Episode
Gunsmoke: The Wiving
Overview
Jed Hockett(Harry Morgan), a farmer, orders his three boys to go to town and return with prospective brides.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 20
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1974-10-14
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Wiving is Episode 6 in Season 20 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1974-10-14. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 5: Thirty a Month and Found
Matt houses a drunk Will & Friends in the jail they go looking for $300 that they think Bill took. Matt thinks it was a misunderstanding. Will doesn't want to tell Matt that they shot Curly Wills (They buried him before going to Dodge.
Doak stops to see his girlfriend and says marriage will need to wait, as Will & Quincy leaves without Doak Quincy and the storekeepers are shot.
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Matt and former lawman now turned alcoholic, Chauncey Demon go up against land baron Carl Ryker.
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