GUNSMOKE Season 17
Kitty is lost in the wilderness after a stage wreck and encounters a wild girl-child who doesn't speak but lends assistance.
Festus finds an old Indian abandoned alone in a cave and takes it upon himself to try to provide for him.
A newly released prisoner is sent by his former cellmate to kill the man who put him in prison but never expects to like him and his young wife who are now farmers.
When a young woman is killed on her farm and her son injured, their friend Drago, an old tracker, wants revenge and avoids Newly's posse.
Matt tracks a killer and helps a young orphan look for his birth mother at the same time.
Doc returns after a long absence, and after Matt is shot in the spine, they board a train to Denver to see a specialist, but the train is hijacked by gold thieves.
Willie learns Amy is his mother, and the marshal and the girls fend off the outlaws Matt is after at an abandoned fort.
After the train is stopped Matt's presence is harder to conceal and the robbers start offloading the gold.
Festus and Doctor Chapman get off on the wrong foot when Doc goes to Maryland for an undetermined time and the new doctor's abilities are challenged when there's an explosion in Newly's gun shop.
While the outlaws are chasing Newly, Festus and the gold wagon, Doc operates on Matt and the passengers and crew take back the train.
In a family of notorious outlaws, the youngest son struggles to become a man, and his ma tries to redirect his path.
A group of orphans who like the maintenance man who worked at the orphanage hop a train with him and wind up in Dodge.
Trafton has no conscience until he robs a Catholic church of their gold altar pieces and the priest who he murders forgives him before he dies.
After
After Matt is shot twice and needs convalescence, he hires an old friend who has some questionable ethics.
Dr. Chapman saves the day after an innocent mountain man is accused of murdering a farm family.