Episode
Gunsmoke: Cain
Overview
Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 1957-03-09
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Cain is Episode 24 in Season 2 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1957-03-09. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 23: Sweet and Sour
Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kitty's negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, 4 men are dead and Rena is the cause.
Episode 25: Bureaucrat
A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.
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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.
Episode 26: Last Fling
Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.
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 27: Chester's Murder
Chester is drinking at the Long Branch and gets into an argument with a gambler over a girl. When the marshal breaks it up, he tells Chester to bring the man to jail. On the way there, the man is killed and everyone thinks Chester did it.
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 28: The Photographer
Dodge City meets a Photographer who shows the residents how a camera works. Jacoby wants to take pictures of how the Wild West looks. When Matt learns someone died, he thinks the photographer may have hired someone to kill Grubby for a picture of the west.
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 29: Wrong Man
A cowboy vows revenge for the shooting of his friend, who was mistaken for a criminal (Don Keefer and Catherine McLeod, real-life husband and wife, appear as a husband and wife).
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 30: Big Girl Lost
Philip Locke is looking for Laura Simmons, a saloon girl, but she doesn't want him to know where she works. Laura tells Matt that she and Philip were previously engaged, and she asks him not to say anything about her job. Philip warns Matt that he will be killed if he doesn't tell the truth.