1Gunsmoke In Quiet Day in Dodge

Season 18 Episode 582 First aired on CBS 1/29/1973
Matt Dillon rides wearily into Dodge City after thirty-six hours in the saddle. At the office he can't get to sleep because Festus is so exuberant about everything. In the course

of the day Matt fights with a prisoner and is stabbed with a fork. Kitty will not talk to him because duty caused him to miss a picnic. There is a brawl in the Longbranch Saloon.

A young boy locks a crotchety old woman in a safe that has no available combination. Finally, Matt takes things into his own hands.

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• Gunsmoke
• James
• Arness
• Marshal
• Matt
• Dillon
• Dennis
• Weaver
• Chester
• Goode
• Milburn
• Stone
• Dr.
• Galen
• 'Doc'
• Adams
• Amanda
• Blake
• Kitty
• Russell

[mrroper]

I don't think this is chato, but that's okay I've never seen this one.

[TheGunsmokeChannel]

You are correct, I put up the correct information now, "Gunsmoke In Quiet Day in Dodge" sorry about that.

I will Upload Chato today.

[teden20]

Hysterical. Ken Curtis is from Red Lodge Montana, he is the real deal.

[johnDenverSINGS]

classic ! yes class yepp better than the other "show"s onthe boob tube ..check out johndenverSINGs! is the opening narrator was james arness there .i wonder??

[chinook1957]

Does anyone have a clip on Festus argue with Doc about a lot of land and how to buy it or something like that

thx bill

[SuperBigblue2]

festus what a bone head even a catfish should have out smarted him.

[Onlymusical]

@corkymcgurk Yes, that's one of Wayne's most famous scenes. He also punched James Garner for real (according to Garner's Archive of American Television interview) in a fight scene for the first episode of "Maverick." It's on youtube and fascinatingly realistic, a sequence in a hotel room. He played a pretty scary Dillinger in "Baby Face Nelson" opposite Mickey Rooney that same year (1957). The guards at San Quentin were wary of him when he returned there to shoot a movie w/ Siegal.

[corkymcgurk]

@Onlymusical yeah he was a good actor. Do you remember him in McClintock with John Wayne---and he says to Gordon Pilgrim " I know, I know. I'm gonna use good judgement. I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't. The *hell* I won't! " and he belts him in the mouth and that big fight ensues and many fall into a claypit filled water!

[corkymcgurk]

One of the funniest bits ever on the show! Why did Festus wear those noisy spurs. cowboys usually wore them when working on horses.

[corkymcgurk]

One of the funniest bits ever on the show! Why did Festus wear those noisy spurs. cowboys usually wore them when working on horses.

[SpoiledKitty07]

Omg the funniest thing I've ever seen!

"FESTUUUUUUUS!!!!!!!"

[Onlymusical]

I like this episode.  The actor Dillon arrested is Leo Gordon, a legendarily frightening ex-prisoner at San Quentin who also wrote scripts. Don Siegal said he was the scariest man he ever met.