The BEST episodes written by John Meston
#5 - Honey Pot
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 34
A man comes to town and tells Sam he's going to shoot Matt. It's soon understood he is an old friend. Involved in shooting and killing a man, their friendship is stretched as he claims self defense even though he was the only one armed.
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#8 - Amy's Good Deed
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 31
Amy Slater gets to Dodge and tells Matt she came to die. He suggests seeing Doc Adams, she says she's not sick but that Matt could help. When asked how, she says "you're going to kill me." Learning the truth, he decides how to handle it.
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#17 - The Renegades
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 18
Quint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids around Dodge. Working shotgun on the stage, he proves his point when he is attacked, then pursued by those renegades. His "Indian" skills save him and a colonel's daughter who has contempt for half-Comanche Quint.
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#20 - Jesse
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 6
Young and likable Jesse Pruett teams up with an unlikely "partner" in the person of Bill Stapp, a murderous former Quantrill raider. Stapp has promised to lead Jesse to the man who killed his father so he can avenge his death, but the young man is tragically unaware of Stapp's true intentions
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#31 - No Hands
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 19
The Ginnis family, not from any town, live on the prairie and are used to getting their own way. When one son gets hurt, they ride to town to get help. That was just their first brush with the folks of Dodge but proves not to be their last.
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#35 - Print Asper
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 36
Print Asper is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him, and the lawyer still ends up getting shot later by someone.
#36 - Old Fool
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 15
A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!
#37 - Half Straight
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 20
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?
#38 - The Dreamers
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 30
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.
#39 - No Chip
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 12
The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.
#40 - Blind Man's Bluff
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 24
Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance from other men who hate lawmen.
#41 - Romeo
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 9
A powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.
#42 - Liar from Blackhawk
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 38
Hank Shinn is a newcomer in town bragging about his reputation as gunman, but Marshal Dillon suspects he is nothing more than a liar.
#43 - Twelfth Night
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 16
A feud begun between two families when they lived in the Ozarks continues with fresh bloodshed, and Matt gets caught in the middle.
#44 - Harper's Blood (AKA: Harper)
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 4
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?
#45 - Money Crop
Little House on the Prairie - Season 1 - Episode 21
A college-educated farmer named Joe moves to Walnut Grove with his pregnant wife. He tells the Walnut Grove-area farmers of a new hybrid of corn that would produce good crops, to which the farmers are very enthused. They decide to buy some of this new seed. While on the way back to Walnut Grove with the seed, Joe gets into an accident, as the farmers wait for his return.
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#46 - Ben Tolliver's Stud
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 11
A row with his boss makes Ben quit his job. He leaves but says goodbye to Jake's daughter first. When he takes a horse for lost wages, Jake swears he'll kill him. The tables are turned when a hard and fast rule of Jake's soon backfires.
#47 - Texas Cowboys
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 30
A headstrong Texas trail boss is determined to prevent Matt from learning which one of his men was responsible for murdering another by shooting him in the back.
#48 - Long Hours, Short Pay
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 32
A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.
#49 - How to Cure a Friend
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 7
Matt is put in a difficult position by the arrival of Nick Search, an old friend who has since become a gambler with a fast draw and a reputation for dishonesty.
#50 - Melinda Miles
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 37
When Roy Tayloe is murdered following a poker game, quick-tempered Harry Miles is certain that daughter Melinda's suitor Tom Potter is the killer. Miles quickly becomes impatient with Matt's methodical investigation of the crime and threatens to kill Potter himself unless he stays away from Melinda.