Episode
Gunsmoke: How to Kill a Friend
Overview
Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matt's close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1958-11-22
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
How to Kill a Friend is Episode 11 in Season 4 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1958-11-22. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 10: Lynching Man
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.
Episode 12: Grass
White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.
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Episode 13: The Cast
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Episode 8: Lost Rifle
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Episode 14: Robber Bridegroom
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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 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 6: Thoroughbreds
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Episode 16: Gypsum Hills Feud
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Episode 5: Letter of the Law
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Episode 17: Young Love
Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattle from Wheat's young widow.