Episode
Gunsmoke: Bad Seed
Overview
Matt rescues teen-aged Trudy Trent from a life of isolated poverty with her incestuous and alcoholic father, but he subsequently learns that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" when he rejects her misguided romantic overtures toward him.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1961-02-04
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Bad Seed is Episode 21 in Season 6 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1961-02-04. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 22: Kitty Shot
Dillon goes after cowboy Jake Bayloe after he guns down his partner in the Long Branch , shooting Kitty in the crossfire and critically wounding her.
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Episode 19: Tall Trapper
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Episode 23: About Chester
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Episode 18: Unloaded Gun
Red and Joe Lime are no-good murderous brothers, and Matt has to track 'em down out on the prairie. Trouble is, Matt comes down with a fever due to missing out on so much sleep in the last couple of weeks. This situation causes some serious problems for all involved when Matt has to return to Dodge because he is too sick to pursue the Lime brothers.
Episode 24: Harriet
After witnessing the callous murder of her kindly father, Harriet Horne disregards Matt's advice and unwisely attempts to extract revenge from the perpetrators by making them jealous rivals for her attention.
Episode 17: Bad Sheriff
A man shoots his partner, flees, and is caught by two men claiming to be lawmen.
Episode 25: Potshot
A concealed gunman takes a shot at Chester, and it may have been a bank robber, or it may have been someone who's been making trouble at the Long Branch.
Episode 16: Brother Love
In a family that believes in taking care of its own--including administering punishment within the family for crime--one of two grown brothers appears to have committed murder, but which one?
Episode 26: Old Faces
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Episode 15: Old Fool
A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!
Episode 27: Big Man
To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found murdered, oft-inebriated Jud Sloan's claim that the Marshal was the killer seems uncomfortably credible.