The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 6
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 6!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - Minnie
Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/15/1961
Rough and rowdy Minnie comes to Dodge City and sets her designs on Doc Adams much to the delight of Matt, Chester and Kitty. Trouble comes though when Minnie's husband comes to Dodge and finds out that his Minnie is sweet on Doc.
#2 - Little Girl
Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/1/1961
Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire. Charity insists that she should live with the Dodge City lawman.
#3 - Stolen Horses
Season 6 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/8/1961
Horse thieves murder a man to get his animals. Matt tracks the criminals to a Kiowa camp.
#4 - Bless Me Till I Die
Season 6 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/22/1961
Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.
#5 - Tall Trapper
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1961
A man and his wife come across a lone trapper and make camp with him. Next day, the husband comes to Dodge to report to Doc that his wife is sick, but Doc finds the woman beaten to death, and the husband accuses the trapper.
#6 - Old Fool
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1960
A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!
#7 - No Chip
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1960
The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.
#8 - Long Hours, Short Pay
Season 6 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/29/1961
A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.
#9 - Melinda Miles
Season 6 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/3/1961
When Roy Tayloe is murdered following a poker game, quick-tempered Harry Miles is certain that daughter Melinda's suitor Tom Potter is the killer. Miles quickly becomes impatient with Matt's methodical investigation of the crime and threatens to kill Potter himself unless he stays away from Melinda.
#10 - Love Thy Neighbor
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1961
The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.
#11 - Colorado Sheriff
Season 6 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/17/1961
Matt and Chester find Rod Ellison shot and paralyzed on the prairie and return him to Dodge for surgery. Ben Witter abrasively advises Matt that he is a deputy sheriff from Pueblo who has come to Dodge to arrest Ellison for robbery, but Matt is suspicious of Witter's refusal to produce a valid arrest warrant.
#12 - Ben Tolliver's Stud
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1960
A row with his boss makes Ben quit his job. He leaves but says goodbye to Jake's daughter first. When he takes a horse for lost wages, Jake swears he'll kill him. The tables are turned when a hard and fast rule of Jake's soon backfires.
#13 - Hard Virtue
Season 6 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/6/1961
Hot tempered Andy Coe and his wife want to sell their wagon to Moss, but can't when Ed Fallon's team spooks and crashes into their wagon. Fallon pays for the broken wagon and gives Andy a job. Fallon is sweet on Andy's wife.
#14 - The Wake
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1960
A man brings his dead friend into Dodge to give him a proper wake.
#15 - Small Water
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1960
Matt arrests Finn Pickett after recognizing his face from a wanted poster. On the way back to Dodge, Pickett's vengeful sons try to free their father as Matt and Chester face a water shortage.
#16 - Chester's Dilemma
Season 6 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/20/1961
A pretty girl arrives in town and chases Chester, who's happy for her to do so, but the young woman has a secret that may land her in jail.
#17 - The Imposter
Season 6 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/13/1961
A man claiming to be a sheriff from Texas comes to Dodge and asks Matt for help tracking down a named fugitive, but the man may not be a sheriff.
#18 - Shooting Stopover
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1960
While transporting a prisoner with Chester on a stagecoach to Wichita, Matt learns that the stagecoach is also carrying a shipment of gold, and he suspects the coach might be targeted by outlaws.
#19 - Harriet
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1961
After witnessing the callous murder of her kindly father, Harriet Horne disregards Matt's advice and unwisely attempts to extract revenge from the perpetrators by making them jealous rivals for her attention.
#20 - Don Matteo
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1960
Matt's old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.
#21 - The Peace Officer
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1960
Dillon heads to Dodge to get a new man to replace the brutal, corrupt sheriff of Tascosa, with hired killers in pursuit who are unaware that the sheriff's ex-girlfriend has joined up with Dillon.
#22 - Friend's Pay-Off
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/1960
Matt is summoned to help an old friend, Ab Butler, who has been shot in the back and left for dead. However, Matt faces a difficult situation when Ab's partner shows up and tells his side of the story.
#23 - About Chester
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1961
While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.
#24 - Say Uncle
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1960
Lee Nagel suspects his visiting uncle of murder when his father is killed in their store in an apparent accident.
#25 - Distant Drummer
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1960
A young army drummer named Raffie is terrorized by two bullying mule skinners.