The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 20
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 20, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 20!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - The Iron Men
Season 20 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1974
Matt and former lawman now turned alcoholic, Chauncey Demon go up against land baron Carl Ryker.
#2 - I Have Promises to Keep
Season 20 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1975
An aging pastor is determined to erect a church for the Indians on the reservation but is met with bigotry from the citizens of a nearby town.
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#3 - The Wiving
Season 20 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1974
Jed Hockett, a farmer, orders his three boys to go to town and return with prospective brides.
#4 - The Sharecroppers
Season 20 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/31/1975
A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers.
#5 - Town in Chains
Season 20 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1974
A group of bandits attempt to rob a town while masquerading as soldiers.
#6 - The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1)
Season 20 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1974
Doc and fellow stage passenger, Lyla are captured by renegade comancheros.
#7 - Matt Dillon Must Die
Season 20 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1974
A mountain family in an attempt to avenge the death of one of their own capture Matt.
#8 - The Fires of Ignorance
Season 20 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1975
Henry Decory is a schoolteacher who makes a strong statement for compulsory education for frontier children as a stubborn father feels that books and education are a waste of time and tries to keep his son Tommy out of school.
#9 - The Fourth Victim
Season 20 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1974
A series of seemingly random killings have the citizens of Dodge City in near panic, but Dillon believes they are part of a pattern in which Doc is slated to be the next target.
#10 - In Performance of Duty
Season 20 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1974
Matt is frustrated by Judge Kendall's insistence that the letter of the law be maintained, which could result in Emmett Kaysinger and his boys, all known outlaws, be set free unless there is solid evidence to hold them for a double murder and robbery they committed.
#11 - The Squaw
Season 20 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1975
Fleeing from both Matt Dillon and his double-crossed partners, outlaw Gristy Calhoun discovers that his survival in the badlands depends on an Indian woman.
#12 - Manolo
Season 20 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/17/1975
Manolo (Robert Urich)is a Basque youth who is not recognized as a man in the eyes of his people because he refuses to fight his father Alejo (Nehemiah Persoff), a traditional Basque custom to prove one's manhood.
#13 - Brides and Grooms
Season 20 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/10/1975
Farmer Jed Hackett (Harry Morgan) decides it's time for his three sons marry the women they brought back from Dodge City.
#14 - Thirty a Month and Found
Season 20 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1974
Three cattle drivers find competition with railroads is forcing them out of business, and 2 of them mistakenly turn to crime for a temporary fix.
#15 - The Colonel
Season 20 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1974
A drunkard ex colonel overhears plans of robbery and murder while spending a night in jail, but isn't sure if it was a dream.
#16 - Larkin
Season 20 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1975
Newly finds himself in a strange alliance with a professional killer as he tries to return to Dodge City with his prisoner (Jaeckel) before they are both killed by a trio of bounty hunters.
#17 - The Busters
Season 20 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/10/1975
Two bronco busters try to raise money for a ranch in Montana, only to have the dream ruined when one of them gets a death threatening head injury when thrown off by a wild stallion.
#18 - The Angry Land
Season 20 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1975
After Matt finds a young girl on the prairie whose parents have been killed, he takes her to her only relative, an aunt that has troubles of her own and wants no part of her niece's life.
#19 - The Tarnished Badge
Season 20 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1974
Matt's friend, Sheriff Harker runs his town ruthlessly, punishing anyone disobeying him.
#20 - The Guns of Cibola Blanca (2)
Season 20 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1974
Matt, Festus and Newly attempt to rescue Doc and Lyla from Shindrow's camp.
#21 - Island in the Desert (2)
Season 20 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1974
While Matt and Newly hunt for Festus, Ben Snow and Festus attempt to haul his gold out of the desert.
#22 - Hard Labor
Season 20 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1975
Matt Dillon is sentenced to life imprisonment of hard labor for shooting a fugitive in the town of Bedrock.
#23 - Island in the Desert (1)
Season 20 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1974
Festus, in the desert hunting escaped killer Gard Dixon is wounded by the outlaw. He is found by Ben Snow, a half-crazy hermit who has been living in the desert with his gold for many years.
#24 - The Hiders
Season 20 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1975
When a young teenager from a group of squatters decides he can do better than stealing, he changes his ways. But the leader of the squatters will try to manipulate the young man with the people that has treated him the best.