John Meston
Director
Gunsmoke (1955)
Season 9
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Released Sept. 10, 1955
Episode 45 min
10+
Genres: Action, Drama, Western
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Production Companies: Filmaster Productions, Arness Production Company, CBS
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English,
Spanish
S9E1 - Kate Heller
A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.
Sept. 28, 1963, midnight
S9E2 - Lover Boy
A charming cowboy apparently is guilty only of breaking hearts until he gets to Dodge, where he finds two women who may make a killer of him.
Oct. 5, 1963, midnight
S9E3 - Legends Don't Sleep
A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.
Oct. 12, 1963, midnight
0.5
S9E4 - Tobe
Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.
Oct. 19, 1963, midnight
S9E5 - Easy Come
A mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.
Oct. 26, 1963, midnight
7.0
S9E6 - My Sister's Keeper
A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.
Nov. 2, 1963, midnight
8.0
S9E7 - Quint's Trail
Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.
Nov. 9, 1963, midnight
S9E8 - Carter Caper
A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.
Nov. 16, 1963, midnight
S9E9 - Ex-Con
On his way to Larned, Matt, feverish, spends the night at an abandoned shack. When he wakes up after losing a day, a recently released convict who swore to kill Matt, is himself found against a wall, dead, unarmed, shot twice, and the murder weapon appears to belong to the marshal.
Nov. 30, 1963, midnight
S9E10 - Extradition (1)
When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.
Dec. 7, 1963, midnight
S9E11 - Extradition (2)
Matt finally catches up to killer Charlie Hacker in Mexico, and has to make a deal with the greedy Mexican police to get Hacker back to the border, with revengeful Mexican bandits in pursuit.
Dec. 14, 1963, midnight
8.0
S9E12 - The Magician
A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.
Dec. 21, 1963, midnight
S9E13 - Pa Hack's Brood
A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.
Dec. 28, 1963, midnight
10.0
S9E14 - The Glory and the Mud
A retired lawman and showman wants only to settle down with the Dodge seamstress he left behind twenty years ago, but a young whippersnapper hopes to make a name for himself by challenging the aging gun to a duel.
Jan. 4, 1964, midnight
S9E15 - Dry Well
It's a test of wills when Quint witnesses a murder and the father of one of the prime suspects lowers Quint into a well to try to force him to promise his silence.
Jan. 11, 1964, midnight
S9E16 - Prairie Wolfer
Festus returns to Dodge from wolfing and is hired by the Cattleman's Association to hunt down the wolves killing everyone's cattle. What he finds is that what's been doing the preying may wind him up in prison if he doesn't get Matt's help.
Jan. 18, 1964, midnight
7.0
S9E17 - Friend
A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.
Jan. 25, 1964, midnight
S9E18 - Once a Haggen
A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.
Feb. 1, 1964, midnight
S9E19 - No Hands
The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Will's hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he can't carve wood anymore.
Feb. 8, 1964, midnight
S9E20 - May Blossom
Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus
Feb. 15, 1964, midnight
S9E21 - The Bassops
A family in search of a doctor find Matt and his prisoner unconscious and handcuffed to each other on the prairie. The prisoner wakens first and announces that Matt is the condemned man he is transporting for hanging.
Feb. 22, 1964, midnight
S9E22 - The Kite
Festus finds a little girl out on the prairie. He learns she saw her mother get killed by a stranger. When he takes her to Dodge, Matt hears she was hiding when this happened but can identify this man who may already be in town.
Feb. 29, 1964, midnight
S9E23 - Comanches Is Soft
After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's equipment. To repair or get anew, they travel to Wichita and meet a saloon girl who tells them she needs to get away from town but her jealous boyfriend is now hot on their trail.
March 7, 1964, midnight
S9E24 - Father's Love
A saloon girl spurns a man's advances in Wichita and moves to Dodge, where she becomes a respectable married woman, only to be confronted with her past when she discovers that her rancher husband is the nephew of the man she refused.
March 14, 1964, midnight
S9E25 - Now That April's Here
Festus, returning to Dodge after doing some trapping, sees his girl, April, and they argue over a gift she received. Running off, she hides but her perch gives her a bird's eye view of a murder, one no one believes she witnessed but the killers.
March 21, 1964, midnight
S9E26 - Caleb
Caleb Marr comes to Dodge in search of a meaningful life after finally acknowledging his failure at farming.
March 28, 1964, midnight
S9E27 - Owney Tupper Had a Daughter
To earn money to recover the custody of his daughter, an aging man accepts the job of Dodge's first in-town hangman, work no one else wants.
April 4, 1964, midnight
S9E28 - Bently
A dying man confesses to a murder of which he was acquitted, but Chester suspects the man was lying.
April 11, 1964, midnight
S9E29 - Kitty Cornered
Competing with Kitty is a fancy new woman in town with plenty of money to build a new saloon and a secret from the past life she recently left behind.
April 18, 1964, midnight
S9E30 - The Promoter
Henry Huckaby, a local farmer and fed up with a sore back and an empty belly leaves to seek his fortune in Dodge. After several failed ideas he hits on one that may make him rich but could also cost him his life.
April 25, 1964, midnight
7.5
S9E31 - Trip West
Given three months to live by a quack peddler of patent medicines, a mousy bank clerk quits his job, withdraws all his money, makes ready to go to California, and falls for a girl who may endanger what time he has remaining.
May 2, 1964, midnight
S9E32 - Scot Free
Rob Scot considers himself a man who could stay or go when it came to women. He may have met his match though when a woman he desires, along with her husband, take over an abandoned homestead, and they come to where Rob works to look over some stock.
May 9, 1964, midnight
S9E33 - The Warden
A traveling salesman meets up with Bull Foot, an Indian who mainly sells vegetables. When goods are traded for a squaw, he is upset when she runs away and into the arms of Festus, whose mule she steals, only to return home awaiting sale to the next customer.
May 16, 1964, midnight
S9E34 - Homecoming
Orval returns from seven years in prison for killing his wife's lover, vowing to reclaim his house and business. Edna tries to goad her new husband and Orval's son into a plot to kill Orval; then her head is turned by a traveling salesman.
May 23, 1964, midnight
S9E35 - The Other Half
Jess, Jay's twin, is shot and killed by an unknown assailant while working late at the family business. When a stranger to Dodge is suspected, Matt does his best to track him down and bring him to justice.
May 30, 1964, midnight
S9E36 - Journey for Three
Two brothers traveling to California are joined by a third man who soon proves to be a wrong 'un, manhandling and killing a young woman they encounter on the prairie and turning on Quint when he shows up to share his rabbits with them.
June 6, 1964, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 26 min.
Released: Sept. 10, 1955
Last Air Date: March 31, 1975, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G
Common sense age: 10+
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