GUNSMOKE Season 5
After leaving his mean, abusive father, a young man attempts to run away with a gypsy girl.
In order to feel important and gain attention, a liar shoots a random man, then falsely accuses someone else and says he witnessed the shooting.
After Mr. Jonas is robbed, he sends Matt and Chester on a wild goose chase to arrest a farmer who puts them to work in frigid weather.
Kitty is injured by a fall from a horse and refuses to let Matt leave her alone with an odd sodbuster family.
A hired killer shows up in Dodge and forms a friendship with a saloon gal, not realizing she is his mark.
A greedy niece and her husband try to get their hands on the treasure box of a derelict man before he dies.
After a man sells about sixteen horses to different individuals, his partner goes to Dodge and claims they were all stolen from him so he can get them back and resell them.
Two quirky roommates, having shared a home for fifteen years, find their argument over food spiraling into a full-blown feud—until Matt steps in and puts an end to it.
A southern belle creates chaos surrounding her livelihood after she arrives in Dodge and is robbed.
When a man shows up in Dodge after seventeen years absence and says he is the son of an old rancher woman, Matt has his doubts.
A southern aristocrat who fought in the war seeks to kill a man he holds responsible for killing his family in Atlanta.
A powerful episode of the relationship between Doc and Chester after Doc is shot on the prairie.
An obsessed zealot found beating a man seeks revenge on Chester after he obeyed Matt and freed the man being beaten.
An ex-fighter with a bad heart agrees to fight an old rival to settle a score, but Matt has thrown him in jail.
Matt cannot get a hesitant woman to agree to file charges against her wife-beating husband.
A rancher and his useless son harass a homesteader couple to try to drive them off their land.
A self-righteous zealot who talks down to the Long Branch women and beats his wife appears to have someone trying to shoot him.
A saloon gal is in cahoots with an arrogant man to kill a witness and the marshal who will both testify against him in court.
A crack-shot middle-aged farm woman chooses to believe she is still attractive, and her neighbor is interested, but neither is true.
Matt takes a liking to a puffed-up actor who quotes Shakespeare and entertains with his theatrics but can't be trusted with much else.
When a woman's ex-love, a gunman, comes to Dodge, she's terrified he's there to kill her husband.
When Matt and Chester find a Pawnee girl, Soche, shot on the prairie, they bring three drifters to Dodge for her to ID the shooter.
When a rough-necked woman shows up as the new owner of the Lady Gay Saloon and the previous owner never mentioned it the day before, Matt suspects he met with foul play.
Matt finds a Kiowa boy nearly beaten to death on the prairie and tries to catch rustlers stealing from an arrogant rancher.
A man who's been falsely imprisoned for three years returns home to find his girl married to his own brother and occupying their family farm.
A gunman released from prison mistakes Doc for the judge who sent him there and sets out to murder him for revenge.
When Belle Ainsley returns to Dodge after a three-year absence, she tells Matt she's done with the rotten man who forcibly removed her, but in revenge her younger sister goes after him.
Zeno Smith is a washed-up ex-gunman-turned-alcoholic whose best friend is a twelve-year-old orphan watching out for him.
When an old farmer and his river-swimming cow disappear under suspicious circumstances, two incoming trail bosses each suspect the other of evildoing.
Two ignorant brothers make their way to Dodge on foot to hunt "injuns" and leave a wake of murder behind them.
An old sodbuster cannot come to grips with the death of his wife of 35 years and makes up stories to explain her whereabouts.
When an odd man discovers his ex-son-in-law is in town, he asks to be jailed to prevent murdering him.
An old flame of Matt's arrives in Dodge with a story of looking for her cheating, thieving husband, but Kitty never believes any of it.
When a young woman is roughed up by two cowboys, Matt catches one, and her father kills the other as a matter of honor.
Matt and Chester search for a train robber and find him with his teenaged son and daughter who helped him.
A soldier is shot stealing an Army payroll and returns home after a two-year absence, but his partner soon comes looking for the money.
After Matt discovers rocks in a casket at a burial, he learns the partner of the "dead man" provided the casket and stands to inherit his mine.
The brother of a man who was convicted and hanged comes up with a plan to kill Matt by getting him to draw first.
A man pursuing a young woman in Dodge claims to have taken her photo off the body of her dead husband who has been absent from her for over a year.