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Gunsmoke

Season 2 1956 - 1957
TV-G

  • 1956-09-08T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 45m
  • 1d 5h 15m (39 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Western, Action, Adventure, Drama
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

39 episodes

Season Premiere

1956-09-08T04:00:00Z

2x01 Cow Doctor

Season Premiere

2x01 Cow Doctor

  • 1956-09-08T04:00:00Z45m

After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows,a human patient of Doc's dies. Durning a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed.

1956-09-15T04:00:00Z

2x02 Brush at Elkader

2x02 Brush at Elkader

  • 1956-09-15T04:00:00Z45m

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.

1956-09-22T04:00:00Z

2x03 Custer

2x03 Custer

  • 1956-09-22T04:00:00Z45m

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

1956-09-29T04:00:00Z

2x04 The Round Up

2x04 The Round Up

  • 1956-09-29T04:00:00Z45m

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

1956-10-20T04:00:00Z

2x05 Young Man with a Gun

2x05 Young Man with a Gun

  • 1956-10-20T04:00:00Z45m

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

1956-10-27T04:00:00Z

2x06 Indian White

2x06 Indian White

  • 1956-10-27T04:00:00Z45m

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.

1956-11-10T05:00:00Z

2x07 How to Cure a Friend

2x07 How to Cure a Friend

  • 1956-11-10T05:00:00Z45m

Matt is used by an old friend (Andrew Duggan) in a con game (Simon Oakland appears).

1956-11-17T05:00:00Z

2x08 Legal Revenge

2x08 Legal Revenge

  • 1956-11-17T05:00:00Z45m

Doc comes upon a homesteader (Philip Bourneuf) with a busted leg and a gun to protect himself from his wife (Cloris Leachman).

1956-11-24T05:00:00Z

2x09 The Mistake

2x09 The Mistake

  • 1956-11-24T05:00:00Z45m

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').

1956-12-01T05:00:00Z

2x10 Greater Love

2x10 Greater Love

  • 1956-12-01T05:00:00Z45m

An outlaw (Claude Akins) threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy (Frank de Kova and Amzie Strickland appear).

1956-12-08T05:00:00Z

2x11 No Indians

2x11 No Indians

  • 1956-12-08T05:00:00Z45m

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).

1956-12-15T05:00:00Z

2x12 Spring Term

2x12 Spring Term

  • 1956-12-15T05:00:00Z45m

Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating (Stanley Adams, Jack Kruschen, Paul Newlan, Harry Townes, and H. M. Wynant appear).

1956-12-22T05:00:00Z

2x13 Poor Pearl

2x13 Poor Pearl

  • 1956-12-22T05:00:00Z45m

Matt helps a woman (Constance Ford) whose suitors (including Denver Pyle) are about to duel for her affections.

1956-12-29T05:00:00Z

2x14 Cholera

2x14 Cholera

  • 1956-12-29T05:00:00Z45m

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

1957-01-05T05:00:00Z

2x15 Pucket's New Year

2x15 Pucket's New Year

  • 1957-01-05T05:00:00Z45m

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').

1957-01-12T05:00:00Z

2x16 The Cover Up

2x16 The Cover Up

  • 1957-01-12T05:00:00Z45m

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

1957-01-19T05:00:00Z

2x17 Sins of the Father

2x17 Sins of the Father

  • 1957-01-19T05:00:00Z45m

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

1957-01-26T05:00:00Z

2x18 Kick Me

2x18 Kick Me

  • 1957-01-26T05:00:00Z45m

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

1957-02-02T05:00:00Z

2x19 Executioner

2x19 Executioner

  • 1957-02-02T05:00:00Z45m

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. Morgan, who is unarmed, follows Clegg constantly. Clegg soon grows tired of it and attempts to take care of his ""problem.""

1957-02-09T05:00:00Z

2x20 Gone Straight

2x20 Gone Straight

  • 1957-02-09T05:00:00Z45m

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

1957-02-16T05:00:00Z

2x21 Bloody Hands

2x21 Bloody Hands

  • 1957-02-16T05:00:00Z45m

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).

1957-02-23T05:00:00Z

2x22 Skid Row

2x22 Skid Row

  • 1957-02-23T05:00:00Z45m

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

1957-03-02T05:00:00Z

2x23 Sweet and Sour

2x23 Sweet and Sour

  • 1957-03-02T05:00:00Z45m

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.

1957-03-09T05:00:00Z

2x24 Cain

2x24 Cain

  • 1957-03-09T05:00:00Z45m

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

1957-03-16T05:00:00Z

2x25 Bureaucrat

2x25 Bureaucrat

  • 1957-03-16T05:00:00Z45m

A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.

1957-03-23T05:00:00Z

2x26 Last Fling

2x26 Last Fling

  • 1957-03-23T05:00:00Z45m

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

1957-03-30T05:00:00Z

2x27 Chester's Murder

2x27 Chester's Murder

  • 1957-03-30T05:00:00Z45m

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. Matt has to prove Chester is innocent.

1957-04-06T05:00:00Z

2x28 The Photographer

2x28 The Photographer

  • 1957-04-06T05:00:00Z45m

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.

1957-04-13T05:00:00Z

2x29 Wrong Man

2x29 Wrong Man

  • 1957-04-13T05:00:00Z45m

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).

1957-04-20T05:00:00Z

2x30 Big Girl Lost

2x30 Big Girl Lost

  • 1957-04-20T05:00:00Z45m

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.

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

1957-05-04T04:00:00Z

2x32 Cheap Labor

2x32 Cheap Labor

  • 1957-05-04T04:00:00Z45m

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

1957-05-11T04:00:00Z

2x33 Moon

2x33 Moon

  • 1957-05-11T04:00:00Z45m

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.

1957-05-18T04:00:00Z

2x34 Who Lives by the Sword

2x34 Who Lives by the Sword

  • 1957-05-18T04:00:00Z45m

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

1957-05-25T04:00:00Z

2x35 Uncle Oliver

2x35 Uncle Oliver

  • 1957-05-25T04:00:00Z45m

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

1957-06-01T04:00:00Z

2x36 Daddy-O

2x36 Daddy-O

  • 1957-06-01T04:00:00Z45m

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.

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.

1957-06-22T04:00:00Z

2x38 Liar from Blackhawk

2x38 Liar from Blackhawk

  • 1957-06-22T04:00:00Z45m

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

Season Finale

1957-07-06T04:00:00Z

2x39 Jealousy

Season Finale

2x39 Jealousy

  • 1957-07-06T04:00:00Z45m

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

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