Episode
Gunsmoke: The Intruder
Overview
Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Riley's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1969-03-03
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Intruder is Episode 23 in Season 14 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1969-03-03. The runtime is 45 min.
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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.
Episode 24: The Good Samaritans
Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a Judge that will hang a man, the man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Meanwhile, Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading West, and now being pursued by the hunters.
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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 25: The Prisoner
Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.
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 26: Exodus 21.22
A friend of Matt's, a former lawman arrives in Dodge to kill the men responsible for his wife's death.
Episode 19: The Mark of Cain
A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.
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 17: Mannon
Gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge, after shooting Festus and taking his mule, to face Matt in a gunfight.
Episode 16: Time of the Jackals
A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.
Episode 15: The Twisted Heritage
Kitty saves the life of a man during a stage hold-up, taking him back to his ranch she finds his mother a ruthless matron and his daughter alienated from her father.
Episode 14: The Money Store
When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.