The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 3

Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.

Director: John Rich

Writer: John Meston

Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The man's brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.

Director: Richard Whorf

Writer: N/A

Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

When Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.

Director: Richard Whorf

Writer: N/A

Matt learns there is a hired killer in Dodge City, the hired killer gives Matt a challenge to find out who paid Nate Springer to kill Matt.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: John Meston

Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.

Director: John Rich, Sam Peckinpah

Writer: N/A

Chester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. After Chester is shot, he tells Matt Asa Ledbetter shot him. Matt worries that Chester may be working too hard on finding Asa Ledbetter. Asa Ledbetter claims Chester killed his brother.

Director: Louis King

Writer: N/A

Matt & Chester are taken prisoner by two buffalo hunters who are hunting buffalo in Indian territory. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

Jake Kaiser and some other ranchers hung Frank Tillman thinking he was a horse thief but they were wrong. Tillman's wife and son won't tell the Marshall who did it.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.

Director: John Rich

Writer: John Meston

Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

After Harry Spencer's life is saved Matt receives a wanted poster for Joe Sharpe who robbed a bank. Matt learns that Joe and Shape left Dodge so Sharpe could try and get the reward money.

Director: Louis King

Writer: N/A

Budge wants the Marshall to arrest his Pa for murder but when they get to Budge's house they get captured by Bud & his Ma so they can rob the bank.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

Mavis McCloud comes to Dodge to get married. She marries Barny but Lou Staley comes looking for Mavis and wants to kill Barney and the Marshall.

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: N/A

The whole town is caught up in a mystery: where does Joe Nadler get all his money---and where does he go to spend it?

Director: Richard Whorf

Writer: Kathleen Hite, John Meston

Matt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall".

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: N/A

The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.

Director: John Rich

Writer: John Meston

Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. When the con begins to unfold, Doc gets kidnapped.

Director: John Rich

Writer: N/A

Doc, Chester, and Matt suspect Kitty of helping a bank robber when she invites Matt to an out of the way spot for dinner. What they didn't know was that the bank robber was the first 'man' Kitty had ever known.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men. Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men. After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: John Meston

Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prarie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.

Director: Richard Whorf

Writer: N/A

Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.

Director: John Rich

Writer: John Meston

Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.

Director: John Rich

Writer: Kathleen Hite

A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.

Director: John Rich

Writer: Kathleen Hite