The BEST episodes written by John Meston
#6 - 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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#10 - Gun for Chester
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 2
Chester claims the new stranger in town is really there to kill him and Matt investigates, but remains skeptical even after Chester is shot in the arm by an unseen person.
#11 - Last Fling
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 26
Miss Kitty is suspected of taking a shot at drunkard John Peavy for harassing her earlier, and shortly thereafter someone fires a shot at her.
#12 - Bloody Hands
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 21
The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed.
#13 - Abe Blocker
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 11
Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt's, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encroaching on the land he regards as his.
#14 - Old Yellow Boots
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 2
Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.
#15 - Never Pester Chester
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 10
Matt sets out with a vengeance to capture two trouble-making Texas cowhands who dragged Chester and left him near death.
#16 - Stolen Horses
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 29
Horse thieves murder a man to get his animals. Matt tracks the criminals to a Kiowa camp.
#17 - The Big Con
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 34
Mr Shaneways wants Mr Papp at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. Doc gets kidnapped.
#18 - Colleen So Green
Gunsmoke - Season 5 - Episode 29
A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, not including Kitty.
#19 - Daddy-O
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 36
Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her back to New Orleans with him.
#20 - Sweet and Sour
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 23
Violence and tragedy result when Matt and Chester persuade a reluctant Kitty to hire flirtatious Rena Decker as a Long Branch hostess.
#21 - Gone Straight
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 20
When Matt serves a warrant in another town for a wanted man, there are two men answering the possible suspect's description, and they both have gone totally straight.
#22 - With a Smile
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 29
A rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his father's wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.
#23 - Carter Caper
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 8
A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.
#24 - Perce
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 1
Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.
#25 - Cows and Cribs
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 13
An impoverished but hardworking woman's plans to adopt an orphan baby are jeopardized when Matt discovers that her improvident husband is involved in cattle rustling.
#26 - 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.
#27 - 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.
#28 - The Promoter
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 30
Henry Huckaby, a local farmer and fed up with a sore back and an empty belly leaves to seek his fortune in Dodge. After several failed ideas he hits on one that may make him rich but could also cost him his life.
#29 - Claustrophobia
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 20
Matt and Chester find a man shot in back in his lonely cabin and the immediate suspects are two men who have been trying to force him to sell his land.
#30 - Buffalo Man
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 18
Doc finds a half-dead man on the side of the road and tells Matt. Matt and Chester ride out to a buffalo hunter's camp but before they get far, the occupants show up not treating them much better than the man the doc found.
#31 - Tall Trapper
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 19
A man and his wife come across a lone trapper and make camp with him. Next day, the husband comes to Dodge to report to Doc that his wife is sick, but Doc finds the woman beaten to death, and the husband accuses the trapper.
#32 - 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.
#33 - 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.
#34 - 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.
#35 - Quint's Indian
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 25
Two ne'er-do-wells come to town and soon cook up a plot under which half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper is framed for the theft of a horse. The atmosphere in Dodge quickly becomes dangerously ugly for Quint.
#36 - 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.
#37 - 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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#38 - Kick Me
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 18
A bank robber murders his partner and comes to Dodge with his terrified wife, hoping to keep a low profile, but an Indian he once humiliated won't let him be.
#39 - 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.
#40 - Louie Pheeters
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 17
The town drunk believes he saw a man drowned in a dream, until he meets up with the man who did the drowning.
#41 - Sunday Supplement
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 22
"There's no law west of Dodge." Two writers in from New York want to see if that's true. When a Pawnee Indian uprising seems to be brewing, they may have found their story.
#42 - 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.
#43 - Bless Me Till I Die
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 31
Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.
#44 - Ex-Con
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 9
On his way to Larned, Matt, feverish, spends the night at an abandoned shack. When he wakes up after losing a day, a recently released convict who swore to kill Matt, is himself found against a wall, dead, unarmed, shot twice, and the murder weapon appears to belong to the marshal.
#45 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#48 - 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.
#49 - Carmen
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 37
When an Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers are murdered, the commanding officer of Fort Dodge threatens to put Dodge City under martial law unless Matt can capture the perpetrators within 48 hours.
#50 - 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!