Episode
Gunsmoke: Comanches Is Soft
Overview
After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's equipment. To repair or get anew, they travel to Wichita and meet a saloon girl who tells them she needs to get away from town but her jealous boyfriend is now hot on their trail.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1964-03-07
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Comanches Is Soft is Episode 23 in Season 9 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1964-03-07. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 22: The Kite
Festus finds a little girl out on the prairie. He learns she saw her mother get killed by a stranger. When he takes her to Dodge, Matt hears she was hiding when this happened but can identify this man who may already be in town.
Episode 24: Father's Love
A saloon girl spurns a man's advances in Wichita and moves to Dodge, where she becomes a respectable married woman, only to be confronted with her past when she discovers that her rancher husband is the nephew of the man she refused.
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Episode 25: Now That April's Here
Festus, returning to Dodge after doing some trapping, sees his girl, April, and they argue over a gift she received. Running off, she hides but her perch gives her a bird's eye view of a murder, one no one believes she witnessed but the killers.
Episode 20: May Blossom
Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus
Episode 26: Caleb
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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 27: Owney Tupper Had a Daughter
To earn money to recover the custody of his daughter, an aging man accepts the job of Dodge's first in-town hangman, work no one else wants.
Episode 18: Once a Haggen
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Episode 28: Bently
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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 29: Kitty Cornered
Competing with Kitty is a fancy new woman in town with plenty of money to build a new saloon and a secret from the past life she recently left behind.