Gunsmoke

*Gunsmoke*
Gunsmoke
Created by	Norman MacDonnell; John Meston
Starring	James Arness; Milburn Stone; Amanda Blake (Seasons 1-19); Dennis Weaver (Seasons 1-9); Ken Curtis (Seasons 9-20); Burt Reynolds (Seasons 8-10); Buck Taylor (Seasons 13-20); Glenn Strange (Seasons 7-18); Roger Ewing (Seasons 11-12)
Theme music composer	Rex Koury; Glenn Spencer
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	6 ('Marshal Dillon', syndication re-titling of half-hour episodes); 14 ('Gunsmoke'),; 20 (total seasons)
No. of episodes	233 ('Marshal Dillon', syndication re-titling of half-hour episodes), 402 ('Gunsmoke'); 635 (total episodes) (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	26 minutes (1955–1961),; 50 minutes (1961–1975)
Production companies	CBS Productions; Filmaster Productions; The Arness Production Company (1961–'64)
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 10, 1955 –; March 31, 1975

Gunsmoke was a western drama television series. John Meston created the series. It ran for twenty years from 1955 to 1975. Each episode ran for 1 hour. In 1955, CBS television network tried to hire John Wayne. They finally decided on James Arness to play the role of Matt Dillon in the Gunsmoke series. The main cast was Arness, Dennis Weaver playing Chester Goode, Milburn Stone as Doc Adams, and Amanda Blake as saloon keeper Miss Kitty Russell. In later episodes Ken Curtis played Festus Haggen and Burt Reynolds played blacksmith Quint Asper.

Between 1955 - 1961, the episodes were 30 minutes long. After that, they were one hour long. 635 episodes were made between 1955 to 1975. Many well known actors appeared as guest stars. These include John Wayne (presenter of the pilot), Bette Davis, Harrison Ford, Jon Voight, Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. In 1987, Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge was made with Arness as Dillon. Later television movies included Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990), Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992), Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993) and Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994).

Episodes

The following is a list of Gunsmoke episodes by production codes. Filming started with "Hack Prine" and concluded with "Hard Labor".

Season 1

Production Code	Episode Title
#002	Matt Gets It
#003	Hot Spell
#004	Word of Honor
#005	Home Surgery
#007	Obie Tater
#011	Night Incident
#006	Smoking Out the Nolans
#008	Kite's Reward
#010	The Hunter
#013	The Queue
#017	General Parsley Smith
#012	Magnus
#020	Reed Survives
#015	Professor Lute Bone
#019	No Handcuffs
#016	Reward for Matt
#018	Robin Hood
#014	Yorky
#022	20-20
#026	Reunion '78
#009	Helping Hand
#021	Tap Day for Kitty
#024	Indian Scout
#025	The Pest Hole
#023	The Big Broad
#001	Hack Prine
#027	Cooter
#028	The Killer
#030	Doc's Revenge
#029	The Preacher
#031	How to Die for Nothing
#032	Dutch George
#034	Prairie Happy
#035	Chester's Mail Order Bride
#033	The Guitar
#036	Cara
#037	Mr. and Mrs. Amber
#038	Unmarked Grave
#039	Alarm at Pleasant Valley

Season 2

Production Code	Episode Title
#041	Cow Doctor
#042	Brush at Elkader
#040	Custer
#044	The Round Up
#045	Young Man with a Gun
#046	Indian White
#050	How to Cure a Friend
#047	Legal Revenge
#043	The Mistake
#048	Greater Love
#054	No Indians
#052	Spring Term
#051	Poor Pearl
#053	Cholera
#055	Pucket's New Year
#058	The Cover Up
#057	Sins of the Father
#049	Kick Me
#059	Executioner
#062	Gone Straight
#061	Bloody Hands
#064	Skid Row
#069	Sweet and Sour
#066	Cain
#070	Bureaucrat
#071	Last Fling
#068	Chester's Murder
#056	The Photographer
#063	Wrong Man
#060	Big Girl Lost
#072	What the Whiskey Drummer Heard
#067	Cheap Labor
#075	Moon
#073	Who Lives by the Sword
#074	Uncle Oliver
#065	Daddy-O
#077	The Man Who Would Be Marshal
#076	Liar from Blackhawk
#078	Jealousy

Season 3

Production Code	Episode Title
#085	Crack-Up
#079	Gun for Chester
#080	Blood Money
#082	Kitty's Outlaw
#086	Potato Road
#081	Jesse
#084	Mavis McCloud
#083	Born to Hang
#088	Romeo
#090	Never Pester Chester
#089	Fingered
#091	How to Kill a Woman
#092	Cows and Cribs
#093	Doc's Reward
#104	Kitty Lost
#103	Twelfth Night
#102	Joe Phy
#094	Buffalo Man
#095	Kitty Caught
#096	Claustrophobia
#098	Ma Tennis
#099	Sunday Supplement
#097	Wild West
#117	The Cabin
#100	Dirt
#101	Dooley Surrenders
#106	Joke's on Us
#113	Bottleman
#114	Laughing Gas
#107	Texas Cowboys
#111	Amy's Good Deed
#115	Hanging Man
#105	Innocent Broad
#109	The Big Con
#108	Widow's Mite
#112	Chester's Hanging
#110	Carmen
#087	Overland Express
#116	The Gentleman

Season 4

Production Code	Episode Title
#118	Matt For Murder
#119	The Patsy
#123	Gunsmuggler
#126	Monopoly
#122	Letter Of The Law
#120	Thoroughbreds
#121	Stage Hold-Up
#130	Lost Rifle
#128	Land Deal
#138	Lynching Man
#129	How To Kill A Friend
#134	Grass
#133	The Cast
#139	Robber Bridegroom
#137	Snakebite
#124	Gypsum Hills Feud
#125	Young Love
#145	Marshal Proudfoot
#127	Passive Resistance
#147	Love Of A Good Woman
#141	The Jayhawkers
#146	Kitty's Rebellion
#143	Sky
#142	Doc Quits
#132	The Bear
#148	The Coward
#140	The F.U.
#149	Wind
#151	Fawn
#155	Renegade White
#154	Murder Warrant
#152	Change Of Heart
#144	Buffalo Hunter
#131	The Choice
#153	There Was Never A Horse
#135	Print Asper
#150	The Constable
#156	Blue Horse
#136	Cheyennes

Season 5

Production Code	Episode Title
#160	Target
#161	Kitty's Injury
#159	Horse Deal
#162	Johnny Red
#166	Tail To The Wind
#158	Annie Oakley
#164	Kangaroo
#163	Saludos
#169	Brother Whelp
#157	The Boots
#168	Odd Man Out
#171	Miguel's Daughter
#173	Box O' Rocks
#179	False Witness
#176	Tag, You're It
#165	Thick 'N' Thin
#172	Groat's Grudge
#180	Big Tom
#178	Till Death Do Us
#182	The Tragedian
#177	Hinka Do
#183	Doc Judge
#167	Moo Moo Raid
#186	Kitty's Killing
#175	Jailbait Janet
#181	Unwanted Deputy
#187	Where'd They Go
#191	Crowbait Bob
#188	Colleen So Green
#195	The Ex-Urbanites
#184	I Thee Wed
#193	The Lady Killer
#189	Gentleman's Disagreement
#194	Speak Me Fair
#185	Belle's Back
#170	The Bobsy Twins
#190	Old Flame
#174	The Deserter
#192	Cherry Red

Season 6

Production Code	Episode Title
#201	Friend's Pay-Off
#206	The Blacksmith
#207	Small Water
#197	Say Uncle
#202	Shooting Stopover
#205	The Peace Officer
#200	Don Matteo
#203	The Worm
#196	The Badge
#209	Distant Drummer
#199	Ben Tolliver's Stud
#212	No Chip
#210	The Wake
#216	The Cook
#211	Old Fool
#208	Brother Love
#198	Bad Sheriff
#204	Unloaded Gun
#220	Tall Trapper
#214	Love Thy Neighbor
#222	Bad Seed
#215	Kitty Shot
#221	About Chester
#217	Harriet
#230	Potshot
#229	Old Faces
#233	Big Man
#224	Little Girl
#219	Stolen Horses
#228	Minnie
#231	Bless Me Till I Die
#218	Long Hours, Short Pay
#223	Hard Virtue
#225	The Imposter
#232	Chester's Dilemma
#227	The Love of Money
#226	Melinda Miles
#213	Colorado Sheriff

Season 7

Production Code	Episode Title
#31004	Perce
#31005	Old Yellow Boots
#31002	Miss Kitty
#31007	Harpe's Blood
#31013	All That
#31015	Long, Long Trail
#31008	The Squaw
#31006	Chesterland
#31003	Milly
#31001	Indian Ford
#31009	Apprentice Doc
#31010	Nina's Revenge
#31016	Marry Me
#31019	A Man a Day
#31012	The Do-Badder
#31017	Lacey
#31023	Cody's Code
#31022	Old Dan
#31020	Catawomper
#31026	Half Straight
#31014	He Learned About Women
#31028	The Gallows
#31027	Reprisal
#31021	Coventry
#31025	The Widow
#31011	Durham Bull
#31018	Wagon Girls
#31029	The Dealer
#31030	The Summons
#31032	The Dreamers
#31034	Cale
#31024	Chester's Indian
#31033	The Prisoner
#31031	The Boys

Season 8

Production Code	Episode Title
#31208	The Search
#31206	Call Me Dodie
#31035	Quint Asper Comes Home
#31210	Root Down
#31207	Jenny
#31204	Collie's Free
#31212	The Ditch
#31209	The Trappers
#31213	Phoebe Strunk
#31036	The Hunger
#31215	Abe Blocker
#31214	The Way It Is
#31205	Us Haggens
#31218	Uncle Sunday
#31201	False Front
#31217	Old Comrade
#31202	Louie Pheeters
#31211	The Renegades
#31219	Cotter's Girl
#31216	The Bad One
#31221	The Cousin
#31220	Shona
#31223	Ash
#31222	Blind Man's Bluff
#31224	Quint's Indian
#31225	Anybody Can Kill a Marshal
#31226	Two of a Kind
#31227	I Call Him Wonder
#31228	With a Smile
#31229	The Far Places
#31203	Panacea Sykes
#31231	Tell Chester
#31230	Quint-Cident
#31233	Old York
#31232	Daddy Went Away
#31234	The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner
#31235	Jeb
#31236	The Quest for Asa Janin

Season 9

Production Code	Episode Title
#7102	Kate Heller
#7107	Lover Boy
#7106	Legends Don't Sleep
#7109	Tobe
#7103	Easy Come
#7110	My Sister's Keeper
#7112	Quint's Trail
#7111	Carter Caper
#7117	Ex-Con
#7115	Extradition (Part 1)
#7116	Extradition (Part 2)
#7104	The Magician
#7108	Pa Hack's Brood
#7113	The Glory and the Mud
#7120	Dry Well
#7119	Prairie Wolfer
#7122	Friend
#7118	Once a Haggen
#7101	No Hands
#7123	Mayblossom
#7121	The Bassops
#7124	The Kite
#7126	Comanches Is Soft
#7125	Father's Love
#7127	Now That April's Here
#7128	Caleb
#7105	Owney Tupper Had a Daughter
#7114	Bently
#7131	Kitty Cornered
#7129	The Promoter
#7132	Trip West
#7130	Scot Free
#7133	The Warden
#7134	Homecoming
#7135	The Other Half
#7136	Journey for Three

Season 10

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0410	Blue Heaven
#1615-0401	Crooked Mile
#1615-0409	Old Man
#1615-0413	The Violators
#1615-0406	Doctor's Wife
#1615-0411	Take Her, She's Cheap
#1615-0414	Help Me, Kitty
#1615-0416	Hung High
#1615-0404	Jonah Hutchinson
#1615-0417	Big Man, Big Target
#1615-0403	Chicken
#1615-0418	Innocence
#1615-0412	Aunt Thede
#1615-0408	Hammerhead
#1615-0419	Double Entry
#1615-0420	Run, Sheep, Run
#1615-0422	Deputy Festus
#1615-0421	One Killer on Ice
#1615-0424	Chief Joseph
#1615-0407	Circus Trick
#1615-0425	Song for Dying
#1615-0415	Winner Take All
#1615-0423	Eliab's Aim
#1615-0426	Thursday's Child
#1615-0427	Breckinridge
#1615-0405	Bank Baby
#1615-0430	The Lady
#1615-0429	Dry Road to Nowhere
#1615-0428	Twenty Miles from Dodge
#1615-0432	The Pariah
#1615-0402	Gilt Guilt
#1615-0431	Bad Lady from Brookline
#1615-0435	Two Tall Men
#1615-0434	Honey Pot
#1615-0436	The New Society
#1615-0451	He Who Steals

Season 11

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0433	Seven Hours To Dawn
#1615-0456	The Storm
#1615-0454	Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood
#1615-0452	Ten Little Indians
#1615-0463	Taps for Old Jeb
#1615-0453	Kioga
#1615-0457	The Bounty Hunter
#1615-0462	The Reward
#1615-0461	Malachi
#1615-0465	The Pretender
#1615-0460	South Wind
#1615-0455	The Hostage
#1615-0468	Outlaw's Woman
#1615-0467	The Avengers
#1615-0464	Gold Mine
#1615-0466	Death Watch
#1615-0469	Sweet Billy, Singer Of Songs
#1615-0458	The Raid: Part I
#1615-0459	The Raid: Part II
#1615-0471	Killer At Large
#1615-0474	My Father's Guitar
#1615-0473	Wishbone
#1615-0472	Sanctuary
#1615-0475	Honor Before Justice
#1615-0470	The Brothers
#1615-0476	Which Dr.
#1615-0477	Harvest
#1615-0479	By Line
#1615-0480	The Treasure Of John Walking Fox
#1615-0478	My Father, My Son
#1615-0482	Parson Comes To Town
#1615-0481	Prime Of Life

Season 12

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0203	Snap Decision
#1615-0204	The Goldtakers
#1615-0206	The Jailer
#1615-0205	The Mission
#1615-0210	The Good People
#1615-0215	Gunfighter, R.I.P.
#1615-0208	The Wrong Man
#1615-0201	The Whispering Tree
#1615-0209	The Well
#1615-0212	Stage Stop
#1615-0218	The Newcomers
#1615-0202	Quaker Girl
#1615-0216	The Moonstone
#1615-0214	Champion of the World
#1615-0207	The Hanging
#1615-0220	Saturday Night
#1615-0217	Mad Dog
#1615-0213	Muley
#1615-0222	Mail Drop
#1615-0211	Old Friend
#1615-0219	Fandango
#1615-0221	The Returning
#1615-0224	The Lure
#1615-0226	Noose of Gold
#1615-0223	The Favor
#1615-0227	Mistaken Identity
#1615-0228	Ladies from St. Louis
#1615-0225	Nitro (Part 1)
#1615-0230	Nitro (Part 2)

Season 13

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0251	The Wreckers
#1615-0261	Cattle Barons
#1615-0229	The Prodigal
#1615-0252	Vengeance (Part 1)
#1615-0252	Vengeance (Part 2)
#1615-0254	A Hat
#1615-0262	Hard-Luck Henry
#1615-0257	Major Glory
#1615-0259	The Pillagers
#1615-0255	Prairie Wolfer
#1615-0263	Stranger in Town
#1615-0264	Death Train
#1615-0260	Rope Fever
#1615-0258	Wonder
#1615-0265	Baker's Dozen
#1615-0268	The Victim
#1615-0269	Deadman's Law
#1615-0270	Nowhere to Run
#1615-0267	Blood Money
#1615-0273	Hill Girl
#1615-0272	The Gunrunners
#1615-0256	The Jackals
#1615-0271	The First People
#1615-0274	Mr. Sam'I
#1615-0266	A Noose for Dobie Price

Season 14

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0302	Lyle's Kid
#1615-0305	The Hidecutters
#1615-0301	Zavala
#1615-0311	Uncle Finney
#1615-0306	Solcum
#1615-0304	O'Quillian
#1615-0308	9:12 To Dodge
#1615-0312	Ableia
#1615-0314	Railroad!
#1615-0313	The Miracle Man
#1615-0316	Waco
#1615-0315	Lobo
#1615-0309	Johnny Cross
#1615-0303	The Money Store
#1615-0317	The Twisted Heritage
#1615-0310	Time Of The Jackals
#1615-0319	Mannon
#1615-0318	Gold Town
#1615-0322	The Mark Of The Cain
#1615-0321	Reprisal
#1615-0275	The Long Night
#1615-0323	The Nightriders
#1615-0325	The Intruder
#1615-0324	The Good Samaritans
#1615-0320	The Prisoner
#1615-0307	Exodus 21:22

Season 15

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0356	The Devil's Outpost
#1615-0352	Stryker
#1615-0361	Coreyville
#1615-0354	Danny
#1615-0360	Hawk
#1615-0351	A Man Called Smith
#1615-0363	Charlie Noon
#1615-0362	The Still
#1615-0355	A Matter of Honor
#1615-0353	The Innocent
#1615-0359	Ring of Darkness
#1615-0364	MacGraw
#1615-0366	Roots of Fear
#1615-0358	The Sisters
#1615-0367	The War Priest
#1615-0369	The Pack Rat
#1615-0365	The Judas Gun
#1615-0370	Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.
#1615-0374	The Badge
#1615-0368	Albert
#1615-0372	Kiowa
#1615-0373	Celia
#1615-0375	Morgan
#1615-0371	The Thieves
#1615-0376	Hackett
#1615-0357	The Cage

Season 16

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0409	Chato
#1615-0401	The Noose
#1615-0403	Stark
#1615-0410	Sam McTavish, M.D.
#1615-0404	Gentry's Law
#1615-0406	Snow Train (Part 1)
#1615-0407	Snow Train (Part 2)
#1615-0412	Luke
#1615-0407	The Gun
#1615-0411	The Scavengers
#1615-0405	The Witness
#1615-0402	McCabe
#1615-0413	The Noon Day Devil
#1615-0414	Sergeant Holly
#1615-0415	Jenny
#1615-0416	Captain Sligo
#1615-0417	Mirage
#1615-0418	The Tycoon
#1615-0420	Jaekel
#1615-0419	Murdoch
#1615-0424	Cleavus
#1615-0421	Lavery
#1615-0422	Pike (Part 1)
#1615-0423	Pike (Part 2)

Season 17

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0512	The Lost
#1615-0503	Phoenix
#1615-0511	Waste (Part 1)
#1615-0511	Waste (Part 2)
#1615-0505	New Doctor in Town
#1615-0507	The Legend
#1615-0504	Trafton
#1615-0509	Lynott
#1615-0506	Lijah
#1615-0508	My Brother's Keeper
#1615-0510	Drago
#1615-0514	The Bullet (Part 1)
#1615-0515	The Bullet (Part 2)
#1615-0516	The Bullet (Part 3)
#1615-0513	P.S. Murry Christmas
#1615-0517	No Tomorrow
#1615-0501	Hidalgo
#1615-0522	Tara
#1615-0520	One for the Road
#1615-0518	The Predators
#1615-0521	Yankton
#1615-0519	Blind Man's Buff
#1615-0523	Alias Festus Haggin
#1615-0502	The Wedding

Season 18

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0560	The River (Part 1)
#1615-0560	The River (Part 2)
#1615-0555	Bohannan
#1615-0553	The Judgement
#1615-0554	The Drummer
#1615-0558	Sarah
#1615-0551	The Fugitives
#1615-0559	Eleven Dollars
#1615-0552	Milligan
#1615-0556	Tatum
#1615-0557	The Sodbusters
#1615-0564	The Brothers
#1615-0566	Hostage!
#1615-0565	Jubilee
#1615-0563	Arizona Midnight
#1615-0568	Homecoming
#1615-0567	Shadler
#1615-0569	Patricia
#1615-0571	A Quiet Day in Dodge
#1615-0562	Whelan's Men
#1615-0570	Kimbro
#1615-0572	Jesse
#1615-0574	Talbot
#1615-0573	This Golden Land

Season 19

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0607	Women for Sale (Part 1)
#1615-0607	Women for Sale (Part 2)
#1615-0609	Matt's Love Story
#1615-0604	The Boy and the Sinner
#1615-0610	The Widow-Maker
#1615-0611	Kitty's Love Affair
#1615-0606	The Widow and the Rogue
#1615-0602	A Game of Death...An Act of Love (Part 1)
#1615-0602	A Game of Death...An Act of Love (Part 2)
#1615-0601	Lynch Town
#1615-0605	The Hanging of Newly O'Brien
#1615-0613	Susan Was Evil
#1615-0617	The Deadly Innocent
#1615-0612	The Child Between
#1615-0616	A Family of Killers
#1615-0619	Like Old Times
#1615-0614	The Town Tamers
#1615-0621	The Foundling
#1615-0622	The Iron Blood of Courage
#1615-0623	The Schoolmarm
#1615-0615	Trail of Bloodshed
#1615-0618	Cowtown Hustler
#1615-0624	To Ride a Yellow Horse
#1615-0620	Disciple

Season 20

Production Code	Episode Title
#1615-0661	Matt Dillon Must Die!
#1615-0656	A Town in Chains
#1615-0654	The Guns of Cibola Blanca (Part 1)
#1615-0654	The Guns of Cibola Blanca (Part 2)
#1615-0653	Thirty a Month and Found
#1615-0652	The Wiving
#1615-0660	The Iron Men
#1615-0659	The Fourth Victim
#1615-0657	The Tarnished Badge
#1615-0658	In Performance of Duty
#1615-0662	Island In the Desert (Part 1)
#1615-0662	Island In the Desert (Part 2)
#1615-0651	The Colonel
#1615-0665	The Squaw
#1615-0666	The Hiders
#1615-0667	Larkin
#1615-0668	The Fires of Ignorance
#1615-0669	The Angry Land
#1615-0673	Brides and Grooms
#1615-0674	Hard Labor
#1615-0671	I Have Promises to Keep
#1615-0672	The Busters
#1615-0670	Manolo
#1615-0663	The Sharecroppers

References

Information on Gunsmoke Archived July 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
Gunsmoke episodes at the Internet Movie Database