The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 6

Troublemakers trick an immigrant blacksmith into leaving his house on his wedding night, then burn it down.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

A young drifter takes a job as cook at Delmonico's but accidentally kills a crazy buffalo hunter who complains about his cooking.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!

Director: Ted Post

Writer: John Meston

The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.

Director: Dennis Weaver

Writer: N/A

Matt arrests Finn Pickett after recognizing his face from a wanted poster. On the way back to Dodge, Pickett's vengeful sons try to free their father as Matt and Chester face a water shortage.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

While transporting a prisoner with Chester on a stagecoach to Wichita, Matt learns that the stagecoach is also carrying a shipment of gold, and he suspects the coach might be targeted by outlaws.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

Red and Joe Lime are no-good murderous brothers, and Matt has to track 'em down out on the prairie. Trouble is, Matt comes down with a fever due to missing out on so much sleep in the last couple of weeks. This situation causes some serious problems for all involved when Matt has to return to Dodge because he is too sick to pursue the Lime brothers.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: John Meston

Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire. Charity insists that she should live with the Dodge City lawman.

Director: Dennis Weaver

Writer: John Meston

A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

Lee Nagel suspects his visiting uncle of murder when his father is killed in their store in an apparent accident.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

Matt is called in to deal with a corrupt sheriff in Tascosa.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: John Meston

The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: N/A

A man and his wife come across a lone trapper and make camp with him. Next day, the husband comes to Dodge to report to Doc that his wife is sick, but Doc finds the woman beaten to death, and the husband accuses the trapper.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: John Meston

While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.

Director: N/A

Writer: John Meston

Rough and rowdy Minnie comes to Dodge City and sets her designs on Doc Adams, much to the delight of Matt, Chester and Kitty. Trouble comes though when Minnie's husband comes to Dodge and finds out that his Minnie is sweet on Doc.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: John Meston

Gus Mather arrives in Dodge in a wagon, carrying the coffin of his best friend, Orson Boggs, to give him a proper wake. There's only one problem: according to Mrs. Boggs, her late husband didn't have any friends.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: John Meston

Dillon goes after cowboy Jake Bayloe after he guns down his partner in the Long Branch , shooting Kitty in the crossfire and critically wounding her.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

After witnessing the callous murder of her kindly father, Harriet Horne disregards Matt's advice and unwisely attempts to extract revenge from the perpetrators by making them jealous rivals for her attention.

Director: Gene Fowler Jr.

Writer: John Meston

To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found murdered, oft-inebriated Jud Sloan's claim that the Marshal was the killer seems uncomfortably credible.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: N/A

Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: John Meston

A pretty girl arrives in town and chases Chester, who's happy for her to do so, but the young woman has a secret that may land her in jail.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

Murders follow when a buffalo hunter and his browbeaten partner come to town.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: John Meston

In a family that believes in taking care of its own--including administering punishment within the family for crime--one of two grown brothers appears to have committed murder, but which one?

Director: Franklin Adreon

Writer: N/A

A man claiming to be a sheriff from Texas comes to Dodge and asks Matt for help tracking down a named fugitive, but the man may not be a lawman.

Director: N/A

Writer: John Meston

When an ex-marshal passing through town is shot in the back, Matt suspects a new saloon gal might have had something to do with it.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: John Meston