The BEST episodes written by Hal Sitowitz
#3 - Bitter Wine
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 13
A man who served 12 years in prison to protect his brother gets out only to find that the brother never told their father, a Greek restaurant owner, the truth about who should have gone to jail.
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#4 - Blood Money
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 19
The father of a young gunfighter tries to end his son's career by wounding his gun hand.
#5 - The Jailer
Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 3
Etta Stone is a very bitter, older, woman who has Kitty and Matt captured, and thrown into a homemade jail, and now she plans on hanging Matt for the execution of her husband 6 years before.
#6 - The Boy and the Sinner
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 4
Ron Moody guest stars as a man torn between keeping his own self-respect and the friendship of a young boy or keeping his drunken promise to help two hired gunmen.
#7 - My Father's Guitar
Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 21
A talented guitarist impresses all who hear him on an instrument that is more precious to him than a man's life.
#8 - Stage Stop
Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 10
A station master sets up stagecoaches to be robbed by a gang, and also routinely beats up his beautiful wife.
#9 - This Golden Land
Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 24
Matt asks a Russian family to identify three men who dragged their son away. Matt tries to convince Moshe Gorofsky to give his testimony as to how his son died, he isn't sure American laws will protect him. According to Russian law Mr. Gorfsky can't testify in court as to how his son died. He isn't sure if the evidence is strong enough to convict those who killed his son. Gearshon tries to convince his father to let the American judicial system do the job of figuring out who killed his brother.
#10 - Gunfighter, R.I.P.
Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 6
A gunslinger hired to kill Matt, backs down from his obligation when he gets badly wounded and falls in love with a beautiful Asian woman who is caring for him, and his employers won't stand for it.
#11 - The Gunrunners
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 21
A buffalo hunter tracks the five men responsible for injuring his Indian son.
#12 - My Father, My Son
Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 30
Fast gunman Jim Barrett kills a man in self defense. Now the man's father and brothers are gunning for him, in addition to a young man who wants Barrett dead for a different reason.
#13 - The Wreckers
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 1
With a well earned vacation disturbed by the arrest of a hardened criminal, Matt and Kitty head back to Dodge. The stage they are on is sabotaged and end up wrecking. Kitty is quick witted enough to switch identities between Matt and the prisoner before the outlaws get to them. Thinking Dillon is dying and Matt is really Monk Wiley, they go on planning to extort money from Dodge to get Dillon back alive.