Episode
Gunsmoke: Potshot
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 25
- Air date
- 1961-03-11
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Potshot is Episode 25 in Season 6 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1961-03-11. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 23: About Chester
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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.
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.
Episode 28: Little Girl
Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire. Charity insists that she should live with the Dodge City lawman.
Episode 21: Bad Seed
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.
Episode 29: Stolen Horses
A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.
Episode 20: Love Thy Neighbor
The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.
Episode 30: Minnie
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Episode 19: Tall Trapper
A man and his wife come across a lone trapper and make camp with him. Next day, the husband comes to Dodge to report to Doc that his wife is sick, but Doc finds the woman beaten to death, and the husband accuses the trapper.
Episode 31: Bless Me Till I Die
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