Episode
Gunsmoke: The Cover Up
Overview
Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear).
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1957-01-12
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
The Cover Up is Episode 16 in Season 2 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1957-01-12. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 15: Pucket's New Year
An old buffalo hunter (Edgar Stehli) swears revenge on the skinner (Grant Withers) that left him to die (Richard Deacon appears as banker Botkin, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender').
Episode 17: Sins of the Father
An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).
More episodes from this season
Episode 14: Cholera
A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear).
Episode 18: Kick Me
A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears).
Episode 13: Poor Pearl
Matt helps a woman whose suitors are about to duel for her affections.
Episode 19: Executioner
A young gunfighter, Tom Clegg, forces farmer Abe Curry into a duel and kills him. Matt can't arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abe's brother Morgan plots revenge.
Episode 12: Spring Term
Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating.
Episode 20: Gone Straight
Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear).
Episode 11: No Indians
Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws (including Mickey Simpson) that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians (Fintan Meyler and Herbert Rudley appear).
Episode 21: Bloody Hands
The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed (Lawrence Dobkin, Russell Johnson, and Gloria Marshall appear).
Episode 10: Greater Love
An outlaw threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy.
Episode 22: Skid Row
An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her.