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S8 E38 The Quest for Asa Janin

Western

TV-PG

50 minutes

Jun 7, 1963

Marshal Dillon is forced to send to prison a man he believes innocent of the crime for which he will be hanged.Featuring: James Arness (Matt Dillon), Amanda Blake (Kitty Russell), Ken Curtis (Festus Haggen), Roger Ewing (Thad Greenwood), Milburn Stone (Doc), Dennis Buck Burt, Reynolds (Quint Asper), Taylor (Newly O'Brien), Weaver (Chester Goode)

Season 8, 38 Episodes

Gunsmoke - The Search

When young Cale gallops out of town on another man's horse, Marshal Dillon goes after him and finds him paralyzed from a fall.

Gunsmoke - Call Me Dodie

A runaway girl, fleeing brutal treatment at an orphanage, creates a stir in Dodge City among saloon hangers-on.

Gunsmoke - Quint Asper Comes Home

Quint Asper Comes Home,

After white men slay his father, half-breed Quint Asper joins the Comanche tribe of his Indian mother so he can avenge the killing.

Gunsmoke - Root Down

Pretty Aggie Dutton is so anxious to settle down she lies to her father and tells him Chester wants to marry her.

Gunsmoke - Jenny

Marshal Dillon finds out about the fury of a woman scorned when he spurns the advances of an outlaw's girlfriend.

Gunsmoke - Collie's Free

After eight years in prison, embittered Collie Patten is unable to adjust to the changes he finds when he returns home.

Gunsmoke - The Ditch

Angry homesteaders protest headstrong Susan Bart's plan to divert a creek on her ranch, cutting off their water supply.

Gunsmoke - The Trappers

A fur trapper swears to settle the score after his partner leaves him for dead in an Indian fight.

Gunsmoke - Phoebe Strunk

Vicious Phoebe Strunk and her four criminal sons climax a round of murder and robbery by kidnapping a young girl.

Gunsmoke - The Hunger

A young girl falls in love with Doc Adams after he rescues her from her brutal family.

Gunsmoke - Abe Blocker

Marshal Dillon learns that an old friend has become deranged and is bent on driving ranchers off their land with his gun.

Gunsmoke - The Way It Is

Angered when Marshal Dillon breaks an important date, Miss Kitty goes off to visit friends and comes upon a handsome stranger.

Gunsmoke - Us Haggens

Whether blood is thicker than water is put to a test when Marshal Dillon asks a killer's nephew to help him bring in a wanted man.

Gunsmoke - Uncle Sunday

Nothing goes right for Chester when he tries to earn extra money to keep his crooked Uncle Sunday Meachem out of Dodge City.

Gunsmoke - False Front

A crafty journalist bets that a greenhorn can pose as a hardened gunman in Dodge City for two weeks and not get killed.

Gunsmoke - Old Comrade

War hero Kip Marston asks Army Col. Gabe Wilson to look up his son, but he is totally unprepared for what Wilson finds.

Gunsmoke - Louie Pheeters

Louie Pheeters,

Louie Pheeters, the town barfly, witnesses a murder and tells the killer about it, thereby becoming the target of a deadly plot.

Gunsmoke - The Renegades

Half-breed Quint Asper's bravery causes a haughty Army colonel's daughter to change her attitude toward Indians.

Gunsmoke - Cotter's Girl

An untamed nature girl develops a liking for Marshal Matt Dillon and isn't shy about expressing it.

Gunsmoke - The Bad One

The son of a killer seems set on proving that he is worse than his badman lather until he meets a convent-bred girl.

Gunsmoke - The Cousin

An ex-convict named Chance, who was reared with Matt Dillon, renews their boyhood rivalry when he comes to Dodge City.

Gunsmoke - Shona

When Kitty and Quint Asper befriend Shona, an ailing Indian woman, they find themselves the targets of a vicious racist boycott.

Gunsmoke - Ash

Kindly Ben Galt turns into a murderous troublemaker after he suffers a blow on the head.

Gunsmoke - Blind Man's Bluff

Blind Man's Bluff,

A cowhand accused of murder assists Marshal Dillon when the latter's eyesight is impaired in an attack by three desperadoes.

Gunsmoke - Quint's Indian

Quint's Indian,

Quint Asper, framed as a horse thief by two bad men, angrily leaves town after being beaten up by several Dodge City residents.

Gunsmoke - Anybody Can Kill A Marshall

Anybody Can Kill A Marshall,

When two outlaws fail in their efforts to kill Marshal Dillon, a meek little man volunteers to do the job for $200.

Gunsmoke - Two Of A Kind

To quell a feud between two old friends, Matt Dillon gets a court ruling that each is to be responsible for the other's life.

Gunsmoke - I Call Him Wonder

I Call Him Wonder,

A poker-playing trailhand, Jud Sorrell, reluctantly finds himself looking after a 10-year-old Indian boy.

Gunsmoke - With A Smile

A proud father goes to great efforts to make sure his worthless son will face death on the gallows like a brave man.

Gunsmoke - The Far Places

The Far Places,

A stern mother's wish for a better life for her son stirs his defiance and threatens tragic consequences for his sweetheart.

Gunsmoke - Panacea Sikes

A charming but larcenous lady establishes herself in Dodge City by pretending to be Miss Kitty's mother.

Gunsmoke - Tell Chester

Chester becomes involved in a deadly love triangle when his former girlfriend marries a man who already has a wife.

Gunsmoke - Quint-Cident

A lonely widow takes angry revenge after realizing she has mistaken half-breed Quint Asper's kindness for romantic interest.

Gunsmoke - Old York

An outlaw who saved Matt Dillon's life 17 years ago takes advantage of the marshal to plot another crime.

Gunsmoke - Daddy Went Away

Daddy Went Away,

Chester falls for a penniless seamstress when he sympathetically lends a helping hand to Lucy Damon and her young daughter.

Gunsmoke - The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner,

A saloon girl withdraws into bitterness when a jealous hunter kills the man she loves.

Gunsmoke - Jeb

A young man's seemingly harmless desire to look for a job in Dodge City results in tragedy.

Gunsmoke - The Quest for Asa Janin

The Quest for Asa Janin,

Marshal Dillon is forced to send to prison a man he believes innocent of the crime for which he will be hanged.

Details

Gunsmoke

Western

TV-PG

21 Seasons

27 minutes

Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for bring law and respectability to the Dodge City in this western action-drama. In black-and-white.

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