Episode
Gunsmoke: Old Yellow Boots
Overview
Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1961-10-07
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Old Yellow Boots is Episode 2 in Season 7 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1961-10-07. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 1: Perce
Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.
Episode 3: Miss Kitty
Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?
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Episode 4: Harper's Blood
A hard man has given his two sons a hard raising, sure that they inherited their mother's bad blood from their murderous ancestor. The old man may be right: one of his sons may be a murderer. Or is it the other son?
Episode 5: All That
A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, can't do enough for him.
Episode 6: Long, Long Trail
A headstrong young woman will undertake the long, dangerous journey to her fiancé's fort on her own if she must, so Matt nominates himself to escort her.
Episode 7: The Squaw
His mother has been dead almost a year, and Cully is troubled by his pa's carousing. When they discuss his getting married again, it seems like a good idea until he returns from a business trip with a new wife, an Arapaho squaw, who he has conflicted emotions about.
Episode 8: Chesterland
Chester becomes engaged more or less accidentally, but he takes to heart his obligation to his betrothed, leaving his job with Mr. Dillon to devote himself to homesteading a barren quarter section.
Episode 9: Milly
The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.
Episode 10: Indian Ford
Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.
Episode 11: Apprentice Doc
A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.
Episode 12: Nina's Revenge
A homesteader hires a man to make the appearance of a scandal with his wife so that he can blackmail his wife's wealthy father.
Episode 13: Marry Me
Orkey Cathcart is looking for a wife and sets his sites on Miss Kitty.