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S1 E5 Obie Tater

Western

TV-PG

27 minutes

Oct 14, 1955

A group of outlaws try to force an old prospector to give up his gold.Featuring: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Season 1, 39 Episodes

Gunsmoke - Matt Gets It

United States Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City must deal with fast trigger-happy outlaw Dan Grat (Paul Richards) who wants his way with the town.

Gunsmoke - Hot Spell

Matt must defend a gunman he despises from townspeople who want to lynch him for a crime he didn't commit.

Gunsmoke - Word of Honor

To save his own life, murder witness Doc gives his word of honor to the killers (including Claude Akins) that he won't expose them.

Gunsmoke - Home Surgery

Matt tries to save the life of a man dying of gangrene.

Gunsmoke - Obie Tater

A group of outlaws try to force an old prospector to give up his gold.

Gunsmoke - Night Incident

Night Incident,

No one believes a boy's claims that he overheard an outlaw planning a robbery.

Gunsmoke - Smoking Out the Nolans

Smoking Out the Nolans,

A landowner asks Matt to remove a couple from a home on part of his land, which the couple insists they bought and paid for, and which they refuse to vacate.

Gunsmoke - Kite's Reward

An ex-outlaw's attempt to hang up his gun proves difficult.

Gunsmoke - The Hunter

A legendary buffalo hunter invites the wrath of Indians when he sets out to cross their sacred hunting grounds.

Gunsmoke - The Queue

Two men try to force a Chinese man out of Dodge.

Gunsmoke - General Parcley Smith

General Parcley Smith,

Parsley Smith, a teller of tall tales, claims the new town banker is plotting to make off with the depositors' money.

Gunsmoke - Magnus

It's Christmas in Dodge and Chester isn't pleased when his brother Magnus arrives for a visit (Robert Easton appears). One of very few times a radio episode was adapted to TV with the same guest actor playing the role in both media.

Gunsmoke - Reed Survives

A beautiful young wife (Lola Albright) manipulates a young hired hand into killing her older husband.

Gunsmoke - Professor Lute Bone

Professor Lute Bone,

A peddler's miracle curative contains opium and proves fatal.

Gunsmoke - No Handcuffs

A man who claims he's innocent of a murder in a corrupt town breaks out of Matt's jail, and his trail leads Matt to the corrupt sheriff (Mort Mills appears).

Gunsmoke - Reward for Matt

Reward for Matt,

A woman offers a $1,000 reward to the man who kills Matt Dillon.

Gunsmoke - Robin Hood

Witnesses are refusing to testify against an infamous outlaw.

Gunsmoke - Yorky

Matt saves the life of a white boy raised by Indians who was shot trying to retrieve horses stolen from his tribe.

Gunsmoke - 20 - 20

An ex-lawman and old friend of Matt's arrives in Dodge with failing eyesight, and a man who wants to kill him.

Gunsmoke - Reunion 78

A well-liked hardware drummer is actually a man wanted for multiple murders.

Gunsmoke - Helping Hand

Matt attempts to reform a young troublemaker (including James Nusser in a role other than Louie Pheeters).

Gunsmoke - Tap Day for Kitty

Tap Day for Kitty,

An old rancher decides that he is going to marry Kitty.

Gunsmoke - Indian Scout

When an old Indian scout murders a man Matt pursues him into Comanche territory.

Gunsmoke - The Pest Hole

Doc must find a way to thwart a typhoid epidemic in Dodge.

Gunsmoke - Big Broad

Matt has to figure a way around a six-foot-tall, 200-pound woman with a six-gun.

Gunsmoke - Hack Prine

An old friend of Matt's is now a gun-for-hire, in town to kill him. This is the actual pilot episode of the television Gunsmoke.

Gunsmoke - Cooter

A dishonest gambler uses a mentally challenged man in a plot against Matt.

Gunsmoke - The Killer

Matt has to stop a cold-blooded killer who preys on over-matched opponents.

Gunsmoke - Doc's Revenge

Doc has a change of heart about a man he hates and wants to kill face to face when the man is later shot in the back.

Gunsmoke - The Preacher

A preacher disgusted by violence is harassed by bully Sam Keeler who despises his timid nature.

Gunsmoke - How to Die for Nothing

How to Die for Nothing,

The brother of a man Matt was forced to kill vows to kill Matt by any means necessary.

Gunsmoke - Dutch George

Matt is forced to arrest his childhood hero, who is now the leader of a gang of horse thieves.

Gunsmoke - Prairie Happy

A bitter old man tells fibs about Indians preparing to strike Dodge.

Gunsmoke - Chester's Mail Order Bride

Chester's Mail Order Bride,

When Chester's mail-order bride arrives, neither she nor Chester are what the other are expecting.

Gunsmoke - The Guitar

An ex-Union soldier is forced to use violence against a pair of diehard Rebels.

Gunsmoke - Cara

Matt discovers that an old girlfriend is working on the opposite side of the law.

Gunsmoke - Mr. and Mrs. Amber

Mr. and Mrs. Amber,

A self-described religious prophet makes life miserable for his sister and her husband.

Gunsmoke - Unmarked Grave

Unmarked Grave,

An old woman grieving over the loss of her outlaw son tries to help another young outlaw escape justice. Boot Hill Intro returns for this episode and appears intermittently hereafter.

Gunsmoke - Alarm at Pleasant Valley

Alarm at Pleasant Valley,

Homesteaders are ambushed on the way to Dodge.

Details

Gunsmoke

Western

TV-PG

21 Seasons

27 minutes

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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