The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 2

Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

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

A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year old brother arrives to fight Matt.

Director: Christian Nyby

Writer: Winston Miller

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

Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

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

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

Dodge City meets a Photographer who shows the residents how a camera works. Jacoby wants to take pictures of how the Wild West looks. When Matt learns someone died, he thinks the photographer may have hired someone to kill Grubby for a picture of the west.

Director: William D. Russell

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

Kitty's father, Wayne Russell, arrives in Dodge to meet his daughter after abandoning her and her mother as a baby. He insists that saloon life is not fit for a proper lady and wants to take her back to New Orleans so he can pamper her and invest her savings in his freight business.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

A braggart tries to provoke a gunfight with a harmless drunk.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A