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The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 3

Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 3!

The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 3

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and...
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    #1 - Crack-Up

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Ted Post
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    #2 - Gun for Chester

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:Louis King
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Blood Money

    S3:E3

    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.

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    Director:Louis King
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Kitty's Outlaw

    S3:E4

    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.

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    #5 - Potato Road

    S3:E5

    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.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Jesse

    S3:E6

    Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.

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    #7 - Mavis McCloud

    S3:E7

    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.

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Born to Hang

    S3:E8

    Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Romeo

    S3:E9

    A powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - Never Pester Chester

    S3:E10

    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.

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    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - Fingered

    S3:E11

    The people of Dodge gets suspicious of Jim Cobbett (John Larch) when his second wife (Virginia Christine) vanishes just like his first (Karl Swenson appears).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - How to Kill a Woman

    S3:E12

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

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    #13 - Cows and Cribs

    S3:E13

    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?

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    #14 - Doc's Reward

    S3:E14

    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.

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    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - Kitty Lost

    S3:E15

    An eastern dude asks Kitty if she'd like to take a midnight drive, but when she doesn't return the next day, Matt goes looking.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - Twelfth Night

    S3:E16

    A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.

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    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - Joe Phy

    S3:E17

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

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - Buffalo Man

    S3:E18

    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.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - Kitty Caught

    S3:E19

    The Gunner brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty hostage.

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    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - Claustrophobia

    S3:E20

    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.

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    Director:Ted Post
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    #21 - Ma Tennis

    S3:E21

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

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - Sunday Supplement

    S3:E22

    Clifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.

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    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Wild West

    S3:E23

    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.

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    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown
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    #24 - The Cabin

    S3:E24

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

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    Director:John Rich
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    #25 - Dirt

    S3:E25

    Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married. When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman (Beulah)late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother (Henry Troyman) thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can. When Nat is shot on his wedding day, everyone thinks Polly's Brother committed the shooting. After Matt and Chester do an investigation, Matt comes to another conclusion about the shooting of Nat Seiber.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Crack-Up" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 3. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Ted Post and written by John Meston, it aired on 9/14/1957. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Gun for Chester".