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The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 9

Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 9!

The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 9

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. Background image for Kate Heller
    8.7/10(262 votes)

    #1 - Kate Heller

    S9:E1

    A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.

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  2. Background image for Lover Boy
    8.1/10(279 votes)

    #2 - Lover Boy

    S9:E2

    A charming cowboy apparently is guilty only of breaking hearts until he gets to Dodge, where he finds two women who may make a killer of him.

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  3. Background image for Legends Don't Sleep
    8.2/10(239 votes)

    #3 - Legends Don't Sleep

    S9:E3

    A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.

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  4. Background image for Tobe
    8.0/10(216 votes)

    #4 - Tobe

    S9:E4

    Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.

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    Director:John English
  5. Background image for Easy Come
    7.7/10(223 votes)

    #5 - Easy Come

    S9:E5

    A mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.

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  6. Background image for My Sister's Keeper
    6.8/10(205 votes)

    #6 - My Sister's Keeper

    S9:E6

    A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.

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  8. Background image for Quint's Trail
    7.8/10(224 votes)

    #7 - Quint's Trail

    S9:E7

    Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.

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  9. Background image for Carter Caper
    8.2/10(239 votes)

    #8 - Carter Caper

    S9:E8

    A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.

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    Director:Jerry Hopper
  10. Background image for Ex-Con
    7.7/10(195 votes)

    #9 - Ex-Con

    S9:E9

    On his way to Larned, Matt, feverish, spends the night at an abandoned shack. When he wakes up after losing a day, a recently released convict who swore to kill Matt, is himself found against a wall, dead, unarmed, shot twice, and the murder weapon appears to belong to the marshal.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
  11. Background image for Extradition (1)
    8.1/10(211 votes)

    #10 - Extradition (1)

    S9:E10

    When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.

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    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Extradition (2)
    8.2/10(199 votes)

    #11 - Extradition (2)

    S9:E11

    Matt finally catches up to killer Charlie Hacker in Mexico, and has to make a deal with the greedy Mexican police to get Hacker back to the border, with revengeful Mexican bandits in pursuit.

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    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Magician
    8.6/10(253 votes)

    #12 - The Magician

    S9:E12

    A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Pa Hack's Brood
    7.2/10(234 votes)

    #13 - Pa Hack's Brood

    S9:E13

    A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.

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    Director:Jerry Hopper
  15. Background image for The Glory and the Mud
    8.2/10(230 votes)

    #14 - The Glory and the Mud

    S9:E14

    A retired lawman and showman wants only to settle down with the Dodge seamstress he left behind twenty years ago, but a young whippersnapper hopes to make a name for himself by challenging the aging gun to a duel.

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    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Dry Well
    7.4/10(226 votes)

    #15 - Dry Well

    S9:E15

    It's a test of wills when Quint witnesses a murder and the father of one of the prime suspects lowers Quint into a well to try to force him to promise his silence.

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    Director:Harry Harris
  17. Background image for Prairie Wolfer
    8.7/10(279 votes)

    #16 - Prairie Wolfer

    S9:E16

    Festus returns to Dodge from wolfing and is hired by the Cattleman's Association to hunt down the wolves killing everyone's cattle. What he finds is that what's been doing the preying may wind him up in prison if he doesn't get Matt's help.

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  18. Background image for Friend
    8.2/10(233 votes)

    #17 - Friend

    S9:E17

    A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.

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  19. Background image for Once a Haggen
    8.7/10(250 votes)

    #18 - Once a Haggen

    S9:E18

    A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.

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  20. Background image for No Hands
    8.5/10(266 votes)

    #19 - No Hands

    S9:E19

    The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Will's hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he can't carve wood anymore.

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  21. Background image for May Blossom
    7.9/10(273 votes)

    #20 - May Blossom

    S9:E20

    Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus

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  22. Background image for The Bassops
    7.8/10(203 votes)

    #21 - The Bassops

    S9:E21

    A family in search of a doctor find Matt and his prisoner unconscious and handcuffed to each other on the prairie. The prisoner wakens first and announces that Matt is the condemned man he is transporting for hanging.

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  23. Background image for The Kite
    8.3/10(238 votes)

    #22 - The Kite

    S9:E22

    Festus finds a little girl out on the prairie. He learns she saw her mother get killed by a stranger. When he takes her to Dodge, Matt hears she was hiding when this happened but can identify this man who may already be in town.

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  24. Background image for Comanches Is Soft
    8.0/10(296 votes)

    #23 - Comanches Is Soft

    S9:E23

    After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's equipment. To repair or get anew, they travel to Wichita and meet a saloon girl who tells them she needs to get away from town but her jealous boyfriend is now hot on their trail.

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  25. Background image for Father's Love
    7.8/10(222 votes)

    #24 - Father's Love

    S9:E24

    A saloon girl spurns a man's advances in Wichita and moves to Dodge, where she becomes a respectable married woman, only to be confronted with her past when she discovers that her rancher husband is the nephew of the man she refused.

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    Director:Harry Harris
  26. Background image for Now That April's Here
    8.2/10(202 votes)

    #25 - Now That April's Here

    S9:E25

    Festus, returning to Dodge after doing some trapping, sees his girl, April, and they argue over a gift she received. Running off, she hides but her perch gives her a bird's eye view of a murder, one no one believes she witnessed but the killers.

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Kate Heller" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 9. It scored 8.7/10 based on 262 votes. Directed by Harry Harris and written by Kathleen Hite, it aired on 9/28/1963. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Lover Boy".