Episode
Gunsmoke: The Bad One
Overview
When a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a would-be robber, she refuses to identify him.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1963-01-26
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Bad One is Episode 20 in Season 8 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1963-01-26. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 19: Cotter's Girl
A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.
Episode 21: The Cousin
Chance Hopper is Matt's young foster brother, torn between loyalty to Matt and to his partners in crime, who are counting on Chance to divert Matt from their course and make good their getaway.
More episodes from this season
Episode 18: The Renegades
Quint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids around Dodge. Working shotgun on the stage, he proves his point when he is attacked, then pursued by those renegades. His "Indian" skills save him and a colonel's daughter who has contempt for half-Comanche Quint.
Episode 22: Shona
Gib Dawson brings his beautiful Indian wife, Shona, in to Dodge for treatment of a badly infected hand wound, at a time when racial tensions are running high against the Comanches.
Episode 17: Louie Pheeters
The town drunk who saw a man drowned, believes it was dream, until he meets up with the guy who did the drowning.
Episode 23: Ash
The friendship between business partners is jeopardized when one of them sustains a head injury, changing his personality. The injured man threatens to kill West's character, the fiancé of a young saloon woman.
Episode 16: Old Comrade
The "town fool" has a chance to change his life when he learns that a famous general, now on his deathbed, believes him to be his long-lost son.
Episode 24: Blind Man's Bluff
Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance from other men who hate lawmen.
Episode 15: False Front
A slick city reporter sets out to prove that even a milquetoast can pass for a feared gunfighter, if a few well-placed tidbits of rumor precede him.
Episode 25: Quint's Indian
Two ne'er-do-wells come to town and soon cook up a plot under which half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper is framed for the theft of a horse. The atmosphere in Dodge quickly becomes dangerously ugly for Quint.
Episode 14: Uncle Sunday
Chester gets a letter from his uncle Sunday, a 'crook', on his upcoming trip to Dodge city. When he arrives with a niece, he finds he has to watch them both or what they have planned just might work, at his expense.
Episode 26: Anybody Can Kill a Marshal
Two men want to rob the bank in Dodge, but are unwilling to try it while Matt lives. A man agrees to accept the job of killing the marshal, attaching some rather peculiar conditions to his acceptance.