The BEST episodes directed by Charles Marquis Warren

8.46

13 votes

#1 - Incident of the Blue Fire

Rawhide - Season 2 - Episode 11

A storm with lightning is making the herd nervous. The blue fire of St. Elmo appears on the horns of the steers. Hey Soos says if a stranger should appear, he stops and blesses himself, death will follow. A stranger, Lucky Markley rides in. A clap of thunder and the herd stampedes. Rowdy turns the herd. Lucky says he has thirty some head to sell. Favor says he can't use any scrub cattle, but he'll look at them. Favor says no. Lucky says there is about two dozen Commanches around. Hey Soos says Lucky is the devil. A brave kills a steer the demands Lucky's horse. The Commanches line the ridge. A young buck comes out to talk. He wants the killer of his brother, ten steers, sugar, rifles and tobacco. Lucky offers Favor to leave. He was killed in a stampede. Hey Soos pulls a knife on Lucky. Collins takes over the fight. Rowdy tells Lucky to get out.

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8.19

27 votes

#2 - Incident West of Lano

Rawhide - Season 1 - Episode 8

Four stranded women provide a love interest and a complication for Favor. A freight hauler with a gunfighter says he's using the only river crossing first.

7.79

38 votes

#3 - Incident of the Challenge

Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 2

Favor gets knocked off his horse and knocked out. He wakes to Aztec Indian who has traveled 1500 miles to find a princess.

7.74

42 votes

#4 - Incident with an Executioner

Rawhide - Season 1 - Episode 3

A stage load of passengers being chased by the man with the black satchel wrecks. Favor takes them to his camp. The man is a hired executioner after someone from the stage or the herd.

7.53

301 votes

#5 - Matt Gets It

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 1

Dan Grat, a gunman hunted by Texas authorities, seeks refuge in Dodge City. Marshal Dillon goes into action against this outlaw who shoots before he talks.

7.52

95 votes

#6 - General Parsley Smith

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 11

The honesty of the town's new banker is questioned - especially after he hires an ex-con to guard the money.

7.47

91 votes

#7 - No Handcuffs

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 15

Matt investigates a neighboring sheriff when his deputy arrives in Dodge City to make an arrest.

7.46

85 votes

#8 - Tap Day for Kitty

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 22

An old sodbuster comes to town and decides he wants to marry Kitty. When he won't leave her alone she declares she'll shoot him if he pesters her anymore. Out at night, he's shot in the back and Kitty is suspected, but then she is shot at too.

7.45

95 votes

#9 - The Queue

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 10

Revenge is a definite possibility when a Dodge City newcomer is disgraced by two ruffians.

7.45

94 votes

#10 - Magnus

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 12

Chester is far from brotherly when an uncivilized sibling shows up in town just in time for Christmas.

7.44

94 votes

#11 - Reward for Matt

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 16

A bounty is placed on Matt's head when he kills a rancher during an attempted arrest.

7.43

96 votes

#12 - Reed Survives

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 13

The young wife of an elderly farmer plots her husband's death.

7.40

82 votes

#13 - Indian Scout

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 23

Twenty-three soldiers died a the hands of the Comamches at Cold Creek. Will Bailey lost his brother. Will says Amos Cartwwright, the scout led them into an ambush. Matt tells Bailey let the cavalry handle it, and leave Amos alone. Amos comes into the Long Branch with a rifle to see Bailey. Matt escorts Amos out. Amos tells Bailey I'll see you later. Matt suggests Amos stay out at the fort for a couple of days. Amos says don't worry about me. Amos kills Bailey. Matt and Chester are out tracking Amos, so is an indian. Matt finds Amos. Amos married a Comanche and was respected and loved. She died in childbirth. Amos knew about the ambush and did nothing. An indian war party appears on the ridge, friends of Amos. Amos' wife's brother Buffalo Tongue rides down. Amos goes out to meet him. Buffalo Tongue kills him. The indians ride off.

7.38

125 votes

#14 - Night Visitor

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 6

A young boy is accused of lying when he claims to have witnessed a series of crimes.

7.36

119 votes

#15 - Home Surgery

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 4

Matt is forced to perform an emergency amputation on an old man who is desperately ill with gangrene.

7.36

84 votes

#16 - 20-20

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 19

Troy Carver, an aging ex-lawman gets off the stage. Matt calls to him. Troy turns and almost shoots Matt. Matt tells Troy if someone is after you I'll help. Troy says mind your own business. Moss tells Matt Lee Polen has been hanging for several days. Lee says he's gonna kill Troy for killing his brother. Lee asks Matt to tell Troy he is in town and clear Front Street at 10:00 AM. Polen knows Troy is losing his sight. Matt sends Doc to find out just how bad his eyesight is. Doc says the only thing he can focus on quickly is a match. Matt tells Lee he's told Troy to leave. Doc tells Lee Troy's eyesight is fine. Lee goes looking for Troy. Troy goes out the back of the stable and faces off with Lee. Troy shoots the gun out of Lee's hand. Troy's wounded. Troy shot at the only thing he could see, the flash of Lee's gun.

7.34

82 votes

#17 - Reunion '78

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 20

Belle Archer recognizes Jerry Shand and hides her face. Jerry has a grudge against Andy Cully, a paunchy hardware drummer. At the Long Branch Jerry is beating Andy up. Matt's ready to lock Jerry up. Andy bails him out. On the street Andy apologizes and offers Jerry $600. Jerry knows Andy is a murderer. Andy pulls a gun. Jerry shoots him. Belle sees it all from her window. Andy was really Bloody Bille Ashley one of Quantrill's raiders. He killed Jerry's father and carried his Ma from Lawrence, Kansas. Matt looks for Andy's gun. Matt tells Kitty they need a witness. They see Belle in her room. Belle says she didn't see anything. Belle watches from her window as they prepare for a hanging. Jerry says Quantrill took his girl Ellie and I haven't seen her since. Just then Matt brings in Belle (Ellie). She says Andy drew first. As Jerry rides past her window, he calls to Ellie. Belle says Ellie's gone, goodbye.

7.32

31 votes

#18 - Incident at Barker Springs

Rawhide - Season 1 - Episode 7

Brazo, a retired gunfighter, attempts to keep his kid brother from taking up the family business.

7.32

76 votes

#19 - Hack Prine

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 26

Hack Prine, a friend of Matt's rides into Dodge. However he is there as a gunman, for Matt Dillon.

7.31

248 votes

#20 - Hot Spell

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 2

Matt is caught in an awkward position when he defends an unsavory ex-con against the decent residents of Dodge City.

7.29

86 votes

#21 - Robin Hood

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 17

Matt turns the tables against a criminal who repeatedly bribes witnesses to escape justice.

7.28

89 votes

#22 - Professor Lute Bone

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 14

Doc takes the law into his own hands when he discovers that a medicine man's "cure-all" tonic could be deadly.

7.27

83 votes

#23 - Big Broad

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 25

A large woman and her small companion bring trouble to Kitty's saloon, as the woman has a way of causing guns to be drawn.

7.26

80 votes

#24 - The Pest Hole

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 24

Doc is using the jail to quarantine people as they fall ill. The common thread between them seems to be that they all had a dinner meeting together, about the upcoming German festival, at Bendino's restaurant. Doc, at first, suspects some type of food poisoning as the culprit, but then discovers it's really Typhus. Leading citizen Mr. Matthews takes a few of his men over to Bendino's and beat him to death. Matt arrests Matthews and throws him in jail, much to Matthew's disdain with all the patients. When Mrs. Saur, a German resident living outside of Dodge, comes down with the disease Doc has to look elsewhere for the cause. He sets up an experiment that could cause him to come down with the disease himself, and possibly die!

7.25

85 votes

#25 - Yorky

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 18

When Matt comes to the aid of an accused horse thief he becomes a target of the real perpetrators.

7.22

82 votes

#26 - Helping Hand

Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 21

A would-be tough guy picks on the wrong man in an attempt to make a name for himself when he tries to involve Marshal Matt Dillon by staging a street fight.