- 8.1/10246 votes8.1/10(246)
#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
- 7.9/10227 votes7.9/10(227)
#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
- 7.6/10233 votes7.6/10(233)
#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
- 8.6/10288 votes8.6/10(288)
#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
- 8.0/10212 votes8.0/10(212)
#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
- 7.0/10203 votes7.0/10(203)
#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
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- 7.5/10189 votes7.5/10(189)
#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
- 8.1/10252 votes8.1/10(252)
#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
- 7.9/10218 votes7.9/10(218)
#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
- 8.4/10242 votes8.4/10(242)
#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
- 8.6/10258 votes8.6/10(258)
#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
- 8.0/10203 votes8.0/10(203)
#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
- 7.5/10241 votes7.5/10(241)
#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
- 7.7/10201 votes7.7/10(201)
#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
- 7.8/10209 votes7.8/10(209)
#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
- 7.6/10189 votes7.6/10(189)
#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
- 8.1/10215 votes8.1/10(215)
#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
- 8.2/10223 votes8.2/10(223)
#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
- 8.1/10189 votes8.1/10(189)
#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
- 8.6/10205 votes8.6/10(205)
#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
- 8.2/10232 votes8.2/10(232)
#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
- 7.8/10219 votes7.8/10(219)
#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
- 7.4/10196 votes7.4/10(196)
#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
- 7.7/10200 votes7.7/10(200)
#24 - Cain
Season 2 Episode 24
Aired 3/9/1957
- 7.4/10188 votes7.4/10(188)
#25 - Bureaucrat
Season 2 Episode 25
Aired 3/16/1957
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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Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS
Episodes
39
Avg. Rating
7.8
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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 246 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".