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S2 E37 The Man Who Would Be Marshal

Western

TV-PG

26m

Jun 14, 1957

A retired Army officer asks Matt to appoint him deputy.

Season 2, 39 Episodes

A wounded Doc may be forced to save the life of the man who wounded him.

Brush at Eklader,

Matt tracks a murderer to a strange town where the people are unwilling to cooperate.

Matt refuses to turn in a rustler for a court-martial. Boot Hill intro clearly shows grave markers with dates of 1882 & 1883, yet episode is set in 1876, the year of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Dodge City merchants celebrate the end of a round-up and unite against any acts of violence.

Young Man with a Gun,

The brother of an outlaw Matt killed swears revenge.

A white boy who has been raised by Indians learns to live with his own race.

How to Cure a Friend,

Matt is used by an old friend in a con game.

Doc comes upon a homesteader with a busted leg and a gun to protect himself from his wife.

Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer.

An outlaw threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy.

Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians.

Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating.

Matt helps a woman whose suitors are about to duel for her affections.

A landowner tries to terrorize homesteaders off their land.

Pucket’s New Year,

An old buffalo hunter swears revenge on the skinner that left him to die.

Matt traps a cattleman who shot two homesteaders.

Sins of the Father,

An Indian woman faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City.

A bank robber murders his wife and frames Tobeel for the crime.

After a young gunfighter brazenly kills an over-matched rancher, the rancher's brother wants Matt to settle the score.

Townspeople protect an outlaw they believe has reformed.

The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed.

A woman comes a long way from the east to Dodge, only to realize that her fiancé has lost all his money and does not wish to marry her.

Sweet and Sour,

A dance-hall girl manipulates her admirers into facing each other in gunfights.

A former gunslinger's past catches up to him.

An official from Washington sets out to tame Dodge City.

Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.

Chester's Murder,

Matt reluctantly arrests Chester for murder.

A photographer from the east seeks to immortalize the violent West.

A cowboy vows revenge for the shooting of his friend, who was mistaken for a criminal.

A saloon girl does not want her ex-fiancé to know about her job.

What the Whiskey Drummer Heard,

Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman out in the open.

A former gunslinger is goaded into a duel by his fiancee's brother.

Matt seeks evidence to convict a poker dealer of murdering a gambler.

Who Lives by the Sword,

A gunman manipulates two boys into facing him in a duel.

Matt goes after an outlaw who shot Chester.

Kitty's father arrives in Dodge to try and take her back to New Orleans.

The Man Who Would Be Marshal,

A retired Army officer asks Matt to appoint him deputy.

Liar from Blackhawk,

A gunman tries to start a fight with a braggart.

A hot-tempered man thinks Matt is pursuing his wife.

Details

Gunsmoke

Western

TV-PG

21 Seasons

27m

Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for bring law and respectability to the Dodge City in this western action-drama. In black-and-white.

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