Episode
Gunsmoke: Dooley Surrenders
Overview
Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 26
- Air date
- 1958-03-08
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Dooley Surrenders is Episode 26 in Season 3 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1958-03-08. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 25: Dirt
Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married.
When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman (Beulah)late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother (Henry Troyman) thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can.
When Nat is shot on his wedding day, everyone thinks Polly's Brother committed the shooting.
After Matt and Chester do an investigation, Matt comes to another conclusion about the shooting of Nat Seiber.
Episode 27: Joke's on Us
Jake Kaiser and some other ranchers hung Frank Tillman thinking he was a horse thief but they were wrong. Tillman's wife and son won't tell the Marshall who did it.
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Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.
Episode 28: Bottleman
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Episode 23: Wild West
Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prarie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.
Episode 29: Laughing Gas
Ernie Stubblefield trying to put his past behind him changes his name to Earl Stafford and is traveling with a laughing gas show. Cloud Marsh tries the gas and gets laughed at by the town. Angry he and his brothers attack Stubblefield/Stafford.
Episode 22: Sunday Supplement
Clifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.
Episode 30: Texas Cowboys
The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.
Episode 21: Ma Tennis
Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.
Episode 31: Amy's Good Deed
Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.
Episode 20: Claustrophobia
Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon.
While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men.
Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men.
After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.
Episode 32: Hanging Man
Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.