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Gunsmoke Season 13 Episodes
Season 13 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 1
The Wreckers
Mon, Sep 11, 1967 60 mins
Kitty makes a desperate attempt to hide Matt's identity from a holdup gang by pinning his badge on an unconscious outlaw. Tate: Warren Oates. Matt: James Arness. Eli: Charles Seel. Doc: Milburn Stone. Reb: Warren Vanders.
Episode 2
Cattle Barons
Mon, Sep 18, 1967 60 mins
Feuding cattle barons battle for a large herd. Matt: James Arness. Charron: Forrest Tucker. Cumberledge: Robert Wilke. Festus: Ken Curtis. Blair: John Milford.
Episode 3
The Prodigal
Mon, Sep 25, 1967 60 mins
A sensation-seeking journalist forces Matt to reopen an old murder case. The suspect: Matt. Cole: Lew Ayres. Amos: Charles Robinson. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Williams: Richard Evans.
Episode 4
Vengeance
Mon, Oct 2, 1967 60 mins
Part 1. Matt tries to help a vengeful drifter whose friends were trampled by a rancher's horsemen. Parker: John Ireland. Johnson: James Stacy. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Zack: Morgan Woodward. Angel: Kim Darby. Newly: Buck Taylor.
Episode 5
Vengeance!: Part II
Mon, Oct 9, 1967 60 mins
Conclusion. A man, arrested for the murder of a town boss, fights to prove his innocence. Matt: James Arness. Parker: John Ireland. Johnson: James Stacy. Doc: Milburn Stone. Angel: Kim Darby.
Episode 6
A Hat
Mon, Oct 16, 1967 60 mins
A stray bullet that ruined a frontiersman's hat sets off a chain reaction of bloodshed and retribution. Conniston: Chill Wills. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Jed/Ben: Tom Simcox. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Brewer: H.M. Wynant.
Episode 7
Hard Luck Henry
Mon, Oct 23, 1967 60 mins
A comedic episode. Festus tries to get a box full of gold coins away from his relatives and back to Dodge, the Dooleys who are feuding with the Haggens are also trying to get their hands on the box.
Episode 8
Major Glory
Mon, Oct 30, 1967 60 mins
Two Army deserters await an opportune moment to murder the sergeant who has been hounding them. Vanscoy: Carroll O'Connor. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Spear: Victor French. Maxwell: Robert F. Lyons.
Episode 9
The Pillagers
Mon, Nov 6, 1967 60 mins
Newly and Kitty are kidnapped by a gang who think the gunsmith is a doctor. Manez: John Saxon. Newly: Buck Taylor. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Matt: James Arness. Ganns: Paul Picerni. Turner: William Bramley. Savrin: Vito Scotti. Juan: Joseph Schneider. Eli: Harry Harvey Sr. Johns: Allen Jaffe.
Episode 10
Prairie Wolfer
Mon, Nov 13, 1967 60 mins
Acting marshal Festus leaps into action when two trappers steal $20,000 from a fur trader who refused to buy their pelts. Cory: Jon Voight. Rich: Lou Antonio. Adele: Kelly Jean Peters. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Dolen: Charles McGraw.
Episode 11
Stranger in Town
Mon, Nov 20, 1967 60 mins
Pernell Roberts stars as a hired killer who is distracted by the wife who deserted him and a son he's never seen. Anne: Jacqueline Scott. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Cagle: Henry Jones. Anderson: R.G. Armstrong. Billy: Eric Shea. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 12
Death Train
Mon, Nov 27, 1967 60 mins
Matt enforces a quarantine on a railroad car while Doc treats the passengers for a fever that could spread. Isabel: Dana Wynter. Doc: Milburn Stone. Matt: James Arness. Townsend: Morgan Woodward. Loftus: Norman Alden. Bright: Ed Bakey.
Episode 13
Rope Fever
Mon, Dec 4, 1967 60 mins
Ralph Bellamy portrays a sheriff who enjoys new-found glory when he jails Festus on a trumped-up murder charge. Gruber: George Murdock. Festus: Ken Curtis. Matt: James Arness. Amy: Anna Lee.
Episode 14
Wonder
Mon, Dec 18, 1967 60 mins
Matt joins an Indian boy in search of a drifter who is being hounded by disgruntled cowboys. Wonder: Tony Davis. Pryor: Richard Mulligan. Deke: Norman Alden. Ed: Warren Berlinger. Bo: Ken Swofford.
Episode 15
Baker's Dozen
Mon, Dec 25, 1967 60 mins
Doc wages a valiant fight---in and out of court---to keep three orphans from being separated. Doc: Milburn Stone. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Judge: Denver Pyle. Mrs. Roniger: Peggy Rea. Roniger: Harry Carey Jr.
Episode 16
The Victim
Mon, Jan 1, 1968 60 mins
A lynch mob faces Matt and a sheriff. Matt: James Arness. Wes Martin: James Gregory. Lee Stark: Beverly Garland. Bo Remick: Cliff Osmond. Sheriff Wood: John Kellogg. Judge: Kevin Hagen.
Episode 17
Dead Man's Law
Mon, Jan 8, 1968 60 mins
While Festus searches for Matt, a vigilante group plunges Dodge City into a nightmare. Wall: John Dehner. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Eriksson: Gunnar Hellstrom. Doc: Milburn Stone. Newly: Buck Taylor. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 18
Nowhere to Run
Mon, Jan 15, 1968 60 mins
Two teenage thieves fear they'll be exposed by their partner---who lies at the bottom of a well. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Stonecipher: J. Robert Porter. Bishop: Bob Random.
Episode 19
Blood Money
Mon, Jan 22, 1968 60 mins
An old man faces three killers bent on settling a score with his disabled gunfighter son. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Nick: Anthony Zerbe. Festus: Ken Curtis.
Episode 20
Hill Girl
Mon, Jan 29, 1968 60 mins
Newly clashes with the brutish half brothers of a country girl. Merry: Lane Bradbury. Roland: Victor French. Elbert: Anthony James. Festus: Ken Curtis. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 21
The Gunrunners
Mon, Feb 5, 1968 60 mins
A buffalo hunter tracks the five men responsible for injuring his Indian son.
Episode 22
The Jackals
Mon, Feb 12, 1968 60 mins
Matt rides into Mexico after the man who engineered the murder of an old friend. Deevers: Paul Richards. Bates: Ward Wood. Emilio: Felice Orlandi. Santillo: Tige Andrews. Handlin: Joe De Santis.
Episode 23
The First People
Mon, Feb 19, 1968 60 mins
A politically ambitious Indian agent charges Matt with complicity in a murder committed on the reservation. Matt: James Arness. Evans: Gene Evans. Prange: Jack Elam. Mako: James Almanzar. John Eagle Wing: Todd Armstrong. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 24
Mr. Sam'l
Mon, Feb 26, 1968 60 mins
Ed Begley stars as a rainmaker who stirs up hope in drought-stricken Dodge. Akins: Larry Pennell. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 25
A Noose for Dobie Price
Mon, Mar 4, 1968 60 mins
Matt is forced into an alliance with a shifty ex-outlaw as he searches for two condemned killers who broke jail. Matt: James Arness. Price: Shug Fisher. Walden: Sheldon Allman. Festus: Ken Curtis. Boylan: Robert Donner. Doc: Milburn Stone.
