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View More. Were Gunsmoke actors in these movies before, during or after their time on the show? Can you match these movies to the TV Western with the same name? Can you tell the difference between Kitty Russell and Lou Mallory? Melissa Gilbert got her dramatic acting start on Gunsmoke before hitting the Prairie.

No one in Hollywood really knew the real James Arness — and he liked it that way. Johnny Whitaker's big family made his TV fame feel like a normal childhood. Do these things take more or less time than watching all of Gunsmoke? This Gunsmoke guest star was so good at playing bad, women yelled at him on the street. Did these classic TV shows begin or end the same year?

How well do you know Miss Kitty Russell from Gunsmoke? Can you fill in the missing character names for these Gunsmoke episode titles? Can you guess which classic Western these child stars are in? At the age of 84, Mayberry regular Burt Mustin made his singing debut with Elvis and a mop. Marshal Dillon goes into action against this outlaw who shoots before he talks. Remind Me. Cope is proven innocent of the charge, but later kills Bradley's nephew in a fair fight during a gambling dispute.

The kidnappers call on Doc to aid young Hank, who has been shot in the back while trying to escape. His only hope for survival is amputation of the affected leg. Ep 5: Obie Tater An old prospector named Obie Tater causes trouble for himself, his bride, and Matt when he refuses to tell where his fortune of gold is hidden. He has a habit of telling tall tales, so no one will believe him. Josh tells Matt he paid Clay for the property. Clay denies it. Ep 8: Kite's Reward Andy Travis shoots a guy.

Matt tells him you're real good with the gun, but you have a choice either put it down or you will have to constantly prove yourself. Ep The Queue After two bullies cut off Chen's pig-tail queue , the man vows vengeance.

Ep Magnus Chester is concerned when his nomadic and "uncivilized" brother pays a Christmas visit to Dodge, but Magnus Goode proves worldlier and more adaptable to town life than anyone thought possible.

Ep Reed Survives Lucy also professes her love for handsome Booth Rider, and concocts a scheme in which Ephram is the intended victim. Booth becomes the unwitting pawn in a homicide that culminates in an ironic twist of fate. Ep Professor Lute Bone Doc is so angered by a traveling medicine man and his opium elixir that he wants to get a gun and shoot him. When a fellow comes to town trying to kill Professor Lute Bone because his father died drinking his elixir, Bone decides that it's time to give up the patent medicine business.

Everyone in the country from sodbusters to gunslingers is out to get the reward. He's found innocent. Matt asks Vince a card sharp he reformed to clean out Jordan. Jordan rides off. Matt's going to follow, but Chester says Vince has been hurt bad. Ep Yorky Yorky, a white boy who was brought up by Arapahoes, is victimized by horse thieves. Seeking revenge, he gets shot by Abe Brandt and his son who said that Yorky was trying to steal "their" horses. Ep Troy Carver, an aging ex-lawman gets off the stage.

Matt calls to him. Troy turns and almost shoots Matt. Matt tells Troy if someone is after you I'll help. Troy says mind your own business. Moss tells Matt Lee Polen has been hanging for several days. Lee says he's going to kill Troy for killing his brother. Jerry has a grudge against Andy Cully, a paunchy hardware drummer. At the Long Branch Jerry is beating Andy up. Matt's ready to lock Jerry up. Andy bails him out. Jerry knows Andy is a murderer. Ep Helping Hand A would-be tough guy picks on the wrong man in an attempt to make a name for himself when he tries to involve Marshal Matt Dillon by staging a street fight.

When he won't leave her alone she declares she'll shoot him if he pesters her anymore. Out at night, he's shot in the back and Kitty is suspected, but then she is shot at too. Will Bailey lost his brother. Will says Amos Cartwright, the scout led them into an ambush. Matt tells Bailey let the cavalry handle it, and leave Amos alone. Ep The Pest Hole Doc is using the jail to quarantine people as they fall ill.

The common thread between them seems to be that they all had a dinner meeting together, about the upcoming German festival, at Bendino's restaurant. Chester accuses Emmett of cheating. Lena socks him. Lena uses a bottle on a guy. Matt's trying to figure out how to handle her. Lena kills Ed James, a buffalo hunter who made advances toward her. However he is there as a gunman, to kill Matt Dillon.

Ep Cooter Cooter brings Mr. Ben Sissell, a gambler, a drink. A kid accuses Ben of dealing off the bottom of the deck, and draws. The third man at the table, Pate, shoots the kid.

Ep The Killer Charles Bronson guest stars as a cowardly gunslinger who only goes after old men or young kids who aren't very experienced with guns. But, when Matt Dillon gives him an ultimatum, he shows his true colors. Doc syas to Chester "I'm going kill a man. Ep Dutch George Matt's Childhood hero, Dutch George is now the leader of a notorious gang of horse thieves he must now stop.

Ep Prairie Happy Chester and Matt are out riding when they get shot at by a boy. A buffalo hunter takes his picture of a girl.

Ep Cara Doc tends Cara, who slashed her forearm, to make it look like a suicide attempt. She asks for Matt. They haven't seen each other in twelve years since Yuma. Cara wants to stay awhile. Kitty doesn't want to hear about Matt's old flame. Ep Mr. Amber Peak Fletcher says his sister Sarah Amber stole a calf. She was set up. Ep 1: Cow Doctor After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows, a human patient of Doc's dies.

During a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed. The only problem, he doesn't know what he looks like and the town is protecting Shippen. Ep 4: The Round Up Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble. Mary Cullen tells the colonel, that the twelve year old they got from the Cheyenne is her son Dennis. The Indians took him when he was two years old.

Ep 7: How to Cure a Friend Matt's getting his haircut. The barber tells about a couple of Texans he shaved, who talked about a crooked gambler they played in San Antonio, named Nick Search. Matt saved Nick's life. Nick arrives on the stage and goes to see Bill Pence, who runs the Long Branch, about setting up a poker game. Ep 8: Legal Revenge Doc rides up to the Tibbs house to say his services are available.

Florie won't invite him in, but her husband yells to let him in. He cut his leg chopping wood. Doc wants to take him to Dodge. Forie says no. Doc does what he can. Doc tells Matt Mr. Tibbs was holding a gun under his blanket. It was no wood cutting accident.

She cut him with a knife. Ep 9: The Mistake Kitty is in her cowgirl outfit. She's just return from a morning ride. Earl Haney, who runs the faro table, has had somebody bust his head open. Earl says he had a red shirt, black hair and mustache. Ep Greater Love Doc is sick and tired of working day and night and being paid off in promises.

He wants to go to San Francisco. Matt and Chester go to look. They meet Captain Starr. Matt says he'd like to tag along. They find a man, woman, boy and little girl shot and scalped. Matt remarks every family was killed in the open. Matt says it wasn't Indians. Ep Spring Term Matt talks to a wounded man who was shot with a bullet meant for him. The wounded man says Stone shot him, Matt tells Chester that he knew Stone a while back and is worried that he will be shot next, Chester tells Matt that the Danch left before dawn.

Matt learns that Danch was hired to kill Matt for Stone. Willie meets Pearl in the Long Branch. He asks her to marry him. She says Webb Thorne won't let me marry you. Willie gets a rifle and goes after Webb. McCready accuses the new family of stealing from him.

A man comes looking for Doc because Cholera may have come to Dodge. It's been 20 below the last three nights. Doc checks Ira out, and operates on his foot. Matt tells Ira he'll try to find Jed. Ep The Cover Up Kitty's been riding in her riding skirt. Hoffer says he's going to kill Zach Ritter.

Matt tries to take Hoffer's gun, as Zach enters. Matt gets winged. Ep Sins of the Father Mr. Harry and Fred's wife, Jennifer, plan on running away together. Fred followed Harry after they split up and overheard their plans. Matt can't arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abe's brother Morgan plots revenge.

Morgan, who is unarmed, follows Clegg constantly. Clegg soon grows tired of it and attempts to take care of his "problem. Ep Bloody Hands Matt Dillon begins having nightmares due to a gunfight in which Matt killed three men.

Joe Stranger thinks Matt likes killing people. When Matt refuses to fight him, he calls Matt a coward. Matt turns in his badge because he's sick of killing. Chester comes to her rescue. Ann Cabot arrives from Connecticut to marry Jack Shomer. Matt, Chester and Doc go to see Jack. He's drunk in his shack as usual. They sober him up. Jack says he can't face Ann. Ep Sweet and Sour Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her.

Soon afterward, four men are dead and Rena is the cause. Ep Cain A rancher comes to terms with his past. Kitty threatens to shoot him if he comes back. When Peevy gets shot he tells the marshall that Kitty did it. Someone takes a shot at Kitty and Matt thinks Peevy did it and goes looking for him. Ep Chester's Murder Chester is drinking at the Long Branch and gets into an argument with a gambler over a girl.

When the marshall breaks it up he tells Chester to bring the man to jail. On the way there the man is killed and everyone thinks Chester did it. Matt has to prove Chester is innocent. Jacoby wants to take pictures of how the Wild West looks. When Matt learns someone died he thinks the photographer may have hired someone to kill Grubby for a picture of the west. Laura tells Matt she and Philip were to wed she asks Matt not to say anything about her job. Philip warns Matt that he will be killed if he doesn't tell the truth.

Matt is almost shot while feeding the horses, in Doc Adams's office Matt plans to let everyone thinks he died. Kitty tells a man at The Long Branch is telling a different story. Flora's brother Ben may give Matt some trouble that may lead to Foss Capper's death. Matt then tries to find out if Jack is right.

Ep Who Lives by the Sword Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two young men, who were loved by all in Dodge, but only after being drawn into the gunfights by Delk. Ep Daddy-O Kitty's father, Wayne Russell, arrives in Dodge to meet his daughter after abandoning her and her mother as a baby.

He insists that saloon life is not fit for a proper lady and wants to take her back to New Orleans so he can pamper her and invest her savings in his freight business. Matt then takes Mr. Egan on his rounds. Matt lets Egan try his brand of justice that almost costs Egan his life.

Ep Liar from Blackhawk A drunken man tries to beat Shinn to the draw with his gun but the drunken man dies trying. 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. Ep 3: Blood Money The father of a young gunfighter tries to end his son's career by wounding his gun hand.

Ep 4: Kitty's Outlaw Doc, 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. Ep 6: Jesse Festus runs into Jesse Dillard, who is wanted for shooting a black man. Festus wants to find out more and takes his friend to prison. Ep 8: Born to Hang Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him. Ep 9: Romeo A 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. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay. Ep Fingered Jim Cobb comes to town to marry a woman from back East. Hank accuses Jim of murdering his first wife then of murdering his second wife. Hank doesn't like Jim because Jim got a claim on some land before him. Ep How to Kill a Woman When a man is murdered on a stagecoach, the stagecoach driver thinks that there might some connection between the stagecoach station manager Jesse Daggett and the stagecoach robber Nate Pilcher.

Ep Cows and Cribs When a young couple dies of the fever out on the prairie, Doc, Matt and Chester bring the couple's young baby into Dodge to find a good home for the young baby. Matt turns the baby over to Ma Smalley for temporary care until adoptive parents can be found. Ep Doc's Reward Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The man's brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.

Ep Kitty Lost An 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. Ep Twelfth Night A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.

Ep Claustrophobia Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. 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. Ep Ma Tennis Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story. Ep Wild West Hattie 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. Ep The Cabin Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for. When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman Beulah late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother Henry Troyman thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can.

Ep Dooley Surrenders Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in. Ep Joke's on Us Jake 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. Ep Laughing Gas Ernie 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. Ep Texas Cowboys A Texas cowhand is murdered and they won't tell the Marshall who did it so Matt decides to close all the saloons and shops till they do.

Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester. Lou makes Linda take a job at the Long Branch. Matt is suspicious of Lou and Joe Bassett. Ep The Big Con Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Doc gets kidnapped. Ep Chester's Hanging Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide. Ep Carmen A secret Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers killed.

The Major threatens Matt with marshal law if the thieves aren't caught. Matt suspects Jenny Lane, a new girl at the Long Branch of being involved.

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. Tiller Evans thinks Bonnie is his girl. Matt has to keep Tiller from killing France. However Doc, Matt and Matt's old friend Wild Bill Hickock come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder. Holly Fanshaw was the only person who saw the murder happen and she tells Matt that Fly Hoyt committed the murder The Older Brother Joe Thorp vows revenge for the murder of his Brother.

Ep 3: Gunsmuggler When renegade Pawnee Indians attack some local ranchers, Matt and Major Evans think that white gunrunners supplied the Renegades the rifles. Ep 4: Monopoly A stranger by the name of Ivy comes to Dodge and proceeds to buy up all the local freight lines.

Old Joe Trimble refuses to sell and soon afterwards his home is set on fire. Trimble's wife dies in the fire. Ep 5: Letter of the Law When Matt is forced to serve an eviction notice on farmer Brandon Teek, Matt tries every way he can to help the farmer. Kitty sees him in a gunfight and claims she saw him draw first against two cowboys. One of the men kills a passenger. In Dodge the Marshall recognizes the voice of one of the robbers. But Tiple is a good friend of Matt's and Ben denies murdering Gibbs.

Matt tries to help Ben out. Ep 9: Land Deal A man tries to swindle a group of immigrants with the promise of railroad land and then tries to run off with the wife of one the immigrants. Charlie Drain doesn't think Matt is doing a good enough job trying to find the lynchers and decides to do it himself. When the Marshall refuses they hire an old friend of Matt's Toque Morlan to kill him.

Pope defends himself killing Carter so their boss Ned Curry wants revenge. Ep The Cast Shell Tucker is normally a friendly and peaceful sort of a man. Tucker from this illness.

They fall in love but Laura's fiance wants Jack killed. Ep Snakebite When two town troublemakers kill Poney Thompson's dog , Poney goes after the two men. When one of the men who shot and killed Poney's Dog is found dead, Matt and Chester suspect that Poney killed the man. This puts him in the middle of a feud. Jim kills Jesse. Rod is in love with Jesse's widow Anna.

Jim starts selling Anna's cattle and shoots Rod. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant. So does Coney who's out to kill Matt for putting him in jail for 5 years. Coney gets sick and Abbie takes care of him. Ep Kitty's Rebellion An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed.

Intent on defending her honor wherever she is insulted, he nearly gets himself killed. Kate has a fondness for a younger man almost half her age Billy Daunt. Ep Doc Quits When another doctor shows up in Dodge promising lower doctor's fees and miracle cures, Doc gets angry and many Dodge citizens think Doc Adams has quit as Dodge's doctor.

So he tries to frame Blocker for murder. Ep The Coward Gambler Ed Eby has a grudge against the Marshall and starts talking about how "big" someone would be if they were to kill Matt. Ep The F. When Onie Becker is shot down on the streets of Dodge after quarreling with Al Clovis in a poker game, everyone thinks Al Clovis committed the shooting.

The plot thickens after Matt and Chester pursue Clovis on a train headed out of Dodge. Matt's suspicious and tries to run her and the dealer out of Dodge when men start killing each other over her. Ep Fawn Matt rescues a white woman who was let go by the Cheyene and a child from buffalo hunters then has to protect her from her Boston husband. He gets thrown by his horse and hits his head then gets kidnapped by the Cheyene.

He has a distinct limp, presumably from an old war wound. Though many refer to him as a deputy, he wears no badge or gun. Technically, his duties are to help out around the jail, clean the office, run errands and make coffee.

However, because he is brave and determined, he is always there to back up Matt apprehending outlaws. After Chester departs, Festus Haggen , who has been in and out of Dodge City over time, joins forces with Matt as an official deputy. A Tennessee mountain man, Festus comes from a family of questionable repute.

Indeed, even he has sometimes been on the wrong side of the law. Galen Adams , the town physician. In addition to his surgical and medical skills he doubles as the town veterinarian Doc is a good listener, and will offer his opinion and advice when Matt is stuck on a case. Dinner by candlelight…or campfire. Dennis Weaver Chester as Chester. Glenn Strange Sam as Sam ….

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Storyline Edit. 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. Did you know Edit. He was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division in time for the invasion of Anzio. Ten days after the invasion, he was severely wounded in the leg and foot by machine gun fire. He lost part of his foot, and received a medical discharge from the Army.

When shooting movies or television shows, any scenes that required extensive walking would be shot early in the morning, before his feet and knees started giving out.

Quotes [the teaser of the very first episode, "Matt Gets It. User reviews 50 Review. Top review. Gunsmoke will be remembered as the finest television western series of all time. I remember watching Gunsmoke in the late 's.