Gunsmoke - Season 8
Run Time: 45 mins
Air Date: Fri, 14 Sept 1962
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.553 (103 votes)
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The Search
Season 8 - Episode 1
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 h...
Call Me Dodie
Season 8 - Episode 2
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 a...
Quint Asper Comes Home
Season 8 - Episode 3
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 th...
Root Down
Season 8 - Episode 4
Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.
Jenny
Season 8 - Episode 5
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.
Collie's Free
Season 8 - Episode 6
Released after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adjusting to the fact that things have inevitably changed with res...
The Ditch
Season 8 - Episode 7
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...
The Trappers
Season 8 - Episode 8
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 an...
Phoebe Strunk
Season 8 - Episode 9
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.
The Hunger
Season 8 - Episode 10
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.
Abe Blocker
Season 8 - Episode 11
Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt's, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encro...
The Way It Is
Season 8 - Episode 12
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 giv...
Us Haggens
Season 8 - Episode 13
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...
Uncle Sunday
Season 8 - Episode 14
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...
False Front
Season 8 - Episode 15
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 prec...
Old Comrade
Season 8 - Episode 16
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 ...
Louie Pheeters
Season 8 - Episode 17
The town drunk who saw a man drowned, believes it was dream, until he meets up with the guy who did the drowning.
The Renegades
Season 8 - Episode 18
Quint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids around Dodge. Working shotgun on the stage, he proves his point ...
Cotter's Girl
Season 8 - Episode 19
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 w...
The Bad One
Season 8 - Episode 20
When a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a would-be robber, she refuses to identify him.
The Cousin
Season 8 - Episode 21
Chance Hopper is Matt's young foster brother, torn between loyalty to Matt and to his partners in crime, who are counting on Chance to diver...
Shona
Season 8 - Episode 22
Gib Dawson brings his beautiful Indian wife, Shona, in to Dodge for treatment of a badly infected hand wound, at a time when racial tensions...
Ash
Season 8 - Episode 23
The friendship between business partners is jeopardized when one of them sustains a head injury, changing his personality. The injured man t...
Blind Man's Bluff
Season 8 - Episode 24
Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance...
Quint's Indian
Season 8 - Episode 25
Two ne'er-do-wells come to town and soon cook up a plot under which half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper is framed for the theft of a horse....
Anybody Can Kill a Marshal
Season 8 - Episode 26
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, ...
Two of a Kind
Season 8 - Episode 27
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 ...
I Call Him Wonder
Season 8 - Episode 28
An orphaned Indian boy latches on to a cowboy in need of work and the two of them find all doors closed to them in Dodge.
With a Smile
Season 8 - Episode 29
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.
The Far Places
Season 8 - Episode 30
A rancher's widow regrets having spent her life away from the bright lights of a city, and is desperate that her son not share her fate.
Panacea Sykes
Season 8 - Episode 31
Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kitty's possessions.
Tell Chester
Season 8 - Episode 32
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,...
Quint-Cident
Season 8 - Episode 33
A woman newly widowed is powerfully attracted to Quint, but when he gently turns her down, she vows to make him pay for scorning a white wom...
Old York
Season 8 - Episode 34
Pardoned for his Civil War service, an old outlaw finds his way to Dodge, where there's a lawman who's in his debt.
Daddy Went Away
Season 8 - Episode 35
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 s...
The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner
Season 8 - Episode 36
Aaron, sweet on saloon girl Leah and wanting to make her his wife, is attacked and killed by Colie Fletcher. When Matt goes after him, Colie...
Jeb
Season 8 - Episode 37
A prized Appaloosa, grazing alone and apparently without owner on the prairie, proves to be the ruin of more than one man.
The Quest for Asa Janin
Season 8 - Episode 38
A young man is convicted of killing the saloon girl he wanted for his own. Matt is so sure that the young man is really innocent that he goe...