The BEST episodes written by Jim Byrnes

#1 - Trail of Terror

The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 8

Keller is pursued by killers as he transports a prisoner to jail.

#2 - The Foundling

Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 18

When the parents of a daughter who was raped refuse to accept the girl's baby, Marshal Dillon must find a home for the child.

#3 - Drago

Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 11

Drago wants to find the person who killed a woman who helped him.

#4 - The Badge

Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 19

Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.

#5 - Waste (1)

Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 3

Matt helps a young boy find his mom while finding an outlaw.

#6 - Tatum

Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 10

An ex-gunfighter is dying. He must reconcile with the daughters he abandoned, and wants to be buried next to his wife, who is buried in a town that hates him

#7 - Fright Knight

Knight Rider - Season 4 - Episode 20

Inexplicable accidents on a movie set are blamed on a legendary phantom haunting the studio.

#8 - Charlie Noon

Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 7

Matt, his hardened prisoner Charlie Noon, an Indian woman and her white stepson are tracked by the Comanches as they try to cross the desert. The Indians are going to kill all of them unless Matt hands over the woman, because she left the Comanche leader years before.

#9 - The Scavengers

Gunsmoke - Season 16 - Episode 10

In order for a black man to save his life he must say that indians held up a wagon train.

#10 - Lobo

Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 12

Mountain man Luke Brazo joins Matt in a hunt for a vicious wolf terrorizing the area.

#11 - Yankton

Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 21

When wealthy Wil Donvan's daughter and cowboy Yankton fall in love with each other, the young woman's classy European born mother wants to put a stop to the romance.

#12 - What Goes Around Comes Around, Comes Around

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 4

Return to those thrilling days of the old west in guilt ridden dreams, when Arcane is allowed to hunt a man with the full knowledge of the sheriff.

#13 - Jesse

Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 22

Festus runs into Jesse Dillard who is wanted for shooting a black man. Festus wants to find out more and take his friend to prison.

#14 - Cowtown Hustler

Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 22

A broke young man seeks his fortune with an old drifter, a formerly legendary champion billiards player.

#15 - Albert

Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 20

After a Bank teller tries to foil a bank robber the bank teller takes some money which could cause trouble.

#16 - The Bullet (2)

Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 13

The robbers delay Doc's and Matt's journey to Denver while they offload the army gold from the train to a wagon.

#17 - The Fires of Ignorance

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 17

Henry Decory is a schoolteacher who makes a strong statement for compulsory education for frontier children as a stubborn father feels that books and education are a waste of time and tries to keep his son Tommy out of school.

#18 - The Fourth Victim

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 8

A series of seemingly random killings have the citizens of Dodge City in near panic, but Dillon believes they are part of a pattern in which Doc is slated to be the next target.

#19 - McCabe

Gunsmoke - Season 16 - Episode 12

Matt has two problems he tries to arrest an outlaw then he must try to free the hostage.

#20 - Waste (2)

Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 4

#21 - The Squaw

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 14

Fleeing from both Matt Dillon and his double-crossed partners, outlaw Gristy Calhoun discovers that his survival in the badlands depends on an Indian woman.

#22 - The Bullet (1)

Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 12

Doc lacks the faith to operate on Matt's bullet wound, so he transports him to a specialist by train, which is taken over by bandits for its gold shipment.

#23 - The Pack Rat

Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 16

An orphan steals from Matt but could risk his own life when he tries to help out in an ambush.

#24 - Kimbro

Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 21

Matt runs into his former mentor Adam Kimbro and decides to build his self-confidence by deputizing him as a Deputy Marshal.

#25 - Thirty a Month and Found

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 5

Three cattle drivers find competition with railroads is forcing them out of business, and 2 of them mistakenly turn to crime for a temporary fix.

#26 - Talbot

Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 23

Talbot falls in love Katherine after shooting her husband in self-defense. Katherine wants to learn more about Talbot. Katherine learns of Talbot's plans to rob the bank, she puts her life in danger by telling Talbot she will leave him if he robs the bank.

#27 - Larkin

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 16

Newly finds himself in a strange alliance with a professional killer as he tries to return to Dodge City with his prisoner (Jaeckel) before they are both killed by a trio of bounty hunters.

#28 - Shadler

Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 17

Just before he's to be hung, stage robber Shadler busts out of jail, by slugging his last rites priest and donning the robes as a disguise. While burglarizing an uninhabited farm, the escapee helps Deputy U.S. Marshal Newly elude hostile lawmen quarantining a nearby outpost struck by a mysterious plague. Newly believes his pursuers are actually a ring of vultures waiting to loot the dying settlement. When Newly heads back to the besieged town, the fake padre insists on riding with him to minister to the dying citizens.

#29 - The Intruder

Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 23

Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Riley's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.

#30 - The Busters

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 22

Two bronco busters try to raise money for a ranch in Montana, only to have the dream ruined when one of them gets a death threatening head injury when thrown off by a wild stallion.

#31 - The Bullet (3)

Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 14

Festus and Newly try to delay the robbers from leaving with the gold to give the conductor time to get the train moving towards Denver again.

#32 - Women for Sale (2)

Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 2

Matt helps two of the captives (a one-time saloon girl named Stella and a young girl named Marcy) escape their bloodthirsty Indian captor. After Matt and Stella bring the shaken Marcy out of her shell - she had earlier witnessed her mother's murder at the hands of her would-be rapist - the three team together to stop the ringleader of the white slave trade to justice before he can escape to Mexico.

#33 - Island in the Desert (2)

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 12

While Matt and Newly hunt for Festus, Ben Snow and Festus attempt to haul his gold out of the desert.

#34 - Women for Sale (1)

Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 1

Matt becomes involved in investigating the disappearance of female settlers and travelers in the region. He links it to a band of renegade Native Americans, who plan to sell the women as sex slaves to a band of ruthless white mercenaries.

#35 - Island in the Desert (1)

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 11

Festus, in the desert hunting escaped killer Gard Dixon is wounded by the outlaw. He is found by Ben Snow, a half-crazy hermit who has been living in the desert with his gold for many years.

#36 - Destiny

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 7

Encountering two men already dead in the swamp is nothing particularly new for Will, but the fact they are from the civil war era is. Can Will solve this mystery of the swamp and find peace for two soldiers?

#37 - Easy Prey

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 12

A wealthy hunter stalks and wounds a rare hawk for a trophy. Afterward the swamp takes Will into it's confidence and Will sees the swamp as he never has before.

#38 - Brotherly Love

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 32