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Gunsmoke Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
38 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
The Search
Sat, Sep 15, 1962 60 mins
Seriously injured, a suspected horse thief struggles to stay alive in the wilderness and hide from his pursuers. Matt: James Arness. Tate: Ford Rainey. Ess: Virginia Gregg. Arnie: Leonard Nimoy.
Episode 2
Call Me Dodie
Sat, Sep 22, 1962 60 mins
Matt encounters a girl who escaped from a prisonlike orphanage. Dodie: Kathleen Nolan. Floyd: Jack Searl. Addie: Mary Patton. Lady: Diana Mountford. Marth: Carol Seflinger.
Episode 3
Quint Asper Comes Home
Sat, Sep 29, 1962 60 mins
Part-Indian Quint Asper vows vengeance on all white men when two drifters kill his father and terrorize his mother. Topsanah: Angela Clarke. Matt: James Arness. Asper: Bill Zuckert. Mike: Myron Healey. Dobie: Earle Hodgins. Grant: Harry Carey Jr.
Episode 4
Root Down
Sat, Oct 6, 1962 45 mins
Aggie Dutton wants to go to town to meet a boy. Pa tells Grudie to take her and check for a letter from Uncle Solon. Aggie asks Doc if Chester is married.e and his brass knucles get in a fight. Matt tells him to get out of Dodge. Aggie invites Chester out to their camp. Aggie tells Pa somehow she's staying in Dodge. She rides into Dodge and tells him Pa invited him out to fish. She tells Pa she was with Chester all night, and he has come to do the right thing and married her.
Episode 5
Jenny
Sat, Oct 13, 1962 60 mins
After losing his money gambling, bank robber Zel Mayers looks to recoup his losses. Jenny: Ruta Lee. Mayers: Ron Hayes. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Flack: John Duke. Pheeters: James Nusser. Doc: Milburn Stone. Quint: Burt Reynolds.
Episode 6
Collie's Free
Sat, Oct 20, 1962 60 mins
Out of prison after eight years, Collie Patten embarks on revenge---that leads straight to Matt. Rob: James Halferty. Francie: Jacqueline Scott. Henry: William Bramley. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 7
The Ditch
Sat, Oct 27, 1962 60 mins
Matt tries to avert a bloody range war when rancher Susan Bart takes steps to cut off the homesteaders' water supply. Matt: James Arness. Hawkins: Jay Lanin. Drider: Christopher Dark.
Episode 8
The Trappers
Sat, Nov 3, 1962 60 mins
The friendship between trappers Tug Marsh and Billy Logan dissolves during an Indian attack: Billy runs, leaving Tug to die. Matt: James Arness. Billy: Strother Martin. Tug: Richard Shannon. Doc: Milburn Stone. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 9
Phoebe Strunk
Sat, Nov 10, 1962 45 mins
Annie tells Mom and Dad she's going fishin'. Phoebe Strunk and her four sons, Oliver, Casper, Hulett and Simsie ride up. They rob them and put them in their wagon and burn it. Matt and Quint are returning from hunting, and find the wagon and skeletons. Annie looks on then runs off. Annie gets to Sam's and Rosie's place. Ma and the missing links come to Dodge. The boys take notice of Annie. Sam and Rosie want to adopt Annie. The boys try to kidnap Annie.
Episode 10
The Hunger
Sat, Nov 17, 1962 60 mins
Miss Dorf asks Doc to come out tomorrow. Clem Dorf's in the Long Branch abusing one of Kitty's girl. Matt tosses him out. Claude, Clem's dad, tells Matt he'll handle his son. Jack, a whiskey salesman, brings in magic rings. Buy a shot, you get a chance at the rings and you could win a wedding ring. Matt and Doc go to the Dorfs. Clem meets them with a rifle. Mrs. Dorf asks Clem to get some wood. She says her daughter, Althea, is locked in the cellar, please take her away.
Episode 11
Abe Blocker
Sat, Nov 24, 1962 60 mins
Abe Blocker, an aging mountain man, tells Bud and Mary Groves to get off their homestead or die. Bud tells Matt. He goes looking. Abe shoots at Buck's hooves. Abe's wife and child died in childbirth. Matt tells Bud he talked to Abe to no avail. Joe tell Matt the Groves have been scalped. Matt finds big moccasin prints, and start trailing Abe. He sees him thrice but he disappears. Matt gives up and returns to Dodge. Quint says he's killed again, Jim Kelly and Pete Brice.
Episode 12
The Way It Is
Sat, Dec 1, 1962 45 mins
Matt has to go to Topeka. The problem, Kitty was counting on him for the Ford County Sociable. When he can't take her she heads to some friends to visit. On the way, she finds Ad Bellum, injured and needing help. While she nurses him back to health, they find themselves growing attracted to each other. Kitty goes back to Dodge and Ad follows asking her to the dance. The only problem, Ad has a violent streak when Kitty won't do precisely what he says.
Episode 13
Us Haggens
Sat, Dec 8, 1962 60 mins
Matt is assisted in his search for killer Black Jack Haggen by the outlaw's nephew, who has his own reasons for joining the hunt. Festus: Ken Curtis. Matt: James Arness. April: Elizabeth MacRae. Timmy: Billy Hughes. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 14
Uncle Sunday
Sat, Dec 15, 1962 60 mins
Chester's scheme to shorten his uncle's visit backfires. Matt: James Arness. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Sunday: Henry Beckman. Ellie: Joyce Bulifant. Cury: Ed Nelson. Binney: Wallace Rooney. Doc: Milburn Stone. Quint: Burt Reynolds.
Episode 15
False Front
Sat, Dec 22, 1962 60 mins
Gambler Paul Hill engineers a grim masquerade when he bets that a man who has never fired a shot can pass as a gunman. Tatum: Andrew Prine. Matt: James Arness. Heber: Art Lund.
Episode 16
Old Comrade
Sat, Dec 29, 1962 60 mins
Fall guy Billy Marston learns that his father---a general---is dying. Matt: James Arness. Wilson: J. Pat O'Malley. Billy: Frank Sutton. Marston: Ralph Moody. Lem: Wayne Heffley. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 17
Louie Pheeters
Sat, Jan 5, 1963 60 mins
Bart Felder kills the stool pigeon he suspects is his wife's lover. The unseen witness: town drunk Louie Pheeters. Matt: James Arness. Felder: Larry Ward. Moody: John Larkin. Clara: Gloria McGehee. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 18
The Renegades
Sat, Jan 12, 1963 60 mins
The Comanches bring a white woman, a wagon and horses to sell to Brice, a white renegade. Colonel Pate wants Quint as a scout. He says when you go after the white renegades instead of the Comanches he would. The colonel's daughter Lavinia does not like Quint,even less when she hears he's half Comanche. Chester gets a letter from his brother Magnus. Quint agrees to ride shotgun for Sam Gordon, the driver on the morning stage. Lavinia's heading home to Dallas on it.
Episode 19
Cotter's Girl
Sat, Jan 19, 1963 60 mins
Cotter goads Mackel into giving him a severe beating. Cotter gives Matt money and a letter for his girl, Clarey. Cotter wants Matt to see that she gets to his sister Flo in Harrisburg. Cotter drinks his last slug of whiskey and dies. Matt rides up to get Clarey expecting a ten year old. She's a might older (upper teens). Matt reads her the letter and gives her the money. Clarey bites Matt as he sleeps and says she likes him. They stay in the town of Shallow Water for the night.
Episode 20
The Bad One
Sat, Jan 26, 1963 60 mins
Matt looks for the reason behind a woman's refusal to identify a stagecoach robber. Jenny: Dolores Sutton. Jett: Chris Robinson. Matt: James Arness. Parker: Booth Colman. Clancy: Ken Kenoska. Sam: Glenn Strange. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 21
The Cousin
Sat, Feb 2, 1963 60 mins
Matt faces a difficult decision when he is pushed toward a showdown by ex-convict Chance Hopper---his foster brother. Chance: Michael Forest. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Cheevers: John Anderson. Moran: Joseph Perry. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 22
Shona
Sat, Feb 9, 1963 60 mins
Buckling under the strain of Indian raids, the townspeople react violently when a farmer brings his ailing Indian wife to Dodge for treatment. Matt: James Arness. Gib: Robert Bray. Shona: Miriam Colon. Quint: Burt Reynolds. Torbert: John Crawford. Rud: Robert Palmer. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 23
Ash
Sat, Feb 16, 1963 60 mins
Matt tries to prevent bloodshed when a head injury turns personable Ben Galt into a troublemaker. Ash: Anthony Caruso. Matt: James Arness. Tillie: Dee Hartford. Hall: Adam West.
Episode 24
Blind Man's Bluff
Sat, Feb 23, 1963 60 mins
On the prairie, Matt must rely on his wits and instincts when his eyesight is impaired. Matt: James Arness. Poe: Will Hutchins. Walker: Crahan Denton. Wells: Gregg Palmer. Canby: John Alderson. Dano: Judson Pratt. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 25
Quint's Indian
Fri, Mar 1, 1963 60 mins
Accused of horse theft, Quint is brutally beaten by a vigilante group. Matt: James Arness. Stope: Will Corey. Feeney: James Brown. Houser: Patrick McVey. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Grissom: Rand Brooks.
Episode 26
Anybody Can Kill a Marshal
Fri, Mar 8, 1963 60 mins
When the efforts of two outlaws fail, they hire a drifter to kill Matt. Lucas: Warren Stevens. Cleed: James Westerfield. Painter: Milton Selzer. Doc: Milburn Stone. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Quint: Burt Reynolds.
Episode 27
Two of a Kind
Sat, Mar 16, 1963 60 mins
Tim Finnegan and Sean O'Ryan have been feuding over Kathleen, a girl back in Ireland Tim's building a fence. Sean shoots Tim's hat off and says he is on his land. Sean sends Tim's wagon down the hill. Tim takes a few potshots at Sean. They're is a salt mine on thier property. Clay Bealton is scheming to get it. At the Long Branch Tim shoots Sean's beer out of his hand and says go for your rifle. Kitty shoots off a shotgun and Sam gets their rifles.
Episode 28
I Call Him Wonder
Sat, Mar 23, 1963 60 mins
Jud Sorrell has left a trail drive and has won big at poker. The losers, Docker, Holt and Keogh, beat him up and take the money. While Jud sleeps a ten year old indian boy tries to steal some bread. The boy's village has been burnesd. He keeps repeating on word wonda. Jud calls him Wonder. Chester brings land office papers to Enoch Miller. Enoch says send anyone looking for work his way. Jud tells Enoch he's looking for a job. Enoch tells him to get rid of the indian and then come back.
Episode 29
With a Smile
Sat, Mar 30, 1963 60 mins
The spoiled son of a powerful rancher reacts violently when pretty Lottie Foy spurns his advances. Creed: R.G. Armstrong. Dal: James Best. Cain: Linden Chiles. Matt: James Arness. Carver: Dick Foran. Kelly: Dan Stafford. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 30
The Far Places
Sat, Apr 6, 1963 60 mins
Matt tries to prevent a conflict between rancher Carrie Newcomb and her son from leading to bloodshed. Carrie: Angela Clarke. Jeff: Rees Vaughn. Doc: Milburn Stone. Millie: Bennye Gatteys. Wib: Orville Sherman. Colley: Dennis Cross. Chester: Dennis Weaver.
Episode 31
Panacea Sykes
Sat, Apr 13, 1963 60 mins
Elderly Panacea Sykes' fragile exterior conceals a conniving thief. Her next victim: Kitty. Panacea: Nellie Burt. Matt: James Arness. Foote: Dan Tobin. Little: Charles Watts. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 32
Tell Chester
Sat, Apr 20, 1963 60 mins
Chester's heartthrob only has eyes for Wade Stringer who neglected to tell her that he's married. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Wade: Lonny Chapman. Polly: Mitzi Hoag. Matt: James Arness. Wendy: Jo Helton. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 33
Quint-Cident
Sat, Apr 27, 1963 60 mins
Quint feels the wrath of a woman scorned when he refuses to return widow Willa Devlin's affections. Willa: Mary LaRoche. Crown: Ben Johnson. Nally: Don Keefer. Lizzie: Catherine McLeod. Matt: James Arness. Kitty: Amanda Blake.
Episode 34
Old York
Sat, May 4, 1963 60 mins
Matt faces a difficult decision when he encounters outlaw Dan York who saved his life years before. Matt: James Arness. Sage: H.M. Wynant. Clayton: Robert Knapp. Taylor: Ed Madden. Jack: Alex Sharp. Baca: Michael Constantine.
Episode 35
Daddy Went Away
Sat, May 11, 1963 60 mins
Widow Lucy Damon responds favorably to Chester's attentions. Lucy: Mary Carver. Chester: Dennis Weaver. Jessica: Suzanne Cupito. Doc: Milburn Stone. Jess: William Schallert. Matt: James Arness.
Episode 36
The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner
Sat, May 18, 1963 60 mins
Saloon girl Leah Brunson and drifter Jubal Tanner join forces to find the man who killed Leah's fiancé and shot Tanner. Matt: James Arness. Fletcher: Gregg Palmer. Sam: Glenn Strange. Larker: Denver Pyle. Hobie: Kevin Hagen.
Episode 37
Jeb
Sat, May 25, 1963 60 mins
Ab Singleton makes a fatal mistake when he buys a reputedly stolen horse from a farm boy. Jeb: Jim Hampton. Matt: James Arness. Chouteau: Emile Genest. Codge: William Hunt. Sam: Glenn Strange. Doc: Milburn Stone.
Episode 38
The Quest for Asa Janin
Sat, Jun 1, 1963 60 mins
Convinced that Dave Ingalls has been wrongly sentenced to hang for murder, Matt goes after the real killer. Macklin: Anthony Caruso. Janin: Richard Devon. Ingalls: Gene Darfler. Colridge: Harry Carey Jr. Pardee: George Keymas.