The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 7

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(325 votes)

   #1 - Perce

   S7:E19/30/1961

   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

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   Director:Harry Harris

   Writer:John Meston
2. 

   8.2/10(303 votes)

   #2 - Old Yellow Boots

   S7:E210/7/1961

   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

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   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:John Meston
3. 

   8.1/10(303 votes)

   #3 - Miss Kitty

   S7:E310/14/1961

   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

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   Director:Harry Harris

   Writer:Kathleen Hite
4. 

   7.5/10(259 votes)

   #4 - Harper's Blood

   S7:E410/21/1961

   A hard man has given his two sons a hard raising, sure that they inherited their mother's bad blood from their murderous ancestor. The old man may be right: one of his sons may be a murderer. Or is it the other son?

   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

   Writer:John Meston

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   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

   Writer:John Meston
5. 

   8.2/10(295 votes)

   #5 - All That

   S7:E510/28/1961

   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

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   Director:Harry Harris

   Writer:John Meston
6. 

   8.7/10(409 votes)

   #6 - Long, Long Trail

   S7:E611/4/1961

   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

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   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

   Writer:Kathleen Hite
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7. 

   7.9/10(281 votes)

   #7 - The Squaw

   S7:E711/11/1961

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Gerald Mayer

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8. 

   8.4/10(316 votes)

   #8 - Chesterland

   S7:E811/18/1961

   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

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   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Kathleen Hite
9. 

   7.5/10(290 votes)

   #9 - Milly

   S7:E911/25/1961

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

   Director:Richard Whorf

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Richard Whorf

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10. 

    7.6/10(255 votes)

    #10 - Indian Ford

    S7:E1012/2/1961

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

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11. 

    8.6/10(283 votes)

    #11 - Apprentice Doc

    S7:E1112/9/1961

    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

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    Director:Harry Harris

    Writer:Kathleen Hite
12. 

    8.5/10(324 votes)

    #12 - Nina's Revenge

    S7:E1212/16/1961

    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

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    Director:Tay Garnett

    Writer:John Meston
13. 

    7.7/10(287 votes)

    #13 - Marry Me

    S7:E1312/23/1961

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

    Director:Dennis Weaver

    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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    Director:Dennis Weaver

    Writer:Kathleen Hite
14. 

    8.2/10(278 votes)

    #14 - A Man a Day

    S7:E1412/30/1961

    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

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    Director:Harry Harris

    Writer:John Meston
15. 

    7.3/10(235 votes)

    #15 - The Do-Badder

    S7:E151/6/1962

    Prospector Harvey Easter settles in Dodge City after striking it rich in the Colorado Rockies. His heavy handed attempts at philanthropy soon have unintended results.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer:John Meston

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    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer:John Meston
16. 

    7.4/10(245 votes)

    #16 - Lacey

    S7:E161/13/1962

    A hired man is sweet on his boss's daughter and disliked by his boss. When the boss is killed, his own daughter claims to have done it, but Matt is suspicious.

    Director:Harry Harris

    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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    Director:Harry Harris

    Writer:Kathleen Hite
17. 

    7.7/10(234 votes)

    #17 - Cody's Code

    S7:E171/20/1962

    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

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    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer:John Meston
18. 

    8.0/10(248 votes)

    #18 - Old Dan

    S7:E181/27/1962

    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

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    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer:Kathleen Hite
19. 

    6.4/10(267 votes)

    #19 - Catawomper

    S7:E192/10/1962

    Chester is getting home-cooked meals from, and giving guitar lessons to, a spirited young woman who hopes thereby to make her estranged sweetheart jealous.

    Director:Harry Harris

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Harry Harris

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20. 

    7.6/10(232 votes)

    #20 - Half Straight

    S7:E202/17/1962

    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

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    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:John Meston
21. 

    8.3/10(290 votes)

    #21 - He Learned About Women

    S7:E212/24/1962

    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

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    Writer:John Meston
22. 

    9.2/10(452 votes)

    #22 - The Gallows

    S7:E223/3/1962

    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

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    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer:John Meston
23. 

    7.6/10(244 votes)

    #23 - Reprisal

    S7:E233/10/1962

    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

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    Director:Harry Harris

    Writer:John Meston
24. 

    8.3/10(285 votes)

    #24 - Coventry

    S7:E243/17/1962

    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

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    Director:Christian Nyby

    Writer:John Meston
25. 

    7.7/10(251 votes)

    #25 - The Widow

    S7:E253/24/1962

    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:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown