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The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 9

Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 9!

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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 9 Episode 1 - Kate Heller
    8.7/10(292 votes)

    #1 - Kate Heller

    S9:E1

    A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  2. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 2 - Lover Boy
    8.1/10(304 votes)

    #2 - Lover Boy

    S9:E2

    A charming cowboy apparently is guilty only of breaking hearts until he gets to Dodge, where he finds two women who may make a killer of him.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:John Meston

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  3. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 3 - Legends Don't Sleep
    8.3/10(264 votes)

    #3 - Legends Don't Sleep

    S9:E3

    A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  4. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 4 - Tobe
    8.0/10(236 votes)

    #4 - Tobe

    S9:E4

    Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  5. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 5 - Easy Come
    7.7/10(242 votes)

    #5 - Easy Come

    S9:E5

    A mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:John Meston

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  6. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 6 - My Sister's Keeper
    6.8/10(227 votes)

    #6 - My Sister's Keeper

    S9:E6

    A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  7. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 7 - Quint's Trail
    7.8/10(242 votes)

    #7 - Quint's Trail

    S9:E7

    Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  8. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 8 - Carter Caper
    8.3/10(263 votes)

    #8 - Carter Caper

    S9:E8

    A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:John Meston

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  9. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 9 - Ex-Con
    7.7/10(208 votes)

    #9 - Ex-Con

    S9:E9

    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.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:John Meston

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  10. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 10 - Extradition (1)
    8.0/10(231 votes)

    #10 - Extradition (1)

    S9:E10

    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.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 11 - Extradition (2)
    8.2/10(216 votes)

    #11 - Extradition (2)

    S9:E11

    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.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 12 - The Magician
    8.6/10(281 votes)

    #12 - The Magician

    S9:E12

    A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 13 - Pa Hack's Brood
    7.2/10(252 votes)

    #13 - Pa Hack's Brood

    S9:E13

    A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  14. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 14 - The Glory and the Mud
    8.2/10(256 votes)

    #14 - The Glory and the Mud

    S9:E14

    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.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 15 - Dry Well
    7.4/10(246 votes)

    #15 - Dry Well

    S9:E15

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:John Meston

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  16. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 16 - Prairie Wolfer
    8.7/10(310 votes)

    #16 - Prairie Wolfer

    S9:E16

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:John Dunkel

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  17. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 17 - Friend
    8.2/10(253 votes)

    #17 - Friend

    S9:E17

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  18. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 18 - Once a Haggen
    8.6/10(274 votes)

    #18 - Once a Haggen

    S9:E18

    A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 19 - No Hands
    8.5/10(283 votes)

    #19 - No Hands

    S9:E19

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:John Meston

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  20. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 20 - May Blossom
    7.9/10(300 votes)

    #20 - May Blossom

    S9:E20

    Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  21. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 21 - The Bassops
    7.8/10(227 votes)

    #21 - The Bassops

    S9:E21

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 22 - The Kite
    8.3/10(263 votes)

    #22 - The Kite

    S9:E22

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:John Meston

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  23. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 23 - Comanches Is Soft
    8.1/10(326 votes)

    #23 - Comanches Is Soft

    S9:E23

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Kathleen Hite

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  24. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 24 - Father's Love
    7.9/10(244 votes)

    #24 - Father's Love

    S9:E24

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:John Meston

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  25. Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 25 - Now That April's Here
    8.2/10(226 votes)

    #25 - Now That April's Here

    S9:E25

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Kate Heller" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 9. It scored 8.7/10 based on 292 votes. Directed by Harry Harris and written by Kathleen Hite, it aired on 9/28/1963. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Lover Boy".