Episode
Gunsmoke: The Man Who Would Be Marshal
Overview
A former Army Officer wants Matt Dillon's job. Matt then takes Mr. Egan on his rounds. Matt lets Egan try his brand of justice that almost costs Egan his life.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 37
- Air date
- 1957-06-15
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
The Man Who Would Be Marshal is Episode 37 in Season 2 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1957-06-15. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 36: Daddy-O
Kitty's father, Wayne Russell, arrives in Dodge to meet his daughter after abandoning her and her mother as a baby. He insists that saloon life is not fit for a proper lady and wants to take her back to New Orleans so he can pamper her and invest her savings in his freight business.
Episode 38: Liar from Blackhawk
A braggart tries to provoke a gunfight with a harmless drunk.
More episodes from this season
Episode 35: Uncle Oliver
Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears).
Episode 39: Jealousy
Jack Kelly plays a hot-tempered husband who thinks Matt is after his wife.
Episode 34: Who Lives by the Sword
Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed.
Episode 33: Moon
After Charlie Brewer is found dead, Jack Salter who was a friend of Charlie Brewer comes to Matt's office saying Vint killed Brewer. Matt then tries to find out if Jack is right.
Episode 32: Cheap Labor
A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight.
Episode 31: What the Whiskey Drummer Heard
Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Sam').
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.
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 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 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.