Episode
Gunsmoke: Time of the Jackals
Overview
A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1969-01-13
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Time of the Jackals is Episode 16 in Season 14 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1969-01-13. The runtime is 45 min.
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Gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge, after shooting Festus and taking his mule, to face Matt in a gunfight.
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When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.
Episode 18: Gold Town
Will Mannon, a sharpshooter who rode with Quantrill's Raiders, terrorizes Dodge City as he waits for Matt to return and face him in a showdown.
Episode 13: Johnny Cross
Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
Episode 19: The Mark of Cain
A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.
Episode 12: Lobo
Mountain man Luke Brazo joins Matt in a hunt for a vicious wolf terrorizing the area.
Episode 20: Reprisal
Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder and delivering a baby. He choses to save the man first, and the baby dies in childbirth. The baby's father, Tom Butler blames Doc and plans to get even.
Episode 11: Waco
While bringing in outlaw, Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with his outlaw band following them while he has to deliver a baby.
Episode 21: The Long Night
Three bounty hunters hold hostages in the Long Branch to get Matt to turn over a prisoner to them.
Episode 10: The Miracle Man
Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.
Episode 22: The Night Riders
Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.