The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 2
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 2!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - Sins of the Father
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1957
A white man and his Indian wife, passing through Dodge, become targets of violence after it is learned that the wife's father led deadly raids against white settlers.
#2 - Bloody Hands
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1957
The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed.
#3 - Daddy-O
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/1/1957
Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her back to New Orleans with him.
#4 - Sweet and Sour
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1957
Violence and tragedy result when Matt and Chester persuade a reluctant Kitty to hire flirtatious Rena Decker as a Long Branch hostess.
#5 - Skid Row
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1957
When a lady comes to town looking for her betrothed, Matt takes it upon himself to sober up the man, who, in his fiancée's absence, has become the town drunk.
#6 - Gone Straight
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1957
When Matt serves a warrant in another town for a wanted man, there are two men answering the possible suspect's description, and they both have gone totally straight.
#7 - Moon
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/11/1957
Vint is a crooked card dealer being watched by a gunman hired by a card player to make sure he can not cheat, so he resorts to murder and robbery to recover his losses.
#8 - Cain
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1957
Told he has only two months to live, a man determines to avenge the suicide of a young woman by killing the womanizer he blames for her death.
#9 - Big Girl Lost
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/20/1957
A saloon gal's old beau is in town, and she expects trouble when he finds out where she is working.
#10 - How to Cure a Friend
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1956
Matt is put in a difficult position by the arrival of Nick Search, an old friend who has since become a gambler with a fast draw and a reputation for dishonesty.
#11 - Liar from Blackhawk
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/22/1957
Hank Shinn is a newcomer in town bragging about his reputation as gunman, but Marshal Dillon suspects he is nothing more than a liar.
#12 - Executioner
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1957
Grief-stricken rancher Morgan Curry proves willing to go to any length necessary to get revenge after cocksure gunman Tom Clegg kills his brother Abe in a needlessly provoked gunfight.
#13 - Last Fling
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/23/1957
Miss Kitty is suspected of taking a shot at drunkard John Peavy for harassing her earlier, and shortly thereafter someone fires a shot at her.
#14 - The Mistake
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1956
When a man suspected of murder can't establish his alibi, Matt arrests the man. After the prisoner draws a gun on Chester and escapes, evidence suggests he might not be guilty.
#15 - Young Man with a Gun
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1956
After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year old brother arrives to fight Matt.
#16 - The Round Up
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1956
Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.
#17 - Cow Doctor
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1956
After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows,a human patient of Doc's dies. Durning a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed.
#18 - Who Lives by the Sword
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/18/1957
Despicable gunman Joe Delk provokes Lew and Billy Baxter and easily kills the inexperienced young men in gunfights, but Matt's swift and unexpected reaction soon has Delk experiencing nightmares and self-doubt.
#19 - Wrong Man
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/13/1957
Sam Rickers shot a man dead in the back to try and claim a $1,000 reward, but it turns out that the dead man was never wanted by the law.
#20 - Pucket's New Year
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1957
A man, abandoned and permanently crippled by the cold on the prairie, is rescued by Matt and Chester and struggles to find a purpose.
#21 - Legal Revenge
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1956
Doc comes upon a new homesteader confined to bed with a badly infected leg and a gun under the bedclothes for protection against his wife.
#22 - Jealousy
Season 2 - Episode 39 - Aired 7/6/1957
A card dealer, newly married, wants to kill his old friend, Marshal Dillon, when a crooked gambler starts rumors that Dillon is courting the dealer's wife.
#23 - No Indians
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1956
Matt strongly suspects that it is actually white men who are responsible for a murderous series of "Indian raids" that have terrorized prairie-dwelling families.
#24 - Chester's Murder
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/30/1957
When the drunkard Chester is escorting to jail is shot dead, Chester is suspected of the murder.
#25 - Brush at Elkader
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1956
After his friend Ben Williams is shot down by Lou Shippen, Matt travels to Elkader to bring him him. The only problem, he doesn't know what he looks like and the town is protecting Shippen.