The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 16

#1 - Stark

Season 16 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1970

Adam Bramley, an immature selfish young man, has escaped from prison. Lewis Stark is a bounty hunter who catches him, then blackmails him for money with Bramley's father, John, a rancher with a serious heart condition. Adam's strong-willed sister Glory, has the ranch hands beat up Stark, while John pays him off to leave. Adam finally has an epiphany just as his father is dying of a heart attack.

#2 - Murdoch

Season 16 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1971

A former lawman tries to go after a gang of outlaws and gets a shock of his own.

#3 - Luke

Season 16 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1970

A wounded outlaw comes to Dodge City to find his daughter before his death.

#4 - Jaekel

Season 16 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1971

A convict returns to Dodge City to get a woman back.

#5 - Sergeant Holly

Season 16 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1970

An Army sergeant is accused of desertion and the theft of an Army payroll.

#6 - Jenny

Season 16 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/28/1970

A judge interferes when Newly allows an outlaw to make arrangements for his 10 year old daughter, and to surrender afterwards.

#7 - Sam McTavish, M.D.

Season 16 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1970

Doc Adams feels that Sam McTavish (who is a woman Doctor) may replace him.

#8 - The Scavengers

Season 16 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1970

In order for a black man to save his life he must say that indians held up a wagon train.

#9 - Captain Sligo

Season 16 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1971

A Captain of the sea wants to live Dodge City.

#10 - Chato

Season 16 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1970

After a friend of Matt's dies he goes to New Mexico to find the killer.

#11 - The Witness

Season 16 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1970

A family is held hostage so they can't testify at the trial of a killer.

#12 - Gentry's Law

Season 16 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1970

A Baron may give Matt trouble because he won't let Matt put his sons in jail because of a crime they committed.

#13 - The Noose

Season 16 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1970

Kitty is held hostage so Matt will rescue her in ghost town.

#14 - Lavery

Season 16 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1971

Matt is saved by a cowhand from an ambush. Matt then gets to do a favor for the cowhand.

#15 - Cleavus

Season 16 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1971

Cleavus thinks he could be rich, but he soon finds fool's gold in the mine.

#16 - Snow Train (1)

Season 16 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1970

Matt is trapped with passengers on a train.

#17 - McCabe

Season 16 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1970

Matt has two problems he tries to arrest an outlaw then he must try to free the hostage.

#18 - Mirage

Season 16 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/11/1971

Festus is severely dehydrated and seeing blurred images, when he kills a man in a ghost town, and it's not a clear case of self defense.

#19 - Pike (2)

Season 16 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1971

Dirty Sally becomes smitten with the outlaw Pike as he continues to heal up and the gang begins tracking Pike down.The friendship between the two grows as Pike is faced with leaving or standing his ground with the gang.

#20 - The Noonday Devil

Season 16 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1970

Pursued by Marshal Matt Dillon, a Mexican bandit seeks sanctuary with his twin brother, a priest.

#21 - Snow Train (2)

Season 16 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1970

#22 - The Tycoon

Season 16 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1971

Festus tries to go into the freight business and it nearly results in matrimony.

#23 - Pike (1)

Season 16 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1971

Sally Fergus, called by many in Dodge "Dirty Sally" finds young wounded outlaw, Cyrus Pike at her home and nurses him back to health. His partners in a robbery are searching for him and their stolen loot.

#24 - The Gun

Season 16 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1970

After a young man kills a gunfighter he becomes the victim of publicity.