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Gunsmoke Season 20 Episodes

24 Episodes 1974 - 1975

Episode 1

Matt Dillon Must Die

Mon, Sep 9, 1974 60 mins

Matt is captured by a crazed killer who is planning to avenge his son's death. Abraham: Morgan Woodward. Jacob: Joseph Hindy. Esau: Bill Lucking.

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Episode 2

Town in Chains

Mon, Sep 16, 1974 45 mins

A group of bandits attempt to rob a town while masquerading as soldiers.

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Episode 3

The Guns of Cibola Blanca: Part 1

Mon, Sep 23, 1974 60 mins

Doc and a woman are held by outlaws at a desert stronghold. First of two parts. Doc: Milburn Stone. Shindrow: Harold Gould. Lyla: Dorothy Tristan. Coltraine: Richard Anderson.

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Episode 4

The Guns of Cibola Blanca: Part 2

Mon, Sep 30, 1974 60 mins

Conclusion of a story about outlaws' capture of Doc and a friend (Dorothy Tristan). Matt: James Arness. Shindrow: Harold Gould.

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Episode 5

Thirty a Month and Found

Mon, Oct 7, 1974 45 mins

Matt houses a drunk Will & Friends in the jail they go looking for $300 that they think Bill took. Matt thinks it was a misunderstanding. Will doesn't want to tell Matt that they shot Curly Wills (They buried him before going to Dodge.Doak stops to see his girlfriend and says marriage will need to wait, as Will & Quincy leaves without Doak Quincy and the storekeepers are shot.

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Episode 6

The Wiving

Mon, Oct 14, 1974 45 mins

Jed Hockett(Harry Morgan), a farmer, orders his three boys to go to town and return with prospective brides.

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Episode 7

The Iron Men

Mon, Oct 21, 1974 60 mins

Matt undertakes the rehabilitation of an ex-lawman who is completely given to drink. Matt: James Arness. Ryker: John Russell. Kathy: Barbara Colby.

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Episode 8

The Fourth Victim

Mon, Nov 4, 1974 60 mins

A mysterious killer is loose. Matt: James Arness. Doc: Milburn Stone. Potter: Biff McGuire. Price: Leonard Stone.

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Episode 9

The Tarnished Badge

Mon, Nov 11, 1974 60 mins

Matt tangles with a sheriff who rules a town like a feudal despot. Matt: James Arness. Jenny: Pamela McMyler. Barney: Nick Nolte. Gramma: Ruth McDevitt.

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Episode 10

In Performance of Duty

Mon, Nov 18, 1974 60 mins

Members of an outlaw family stay beyond the law by killing all witnesses to their crimes. Matt: James Arness. Judge: Eduard Franz. Emmett: David Huddleston.

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Episode 11

Island in the Desert: Part 1

Mon, Dec 2, 1974 60 mins

Festus is rescued by a half-loco hermit (Strother Martin). Part 1 of two. Festus: Ken Curtis. Dixon: William C. Watson. Matt: James Arness.

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Episode 12

Island in the Desert: Part 2

Mon, Dec 9, 1974 60 mins

A half-crazed hermit forces Festus to pack gold across the desert in the conclusion of a story. Festus: Ken Curtis. Dixon: William C. Watson.

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Episode 13

The Colonel

Mon, Dec 16, 1974 45 mins

Lee J. Cobb and his daughter Julie Cobb appear together for the first time when Cobb guest-stars as a once-proud military officer who is suddenly faced with a painful and unplanned reunion with his daughter.

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Episode 14

The Squaw

Mon, Jan 6, 1975 45 mins

Fleeing from both Matt Dillon and his double-crossed partners, outlaw Gristy Calhoun discovers that his survival in the badlands depends on an Indian woman.

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Episode 15

The Hiders

Mon, Jan 13, 1975 60 mins

Festus urges a teenager to leave a scurrilous band of hiders, men who cut skins from dead range cattle. Karp: Ned Beatty. Festus: Ken Curtis. Matt: James Arness. Quincannon: Lee de Broux. Martha: Sierra Bandit.

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Episode 16

Larkin

Mon, Jan 20, 1975 45 mins

Newly finds himself in a strange alliance with a professional killer as he tries to return to Dodge City with his prisoner (Jaeckel) before they are both killed by a trio of bounty hunters.

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Episode 17

The Fires of Ignorance

Mon, Jan 27, 1975 60 mins

A teacher defies a student's father in a story about children's right to education. Decory: Allen Garfield. Harker: John Vernon. Tommy: Lance Kerwin. Doc: Milburn Stone. Matt: James Arness.

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Episode 18

The Angry Land

Mon, Feb 3, 1975 60 mins

An orphaned girl is rejected by her only relative. Bessie: Eileen McDonough. Matt: James Arness.

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Episode 19

Brides and Grooms

Mon, Feb 10, 1975 60 mins

Many a hitch upsets a farmer's plans to get his sons married. Jed: Harry Morgan. Hannah: Fran Ryan. Luke: Herman Poppe. Shep: Dennis Redfield. Ike: David Soul. Fran: Amanda McBroom.

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Episode 20

Hard Labor

Mon, Feb 24, 1975 60 mins

An illegally convicted Matt is sentenced to life at hard labor in the judge's silver mine. Flood: John Colicos. Matt: James Arness. Widge: Hal Williams.

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Episode 21

I Have Promises to Keep

Mon, Mar 3, 1975 60 mins

An ailing preacher resolves to build a church for the Comanches despite strong opposition from both whites and Indians. Festus: Ken Curtis. Atkins: Tom Lacy. Dunbar: Ken Swofford.

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Episode 22

The Busters

Mon, Mar 10, 1975 60 mins

A broncobuster vows to show his partner a time he'll remember "two days after he's dead." Harve: Gary Busey. Mitch: John Beck. Zoe: Lynn Benesch. Doc: Milburn Stone. Matt: James Arness.

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Episode 23

Manolo

Mon, Mar 17, 1975 60 mins

A Basque sheepherder flouts custom by refusing to fight his father to prove his manhood. Alejo: Nehemiah Persoff. Manolo: Robert Urich. Joachim: Mark Shera.

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Episode 24

The Sharecroppers

Mon, Mar 31, 1975 45 mins

A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers.

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