8.1/10241 votes#1 - Cow Doctor
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1956
After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows,a human patient of Doc's dies. Durning a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
7.9/10222 votes#2 - Brush at Elkader
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1956
After his friend Ben Williams is shot down by Lou Shippen, Matt travels to Elkader to bring him him. The only problem, he doesn't know what he looks like and the town is protecting Shippen.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
7.6/10229 votes#3 - Custer
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1956
Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
8.6/10280 votes#4 - The Round Up
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1956
Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
8.0/10206 votes#5 - Young Man with a Gun
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1956
After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year old brother arrives to fight Matt.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Winston Miller
7.0/10198 votes#6 - Indian White
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1956
At Fort Dodge, home of the third cavalry, Mrs. Mary Cullen tells the colonel that the twelve year old white boy they recovered from the Cheyenne is her son Dennis. The tribe had taken him when he was two years old.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
7.5/10184 votes#7 - How to Cure a Friend
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1956
Matt is used by an old friend (Andrew Duggan) in a con game (Simon Oakland appears).
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
8.1/10246 votes#8 - Legal Revenge
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1956
Doc comes upon a homesteader (Philip Bourneuf) with a busted leg and a gun to protect himself from his wife (Cloris Leachman).
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
7.9/10214 votes#9 - The Mistake
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1956
Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender', but referred to by Chester as 'Sam Noonan').
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
8.4/10236 votes#10 - Greater Love
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1956
An outlaw (Claude Akins) threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy (Frank de Kova and Amzie Strickland appear).
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
8.6/10252 votes#11 - No Indians
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1956
Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws (including Mickey Simpson) that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians (Fintan Meyler and Herbert Rudley appear).
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
8.0/10199 votes#12 - Spring Term
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1956
Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating (Stanley Adams, Jack Kruschen, Paul Newlan, Harry Townes, and H. M. Wynant appear).
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
7.5/10237 votes#13 - Poor Pearl
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1956
Matt helps a woman (Constance Ford) whose suitors (including Denver Pyle) are about to duel for her affections.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
7.7/10196 votes#14 - Cholera
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1956
A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear).
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
7.8/10203 votes#15 - Pucket's New Year
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1957
An old buffalo hunter (Edgar Stehli) swears revenge on the skinner (Grant Withers) that left him to die (Richard Deacon appears as banker Botkin, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender').
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
7.6/10184 votes#16 - The Cover Up
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1957
Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear).
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.1/10210 votes#17 - Sins of the Father
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1957
An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
8.1/10219 votes#18 - Kick Me
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1957
A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears).
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
8.1/10185 votes#19 - Executioner
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1957
A young gunfighter, Tom Clegg, forces farmer Abe Curry into a duel and kills him. Matt can't arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abe's brother Morgan plots revenge. Morgan, who is unarmed, follows Clegg constantly. Clegg soon grows tired of it and attempts to take care of his ""problem.""
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
8.6/10199 votes#20 - Gone Straight
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1957
Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear).
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
8.2/10225 votes#21 - Bloody Hands
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1957
The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed (Lawrence Dobkin, Russell Johnson, and Gloria Marshall appear).
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
7.8/10213 votes#22 - Skid Row
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1957
An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
7.3/10191 votes#23 - Sweet and Sour
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1957
Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kitty's negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, 4 men are dead and Rena is the cause.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
7.7/10195 votes#24 - Cain
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1957
Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
7.4/10184 votes#25 - Bureaucrat
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1957
A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 2
Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 2!
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Cow Doctor" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 241 votes. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and written by N/A, it aired on 9/8/1956. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Brush at Elkader".