The BEST episodes written by John Meston
#4 - 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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#7 - Crack-Up
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 1
Gunman Nate Springer arrives in Dodge with the obvious intention of committing murder, but his nervousness and unpredictability make Matt determined to find out who hired him and why he seems so different from his steel-nerved reputation.
#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.
#14 - 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 - 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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#18 - 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.
#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.
#21 - Skid Row
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 22
When a lady comes to town looking for her betrothed, Matt takes it upon himself to sober up the man, who, in his fiancée's absence, has become the town drunk.
#22 - 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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#23 - 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.
#25 - Colleen So Green
Gunsmoke - Season 5 - Episode 29
A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, not including Kitty.
#26 - 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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#30 - 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 - 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 - 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.
#38 - No Chip
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 12
The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.
#39 - 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?
#40 - 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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#41 - 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.
#42 - 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.
#43 - 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.
#44 - 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.
#45 - 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.
#46 - 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.
#47 - 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.
#48 - 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.
#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 - 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.