The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 17

#1 - My Brother's Keeper

Season 17 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1971

While trying to hide from a storm Festus finds old Indian is about to die. Festus keeps trying to stop the Indian from dying.

#2 - Drago

Season 17 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1971

Drago wants to find the person who killed a woman who helped him.

#3 - Trafton

Season 17 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1971

Matt is out to find a gunfigther who killed two people.

#4 - Blind Man's Bluff

Season 17 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1972

Phoebe nurses a wounded man with amnesia back to health. But with his memory returning it could lead to even more danger for the confused man and heartache for the lonely Phoebe.

#5 - Waste (1)

Season 17 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1971

Matt helps a young boy find his mom while finding an outlaw.

#6 - P.S. Murry Christmas

Season 17 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1971

Handyman Titus Spangler rescues seven orphans from an overly stern headmistress, Emma Grundy, and winds up in Dodge City at Christmas time.

#7 - No Tomorrow

Season 17 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1972

Ben Justin must try and clear his name of false charges.

#8 - Hidalgo

Season 17 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1972

After Matt is hurt, He makes friends who must help him stay alive.

#9 - The Lost

Season 17 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1971

Kitty is in a stage wreck and dazed and confused she sets out in the wild. Meeting up with a wild girl who does not speak, she winds up at a shack where a family takes her and the wild girl hostage. Intent on turning the child into a sideshow, they tie Kitty up but are stopped before they can get too far.

#10 - The Legend

Season 17 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1971

Ma Colter tries to dissuade her youngest son from following his older brothers into a life of crime.

#11 - Lynott

Season 17 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1971

A former Marshall helps Matt by filling in for Matt, after he is wounded and sent to bed so he can rest.

#12 - Yankton

Season 17 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1972

When wealthy Wil Donvan's daughter and cowboy Yankton fall in love with each other, the young woman's classy European born mother wants to put a stop to the romance.

#13 - Alias Festus Haggen

Season 17 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1972

A case of mistaken identity is no laughing matter for Festus when a U.S. marshal arrests the good-natured deputy as bloodthirsty murderer Frank Eaton. While Festus stands trial, Matt investigates to clear his friend's name.

#14 - The Predators

Season 17 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1972

A former gunfighter returns to Dodge which worries Matt because Howard Cane was the one to survive the rage war. Can Matt stop him before more trouble comes to Dodge?

#15 - Lijah

Season 17 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1971

A jury has the fate of a mountain man in it's hands.

#16 - The Bullet (2)

Season 17 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/6/1971

The robbers delay Doc's and Matt's journey to Denver while they offload the army gold from the train to a wagon.

#17 - One for the Road

Season 17 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1972

Lucius's daughter wants her dad locked up so she and Tom can have the estate. Judge Broker thinks Mr. Prince is sane and Mr. Prince proves he can be a dad.

#18 - Waste (2)

Season 17 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1971

#19 - Phoenix

Season 17 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1971

After convict wants to kill a man he has never seen before after he gets out of prison.

#20 - New Doctor in Town

Season 17 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1971

Dr. Chapman is arrested by Festus when he tries to sleep in Doc's office even though he has explained that Doc went to Baltimore to hone his medical skills. A letter explains that Doc felt so badly about a little girl's death that he could have prevented if he had been more in tune with modern medicine, that he had to leave. Not many in town are very cordial to Dr. Chapman and when Newly's shop blows up with Newly and Festus in it, they dislike him even more. Festus is all right, but Newly has a bone splinter in his brain and needs an operation. Chapman wins the town by performing the operation and saving Newly's life.

#21 - The Wedding

Season 17 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1972

Walt Clayton is bound to protect his daughter from marrying a young local boy. But his protection may lead to Walt losing the most precious thing in his life.

#22 - The Bullet (1)

Season 17 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1971

Doc lacks the faith to operate on Matt's bullet wound, so he transports him to a specialist by train, which is taken over by bandits for its gold shipment.

#23 - The Bullet (3)

Season 17 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/13/1971

Festus and Newly try to delay the robbers from leaving with the gold to give the conductor time to get the train moving towards Denver again.

#24 - Tara

Season 17 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1972

Newly falls in love with a woman who could put him in danger, once her past is known.