Episode

Gunsmoke: Crack-Up

Name: Gunsmoke: Crack-Up
Released: 1957-09-14
Duration: 26 min
Cast: James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, Ken Curtis, Dennis Weaver

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Overview

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.

Details

Series: Gunsmoke
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 1957-09-14
Runtime: 26 min

Episode context

Crack-Up is Episode 1 in Season 3 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1957-09-14. The runtime is 26 min.

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Episode 2: Gun for Chester 1957-09-21 | 26 min 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.

More episodes from this season

Episode 3: Blood Money 1957-09-28 | 26 min 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 1957-10-05 | 26 min 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.

Episode 5: Potato Road 1957-10-12 | 26 min 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 1957-10-19 | 26 min Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.

Episode 7: Mavis McCloud 1957-10-26 | 26 min 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 1957-11-02 | 26 min Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.

Episode 9: Romeo 1957-11-09 | 26 min 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 1957-11-16 | 26 min 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 1957-11-23 | 26 min 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 1957-11-30 | 26 min Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.