1. Target
Air date: 1959-09-05 · 60 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.
Open episode 1 ↗Gunsmoke
Season 5.
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2. Kitty's Injury
Air date: 1959-09-19 · 60 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.
Open episode 2 ↗3. Horse Deal
Air date: 1959-09-26 · 60 min
Deesha is running a scam in which his partner sells an unbranded horse to an unsuspecting buyer, after which Deesha moves in to claim the horse, leaving the buyer with nothing.
Open episode 3 ↗4. Johnny Red
Air date: 1959-10-03 · 60 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.
Open episode 4 ↗5. Tail to the Wind
Air date: 1959-10-10 · 60 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.
Open episode 5 ↗6. Annie Oakley
Air date: 1959-10-17 · 60 min
Is the homely, sharp-tongued, middle-aged wife of a homesteader really inspiring men to fight to the death for her affections?
Open episode 6 ↗7. Kangaroo
Air date: 1959-10-24 · 60 min
Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself.
Open episode 7 ↗8. Saludos
Air date: 1959-10-31 · 60 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.
Open episode 8 ↗9. Brother Whelp
Air date: 1959-11-07 · 60 min
A man wants a gunfight with his brother when he returns home, after years away, and finds him married to his girl.
Open episode 9 ↗10. The Boots
Air date: 1959-11-14 · 60 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.
Open episode 10 ↗11. Odd Man Out
Air date: 1959-11-21 · 60 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.
Open episode 11 ↗12. Miguel's Daughter
Air date: 1959-11-28 · 60 min
A father threatens to kill the two drifters who have been plaguing his daughter.
Open episode 12 ↗13. Box o' Rocks
Air date: 1959-12-05 · 60 min
A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.
Open episode 13 ↗14. False Witness
Air date: 1959-12-12 · 30 min
A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.
Open episode 14 ↗15. Tag, You're It
Air date: 1959-12-19 · 30 min
When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them.
Open episode 15 ↗16. Thick 'n' Thin
Air date: 1959-12-26 · 30 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.
Open episode 16 ↗17. Groat's Grudge
Air date: 1960-01-02 · 60 min
An ex-Confederate waits to settle the score with the Union man whose unit cost him a loved one and property in the civil war.
Open episode 17 ↗18. Big Tom
Air date: 1960-01-09 · 60 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.
Open episode 18 ↗19. Till Death Do Us
Air date: 1960-01-16 · 60 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.
Open episode 19 ↗20. The Tragedian
Air date: 1960-01-23 · 60 min
Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards
Open episode 20 ↗21. Hinka Do
Air date: 1960-01-30 · 60 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?
Open episode 21 ↗22. Doc Judge
Air date: 1960-02-06 · 60 min
While Matt is out of town an ex-convict comes hunting Doc believing, despite the doctor's protests, that he is the judge who sentenced the man to a long stretch in prison.
Open episode 22 ↗23. Moo Moo Raid
Air date: 1960-02-13 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 23 ↗24. Kitty's Killing
Air date: 1960-02-20 · 30 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.
Open episode 24 ↗25. Jailbait Janet
Air date: 1960-02-27 · 30 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.
Open episode 25 ↗26. Unwanted Deputy
Air date: 1960-03-05 · 30 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.
Open episode 26 ↗27. Where'd They Go
Air date: 1960-03-12 · 30 min
Accused of being the masked robber of the general store, a homesteader agrees to come along quietly with Matt and Chester, but he asks that they help him complete a few chores about the place for his poor wife, who's in the family way.
Open episode 27 ↗28. Crowbait Bob
Air date: 1960-03-26 · 30 min
A dying man's relations are much displeased when they learn that he's willed all he owns to Kitty.
Open episode 28 ↗29. Colleen So Green
Air date: 1960-04-02 · 30 min
A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but Kitty isn't falling for her charms.
Open episode 29 ↗30. The Ex-Urbanites
Air date: 1960-04-09 · 30 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.
Open episode 30 ↗31. I Thee Wed
Air date: 1960-04-16 · 30 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.
Open episode 31 ↗32. The Lady Killer
Air date: 1960-04-23 · 30 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.
Open episode 32 ↗33. Gentleman's Disagreement
Air date: 1960-04-30 · 30 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.
Open episode 33 ↗34. Speak Me Fair
Air date: 1960-05-07 · 30 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.
Open episode 34 ↗35. Belle's Back
Air date: 1960-05-14 · 30 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.
Open episode 35 ↗36. The Bobsy Twins
Air date: 1960-05-21 · 30 min
Two brothers have decided that it is their mission to rid the West of Indians.
Open episode 36 ↗37. Old Flame
Air date: 1960-05-28 · 30 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.
Open episode 37 ↗38. The Deserter
Air date: 1960-06-04 · 30 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.
Open episode 38 ↗39. Cherry Red
Air date: 1960-06-11 · 30 min
The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.
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