Episode
Gunsmoke: Lynching Man
Overview
After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into his own hands and is led tragically astray by the culprits.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1958-11-15
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Lynching Man is Episode 10 in Season 4 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1958-11-15. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 11: How to Kill a Friend
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Episode 8: Lost Rifle
Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.
Episode 12: Grass
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Episode 7: Stage Hold-Up
A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thieves when a "cowboy" appears and offers to show him where one of the thieves may be buried.
Episode 13: The Cast
When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.
Episode 6: Thoroughbreds
Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him later in Dodge, he is much different: friendly and spending money freely.
Episode 14: Robber Bridegroom
Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous businessman who threatened to ruin her father if he did not agree to the marriage.
Episode 5: Letter of the Law
A rich landowner seizes the chance to get a little more acreage when he discovers that a homesteader has failed to file the paperwork to make his quarter section his own.
Episode 15: Snakebite
Claustrophobic plainsman Poney Thompson is arrested for murdering a man who maliciously shot his dog, but an ironic fate awaits him after he breaks free from Chester's custody.
Episode 4: Monopoly
Two murders result when an unscrupulous Eastern businessman named Ivy hires a psychotic killer to help him establish undisputed control of Dodge City's freight shipment business.
Episode 16: Gypsum Hills Feud
Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and isolated mountain families.