The BEST episodes directed by Charles Marquis Warren
#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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#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.
#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.
#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.
#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 - Reed Survives
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 13
The young wife of an elderly farmer plots her husband's death.
#8 - No Handcuffs
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 15
Matt investigates a neighboring sheriff when his deputy arrives in Dodge City to make an arrest.
#9 - 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.
#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.
#11 - The Queue
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 10
Revenge is a definite possibility when a Dodge City newcomer is disgraced by two ruffians.
#12 - 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.
#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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Night Visitor
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 6
A young boy is accused of lying when he claims to have witnessed a series of crimes.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Robin Hood
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 17
Matt turns the tables against a criminal who repeatedly bribes witnesses to escape justice.
#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.
#24 - 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.
#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.
#26 - 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!
#27 - Smoking Out the Nolans
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 7
When a dispute arises over a piece of land, Matt and Chester are forced to evict the current occupants.
#28 - Word of Honor
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 3
Three kidnappers force Doc to make a promise that will be hard for him to keep.
#29 - The Hunter
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 9
Matt sets out after a cruel buffalo hunter who is heading for Indian land.
#30 - Obie Tater
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 5
A saloon girl is suspected of being a gold-digger when she comes to town looking for a husband.
#31 - Kite's Reward
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 8
A reformed outlaw is haunted by the discovery that there is still a price on his head.