GUNSMOKE Season 5

Target

After leaving his mean, abusive father, a young man attempts to run away with a gypsy girl.

False Witness

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.

Kitty's Injury

Kitty is injured by a fall from a horse and refuses to let Matt leave her alone with an odd sodbuster family.

Tag, You're It

A hired killer shows up in Dodge and forms a friendship with a saloon gal, not realizing she is his mark.

Horse Deal

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.

Thick 'N' Thin

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.

Johnny Red

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.

Groat's Grudge

A southern aristocrat who fought in the war seeks to kill a man he holds responsible for killing his family in Atlanta.

Kangaroo

An obsessed zealot found beating a man seeks revenge on Chester after he obeyed Matt and freed the man being beaten.

Big Tom

An ex-fighter with a bad heart agrees to fight an old rival to settle a score, but Matt has thrown him in jail.

Tail to the Wind

A rancher and his useless son harass a homesteader couple to try to drive them off their land.

Till Death Do Us Part

A self-righteous zealot who talks down to the Long Branch women and beats his wife appears to have someone trying to shoot him.

Annie Oakley

A crack-shot middle-aged farm woman chooses to believe she is still attractive, and her neighbor is interested, but neither is true.

The Tragedian

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.

Saludos

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.

 

Hinka Do

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.

Brother Whelp

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.

Doc Judge

A gunman released from prison mistakes Doc for the judge who sent him there and sets out to murder him for revenge.

The Boots

Zeno Smith is a washed-up ex-gunman-turned-alcoholic whose best friend is a twelve-year-old orphan watching out for him.

Odd Man Out

An old sodbuster cannot come to grips with the death of his wife of 35 years and makes up stories to explain her whereabouts.

Miguel's Daughter

When a young woman is roughed up by two cowboys, Matt catches one, and her father kills the other as a matter of honor.

Box O' Rocks

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.