Guest Cast: Strother Martin (as Dooley), Ken Lynch (as Colpitt), James Maloney (as Faber), Ben Wright (as Mr. Ross), George Selk (as Moss Grimmick) and James Nusser (as Nelson). A dying old prospector has everyone curious when he wills Kitty all of his worldly possessions, much to the dismay of his niece and her husband. Along the way, they catch up with Dixon, and Matt and Newly trail behind to find and rescue Festus. Dennis Weaver Rated - Custom 7.4 27 Rated 5. This iconic show ran for 21 years and below are some of the GUNSMOKE Guest STARS writers and others Fearing that his son Adam (Kevin Burchett) was the one who was killed, Lemuel (John Anderson) and his remaining children, Tom (Gary Wood) and Elsie (Mary Rings) take Festus hostage until they can find Adam's remains. Regulars, guest stars and supporting players are: Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) Kitty Russell (Amanda Blake) Festus Haggen (Ken Curtis) Newly O'Brian (Buck Taylor) Trafton (Victor French) Tereese Farrell (Sharon Acker) Reverend English (Paul Stevens) Bannion (Philip Carey) Mary K. (Marie Windsor) Whale (Mike Mazurki) A wandering farm boy finds an abandoned horse and sells it to his newfound friend, events that lead to deadly consequences. This is the fourth and final appearance of Scott Marlowe, all different characters. Sodbuster Clarabelle (Katherine Justice) fights cattle baron Lamoor Underwood (Morgan Woodward) for her water supply, with the help of gunfighter Pete Brown (Alex Cord). Guest Cast: Katherine Justice (as Beth Tilton), Robert Hogan (as Capt. It remained at number one until 1961 and stayed in the top 20 until 1964. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Kitty prevents a distraught and frenzied man from killing his son-in-law, who he blames for the death of his daughter. 233 half-hour black-and-white episodes Young farmer Buck Henry (Kurt Russell) sets out to find the man who killed his father John Woolfe (Larry Pennell), his own renegade uncle, Rance Woolfe (Tom Simcox). Guest Cast: Jay C. Flippen (as Owney), Noreen Corcoran (as Ellen), Andrea Darvi (as Amity), James Seay (as Jay), Howard Wendell (as Judge), Orville Sherman (as Wib Smith), Hank Patterson (as Hank Miller), Dolores Quinton (as Clara), Vernon Rich (as Art), Berkeley Harris (as Mal) and Steve Gaynor (as Clay). Festus finds himself in quite a quandary when Matt asks him to watch-over the jail and he learns that the three disorderly drunks being held are his cousins. . Guest Cast: Joe Silver (as Beal Brown), Richard O'Brien (as Carter), Regis J. Cordic (as Sheriff Crane), Eddie Ryder (as The Undertaker), Edward Faulkner (as Drummer), Reid Cruickshanks (as Mr. Denton), Terry Wilson (as Liveryman), Danil Torpe (as Alf), Glenn Strange (as Sam), Ted Jordan (as Burke), Howard Culver (as Howie), John Harper (as Percy Crump), Nancy Fisher (as Flow), Jon Kowal (as Barfly Joe), Al Berry (as Barfly Bob), Daniel M. White (as Oltimer) and Phil Chambers (as Shotgun). Twenty-four one-hour episodes, colorExecutive producer: John Mantley; producer: Leonard Katzman (episodes 612-624, 635), John G. Stephens (episodes 625-634); associate producer: Ron Honthaner Regular cast: James Arness (Matt Dillon), Ken Curtis (Festus), Milburn Stone (Doc), Buck Taylor (Newly), Fran Ryan (Hannah)[62]. He switches roles and plays the banker Botkin in episode 37. 45 Episodes 1975. Bing is the father of American actor Kurt Russell. As of May 5, 2020, all episodes of Gunsmoke have been released on DVD, while two other collections contain selected episodes from all 20 seasons. Notes: Angie Dickinson is an American film and television actress who may be best remembered for her starring role as Sergeant Pepper Anderson in the 19741978 NBC police procedural television series, Police Woman for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama. For reasons only known to him, the town drunk attacks the new Faro dealer who just arrived in Dodge. His daughter Cora Sanderson (Donna Mills), and Matt, eventually convince "back-east" lawyer Cicero Wolfe (Paul Stevens) to defend the alleged renegades when no one else in Kansas will. Notes: Peg Hillias who plays Jenny Gabriel was an American stage, film and television actress. Ex-Army officer Colonel Josiah Johnson (Lee J. Cobb), feeling that he is a failure outside of military life, has become a town drunk, who must now deal with the upcoming marriage of his daughter Anne Ludley (Julie Cobb), and out-strategizing one last enemy. After Matt captures Vigil Connor (Marco St. John), one of the Dog Soldiers led by Jude Connor (William Smith), the rest of the gang shoot Festus and take Kitty hostage hoping to trade before Virgil is hanged. This list contains notable cast members of the Gunsmoke radio and TV series, and TV movies. Matt is seriously injured in a shoot-out outside of Dodge, and in his absence a group of vigilantes run rampant in town. Stone (as Jeff Sutro), Len Wayland (as Jim Donner), Larry Ward (as Sid Perce) and Stanley Adams (as Charlie Rath), Thirty-two one-hour episodes, black-and-whiteProducer: Philip Leacock; associate producer: John MantleyRegular cast: James Arness (Matt Dillon), Ken Curtis (Festus), Milburn Stone (Doc), Amanda Blake (Kitty), Roger Ewing (Thad)[49]Guest Cast: In credits order. A gang of outlaws abduct Kitty and her fellow stagecoach passengers. Their patriarch Moshe Gorofsky (Paul Stevens) must decide whether to tell Matt what Ruxton (Victor French) did, even while Moshe's son Gearshon (Richard Dreyfuss) is pressuring for justice. Matt asks Nellie (Kathleen Nolan) and her niece Susan (Kathy Cannon) to take care of wounded outlaw Boswell (Art Lund) at a stage coach line house. Drunken cavalry Sergeant Holly (Forrest Tucker) pursues Apache warrior/priest Gregorio (Richard Anderson) who took Kitty hostage. Richard Dreyfuss Appeared in 'Gunsmoke' The actor didn't need a boat of any shape and size to appear on "Gunsmoke" in 1973. This is the first appearance of Ken Curtis before his Festus Haggen role. First of eleven appearances for Robert Karnes who portrays Roberts. An odd whiskey salesman has valuable information for Matt, that he overheard a conversation between two men putting a $300 bounty on his head. Matt and Doc have a tense train ride as they take a prisoner, Johnny August (Todd Armstrong), back to Dodge. Guest Cast: J. Pat O'Malley (as Print Asper), Lew Brown (as Will Asper), Ted Knight (as Jay Rabb) and Robert Ivers (as Johnny Asper). Matt, the boy, Jed and the saloon girls get trapped in a deserted fort without any water, to play a waiting game with Ben Rodman's outlaws who will stop at nothing to get the gold Maggie is smuggling out to the prospectors who mined it. Doc treats a woman and her son for scurvy. He was an American actor whose career traversed fifty years which included nearly 200 acting credits. 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). Festus bites off more than he wants to chew when he helps plow crops to make up for the injury. He plays the homesteader Zach Ritter in this segment. The town bully is humiliated in a traveling show and seeks retribution. Matt devises a plan to catch a con man who's selling stolen horses to unaware townfolk. Guest Cast: Mary LaRoche (credited Mary La Roche as Willa), Ben Johnson (as Ben Crown), Don Keefer (as Nally), Catherine McLeod (as Lizzie) and Ollie O'Toole (as Telegrapher). Guest Cast: Andrew Prine (as Clay), William Windom (as Hill), Art Lund (as Heber), Charles Fredericks (as Senator), Shary Marshall (as Rita), Wallace Rooney (as Dan Binney), Robert Fortier (as Ray Costa), Brett King (as Hank), K.L. Johnson enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces and was commissioned a second lieutenant, flying 44 combat missions in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a B-25 Mitchell navigator/bombardier. Murry Christmas and The Predators).Leif GarrettThe teen idol is also in The Sodbusters along with Ford.Alan Hale, Jr. Matt saves a runaway teenage girl from her abusive father, but she creates further difficulties for the Marshal. John AstinAfter Gomez, after his brief stint at the Riddler, he was the title character in Hard Luck HarryEd AsnerYears before he would become Mary Tyler Moores boss, Lou Grant appeared twice, as different characters in 1964 and 1966.Beau BridgesA 24 year old Bridges was Jason in My Fathers Guitar.Charles BronsonThe hard-boiled action star was the psychopathic Crego in the early episode The Killer (1956) and showed up again two years later in Lost Rifle.Gary BuseyIn The Busters, Busey plays Harve, a man kicked in the head by a horse.David CarradineLong before Tarantino tried to kill Bill, the Kung Fu star was a horse thief in Lavery.Robert CulpIf you watch Hung High you will espy thisI Spyspy.Bette DavisAt 58, she still had Bette Davis eyes in The Jailer.Bruce DernLauras dad appeared in four episodes between 1965 and 1969, including The Jailer, too.Angie DickinsonThe young starlet is in The Sins of the Father.James DoohanScotty was beamed down to Dodge for a bit role in Quint Asper Comes Home.Richard DreyfussNot long before landing Jaws, he appeared in This Golden Land.Buddy EbsenBefore and after being a Beverly Hillbilly, Ebsen was a cowboy thrice in 1960, 1961 and 1971.Barbara EdenBefore getting in the Jeannie bottle, Eden appeared in Romeo.Sam ElliottWith that stache and voice, he was born to be in westerns. Chester is appalled when his "uncivilized" country-bumpkin brother comes to Dodge for a Christmas visit. Peter Pan. See more ideas about gunsmoke, james arness, actors. There were multiple famous guest stars Kirk, Spock, Bones, and Scotty from Star Trek all appeared on the show. A gang of outlaws kidnap Newly and Kitty based on their assumption that he's a doctor. Check out as guest. Matt's life is changed during a bank robbery after his gun arm is seriously wounded. Well, we should also mention sitcom kidWillie Aames(P.S. An elderly widower must overcome several costly hurdles and change his once complacent lifestyle in order to gain back custody of his young daughter. John Two-Bears is sentenced to death by the Osage Council for a murder he did not commit. Twenty-five one-hour color episodesProducer: John Mantley; associate producer: Joseph Dackow Regular cast: James Arness (Matt Dillon), Ken Curtis (Festus), Milburn Stone (Doc), Amanda Blake (Kitty), Buck Taylor (Newly)Guest cast: In credits orderNote: Gunsmoke began its thirteenth season in a new timeslot (Mondays at 7:30 PM eastern time). 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. 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). Matt tracks down white-slave traders led by Timothy Fitzpatrick (James Whitmore) and Comancheros led by Blue Jacket (Gregory Sierra) who abducted young Cynthia Emery (Kathleen Cody) just a few miles from Dodge. A wanted, on-the-run cowboy comes across a precocious, runaway boy and accompanies him to Dodge to find his impoverished mother. Barnaby Jones. Matt attempts to save a rancher's life by amputating his gangrenous leg. His longest recurring role was Shawn Brady on the daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives in 19841985. Together they head downstream. Notes: Ted Knight who played the lawyer Jay Rabb, was the vain and shallow newscaster Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show which may be his greatest success, winning him two Emmy's in 1973 and 1976. The jailhouse has no door on the back wall replaced by the gun rack which usually sits on the side wall, Matt's desk is a high rolltop positioned against the wall as opposed to the flat desk more situated out into the room, the pot-belly stove and bulletin board with the wanted posters is missing, the safe is where the stove was, and the front door is not the same. Notes: Florenz Ames started his profession in vaudeville as a song and dance man performing with his wife Alice "Adelaide" Winthrop, as "Ames and Winthrop." A young man, Travis Colter (Jan-Michael Vincent) starts to consider heading down the same path as his outlaw brothers, while his mother Beatrice Colter (Kim Hunter) tries to dissuade him. A family of outlaws led by their patriarch Emmet (David Huddleston) have always been one step ahead of the law by murdering and intimidation of loved-ones, witnesses, and judges. Ex-Union soldier and buffalo hunter Corley (Robert Totten), reveals the true identity of Timothy Driscoll (Nehemiah Persoff), who is Karl Martin Krag, the "Devil of Donneville", a former Confederate Commandant of a Civil War prison camp where hundreds died. Neighboring ranchers spar over cattle grazing rights which escalates into an all-out war where one elderly rancher must confront three lawless brothers alone. Matt's friend from Texas arrives in Dodge with interests to buy the stagecoach line, but eyebrows raise when he's seen colluding with a local hooligan. A wealthy obnoxious miner passing through Dodge becomes infatuated with Kitty, and when she rebukes his advances, he sets aside his dreams and chooses to run her out of business. DeForest KelleyDennis HopperFun fact: He was actually born in Dodge City, Kansas! Guest Cast: Karen Grassle (as Fran), John Reilly (as Ike), Linda Sublette (as Emily), Herman Poppe (as Luke), Michele Marsh (as Sara), Dennis Redfield (as Shep), Fran Ryan (as Hannah), Robert Brubaker, Rod McGaughy (as Cowboy #1) and Bobby E. Clark (as Cowboy #2). He was an American stage, radio, film and television actor with over 200 acting credits usually playing the strong, unsympathetic type or the inflexible father/husband. An overbearing sister is extremely obsessed in controlling her younger sibling's life. Notes: Paul Newlan plays Jeremy Stoner in this episode. The daughter of a traveling medicine man is savagely attacked by a local rancher's bad seed, and neither are willing to identify him. 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