As of July 2026, Gunsmoke Season 7 aired in 1961 with 34 episodes — streaming now on Paramount Plus Premium. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Gunsmoke Season 7

1961 34 Episodes Western · Action & Adventure ⭐ 7/10

Gunsmoke Season 7 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. Its 7/10 TMDB score, built from 113 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. No filler scenes, no spinning wheels between the action. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason Gunsmoke Season 7 keeps coming up in conversation. The set pieces are impressive, but it is the story underneath them that gives Gunsmoke Season 7 its staying power. Season 7 of Gunsmoke includes 34 episodes. It aired from September 1961 to May 1962. 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 1961. What separates Gunsmoke Season 7 from disposable action entertainment is character work that survives the explosions. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Action fans who want craft and story alongside the spectacle will find exactly that in Gunsmoke Season 7. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. 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.

📡 Where to Watch Gunsmoke Season 7

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🎬 Gunsmoke Season 7 — Episode Guide

Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.

Old Yellow Boots

Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.

Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?

A hard man has given his two sons a hard raising, sure that they inherited their mother's bad blood from their murderous ancestor. The old man may be right: one of his sons may be a murderer. Or is it the other son?

A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, can't do enough for him.

Long, Long Trail

A headstrong young woman will undertake the long, dangerous journey to her fiancé's fort on her own if she must, so Matt nominates himself to escort her.

His mother has been dead almost a year, and Cully is troubled by his pa's carousing. When they discuss his getting married again, it seems like a good idea until he returns from a business trip with a new wife, an Arapaho squaw, who he has conflicted emotions about.

Chester becomes engaged more or less accidentally, but he takes to heart his obligation to his betrothed, leaving his job with Mr. Dillon to devote himself to homesteading a barren quarter section.

The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.

Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.

A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.

A homesteader hires a man to make the appearance of a scandal with his wife so that he can blackmail his wife's wealthy father.

Orkey Cathcart is looking for a wife and sets his sites on Miss Kitty.

Outlaws want Matt to leave Dodge so they can steal from the bank or they will kill a man per day.

Prospector Harvey Easter settles in Dodge City after striking it rich in the Colorado Rockies. His heavy handed attempts at philanthropy soon have unintended results.

A hired man is sweet on his boss's daughter and disliked by his boss. When the boss is killed, his own daughter claims to have done it, but Matt is suspicious.

Cody is a well-liked citizen of Dodge. He's building a house and getting married. When he befriends a stranger, his perfect life is turned upside down.

Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.

Chester is getting home-cooked meals from, and giving guitar lessons to, a spirited young woman who hopes thereby to make her estranged sweetheart jealous.

A man has been hired to kill Matt, but when he meets and quickly falls in love with a decent girl, he has a change of heart--or does he?

🎭 Cast of Gunsmoke Season 7

James Arness

Marshal Matt Dillon

Amanda Blake

Dennis Weaver

Milburn Stone

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