Episode
Gunsmoke: Dry Well
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1964-01-11
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Dry Well is Episode 15 in Season 9 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1964-01-11. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 14: The Glory and the Mud
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.
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.
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Episode 17: Friend
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Episode 12: The Magician
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Episode 18: Once a Haggen
A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.
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 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 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 20: May Blossom
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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 21: The Bassops
A family in search of a doctor find Matt and his prisoner unconscious and handcuffed to each other on the prairie. The prisoner wakens first and announces that Matt is the condemned man he is transporting for hanging.