Episode guide
Gunsmoke: Season 3
39 episodes · premiered Sep 13, 1957
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- Episode 1: Crack-Up Sep 14, 1957 · 26m 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.
- Episode 2: Gun for Chester Sep 21, 1957 · 26m 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…
- Episode 3: Blood Money Sep 28, 1957 · 26m 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.
- Episode 4: Kitty's Outlaw Oct 5, 1957 · 26m 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'…
- Episode 5: Potato Road Oct 12, 1957 · 26m 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.
- Episode 6: Jesse Oct 19, 1957 · 26m Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.
- Episode 7: Mavis McCloud Oct 26, 1957 · 26m 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.
- Episode 8: Born to Hang Nov 2, 1957 · 26m Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.
- Episode 9: Romeo Nov 9, 1957 · 26m 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.
- Episode 10: Never Pester Chester Nov 16, 1957 · 26m 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.
- Episode 11: Fingered Nov 23, 1957 · 26m 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).
- Episode 12: How to Kill a Woman Nov 30, 1957 · 26m Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.
- Episode 13: Cows and Cribs Dec 7, 1957 · 26m 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?
- Episode 14: Doc's Reward Dec 14, 1957 · 26m 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.
- Episode 15: Kitty Lost Dec 21, 1957 · 26m 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.
- Episode 16: Twelfth Night Dec 28, 1957 · 26m A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.
- Episode 17: Joe Phy Jan 4, 1958 · 26m Matt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall".
- Episode 18: Buffalo Man Jan 11, 1958 · 26m 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.
- Episode 19: Kitty Caught Jan 18, 1958 · 26m The Gunner brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty hostage.
- Episode 20: Claustrophobia Jan 25, 1958 · 26m 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…
- Episode 21: Ma Tennis Feb 1, 1958 · 26m Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.
- Episode 22: Sunday Supplement Feb 8, 1958 · 26m 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.
- Episode 23: Wild West Feb 15, 1958 · 26m 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…
- Episode 24: The Cabin Feb 22, 1958 · 26m Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.
- Episode 25: Dirt Mar 1, 1958 · 26m 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…
- Episode 26: Dooley Surrenders Mar 8, 1958 · 26m Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.
- Episode 27: Joke's on Us Mar 15, 1958 · 26m 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.
- Episode 28: Bottleman Mar 22, 1958 · 26m Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.
- Episode 29: Laughing Gas Mar 29, 1958 · 26m 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…
- Episode 30: Texas Cowboys Apr 5, 1958 · 26m The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.
- Episode 31: Amy's Good Deed Apr 12, 1958 · 26m Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.
- Episode 32: Hanging Man Apr 19, 1958 · 26m Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.
- Episode 33: Innocent Broad Apr 26, 1958 · 26m A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.
- Episode 34: The Big Con May 3, 1958 · 26m 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.
- Episode 35: Widow's Mite May 10, 1958 · 26m Gambler Leach Fields marries Zach Morton's widow Ada thinking she knows where the money Zach stole is.
- Episode 36: Chester's Hanging May 17, 1958 · 26m Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.
- Episode 37: Carmen May 24, 1958 · 26m 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…
- Episode 38: Overland Express May 31, 1958 · 26m 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…
- Episode 39: The Gentleman Jun 7, 1958 · 26m 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.