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Gunsmoke Season 14 Episodes
Season 14 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
Lyle's Kid
Mon, Sep 23, 196860 mins
Before a notorious outlaw was sent to prison, he captured lawman Grant Lyle and used a blacksmith's hammer and anvil to ceremoniously crush Lyle's hands. The hands are now frozen claws encased permanently in black gloves. Lyle learns that the outlaw is set to get out of jail, and schemes to kill him in a gunfight. At first Lyle tries to train his son to be a surrogate killer, but Matt interferes and the son balks. Lyle then commissions Newly to make a "fanning" gun, a triggerless weapon that can be cocked and fired by pushing the hammer back and letting it fall onto the firing pin. You can't hit the broad side of a barn when you're fanning a gun, but Lyle tries to teach himself to shoot the weapon anyway. When the stage containing the convict reaches Dodge, he thinks he's ready.
Episode 2
The Hidecutters
Mon, Sep 30, 196860 mins
A group of cattle rustlers are determined to stop Amos McKee's cattle from reaching sale. Even to the point of placing a diseased animal among the herd.
Episode 3
Zavala
Mon, Oct 7, 196860 mins
After tracking outlaw brothers into Mexico, Marshal Dillon kills the notorious bandit Jurato and others. His actions start a deadly chain reaction while a 13-year-old boy named Paco and his mother try to keep the wounded marshal around.
Episode 4
Uncle Finney
Mon, Oct 14, 196860 mins
When Merry Florene's brothers return to Dodge to turn in their 103-year-old Uncle Finney for fifty dollars, you know some shenanigans are afoot.
Episode 5
Slocum
Mon, Oct 21, 196860 mins
Will Geer plays an old mountain hunter that comes to Dodge to see his long time friend Matt Dillon. When the hunter is accused of attempted murder, it will be Matt that sets off to bring his friend to justice.
Episode 6
O'Quillian
Mon, Oct 28, 196860 mins
In Spearville Irishman O'Quillian shoots a man for cheating in cards. The dead man's brother is set for revenge even though the Irishman was cleared of murder by the courts.
Episode 7
9:12 to Dodge
Mon, Nov 11, 196860 mins
Doc helps Matt escort a wounded man to Dodge to stand trial for murder, but Matt gets word by telegram that the man's gang plans to storm the train on which the lawman and his prisoner are traveling.
Episode 8
Abelia
Mon, Nov 18, 196860 mins
The Ward gang is on the run after a bank robbery. The gang loses one of the Ward brothers, shot in the stomach, while Abelia and another gang member go to Dodge for a painkiller; in town Festus and Newly have a run-in with the pair. Festus has a tracking job which leads him to Abelia's home where the gang has already taken off southbound. One of Abelia's children is bitten by a snake and Festus stays to help heal her.
Episode 9
Railroad!
Mon, Nov 25, 196860 mins
Dillon backs a citizen who refuses to sell land to a railroad builder, so the builder buys liquor for his large crews causing drunken riots in Dodge.
Episode 10
The Miracle Man
Mon, Dec 2, 196860 mins
Bob Sullivan is a con man who tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd.
Episode 11
Waco
Mon, Dec 9, 196860 mins
Matt Dillon (James Arness) and his prisoner, Waco Thompson (Victor French), begin the trek to Dodge City, where Waco is wanted for robbery. Along the way they find a young Kiowa woman, One Moon (Pat Thompson), who is about to have a baby in the wilderness. Matt and Waco must help her while eluding four ex-henchmen of Waco who are bent on revenge for his duplicity. Harry Carey Jr. and Louise Latham play important roles in the action.
Episode 12
Lobo
Mon, Dec 16, 196860 mins
Luke Brazo is on the trail of a lone wolf, nicknamed Lobo, that has been harassing farmers around Dodge. But Luke will prove to be more of a lone wolf and just as dangerous as any animal.
Episode 13
Johnny Cross
Mon, Dec 23, 196860 mins
Johnny Cross, though innocent, is a wanted man. Bounty hunters are after the reward. Newly finds him and intends to bring him in. Johnny has a choice to make when Newly is injured on the way back to Dodge.
Episode 14
The Money Store
Mon, Dec 30, 196860 mins
Down on his luck, a widowed farmer is unable to get a loan from his brother-in-law, a banker in Dodge City. The two briefly argue. The farmer's son and daughter, however, go back to the bank, cause a commotion and steal an envelope full of money. Marshal Matt Dillon is out of town, leaving Festus in charge of investigating the incident. The farmer is arrested for the robbery. Upon hearing from his children that they took the money, he forbids them from telling the law; he feels he'll only be using his children as scapegoats. A short time later, the children run away and encounter Matt.
Episode 15
Twisted Heritage
Mon, Jan 6, 196960 mins
A stage Kitty is on is attacked and she ends up befriending a young girl who is being neglected by her father. Then she and the girl find themselves in the middle of feuding families.
Episode 16
Time of the Jackals
Mon, Jan 13, 196960 mins
Matt and Festus shoot it out with an outlaw who was a member of the infamous Jess Trevor gang, particularly notorious for murder and mayhem. Matt finally kicks in the outlaw's door and shoots him. The outlaw lives for a few minutes, and Matt asks him why he deserted the Trevor gang. The dying outlaw reveals that he left at the request of Trevor's girlfriend, who was also shocked by his cruelty and wishes to leave. The woman is then shown lying in a corner, having accidentally been shot by Matt. To his horror, Matt recognizes the woman as Leona, a woman he knew and loved before he came to Dodge City. Guilt-ridden, he brings Leona back to Dodge and learns her story: she had drifted after leaving Matt, turning to prostitution and hooking up with various gang members, closing with Trevor himself. Trevor has learned of Leona's defection and puts out a murder contract on her. While Matt searches for Trevor (and Trevor orders a hit on Matt), Kitty (who is nursing Leona) struggles with her feelings toward her boyfriend's past girlfriend, finally making an uneasy alliance with Leona. When Matt gets to Trevor first and takes him in, Trevor warns "there will be twenty shotguns pointed at your head" when Matt sends Trevor off to court for trial. Matt warns Trevor that "there's going to be one aimed at yours" in return. The extradition trip to the train station begins in an atmosphere of the highest tension, as Leona watches from a sidewalk.
Episode 17
Mannon
Mon, Jan 20, 196960 mins
Will Mannon, brutal and sadistic, comes to Dodge City planning to kill Matt Dillon and cement his fearsome reputation. He first shoots and wounds Festus outside of Dodge, leaving Festus lying in the dirt and taking his mule Ruth to ride into town. He intimidates Dodge City residents, claiming to hold four aces in a poker game with the other players afraid to see his actual hand. Finally, he assaults Kitty. Finally, Matt returns to Dodge to confront the brutal Mannon.
Episode 18
Goldtown
Mon, Jan 27, 196960 mins
Merry Florene is back, along with her remaining half-brother Elbert Moses and cousin Smiley. Merry pesters Newly while the boys scam Dodge City with a salted gold mine.
Episode 19
The Mark of Cain
Mon, Feb 3, 196960 mins
A buffalo hunter stumbles on the fact that a local man was head of an abusive Confederate prison camp during the war. With tension high, Matt and Festus will try to prevent citizens from taking the law into their own hands.
Episode 20
Reprisal
Mon, Feb 10, 196960 mins
A young wife miscarries when Doc Adams must tend to a wounded killer instead of making a house call. The killer will probably hang, because Doc's witness to his murdering a local card-player celebrating winning a big pot. As the only physician in the area, Doc's over-committed, but the young woman's husband, a short-sighted farmer with a bad temper, can't accept the loss.
Episode 21
The Long Night
Mon, Feb 17, 196960 mins
After surviving (barely) a bounty hunter's attempt to assassinate him, an outlaw tries to turn himself in to Matt Dillon. But Matt's out of town, and the bounty hunter's companions get to the outlaw first. They aren't so much interested in the outlaw as they are in killing Matt, so they take over the Long Branch and hold everyone hostage. They also get word out to a land baron whose wife the outlaw accidentally killed: come here and pick up the prisoner in return for your gunmen to waste the marshal. The land baron accepts the deal, but the outlaw's girlfriend shoots him as he's about to take the outlaw away. While Doc performs an emergency operation, the land baron's hirelings are torn between their promise to punish the outlaw and their revulsion at the bounty hunters' sadistic leader, who forces town drunk Louie Pheeters to crawl on his hands and knees the length of the saloon to get a drink (which he then refuses in a dramatic sequence). This episode's production number indicates it was actually filmed at the end of the previous season and held up for reasons unknown (it's shown in broadcast order in syndication).
Episode 22
The Nightriders
Mon, Feb 24, 196960 mins
The Civil War isn't over -- not nearly -- for Judge Proctor, a respected Missouri man who was on the losing side and had his home devastated by a guerrilla band led by a Kansas man. Now the judge has formed a gang of his own and sweeps through Kansas seeking the guerrilla leader. A tip-off tells the group that the man is in or near Dodge, but the judge can't locate his exact whereabouts and sets fire to a wheat field as a warning to the local citizenry. When that fails to produce the man, the judge threatens to burn all of Dodge City.
Episode 23
The Intruder
Mon, Mar 3, 196960 mins
Festus, while taking a wounded prisoner to Dodge, has to stop at a farm house for help. Little does Festus know this was part of the prisoner's plan all along.
Episode 24
The Good Samaritans
Mon, Mar 10, 196960 mins
A group of former slaves on their way to Oregon are temporarily halted to repair a broken wheel. They find Matt on the prairie, wounded by two outlaws trying to prevent his reaching Dodge City, and hide him until he can recover.
Episode 25
The Prisoner
Mon, Mar 17, 196960 mins
A prisoner is being escorted to a town where his chance of receiving a fair trial are slim. Kitty will intervene by protecting this young man until the Marshal can return.
Episode 26
Exodus 21.22
Mon, Mar 24, 196960 mins
Frank Reardon, a former lawman and friend of Matt's whose pregnant wife was killed by a gang, has tracked the last three remaining men to Dodge to carry out his form of punishment.