Gunsmoke - Season 15

First aired: 9/21/1969 26 episodes

Episodes

1. The Devil's Outpost

Aired: 9/22/1969

Outlaw Yancy Tyce and his outlaw gang try to free Tyce's younger brother now under arrest and being taken to Dodge by Matt.

2. Stryker

Aired: 9/29/1969

Former Dodge Marshal Josh Stryker arrives in town just being released from prison for killing a outlaw in cold blood. He holds Matt responsible for the loss of his arm and the years he spent in prison.

3. Coreyville

Aired: 10/6/1969

Matt is summoned to Coreyville, a run-down cowtown, by a young woman whose brother is on trial for murder.

4. Danny

Aired: 10/13/1969

An old friend of Kitty's learns he is dying comes to Dodge to try to ""go out in style"".

5. Hawk

Aired: 10/20/1969

A white woman refuses to accept her half-breed son, who Festus brings to her home wounded and needing help.

6. A Man Called Smith

Aired: 10/27/1969

Abelia, the young widow who once saved Festus' life, returns. She learns that she isn't a widow when her outlaw husband appears and forces her to exchange his stolen gold for cash.

7. Charlie Noon

Aired: 11/3/1969

Matt, his hardened prisoner Charlie Noon, an Indian woman and her white stepson are tracked by the Comanches as they try to cross the desert. The Indians are going to kill all of them unless Matt hands over the woman, because she left the Comanche leader years before.

8. The Still

Aired: 11/10/1969

Festus gets mixed up with Merry Florene and her hillbilly clan again as they try to hide a moonshining still and a stolen prize bull in the cellar of the local school.

9. A Matter of Honor

Aired: 11/17/1969

Louie Pheeters is found at the scene of a murder, the dying man's last words implicate the town alcoholic, who is too drunk to remember what he had just seen.

10. The Innocent

Aired: 11/24/1969

Festus acts as guide and driver for a Eastern missionary teacher on route to her first assignment. The only problem is trying to stay ahead of a murderous hillbilly family following them and planning a ambush.

11. Ring of Darkness

Aired: 12/1/1969

In an attempt to help his blind daughter, farmer Ben Hurley steals horses for an outlaw gang. Deputy Newly O'Brien arrives at his farm investigating, followed by the outlaws.

12. MacGraw

Aired: 12/8/1969

Ex-guman Jake MacGraw arrives in Dodge after spending 20 years in prison. The townspeople think he has come for revenge.

13. Roots of Fear

Aired: 12/15/1969

Amos Sadler, a dirt farmer faces the loss of his home when a panic closes down the Dodge City bank. To save it he and his wife plan to break into it and steal some money.

14. The Sisters

Aired: 12/29/1969

A scoundrel tries to con three nuns.

15. The War Priest

Aired: 1/5/1970

Sergeant Holly, a alcoholic loving veteran is getting ready to retire. Just hours before it, a Apache prisoner in his custody escapes with Kitty as a hostage, forcing the Sergeant to go AWOL to get the prisoner back.

16. The Pack Rat

Aired: 1/12/1970

An orphan steals from Matt but could risk his own life when he tries to help out in an ambush.

17. The Judas Gun

Aired: 1/19/1970

The feund between Noah Haimes and Clete Bloden gets very bad as romance begins between Haime's son & Bloden's daughter.

18. Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.

Aired: 1/26/1970

Doc Adams's old friend is thought to be a thief.

19. The Badge

Aired: 2/2/1970

Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.

20. Albert

Aired: 2/9/1970

After a Bank teller tries to foil a bank robber the bank teller takes some money which could cause trouble.

21. Kiowa

Aired: 2/16/1970

Matt must rescue a teenage girl from indians and bring her back to her family.

22. Celia

Aired: 2/23/1970

A friend of Newly's is about the victim of a con game.

23. Morgan

Aired: 3/2/1970

With Matt out helping the Army deliver a gold shipment, Dodge is wide open for Morgan and his men to come in with a Gatlin gun and take over. Breaking into the Long Branch, Morgan is helping himself to whiskey when Kitty shoots him hitting him in the shoulder and the face. With Matt and the gold on the way and Morgan sitting with a big gun and a fever and a crazy streak from the permanent scar he's gonna have, Dodge can only wait to see what comes next.

24. The Thieves

Aired: 3/9/1970

Sam takes a special interest in Eric Tabray, who is running around in a gang committing crimes in Dodge.

25. Hackett

Aired: 3/16/1970

An ex-convict wants revenge against the partner that ran out on him.

26. The Cage

Aired: 3/23/1970

After an outlaw becomes a victim of his own gang he tries to Matt bring in the gang that made him a victim.