The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 14
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 14, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 14!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - The Twisted Heritage
Season 14 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1968
Kitty saves the life of a man during a stage hold-up, taking him back to his ranch she finds his mother a ruthless matron and his daughter alienated from her father.
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#2 - Exodus 21.22
Season 14 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/24/1969
A friend of Matt's, a former lawman arrives in Dodge to kill the men responsible for his wife's death.
#3 - Reprisal
Season 14 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1969
Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder and delivering a baby. He choses to save the man first, and the baby dies in childbirth. The baby's father, Tom Butler blames Doc and plans to get even.
#4 - Uncle Finney
Season 14 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1968
A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.
#5 - Zavala
Season 14 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1968
Matt pursues the Rawlins gang into Mexico to the village of Zavala. Here he meets Paco and his widowed mother. Paco's father had been killed when he stood up to outlaws intimidating the people of Zavala. In his whole life, the only strong willed people Paco had ever seen were outlaws. He first thinks of Matt as such a person, until Matt tells him that he's not there to kill the Rawlins' but to arrest them. "But only outlaws ever come to Zavala." Paco is fascinated with the fact that Matt is a US Marshal.
#6 - Railroad
Season 14 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1968
Matt clashes with maverick railroad builder Wes Cameron and his wild men running a railroad line through Dodge.
#8 - Lyle's Kid
Season 14 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1968
Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for his hands.
#9 - The Money Store
Season 14 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1968
When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.
#10 - The Hide Cutters
Season 14 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1968
Festus is rescued from a rock avalanche by a young hide cutter. His fellow cutters are following a herd of cattle with hopes of stealing them for the hides.
#11 - Lobo
Season 14 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1968
Mountain man Luke Brazo joins Matt in a hunt for a vicious wolf terrorizing the area.
#12 - The Good Samaritans
Season 14 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1969
Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a Judge that will hang a man, the man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Meanwhile, Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading West, and now being pursued by the hunters.
#13 - The Miracle Man
Season 14 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1968
Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.
#14 - The Night Riders
Season 14 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1969
Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.
#15 - 9:12 to Dodge
Season 14 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1968
Matt and Doc are escorting outlaw Johnny August by train to trail for murder. Also on board and waiting along the line are his men waiting for a chance to free him.
#16 - The Prisoner
Season 14 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1969
Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.
#17 - The Mark of Cain
Season 14 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1969
A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.
#18 - Time of the Jackals
Season 14 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1969
A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.
#19 - Abelia
Season 14 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1968
A young woman and her kids and Festus are held hostage from a man Matt is trying to find.
#20 - Slocum
Season 14 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1968
Grizzily mountain man, Slocum tracks the sons of a man who tried to bushwhack his good friend, Matt Dillon.
#21 - Mannon
Season 14 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1969
Gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge, after shooting Festus and taking his mule, to face Matt in a gunfight.
#22 - Johnny Cross
Season 14 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1968
Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
#23 - The Intruder
Season 14 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1969
Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Riley's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.
#24 - Waco
Season 14 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1968
While bringing in outlaw, Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with his outlaw band following them while he has to deliver a baby.
#25 - Gold Town
Season 14 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1969
Merry Florene is back, along with her remaining half-brother Elbert Moses and cousin Smiley. Merry pesters Newly while the boys scam Dodge City with a salted gold mine.