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Season 2

Gunsmoke — Season 2

Sep 07, 1956
  • Cow Doctor

    1. Cow Doctor

    Sep 08, 1956

    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.

    26m
  • Brush at Elkader

    2. Brush at Elkader

    Sep 15, 1956

    After his friend Ben Williams is shot down by Lou Shippen, Matt travels to Elkader to bring him him. The only problem, he doesn't know what he looks like and the town is protecting Shippen.

    26m
  • Custer

    3. Custer

    Sep 22, 1956

    Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial.

    26m
  • The Round Up

    4. The Round Up

    Sep 29, 1956

    Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.

    26m
  • Young Man with a Gun

    5. Young Man with a Gun

    Oct 20, 1956

    After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year-old brother arrives to fight Matt.

    26m
  • Indian White

    6. Indian White

    Oct 27, 1956

    At Fort Dodge, home of the third cavalry, Mrs. Mary Cullen tells the colonel that the twelve year old white boy they recovered from the Cheyenne is her son Dennis. The tribe had taken him when he was two years old.

    26m
  • How to Cure a Friend

    7. How to Cure a Friend

    Nov 10, 1956

    Matt is used by an old friend in a con game.

    26m
  • Legal Revenge

    8. Legal Revenge

    Nov 17, 1956

    Doc comes upon a homesteader with a busted leg—and a gun to protect himself from his wife.

    26m
  • The Mistake

    9. The Mistake

    Nov 24, 1956

    Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender', but referred to by Chester as 'Sam Noonan').

    26m
  • Greater Love

    10. Greater Love

    Dec 01, 1956

    An outlaw threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy.

    26m
  • No Indians

    11. No Indians

    Dec 08, 1956

    Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws (including Mickey Simpson) that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians (Fintan Meyler and Herbert Rudley appear).

    26m
  • Spring Term

    12. Spring Term

    Dec 15, 1956

    Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating.

    26m
  • Poor Pearl

    13. Poor Pearl

    Dec 22, 1956

    Matt helps a woman whose suitors are about to duel for her affections.

    26m
  • Cholera

    14. Cholera

    Dec 29, 1956

    A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear).

    26m
  • Pucket's New Year

    15. Pucket's New Year

    Jan 05, 1957

    An old buffalo hunter (Edgar Stehli) swears revenge on the skinner (Grant Withers) that left him to die (Richard Deacon appears as banker Botkin, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender').

    26m
  • The Cover Up

    16. The Cover Up

    Jan 12, 1957

    Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear).

    26m
  • Sins of the Father

    17. Sins of the Father

    Jan 19, 1957

    An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).

    26m
  • Kick Me

    18. Kick Me

    Jan 26, 1957

    A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears).

    26m
  • Executioner

    19. Executioner

    Feb 02, 1957

    A young gunfighter, Tom Clegg, forces farmer Abe Curry into a duel and kills him. Matt can't arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abe's brother Morgan plots revenge.

    26m
  • Gone Straight

    20. Gone Straight

    Feb 09, 1957

    Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear).

    26m
  • Bloody Hands

    21. Bloody Hands

    Feb 16, 1957

    The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed (Lawrence Dobkin, Russell Johnson, and Gloria Marshall appear).

    26m
  • Skid Row

    22. Skid Row

    Feb 23, 1957

    An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her.

    26m
  • Sweet and Sour

    23. Sweet and Sour

    Mar 02, 1957

    Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kitty's negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, 4 men are dead and Rena is the cause.

    26m
  • Cain

    24. Cain

    Mar 09, 1957

    Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.

    26m
  • Bureaucrat

    25. Bureaucrat

    Mar 16, 1957

    A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.

    26m
  • Last Fling

    26. Last Fling

    Mar 23, 1957

    Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.

    26m
  • Chester's Murder

    27. Chester's Murder

    Mar 30, 1957

    Chester is drinking at the Long Branch and gets into an argument with a gambler over a girl. When the marshal 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.

    26m
  • The Photographer

    28. The Photographer

    Apr 06, 1957

    Dodge City meets a Photographer who shows the residents how a camera works. 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.

    26m
  • Wrong Man

    29. Wrong Man

    Apr 13, 1957

    A cowboy vows revenge for the shooting of his friend, who was mistaken for a criminal (Don Keefer and Catherine McLeod, real-life husband and wife, appear as a husband and wife).

    26m
  • Big Girl Lost

    30. Big Girl Lost

    Apr 20, 1957

    Philip Locke is looking for Laura Simmons, a saloon girl, but she doesn't want him to know where she works. Laura tells Matt that she and Philip were previously engaged, and she asks him not to say anything about her job. Philip warns Matt that he will be killed if he doesn't tell the truth.

    26m
  • What the Whiskey Drummer Heard

    31. What the Whiskey Drummer Heard

    Apr 27, 1957

    Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Sam').

    26m
  • Cheap Labor

    32. Cheap Labor

    May 04, 1957

    A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight.

    26m
  • Moon

    33. Moon

    May 11, 1957

    After Charlie Brewer is found dead, Jack Salter who was a friend of Charlie Brewer comes to Matt's office saying Vint killed Brewer. Matt then tries to find out if Jack is right.

    26m
  • Who Lives by the Sword

    34. Who Lives by the Sword

    May 18, 1957

    Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed.

    26m
  • Uncle Oliver

    35. Uncle Oliver

    May 25, 1957

    Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears).

    26m
  • Daddy-O

    36. Daddy-O

    Jun 01, 1957

    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.

    26m
  • The Man Who Would Be Marshal

    37. The Man Who Would Be Marshal

    Jun 15, 1957

    A former Army Officer wants Matt Dillon's job. Matt then takes Mr. Egan on his rounds. Matt lets Egan try his brand of justice that almost costs Egan his life.

    26m
  • Liar from Blackhawk

    38. Liar from Blackhawk

    Jun 22, 1957

    A braggart tries to provoke a gunfight with a harmless drunk.

    26m
  • Jealousy

    39. Jealousy

    Jul 06, 1957

    Jack Kelly plays a hot-tempered husband who thinks Matt is after his wife.

    26m

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