The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 10
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 10, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 10!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - Hammerhead
Season 10 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1964
Festus takes part in a horse race in which big money is at stake, tempting some to sabotage the race in order to make sure of the outcome.
#2 - Chicken
Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1964
Mistakenly hailed as a hero who downed four robbers, a man rethinks his decision to let folks regard him as a gunfighter when protecting the woman he wants calls for a gunman's skill.
#3 - Honey Pot
Season 10 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/15/1965
A man comes to town and tells Sam he's going to shoot Matt. It's soon understood he is an old friend. Involved in shooting and killing a man, their friendship is stretched as he claims self defense even though he was the only one armed.
#4 - Two Tall Men
Season 10 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/8/1965
Doc, carrying money on an errand for Matt, is found near death. In Matt's absence, the townsfolk figure there's no need to wait for official justice to deal with those deemed responsible.
#5 - The New Society
Season 10 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/22/1965
Matt is ordered to Ridge Town to reopen the case of an army major who was murdered 12 years before, when a dying outlaw he shot swears he did not commit the crime, and it appears the whole town is hiding something.
#6 - Doctor's Wife
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1964
There's trouble for Doc Adams, and perhaps for Dodge, when a new doctor and his wife arrive in town and the wife resorts to spreading a nasty rumor about Doc to get the new practice started.
#7 - Take Her, She's Cheap
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1964
When a shiftless farmer offers his daughter to Matt, Matt demurs, but the smitten girl comes after Matt, bringing danger with her.
#8 - Jonah Hutchinson
Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1964
An old rancher returns home after many years in prison, ready to reclaim what is his by any means necessary, including burning out the squatters on his land.
#9 - Crooked Mile
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1964
Mr. Degler is determined to break up the romance between his adult daughter and half Indian Quint, so he sends for his cousin Praylie to help out, but Praylie has murder in mind instead.
#10 - Blue Heaven
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1964
A runaway kid and a wanted man from East Texas team up to first find the kid's mother and second to shake those who have been chasing the man about a murder in Carver County and robbery he just didn't commit.
#11 - Hung High
Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1964
As Matt takes a convicted man to Hays City for hanging, Matt and the prisoner are waylaid, the prisoner lynched, and Matt is framed for the killing, then arrested by a sergeant with a grudge against him.
#12 - Old Man
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1964
Having already rescued an old man once, Danny may have to try to save him again when his friend is framed for murder.
#13 - Help Me, Kitty
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1964
When a young pregnant woman seeks Kitty's aid in escaping from the child's father, the two women take the stagecoach from Dodge and meet with greater danger.
#14 - Deputy Festus
Season 10 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1965
On their way out of town, some cousins of Festus come across a badly injured man whom they assume is dead, so they flee, pursued by Festus, who believes his cousins attacked the man.
#15 - One Killer on Ice
Season 10 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/1965
Anderson, a stylish bounty hunter, rides into Dodge City. He informs Matt that his partner has a wanted criminal at an ice house. The locale is a two-day ride from Dodge; Anderson wants Matt's help to bring the criminal in. The outlaw's brother intends to go gunning for Matt and Anderson. There's also a twist: Matt finds out Anderson didn't tell him the truth about what happened. Both Anderson's partner and the outlaw lie dead at the ice house.
#16 - Innocence
Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1964
Art and Bob both have an eye on a new girl in town. She works at the Long Branch but only has eyes for the most well-liked man in town. On the eve of their marriage, it all comes to a head and the town is out for blood.
#17 - Chief Joseph
Season 10 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1965
Chief Joseph has come to town suffering from pneumonia. When he and his party are refused lodging at the hotel, a stranger steps in offering his room. Local sentiment is against this and like a boiling over teapot, trouble begins to brew.
#18 - Winner Take All
Season 10 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1965
Matt must try and end a feud brothers are having.
#19 - Big Man, Big Target
Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1964
Ellie Merchant, the wife of farmer Joe Merchant, is having a passionate affair with outlaw Pike Beechum. Beechum intends to remove Joe and any other obstacle between him and Ellie.
#20 - The Violators
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1964
A violent killing appears to be the work of Indians, but Matt doubts it. Someone accuses Quint of it and the solution involves secret motives and revenge in Indian country.
#21 - Eliab's Aim
Season 10 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1965
The goofy nephew of Festus, Eliab Haggen, comes to Dodge with the hopes of shooting off a tiny piece of his ear, because Festus bit off a piece of his dad's ear years ago in a fight.
#22 - Run, Sheep, Run
Season 10 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1965
The body of a no-good man is found in his burning store on the same night as the sudden disappearance of the nice couple he cheated out of the money for their ranch.
#23 - Bad Lady from Brookline
Season 10 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/1/1965
Just arriving in Dodge, Molly McConnell looks for her husband. When she finds out he's been killed, and Dillon is responsible, she wonders why he didn't tell her in the first place and sets out to learn how to shoot so she can kill him.
#24 - Circus Trick
Season 10 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1965
A circus family comes to town and charms the populace who don't know the family's real stock-in-trade is larceny.
#25 - Twenty Miles from Dodge
Season 10 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/10/1965
On a stagecoach returning to Dodge, Kitty and her traveling companions are waylaid and held for ransom.