8.0/10180 votes#1 - The Devil's Outpost
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1969
Outlaw Yancy Tyce and his outlaw gang try to free Tyce's younger brother now under arrest and being taken to Dodge by Matt.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
8.1/10185 votes#2 - Stryker
Season 15 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1969
Former Dodge Marshal Josh Stryker arrives in town just being released from prison for killing a outlaw in cold blood. He holds Matt responsible for the loss of his arm and the years he spent in prison.
Director: Robert Totten
Writer: Herman Groves
7.5/10176 votes#3 - Coreyville
Season 15 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1969
Matt is summoned to Coreyville, a run-down cowtown, by a young woman whose brother is on trial for murder.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Herman Groves
7.6/10163 votes#4 - Danny
Season 15 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1969
An old friend of Kitty's learns he is dying comes to Dodge to try to ""go out in style"".
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.2/10226 votes#5 - Hawk
Season 15 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1969
A white woman refuses to accept her half-breed son, who Festus brings to her home wounded and needing help.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10171 votes#6 - A Man Called Smith
Season 15 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1969
Abelia, the young widow who once saved Festus' life, returns. She learns that she isn't a widow when her outlaw husband appears and forces her to exchange his stolen gold for cash.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.5/10212 votes#7 - Charlie Noon
Season 15 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1969
Matt, his hardened prisoner Charlie Noon, an Indian woman and her white stepson are tracked by the Comanches as they try to cross the desert. The Indians are going to kill all of them unless Matt hands over the woman, because she left the Comanche leader years before.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.4/10151 votes#8 - The Still
Season 15 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1969
Festus gets mixed up with Merry Florene and her hillbilly clan again as they try to hide a moonshining still and a stolen prize bull in the cellar of the local school.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/10201 votes#9 - A Matter of Honor
Season 15 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1969
Louie Pheeters is found at the scene of a murder, the dying man's last words implicate the town alcoholic, who is too drunk to remember what he had just seen.
Director: Robert Totten
Writer: N/A
7.6/10155 votes#10 - The Innocent
Season 15 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1969
Festus acts as guide and driver for a Eastern missionary teacher on route to her first assignment. The only problem is trying to stay ahead of a murderous hillbilly family following them and planning a ambush.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: N/A
7.7/10159 votes#11 - Ring of Darkness
Season 15 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1969
In an attempt to help his blind daughter, farmer Ben Hurley steals horses for an outlaw gang. Deputy Newly O'Brien arrives at his farm investigating, followed by the outlaws.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.4/10181 votes#12 - MacGraw
Season 15 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1969
Ex-guman Jake MacGraw arrives in Dodge after spending 20 years in prison. The townspeople think he has come for revenge.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
7.5/10170 votes#13 - Roots of Fear
Season 15 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1969
Amos Sadler, a dirt farmer faces the loss of his home when a panic closes down the Dodge City bank. To save it he and his wife plan to break into it and steal some money.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
7.5/10157 votes#14 - The Sisters
Season 15 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1969
A scoundrel tries to con three nuns.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10159 votes#15 - The War Priest
Season 15 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1970
Sergeant Holly, a alcoholic loving veteran is getting ready to retire. Just hours before it, a Apache prisoner in his custody escapes with Kitty as a hostage, forcing the Sergeant to go AWOL to get the prisoner back.
Director: Bernard McEveety, Vincent McEveety
Writer: William Kelley
6.9/10163 votes#16 - The Pack Rat
Season 15 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1970
An orphan steals from Matt but could risk his own life when he tries to help out in an ambush.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
7.4/10155 votes#17 - The Judas Gun
Season 15 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1970
The feund between Noah Haimes and Clete Bloden gets very bad as romance begins between Haime's son & Bloden's daughter.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
6.7/10158 votes#18 - Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.
Season 15 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1970
Doc Adams's old friend is thought to be a thief.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Calvin Clements Sr.
8.3/10201 votes#19 - The Badge
Season 15 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1970
Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.5/10157 votes#20 - Albert
Season 15 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1970
After a Bank teller tries to foil a bank robber the bank teller takes some money which could cause trouble.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.2/10177 votes#21 - Kiowa
Season 15 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1970
Matt must rescue a teenage girl from indians and bring her back to her family.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.5/10146 votes#22 - Celia
Season 15 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1970
A friend of Newly's is about the victim of a con game.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
8.2/10188 votes#23 - Morgan
Season 15 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1970
With Matt out helping the Army deliver a gold shipment, Dodge is wide open for Morgan and his men to come in with a Gatlin gun and take over. Breaking into the Long Branch, Morgan is helping himself to whiskey when Kitty shoots him hitting him in the shoulder and the face. With Matt and the gold on the way and Morgan sitting with a big gun and a fever and a crazy streak from the permanent scar he's gonna have, Dodge can only wait to see what comes next.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.9/10146 votes#24 - The Thieves
Season 15 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1970
Sam takes a special interest in Eric Tabray, who is running around in a gang committing crimes in Dodge.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
7.0/10164 votes#25 - Hackett
Season 15 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1970
An ex-convict wants revenge against the partner that ran out on him.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: William Kelley
The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 15
Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 15 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 15!
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Network:CBS
Season 15 Ratings Summary
"The Devil's Outpost" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 15. It scored 8/10 based on 180 votes. Directed by Philip Leacock and written by N/A, it aired on 9/22/1969. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Stryker".