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Gunsmoke

Season 3 1957 - 1958
TV-G

  • 1957-09-14T04:00:00Z 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

1957-09-14T04:00:00Z

3x01 Crack-Up

Season Premiere

3x01 Crack-Up

  • 1957-09-14T04:00:00Z45m

Matt learns there is a hired killer in Dodge City, the hired killer gives Matt a challenge to find out who paid Nate Springer to kill Matt.

1957-09-21T04:00:00Z

3x02 Gun for Chester

3x02 Gun for Chester

  • 1957-09-21T04:00:00Z45m

Chester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. 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.

1957-09-28T04:00:00Z

3x03 Blood Money

3x03 Blood Money

  • 1957-09-28T04:00:00Z45m

After Harry Spencer's life is saved Matt receives a wanted poster for Joe Sharpe who robbed a bank. Matt learns that Joe and Shape left Dodge so Sharpe could try and get the reward money.

1957-10-05T04:00:00Z

3x04 Kitty's Outlaw

3x04 Kitty's Outlaw

  • 1957-10-05T04:00:00Z45m

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.

1957-10-12T04:00:00Z

3x05 Potato Road

3x05 Potato Road

  • 1957-10-12T04:00:00Z45m

Budge wants the Marshall to arrest his Pa for murder but when they get to Budge's house they get captured by Bud & his Ma so they can rob the bank.

1957-10-19T04:00:00Z

3x06 Jesse

3x06 Jesse

  • 1957-10-19T04:00:00Z45m

Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.

1957-10-26T04:00:00Z

3x07 Mavis McCloud

3x07 Mavis McCloud

  • 1957-10-26T04:00:00Z45m

Mavis McCloud comes to Dodge to get married. She marries Barny but Lou Staley comes looking for Mavis and wants to kill Barney and the Marshall.

1957-11-02T05:00:00Z

3x08 Born to Hang

3x08 Born to Hang

  • 1957-11-02T05:00:00Z45m

Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.

1957-11-09T05:00:00Z

3x09 Romeo

3x09 Romeo

  • 1957-11-09T05:00:00Z45m

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.

1957-11-16T05:00:00Z

3x10 Never Pester Chester

3x10 Never Pester Chester

  • 1957-11-16T05:00:00Z45m

When Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.

1957-11-23T05:00:00Z

3x11 Fingered

3x11 Fingered

  • 1957-11-23T05:00:00Z45m

The people of Dodge gets suspicious of Jim Cobbett (John Larch) when his second wife (Virginia Christine) vanishes just like his first (Karl Swenson appears).

1957-11-30T05:00:00Z

3x12 How to Kill a Woman

3x12 How to Kill a Woman

  • 1957-11-30T05:00:00Z45m

Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.

1957-12-07T05:00:00Z

3x13 Cows and Cribs

3x13 Cows and Cribs

  • 1957-12-07T05:00:00Z45m

The whole town is caught up in a mystery: where does Joe Nadler get all his money---and where does he go to spend it?

1957-12-14T05:00:00Z

3x14 Doc's Reward

3x14 Doc's Reward

  • 1957-12-14T05:00:00Z45m

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.

1957-12-21T05:00:00Z

3x15 Kitty Lost

3x15 Kitty Lost

  • 1957-12-21T05:00:00Z45m

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.

1957-12-28T05:00:00Z

3x16 Twelfth Night

3x16 Twelfth Night

  • 1957-12-28T05:00:00Z45m

A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.

1958-01-04T05:00:00Z

3x17 Joe Phy

3x17 Joe Phy

  • 1958-01-04T05:00:00Z45m

Matt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall".

1958-01-11T05:00:00Z

3x18 Buffalo Man

3x18 Buffalo Man

  • 1958-01-11T05:00:00Z45m

Matt & Chester are taken prisoner by two buffalo hunters who are hunting buffalo in Indian territory. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.

1958-01-18T05:00:00Z

3x19 Kitty Caught

3x19 Kitty Caught

  • 1958-01-18T05:00:00Z45m

The Gunner brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty hostage.

1958-01-25T05:00:00Z

3x20 Claustrophobia

3x20 Claustrophobia

  • 1958-01-25T05:00:00Z45m

Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon.

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.

Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men.

After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.

1958-02-01T05:00:00Z

3x21 Ma Tennis

3x21 Ma Tennis

  • 1958-02-01T05:00:00Z45m

Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.

1958-02-08T05:00:00Z

3x22 Sunday Supplement

3x22 Sunday Supplement

  • 1958-02-08T05:00:00Z45m

Clifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.

1958-02-15T05:00:00Z

3x23 Wild West

3x23 Wild West

  • 1958-02-15T05:00:00Z45m

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.

1958-02-22T05:00:00Z

3x24 The Cabin

3x24 The Cabin

  • 1958-02-22T05:00:00Z45m

Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.

1958-03-01T05:00:00Z

3x25 Dirt

3x25 Dirt

  • 1958-03-01T05:00:00Z45m

Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married.

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.

When Nat is shot on his wedding day, everyone thinks Polly's Brother committed the shooting.

After Matt and Chester do an investigation, Matt comes to another conclusion about the shooting of Nat Seiber.

1958-03-08T05:00:00Z

3x26 Dooley Surrenders

3x26 Dooley Surrenders

  • 1958-03-08T05:00:00Z45m

Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.

1958-03-15T05:00:00Z

3x27 Joke's on Us

3x27 Joke's on Us

  • 1958-03-15T05:00:00Z45m

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.

1958-03-22T05:00:00Z

3x28 Bottleman

3x28 Bottleman

  • 1958-03-22T05:00:00Z45m

Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.

1958-03-29T05:00:00Z

3x29 Laughing Gas

3x29 Laughing Gas

  • 1958-03-29T05:00:00Z45m

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. Angry he and his brothers attack Stubblefield/Stafford.

1958-04-05T05:00:00Z

3x30 Texas Cowboys

3x30 Texas Cowboys

  • 1958-04-05T05:00:00Z45m

The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.

1958-04-12T05:00:00Z

3x31 Amy's Good Deed

3x31 Amy's Good Deed

  • 1958-04-12T05:00:00Z45m

Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.

1958-04-19T05:00:00Z

3x32 Hanging Man

3x32 Hanging Man

  • 1958-04-19T05:00:00Z45m

Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.

1958-04-26T05:00:00Z

3x33 Innocent Broad

3x33 Innocent Broad

  • 1958-04-26T05:00:00Z45m

A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.

1958-05-03T04:00:00Z

3x34 The Big Con

3x34 The Big Con

  • 1958-05-03T04:00:00Z45m

Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. When the con begins to unfold, Doc gets kidnapped.

1958-05-10T04:00:00Z

3x35 Widow's Mite

3x35 Widow's Mite

  • 1958-05-10T04:00:00Z45m

Gambler Leach Fields marries Zach Morton's widow Ada thinking she knows where the money Zach stole is.

1958-05-17T04:00:00Z

3x36 Chester's Hanging

3x36 Chester's Hanging

  • 1958-05-17T04:00:00Z45m

Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.

1958-05-24T04:00:00Z

3x37 Carmen

3x37 Carmen

  • 1958-05-24T04:00:00Z45m

A secret Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers killed. The Major threatens Matt with martial law if the thieves aren't caught. Matt suspects Jenny Lane, a new girl at the Long Branch of being involved.

1958-05-31T04:00:00Z

3x38 Overland Express

3x38 Overland Express

  • 1958-05-31T04:00:00Z45m

Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. 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.

Season Finale

1958-06-07T04:00:00Z

3x39 The Gentleman

Season Finale

3x39 The Gentleman

  • 1958-06-07T04:00:00Z45m

Marcus France, a "Gentleman Gambler" comes to Dodge and falls in love with Bonnie Damon. Tiller Evans thinks Bonnie is his girl. Matt has to keep Tiller from killing France.

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