The BEST episodes written by Calvin Clements
#1 - The Pillagers
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 9
Kitty and fellow traveling passenger Newly O'Brien are captured by Mexican outlaw Manez and his gang.
#2 - Uncle Finney
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 4
A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.
#4 - To Ride a Yeller Horse
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 23
The schemes of a mother trying to control the lives of her son and daughter lead to tragic results.
#5 - Homecoming
Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 16
Two outlaws head back to Dodge City to visit their mother who doesn't trust her son's. Who claim to want to work the farm and take care of their mother. They intend to take their mother's money along with Doc.
#6 - Sarah
Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 6
Matt runs into an old flame named Sarah that now runs a one-woman saloon for bandits out in the desert. Matt will have to pass as a villain in order to save Sarah's reputation as a trusted confidante.
#7 - Vengeance! (2)
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 5
Matt goes after Bob Johnson who is planning to kill Parker to avenge the death of his friends.
#8 - Vengeance! (1)
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 4
Bob Johnson, Zack Johnson and Floyd Binnes are accused of cattle rustling by Parker a powerful land baron, Floyd is killed while being drug behind a horse, Zack is crippled by a horse stomping his legs and back. Bob is beaten. Once in Dodge Bob meets Angel, while Zack dies of his wounds. Bob in getting revenge taunts Parker's hot-headed son into a gunfight kills him, and plans to go after Parker.
#9 - The Hanging of Newly O'Brien
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 11
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.
#10 - Beta Delta Gamma
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 6
After a drinking contest, students decide to play a joke on one of their fraternity friends, Alan. Putting fake blood on one of them, they lead Alan to believe he has committed murder, placing into action a deadly chain of events.
#11 - The Night the Town Died
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 21
Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.
#12 - Lyle's Kid
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 1
Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for his hands.
#13 - Prairie Wolfer
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 10
In an attempt to get money two prairie wolfers steal money from Dolan, a hardened storekeeper, then when one tries to give it back trouble starts.
#14 - The Old Pro
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 8
A hit-man's retirement is jeopardized when he is blackmailed by a man threatening to reveal his past to his wife - who knows nothing about his wicked ways.
#15 - The First People
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 23
Matt has to intervene when a honest, but strict Indian agent charges an innocent Indian of murder of his assistant.
#16 - The Miracle Man
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 10
Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.
#17 - The Cage
Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 26
When a gang tries to kill one of their captured members, the member turns around and teams up with Matt to bring the rest of the members to justice.
#18 - Abelia
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 8
A young woman and her kids and Festus are held hostage from a man Matt is trying to find.
#19 - The Prisoner
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 25
Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.
#20 - The Night Riders
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 22
Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.
#21 - The Jackals
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 22
Matt tracks the four men responsible for the murder of his friend, a lawman who was shot at his retirement party.
#22 - Patricia
Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 18
Newly falls in love with a woman he met while tending the injured after a tornado. It doesn't take him long to decide to ask to marry her. Doc notes an odd bruise on her arm and her lack of energy. After an exam he wars with his conscience over whether to tell Patricia that she's got a rare blood disorder. He tells Kitty, Matt, and Newly before he marries her. She dies shortly after in Newly's arms and prompts Newly to go back to studying medicine.
#23 - The Legend
Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 6
Ma Colter tries to dissuade her youngest son from following his older brothers into a life of crime.
#24 - Johnny Cross
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 13
Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
#25 - The Predators
Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 20
A former gunfighter returns to Dodge which worries Matt because Howard Cane was the one to survive the rage war. Can Matt stop him before more trouble comes to Dodge?
#26 - A Man Called Smith
Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 6
Abelia, the young widow who once saved Festus' life, returns. She learns that she isn't a widow when her outlaw husband appears and forces her to exchange his stolen gold for cash.
#27 - The Prodigal
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 3
Amos and William Cole come to Dodge to find the backshooting killer of their outlaw father many years before.
#28 - The Still
Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 8
Festus gets mixed up with Merry Florene and her hillbilly clan again as they try to hide a moonshining still and a stolen prize bull in the cellar of the local school.
#29 - Gold Town
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 18
Merry Florene is back, along with her remaining half-brother Elbert Moses and cousin Smiley. Merry pesters Newly while the boys scam Dodge City with a salted gold mine.
#30 - The Deadly Innocent
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 13
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.
#31 - The Deadly Trail
Cannon - Season 4 - Episode 5
A general wants Cannon to find the daughter he put up for adoption years before, but there is opposition to the search.
#32 - Two Ounces of Tin
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 21
Sammy Davis Jr. stars as Tip Corey, son of a man allegedly murdered in North Fork.
#33 - The High Country
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 12
Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer.
#34 - The Debt
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 23
Mark learns that the prisoner Micah is escorting to the gallows is the man that saved his life three years previously.
#35 - The Day the Town Slept
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 29
The town of North Fork becomes a haven for outlaws when suave Ben Judson smooth-talks his way into the marshal's job.
#36 - Incident at Line Shack Six
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 14
A railroad gang boss frames an Apache.
#37 - Day of Reckoning
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 28
Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher a former outlaw whom the Rifleman vowed to kill.
#38 - The Golden Man
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 2 - Episode 7
The Searcher rescues a gold-skinned boy from an escape capsule in an asteroid field. When the ship collides with one of the asteroids, the boy displays his powers of molecular alteration by rescuing Admiral Asimov from beneath a fallen girder. The boy assures the crew of the Searcher that, with the help of his companion, who is on a nearby planet, he can dislodge the ship from the asteroid. But when Buck and Hawk go to the planet to get the companion, they find that he is being held captive by a man who wants to use the boy's powers for his own greedy purposes.
#39 - The Clarence Bibs Story
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 28
A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot and a lot of gall.
#40 - Long Gun From Tucson
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 11
Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before.
#41 - Outlaw's Shoes
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 31
A head wound wipes out Lucas's memory, leaving him with only one clue: he's wearing an outlaw's gun.
#42 - Woman From Hog Ridge
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 2
Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.
#43 - The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 23
In a ghost town, Lucas, Mark and Micah tangle with the Newman family and learn the secret of the town's 20-year-old mystery of a lost gold mine.
#44 - Legion of the Lost
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 27
Stone and Keller look into the beating death of three homeless men.
#45 - Orville Gant
How the West Was Won - Season 2 - Episode 4
With the sheriff's son held hostage by Flint, the robbery goes forward, leaving two men dead. Jessie's condition worsens as the doctor can't help her. Zeb's and Beth's accounts of her rescue come under suspicion by authorities, causing her to leave abruptly, with her leading Zeb to a mountain cabin.
#46 - Amnesty
How the West Was Won - Season 2 - Episode 5
Zeb learns Beth's husband is supposedly a dead, guilt-ridden Army hero involved in a military massacre. As Jessie nears death, Zeb decides to take her to an Arapaho medicine man - with a skeptical Luke and Josh in close pursuit.
#47 - The Rustler
How the West Was Won - Season 3 - Episode 2
Jessie is blindly in love with a handsome young stranger named Bob, who rescues her from a nasty villain. Together they flee to a small town and finds a priest who agrees to perform the ceremony.
#48 - L'Affaire Riel
How the West Was Won - Season 3 - Episode 6
Zeb Macahan is asked by general Sheridan to find Louis Riel so he can be sent back to Canada since he is wanted.
#49 - Luke
How the West Was Won - Season 3 - Episode 9
Luke Macahan finds out that there is still a $5000 reward on his head, and to expect more and more bounty hunters as an effect off that fact.
#50 - Echo of a Murder
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 3
Gil Atkens is accused of murdering his wife as several people saw him quarrel with Claire in a boat and striking her with the oar when she fell into the water. Although Barnaby gets a film that proves Gil's innoncence, he discovers a clever insurance fraud.