Gunsmoke: Season 14
Season 14 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Gunsmoke Season 13.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 14 Progress Shield
Lyle's Kid
Sep 23, 1968 · 45 min
Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for h
The Hide Cutters
Sep 30, 1968 · 45 min
Festus is rescued from a rock avalanche by a young hide cutter. His fellow cutters are following a herd of cattle with hopes of stealing them for the hides.
Zavala
Oct 7, 1968 · 45 min
Good western. Mostly action, not too much girl stuff. Gunplay by Dillon very very good in this one. Story is about Dillon taking a warrant into Mexico. He finds the culprit and
Uncle Finney
Oct 14, 1968 · 45 min
A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.
Slocum
Oct 21, 1968 · 45 min
Grizzily mountain man, Slocum tracks the sons of a man who tried to bushwhack his good friend, Matt Dillon.
O'Quillian
Oct 28, 1968 · 45 min
Leary O'Quillan kills a card cheat in self defense and is pursued to Dodge by the man's brother, Clay Tynan.
9:12 to Dodge
Nov 11, 1968 · 45 min
Matt and Doc are escorting outlaw Johnny August by train to trail for murder. Also on board and waiting along the line are his men waiting for a chance to free him.
Abelia
Nov 18, 1968 · 45 min
A young woman and her kids and Festus are held hostage from a man Matt is trying to find.
Railroad!
Nov 25, 1968 · 45 min
Matt clashes with maverick railroad builder Wes Cameron and his wild men running a railroad line through Dodge.
The Miracle Man
Dec 2, 1968 · 45 min
Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.
Waco
Dec 9, 1968 · 45 min
While bringing in outlaw, Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with his outlaw band following them while he has to deliver a baby.
Lobo
Dec 16, 1968 · 45 min
Mountain man Luke Brazo joins Matt in a hunt for a vicious wolf terrorizing the area.
Johnny Cross
Dec 23, 1968 · 45 min
Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
The Money Store
Dec 30, 1968 · 45 min
When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.
The Twisted Heritage
Jan 6, 1968 · 45 min
Kitty saves the life of a man during a stage hold-up, taking him back to his ranch she finds his mother a ruthless matron and his daughter alienated from her father.
Time of the Jackals
Jan 13, 1969 · 45 min
A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.
Mannon
Jan 20, 1969 · 45 min
Gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge, after shooting Festus and taking his mule, to face Matt in a gunfight.
Gold Town
Jan 27, 1969 · 45 min
Will Mannon, a sharpshooter who rode with Quantrill's Raiders, terrorizes Dodge City as he waits for Matt to return and face him in a showdown.
The Mark of Cain
Feb 3, 1969 · 45 min
A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.
Reprisal
Feb 10, 1969 · 45 min
Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder and delivering a baby. He choses to save the man first, and the baby dies in childbirth. The baby's fath
The Long Night
Feb 17, 1969 · 45 min
Three bounty hunters hold hostages in the Long Branch to get Matt to turn over a prisoner to them.
The Night Riders
Feb 24, 1969 · 45 min
Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peac
The Intruder
Mar 3, 1969 · 45 min
Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Riley's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.
The Good Samaritans
Mar 10, 1969 · 45 min
Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a Judge that will hang a man, the man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Me
The Prisoner
Mar 17, 1969 · 45 min
Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Math
Exodus 21.22
Mar 24, 1969 · 45 min
A friend of Matt's, a former lawman arrives in Dodge to kill the men responsible for his wife's death.