Episode
Gunsmoke: The Glory and the Mud
Overview
A retired lawman and showman wants only to settle down with the Dodge seamstress he left behind twenty years ago, but a young whippersnapper hopes to make a name for himself by challenging the aging gun to a duel.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1964-01-04
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Glory and the Mud is Episode 14 in Season 9 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1964-01-04. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 13: Pa Hack's Brood
A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.
Episode 15: Dry Well
It's a test of wills when Quint witnesses a murder and the father of one of the prime suspects lowers Quint into a well to try to force him to promise his silence.
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Episode 12: The Magician
A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.
Episode 16: Prairie Wolfer
Festus returns to Dodge from wolfing and is hired by the Cattleman's Association to hunt down the wolves killing everyone's cattle. What he finds is that what's been doing the preying may wind him up in prison if he doesn't get Matt's help.
Episode 11: Extradition (2)
Matt finally catches up to killer Charlie Hacker in Mexico, and has to make a deal with the greedy Mexican police to get Hacker back to the border, with revengeful Mexican bandits in pursuit.
Episode 17: Friend
A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.
Episode 10: Extradition (1)
When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.
Episode 18: Once a Haggen
A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.
Episode 9: Ex-Con
On his way to Larned, Matt, feverish, spends the night at an abandoned shack. When he wakes up after losing a day, a recently released convict who swore to kill Matt, is himself found against a wall, dead, unarmed, shot twice, and the murder weapon appears to belong to the marshal.
Episode 19: No Hands
The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Will's hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he can't carve wood anymore.
Episode 8: Carter Caper
A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.
Episode 20: May Blossom
Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus