Episode
Gunsmoke: Trip West
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 31
- Air date
- 1964-05-02
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Trip West is Episode 31 in Season 9 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1964-05-02. The runtime is 45 min.
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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.
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Episode 35: The Other Half
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Episode 25: Now That April's Here
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