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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#13 - 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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#18 - 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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#23 - 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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#27 - 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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#34 - 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!
#35 - 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?
#36 - 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.
#37 - No Chip
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 12
The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.
#38 - 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.
#39 - Big Girl Lost
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 30
A saloon gal's old beau is in town, and she expects trouble when he finds out where she is working.
#40 - 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.
#41 - 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?
#42 - 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.
#43 - 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.
#44 - 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.
#45 - 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.
#46 - 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.
#47 - Quint Asper Comes Home
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 3
A half-Comanche has joined his mother's tribe in killing whites to avenge the murder of his father, but Matt sees the good in the man and the chance to re-integrate him, perhaps, into white society.
#48 - Kitty Lost
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 15
Kitty takes a buggy ride with a dandified stranger. When he makes a pass, her spirited rejection of it results in her being left alone on the prairie.
#49 - 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.
#50 - Love Thy Neighbor
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 20
The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.