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The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 7

Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 7!

The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 7

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...
  1. 9.2/10(406 votes)

    #1 - The Gallows

    S7:E22

    While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.

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  2. 8.8/10(369 votes)

    #2 - Long, Long Trail

    S7:E6

    A headstrong young woman will undertake the long, dangerous journey to her fiancé's fort on her own if she must, so Matt nominates himself to escort her.

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  3. 8.6/10(250 votes)

    #3 - Apprentice Doc

    S7:E11

    A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.

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  4. 8.6/10(240 votes)

    #4 - Durham Bull

    S7:E26

    Little Bit and his grandpa, from Texas, are passing through Dodge after buying a breeding bull. When they meet Silva, someone grandpa considers a "fooler", they have their hands full making it back with their stock and their lives.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.4/10(278 votes)

    #5 - Chesterland

    S7:E8

    Chester becomes engaged more or less accidentally, but he takes to heart his obligation to his betrothed, leaving his job with Mr. Dillon to devote himself to homesteading a barren quarter section.

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    Director:Ted Post
  6. 8.4/10(284 votes)

    #6 - Nina's Revenge

    S7:E12

    A homesteader hires a man to make the appearance of a scandal with his wife so that he can blackmail his wife's wealthy father.

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    Director:Tay Garnett
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  8. 8.3/10(260 votes)

    #7 - He Learned About Women

    S7:E21

    Taken prisoner by a band of comancheros, Chester is helped to escape by one of the band's women and flees with another who may or may not be worthy of his trust.

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    Director:Tay Garnett
  9. 8.3/10(257 votes)

    #8 - Coventry

    S7:E24

    A speculator in land is already unpopular in Dodge, but when he is acquitted of the murder of a man he killed, he finds himself "sent to Coventry": no one in town, not even Kitty, will buy, sell, or even speak to him.

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  10. 8.2/10(295 votes)

    #9 - Perce

    S7:E1

    Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.

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    Director:Harry Harris
  11. 8.2/10(270 votes)

    #10 - Old Yellow Boots

    S7:E2

    Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.

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    Director:Ted Post
  12. 8.2/10(267 votes)

    #11 - All That

    S7:E5

    A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, can't do enough for him.

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    Director:Harry Harris
  13. 8.2/10(267 votes)

    #12 - Wagon Girls

    S7:E27

    A group of women are going by wagon train to Colorado, lured by the promise of marrying rich miners, but Matt learns that the leader's actual plan for the women is quite different.

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  14. 8.1/10(275 votes)

    #13 - Miss Kitty

    S7:E3

    Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?

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  15. 8.1/10(254 votes)

    #14 - A Man a Day

    S7:E14

    Outlaws want Matt to leave Dodge so they can steal from the bank or they will kill a man per day.

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    Director:Harry Harris
  16. 8.1/10(221 votes)

    #15 - Old Dan

    S7:E18

    Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.

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  17. 8.0/10(256 votes)

    #16 - Cale

    S7:E31

    Cale is a bullheaded young drifter who takes a nap in a barn he comes across only to wake up to a shootout between a horse thief and the owner. Cale is shot, wounded, and becomes a suspected accomplice.

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  18. 7.8/10(249 votes)

    #17 - The Squaw

    S7:E7

    His mother has been dead almost a year, and Cully is troubled by his pa's carousing. When they discuss his getting married again, it seems like a good idea until he returns from a business trip with a new wife, an Arapaho squaw, who he has conflicted emotions about.

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.8/10(241 votes)

    #18 - The Dealer

    S7:E28

    Johnny Cole kills a crooked card dealer in self defense, and then falls in love with the dealer's beautiful daughter, but she resists his advances and wants to seriously hurt him instead.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  20. 7.7/10(262 votes)

    #19 - Marry Me

    S7:E13

    Orkey Cathcart is looking for a wife and sets his sites on Miss Kitty.

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  21. 7.7/10(213 votes)

    #20 - Cody's Code

    S7:E17

    Cody is a well-liked citizen of Dodge. He's building a house and getting married. When he befriends a stranger, his perfect life is turned upside down.

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  22. 7.7/10(230 votes)

    #21 - The Widow

    S7:E25

    A young woman comes to Dodge insisting on an escort to Indian country so that the body of her husband, believed to have been killed fighting the Kiowa, may be recovered.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.6/10(258 votes)

    #22 - Milly

    S7:E9

    The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.

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    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:N/A
  24. 7.6/10(227 votes)

    #23 - Indian Ford

    S7:E10

    Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.

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    Writer:N/A
  25. 7.6/10(211 votes)

    #24 - Half Straight

    S7:E20

    A man has been hired to kill Matt, but when he meets and quickly falls in love with a decent girl, he has a change of heart--or does he?

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    Director:Ted Post
  26. 7.6/10(221 votes)

    #25 - Reprisal

    S7:E23

    Oren was a rancher who liked his drink, gambling and women, even though he had a pretty wife at home. Matt is forced to kill him and when he breaks the news to her, all she can see is getting revenge for his death, and Matt is her target.

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    Director:Harry Harris

Season 7 Ratings Summary

"The Gallows" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 7. It scored 9.2/10 based on 406 votes. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and written by John Meston, it aired on 3/3/1962. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Long, Long Trail".