Gunsmoke: Season 2

Episode 1: Cow Doctor 1956-09-08 | 26 min 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. Episode 2: Brush at Elkader 1956-09-15 | 26 min 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. Episode 3: Custer 1956-09-22 | 26 min Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial. Episode 4: The Round Up 1956-09-29 | 26 min Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble. Episode 5: Young Man with a Gun 1956-10-20 | 26 min After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year-old brother arrives to fight Matt. Episode 6: Indian White 1956-10-27 | 26 min 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. Episode 7: How to Cure a Friend 1956-11-10 | 26 min Matt is used by an old friend in a con game. Episode 8: Legal Revenge 1956-11-17 | 26 min Doc comes upon a homesteader with a busted leg—and a gun to protect himself from his wife. Episode 9: The Mistake 1956-11-24 | 26 min 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'). Episode 10: Greater Love 1956-12-01 | 26 min An outlaw threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy. Episode 11: No Indians 1956-12-08 | 26 min 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). Episode 12: Spring Term 1956-12-15 | 26 min Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating. Episode 13: Poor Pearl 1956-12-22 | 26 min Matt helps a woman whose suitors are about to duel for her affections. Episode 14: Cholera 1956-12-29 | 26 min A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear). Episode 15: Pucket's New Year 1957-01-05 | 26 min 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'). Episode 16: The Cover Up 1957-01-12 | 26 min Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear). Episode 17: Sins of the Father 1957-01-19 | 26 min An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear). Episode 18: Kick Me 1957-01-26 | 26 min A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears). Episode 19: Executioner 1957-02-02 | 26 min 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. Episode 20: Gone Straight 1957-02-09 | 26 min Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear). Episode 21: Bloody Hands 1957-02-16 | 26 min 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). Episode 22: Skid Row 1957-02-23 | 26 min An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her. Episode 23: Sweet and Sour 1957-03-02 | 26 min 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. Episode 24: Cain 1957-03-09 | 26 min Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him. Episode 25: Bureaucrat 1957-03-16 | 26 min A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City. Episode 26: Last Fling 1957-03-23 | 26 min Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her. Episode 27: Chester's Murder 1957-03-30 | 26 min 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. Episode 28: The Photographer 1957-04-06 | 26 min 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. Episode 29: Wrong Man 1957-04-13 | 26 min 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). Episode 30: Big Girl Lost 1957-04-20 | 26 min 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. Episode 31: What the Whiskey Drummer Heard 1957-04-27 | 26 min Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Sam'). Episode 32: Cheap Labor 1957-05-04 | 26 min A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight. Episode 33: Moon 1957-05-11 | 26 min 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. Episode 34: Who Lives by the Sword 1957-05-18 | 26 min Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed. Episode 35: Uncle Oliver 1957-05-25 | 26 min Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears). Episode 36: Daddy-O 1957-06-01 | 26 min 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. Episode 37: The Man Who Would Be Marshal 1957-06-15 | 26 min 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. Episode 38: Liar from Blackhawk 1957-06-22 | 26 min A braggart tries to provoke a gunfight with a harmless drunk. Episode 39: Jealousy 1957-07-06 | 26 min Jack Kelly plays a hot-tempered husband who thinks Matt is after his wife.