Episode
Gunsmoke: Big Man
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 27
- Air date
- 1961-03-25
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Big Man is Episode 27 in Season 6 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1961-03-25. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 26: Old Faces
Hot-headed Tom's new wife used to be a river-boat girl, and when a gunman from her old life recognizes her, a battle between the two men is brewing.
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.
More episodes from this season
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 29: Stolen Horses
A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.
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 30: Minnie
Rough and rowdy Minnie comes to Dodge City and sets her designs on Doc Adams, much to the delight of Matt, Chester and Kitty. Trouble comes though when Minnie's husband comes to Dodge and finds out that his Minnie is sweet on Doc.
Episode 23: About Chester
While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.
Episode 31: Bless Me Till I Die
Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.
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 32: Long Hours, Short Pay
A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.
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 33: Hard Virtue
Hot tempered Andy Coe and his wife want to sell their wagon to Moss, but can't when Ed Fallon's team spooks and crashes into their wagon.