The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 19
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 19, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 19!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - The Foundling
Season 19 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1974
When the parents of a daughter who was raped refuse to accept the girl's baby, Marshal Dillon must find a home for the child.
#2 - The Widow-Maker
Season 19 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1973
A gunfighter wants to forget his past... and wants everyone else to forget it too. Unfortunately for him, this is not easy to accomplish...
#3 - The Iron Blood of Courage
Season 19 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1974
William Talley, a gunfighter is hired by a farmer's collition in Dodge to kill rancher Shaw Anderson, their main obstickle in taking over the land.
#4 - To Ride a Yeller Horse
Season 19 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1974
The schemes of a mother trying to control the lives of her son and daughter lead to tragic results.
#5 - The Disciple
Season 19 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/1/1974
Matt's life is changed when his gun arm is seriously wounded.
#6 - A Family of Killers
Season 19 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1974
Matt and a fellow lawman go after a vicious family of robbers and killers.
#7 - The Hanging of Newly O'Brien
Season 19 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1973
When Newly performs emergency surgery on a patient in the back country and he dies, the ignorant families think it's murder and want to hang him.
#8 - Matt's Love Story
Season 19 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1973
A wounded Matt Dillon suffers amnesia then falls in love with a widow. Matt's first TV kiss, not to Miss Kitty, but to guest star Michael Learned.
#9 - A Game of Death ... An Act of Love (2)
Season 19 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1973
The lawyer defends the 2 renegades accused of murder, and the victim's husband is determined to see they are lynched if they are acquitted.
#10 - Trail of Bloodshed
Season 19 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1974
Buck Henry Woolf is on the trail of his uncle, who killed his father, stole their money, and wounded him. Festus is on the same mission and also to stop the young man from taking the law into his own hands.
#11 - The Town Tamers
Season 19 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1974
Marshal Dillon teams up with old friend Marshal Luke Rumbaugh to tame the town of Hilt.
#12 - Susan Was Evil
Season 19 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1973
When a woman and Dillon's wounded prisoner fall in love, her selfish niece makes plans to turn him over to bounty hunters.
#13 - The Child Between
Season 19 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1973
A wanted man goes into Dodge to get help for his sick baby and his Indian wife. With Doc unavailable, Newly offers to help but will be torn between healing and his duty as a lawman.
#14 - Cowtown Hustler
Season 19 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1974
A broke young man seeks his fortune with an old drifter, a formerly legendary champion billiards player.
#15 - Like Old Times
Season 19 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1974
An old safe cracker is set free and he comes back to Dodge to find his former lady love. When two men looking to steal a lot of money come to town and approach him about unlocking the safe at the station, he accepts their proposal, sort of.
#16 - The Widow and the Rogue
Season 19 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1973
James Stacy stars as a roguish thief who's long on charm but a bit short on ethics. His real test of character comes on a long, adversity-plagued journey to Dodge with his captor Festus.
#17 - Lynch Town
Season 19 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1973
Dillon forces an alcoholic Circuit Judge to hold an inquest into the death of a woman saloon owner which had resulted in the lynching of an innocent drifter.
#18 - A Game of Death ... An Act of Love (1)
Season 19 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1973
A lawyer passing through Dodge is reluctant to defend two renegade Indians suspected of murdering a powerful rancher's wife.
#19 - The Boy and the Sinner
Season 19 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1973
Ron Moody guest stars as a man torn between keeping his own self-respect and the friendship of a young boy or keeping his drunken promise to help two hired gunmen.
#20 - The Schoolmarm
Season 19 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1974
After being raped, Dodge City school teacher Sarah Merkle struggles with the implications of being an unwed mother.
#21 - Women for Sale (2)
Season 19 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1973
Matt helps two of the captives (a one-time saloon girl named Stella and a young girl named Marcy) escape their bloodthirsty Indian captor. After Matt and Stella bring the shaken Marcy out of her shell - she had earlier witnessed her mother's murder at the hands of her would-be rapist - the three team together to stop the ringleader of the white slave trade to justice before he can escape to Mexico.
#22 - The Deadly Innocent
Season 19 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1973
When a mentally challenged young man comes to Dodge, Festus takes the man under his arm. But it will not be long until Festus knows the young man needs more help than he can give.
#23 - Women for Sale (1)
Season 19 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1973
Matt becomes involved in investigating the disappearance of female settlers and travelers in the region. He links it to a band of renegade Native Americans, who plan to sell the women as sex slaves to a band of ruthless white mercenaries.
#24 - Kitty's Love Affair
Season 19 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1973
Kitty and Matt are off for St. Louis, until Matt is summoned back on business. Upset with him, Kitty sets off for herself meeting a gunslinger on the stage who ends up saving her life. He goes back to Dodge with her and proceeds to court her. Kitty has a hard decision. Leave Matt after 18 years of a relationship or stay with Stambridge.