Episode
Gunsmoke: Waste (1)
Overview
Matt helps a young boy find his mom while finding an outlaw.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 17
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1971-09-27
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Waste (1) is Episode 3 in Season 17 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1971-09-27. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 1: The Lost
Kitty is in a stage wreck and dazed and confused she sets out in the wild. Meeting up with a wild girl who does not speak, she winds up at a shack where a family takes her and the wild girl hostage. Intent on turning the child into a sideshow, they tie Kitty up but are stopped before they can get too far.
Episode 5: New Doctor in Town
Dr. Chapman is arrested by Festus when he tries to sleep in Doc's office even though he has explained that Doc went to Baltimore to hone his medical skills. A letter explains that Doc felt so badly about a little girl's death that he could have prevented if he had been more in tune with modern medicine, that he had to leave. Not many in town are very cordial to Dr. Chapman and when Newly's shop blows up with Newly and Festus in it, they dislike him even more. Festus is all right, but Newly has a bone splinter in his brain and needs an operation. Chapman wins the town by performing the operation and saving Newly's life.
Episode 6: The Legend
Ma Colter tries to dissuade her youngest son from following his older brothers into a life of crime.
Episode 7: Trafton
Matt is out to find a gunfigther who killed two people.
Episode 8: Lynott
A former Marshall helps Matt by filling in for Matt, after he is wounded and sent to bed so he can rest.
Episode 9: Lijah
A jury has the fate of a mountain man in it's hands.
Episode 10: My Brother's Keeper
While trying to hide from a storm Festus finds old Indian is about to die. Festus keeps trying to stop the indian from dying.
Episode 11: Drago
Drago wants to find the person who killed a woman who helped him.
Episode 12: Gold Train: The Bullet (1)
A hidecutter starts trouble in the Long Branch and Matt comes to the rescue throwing him out of town. When Festus goes up to fetch Dr. Chapman, he finds the old scudder there himself. Offering to buy Doc a drink, he can't resist and they surprise everyone down at the Long Branch. While they are all excited to see Doc, Matt is out checking the town and ends up shot in the back by the hidecutter he just threw out. Doc's homecoming is ruined when he realizes that if he tries to remove the bullet he could paralyze Matt and he doesn't want to be the one to do it. So, he contacts a surgeon in Denver, and loading Matt in the baggage car of the train, Kitty, Doc, Festus, and Newly all head for Denver along with a Federal gold shipment.
Episode 13: Gold Train: The Bullet (2)
As the train moves along to Denver we meet several passengers. One is a Pinkerton man handcuffed to Beth Tilton, a woman who doesn't want to go back to Colorado to her husband. The other, Allie Dawson, is a young girl that Newly befriends who does not believe in violence. The train is taken over by Jack Sinclair, an old enemy of Matt's. Matt had shot his hand off before sending him to prison. Making it look like Matt is a dead body in the baggage car, he is safe for now with Doc standing guard, but it can't last long. Kitty senses trouble when Beth starts cozying up to Jack Sinclair and worries she'll tell him what she knows. Warning her that she'll do anything for her man, Kitty watches Beth like a hawk. Festus and Newly are forced to help load the gold shipment on the wagon and when they get it loaded they end up driving off with it luring the gang out on foot to chase them. Beth tells one of the guards about Dillon in the back, and he goes to kill him.