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Gunsmoke Season 10 Episodes
Season 10 Episode Guide
36 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Blue Heaven
Sat, Sep 26, 1964 60 mins
Two people on the run---young Packy Kerlin and fugitive Kip Gilman---join forces in an effort to escape pursuers. Gilman: Tim O'Connor. Packy: Kurt Russell. Matt: James Arness. Elena: Diane Ladd. Festus: Ken Curtis. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 2
Crooked Mile
Sat, Oct 3, 1964 60 mins
Quint's romance with Susan Degler is thwarted by the girl's tyrannical, whip-wielding father (George Kennedy). Quint: Burt Reynolds. Praylie: Royal Dano. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 3
Old Man
Sat, Oct 10, 1964 60 mins
Matt tries to determine which one of Joe Silva's many enemies killed him. Old Man: Ned Glass. Matt: James Arness. Adams: Robert Hogan. Litton: Rayford Barnes. Silva: Ed Peck. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Quint: Burt Reynolds.
Episode 4
The Violators
Sat, Oct 17, 1964 60 mins
The scalping of a man sets off a wave of anti-Indian sentiment in Dodge that threatens to become a full-scale war. Nash: Denver Pyle. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Foster: Arthur Batanides. Quint: Burt Reynolds. Calf: Michael Pate.
Episode 5
Doctor's Wife
Sat, Oct 24, 1964 60 mins
Doc is the victim of a smear campaign started by the wife of a rival. Doc: Milburn Stone. Jennifer: Phyllis Love. Dr. May: James Broderick. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Boake: Harold Gould. Mrs. Boake: Anne Barton.
Episode 6
Take Her, She's Cheap
Sat, Oct 31, 1964 60 mins
Matt finds himself with a thorny problem: a grateful family has given him their daughter as a bride. Allie: Laurie Peters. Mel: Willard Sage. Ma Carp: Linda Watkins. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Loren: Mort Mills. Festus: Ken Curtis. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 7
Help Me, Kitty
Sat, Nov 7, 1964 60 mins
After their stagecoach is attacked by bandits, Kitty and an unwed expectant mother are stranded in the desert. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Specter: Jack Elam. Matt: James Arness. Ed: Burt Douglas.
Episode 8
Hung High
Sat, Nov 14, 1964 60 mins
Lawman-hating Tony Serpa spells trouble for Matt and retired marshal Jim Downey. Costa: Robert Culp. Serpa: Scott Marlowe. Wilks: Edward Asner. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 9
Jonah Hutchison
Sat, Nov 21, 1964 60 mins
Ruthless Jonah Hutchison returns home after 30 years in prison---determined to rebuild his ranching empire. Hutchison: Robert F. Simon. Samuel: Richard Anderson. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Phoebe: June Dayton. Steven: David Macklin. Franklin: Tommy Alexander.
Episode 10
Big Man, Big Target
Sat, Nov 28, 1964 60 mins
Pike Beechum devises a sinister plan to get rid of the person standing between him and Ellie Merchant---her husband. Ellie: Mariette Hartley. Merchant: Mike Road. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Doc: Milburn Stone. Festus: Ken Curtis.
Episode 11
Chicken
Sat, Dec 5, 1964 60 mins
Meek Dan Collins basks in his sudden fame when he's mistakenly credited with killing four outlaws. Lucy: Gigi Perreau. Carl: John Lupton. Matt: James Arness. Brady: L.Q. Jones. Morgan: Lane Chandler.
Episode 12
Innocence
Sat, Dec 12, 1964 60 mins
The hatred between Bob Sullins and Art McLane intenisfies when they fall for the same girl. Elsa: Bethel Leslie. Sullins: Michael Forest. McLane: Claude Akins. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 13
Aunt Thede
Sat, Dec 19, 1964 60 mins
Aunt Thede and young Ivy Norton both have marriage on their minds---and problems on their hands. Thede: Jeanette Nolan. Ivy: Dyan Cannon. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Rider: James Stacy. Norton: Frank Cady. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 14
Hammerhead
Sat, Dec 26, 1964 60 mins
When a wealthy gambler comes to buy horses, rival traders stage a 350-mile race to demonstrate their steeds. Ponder: Arch Johnson. Carrie: Linda Foster. Festus: Ken Curtis. Simmons: Chubby Johnson. Tallman: John Fiedler.
Episode 15
Double Entry
Sat, Jan 2, 1965 60 mins
Newcomer Brad McClain schemes to take profitable advantage of his friendship with Matt. Jake: Cyril Delevanti. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Bodkin: Roy Roberts.
Episode 16
Run, Sheep, Run
Sat, Jan 9, 1965 60 mins
Troubles brew when sinister Dan Braden buys a ranch from a young couple---and refuses to pay them for a year. Stocker: Burt Brinckerhoff. Mary: Davey Davison. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Doc: Milburn Stone. Cox: Arthur Malet.
Episode 17
Deputy Festus
Sat, Jan 16, 1965 60 mins
Three trappers are partying down at the Long Branch when one of them decides to drink an entire bottle of whiskey without drawing a breath. The celebrating gets out of hand when a fight ensues between a trapper and local Dave Carson. Matt breaks the fight up and jails the trappers for busting up the saloon. Needing to go to Hayes City, Matt asks Festus to watch the jail and let the trappers out in the morning. As it turns out, one of the trappers is Festus' cousin Claudius Haggen.
Episode 18
One Killer on Ice
Sat, Jan 23, 1965 60 mins
Matt reluctantly agrees to protect two bounty hunters and their prisoner from ambush. Helena: Anne Helm. Anderson: John Drew Barrymore. Kimbro: Dennis Hopper. Dales: Philip Coolidge. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 19
Chief Joseph
Sat, Jan 30, 1965 60 mins
Tension rises when a desperately ill chief is lodged in the Dodge House. Tripp: Robert Loggia. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Festus: Ken Curtis. Britton: Joe Maross. Wiley: Leonard Stone.
Episode 20
Circus Trick
Sat, Feb 6, 1965 60 mins
Festus flips when his girlfriend joins a circus troupe. Matt: James Arness. April: Elizabeth MacRae. Elko: Walter Burke. Speeler: Warren Oates. Big Eddie: Ken Scott. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 21
Song for Dying
Sat, Feb 13, 1965 60 mins
Theodore Bikel stars as a carefree minstrel who may be forced to change his tune: the vengeful Lukens clan is closing in. Will: Robert F. Simon. Dave: Lee Majors. Matt: James Arness. Embry: Ford Rainey. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Festus: Ken Curtis.
Episode 22
Winner Take All
Sat, Feb 20, 1965 45 mins
Matt must try and end a feud brothers are having.
Episode 23
Eliab's Aim
Sat, Feb 27, 1965 45 mins
A Nephew of Festus comes to Dodge.
Episode 24
Thursday's Child
Sat, Mar 6, 1965 60 mins
Julie Blane may need help from Doc Adams to deal with her past.
Episode 25
Breckinridge
Sat, Mar 13, 1965 60 mins
A young Eastern attorney becomes a nuisance---and a danger---to Matt when he begins questioning the marshal's every move. Taylor: Ben Cooper. Jocko: Elisha Cook. Grady: Robert Sorrells. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Festus: Ken Curtis.
Episode 26
Bank Baby
Sat, Mar 20, 1965 60 mins
Bert Clum schemes to rob pilgrim families camped nearby. Clum: Jacques Aubuchon. Matt: James Arness. Bess: Virginia Christine. Quint: Burt Reynolds. Jim: Harry Carey Jr. Milton: Hampton Fancher. Grace: Gail Kobe. Botkin: Roy Roberts.
Episode 27
The Lady
Sat, Mar 27, 1965 60 mins
Hattie Silks has raised her niece, Liz, and promised to take her to San Francisco. Near broke, they get as far as Dodge when Hattie talks Kitty into hiring her as companionship for the older men that patronize the Long Branch. Sam Hare has been ogling and pestering Liz the entire stagcoach trip to Dodge and she wants nothing to do with him. When Hattie meets local rancher Jud Briar, they fall in love and plan to be married.
Episode 28
Dry Road to Nowhere
Sat, Apr 3, 1965 60 mins
Matt tries to find out why a temperance preacher is being stalked by a gunman. Tebbetts: John Saxon. Bess: Julie Sommars. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 29
Twenty Miles from Dodge
Sat, Apr 10, 1965 60 mins
You'd think Kitty would have learned her lesson about taking stagecoach trips. On this one, while returning to Dodge (and a very impatient Matt), Kitty, Eleanor Starkey and her son, gambler Will Helmick, a railroad magnate, another young man, the stage driver and shotgun guard are kidnapped by Grant Shay and his gang. They are force marched over rough terrain to a cabin in the cold hills where they are kept in an open corral, exposed to the wind, and unfed.
Episode 30
The Pariah
Sat, Apr 17, 1965 60 mins
Paolo Scanzano's boys collect wanted posters. They identify John Hooker as a murderer and inform their dad after Hooker bullies his way into their ranch house, demands food, and generally treats everyone like slaves. Paolo gets the drop on Hooker and has to kill him when Hooker goes for his gun. Initially, everyone in Dodge thinks he's a big hero for killing Hooker in a gunfight, but when they find out how it really happend most of the people turn their backs on him and label him a coward.
Episode 31
Gilt Guilt
Sat, Apr 24, 1965 60 mins
Doc treats Mary Rice and her son for scurvy. Doc: Milburn Stone. Crail: Andrew Duggan. Sully: Peter Brooks. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis. Jake: William Boyett.
Episode 32
Bad Lady from Brookline
Sat, May 1, 1965 60 mins
Betty Hutton as Molly McConnell, who tries to raise her son in Dodge after her husband is killed in a gunfight. Sy: Claude Akins. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 33
Two Tall Men
Sat, May 8, 1965 60 mins
Matt runs into a wall of fear and hostility when he arrives in Ridge Town to reopen an old murder case. Scanlon: Jeremy Slate. John: James Gregory. Vera: Elizabeth Perry. Wesley: Jack Weston. Bennings: Sandy Kenyon. Coor: Richard X. Slattery.
Episode 34
Honey Pot
Sat, May 15, 1965 60 mins
Rory Calhoun as Ben Stack, a newcomer to Dodge who makes a play for saloon girl Honey Dare. Biggs: John Crawford. Evers: Charles Maxwell. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Doc: Milburn Stone. Sam: Glenn Strange.
Episode 35
The New Society
Sat, May 22, 1965 60 mins
Cowboy Billy Walters admires veteran buffalo hunter Jeff Sutro so much so that he won't reveal that Sutro is also a thief. Walters: Russ Tamblyn. Matt: James Arness. Festus: Ken Curtis.
Episode 36
He Who Steals
Sat, May 29, 1965 60 mins
Festus goes after the men who robbed and beat Doc. Howell: Harry Townes. Breck: Ben Cooper. Yaeger: George Lindsey. Ned: Jay Ripley. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Matt: James Arness.