comes up with a risky plan to stop the killing spree of a psychopathic murderer (Charles Bronson), who only provokes gunfights with individuals he knows have no chance in defending themselves against him.

Guest Cast: Charles Bronson, David Chapman, James Nusser, Dabbs Greer and Virginia Chapman (uncredited)

Notes: Charles Bronson was an American actor, who was often cast as a police officer, gunfighter or vigilante. Here he portrayed the maniacal killer, Crego. Bronson was argumentatively the first major guest star on Gunsmoke, commanding $1 million dollars per film and earning the title of world's No. 1 box office attraction at the height of his fame in the early 70's.[37]

James Nusser makes his second appearance in the series. It will still be five more years before he is cast as the town drunk, Louie Pheeters.

Dabbs Greer assumes the character of shopkeeper 'Wilbur Jonas', making his first of 40 appearances in the role. He also had two credits in other parts.

Doc becomes enraged when he sees a man from his past and swears to Chester that he's going to kill him.

Guest Cast: Chris Alcaide, Ainslie Pryor, Harry Bartell and Bert Rumsey

Notes: Harry Bartell was an American radio, film and television actor. He was a cast member in the radio version of Gunsmoke performing over the entire broadcast run from April 26, 1952 to June 18, 1961. This was his first of ten appearances on the television edition.

Bert Rumsey earns his first credit after 15 uncredited appearances. He would play the part of Sam or bartender a total of 75 times in the first five seasons from 1955-1959 with only nine being credited.

A preacher (Royal Dano), disgusted by all the violence surrounding him has lost faith and is tormented by a bully (Chuck Connors), who despises his timid nature.

Guest Cast: Royal Dano, Chuck Connors, Paul Dubov, James Hyland and George Selk

Notes: In his second of thirteen appearances, Royal Dano played the title character, "The Preacher". He also played the lead role earlier in the season in the fifth episode, "Obie Tater" (1955).

Chuck Connors was an American actor, best known for his role as "Lucas McCain" in the 1958-1963 ABC western television series, The Rifleman. Here he portrayed the savage pugilist, "Sam Keeler".

A Texas trail herder swears to avenge his brother's death, who Matt shot and killed in self-defense.

Guest Cast: Mort Mills, Maurice Manson, Lawrence Dobkin, James Nolan, Bill White Jr. and Herbert Lytton

Matt may finally have the crucial evidence he needs to arrest an infamous horse thief, who makes a big mistake when he steals a young man's horse for himself.

Guest Cast: Robert Middleton, Tom Pittman, Richard Warren and George Selk

When the citizens of Dodge panic, Matt tries to restore order and squash rumors of a planned Pawnee attack.

Guest Cast: Robert Ellenstein, Dabbs Greer, Anne Barton, Budd Knapp (as Wilfrid Knapp), Tyler McVey, Bruce Holland, Jack Holland and Roy Engel (as Roy Engle)

When Chester's mail-order bride arrives, neither she nor Chester are what the other is expecting.

Guest Cast: Mary Carver, Joel Ashley, Russell Thorson (as Russ Thorson), William Hamel and Bert Rumsey

Notes: Bert Rumsey makes his second credited appearance as "Sam".

Two cowboys buy drinks and show Weed Pindle (Aaron Spelling) a good time, but when the fun ends they plan to hang him for fighting on the Union's side of the war.

Guest Cast: Aaron Spelling, Jacques Aubuchon, Charles H. Gray (as Charles Gray), Duane Grey (as Duane Thorsen), Bill Hale and Joseph Mell

Notes: Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. His productions comprise the television series Family (1976-1980), Charlie's Angels (1976-1981), The Love Boat (1977-1986), Hart to Hart (1979-1984), Dynasty (1981-1989), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000), Melrose Place (1992-1999), 7th Heaven (1996-2007) and Charmed (1998-2006).

First of six appearances for Joseph Mell in the role of Bill Pence, owner of the Long Branch saloon. The character Bill Pence was first introduced as a ranch hand foreman in episode 21, "Helping Hand".

Matt realizes that an old girlfriend is working on the opposite side of the law and is planning on robbing the bank with her new boyfriend.

Guest Cast: Jorja Curtright, Douglas Odney, Chuck Webster (as Charles Webster), Budd Knapp (as Wilfrid Knapp) and Howard Culver

Notes: Kitty's beauty mark is missing when Matt awakens her in the morning, but later when she's all dressed up and make-up applied, it's there. This suggests that it was never permanent, just merely Kitty's own fashion statement which first appeared in "Cooter", episode 27.

A self-described religious prophet (Ainslie Pryor) makes life miserable for his sister (Gloria McGehee) and her husband (Paul Richards).

Guest Cast: Paul Richards, Ainslie Pryor, Gloria McGehee (as Gloria McGhee), Dabbs Greer and Bing Russell

Notes: Sadly, three of the guest actors in this episode would pass away at relatively young ages. Ainslie Pryor at 37 on May 27, 1958, from cancer, Gloria McGehee at 42 on May 4, 1964, from a heart attack and Paul Richards at 50 on December 10, 1974, also from cancer.

A distraught middle-aged woman projects her motherly instincts on Matt's new prisoner after she learns of her own son's outlaw past and violent death.

Guest Cast: Ron Hagerthy, Helen Kleeb, William Hopper, Than Wyenn, Joe Scudero and Boyd Stockman

Notes: Helen Kleeb portrays Mrs. Randolph in this her first of four appearances on Gunsmoke. She may be best remembered for her role of Miss Mamie Baldwin in the 1972-1981 CBS historical drama television series, The Waltons.

While on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester come to the aid of a homesteader family who are attacked by a small band of marauding Kiowa Indians.

Guest Cast: Lew Brown, Helen Wallace, Bill White Jr., Dorothy Schuyler and Dan Blocker

Notes: Lew Brown plays the character Sam Fraser in this episode, his first of 21 appearances on Gunsmoke.

Dan Blocker's first appearance as the Lieutenant, in three years he will begin his iconic role of Hoss Cartwright in the 1959-1973 NBC American western television series Bonanza.

Doc is called out to a farm for a medical emergency under false pretenses and becomes involved in an altercation.

Guest Cast: Robert H. Harris, Dorothy Adams and Tommy Kirk

Notes: Tommy Kirk was an American actor best known for his performances in Walt Disney Studios films such as, Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, The Absent-Minded Professor, Babes in Toyland, Son of Flubber, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones and The Monkey's Uncle.

First episode directed by Andrew V. McLaglen who would end up with 96 Gunsmoke credits, most of any director.

Matt and Chester track a killer that they know by name only to the small town of Elkader, where the people out of fear refuse to cooperate.

Guest Cast: Gage Clarke, Alfred Linder, Dennis Cross, Malcolm Atterbury, Paul Lambert and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Notes: Gage Clarke makes his first of twelve appearances in a role other than Dodge House clerk, Jim Dobie or bank manager, Mr. Botkin.

An overconfident Army deserter callously breaks the law and strongly believes there will be no repercussions, but soon his fate will be sealed.

Guest Cast: Brian G. Hutton, Richard Keith and Herbert Lytton

Notes: The Boot Hill introduction clearly shows grave markers with dates of 1882 and 1883, but this episode is set in 1876, the year of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Matt refuses Dodge City merchants request to hire more deputies to protect their interests during a round-up which lead to threats and danger for the Marshal.

Guest Cast: Jacques Aubuchon, Michael Hinn, Barney Phillips, John Dierkes, Mason Curry and John Patrick

Notes: First of ten appearances for Michael Hinn who plays Zel. He was a familiar face on many 1950s and 1960s television westerns.

Barney Phillips portrays Ed Summers, his first of eight Gunsmoke appearances before being cast as Bill Pence, owner of the Long Branch saloon. He was an American film, television and radio actor. Phillips had a recurring role as Sgt. Ed Jacobs on the 1951-1959 television series Dragnet and was the Venusian living under cover on Earth in The Twilight Zone, season 2 episode 28, "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?".

Matt shoots and kills an arrogant gunfighter pursuing a reputation and now the gunman's inexperienced teen-aged brother comes to Dodge seeking revenge.

Guest Cast: Jack Diamond, Fredd Wayne, Clegg Hoyt, Sidney Clute (as Sid Clute) and Bert Rumsey

Notes: Clegg Hoyt was an American film and television character actor appearing in many Westerns, dramas and sitcoms during his 11-year career. He guest stars in consecutive episodes and in this story he plays Jack Rynning, his first of five Gunsmoke appearances.

A twelve-year-old white boy must make a life decision, stay with the woman who claims he's her son or return to the Cheyenne Indians that raised him.

Townspeople tongues wag when they find out that Matt has vouched for his friend, a known gambler and gunman, to set-up shop in the Long Branch.

Guest Cast: Andrew Duggan, Simon Oakland, Jess Kirkpatrick and Joseph Mell

Notes: Andrew Duggan plays Nick Search, his first of three appearances. He was an American film and television character actor with over 185 screen credits. Duggan guest starred in numerous Westerns and finally captured the lead role of Murdoch Lancer in the 1968-1970 CBS series, Lancer.

Doc suspects the wife of knifing her husband after he treats his badly infected leg and urges Matt to investigate when the man brandishes a gun.

Guest Cast: Cloris Leachman, Philip Bourneuf and Robert Strong

A troublesome man (Mike Connors) suspected of murder proclaims his innocence, but needs Doc who's out of town to establish his alibi.

Guest Cast: Mike Connors (as Touch Connors), Gene O'Donnell, Cyril Delevanti, Robert Hinkle and Bert Rumsey

Notes: Mike Connors who plays Bostick was an American actor best remembered for his role of private detective Joe Mannix in the 1967-1975 CBS television series Mannix.

Bert Rumsey is credited as 'Bartender' but for the first time in an episode Chester references him by his last name, 'Sam Noonan'.

One of the few episodes where Kitty is seen without her beauty mark.

Matt risks his own life when an outlaw (Claude Akins) takes Doc hostage and threatens to kill him if he does not help his wounded partner.

Guest Cast: Frank de Kova, Amzie Strickland, Claude Akins and Ray Bennett

Notes: Frank de Kova who portrays Tobeel in his first of five Gunsmoke appearances was an American character actor who convincingly played Native Americans in many films and television series, even though his actual ethnicity was Italian. He may be best remembered for playing Chief Wild Eagle in the 1965-1967 Western comedy, F Troop.

Dodge settlers are leaving after a rash of Pawnee Indian raids and when Matt investigates, he concludes it's something more shocking.

Guest Cast: Herbert Rudley, Dick Rich, Mickey Simpson, Fintan Meyler, Joel Ashley and K.L. Smith

Notes: Dick Rich portrayed Sam Butler, his first of seven appearances. He and his older brothers Larry, Bernie and Phil came from a family that were very active in theatre. Phil appeared in one showing of Gunsmoke, S1E24 "The Pest Hole" that aired seven weeks after his death. Dick was the most prolific of the brothers with over 200 film credits.

A man from Matt's past seeks revenge for the hanging of his partner and has hired a gunman to kill him, but the shooter makes a grave mistake.

Guest Cast: Harry Townes, Howard Culver, Stanley Adams, Paul Newlan, Ross Ford, Clayton Post, Jack Kruschen and H. M. Wynant

A love triangle ends in unimaginable violence when two men court the same girl (Constance Ford).

Guest Cast: Constance Ford, Denver Pyle, Michael Emmet, Jess Kirkpatrick, Bert Rumsey, Big John Hamilton (as John Hamilton) and Johnny McGough

Notes: Constance Ford plays Pearl Bender in her first of two Gunsmoke appearances. She was an American actress and model who may be best remembered for her role as Ada Lucas Hobson in the long running daytime soap opera Another World, which she played from 1967 to 1992. Ford left the series in 1992 due to her declining health from cancer and when she passed away, the persona Ada died with her. Another World would pay tribute to both actress and character alike.

Denver Pyle was an American film and television actor and director. He often played surly and demanding father figures or authority roles. In this episode, his first of fourteen Gunsmoke appearances, he portrayed the scorned farmer, Willie Calhoun. Pyle was well known for numerous TV roles including Brisco Darling Jr. in The Andy Griffith Show, Buck Webb in the first three seasons (1968-1970) of the CBS American sitcom, The Doris Day Show and Uncle Jesse Duke in the 1979-1985 CBS action-comedy television series The Dukes of Hazzard. Longtime viewers may know that Denver Pyle was one of the first actors considered for the role of Marshall Dillon but the part would eventually go to James Arness.

A recent outbreak of cholera is used as a weapon of revenge when a rancher terrorizes homesteaders off their land.

Guest Cast: Peg Hillias, Paul Fix, Bartlett Robinson, Stuart Whitman, Gordon Gebert and John Smith

Notes: Peg Hillias who plays Jenny Gabriel was an American stage, film and television actress. She may be best remembered for her role as Eunice Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire. Sadly, she would pass relatively early in her career form undisclosed causes at the age of 45 on March 18, 1960.

First of five appearances for veteran performer Paul Fix who portrays the vile rancher, McCready. He was an American stage, film and television character actor and screenwriter who was best known for his work in Westerns. Fix had over 300 film and television credits over a seven-decade career and appeared in 26 movies with his friend, celebrated legend John Wayne. In a profession so vast Paul was best known for his role of Micah Torrance in the 1958-1963 ABC Western television series, The Rifleman. Interestingly, he was the original USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Chief Medical Officer on the second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in the 1966-1969 science-fiction television series, Star Trek and was replaced by DeForest Kelley, who played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy.

Stuart Whitman was an American film and television actor who had a lengthy career playing rugged leading men and in this episode he portrays McCready's gunman, Bart. He started in the profession with uncredited roles in cult classics, When Worlds Collide and The Day the Earth Stood Still and may be best known for his performances in The Comancheros, The Longest Day and Night of the Lepus. Whitman would end up owning 190 lifetime film and television credits.

Matt and Chester rescue an old buffalo hunter who was abandoned and left for dead in the freezing cold temperatures on the prairie.

Guest Cast: Edgar Stehli, Grant Withers, Richard Deacon, Rocky Shahan and Bert Rumsey

Notes: Richard Deacon plays the banker Botkin in this episode. He was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in two situational comedies as Fred Rutherford in the 1957-1963 program, Leave it to Beaver and Mel Cooley in the 1961-1966 [CBS] series, The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Matt arrests an abusive rancher who killed two squatters on his land, and after he's jail his guilt comes into question when a third nester is murdered.

Guest Cast: Tyler McVey, Vivi Janiss, Theodore Marcuse (as Ted Marcuse), Malcolm Atterbury and Roy Engel

Notes: Theodore Marcuse was an American character actor who portrayed mostly villains in many 1950s and 1960s television series. He plays the homesteader Zach Ritter in this segment. Twilight Zone fans will recognize him from his role as Citizen Gregori in the famous To Serve Man installment, considered one of the best episodes of the series which aired on March 2, 1962, on CBS. Marcuse served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a lieutenant on the famed submarine USS Tirante and was awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal and a Presidential Unit Citation for heroism. Sadly, he would die in a traffic accident in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California at the age of 47.

A large imposing mountain man and his Arapahoe Indian wife (Angie Dickinson), whose father led raids on the local settlers face untold prejudice at the hands of Dodge townsfolk, but it's her strength and resilience that overcome the intolerance.

Guest Cast: Angie Dickinson, Peter Whitney, Gage Clarke and Paul Wexler

Notes: Angie Dickinson is an American film and television actress who may be best remembered for her starring role as Sergeant Pepper Anderson in the 1974-1978 NBC police procedural television series, Police Woman for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama. Dickinson made more than 50 movies and her first credited appearance came in Gun the Man Down (1956) with fellow Gunsmoke alum James Arness. She was a frequent guest in numerous TV Westerns in the late 1950s and early 1960s and in this episode she's almost unrecognizable wearing dark makeup playing the character Rose Daggitt.

Paul Wexler was an American character actor who appeared in more than 30 feature films and over 40 different television series. He specialized in macabre or off-beat roles and here he portrays the slow-witted Rodin, one of Rose's attackers.

A Kiowa Indian guide (Frank de Kova) delivers his revenge by stalking the merciless outlaw that humiliated and dishonored him.

A vicious gunfighter brazenly kills an over-matched rancher, now the rancher's grief-stricken brother formulates a life-threatening plan to force Matt to settle the score.

Matt is given the unpleasant task of serving a warrant on an ex-member of Billy the Kid's gang in the small town of Tascosa, Texas but problems arise when three men living completely normal lives fit the limited description supplied to him.

Guest Cast: Carl Betz, Marianne Stewart, Joe De Santis (as Joe de Santis), Tige Andrews, Ward Wood and John Dierkes

Notes: Dialogue within the episode mentions Pat Garrett was pursuing Billy the Kid which may help to date the series from 1880-1881.

Matt guns down three bank robbers in a fierce gunfight, and when the surviving member of the gang calls him a "butcher" it sends him into an emotional tailspin.

Guest Cast: Russell Johnson, Lawrence Dobkin, Gloria Marshall, Harvey Grant and David Saber

Notes: First of four Gunsmoke appearances for Russell Johnson portraying Stanger in this episode. He had several roles in Westerns early in his career but is best remembered for playing the well-known part of Roy Hinkley (The Professor) in the 1964-1967 CBS television series sitcom Gilligan's Island. Johnson enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces and was commissioned a second lieutenant, flying 44 combat missions in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a B-25 Mitchell navigator/bombardier. His B-25 was shot down during a low-level bombing and strafing run against Japanese military targets in the Philippine Islands on March 4, 1945. Russell broke both ankles in the crash and received the Purple Heart for his injuries.

A young woman comes to Dodge in search of her fiancé who has become the town drunk after failing to prosper on his homestead.

Guest Cast: Joseph Sargent, Susan Morrow and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Kitty warns Matt that the new girl in town is nothing but trouble, and her intuition proves correct when the flirtatious young lady manipulates her ardent admirers into facing off against each other in gunfights.

Guest Cast: Karen Sharpe, John Alderson, Walter Reed, John Mitchum, Ken Mayer, George Archambeault and Joseph Mell (uncredited)

A kind and charismatic stranger dying of heart failure stops in Dodge on his way to see the Arizona desert, but his demeanor changes drastically when a man from his past steps into the Long Branch.

Guest Cast: Harry Bartell, Mark Roberts, Paul Dubov, Dan Riss, Howard Ledig and Gorday Clifton

Matt's superior, a government official (John Hoyt) from Washington, comes to Dodge to observe the Marshall's job performance and doesn't like what he sees.

A cruel and verbally abusive farmer abandons his wife and heads to Dodge with his friend for one last fling, to drink his life savings away, but it's his determined spouse that will have the last word.

Guest Cast: Florenz Ames, Frank de Kova, Anne O'Neal and Susan Morrow

Notes: Florenz Ames started his profession in vaudeville as a song and dance man performing with his wife Alice "Adelaide" Winthrop, as "Ames and Winthrop." He had a successful career on Broadway as a stage actor and was a relative newcomer to television when he passed away at the age of 75 on February 11, 1958.

When the drunkard (Tom Greenway) whom Chester escorts to jail is shot dead, Chester is suspected of the murder.

Guest Cast: Peggie Castle (as Peggy Castle), Murray Hamilton, Gage Clarke, Tom Greenway, Tim Graham, Charles J. Conrad (as Charles Conrad), Charles King (uncredited), and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Professor Jacoby (Sebastian Cabot) is a photographer from back East in Dodge, willing to do anything for a picture, even to the point of committing murder.

Guest Cast: Sebastian Cabot, Dean Fredericks, Ned Glass, Charles Horvath, Howard Culver, Dorothy Schuyler, Charles King (uncredited), and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Sam Rickers(Don Keefer) shot a man dead in the back to try and claim a $1,000 reward, but it turns out that the dead man was never wanted by the law.

Guest Cast: Don Keefer, Catherine McLeod (as Catherine McCleod), Robert Griffin, Charles King (uncredited), and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

A saloon gal's old beau (Michael Pate) is in town, and she expects trouble when he finds out where she is working.

A weird whiskey drummer named Wilbur Hawkins (Vic Perrin) claims to Matt that he overheard a man making an offer to pay 300 dollars to kill him, and shortly thereafter an attempt is made on Matt's life.

Guest Cast: Vic Perrin, Robert Burton, Robert Karnes, and Bert Rumsey

A former gunslinger (Andrew Duggan) wants to marry a woman (Peggy Webber) whose brother (Robert F. Simon) may be willing to resort to violence to keep her from leaving home.

Guest Cast: Andrew Duggan, Peggy Webber, Robert F. Simon, Susan Morrow, James Nusser, Charles King (uncredited), and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Notes: Guest star Charles King died on May 7, 1957, three days after this episode aired.

Matt seeks evidence to convict a poker dealer (Phillip Pine) of murdering a gambler (Stafford Repp).

Despicable gunman Joe Delk (Harold J. Stone) provokes Lew and Billy Baxter and easily kills the inexperienced young men in gunfights, but Matt's swift and unexpected reaction soon has Delk experiencing nightmares and self-doubt.

Guest Cast: Harold J. Stone, Steven Terrell, Robert C. Ross, Harry Woods (as Harry Wood), Sheila Noonan, Hal Baylor, and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Uncle Oliver (Earle Hodgins) arrives in town and believes his simpleton nephew (Paul Wexler) would be a good deputy for Matt, instead of Chester.

Kitty's long-lost father (John Dehner), who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her back to New Orleans with him.

Guest Cast: John Dehner, Judson Pratt, Cyril Delevanti, and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Major Emmett Egan (Herbert Rudley), a retired Army officer has been approved for the job of marshal by the War Department. Matt agrees to let him have his job if Egan shadows him for a week to see if he can handle it.

Guest Cast: Herbert Rudley, Alex Sharp, Kelly Thordsen, Walt Barnes, Kirby Smith, Clancy Cooper, June Carter Cash (as June Carter), Ned Glass, George Selk, and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

Notes: June Carter Cash's first credited acting role. Made some eleven years before her third and final marriage to music legend Johnny Cash.

Hank Shinn (Denver Pyle) is a newcomer in town bragging about his reputation as a gunman, but Marshal Dillon suspects he is nothing more than a liar.

Guest Cast: Denver Pyle, Strother Martin, Fred Graham, John Doucette, Fred Graham, Howard Culver, and Bert Rumsey (uncredited)

A card dealer (Jack Kelly), newly married, wants to kill his old friend, Marshal Dillon, when a crooked gambler (Than Wyenn) starts rumors that Dillon is courting the dealer's wife (Joan Tetzel).

Matt is determined to find out who hired gunman Nate Springer (John Dehner) and why he seems so jumpy, much different from his steel-nerved reputation.

Guest Cast: John Dehner, Jess Kirkpatrick, Howard Culver, Preston Hanson and Brick Sullivan

Notes: The fourth of John Dehner's twelve appearances.

Chester claims the new stranger in town is really there to kill him.

When Harry Speener (Vinton Hayworth) learns that the man who saved his life is wanted fugitive, he kills him for the reward.

Guest Cast: Vinton Hayworth, James Dobson, Lawrence Green, George Selk, Robert Nash and Allan Nixon

Kitty's old boyfriend, Cole Yankton (Ainslie Pryor) comes to town to rob the bank.

A desperate prairie family lures Matt and Chester out of town with a tale of murder.

Guest Cast: Robert F. Simon, Tom Pittman, Jeanette Nolan and Morgan Woodward

A young man (George Brenlin) seeks his father's unknown killer so he can avenge his death.

Guest Cast: Edward Binns, George Brenlin, James Maloney, Dabbs Greer and George Selk

Mavis McCloud (Fay Spain), fresh from the east comes to Dodge to get married and falls prey to frontier violence.

Guest Cast: Fay Spain, Max Showalter (credited as Casey Adams), Robert Cornthwaite, Kelly Thordsen, Howard Culver and Dan Sheridan

A drifter (Wright King), saved from lynching at the hands of two ranchers (Anthony Caruso and Ken Lynch) seeks revenge.

Inspired by the play Romeo and Juliet, the children (Barbara Eden and Robert Vaughn) of feuding family patriarchs (Barry Kelley and Tyler McVey) fall in love.

Matt hunts down two drifters (Buddy Baer and Tom Greenway), who dragged Chester behind their horses and left him for dead.

Guest Cast: Buddy Baer, Woodrow Chambliss, Tom Greenway, Paul Birch and Gary Vinson

Hank Luz (Karl Swenson) is suspicious of Jim Cobbett (John Larch) when his second wife (Virginia Christine) vanishes just like his first.

Matt and Chester keep watch for a killer (Pernell Roberts) who is murdering stagecoach passengers in cold blood.

Guest Cast: Barry Atwater, Pernell Roberts, Robert Brubaker, John Parrish, Jolene Brand and George Cisar

A hardworking woman's (Anne Barton) plan to adopt a baby are jeopardized when Matt discovers her husband (Val Avery) is involved in cattle rustling.

Doc confesses to murdering a man (Jack Lord) that shot his horse, but the man's brother seeks revenge.

Guest Cast: Jack Lord, Bruce Wendell, Netta Packer, Jean Fenwick and Brick Sullivan.

Kitty is abandoned by an Eastern suitor (Warren Stevens) on the plains.

Guest Cast: Warren Stevens, Gage Clarke, Brett King, Stephen Ellsworth and George Selk

Matt gets caught in the middle of an Ozark-mountain family feud when the two remaining survivors come to Dodge City.

Matt and Chester travel to the small town of Elkader to arrest a wanted man but find they must first expose a bogus U.S. Marshall (Paul Richards).

Guest Cast: Paul Richards, Morey Amsterdam, William Kendis, Jack Reitzen and Ken Becker

Matt and Chester ride out to a buffalo hunter's camp to investigate the death of a man Doc found.

Guest Cast: Patricia Smith, Jack Klugman, John Anderson and Abel Fernandez

Notes: The fight scene near the end of this episode serves as the basis for an educational film produced by the American Cinema Editors, called Film Editing: Interpretation & Values, used by film students all around the world.[40][41]

Kitty is taken hostage during a bank robbery by the Gunther brothers (Pat Conway and Bruce Gordon) and they warn Matt not to follow.

Guest Cast: Bruce Gordon, Pat Conway, John Compton, William Keene and Charles Tannen

Two ranchers use unscrupulous methods to steal land.

A strong-willed woman frees her son from Matt's custody, but the Marshall is determined to bring him to justice.

"There's no law west of Dodge." Two writers (Werner Klemperer and Jack Weston) from New York want to see if it's true and unwittingly cause an Indian uprising.

Guest Cast: Werner Klemperer, Jack Weston, Theodore Newton, George Selk, Eddie Little Sky (as Eddie Little), K.L. Smith and David Whorf, (Kit Guard, Tex Holden, Ted Smile and Brick Sullivan appear uncredited)

Notes: During the scene at the Indian burial grounds, hammering can be heard off camera, but Matt and Chester show no interest.

Werner Klemperer is best known for playing the role of Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the television sitcom Hogan's Heros.

Matt meets a young boy (Paul Engle) who tells him his father was abducted the night before.

Matt seeks shelter from a blizzard in a cabin and encounters two psychopathic bank robbers (Claude Akins and Harry Dean Stanton).

Guest Cast: Claude Akins, Patricia Barry and Harry Dean Stanton (as Dean Stanton)

A newlywed man (Wayne Morris) is shot moments after his wedding.

Guest Cast: June Lockhart, Wayne Morris, Ian MacDonald, Gail Kobe and Barry McGuire

Matt sets out to clear Emmett Dooley (Strother Martin), who has been accused of murdering one of his hunting companions.

A man suspected of horse theft is hanged, but within minutes the perpetrators find out that he was innocent.

Guest Cast: Virginia Gregg, Bartlett Robinson, Weston Gavin (as James Kevin), Michael Hinn, Kevin Hagen, Herbert Lytton (as Herbert C. Lytton) and Craig Duncan

The town drunk (John Dehner) attacks the new Faro dealer (Ross Martin), who just arrived in Dodge.

Guest Cast: John Dehner, Peggy McCay, Ross Martin, Barney Phillips and Roxane Berard

Notes: Barney Phillips assumes the role of Bill Pence, half owner of the Long Branch.

The town bully is humiliated in a traveling show and seeks retribution.

Guest Cast: June Dayton, Val Benedict, Cyril Delevanti, Dean Harens and Jess Kirkpatrick

A Texas trail boss is determined to prevent Matt from learning which one of his men is responsible for murder.

Guest Cast: Allan Lane, Clarke Gordon (as Clark Gordon), Ned Glass, Stafford Repp and John Mitchum

A bitter old woman comes to Dodge to die and tells Matt, "You're going to kill me".

Guest Cast: Jeanette Nolan and Lou Krugman

Dodge merchants are committing suicide but Matt suspects something more nefarious.

Matt attempts to save a young girl from bad decisions but her boyfriend causes trouble for all of them.

Guest Cast: Ed Kemmer (as Edward Kemmer), Myrna Fahey, Aaron Saxon, Robert Brubaker and Joel Smith

Matt investigates three con artists who defraud the bank, but they flee taking Doc hostage.

Guest Cast: Raymond Bailey, Joseph Kearns, Alan Dexter, Gordon Mills and Perry Ivins

Notes: Doc tells Matt in this episode that he was a doctor on the Tennessee Belle, a Mississippi riverboat.

Raymond Bailey is best known for his role as banker Milburn Drysdale on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Matt is suspicious of a gentleman gambler, especially after he proposes to a recently widowed woman.

Matt arrests a wanted murderer, but his partner tries to break him out so both of them can avoid punishment.

An Army major threatens to put Dodge under martial law after soldiers transporting the Fort's payroll are killed in a robbery.

An outlaw (Peter Mamakos) has plans to hold up a stagecoach full of passengers including Matt and his prisoner (Simon Oakland).

Guest Cast: Simon Oakland, Peter Mamakos, Clem Bevans, James Gavin, Forrest Stanley, Jan Arvan, Jimmy Cross and Al Hopson

A gambler (Jack Cassidy) comes to Dodge and puts himself in the middle of a torrid relationship.

Matt is being framed for killing a man.

Guest Cast: Bruce Gordon, Robert J. Wilke, Elisha Cook Jr., Adam Howe, Martin Balk, Allen Kramer, Jess Kirkpatrick, Jack Lester, Dick Rich and Johnny Western

Notes: This episode helps to date the series. Wild Bill Hickok was Marshall of Abilene, Kansas from April to December of 1871.

Matt doubts the veracity of a Long Branch saloon girl who claims she saw a trail hand kill a man.

Matt investigates an Indian raid that wiped out a family.

An unscrupulous Eastern businessman (Harry Townes) is purchasing all the local freight lines.

Matt is reluctant in evicting a man and his expectant wife from their ranch.

Matt and Chester out riding the range are suspicious of a man (Ron Randell) with two beautiful horses who is very unfriendly and in a big hurry.

Guest Cast: Ron Randell, Walt Barnes, Dan Blocker and George Selk

Masked gunmen hold up a stagecoach carrying Matt and Chester. Later back in Dodge, Matt recognizes one of the robber's voices.

Without more evidence, Matt is reluctant to arrest his friend who had an on-going feud with a man found shot in the back.

Matt is suspicious of a newcomer who asks for a deputy's badge and is leading immigrants to property outside of Dodge.

A rancher (George Macready) traumatized by a lynching in his past takes the law into his own hands which leads to disastrous results.

Guest Cast: George Macready, Bing Russell, Charles H. Gray, O.Z. Whitehead, Chuck Hayward, Michael Hinn, Robert Montgomery Jr., George Selk and Don Lloyd

Notes: Bing Russell is the father of actor Kurt Russell.

Two gamblers attempt to bribe Matt and when he tells them to get out of Dodge, they hire a gunman to intimidate him.

Guest Cast: Philip Abbott, Pat Conway, James Westerfield, Gregg Palmer and Charles Devin

A homesteader believes Indians are harassing him at night and after Matt tells him to get a rifle, he mistakingly shoots and kills a cowhand.

A farmer who doesn't trust doctors blames Doc for the death of his wife.

A girl engaged to be married refuses to testify against the stagecoach robber who kidnapped her.

An old frontier plainsman is wrongfully accused of murdering a man who shot his dog.

Guest Cast: Andy Clyde, Warren Oates and Charles Maxwell

Matt and Chester are caught in the middle of a bitter and bloody feud between two mountain families.

Guest Cast: William Schallert, Anne Barton, Hope Summers and Albert Linville

The widow of an aging cattleman is in love with one of the men who is suspected of killing her husband.

Chester's uncle comes to Dodge and based on letters from Chester believes him to be the Marshall.

Guest Cast: Dabbs Greer, Charles Fredericks, Earl Parker, Howard Culver and George Selk

An elderly sheepherder who opposes violence refuses to tell Matt the identity of the two cattlemen who are tormenting him.

A recently released convict breaks his parole when he comes to Dodge to kill Matt.

Guest Cast: Jacqueline Scott (as Jacquline Scott), Kevin Hagen, Hampton Fancher and Cactus Mack

Matt helps a trail boss fend off Jayhawkers by escorting his cattle herd to Dodge.

Guest Cast: Jack Elam, Ken Curtis, Lane Bradford, Chuck Hayward, Earl Parker, Cliff Ketchum and Bradley Paine (as Brad Paine)

Notes: Jayhawkers were militant gangs who often clashed with pro-slavery factions. Today a Jayhawker is a nickname for anybody born in Kansas.

The brother of a family friend visits Kitty and is displeased to find her running a saloon and when trouble ensues, she objects to his efforts to save her honor.

Guest Cast: Barry McGuire, Addison Powell, Richard Rust, Robert Brubaker, Tom Greenway, Ben Wright and Howard Culver

Matt investigates the murder of an older saloon girl. The prime suspect, a young cowboy who fled the scene.

Guest Cast: Allen Case, Olive Blakeney, Roy Barcroft, Patricia Huston, Linda Watkins and Charles P. Thompson (as Charles Thompson)

Doc is resentful and feels sorry for himself when a new town doctor comes to town and makes off with his patients.

Guest Cast: Wendell Holmes, Bartlett Robinson, Jack Younger, Fiona Hale, Jack Grinnage and Bert Rumsey

A former saloon girl's upcoming marriage is put in jeopardy by her old boyfriend when he frames the bridegroom for murder.

Guest Cast: Grant Williams, Norma Crane, Denver Pyle, Russell Johnson and Guy Wilkerson

Matt and Chester's friend is mistaken for the Marshall and shot in the back by a coward.

Guest Cast: Barry Atwater, House Peters Jr., James Beck (as Jim Beck), William Phipps, Barney Phillips, George Selk, John Close and Sheldon Allman

Matt investigates a series of crimes linked to one man, but Chester bungles the outcome.

Guest Cast: Bert Freed, Fay Roope, Joe Flynn, Steve Raines and Edward Faulkner (as Ed Faulkner)

Notes: Joe Flynn played Captain Wallace Binghamton in the 1960s television comedy McHale's Navy.

Matt suspects the new saloon girl of being associated with a crooked gambler.

Guest Cast: Mark Miller, Whitney Blake, Roy Engel, Dabbs Greer, Walter Burke, Allan Lurie, Stephen Roberts, George Douglas, Guy Teague and Robert Swan

Matt and Chester rescue a white woman and her half-Indian daughter held captive for ten years.

Guest Cast: Peggy Stewart, Robert Karnes, Robert Rockwell, Charles Fredericks, Phil Harvey, Joseph Kearns (as Joe Kearns), Raymond Guth, Mike Gibson and Wendy Stuart

Notes: Robert Rockwell played biology teacher, Philip Boynton in the radio and television sitcom Our Miss Brooks.

Matt tracks down a "white renegade" who's selling guns to a small band of Indians that jumped the reservation.

Guest Cast: Michael Pate, Barney Phillips, Robert Brubaker, Dabbs Greer and Hank Patterson

Matt defends a local boy, wanted for murder in a nearby town run by a corrupt sheriff.

Guest Cast: Ed Nelson, Onslow Stevens, Mort Mills, Fay Roope, Joseph Kearns (as Joe Kearns) and George Selk

Matt is suspicious of a saloon girl who comes between two brothers that have inherited their father's ranch.

Guest Cast: Lucy Marlow, James Drury, Ken Curtis and Fay Roope

Notes: James Drury played the lead in another Western television series, The Virginian.

Matt pursues a demented buffalo hunter who savagely kills his own men.

Guest Cast: Harold J. Stone, Garry Walberg, Lou Krugman, William Meigs, Sam Buffington, Tom Holland, Brett King and Scott Stevens

Matt helps a young gunman who is trying to go straight.

Guest Cast: Darryl Hickman, Robert Brubaker, Charles Maxwell and Dick Rich

Notes: Darryl Hickman is the older brother of Dwayne Hickman who played the lead in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

A well-known gunfighter comes to Dodge and wants to add to his reputation by killing Matt.

A rancher is suspected of murder after an unscrupulous lawyer tries to con him out of his land.

Guest Cast: J. Pat O'Malley, Lew Brown, Ted Knight and Robert Ivers

Notes: Ted Knight who played the lawyer Jay Rabb, was the vain and shallow newscaster Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show which may be his greatest success, winning him two Emmy's in 1973 and 1976.

When Will Asper is eavesdropping at the lawyer's window you can see an electrical outlet on the wall, next to the tree.

The ranch has been used in several past episodes; the giveaway is the large tree next to the corral.

Dodge City's merchants are unhappy when Matt clamps down on a Texas trail boss and his men.

Guest Cast: John Larch, Strother Martin, Pitt Herbert, William Bryant, Joel Ashley, Scott Peters, Joseph Kearns (as Joe Kearns), Joseph Breen, Robert DeCost, Dan Sheridan, John Mitchum, Lee J. Winters (as Lee Winters) and Victor Lundin (as Vic Lundin)

Notes: Joseph Kearns may be best remembered as George Wilson on the CBS television series Dennis the Menace. In this episode, his last of four appearances on Gunsmoke he plays Botkin, the town's banker, replacing Fay Roope.

Dan Sheridan plays Dobie, his last of three appearances. He will go on to play bartender Jake Summers in Lawman and pass away four years later of cancer in 1963 at the age of 46.

Matt is injured and makes an ethical decision when an Indian he saved in the past now comes to his rescue.

Guest Cast: Gene Nelson, Michael Pate, William Murphy and Monte Hale

Notes: Blue Horse was an Oglala Lakota chief. He signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, along with his brothers Chief American Horse the Elder and Chief Red Cloud.

While the Calvary searches for a small band of Cheyenne, Matt and Chester focus on the gunrunners that supplied the renegades with rifles.

Guest Cast: Walter Brooke, Tom Brown, Ralph Moody, Chuck Roberson, Eddie Little Sky, Edward G. Robinson Jr. (as Edward Robinson, Jr.), Dennis Cross and Kim Winona (as Connie Buck)

Notes: Eddie Little Sky who played the warrior, was a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe. He was one of the first Native American actors to play Native American roles, appearing in 36 films and over 60 television shows.

Edward G. Robinson Jr. who played Brown, was the son of Edward G. Robinson, best remembered for his tough-guy and gangster's roles.

Kim Winona who played the daughter, was an enrolled member of the Santee Sioux people.

Tobe Hostader (Harry Townes) who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help, and takes up with a saloon gal (Mary LaRoche), not knowing she's on the run from a beau (Philip Abbott) who's a con man and a killer.

Cast: Harry Townes, Mary LaRoche, Philip Abbott, Susan Morrow, L.Q. Jones, Sarah Selby, Harry Dean Stanton, Bud Osborne, John Newton, and S. John Launer

Note: Final performance of Bud Osborne.

Elmo Sippy (Andrew Prine), a mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.

An ex-convict comes to Dodge with the intention of shooting Matt dead.