As of July 2026, Gunsmoke Season 4 aired in 1958 with 39 episodes — streaming now on Paramount Plus Premium. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Gunsmoke Season 4

1958 39 Episodes Western · Action & Adventure ⭐ 7/10

Gunsmoke Season 4 has built a real following on and among viewers who want their action grounded in something real. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. With 113 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. James Arness anchors the chaos with real screen presence. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Gunsmoke Season 4 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The choreography in Gunsmoke Season 4 serves the story instead of interrupting it. Season 4 of Gunsmoke includes 39 episodes. It aired from September 1958 to June 1959. This season stars James Arness, Amanda Blake and Dennis Weaver. James Arness and Amanda Blake lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1958. What separates Gunsmoke Season 4 from disposable action entertainment is character work that survives the explosions. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Action fans who want craft and story alongside the spectacle will find exactly that in Gunsmoke Season 4. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. James Arness's performance is the throughline that holds the bigger action elements together. Give it twenty minutes and decide — most viewers do not stop there.

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🎬 Gunsmoke Season 4 — Episode Guide

Matt for Murder

Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man;however, Doc and Matt's old friend Wild Bill Hickok come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder.

Matt doubts the veracity of Long Branch hostess Holly Fanshaw's claim that she saw trail drover Fly Hoyt murder young Dave Thorp. His suspicions increase further when Hoyt voluntarily returns to Dodge in order to clear his name.

Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.

Two murders result when an unscrupulous Eastern businessman named Ivy hires a psychotic killer to help him establish undisputed control of Dodge City's freight shipment business.

Letter of the Law

A rich landowner seizes the chance to get a little more acreage when he discovers that a homesteader has failed to file the paperwork to make his quarter section his own.

Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him later in Dodge, he is much different: friendly and spending money freely.

A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thieves when a "cowboy" appears and offers to show him where one of the thieves may be buried.

Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.

When a stranger leading some immigrants planning on settling outside of Dodge wants Matt to give him a badge to avert trouble, Matt gets suspicious and rides out to their camp to see what is really up.

After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into his own hands and is led tragically astray by the culprits.

How to Kill a Friend

Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matt's close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.

White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.

When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.

Robber Bridegroom

Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous businessman who threatened to ruin her father if he did not agree to the marriage.

Claustrophobic plainsman Poney Thompson is arrested for murdering a man who maliciously shot his dog, but an ironic fate awaits him after he breaks free from Chester's custody.

Gypsum Hills Feud

Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and isolated mountain families.

Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattle from Wheat's young widow.

Marshal Proudfoot

Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant.

Passive Resistance

A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.

Love of a Good Woman

An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunning for him even though he thought he was innocent five years ago.

🎭 Cast of Gunsmoke Season 4

James Arness

Marshal Matt Dillon

Amanda Blake

Dennis Weaver

Milburn Stone

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