Episode
Gunsmoke: The Noose
Overview
Kitty is held hostage so Matt will rescue her in ghost town.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 16
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1970-09-21
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Noose is Episode 2 in Season 16 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1970-09-21. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 1: Chato
After a friend of Matt's dies he goes to New Mexico to find the killer.
Episode 3: Stark
Adam, the son of one Dodge City's revered citizens returns. But upon arriving someone takes a shot at him. The man who shot him, is Stark, a bounty hunter. It seems that Adam was in jail in Texas and broke out, Stark found him and is planning to take him back. Adam then tells him that he can get $1000 to pay him if they go to his father. Stark accepts. But when he goes to his father, his father refuses to help him. But Adam's sister, Glory, does. However, Stark feels that it's not enough, he tells Adam that he thinks that his father has five thousand on hand and tells him that's what it'll take. Adam refuses. When Stark goes to see Adam's father, he threatens Stark and reveals that after Adam stopped writing his sister for money he hired some detectives and they found him shortly after he broke out of jail. He then proceeds to pay Stark off but Adam upon learning of this refuses to let Stark leave with the money. Matt arrives and arrests Stark. Adam then goes to tell his father that he
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