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Season 1 Episode 31: How to Die for Nothing

Trail herder Howard Bulow swears to shoot Marshal Dillon in the back after he kills his drunken brother in self-defense.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Matt Gets It

1. Matt Gets It

Aired: Sep 10, 1955

Matt is critically wounded while attempting to arrest super-fast gunman Dan G...

Episode 2 Hot Spell

2. Hot Spell

Aired: Sep 17, 1955

Temperatures are high, tempers are short, and Matt is unenviably duty-bound t...

Episode 3 Word of Honor

3. Word of Honor

Aired: Oct 1, 1955

Doc is sworn to secrecy to protect a cruel gang guilty of murder.

Episode 4 Home Surgery

4. Home Surgery

Aired: Oct 8, 1955

The frightened teenage daughter of a rancher enlists Matt to attempt to save ...

Episode 5 Obie Tater

5. Obie Tater

Aired: Oct 15, 1955

An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where ...

Episode 6 Night Incident

6. Night Incident

Aired: Oct 29, 1955

Matt is dubious of young Timmy Wyatt's stories concerning nighttime robberies...

Episode 8 Kite's Reward

8. Kite's Reward

Aired: Nov 11, 1955

Dillon takes away the gun of Andy Travis after he kills a man in self defense...

Episode 9 The Hunter

9. The Hunter

Aired: Nov 25, 1955

Marshal Dillon has to keep bullying buffalo hunter Jase Murdock from travelin...

Episode 10 The Queue

10. The Queue

Aired: Dec 2, 1955

Two men cut off a Chinese immigrant's pigtail, and he tells Matt that he can ...

Episode 12 Magnus

12. Magnus

Aired: Dec 23, 1955

Chester is concerned when his nomadic and "uncivilized" brother pays a Christ...

Episode 13 Reed Survives

13. Reed Survives

Aired: Dec 30, 1955

Booth Rider is being played for a sucker by the wife of the ranch owner he wo...

Episode 14 Professor Lute Bone

14. Professor Lute Bone

Aired: Jan 6, 1956

Professor Bone is a well meaning medicine man who shows up in Dodge selling a...

Episode 15 No Handcuffs

15. No Handcuffs

Aired: Jan 20, 1956

Hank Springer who claims the sheriff of Mingo framed him for murder, escapes ...

Episode 16 Reward for Matt

16. Reward for Matt

Aired: Jan 27, 1956

A woman puts a price on Matt's head after he shoots down her husband.

Episode 17 Robin Hood

17. Robin Hood

Aired: Feb 3, 1956

Holdup man John Henry Jordan repeatedly escapes conviction by robbing only th...

Episode 18 Yorky

18. Yorky

Aired: Feb 17, 1956

A young white boy, taken hostage years earlier by the Pawnee, must steal from...

Episode 19 20-20

19. 20-20

Aired: Feb 24, 1956

Troy Carver is an aging ex lawman with poor eyesight being chased by a dirt f...

Episode 20 Reunion '78

20. Reunion '78

Aired: Mar 2, 1956

Long Branch hostess Belle Archer sees Jerry Shand shoot a former Quantrill Ra...

Episode 21 Helping Hand

21. Helping Hand

Aired: Mar 16, 1956

Matt saves suspected 18 year old cattle thief Steve Elser, from a would be ly...

Episode 22 Tap Day for Kitty

22. Tap Day for Kitty

Aired: Mar 23, 1956

Matt suspects Kitty of shooting and wounding an old man who attempted to abdu...

Episode 23 Indian Scout

23. Indian Scout

Aired: Mar 30, 1956

Amos Cartwright is an Indian scout for the army and is suspected of deliberat...

Episode 24 The Pest Hole

24. The Pest Hole

Aired: Apr 13, 1956

When an epidemic of typhoid fever hits Dodge, some citizens want to take the ...

Episode 25 The Big Broad

25. The Big Broad

Aired: Apr 27, 1956

A large woman and her small companion bring trouble to Kitty's saloon, as the...

Episode 26 Hack Prine

26. Hack Prine

Aired: May 12, 1956

Far from Dodge and without a horse Matt Dillon still manages to bring in Lee ...

Episode 27 Cooter

27. Cooter

Aired: May 19, 1956

After Matt exposes gambler Ben Sissle as a cheat, Sissle attempts to exact re...

Episode 28 The Killer

28. The Killer

Aired: May 26, 1956

Matt must go to extreme lengths to stop the killing spree of a psychopathic m...

Episode 29 Doc's Revenge

29. Doc's Revenge

Aired: Jun 9, 1956

A stranger comes to Dodge, and Doc bewilders and dismays Chester and Matt by ...

Episode 30 The Preacher

30. The Preacher

Aired: Jun 16, 1956

A brutal prize fighter who has been punching on a meek preacher, kidnaps him ...

Episode 32 Dutch George

32. Dutch George

Aired: Jun 30, 1956

Dutch George runs a large horse theft operation. The law can't touch him beca...

Episode 33 Prairie Happy

33. Prairie Happy

Aired: Jul 7, 1956

Matt tries to quell rumors of a planned Pawnee attack.

Episode 35 The Guitar

35. The Guitar

Aired: Jul 21, 1956

Weed Pindle is a friendly guitar player in Dodge, but when certain cowboys fi...

Episode 36 Cara

36. Cara

Aired: Jul 28, 1956

An old flame of Matt's comes to town, but her presence in Dodge may be motiva...

Episode 37 Mr. and Mrs. Amber

37. Mr. and Mrs. Amber

Aired: Aug 4, 1956

A struggling prairie couple endures harassment and torment at the hands of th...

Episode 38 Unmarked Grave

38. Unmarked Grave

Aired: Aug 18, 1956

A distraught middle-aged woman becomes determined to aid a young murderer in ...

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Info about Gunsmoke

Seasons: 20

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Western