GUNSMOKE Season 6

Friends Payoff

Matt discovers that an old friend of his has gone bad and robbed a bank and shot a teller.

The Cook

A man eating on credit at Delmonico's becomes the cook for a week to pay his debt and becomes a smash hit - and an outlaw.

Big Man

A poor man Matt has shown compassion towards witnesses a murder and identifies Matt as the killer.

The Blacksmith

A German blacksmith has built a cabin and marries a German mail-order bride while a businessman tries to confiscate his property for his own gain.

Old Fool

An aging farmer does a kindness for a poor widow, and she tries to snare him from his wife for material reasons.

Little Girl

Matt struggles to re-home an orphan who has taken a fancy to him.

Small Water

After Matt arrests a farmer and attempts to bring him in because he's seen his face on a wanted poster, his sons follow and bushwhack them along the way.

Brother Love

When Jonas's store is robbed on a rainy night and the clerk is shot, he is able to tell Matt the family name of who did it, but there are two brothers in that family.

Stolen Horses

After a farmer is murdered for his two horses, Matt and Chester trail the killer on a path of death.

Say Uncle

When a long-lost man mysteriously shows up in Dodge, tragedies befall his brother's family.

Bad Sheriff

When a bank robber murders his partner on the prairie, the shot alerts two other men, one of whom impersonates a sheriff when they encounter Matt and Chester.

Minnie

A rough shod frontier woman who's been shot in the arm gets glammed up to make a play for Doc - at least until her husband shows up.

Shooting Stopover

This episode conveys the message that even the worst people can redeem themselves as repayment for kindness.

Unloaded Gun

Chester cleans a sleeping Matt's gun and forgets to re-load it, inadvertently saving his life.

Bless Me Til I Die

A man studying to be a doctor has never confessed to his wife that he's an escaped convict.

The Peace Officer

Matt has a run-in with a corrupt sheriff after the sheriff's gal, Stella, follows Matt to Dodge.

Tall Trapper

When a woman and her abusive husband share a camp with a trapper, the woman and trapper are attracted to each other, and the woman is found dead a day later.

Long Hours, Short Pay

When a gunrunner supplying Stone Eagle is apprehended by Matt, they're captured by the Pawnee and Matt is staked out on the prairie.

Don Matteo

A friend of Matt's comes to Dodge in search of a man who tried to make nice with his woman, and he and Matt wind up in a gunfight.

Love Thy Neighbor

The theft of a sack of 'taters sparks death, revenge and a feud between neighboring farmers.

 

Hard Virtue

When a broke young couple has an encounter with a Dodge City freight business owner, he creates turmoil in both their lives and their marriage.

The Worm

A crude, arrogant buffalo hunter who abuses his simple-minded skinner terrorizes Dodge with a knife and commits murder.

Bad Seed

A foolish young woman who runs away from home to escape her abusive father encounters Matt on the prairie and winds up in Dodge after Matt discovers her true living conditions.

The Imposter

A former bank robber has a new wife and identity in Dodge, but his past comes back to haunt him.

The Badge

When two fleeing bank robbers have a lame horse, they ambush Matt on the prairie for his horse and one of them gets obsessed with wearing Matt's badge.

Kittyshot

When two train robbers get into a fight in the Long Branch and Chester intervenes, Kitty gets shot in the melee.

Chester's Dilemma

Chester takes interest in a new young woman in Dodge, but she has hidden her true agenda for being there.

Distant Drummer

A Civil War drummer boy rides into Dodge with his drum and two mule skinners constantly bully him.

About Chester

When Chester and Matt are looking for a missing Doc on the prairie, they separate and Chester winds up in the clutches of an outlaw and his woman.

The Love of Money

A saloon gal new to Dodge turns in her own man to collect $500 so she can make it to California.

Ben Tolliver's Stud

A rancher and his hired hand argue over wrangling methods and the rancher's daughter.

Harriet

A young woman who walks 40 miles to Dodge seeks revenge against two men who murdered her father on the prairie.

Melinda Miles

A young woman's forbidden love is not as trustworthy as she believes.

No Chip

A hot-headed rancher and his passive son confront their neighbors, the Dolan brothers.

Potshot

A hog farmer who wants excitement sells his place and spends his money causing mischief in Dodge, while Matt chases bank robbers.

Colorado Sheriff

When two Colorado bank robbers turn on each other, both wind up shot, and one pretends to be a deputy sheriff.

The Wake

A hermit farmer gets tired of living the pious life his wife leads, so he goes to Dodge on a bender, taking on a new identity and giving his former self a wake.  

Old Faces

A young couple's marriage is tested in Dodge when the husband finds out his wife once worked on a Mississippi riverboat.