8.1/10188 votes#1 - Lyle's Kid
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1968
Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for his hands.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.4/10159 votes#2 - The Hide Cutters
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1968
Festus is rescued from a rock avalanche by a young hide cutter. His fellow cutters are following a herd of cattle with hopes of stealing them for the hides.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.7/10243 votes#3 - Zavala
Season 14 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1968
Good western. Mostly action, not too much girl stuff. Gunplay by Dillon very very good in this one. Story is about Dillon taking a warrant into Mexico. He finds the culprit and outdraws him. One of the latter's gang members travels back to the US and tells Jim Davis that Dillon killed his brother. Davis responds with violence, then rides into Mexico and faces Dillon. The human interest part of this movie centers about the likeable Mexican kid, ""Paco"". Dillon and him get along so good that I'm wondering about the sexuality of one of the film bosses. About Rico Alaniz... top-notch performance. He's the guy who, in the movie ""Magnificent Seven"", was always saying 'no, don't anger Calvera, give him what he wants"".
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Paul Savage
7.3/10172 votes#4 - Uncle Finney
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1968
A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.2/10178 votes#5 - Slocum
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1968
Grizzily mountain man, Slocum tracks the sons of a man who tried to bushwhack his good friend, Matt Dillon.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: N/A
6.1/10158 votes#6 - O'Quillian
Season 14 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1968
Leary O'Quillan kills a card cheat in self defense and is pursued to Dodge by the man's brother, Clay Tynan.
Director: John Rich
Writer: N/A
8.2/10195 votes#7 - 9:12 to Dodge
Season 14 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1968
Matt and Doc are escorting outlaw Johnny August by train to trail for murder. Also on board and waiting along the line are his men waiting for a chance to free him.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: N/A
8.3/10205 votes#8 - Abelia
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1968
A young woman and her kids and Festus are held hostage from a man Matt is trying to find.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.7/10160 votes#9 - Railroad!
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1968
Matt clashes with maverick railroad builder Wes Cameron and his wild men running a railroad line through Dodge.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: N/A
7.3/10165 votes#10 - The Miracle Man
Season 14 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1968
Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.8/10179 votes#11 - Waco
Season 14 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1968
While bringing in outlaw, Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with his outlaw band following them while he has to deliver a baby.
Director: Robert Totten
Writer: N/A
7.6/10159 votes#12 - Lobo
Season 14 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1968
Mountain man Luke Brazo joins Matt in a hunt for a vicious wolf terrorizing the area.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.7/10142 votes#13 - Johnny Cross
Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1968
Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
7.9/10178 votes#14 - The Money Store
Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1968
When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: William Blinn
7.5/10163 votes#15 - The Twisted Heritage
Season 14 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1968
Kitty saves the life of a man during a stage hold-up, taking him back to his ranch she finds his mother a ruthless matron and his daughter alienated from her father.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.6/10160 votes#16 - Time of the Jackals
Season 14 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1969
A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.8/10279 votes#17 - Mannon
Season 14 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1969
Gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge, after shooting Festus and taking his mule, to face Matt in a gunfight.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: N/A
6.8/10147 votes#18 - Gold Town
Season 14 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1969
Will Mannon, a sharpshooter who rode with Quantrill's Raiders, terrorizes Dodge City as he waits for Matt to return and face him in a showdown.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10173 votes#19 - The Mark of Cain
Season 14 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1969
A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.9/10163 votes#20 - Reprisal
Season 14 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1969
Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder and delivering a baby. He choses to save the man first, and the baby dies in childbirth. The baby's father, Tom Butler blames Doc and plans to get even.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.3/10184 votes#21 - The Long Night
Season 14 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1969
Three bounty hunters hold hostages in the Long Branch to get Matt to turn over a prisoner to them.
Director: John Rich
Writer: N/A
7.7/10151 votes#22 - The Night Riders
Season 14 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1969
Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
7.7/10160 votes#23 - The Intruder
Season 14 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1969
Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Riley's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.8/10190 votes#24 - The Good Samaritans
Season 14 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1969
Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a Judge that will hang a man, the man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Meanwhile, Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading West, and now being pursued by the hunters.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Paul Savage
8.1/10173 votes#25 - The Prisoner
Season 14 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1969
Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 14
Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 14 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 14!
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Season 14 Ratings Summary
"Lyle's Kid" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 14. It scored 8.1/10 based on 188 votes. Directed by Bernard McEveety and written by N/A, it aired on 9/23/1968. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Hide Cutters".