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. Kitty's old boyfriend, Cole Yankton comes to town to rob the bank. 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. Donna Clayton (Melissa Newman) and Cory Soames (Sam Elliott) are determined to get married despite the objections of her father, Walt Clayton (Morgan Woodward). Keith Carradine said "It was like being in jail. Gunsmoke: The Second Season Volume 1, DVD, Full Frame, Sensormatic, TV Western, Television, 097368528444 Many actors appeared regularly on Gunsmoke, in the majority of episodes, but in a variety of one-shot roles; others were only heard once or twice Edgar Barrier Jeanne Bates Dick Beals Frank Cady Virginia Christine Hans Conried Richard Deacon John Dehner Don Diamond Lawrence Dobkin Sam Edwards Paul Frees Virginia Gregg Jerry Hausner Joseph Kearns Anne and Lance Warren (who played White Fawn and Maggie) are the daughters of Director/Producer/Writer Charles Marquis Warren. A naive Civil War drummer boy is harassed and badgered by a couple of Dodge City locals and then jailed when one of the tormentors turns up dead. Clay Young is trying to evict Josh Nolan. Notes: First of two appearances for John Carradine whose role was the elder rancher Ephraim Hunt. John Alderson's first of three appearances. The daughter of a traveling medicine man is savagely attacked by a local rancher's bad seed, and neither are willing to identify him. north america Plot summary Plot synopsis Genre Western Phillips had a recurring role as Sgt. Notes: In his second of thirteen appearances, Royal Dano plays the title character, "The Preacher". [7] William Carradine died from tuberculosis when his son John was two years old. When Dodge school teacher Henry Decory (Allen Garfield) defends the boy's right to an education, Oliver assaults Henry, and the debate enters into a courtroom clash. Guest Cast: Robert H. Harris (as Ben Pitcher), Dorothy Adams (as Mrs. Pitcher) and Tommy Kirk (as Jerry Pitcher). A retired Army officer who has been approved for the job of marshal by the War Department, approaches Matt with an unusual request, "Quit, I want to be Marshal". However, Talley's wife Ellie and daughter Ronilou have already met and befriended Shaw's Kiowa wife Mignon, complicating the inevitable showdown. He was so in love with the story and his character that he ordered a print for personal viewing. Kitty is torn between Matt and the man who once saved her life, a parolee whose making threats towards the Marshall. Against the wishes of his wife, Bess Frye (Collin Wilcox-Horne), a poor farmer, Tuck Frye (Tom Skerritt) risks his farm and all his money to race his prized quarter horse, Jubilee. An attractive but manipulative young lady lies to her shiftless father and ruffian brother in a scheme to lure Chester into marriage. Smith (as Karl) and David Whorf (as Jack). Festus runs into his friend Jesse Dillard (Brock Peters) who has escaped from prison and is being tracked by Marshal Halstead (Regis J. Cordic). David's television series Kung Fu featured his father John and half-brother Robert in the episode "Dark Angel". In addition to his acting career, Carradine was a director and musician. Carradine, however, did not have the job long. 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). Nolan was an American radio, film and television actress with over 200 acting credits in a career that spanned seven decades. Now Festus and Newly must decide whether they'll allow trail boss Dave Carpenter (Jim Davis) to take Jesse back as their cook or take him back to jail to finish his 10-year sentence. Matt must then deal with Harker when he turns violent after being asked to resign by the town council. A hired gunman is stalking Matt but is sidetracked by a beautiful farm girl whom he promises to go straight. [9] In season eight (196263), a fifth regular character was added to the cast: blacksmith Quint Asper (Burt Reynolds), who remained until the end of season 10 (196465). His mastery of the English dialect and unique range earn him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices". Bonanza had at least one episode with a similar plot and Wagon Train as well. The fire was caused by a burning cigarette. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1927, he worked in local Guest Cast: Richard Jaeckel (as O'Ryan), Michael Higgins (as Finnegan), Kent Smith (as Bealton), Earle Hodgins (as Judge), Ben Wright (as Harris), Garry Walberg (as Anson), John Mitchum (as Wills), Glenn Strange (as Sam) and Bee Tompkins (as Girl). 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. John appeared as the same character, the Reverend Serenity Johnson, in two more episodes: "The Nature of Evil" and "Ambush". 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. 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. He switches roles and plays the banker Botkin in episode 37. He would play the part of "Sam" or "Bartender" a total of 75 times in the first five seasons from 19551959 with only nine being credited. Matt attempts to save a young girl from making some bad decisions but her boyfriend causes trouble for all of them. Bert Rumsey is credited as 'Bartender' but for the first time in an episode Chester references him by his last name, 'Sam Noonan'. She may be best remembered as Holly Grainger on the 19621971 NBC Western, The Virginian. After he attacks Barnett (Charles Dierkop) for cruelty to animals, Billy's fate must be decided by the authorities, with the help of his friend, Festus. An unscrupulous Eastern businessman is purchasing all the local freight lines. Guest Cast: Robert Pine (as Link), Don Stroud (as Pete Murphy), Leonard Stone (as Abel Glass), Ted Gehring (as Sheriff Bradley), Norman Bartold (as Sheriff), Larry Finley (as Barkeep), Lloyd Nelson (as Dr. Miller), Pete Kellett (as Drucker) and Karen Welch (as Agnes). Notes: Jeanette Nolan plays Ma Grilk in her first of eight Gunsmoke appearances. The Indians accused of murdering a cattleman's wife stand trial. In the next show, the original cell is back in its place. Matt's life is changed during a bank robbery after his gun arm is seriously wounded. When Will Asper is eavesdropping at the lawyer's window you can see an electrical outlet on the wall, next to the tree. Guest Cast: Scott Marlowe (as Ed), Robert L. Crawford Jr. (credited Bobby Crawford as Billy), Eddie Firestone (as Carl Wilkins), Kathryn Harrow (as Ellen Crandall), Roy Roberts (as Mr. Bodkin), James Nusser (as Louie Pheeters), Sailor Vincent (credited William Sailor Vincent as Peter Sommars), Tom Reese (as Okie), Warren Vanders (as Wat), Edmund Hashim (as Durgen), Joseph Hoover (as Dave Crandall) and Solomon Sturges (credited Mark Sturges as Will Taylor). This episode is no different. She may be best remembered for her co-starring role as saloon owner Lily Merrill in the 19591962 ABC Western television series Lawman. [7] Carradine joined a tent repertory theater under the management of R. D. MaClean, who became his mentor. Smith (as Pete), William Bryant (as Joe), Roy Thinnes (as Harry) and Michael Mikler (as Bill). A half-Indian named Quint Asper vows revenge on all white men when a pair of drifters kill his father and threaten his mother. Starr), Dick Rich (as Sam Butler), Mickey Simpson (as Stapp), Fintan Meyler (as Arie O'Dell), Joel Ashley (as Jake) and K.L. Judge Flood (John Colicos) convicts Matt of murder and sentences him to life doing hard labor in the judge's silver mine. [21], Eventually, Carradine won custody of the children. He appeared as well in both of Irwin Allen's classic 1960s science-fiction television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants. The others in the series are, S14E4 "Uncle Finney", S14E18 "Goldtown" and S15E8 "The Still". He was an American stage, film and television character actor and screenwriter who was best known for his work in Westerns. Darnell), Warren Kemmerling (as Conductor), Sam Melville (as Nebo), John Crawford (as Blanchard), Harry Carey Jr. (as Kelliher), Jonathan Lippe (as Roper), Pepe Callahan (as Secos), Walter Sande (as Caldwell), Mills Watson (as Pony), Robert Sorrells (as Concho), Eddie Firestone (as Orely), Dan Ferrone (as Private), Sian Barbara Allen (as Allie Dawson), Harry Harvey Sr. (as Drummer), Pete Kellett (as Sergeant), Jon Kowal (as Dunn), Glenn Strange (as Sam), Ted Jordan (as Burke) and Denny Arnold (as Fireman). Carradine said, "the great Cecil B. DeMille saw an apparition me pass him by, reciting the gravedigger's lines from 'Hamlet', and he instructed me to report to him the following day. Guest Cast: Ed Nelson (as Tom), Shary Marshall (as Cora), Robert F. Simon (as Jesse), Anthony Caruso (as Sims), Edith Evanson (as Nell), Ben Wright (as Mr. Ross) and Hickman Hill (as Hank). 35-year-old Actress and Young Artist Wed. Deihl, Digby, "Getting Personal with Keith Carradine". A Colorado Sheriff is insistent in arresting the wounded man Matt and Chester found out on the open prairie, but without an arrest warrant, the Marshal suspects that he's being untruthful. A father who greatly believes in family honor takes the law into his own hands when his daughter is harassed and molested by two cowboys. Newly intervenes when a pair of bounty hunters, Hodge (Dean Stanton) and Yates (John Crawford), attempt to kill desperado Johnny Cross (Jeff Pomerantz) who swears that he is innocent. John Carradine was previously married to Emily Cisneros (1975 - 1988), Doris Rich (1957 - 1964), Sonia Sorel (1944 - 1957) and Ardanelle McCool Cosner (1935 - 1944). 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. After Ben, the son of ex-Confederate Colonel Lucius Shindro (Harold Gould), is wounded by fellow outlaw Evans, Major Coltrane (Richard Anderson) orders his band to hunt down Evans. The money was in Hollywood and beginning in 1930, he found success, taking the stage name John Carradine, then appeared in literally hundreds of "B" movies and horror films. She may be best remembered for her role as Miss Mamie Baldwin in the 19721981 CBS historical drama television series, The Waltons. Matt's search for outlaw Ben Rodman (Jeremy Slate) is interrupted by a search for the boy Willie Hubbard's (Johnnie Whitaker) mother Sarah, which leads them to a group of saloon girls crossing the badlands in Maggie Blaisedell's (Ruth Roman) wagon. Guest Cast: Woodrow Chambliss (as Lathrop), Ted Jordan (as Burke), Hank Patterson (as Hank), Margaret Bacon (as Dressmaker), Glenn Strange (as Sam), Tom Sutton (as Pete), Bill Hart (as Cowboy #1) and Bennie Dobbins (as Cowboy #2). Guest Cast: Vic Perrin (as Wilbur Hawkins), Robert Burton (as Sheriff), Robert Karnes (as Roberts) and Bert Rumsey (as Sam). Notes: Lew Brown plays the character Sam Fraser in this episode, his first of an astounding 21 guest-appearances on Gunsmoke. Smoking Out The Nolans , November 5, 1955 - Written by Charles Marquis Warren, Story by John Meston, Directed by Charles Marquis Warren, Guest Cast: Edward Platt, Ainslie Pryor, Jeanne Bates, John Larch. Matt guns down three bank robbers in a fierce gunfight, and when the surviving member of the gang calls him a "butcher" it sends him into an emotional tailspin. A wanted, on-the-run cowboy comes across a precocious, runaway boy and accompanies him to Dodge to find his impoverished mother. Keith took me aside and said 'That's our real mother.' "Fred Berger, 94; Film, TV Editor for 5 Decades Won Emmy for 'MASH' (sic)", "Gunsmoke: The Thirteenth Season, Volume One", "Gunsmoke: The Thirteenth Season, Volume Two", "Gunsmoke: The Fourteenth Season, Volume One", "Gunsmoke: The Fourteenth Season, Volume Two", "Gunsmoke: The Fifteenth Season, Volume One", "Gunsmoke: The Fifteenth Season, Volume Two", "Gunsmoke: The Complete Sixteenth Season", "Gunsmoke: 50th Anniversary Collection (Volume 1)", "Gunsmoke: 50th Anniversary Collection (Volume 2)", "Gunsmoke: 50th Anniversary Collection (Volumes 1 & 2)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Gunsmoke_television_episodes&oldid=1134154324. Matt comes to the aid of a Sheriff in a nearby town to help fend off a lynch mob. Guest Cast: Warren Stevens (as Rackmil), Gage Clarke (as Dobie), Brett King (as Pete), Stephen Ellsworth (as Pence) and George Selk (as Moss Grimmick). James Arness . 233 half-hour black-and-white episodes He portrays Booth Rider in this episode and is best known for playing the lead and titled character in 19621971 NBC western television series, The Virginian. He was known as the "Bard of the Boulevard" due to his idiosyncratic habit of strolling Hollywood streets while reciting Shakespearean soliloquies, something he always denied. Virginia Chapman was the wife of James Arness. On the way to Mexicao, he rescues an orphaned girl Marcy McCloud (Dawn Lyn), and saloon gal Stella Silks (Shani Wallis). Newly stops a young back-hills girl who's trying to escape an abusive relationship involving her half-brothers from stealing his horse and little do they know, when he takes her to Dodge, the half-crazed brothers follow. An elderly Army scout married to an Indian woman is suspected of intentionally leading his troop into a Comanche ambush and now becomes the target of the townspeople's anger. 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