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Gunsmoke Season 11 Episodes

32 Episodes 1965 - 1966

Episode 1

Seven Hours to Dawn

Sat, Sep 18, 196560 mins

Mace Gore (actor John Drew Barrymore) and his gang have taken over Dodge City, looting shops and citizens. Matt Dillon is shot and left for dead. Gore plans to leave town at dawn, but Festus and Doc concoct a plan to lure Gore into a trap.

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Episode 2

The Storm

Sat, Sep 25, 196560 mins

A man is convicted of robbing and murdering his partner, but the sons of Matt's old friend are responsible. Matt must arrest the remaining son after the other's dying declaration and make it to Hays City in time to stop the hanging.

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Episode 3

Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood

Sat, Oct 2, 196560 mins

Thad, son of and deputy to an Oklahoma sheriff, arrives in Dodge pursuing vandals on his father's warrant, not realizing the Oklahoma warrant isn't executable in Dodge.

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Episode 4

Ten Little Indians

Sat, Oct 9, 196560 mins

Marshal Dillon meets an Hispanic badman who forces Dillon into a gunfight. Almost immediately, Matt encounters an old friend, retired lawman Jack Pinto, who accompanies the Marshal to Dodge. Upon his return to town, Matt is told by Festus that four hired guns are waiting to kill the marshal. One by one, the gunmen die while trying to collect a $25,000 bounty on Dillon--yet incidents prove that the bounty is still in force. Who has offered the bounty, and who still plans to collect?

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Episode 5

Taps for Old Jeb

Sat, Oct 16, 196560 mins

After a successful search for gold, two prospectors hire a man, who shows up at their campfire, as a bodyguard.

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Episode 6

Kioga

Sat, Oct 23, 196560 mins

A young Pawnee arrives in Dodge to seek his own revenge on a murderer, not trusting in the white man's justice.

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Episode 7

The Bounty Hunter

Sat, Oct 30, 196560 mins

Lured out of retirement with the promise of land, a bounty hunter is aimed by his boss at the man who killed his son. He just doesn't tell him the reward and charges had been dropped.

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Episode 8

The Reward

Sat, Nov 6, 196560 mins

A man who persuaded the good folks of Dodge to invest their money in a mine is out of prison and back to prove that there really is gold in the mine.

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Episode 9

Malachi

Sat, Nov 13, 196560 mins

While Matt's out of town, his friends play along with a drifter's innocent impersonation of the marshal, but a man comes to town determined to get revenge on the marshal, and he's not playing.

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Episode 10

The Pretender

Sat, Nov 20, 196560 mins

An elder brother took the blame for the younger as both were sent away for cattle rustling. When they return home, the younger is not done with doing wrong, nor with asking his brother to cover his tracks.

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Episode 11

South Wind

Sat, Nov 27, 196560 mins

A twelve-year-old boy recovers in Doc's office and then goes with a gun after the man who robbed and killed his father.

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Episode 12

The Hostage

Sat, Dec 4, 196551 mins

Twenty-two men escape from a territorial prison. The remaining 4 kidnap Matt hoping to get safe passage into Mexico. One of them has another agenda which he reveals to Matt as they get closer to the border.

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Episode 13

Outlaw's Woman

Sat, Dec 11, 196560 mins

After a risky train robbery and with two posses on their trail, four men hurriedly ride to some fresh horses. Dillon wounds one of the gang carrying the stolen money and it turns out to be a young woman.

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Episode 14

The Avengers

Sat, Dec 18, 196560 mins

While Matt's out of town, Kitty is attacked by Richard Strom and Strom is then shot and killed by Festus when he comes to Kitty's aid. Strom's father, a judge, rides into town hoping to have Festus arrested for the murder of his son. When he isn't he decides to have a trial of his own.

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Episode 15

Gold Mine

Sat, Dec 25, 196560 mins

Kitty travels to Pick Axe to make claim to a gold mine left to her by a friend. When she arrives she is met with surly town folk and claim jumpers. With help of Thad and a local boy who is mute, she hopes to save what she sees as her retirement future.

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Episode 16

Death Watch

Sat, Jan 8, 196660 mins

Two bounty hunters bring seriously injured murderer Johnny Drago into Dodge for treatment prior to traveling to Mexico to collect a $30,000 reward, but Matt refuses to let them move Drago until he recovers. They decide to try to kill Drago and remove him by force after an unscrupulous newspaperman convinces them that they will not collect the reward if Drago dies from his injuries rather than from his captors' gunshots.

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Episode 17

Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs

Sat, Jan 15, 196660 mins

Festus's nephew arrives, seeking a bride who can read and write. He soon finds one, but runs into difficulties earning the money he needs for her dowry.

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Episode 18

The Raid: Part 1

Sat, Jan 22, 196660 mins

This two-part show has a host of guest actors to play members of a gang that is robbing banks across the west in extremely well planned raids. The Jim Stark gang heads for Dodge City to plan their next robbery. Stark has been warned that Dodge's Marshall Dillon will be a formidable opponent, so he plans to get rid of Dillon before the robbery. After his first attempt fails, Stark comes up with another plan to get Dillon out of the way, and this time it works. The Stark gang robs the bank, but it does not go exactly as planned, and in the second part of this show, Stark will be looking over his shoulder for Dillon.

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Episode 19

The Raid: Part 2

Sat, Jan 29, 196660 mins

After making another successful bank robbery, the Stark gang finds part of their plan was not accomplished as expected, and Marshall Dillon returns to Dodge before the gang can get away. An undercover member of the gang surreptitiously sets the town afire which affords the gang time to escape, and he also kidnaps Doc to attend to one of the wounded gang members. After the town deals with the fire, Dillon forms a posse to go after the gang which has been able to keep a step ahead of Dillon thus far. As the chase progresses, we see what was an originally well knit gang begin to dissolve. The various shortcomings of the individual gang members begin to eat away at the mortar that holds the gang together, and slowly the gang begins to come apart allowing their advantage to also crumble away.

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Episode 20

Killer at Large

Sat, Feb 5, 196660 mins

In Matt's absence, Festus is accused of drawing first on a drunken man. Though innocent, Festus leaves town to avoid Matt having to arrest him, and takes refuge across the border with a widow and her son.

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Episode 21

My Father's Guitar

Sat, Feb 12, 196660 mins

A stranger riding through stops for water at a ranch. When he feels forced to kill the rancher for taking a joke too far, he tries to bury him but stops when some riders come up. After he reaches Dodge, everyone finds out how precious his guitar is to him but maybe too late.

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Episode 22

Wishbone

Sat, Feb 19, 196660 mins

Festus has a habit of using the wishbone from a dead chicken for making wishes on. When he comes across Doc Adams, alone and snakebit, he uses that wish to help him, if it can. Meanwhile, Matt searches for three outlaws who held up a stage, killing the driver and guard.

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Episode 23

Sanctuary

Sat, Feb 26, 196660 mins

An outlaw gang shoots it out fleeing Dodge City. When one of them is injured real bad, he hides out in the church where the reverend is fearful but not for himself.

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Episode 24

Honor Before Justice

Sat, Mar 5, 196660 mins

The Osage Council has found Two Bears guilty of murder. His daughter rides into Dodge seeking Matt's help but he's out of town chasing horse thieves so Thad tries to help. He finds out that he and Matt are really riding the same trail.

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Episode 25

The Brothers

Sat, Mar 12, 196660 mins

Billy has always looked up to his brother Ed. During a robbery gone wrong, he is arrested. Matt begins to open Billy's naive eyes when his brother tries to free him from jail.

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Episode 26

Which Dr.

Sat, Mar 19, 196660 mins

While on a fishing trip with Festus, Doc is abducted and forced to operate on a sick child, then ordered to be a bridegroom in a true shotgun wedding.

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Episode 27

Harvest

Sat, Mar 26, 196660 mins

Some homesteaders have chosen a piece of land that is free to use per the government but Ben Payson has other ideas. When his daughter starts to care about the homesteaders' son, Ben decides to force them off the property regardless the cost.

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Episode 28

By Line

Sat, Apr 9, 196660 mins

A wagon is shot at and run off the road to Dodge. Festus comes along and helps the occupants, the new owners of the newspaper. He is rewarded with a job as a reporter even though he never learned to read or write. The stories he chooses to write about stirs up more bad feelings than he expected.

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Episode 29

Treasure of John Walking Fox

Sat, Apr 16, 196660 mins

When old Jacob is shot dead in self defense, his loyal Indian partner, John Walking Fox, starts paying for things with $50 gold pieces, and he becomes the talk of the town, and a target for would be robbers.

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Episode 30

My Father, My Son

Sat, Apr 23, 196660 mins

Fast gun Jim Barrett shoots Joey Jeffords in self defense so his whole family bands together seeking retribution. When another young man shows up in town wanting to kill Jim too, several folks do their best to ensure he doesn't wind up just like Joey.

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Episode 31

Parson Comes to Town

Sat, Apr 30, 196660 mins

A mysterious man rides into town and says he is after one of two men responsible for killing his brother. When he starts crowding a stranger in town, Matt must decide how to make sure he doesn't take the law into his own hands.

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Episode 32

Prime of Life

Sat, May 7, 196660 mins

Kyle Stoner is fast with a gun and likes to prove it. When he mixes with the wrong crowd and goes up against Matt, his father gets involved and he is a friend as well as an ex-lawman.

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