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The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 8

Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 8!

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  1. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Blind Man's Bluff

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    S8:E24

    Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance from other men who hate lawmen.

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    Director:Ted Post
  2. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

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    S8:E26

    Two men want to rob the bank in Dodge, but are unwilling to try it while Matt lives. A man agrees to accept the job of killing the marshal, attaching some rather peculiar conditions to his acceptance.

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  3. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Tell Chester

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    S8:E32

    Chester is smitten with Polly, but she has eyes only for Wade, a man new in town and newly her father's employee. Knowing little about Wade, Polly agrees quickly to marry him, but Chester discovers that Wade already has a wife.

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    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Cotter's Girl

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    S8:E19

    A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.

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  5. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Daddy Went Away

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    S8:E35

    Chester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on marriage but eager to make changes in Chester as well, he has second thoughts--especially after a talk with her child suggests that the widow may still be a wife.

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  6. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Collie's Free

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    S8:E6

    Released after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adjusting to the fact that things have inevitably changed with respect to his relationships with his wife, his son, and the citizens of Dodge.

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  8. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - With a Smile

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    S8:E29

    A rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his father's wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.

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  9. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Root Down

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    S8:E4

    Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.

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    Director:N/A
  10. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Hunger

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    S8:E10

    Matt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially are kept as prisoners by the farmer and his son.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  11. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Two of a Kind

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    S8:E27

    O'Ryan and Finnegan, feuding over a girl they both knew back home, are caught in a legal loophole to take ownership of a mine and land they both own. When Matt is forced in the middle of it, he has to work fast so no one else is hurt.

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    Writer:N/A
  12. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Search

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    S8:E1

    A young man named Cale may have earned Marshal Dillon's respect, but Tate Gifford says Cale has just ridden off on a stolen horse - Tate's horse.

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  13. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Quint Asper Comes Home

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    S8:E3

    A half-Comanche has joined his mother's tribe in killing whites to avenge the murder of his father, but Matt sees the good in the man and the chance to re-integrate him, perhaps, into white society.

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  14. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Jenny

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    S8:E5

    A bank robber hides out in Dodge, bringing along his girl. While he's gambling away his loot, his girl casts her eye on Matt.

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  15. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Ditch

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    S8:E7

    A young woman who's heir to her father's land decides to carry out his plan to build a ditch that will impair her neighbors' access to water and perhaps trigger a range war.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  16. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Trappers

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    S8:E8

    A trapper leaves his friend dying alone in order to save his own life, only later to stumble across that friend in Dodge, very much alive and wanting him dead.

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    Writer:N/A
  17. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Phoebe Strunk

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    S8:E9

    A band of ne'er-do-wells, led by their mother, see in town a young woman that pleases them and decide to take her by force.

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  18. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Call Me Dodie

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    S8:E2

    An adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, and she starts learning it from the rough-and-tumble characters and loafers she encounters in Dodge.

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  19. 3.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Bad One

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    S8:E20

    When a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a would-be robber, she refuses to identify him.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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    #19 - Abe Blocker

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    S8:E11

    Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt's, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encroaching on the land he regards as his.

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    #20 - The Way It Is

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    S8:E12

    While Matt is out of town, putting lawman's business ahead of Kitty yet again, a new man in her life has plenty of time and attention to give--perhaps too much attention.

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    #21 - Us Haggens

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    S8:E13

    When a boy witnesses his grandfather's murder, it sends Matt looking for a new found companion's uncle. Festus Haggen is tracking his uncle for killing his twin brother Fergus. Matt is wary but learns to trust Festus when he's shot and in bad shape.

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    #22 - Uncle Sunday

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    S8:E14

    Chester gets a letter from his uncle Sunday, a 'crook', on his upcoming trip to Dodge city. When he arrives with a niece, he finds he has to watch them both or what they have planned just might work, at his expense.

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    #23 - False Front

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    S8:E15

    A slick city reporter sets out to prove that even a milquetoast can pass for a feared gunfighter, if a few well-placed tidbits of rumor precede him.

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    #24 - Old Comrade

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    S8:E16

    The "town fool" has a chance to change his life when he learns that a famous general, now on his deathbed, believes him to be his long-lost son.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
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    #25 - Louie Pheeters

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    S8:E17

    The town drunk who saw a man drowned, believes it was dream, until he meets up with the guy who did the drowning.

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    Director:Harry Harris

Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Blind Man's Bluff" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 8. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Ted Post and written by John Meston, it aired on 2/23/1963. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Anybody Can Kill a Marshal".