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The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 7

Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 7!

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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 22 - The Gallows
    9.2/10(480 votes)

    S7:E22

    While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:John Meston

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  2. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 6 - Long, Long Trail
    8.7/10(432 votes)

    S7:E6

    A headstrong young woman will undertake the long, dangerous journey to her fiancé's fort on her own if she must, so Matt nominates himself to escort her.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  3. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 11 - Apprentice Doc
    8.6/10(303 votes)

    S7:E11

    A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  4. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 26 - Durham Bull
    8.6/10(288 votes)

    S7:E26

    Little Bit and his grandpa, from Texas, are passing through Dodge after buying a breeding bull. When they meet Silva, someone grandpa considers a "fooler", they have their hands full making it back with their stock and their lives.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 12 - Nina's Revenge
    8.5/10(343 votes)

    S7:E12

    A homesteader hires a man to make the appearance of a scandal with his wife so that he can blackmail his wife's wealthy father.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:John Meston

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  6. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 8 - Chesterland
    8.3/10(334 votes)

    S7:E8

    Chester becomes engaged more or less accidentally, but he takes to heart his obligation to his betrothed, leaving his job with Mr. Dillon to devote himself to homesteading a barren quarter section.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  7. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 21 - He Learned About Women
    8.3/10(306 votes)

    S7:E21

    Taken prisoner by a band of comancheros, Chester is helped to escape by one of the band's women and flees with another who may or may not be worthy of his trust.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:John Meston

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  8. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 24 - Coventry
    8.3/10(303 votes)

    S7:E24

    A speculator in land is already unpopular in Dodge, but when he is acquitted of the murder of a man he killed, he finds himself "sent to Coventry": no one in town, not even Kitty, will buy, sell, or even speak to him.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:John Meston

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  9. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 1 - Perce
    8.2/10(351 votes)

    S7:E1

    Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:John Meston

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  10. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 2 - Old Yellow Boots
    8.2/10(328 votes)

    S7:E2

    Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:John Meston

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  11. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 5 - All That
    8.2/10(321 votes)

    S7:E5

    A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, can't do enough for him.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:John Meston

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  12. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 14 - A Man a Day
    8.2/10(293 votes)

    S7:E14

    Outlaws want Matt to leave Dodge so they can steal from the bank or they will kill a man per day.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:John Meston

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  13. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 3 - Miss Kitty
    8.1/10(325 votes)

    S7:E3

    Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  14. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 27 - Wagon Girls
    8.1/10(312 votes)

    S7:E27

    A group of women are going by wagon train to Colorado, lured by the promise of marrying rich miners, but Matt learns that the leader's actual plan for the women is quite different.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:John Meston

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  15. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 18 - Old Dan
    8.0/10(265 votes)

    S7:E18

    Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  16. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 31 - Cale
    8.0/10(294 votes)

    S7:E31

    Cale is a bullheaded young drifter who takes a nap in a barn he comes across only to wake up to a shootout between a horse thief and the owner. Cale is shot, wounded, and becomes a suspected accomplice.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  17. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 7 - The Squaw
    7.9/10(302 votes)

    S7:E7

    His mother has been dead almost a year, and Cully is troubled by his pa's carousing. When they discuss his getting married again, it seems like a good idea until he returns from a business trip with a new wife, an Arapaho squaw, who he has conflicted emotions about.

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 17 - Cody's Code
    7.7/10(249 votes)

    S7:E17

    Cody is a well-liked citizen of Dodge. He's building a house and getting married. When he befriends a stranger, his perfect life is turned upside down.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:John Meston

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  19. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 25 - The Widow
    7.7/10(272 votes)

    S7:E25

    A young woman comes to Dodge insisting on an escort to Indian country so that the body of her husband, believed to have been killed fighting the Kiowa, may be recovered.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 28 - The Dealer
    7.7/10(288 votes)

    S7:E28

    Johnny Cole kills a crooked card dealer in self defense, and then falls in love with the dealer's beautiful daughter, but she resists his advances and wants to seriously hurt him instead.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 9 - Milly
    7.6/10(316 votes)

    S7:E9

    The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 10 - Indian Ford
    7.6/10(274 votes)

    S7:E10

    Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 13 - Marry Me
    7.6/10(302 votes)

    S7:E13

    Orkey Cathcart is looking for a wife and sets his sites on Miss Kitty.

    Director:Dennis Weaver
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  24. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 20 - Half Straight
    7.6/10(247 votes)

    S7:E20

    A man has been hired to kill Matt, but when he meets and quickly falls in love with a decent girl, he has a change of heart--or does he?

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:John Meston

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  25. Gunsmoke Season 7 Episode 34 - The Boys
    7.6/10(232 votes)

    S7:E34

    The market for snake oil is on the decline, so a peddler and his sons expand their con game with murder.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:John Meston

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"The Gallows" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 7. It scored 9.2/10 based on 480 votes. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and written by John Meston, it aired on 3/3/1962. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Long, Long Trail".