Episode
Gunsmoke: Overland Express
Overview
Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 38
- Air date
- 1958-05-31
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Overland Express is Episode 38 in Season 3 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1958-05-31. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 36: Chester's Hanging
Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.
Episode 35: Widow's Mite
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Episode 34: The Big Con
Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. When the con begins to unfold, Doc gets kidnapped.
Episode 33: Innocent Broad
A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.
Episode 32: Hanging Man
Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.
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 30: Texas Cowboys
The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.
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 28: Bottleman
Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.
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.