The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 7

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.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: Kathleen Hite

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

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: Kathleen Hite

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.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: Kathleen Hite

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.

Director: Tay Garnett

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Christian Nyby

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Tay Garnett

Writer: John Meston

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?

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: Kathleen Hite

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

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

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

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: Kathleen Hite

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.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: Kathleen Hite

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.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Dennis Weaver

Writer: Kathleen Hite

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.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

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?

Director: Ted Post

Writer: John Meston

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.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: John Meston

The market for snake oil is on the decline, so a peddler and his sons expand their con game with murder.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: John Meston