The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 11
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 11, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 11!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - The Bounty Hunter
Season 11 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1965
Lured out of retirement with the promise of land, a bounty hunter is aimed by his boss at the man who killed his son. He just doesn't tell him the reward and charges had been dropped.
#2 - Seven Hours to Dawn
Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1965
Matt has to get Dodge City back from outlaws.
#3 - Gold Mine
Season 11 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1965
When Matt is too busy to escort Kitty to a gold mine she inherited, she travels there alone and meets with claim jumpers and other difficulties.
#4 - Kioga
Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1965
A young Pawnee arrives in Dodge to seek his own revenge on a murderer, not trusting in the white man's justice.
#5 - Byline
Season 11 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1966
The new newspaper in town seems to be in the business of fomenting trouble, starting with its employment as a reporter of the illiterate Festus.
#6 - Sanctuary
Season 11 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1966
An outlaw gang shoots it out fleeing Dodge City. When one of them is injured real bad, he hides out in the church where the reverend is fearful but not for himself.
#7 - Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs
Season 11 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1966
Festus's nephew arrives, seeking a bride who can read and write. He soon finds one, but runs into difficulties earning the money he needs for her dowry.
#8 - The Storm
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1965
A man is convicted of robbing and murdering his partner, but the sons of Matt's old friend are responsible. Matt must arrest the remaining son after the other's dying declaration and make it to Hays City in time to stop the hanging.
#9 - Malachi
Season 11 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1965
While Matt's out of town, his friends play along with a drifter's innocent impersonation of the marshal, but a man comes to town determined to get revenge on the marshal, and he's not playing.
#10 - Wishbone
Season 11 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1966
Festus has a habit of using the wishbone from a dead chicken for making wishes on. When he comes across Doc Adams, alone and snakebit, he uses that wish to help him, if it can. Meanwhile, Matt searches for three outlaws who held up a stage, killing the driver and guard.
#11 - The Raid (2)
Season 11 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1966
When one of the gang is hurt after robbing Dodge, the Doc is taken to patch him up. The posse was preparing to go after them but a new problem has been set they must take care of before they can recover their friend.
#12 - The Avengers
Season 11 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1965
A retired judge and his sons abduct Kitty, Festus, and Doc after Festus shoots his other son in order to defend Kitty. The judge "tries" Kitty and Festus for murder, pressing Doc into service as their defense attorney.
#13 - Which Doctor
Season 11 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/19/1966
While on a fishing trip with Festus, Doc is abducted and forced to operate on a sick child, then ordered to be a bridegroom in a true shotgun wedding.
#14 - South Wind
Season 11 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1965
A twelve-year-old boy recovers in Doc's office and then goes with a gun after the man who robbed and killed his father.
#15 - Death Watch
Season 11 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1966
Two Bounty hunters bring in a wounded Mexican bandit worth $30,000 and find out the Mexican government might not pay for a man who dies a natural death, so they get the idea of shooting him dead.
#16 - The Hostage
Season 11 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1965
Twenty-two men escape from a territorial prison. The remaining 4 kidnap Matt hoping to get safe passage into Mexico. One of them has another agenda which he reveals to Matt as they get closer to the border.
#17 - My Father's Guitar
Season 11 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/12/1966
A talented guitarist impresses all who hear him on an instrument that is more precious to him than a man's life.
#18 - Taps for Old Jeb
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1965
After a successful search for gold, two prospectors hire a man, who shows up at their campfire, as a bodyguard.
#19 - Harvest
Season 11 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/26/1966
Some homesteaders have chosen a piece of land that is free to use per the government but Ben Payson has other ideas. When his daughter starts to care about the homesteaders' son, Ben decides to force them off the property regardless the cost.
#20 - Killer at Large
Season 11 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1966
In Matt's absence, Festus is accused of drawing first on a drunken man. Though innocent, Festus leaves town to avoid Matt having to arrest him, and takes refuge across the border with a widow and her son.
#21 - Parson Comes to Town
Season 11 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1966
A mysterious man rides into town and says he is after one of two men responsible for killing his brother. When he starts crowding a stranger in town, Matt must decide how to make sure he doesn't take the law into his own hands.
#22 - Ten Little Indians
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1965
Someone has placed a fabulous price on Matt's head, and there are many competing to earn it.
#23 - The Brothers
Season 11 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1966
Billy has always looked up to his brother Ed. During a robbery gone wrong, he is arrested. Matt begins to open Billy's naive eyes when his brother tries to free him from jail.
#24 - The Reward
Season 11 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1965
A man who persuaded the good folks of Dodge to invest their money in a mine is out of prison and back to prove that there really is gold in the mine.
#25 - Treasure of John Walking Fox
Season 11 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/16/1966
When old Jacob is shot dead in self defense, his loyal Indian partner, John Walking Fox, starts paying for things with $50 gold pieces, and he becomes the talk of the town, and a target for would be robbers.