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The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 3

Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover 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. 8.8/10(309 votes)

    #1 - The Cabin

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    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
  2. 8.5/10(241 votes)

    #2 - Doc's Reward

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    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:N/A
  3. 8.5/10(216 votes)

    #3 - Overland Express

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    S3:E38

    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.

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    Director:N/A
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  4. 8.4/10(271 votes)

    #4 - Never Pester Chester

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    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:N/A
  5. 8.2/10(240 votes)

    #5 - Crack-Up

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    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
  6. 8.2/10(217 votes)

    #6 - How to Kill a Woman

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    S3:E12

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

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    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.0/10(228 votes)

    #7 - Gun for Chester

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    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:N/A
  9. 8.0/10(229 votes)

    #8 - Joe Phy

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    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
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  10. 8.0/10(234 votes)

    #9 - Buffalo Man

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    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
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  11. 8.0/10(204 votes)

    #10 - Joke's on Us

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    S3:E27

    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.

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    Director:Ted Post
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  12. 8.0/10(216 votes)

    #11 - Bottleman

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    S3:E28

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

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    Director:John Rich
  13. 8.0/10(190 votes)

    #12 - Chester's Hanging

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    S3:E36

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

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    Director:Ted Post
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  14. 7.9/10(211 votes)

    #13 - Blood Money

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    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:N/A
  15. 7.9/10(237 votes)

    #14 - Potato Road

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    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:N/A
  16. 7.9/10(218 votes)

    #15 - Mavis McCloud

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    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:N/A
  17. 7.9/10(203 votes)

    #16 - Cows and Cribs

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    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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  18. 7.8/10(227 votes)

    #17 - Ma Tennis

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    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:N/A
  19. 7.8/10(204 votes)

    #18 - Texas Cowboys

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    S3:E30

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

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    Director:John Rich
  20. 7.8/10(204 votes)

    #19 - The Big Con

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    S3:E34

    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.

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    Director:John Rich
    Writer:N/A
  21. 7.7/10(200 votes)

    #20 - Kitty's Outlaw

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    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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  22. 7.7/10(194 votes)

    #21 - Claustrophobia

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    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
  23. 7.7/10(209 votes)

    #22 - Wild West

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    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:N/A
  24. 7.7/10(209 votes)

    #23 - Dooley Surrenders

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    S3:E26

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

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    Director:John Rich
  25. 7.7/10(196 votes)

    #24 - Amy's Good Deed

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    S3:E31

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

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    Director:John Rich
  26. 7.7/10(204 votes)

    #25 - Innocent Broad

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    S3:E33

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

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    Director:John Rich

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Cabin" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 3. It scored 8.8/10 based on 309 votes. Directed by John Rich and written by John Meston, it aired on 2/22/1958. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Doc's Reward".