The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 7
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 7!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - Chesterland
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1961
Chester becomes engaged more or less accidentally, but he takes to heart his obligation to his betrothed, leaving his job with Mr. Dillon to devote himself to homesteading a barren quarter section.
#2 - Old Yellow Boots
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1961
Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.
#3 - Perce
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1961
Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.
#4 - Marry Me
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1961
An uncouth young mountain man is told by his pa that it's time he had himself a wife, so he comes to Dodge, is pleased by the looks of Miss Kitty, and simply kidnaps her.
#5 - The Gallows
Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/1962
While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.
#6 - Half Straight
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/17/1962
A man has been hired to kill Matt, but when he meets and quickly falls in love with a decent girl, he has a change of heart--or does he?
#7 - The Dreamers
Season 7 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/28/1962
Henry and Jake have struck it rich. Now they want to follow their dream and buy a Mississippi river boat. When Henry spots Miss Kitty, he fancies marrying her but she will have nothing to do with his dream or him.
#8 - Harper's Blood (AKA: Harper)
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1961
A hard man has given his two sons a hard raising, sure that they inherited their mother's bad blood from their murderous ancestor. The old man may be right: one of his sons may be a murderer. Or is it the other son?
#9 - Miss Kitty
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1961
Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?
#10 - Milly
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1961
The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.
#11 - The Squaw
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1961
A young man is very unwelcoming to the young Indian bride his father brings home.
#12 - Chester's Indian
Season 7 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/12/1962
On his way to a fishing vacation, Chester stumbles into a human drama when he wounds a fleeing Indian he mistakes for a thief, who has touched the heart of a lonely young white woman.
#13 - He Learned About Women
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/1962
Taken prisoner by a band of comancheros, Chester is helped to escape by one of the band's women and flees with another who may or may not be worthy of his trust.
#14 - Apprentice Doc
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1961
A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.
#15 - All That
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1961
A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, can't do enough for him.
#16 - Old Dan
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1962
Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.
#17 - The Widow
Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/24/1962
A young woman comes to Dodge insisting on an escort to Indian country so that the body of her husband, believed to have been killed fighting the Kiowa, may be recovered.
#18 - Reprisal
Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/10/1962
Oren was a rancher who liked his drink, gambling and women, even though he had a pretty wife at home. Matt is forced to kill him and when he breaks the news to her, all she can see is getting revenge for his death, and Matt is her target.
#19 - The Summons
Season 7 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/21/1962
Loy has always felt he could do what he pleased. When he shoots one of his gang members in the back just for the reward, he takes the body into Dodge to Matt Dillon who isn't as ready as he thought to give him his bounty.
#20 - Durham Bull
Season 7 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/31/1962
Little Bit and his grandpa, from Texas, are passing through Dodge to buy a breeding bull. When they meet Silva, someone grandpa considers a fooler, they have their hands full making it back with their stock and their lives.
#21 - The Prisoner
Season 7 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/19/1962
A charmer escapes from federal prison to Dodge and finds himself caught up in the drama among two brothers, the wife of one of them, and their domineering father.
#22 - Cale
Season 7 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/5/1962
Cale is a bullheaded young drifter who takes a nap in a barn he comes across only to wake up to a shootout between a horse thief and the owner. Cale is shot, wounded, and becomes a suspected accomplice.
#23 - Nina's Revenge
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1961
A homesteader hires a man to make the appearance of a scandal with his wife so that he can blackmail his wife's wealthy father.
#24 - Indian Ford
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1961
Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.
#25 - A Man a Day
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1961
A band of outlaws offer to pay Matt to make himself scarce while they rob the bank. If he refuses, they promise to kill one man per day until he agrees.