Episode
Gunsmoke: Root Down
Overview
Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1962-10-06
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Root Down is Episode 4 in Season 8 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1962-10-06. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 3: Quint Asper Comes Home
A half-Comanche has joined his mother's tribe in killing whites to avenge the murder of his father, but Matt sees the good in the man and the chance to re-integrate him, perhaps, into white society.
Episode 5: Jenny
A bank robber hides out in Dodge, bringing along his girl. While he's gambling away his loot, his girl casts her eye on Matt.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: Call Me Dodie
An adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, and she starts learning it from the rough-and-tumble characters and loafers she encounters in Dodge.
Episode 6: Collie's Free
Released after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adjusting to the fact that things have inevitably changed with respect to his relationships with his wife, his son, and the citizens of Dodge.
Episode 1: The Search
A young man named Cale may have earned Marshal Dillon's respect, but Tate Gifford says Cale has just ridden off on a stolen horse - Tate's horse.
Episode 7: The Ditch
A young woman who's heir to her father's land decides to carry out his plan to build a ditch that will impair her neighbors' access to water and perhaps trigger a range war.
Episode 8: The Trappers
A trapper leaves his friend dying alone in order to save his own life, only later to stumble across that friend in Dodge, very much alive and wanting him dead.
Episode 9: Phoebe Strunk
A band of ne'er-do-wells, led by their mother, see in town a young woman that pleases them and decide to take her by force.
Episode 10: The Hunger
Matt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially are kept as prisoners by the farmer and his son.
Episode 11: Abe Blocker
Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt's, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encroaching on the land he regards as his.
Episode 12: The Way It Is
While Matt is out of town, putting lawman's business ahead of Kitty yet again, a new man in her life has plenty of time and attention to give--perhaps too much attention.
Episode 13: Us Haggens
When a boy witnesses his grandfather's murder, it sends Matt looking for a new found companion's uncle. Festus Haggen is tracking his uncle for killing his twin brother Fergus. Matt is wary but learns to trust Festus when he's shot and in bad shape.