Episode
Gunsmoke: The Mistake
Overview
Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender', but referred to by Chester as 'Sam Noonan').
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1956-11-24
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
The Mistake is Episode 9 in Season 2 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1956-11-24. The runtime is 26 min.
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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 6: Indian White
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Episode 12: Spring Term
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Episode 5: Young Man with a Gun
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Episode 13: Poor Pearl
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Episode 4: The Round Up
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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 3: Custer
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Episode 15: Pucket's New Year
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