Gunsmoke: Season 5

Episode 1: Target 1959-09-05 | 26 min Ironic tragedy results when Danny Kader stubbornly disregards his father's predispositions (and Matt's pragmatic advice) in order to attempt an elopement with a young gypsy woman. Episode 2: Kitty's Injury 1959-09-19 | 26 min When Kitty is hurt in a fall from a horse, she and Matt must seek help from shiftless dirt farmers who are oddly uninterested in aiding them. Episode 3: Horse Deal 1959-09-26 | 26 min Horses with Bar S brand are being sold to unsuspecting buyers. Deesha moves in to claim the horses, leaving the buyer with nothing. Episode 4: Johnny Red 1959-10-03 | 26 min A man suddenly turns up in Dodge City claiming to be Billy Crale, the long-lost son of a well-to-do local widow. Matt knows that Billy Crale was reported dead during the Civil War, and he becomes highly concerned for Mrs. Crale's safety when he confirms that the man is actually a onetime outlaw known as Johnny Red. Episode 5: Tail to the Wind 1959-10-10 | 26 min A father and son bully a farmer and his wife who won't sell their land, but the farmer is oddly reluctant to let Matt arrest the two, even when they resort to gunfire. Episode 6: Annie Oakley 1959-10-17 | 26 min Is the homely, sharp-tongued, middle-aged wife of a homesteader really inspiring men to fight to the death for her affections? Episode 7: Kangaroo 1959-10-24 | 26 min Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself. Episode 8: Saludos 1959-10-31 | 26 min Matt, escorting 3 men back to Dodge, claims a beautiful wounded Indian woman will be able to identify the one who shot her and killed her husband. Episode 9: Brother Whelp 1959-11-07 | 26 min A man wants to gunfight when he returns home, after years away, and finding his brother married to his girl. Episode 10: The Boots 1959-11-14 | 26 min Onetime gunman Zeno Smith faces an unenviable choice. If he does not help would-be gambler Hank Fergus rob Mr. Jonas's general store, Fergus will tell 12-year old orphan Tommy the full story of how Zeno's descent into deprivation and alcoholism dates to the day he backed down from facing Fergus in a gunfight. Episode 11: Odd Man Out 1959-11-21 | 26 min Matt is uncertain what to make of Cyrus Tucker's confused claim that his wife of 32 years "just ran off", especially when a homesteader claims that he saw the old man digging a large hole just behind his house. Episode 12: Miguel's Daughter 1959-11-28 | 26 min A father threatens to kill the two drifters who have been plaguing his daughter. Episode 13: Box o' Rocks 1959-12-05 | 26 min A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death. Episode 14: False Witness 1959-12-12 | 26 min A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony. Episode 15: Tag, You're It 1959-12-19 | 26 min When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them. Episode 16: Thick 'n' Thin 1959-12-26 | 26 min A quarrel between two partners in homesteading escalates to the point of gunfire. Matt tries to make peace between them by locking them up together. Episode 17: Groat's Grudge 1960-01-02 | 26 min An ex-Confederate waits to settle the score with the Union man whose unit cost him a loved one and property in the late war. Episode 18: Big Tom 1960-01-09 | 26 min Despite a serious heart condition, onetime prizefighter Tom Burr is determined to go through with his plans to fight vicious Hob Creel. The only way Matt can stop the mismatch and save Burr's life is to fight Creel himself. Episode 19: Till Death Do Us 1960-01-16 | 26 min Someone takes a shot at a hard man who is brutal to his wife, and someone is overheard claiming he was offered money to kill the man. Episode 20: The Tragedian 1960-01-23 | 26 min Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards. Episode 21: Hinka Do 1960-01-30 | 26 min Matt has reason to believe that the new overweight, gun toting, straight shooting, female owner of the Lady Gay saloon may have killed the previous owner, or did she? Episode 22: Doc Judge 1960-02-06 | 26 min While Matt is away on business, Doc gets threatened by an ex convict (Brice Harp) who claims that Doc Adams sentenced him to a long term in Prison. Episode 23: Moo Moo Raid 1960-02-13 | 26 min Old man Onie has a great swimming cow that can lead herds across rivers, and when they both come up missing, one trail boss accuses another of killing them. Episode 24: Kitty's Killing 1960-02-20 | 26 min Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter in childbirth. Episode 25: Jailbait Janet 1960-02-27 | 26 min After a train sparks a fire that destroys a family's crops, the man, his son, and his daughter rob another train of fifty thousand dollars. A baggage clerk is killed and the crusty representative of the railroad pressures Matt to solve it. Episode 26: Unwanted Deputy 1960-03-05 | 26 min Determined to avenge his murderous brother's hanging, Vince Walsh begins a self-serving campaign of unofficially helping to keep the peace in Dodge City over Matt's objections. Walsh is certain that his actions and his taunts will eventually goad the Marshal into a gunfight. Episode 27: Where'd They Go 1960-03-12 | 26 min When Jonas accuses Clint Dodie of robbing his store, Matt and Chester set out in the bitter cold go to Clint's farm to make an arrest. Episode 28: Crowbait Bob 1960-03-26 | 26 min When the greedy relatives of a dying man (Crowbait Bob) learn that he might be dying, they come to Dodge to grab anything of value they can get from the dying man. Episode 29: Colleen So Green 1960-04-02 | 26 min A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but Kitty isn't falling for her charms. Episode 30: The Ex-Urbanites 1960-04-09 | 26 min Far from Dodge, Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Doc's life after the two are ambushed by a pair of savage prairie wolfers. Episode 31: I Thee Wed 1960-04-16 | 26 min A man beats his wife and is sentenced to fifty days or fifty dollars by the judge. The beaten woman scrapes together the money for her husband's fine, only to be beaten again. Episode 32: The Lady Killer 1960-04-23 | 26 min A saloon girl shoots a man who came to her room, claiming he attacked her, but as the dead man was to testify against a man from the woman's past, Matt is suspicious. Episode 33: Gentleman's Disagreement 1960-04-30 | 26 min Ed makes no secret of his intention to kill Bert for marrying the girl Ed wanted. So when Ed is the one who turns up dead, folks assume that Bert did it. Episode 34: Speak Me Fair 1960-05-07 | 26 min There's a cattle drive near town, and the cowboys are nervous about a series of cattle rustling events that have taken place recently. Episode 35: Belle's Back 1960-05-14 | 26 min Belle Ainesly rides into town after 3 years absence. Seems she ran off with an unsavory character 3 years ago, and all of Dodge feels she's a "bad" woman. Belle says she is coming back to stay at the family ranch. Episode 36: The Bobsy Twins 1960-05-21 | 26 min Two brothers have decided that it is their mission to rid the West of Indians. Episode 37: Old Flame 1960-05-28 | 26 min Kitty doubts the veracity of Matt's old friend Dolly Winters, who arrives in Dodge seeking the Marshal's help and claiming to have been robbed, beaten, and jilted by a man named Rad Meadows. Episode 38: The Deserter 1960-06-04 | 26 min Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the drop on him and wounds Chester. Episode 39: Cherry Red 1960-06-11 | 26 min The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.