Richard Dreyfuss Appeared in 'Gunsmoke' The actor didn't need a boat of any shape and size to appear on "Gunsmoke" in 1973. Matt is certain that the man he's taking to the gallows, whose been convicted of murder, is innocent. This was actor Phil Rich's final role, passing away at the age of 57 on February 22, 1956. Kitty is taken hostage during a bank robbery by the Gunther brothers, and they warn Matt that if he follows, they will kill her. And yet, memories of one who rode a yellow horse still haunts Mrs. Shepherd's mind. Notes: The last of Ed Nelson's six appearances in the series. Murry Christmas alone is a consortium of child stars. Krag is haunted by his past, and now he, his family, his victims, the townsfolk, Matt, and the U.S. Attorney General must decide his ultimate fate. Newcomer Ben Stack makes a play for saloon girl Honey Dare. Badger and Ivers take them hostage and return to their desert stronghold so that Doc can treat Ben, and Ivers can take Lyla for his own purposes. Outlaws use widow Abelia's (Jacqueline Scott) home as their hideout. A drunk, Lucius Prince (Jack Albertson), escapes from his reproving daughter, Miss Elsie (Melissa Murphy), who wants to put her father in an institution. Guest Cast: Tom Reese (as Charlie Dent), Morgan Paull (as Brinker), William Campbell (as Striker), Harry Middlebrooks (as Dobie) and X Brands (as Chief). John Walking Fox's $50 gold piece starts gold fever in Dodge City and makes the man a target of robbers. High in the snow-capped mountains, the Sioux take a trainload of passengers hostage, demanding two white men who sold them poisonous whisky. The actor Jeff Silver was a week shy of 19 years old when this episode aired. Matt and Chester track down a murderer and horse thief into Indian territory. Chester protects Doc from an escaped convict who mistakes him for the Wyoming Territory judge that sentenced him to seven years. Guest Cast: Brett Halsey (as Elser), Ken L. Smith (as Pence), Russell Thorson (credited Russ Thorson as Bowers), Michael Granger (as Hander) and James Nusser (uncredited). The friendship between two trappers is jeopardized when one, who admits he's a coward, abandons the other to die after being stabbed by an Indian during a struggle. Virginia Chapman was the wife of James Arness. St. Louis newspaperman Summer Pendleton (L. Q. Jones) exploits teenage bank clerk Randy Gogan (Kevin Coughlin) who killed a notorious gunfighter. Guest Cast: Jack Elam (as Dolph Quince), Ken Curtis (as Phil Jacks), Lane Bradford (as Jay), Chuck Hayward (as Studer), Earl Parker (as Snyder), Cliff Ketchum (as Cowboy) and Bradley Payne (credited Brad Payne as Cook). A Confederate Civil War General who's an incorrigible liar claims the new town banker is plotting to make off with the depositors' money. Chester becomes engaged, and in his eagerness to please the girl, buys a run-down abandoned homestead where he experiences many hardships and, in the end, betrayal. Guest Cast: Robert Easton (as Magnus Goode), James Anderson (as Lucifer Jones), Than Wyenn (as Dealer), Tim Graham (as Cowboy) and Dorothy Schuyler (as Olive). He will go on to play bartender Jake Summers in Lawman and pass away four years later of cancer in 1963 at the age of 46. An abusive father, who resents his daughter's hunger for knowledge, beats and locks her in the cellar, and when Matt and Doc rescue her, she falls in love with her knight in shining armor. Guest Cast: Andy Clyde (as Poney Thompson), Warren Oates (as Jed Hakes) and Charles Maxwell (as Walt Moorman). A gang hires a drifter to mix nitroglycerin for them. When Norcross is shot in the back, the Milligan family are made pariahs, and John and his daughter Wendy Milligan (Patti Cohoon) are terrorized. [12] Ewing's character was replaced in season 13 (196768) by Newly O'Brien (Buck Taylor). Guest Cast: John Dehner (as Tom Cassidy), Peggy McCay (as Flora), Ross Martin (as Dan Clell), Barney Phillips (as Bill Pence) and Roxane Berard (as Dorey). His productions comprise the television series Family (19761980), Charlie's Angels (19761981), The Love Boat (19771986), Hart to Hart (19791984), Dynasty (19811989), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000), Melrose Place (19921999), 7th Heaven (1996-2007) and Charmed (1998-2006). The town's diminutive loudmouth bully has a beef with a newly arrived couple and recognizes the husband who's hiding his checkered past. Dodge's rumor mill is running full overdrive when Kitty whisks a young boy off the stagecoach and hustles him out into the country, but much to Kitty's dismay, the gossip finds the wrong ears. An Indian squaw seeking medical attention is rebuffed by Dodge merchants and when Kitty steps in to help, three troublemakers incite an unruly mob to rid her from town, but one of the agitators initiates his own twisted plan. Matt guns down three bank robbers in a fierce gunfight, and when the surviving member of the gang calls him a "butcher" it sends him into an emotional tailspin. A retired Army officer who has been approved for the job of marshal by the War Department, approaches Matt with an unusual request, "Quit, I want to be Marshal". Guest Cast: Phillip Pine (as Vint), Rebecca Welles (as Nan), Stafford Repp (as Brewer), Tom Palmer (as Jack Salter) and Jane Ray (as Vickie). Matt and Chester out riding the range come upon a rather suspicious and unfriendly man who hustles two beautiful thoroughbreds away in a big hurry. Smith (as Cran). Notes: Keye Luke who played Chen, was a Chinese-born American film and television actor. Newly tries to help care for the sick baby of wanted man Lew Harrod (Sam Groom) and his untrusting Comanche wife Makesha (Alexandra Morgan), who distrusts the medicine of the white man, even to the point of endangering her own tribe. James Drury makes his first of four appearances. Two cowboys buy drinks and show a diminutive ex-soldier a good time, but when the fun ends they plan to hang him for fighting on the Union's side of the war. He would play the part of "Sam" or "Bartender" a total of 75 times in the first five seasons from 19551959 with only nine being credited. Faith healer Bohannan (Richard Kiley) is asked by Lydia Walden (Linda Marsh) to cure her terminally ill son, Heck Walden (Vincent Van Patten). Guest Cast: Leo Gordon (as Hack Prine), George D. Wallace (credited George Wallace as Dolph Timble), Hal Baylor (as Lee Timble) and Wally Cassell (as Oley). Matt investigates three con artists who defraud the bank, but they flee taking Doc hostage. A case of mistaken identity ensues when Festus is identified by a special agent for the governor, Doyle (Ramon Bieri), and by Rand (Booth Colman), as being Frank Eaton who is wanted for three murders, among other charges. A pompous well-to-do gentleman from Philadelphia comes to Dodge in search of his runaway fianc whose family dismissed for being a ship captain's daughter. He's seen wearing a black hat in nine of the first season's Boot Hill introductions. He also had two credits in other parts. It will still be five more years before he is cast as the town drunk, "Louie Pheeters". 2. After 36 hours without sleep hunting down vicious prisoner Job Snelling (Leo Gordon), he must go a few hours more without rest while dealing with a brawl at the Long Branch between Dobie Crimps (Shug Fisher) and Buck Doolin (Douglas V. Fowley) who are feuding over a mail-order bride, and with nine-year-old juvenile delinquent, arsonist, horse thief and pie thrower Andy (Willie Ames), and with Kitty giving him the silent treatment after Matt fails to keep his promise for a picnic date. A ruthless gang conspire to steal a prized Hereford breeding bull worth its weight in gold from a shrewd old Texas cattleman and his grandson. (OK I will save a bunch for others to see) there are many TV shows that had multiple regular members of their cast that were once guest stars on Gunsmoke. Notes: Dialogue within the episode mentions Pat Garrett was pursuing Billy the Kid which may help to date the series from 1880-1881. This was her first of four roles on Gunsmoke playing Lennie Hinton. Guest Cast: Pippa Scott (as Mary Tabor), R.G. Guest Cast: Claude Akins (as Hack), Patricia Barry (as Belle) and Harry Dean Stanton (credited Dean Stanton as Alvy). Notes: Howard McNear was the original voice of Doc Adams on the radio version of "Gunsmoke". An aging lawman comes to Dodge in hopes to rekindle an old romance and is stalked by a young man who has a warped view on earning a reputation. Fate seems to have other plans for Matt as he takes a prisoner, Waco Thompson (Victor French), back to Dodge. Sam the bartender (Glenn Strange) takes an interest in trying to reform a juvenile delinquent on probation, Eric Tabray (Michael Burns). On the way to Mexicao, he rescues an orphaned girl Marcy McCloud (Dawn Lyn), and saloon gal Stella Silks (Shani Wallis). Star Wars Darth Vader Steering Wheel Cover (#175597109077) e***t (1635) - Feedback left by buyer e***t . Guest Cast: Richard Mulligan (as Jud Pryor), Norman Alden (as Deke Franklin), Warren Berlinger (as Ed Franklin), Jackie Russell (as Annie Franklin), Fay Spain (as Willy), Ken Swofford (as Bo Warrick) and Tony Davis (as Wonder). Special Guests: Ramon Bieri (as Big Thicket), Gretchen Corbett (as Arlene), Lance LeGault (as Oregon), Ron Soble (as Clatch), Don Stroud (as Foss) and Russell Wiggins (as Pryor). Paul Wexler was an American character actor who appeared in more than 30 feature films and over 40 different television series. Notes: Cactus Mack and series regular Glenn Strange were first cousins, their mothers were sisters. The outlaw Talbot (Anthony Zerbe) plans to rob the bank in Dodge, but is sidetracked by his attraction to Katherine (Salome Jens) after he is forced to kill her husband Eli (Robert Totten). Stone (as Orval), Emile Genest (as Frisbie), Tom Lowell (as Ethan) and Howard Culver (as Clerk). Guest Cast: James Drury (as Tom), Jan Shepard (as Tilda), George Keymas (as Ivers), Ron Hayes (as Varden) and Robert Brubaker (as Jim Buck). All episodes are listed in order of airdate. Three friends who share a dark secret are being systematically targeted, and rattled Dodge citizens suspect Indian activity. A dishonest gambler and coward in his own right, uses a mentally challenged man as a puppet in a plot against Matt. Notes: This is the first episode to feature Festus as a character, who's played by Ken Curtis. Guest Cast: Mriam Coln (as Mora), Peggy McCay (as Mrs. Cooter), William Bryant (as Marshal Cooter), Rodolfo Hoyos (as Juanito), Robert Knapp (as Surgeon), Pedro Regas (as Old Man) and Jim Sheppard (as Case). See more ideas about gunsmoke, james arness, tv westerns. Guest Cast: Gilbert Roland (as Lt. Julio Chavez), Gene Evans (as Charlie Hacker), Anna Navarro (as Marguerita), Alex Montoya (as Diaz), Walter Burke (as Willie), Miguel Landa (as Rivera), Pepe Hern (as Miguel), Lisa Seagram (as Girl) and Ricky Vera (as Boy). Matt's friend and mentor, an aging ex-lawman arrives in Dodge, but he's followed by a man who wants revenge for the killing of his brother two years before. He was an American stage, film and television actor possibly best known for his co-starring role of Max Fields in the 19591961 NBC crime drama television series, The Lawless Years. The presence of the drifter's son, Rob Fielder (Mitch Vogel), doesn't make matters any easier for the judge. Notes: Herbert Lytton portrayed Jake Crowell, his first of seven appearances. Guest Cast: Vic Perrin (as Wilbur Hawkins), Robert Burton (as Sheriff), Robert Karnes (as Roberts) and Bert Rumsey (as Sam). A homesteader believes Indians are harassing him at night, and after Matt tells him to get a rifle, he mistakenly shoots and kills a cowhand. Matt turns in his badge after being forced to kill a horse thief who was once his friend. To celebrate, weve gathered 60 actors and actresses who were guests on the series. Guest Cast: Simon Oakland (as Jim Nation), Peter Mamakos (as Art Carp), Clem Bevans (as Fly), James Gavin (as Wells), Forrest Stanley (as Griffin), Jan Arvan (as Station Man), Jimmy Cross (as Hank) and Al Hopson (as Bill). Armstrong (as Argonaut), Gregg Palmer (as Herk), Glenn Strange (as Sam), Shelley Morrison (as Addie), George Lindsey (as Skeeter), Elisabeth Fraser (as Daisy Lou) and Claire Wilcox (as Piney). Phil appeared in one showing of Gunsmoke, S1E24 "The Pest Hole" that aired seven weeks after his death. A recent outbreak of cholera is used as a weapon of revenge when a rancher terrorizes homesteaders off their land. A belligerent man who made unwanted advancements on Kitty is found beaten to death and an eyewitness comes forward claiming Matt did it. In Ash, the Caped Crusader played Emmett, the target of troubled man who was hit in the head with a barrel.James WhitmoreThe great character actor, who was in everything fromPlanet of the ApestoThe Shawshank Redemption, put in his time for three episodes.Phew! Guest Cast: John Larch (as Clay Young), Ainslie Pryor (as Josh Nolan), Jeanne Bates (as Mrs. Nolan) and Edward Platt (credited Ed Platt as Mr. Burgess). You also get to see Peter, Jan, and Cindy from The Brady Bunch.. 2. Now Festus and Newly must decide whether they'll allow trail boss Dave Carpenter (Jim Davis) to take Jesse back as their cook or take him back to jail to finish his 10-year sentence. Notes: Sadly, three of the guest actors in this episode would pass away at relatively young ages. Guest Cast: Raymond Bailey (as Shaneways), Joseph Kearns (credited Joe Kearns as Mr. Papp), Alan Dexter (as Hook), Gordon Mills (as Varden) and Perry Ivins (as Mr. Hogg). 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