As of July 2026, Gunsmoke Season 9 aired in 1963 with 36 episodes — streaming now on Paramount Plus Premium. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Gunsmoke Season 9

1963 36 Episodes Western · Action & Adventure ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch Gunsmoke Season 9 on and — and it moves faster than most of the genre's competition. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. James Arness brings a physicality to the role that elevates every sequence. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Gunsmoke Season 9 earns its spot. The set pieces are impressive, but it is the story underneath them that gives Gunsmoke Season 9 its staying power. Season 9 of Gunsmoke includes 36 episodes. It aired from September 1963 to June 1964. 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 1963. What separates Gunsmoke Season 9 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 9. 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.

📡 Where to Watch Gunsmoke Season 9

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🎬 Gunsmoke Season 9 — Episode Guide

A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.

A charming cowboy apparently is guilty only of breaking hearts until he gets to Dodge, where he finds two women who may make a killer of him.

Legends Don't Sleep

A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.

Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.

A mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.

My Sister's Keeper

A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.

Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.

A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.

On his way to Larned, Matt, feverish, spends the night at an abandoned shack. When he wakes up after losing a day, a recently released convict who swore to kill Matt, is himself found against a wall, dead, unarmed, shot twice, and the murder weapon appears to belong to the marshal.

Extradition (1)

When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.

Extradition (2)

Matt finally catches up to killer Charlie Hacker in Mexico, and has to make a deal with the greedy Mexican police to get Hacker back to the border, with revengeful Mexican bandits in pursuit.

A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.

Pa Hack's Brood

A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.

The Glory and the Mud

A retired lawman and showman wants only to settle down with the Dodge seamstress he left behind twenty years ago, but a young whippersnapper hopes to make a name for himself by challenging the aging gun to a duel.

It's a test of wills when Quint witnesses a murder and the father of one of the prime suspects lowers Quint into a well to try to force him to promise his silence.

Festus returns to Dodge from wolfing and is hired by the Cattleman's Association to hunt down the wolves killing everyone's cattle. What he finds is that what's been doing the preying may wind him up in prison if he doesn't get Matt's help.

A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.

A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.

The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Will's hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he can't carve wood anymore.

Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus

🎭 Cast of Gunsmoke Season 9

James Arness

Marshal Matt Dillon

Amanda Blake

Dennis Weaver

Ken Curtis

Milburn Stone

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