Gunsmoke · S7 · E2
Old Yellow Boots
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.
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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.
Season 7

1Perce
45 minSep 30, 1961
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.

2Old Yellow Boots
45 minOct 7, 1961Now viewing
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.

3Miss Kitty
45 minOct 14, 1961
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?

4Harper's Blood
45 minOct 21, 1961
A hard man has given his two sons a hard raising, sure that they inherited their mother's bad blood from their murderous ancestor. The old man may be right: one of his sons may be a murderer. Or is it the other son?

5All That
45 minOct 28, 1961
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.

6Long, Long Trail
45 minNov 4, 1961
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.

7The Squaw
45 minNov 11, 1961
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.

8Chesterland
45 minNov 18, 1961
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.

9Milly
45 minNov 25, 1961
The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.

10Indian Ford
45 minDec 2, 1961
Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.

11Apprentice Doc
45 minDec 9, 1961
A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.

12Nina's Revenge
45 minDec 16, 1961
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.

13Marry Me
45 minDec 23, 1961
Orkey Cathcart is looking for a wife and sets his sites on Miss Kitty.

14A Man a Day
45 minDec 30, 1961
Outlaws want Matt to leave Dodge so they can steal from the bank or they will kill a man per day.

15The Do-Badder
45 minJan 6, 1962
Prospector Harvey Easter settles in Dodge City after striking it rich in the Colorado Rockies. His heavy handed attempts at philanthropy soon have unintended results.

16Lacey
45 minJan 13, 1962
A hired man is sweet on his boss's daughter and disliked by his boss. When the boss is killed, his own daughter claims to have done it, but Matt is suspicious.

17Cody's Code
45 minJan 20, 1962
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.

18Old Dan
45 minJan 27, 1962
Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.

19Catawomper
45 minFeb 10, 1962
Chester is getting home-cooked meals from, and giving guitar lessons to, a spirited young woman who hopes thereby to make her estranged sweetheart jealous.

20Half Straight
45 minFeb 17, 1962
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?

21He Learned About Women
45 minFeb 24, 1962
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.

22The Gallows
45 minMar 3, 1962
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.

23Reprisal
45 minMar 10, 1962
Oren was a rancher who liked his drink, gambling and women, even though he had a pretty wife at home. Matt is forced to kill him and when he breaks the news to her, all she can see is getting revenge for his death, and Matt is her target.

24Coventry
45 minMar 17, 1962
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.

25The Widow
45 minMar 24, 1962
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.

26Durham Bull
45 minMar 31, 1962
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.

27Wagon Girls
45 minApr 7, 1962
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.

28The Dealer
45 minApr 14, 1962
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.

29The Summons
45 minApr 21, 1962
Loy has always felt he could do what he pleased. When he shoots one of his gang members in the back just for the reward, he takes the body into Dodge to Matt Dillon who isn't as ready as he thought to give him his bounty.

30The Dreamers
45 minApr 28, 1962
Henry and Jake have struck it rich. Now they want to follow their dream and buy a Mississippi river boat. When Henry spots Miss Kitty, he fancies marrying her but she will have nothing to do with his dream or him.

31Cale
45 minMay 5, 1962
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.

32Chester's Indian
45 minMay 12, 1962
On his way to a fishing vacation, Chester stumbles into a human drama when he wounds a fleeing Indian he mistakes for a thief, who has touched the heart of a lonely young white woman.

33The Prisoner
45 minMay 19, 1962
A charmer escapes from federal prison to Dodge and finds himself caught up in the drama among two brothers, the wife of one of them, and their domineering father.

34The Boys
45 minMay 26, 1962
The market for snake oil is on the decline, so a peddler and his sons expand their con game with murder.
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