The BEST episodes written by Earl W. Wallace

The Wiving
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7.93
14 votes

#1 - The Wiving

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 6

Jed Hockett, a farmer, orders his three boys to go to town and return with prospective brides.

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Orville Gant
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7.61
23 votes

#2 - 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.

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Amnesty
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7.47
17 votes

#3 - 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.

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Hillary
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7.00
13 votes

#4 - Hillary

How the West Was Won - Season 3 - Episode 5

Luke embarks on a double mission: to win back his old flame Hillary and find the man who is suspected of murder as Luke once accused of - and to get him to confess.

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The Forgotten
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6.89
9 votes

#5 - The Forgotten

How the West Was Won - Season 3 - Episode 8

Army surveyors led by Luke Macahon is ambushed and shot at in the mountains by an unknown person.

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The Sharecroppers
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6.71
51 votes

#6 - The Sharecroppers

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 24

A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers.

Trail of Bloodshed
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6.70
44 votes

#7 - Trail of Bloodshed

Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 21

Buck Henry Woolf is on the trail of his uncle, who killed his father, stole their money, and wounded him. Festus is on the same mission and also to stop the young man from taking the law into his own hands.

Brides and Grooms
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6.56
41 votes

#8 - Brides and Grooms

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 19

Farmer Jed Hackett (Harry Morgan) decides it's time for his three sons marry the women they brought back from Dodge City.