The BEST episodes written by Kathleen Hite

The Stray
star
8.67
16 votes

#1 - The Stray

The Waltons - Season 6 - Episode 2

Strange foorprints & a stringer of catfish lead the Waltons to find 12 year old Josh a runaway in the barn hiding.He attaches himself to John immediately

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The Vivian Carter Story
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8.40
5 votes

#2 - The Vivian Carter Story

Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 23

Getting set to leave the wagon train, Vivian Carter finds out a friend she knows from the train hoped for more than that. Heading to a new life and her first marriage, she's given some options and even at her age has its surprises.

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The Annie Griffith Story
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8.40
5 votes

#3 - The Annie Griffith Story

Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 21

Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his savior finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.

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The Way It Is
star
8.29
20 votes

#4 - The Way It Is

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 12

While Matt is out of town, putting lawman's business ahead of Kitty yet again, a new man in her life has plenty of time and attention to give--perhaps too much attention.

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I Call Him Wonder
star
8.13
16 votes

#5 - I Call Him Wonder

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 28

An orphaned Indian boy latches on to a cowboy in need of work and the two of them find all doors closed to them in Dodge.

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The Beguiled
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8.10
21 votes

#6 - The Beguiled

The Waltons - Season 3 - Episode 17

John-Boy encounters a sassy but unprincipled girl whose selfish ways cause hard feelings and suspicion toward Danny, Jim Bob's friend.

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The Parting
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8.07
14 votes

#7 - The Parting

The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 15

John and Olivia are both tired so Olivia suggests a trip, but the vacation does not help Olivia. Olivia sees a doctor and is told she has TB and must go to a sanitarium.

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Chesterland
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8.05
55 votes

#8 - Chesterland

Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 8

Chester becomes engaged more or less accidentally, but he takes to heart his obligation to his betrothed, leaving his job with Mr. Dillon to devote himself to homesteading a barren quarter section.

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Amy's Good Deed
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7.96
28 votes

#9 - 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.

Little Girl
star
7.95
22 votes

#10 - Little Girl

Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 28

Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire. Charity insists that she should live with the Dodge City lawman.

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Daddy Went Away
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7.95
20 votes

#11 - Daddy Went Away

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 35

Chester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on marriage but eager to make changes in Chester as well, he has second thoughts--especially after a talk with her child suggests that the widow may still be a wife.

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Quint-Cident
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7.94
17 votes

#12 - Quint-Cident

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 33

A woman newly widowed is powerfully attracted to Quint, but when he gently turns her down, she vows to make him pay for scorning a white woman.

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The Test
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7.94
16 votes

#13 - The Test

The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 20

Olivia gets a job as a dress maker.She does very well & soon she gets full time work.She is pleased with the attention but realizes she wants too be home more than at work .Maude Gormley is put in an old folks home and loses her zest for life

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The Rebellion
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7.93
15 votes

#14 - The Rebellion

The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 13

Corabeth gives Olivia a permanent that turns out badly. Grandma is up against a new competition for playing the church organ.

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The Visitor
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7.92
25 votes

#15 - The Visitor

The Waltons - Season 3 - Episode 13

Zeb's old friend returns to Walton's Mountain without his wife. The Walton's learn that she died earlier but he will not acknowledge her passing.

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The Cousin
star
7.88
17 votes

#16 - The Cousin

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 21

Chance Hopper is Matt's young foster brother, torn between loyalty to Matt and to his partners in crime, who are counting on Chance to divert Matt from their course and make good their getaway.

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Take Her, She's Cheap
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7.86
50 votes

#17 - Take Her, She's Cheap

Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 6

When a shiftless farmer offers his daughter to Matt, Matt demurs, but the smitten girl comes after Matt, bringing danger with her.

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Marry Me
star
7.85
48 votes

#18 - Marry Me

Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 13

An uncouth young mountain man is told by his pa that it's time he had himself a wife, so he comes to Dodge, is pleased by the looks of Miss Kitty, and simply kidnaps her.

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Cows and Cribs
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7.83
53 votes

#19 - 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.

The Career Girl
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7.81
16 votes

#20 - The Career Girl

The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 17

Erin's graduation from high school seems to be very painful because Erin has no firm plans for the future or any career.

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Kitty Cornered
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7.80
15 votes

#21 - Kitty Cornered

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 29

Competing with Kitty is a fancy new woman in town with plenty of money to build a new saloon and a secret from the past life she recently left behind.

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Kate Heller
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7.79
28 votes

#22 - Kate Heller

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 1

A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.

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The Nurse
star
7.78
23 votes

#23 - The Nurse

The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 13

As Mary Ellen nervously awaites word on her acceptance to nursing school, the rest of the Waltons prepares surprise good-bye gifts. Mary Ellen is accepted, but she needs more work in math and science and ends up studying with John-Boy and Miss Nora Taylor, the county nurse.

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The Jenny Tannen Story
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7.75
4 votes

#24 - The Jenny Tannen Story

Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 38

A young girl is injured while on the way to San Fransico to find her famous mother who abandoned her as a baby. The crew helps her with her pending blindness and find her mother who has her own problem unknown to her daughter.

Miss Kitty
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7.67
61 votes

#25 - Miss Kitty

Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 3

Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?

The Sermon
star
7.67
30 votes

#26 - The Sermon

The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 1

Reverend Fordwick asks John-Boy to deliver the Sunday sermon, and Miss Hunter asks Olivia to act as the substitute teacher. It proves to be an interesting experience for both as Reverend Fordwick and Miss Hunter plan their wedding and honeymoon

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The Volunteer
star
7.67
15 votes

#27 - The Volunteer

The Waltons - Season 6 - Episode 6

After Erin says no to the marriage proposal of G.W. Haines, he joins the Army. Erin visits G.W. at Camp Lee Army Base despite her father's reluctance.

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Anybody Can Kill a Marshal
star
7.65
20 votes

#28 - Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 26

Two men want to rob the bank in Dodge, but are unwilling to try it while Matt lives. A man agrees to accept the job of killing the marshal, attaching some rather peculiar conditions to his acceptance.

Comanches Is Soft
star
7.63
16 votes

#29 - Comanches Is Soft

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 23

After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's equipment. To repair or get anew, they travel to Wichita and meet a saloon girl who tells them she needs to get away from town but her jealous boyfriend is now hot on their trail.

Friend
star
7.61
18 votes

#30 - Friend

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 17

A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.

The Vigil
star
7.61
18 votes

#31 - The Vigil

The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 2

Mary Ellen, aspring nurse, makes a diagnosis about Grandma's illness which almost costs Grandma her life.

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My Sister's Keeper
star
7.58
19 votes

#32 - My Sister's Keeper

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 6

A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.

Chester's Indian
star
7.57
21 votes

#33 - Chester's Indian

Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 32

On his way to a fishing vacation, Chester stumbles into a human drama when he wounds a fleeing Indian he mistakes for a thief, who has touched the heart of a lonely young white woman.

Cotter's Girl
star
7.56
18 votes

#34 - Cotter's Girl

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 19

A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.

Quint's Trail
star
7.56
18 votes

#35 - Quint's Trail

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 7

Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.

Scot Free
star
7.53
17 votes

#36 - Scot Free

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 32

Rob Scott considers himself a man who could stay or go when it came to women. He may have met his match though when a woman he desires and her husband take over an abandoned homestead and they come to where he works to look over some stock.

Apprentice Doc
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7.52
23 votes

#37 - Apprentice Doc

Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 11

A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.

Mavis McCloud
star
7.50
64 votes

#38 - Mavis McCloud

Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 7

On her way to Dodge to marry, Mavis McCloud sends a telegram to the Marshal of Dodge City. Chester and Doc want to know "Is she coming here to marry Matt" or is something else going on?

The Imposter
star
7.50
18 votes

#39 - The Imposter

Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 34

A man claiming to be a sheriff from Texas comes to Dodge and asks Matt for help tracking down a named fugitive, but the man may not be a sheriff.

May Blossom
star
7.50
14 votes

#40 - May Blossom

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 20

Festus's beautiful young cousin, whom he has not seen since she was a little one, arrives in Dodge to keep the pact her father made for her when she was a baby: to marry Festus.

The Calling
star
7.42
12 votes

#41 - The Calling

The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 2

Jim-Bob meets the Baldwin's cousin, a young girl who is in a convent preparing to become a nun. Ben hires a mill hand who turns out to be an alcoholic.

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Old Dan
star
7.41
22 votes

#42 - Old Dan

Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 18

Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.

Tea Time
star
7.38
55 votes

#43 - Tea Time

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 10

It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating.

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The Summons
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7.33
18 votes

#44 - The Summons

Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 29

Loy has always felt he could do what he pleased. When he shoots one of his gang members in the back just for the reward, he takes the body into Dodge to Matt Dillon who isn't as ready as he thought to give him his bounty.

Innocent Broad
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7.25
32 votes

#45 - Innocent Broad

Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 33

Lou and Linda met in St. Louis and are engaged to be married. Lou is waiting in Dodge for her but a man he says he never met rides in on the stage too and makes Matt suspicious when Lou says he doesn't know him.

Panacea Sykes
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7.12
17 votes

#46 - Panacea Sykes

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 31

Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kitty's possessions.

Cale
star
7.11
18 votes

#47 - Cale

Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 31

Cale is a bullheaded young drifter who takes a nap in a barn he comes across only to wake up to a shootout between a horse thief and the owner. Cale is shot, wounded, and becomes a suspected accomplice.

The Morning of the Bride
star
7.06
45 votes

#48 - The Morning of the Bride

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 19

A young woman with her eye on marriage wonders why she still hasn't met her boyfriend's mother.

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Root Down
star
7.00
21 votes

#49 - Root Down

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 4

Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.

For Love or Money
star
7.00
32 votes

#50 - For Love or Money

Falcon Crest - Season 1 - Episode 11

After a bitter argument with Angela regarding plans for him to marry Melissa Agretti, the wine empire heiress, Lance leaves in a fury. After he nearly runs over a girl, he falls in love with her and decides to move to San Francisco to be close to the girl. However, when Angela attempts to stop him, Lance succumbs and leaves the love of his life. In an old room that Jason had walled up, Chase finds some writings, which lead him to believe that Angela may have been involved in crippling a girl forty years ago. Confronted with the evidence, Angela turns the tables on Chase, playing a small excerpt of a recording that leaves Chase believing that his father hated him.

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