GUNSMOKE Season 8
Quint Asper's character joins the cast, and Festus and April are introduced. A very strong season with The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner, The Quest for Asa Jannin, The Trappers, and With a Smile topping the list.
Matt Dillon searches in a storm for missing Cale, who has suffered a riding injury, and runs into many problems himself.
Matt and Festus meet and track down a killer who happens to be Festus uncle, and the uncle's girlfriend, April.
Two men want to eliminate Matt so they can rob the Dodge bank, but can't get the job done.
A young woman runs away from an orphanage to experience the wonders of Dodge, and Matt returns her to discover their tyrannical living conditions.
Chester's Uncle Sunday and his 'niece', Ellie, come to Dodge and wind up robbing the bank.
Two Irish neighbors feud over the virtue of a girl they left in Ireland.
After a white man kills his father, Quint lives with the Comanches for years until Matt brings him to Dodge for medical attention after a raid.
Two businessmen from Wichita bet against each other on whether or not a greenhorn impersonating a gunman can stay alive in Dodge for 14 days.
A young Arapaho boy who is the only survivor of his burnt-out village forms a long-lasting bond with a cowboy he meets on the prairie.
A young woman whose father keeps them traveling wants to marry and settle down and tells a big lie about Chester to do it.
An aging general sends his old friend to Dodge to locate his mixed-race son he hasn't seen since infancy.
A rancher has to concoct a plan for his spineless son to endure the consequences of his actions and be hanged with honor.
A young woman works with a couple of bank robbers, makes a futile play for Matt, and winds up being targeted for killing herself.
Louie polishes off a bottle and takes a nap at the 'old slew' and dreams he sees a man murdered there.
An aging farm woman has the tyrannical view that her son will live a big-city life and not suffer and sacrifice as she has, but he wants to be a farmer.
A farmer who spent 8 years in prison for rustling and crippling his neighbor is released, but resents that same neighbor who helped support his family in his absence.
Quint uses his Comanche knowledge to save himself and a colonel's daughter after surviving a stagecoach raid by renegade whites.
A woman in ill health who had a hand in raising Kitty shows up in Dodge with a trail of petty thievery from town to town.
A young woman vows to uphold her father's dream of re-routing a water source on her sprawling property but later sees the error of it.
A fan favorite, after her estranged father dies, a teenaged girl used to surviving on her own is taken by Matt to Dodge to learn basic societal skills.
After Chester discovers his love interest has married a bigamist, the man hires a killer to take him out.
Thinking he is sure to die, a trapper leaves his injured partner in the brush to escape Indians, then later learns he lived and is out to kill him.
A young woman who's been in a convent falls for a scoundrel who attempted to rob the stage she was on, and he winds up killing her father.
A farm woman living alone after the death of her family accuses Quint of assaulting her because he rebuffed her, but an outlaw really did it.
A young lady who has lost two sets of parents is abducted by a woman and her four useless sons, and Matt and Quint go after them.
An ex-con who knew Matt when they were kids comes to Dodge and attempts to use Matt to commit a robbery but can't go through with it.
When a likable life-long criminal who once saved Matt's life shows up in Dodge, Matt suspects he's being used.
Doc and Matt rescue a young woman whose father beat her and locked her in a cellar for reading, and she falls in love with Doc while he tends her.
When a white man's Comanche wife is injured and taken to Dodge, she is kidnapped by another white man who wants to run away with her.
Chester befriends a 'widow' and her daughter by helping them open a dress shop, but she isn't exactly a widow.
An old frontiersman who lost his wife and son decades ago goes on a murder spree because he's angry the frontier is being spoiled by nesters and sodbusters.
Two best friends are partners in a freight business, but when one sustains a head injury, his whole personality changes for the worse.
When a kind farmer is killed at the Long Branch by a buffalo hunter, the saloon girl he would've married is left to grieve but later has a spark of interest in a drifter who may come back eventually.
Kitty is furious with Matt for disappointing her yet again and becomes interested in a man she finds injured on the prairie.
When Matt goes to Elkader to arrest a man and gets left in an alley with a head injury, the man he's after helps him out because Matt can't see.
When a young man finds a unique horse loose on the prairie and claims it, he is later accused of stealing once it is recognized.
Two men who hold a grudge frame Quint as a horse thief.
Top 10 episode: Matt tries to save the life of an innocent man sentenced to hang by traveling to Texas with another lawman (who has his own agenda) to find the real killer.