Episode
Gunsmoke: Love of a Good Woman
Overview
An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunning for him even though he thought he was innocent five years ago.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1959-01-24
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Love of a Good Woman is Episode 20 in Season 4 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1959-01-24. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 19: Passive Resistance
A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.
Episode 21: Jayhawkers
Trail boss Dolph Quince sends for his friend Matt to help escort his cattle herd into Dodge because he is having trouble with Jayhawkers (Kansas renegades), and he hopes to ease the animosity his men have towards all Kansans.
More episodes from this season
Episode 18: Marshal Proudfoot
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.
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 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.
Episode 23: Sky
Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.
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.
Episode 24: Doc Quits
Doc takes hard the death of a homesteader under his care; then a flashy new medicine man comes to town and takes away many of his patients.
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 25: The Bear
Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.
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 26: The Coward
A coward gambler, who's too cheap to hire a gunman, wants Matt dead for a beating he got from him years ago, so he starts some talk around Dodge about the big reputation any person could gain, if they simply killed Matt.