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Premiered

Saturday, September 14, 1957

Ended: Saturday, June 7, 1958

When does Gunsmoke Season 3 come out?

Gunsmoke Season 3 premiered Saturday, September 14, 1957 on CBS and ended Saturday, June 7, 1958. The season has 39 episodes.

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Gunsmoke Season 3 release schedule

Gunsmoke Season 3 episode release dates
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1. Crack-Up

Matt learns there is a hired killer in Dodge City, the hired killer gives Matt a challenge to find out who paid Nate Springer to kill Matt.

Saturday · 69 years ago

2. Gun for Chester

Chester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. After Chester is shot, he tells Matt Asa Ledbetter shot him. Matt worries that Chester may be working too hard on finding Asa Ledbetter. Asa Ledbetter claims Chester killed his brother.

Saturday · 69 years ago

3. Blood Money

After Harry Spencer's life is saved Matt receives a wanted poster for Joe Sharpe who robbed a bank. Matt learns that Joe and Shape left Dodge so Sharpe could try and get the reward money.

Saturday · 69 years ago

4. Kitty's Outlaw

Doc, Chester, and Matt suspect Kitty of helping a bank robber when she invites Matt to an out of the way spot for dinner. What they didn't know was that the bank robber was the first 'man' Kitty had ever known.

Saturday · 69 years ago

5. Potato Road

Budge wants the Marshall to arrest his Pa for murder but when they get to Budge's house they get captured by Bud & his Ma so they can rob the bank.

Saturday · 69 years ago

6. Jesse

Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.

Saturday · 69 years ago

7. Mavis McCloud

Mavis McCloud comes to Dodge to get married. She marries Barny but Lou Staley comes looking for Mavis and wants to kill Barney and the Marshall.

Saturday · 69 years ago

8. Born to Hang

Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.

Saturday · 69 years ago

9. Romeo

A powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.

Saturday · 69 years ago

10. Never Pester Chester

When Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.

Saturday · 69 years ago

11. Fingered

The people of Dodge gets suspicious of Jim Cobbett (John Larch) when his second wife (Virginia Christine) vanishes just like his first (Karl Swenson appears).

Saturday · 69 years ago

12. How to Kill a Woman

Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.

Saturday · 68 years ago

13. Cows and Cribs

The whole town is caught up in a mystery: where does Joe Nadler get all his money---and where does he go to spend it?

Saturday · 68 years ago

14. Doc's Reward

Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The man's brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.

Saturday · 68 years ago

15. Kitty Lost

An eastern dude asks Kitty if she'd like to take a midnight drive, but when she doesn't return the next day, Matt goes looking.

Saturday · 68 years ago

16. Twelfth Night

A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.

Saturday · 68 years ago

17. Joe Phy

Matt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall".

Saturday · 68 years ago

18. Buffalo Man

Matt & Chester are taken prisoner by two buffalo hunters who are hunting buffalo in Indian territory. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.

Saturday · 68 years ago

19. Kitty Caught

The Gunner brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty hostage.

Saturday · 68 years ago

20. Claustrophobia

Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men. Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men. After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.

Saturday · 68 years ago

21. Ma Tennis

Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.

Saturday · 68 years ago

22. Sunday Supplement

Clifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.

Saturday · 68 years ago

23. Wild West

Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prarie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.

Saturday · 68 years ago

24. The Cabin

Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.

Saturday · 68 years ago

25. Dirt

Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married. When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman (Beulah)late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother (Henry Troyman) thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can. When Nat is shot on his wedding day, everyone thinks Polly's Brother committed the shooting. After Matt and Chester do an investigation, Matt comes to another conclusion about the shooting of Nat Seiber.

Saturday · 68 years ago

26. Dooley Surrenders

Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.

Saturday · 68 years ago

27. Joke's on Us

Jake Kaiser and some other ranchers hung Frank Tillman thinking he was a horse thief but they were wrong. Tillman's wife and son won't tell the Marshall who did it.

Saturday · 68 years ago

28. Bottleman

Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.

Saturday · 68 years ago

29. Laughing Gas

Ernie Stubblefield trying to put his past behind him changes his name to Earl Stafford and is traveling with a laughing gas show. Cloud Marsh tries the gas and gets laughed at by the town. Angry he and his brothers attack Stubblefield/Stafford.

Saturday · 68 years ago

30. Texas Cowboys

The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.

Saturday · 68 years ago

31. Amy's Good Deed

Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.

Saturday · 68 years ago

32. Hanging Man

Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.

Saturday · 68 years ago

33. Innocent Broad

A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.

Saturday · 68 years ago

34. The Big Con

Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. When the con begins to unfold, Doc gets kidnapped.

Saturday · 68 years ago

35. Widow's Mite

Gambler Leach Fields marries Zach Morton's widow Ada thinking she knows where the money Zach stole is.

Saturday · 68 years ago

36. Chester's Hanging

Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.

Saturday · 68 years ago

37. Carmen

A secret Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers killed. The Major threatens Matt with martial law if the thieves aren't caught. Matt suspects Jenny Lane, a new girl at the Long Branch of being involved.

Saturday · 68 years ago

38. Overland Express

Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.

Saturday · 68 years ago

39. The Gentleman Finale

Marcus France, a "Gentleman Gambler" comes to Dodge and falls in love with Bonnie Damon. Tiller Evans thinks Bonnie is his girl. Matt has to keep Tiller from killing France.

Saturday · 68 years ago

Gunsmoke Season 3 guest stars

  • Barry McGuire

    Henry Troyman

  • Ed Kemmer

    Ed Kemmer

    Lou Paxon

  • Ruta Lee

    Ruta Lee

    Jennie Lane

  • Luis van Rooten

    Luis van Rooten

    Mel Tucker

  • Pernell Roberts

    Pernell Roberts

    Nat Pilcher

  • John Anderson

    John Anderson

    Ben Siple

  • Val Avery

    Val Avery

    Joe Nadler

  • Virginia Gregg

    Virginia Gregg

    Mrs. Tilman

  • Marshall Thompson

    Marshall Thompson

    Leach Fields

  • Fay Spain

    Fay Spain

    Mavis McCloud

  • Harry Dean Stanton

    Harry Dean Stanton

    Alvy

  • Timothy Carey

    Timothy Carey

    Tiller Evans

  • William Schallert

    William Schallert

    Eben Hakes

  • Warren Stevens

    Warren Stevens

    Rackmil

  • Gary Vinson

    Gary Vinson

    Jim

  • Jack Lord

    Jack Lord

    Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel

Gunsmoke Season 3 FAQ

When does Gunsmoke Season 3 come out?

Gunsmoke Season 3 premiered Saturday, September 14, 1957 on CBS.

How many episodes are in Gunsmoke Season 3?

Gunsmoke Season 3 has 39 episodes.

Are new episodes of Gunsmoke Season 3 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the Gunsmoke Season 3 finale?

The Gunsmoke Season 3 finale (Episode 39) aired Saturday, June 7, 1958.

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