Episode
Gunsmoke: Caleb
Overview
Caleb Marr comes to Dodge in search of a meaningful life after finally acknowledging his failure at farming.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 26
- Air date
- 1964-03-28
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Caleb is Episode 26 in Season 9 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1964-03-28. The runtime is 45 min.
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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 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.
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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.
Episode 28: Bently
A dying man confesses to a murder of which he was acquitted, but Chester suspects the man was lying.
Episode 23: Comanches Is Soft
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.
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.
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 30: The Promoter
Henry Huckaby, a local farmer and fed up with a sore back and an empty belly leaves to seek his fortune in Dodge. After several failed ideas he hits on one that may make him rich but could also cost him his life.
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.
Episode 31: Trip West
Given three months to live by a quack peddler of patent medicines, a mousy bank clerk quits his job, withdraws all his money, makes ready to go to California, and falls for a girl who may endanger what time he has remaining.
Episode 20: May Blossom
Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus
Episode 32: Scot Free
Rob Scot considers himself a man who could stay or go when it came to women. He may have met his match though when a woman he desires, along with her husband, take over an abandoned homestead, and they come to where Rob works to look over some stock.