I remember watching the episode, with a smile and after it was over I was like wow. I was not expecting this. Cleverly written and one of the best.

I liked "Caleb" - and how the dog was so devoted to the John Dehner character at the end. But I also liked "The Gallows" and how Jeremy Slate - framed - stood by Matt even though he knew he'd face the ultimate sacrifice in doing so.

But there's a third I also enjoyed watching, and still do - "The Pretender" featuring the two Toms - Skerritt playing a mean brother, Simcox played the good brother who took the rap for crimes committed by Skerritt. With the recently sadly passed Nehemiah Persoff playing the father who blamed the Simcox brothers for all the wrongs actually committed by the Skerritt brother - until the ultimate situation showed itself, and the Persoff character, the Father - finally realizes the younger brother was a murderer and a robber. REAL GOOD ONE.

Another with an honorable mention is the one featuring Robert Lansing as a bounty hunter and friend of Festus who only wishes to settle down on his own land.

So many great episodes in such a great series.

I really like these three episodes:
1) 'Magnus' (Chester's savvy cousin), Season 1, episode 12.
2) 'The Bobsy Twins' (elderly brothers want to kill all Indians), Season 5, episode 36.
3) 'The Fourth Victim' (disturbed man with silencer-equipped rifle kills three men with Doc Adams slated to be his next victim), Season 20, episode 8.

To kill a Marshall is one of, if not the best, episodes. How it doesn't make the list is beyond me.

I love the episode "Phoenix", where Glenn Corbett played a gunslinger hired to kill a man (played by Gene Evans) in order to settle a grudge.

My all-time favorite was "Dirty Sally". I became a huge fan of Jeannette Nolan because of this episode. Hard to believe she played the straight-laced Ms. Grundy in another of my favorites, "P. S., Murray Christmas".

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I enjoyed the Christmas story with the orphan children, but there's many favorites

The best...One of the BEST is Festus and Ben Snow..Strother Martain taking the gold across the desert. Another is when Festus helps the schoolteacher with the nasty porridge. And 1 more. The Precher building the Church for the indians.

"The Cabin" was originally a radio broadcast it was a bit darker than the TV version, both well done. The radio show featured Willian Conrad as "Matt Dillion" and he took less crap off villians than the TV "Matt" James Arnes.

I prefer the half hour episodes, which primarily feature Matt and Chester. I lose interest in later episodes when Matt only made cameo appearances. Arness once declared "Chato" to be his favorite episode, and I think it was one of the best. One of my personal favorites is a final season episode, "Matt Dillon Must Die". Morgan Woodward as Abraham Wakefield was amazing.

I also would like to see Murder She Wrote, and Perry Mason,and Hogan on the weekend, thank you, and God bless you all.

Thank you for starting Gun Smoke from the beginning, I love those with Chester, they are great.

My favorite was Cale.

Gunsmoke will run out of episodes in a few days on MeTV and have to start over. I hope they go back to season one. The half hour black and white episodes were my favorites. The last season has few things to boast about. Not only was Kitty gone, but Matt was hardly there. I read that he was in every episode of the series, so maybe he has been edited out to make room for commercials.

I also like the episode with Susan Olsen "Abelia" I think was the Title. Susan was so cute in it. She told Sherwood Schwartz that she "Wath in a Gunthmoke, and there wath a Horth and a Thake."

I liked P.S.Murray Christmas the best. Mainly because it featured Jodie Foster, Erin Moran and Todd Lookinland.

Of the choices given I chose "Prairie Wolfer".
But my real favorite was "Exposing the Long Branch". As you'll remember, that is the episode where where Kitty sneaks up behind Matt and "pants" him.

100% similar. I do remember the Bette Davis episode.

Now if the two-part "Dirty Sally" episode had been included, I would have chose that one without hesitation. *That* was my all-time favorite "Gunsmoke" episode.

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