Episode
Gunsmoke: Wind
Overview
Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden, who seems to bring gamblers luck just by standing next to them when they're playing cards.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 28
- Air date
- 1959-03-21
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Wind is Episode 28 in Season 4 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1959-03-21. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 27: The F.U.
When Onie Becker is shot down on the streets of Dodge after quarreling with Al Clovis in a poker game, everyone thinks Al Clovis committed the shooting.
The plot thickens after Matt and Chester pursue Clovis on a train headed out of Dodge.
Episode 29: Fawn
After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.
More episodes from this season
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.
Episode 30: Renegade White
A gunfight in the Long Branch forces Matt to arrest a drunk. Letting him go since it was a fair fight, he suspects him of selling guns to the Indians, and goes after him even though he may run into those Indians.
Episode 25: The Bear
Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.
Episode 31: Murder Warrant
Matt and Dodge City's businessmen employ an unusual tactic to save ambush victim Lee Prentice from being taken to corrupt Baker City to face certain hanging on a trumped-up murder charge.
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 32: Change of Heart
Matt becomes suspicious when Jerry Cass's plans to marry saloon hostess Bella Grant are complicated by Bella's sudden insistence that Jerry leave his recently-inherited ranch for six months.
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 33: Buffalo Hunter
Marshal Dillon has to stop a ruthless, cold-blooded, greedy, buffalo hunter who is in the habit of brutally killing his hired help to avoid paying them their wages.
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 34: The Choice
Matt tries to help Andy Hill, a young gunman who is apparently trying very hard to go straight, by getting him a job riding shotgun on the stagecoach.