Episode
Gunsmoke: Marshal Proudfoot
Overview
Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1959-01-10
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Marshal Proudfoot is Episode 18 in Season 4 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1959-01-10. The runtime is 26 min.
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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.
Episode 19: Passive Resistance
A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.
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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.
Episode 20: Love of a Good Woman
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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 21: Jayhawkers
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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 22: Kitty's Rebellion
An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed. Intent on defending her honor wherever she is insulted, he nearly gets himself killed. Kitty finally tells him that she has no honor, and he keeps making a fool out of himself thinking otherwise. It sends him away and saves his life at the same time.
Episode 13: The Cast
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Episode 23: Sky
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Episode 12: Grass
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Episode 24: Doc Quits
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