Gunsmoke

Season 2 Episode 22: Skid Row

20 SeasonsFeb 23, 1957TV-G30m7.8

When a lady comes to town looking for her betrothed, Matt takes it upon himself to sober up the man, who, in his fiancée's absence, has become the town drunk.

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Cow Doctor

1. Cow Doctor

Aired: Sep 8, 1956

Doc is called to a farm to treat a sick farmer, who has always hated doctors.

Episode 2 Brush at Elkader

2. Brush at Elkader

Aired: Sep 15, 1956

Matt must resort to trickery after he and Chester trail psychopathic killer L...

Episode 3 Custer

3. Custer

Aired: Sep 22, 1956

"Rough justice" awaits cocksure Army deserter Joe Trimble after a civilian ju...

Episode 4 The Round Up

4. The Round Up

Aired: Sep 29, 1956

Matt goes on a rampage to close down Front Street after he accidentally shoot...

Episode 5 Young Man with a Gun

5. Young Man with a Gun

Aired: Oct 20, 1956

After Matt beats fast gun and braggart Sam Kircher in a gunfight, Kircher's i...

Episode 6 Indian White

6. Indian White

Aired: Oct 27, 1956

When a twelve-year-old Cheyenne prisoner is brought to Dodge by the Cavalry, ...

Episode 7 How to Cure a Friend

7. How to Cure a Friend

Aired: Nov 9, 1956

Matt is put in a difficult position by the arrival of Nick Search, an old fri...

Episode 8 Legal Revenge

8. Legal Revenge

Aired: Nov 16, 1956

Doc comes upon a new homesteader confined to bed with a badly infected leg an...

Episode 9 The Mistake

9. The Mistake

Aired: Nov 23, 1956

When a man suspected of murder can't establish his alibi, Matt arrests the ma...

Episode 10 Greater Love

10. Greater Love

Aired: Nov 30, 1956

Killer Jed Butler takes Doctor Adams hostage to help his dying partner, and l...

Episode 11 No Indians

11. No Indians

Aired: Dec 7, 1956

Matt strongly suspects that it is actually white men who are responsible for ...

Episode 12 Spring Term

12. Spring Term

Aired: Dec 14, 1956

A man is shot on the streets of Dodge, and Matt realizes that the shot was me...

Episode 13 Poor Pearl

13. Poor Pearl

Aired: Dec 21, 1956

A saloon gal past her youth suddenly receives two marriage proposals, one fro...

Episode 14 Cholera

14. Cholera

Aired: Dec 28, 1956

A landowner's attempt to evict homesteaders is helped by a cholera outbreak.

Episode 15 Pucket's New Year

15. Pucket's New Year

Aired: Jan 4, 1957

A man, abandoned and permanently crippled by the cold on the prairie, is resc...

Episode 16 The Cover Up

16. The Cover Up

Aired: Jan 11, 1957

Matt jails the wife-abusing Sam Baxton on suspicion of murdering two squatter...

Episode 17 Sins of the Father

17. Sins of the Father

Aired: Jan 18, 1957

A white man and his Indian wife, passing through Dodge, become targets of vio...

Episode 18 Kick Me

18. Kick Me

Aired: Jan 25, 1957

A bank robber murders his partner and comes to Dodge with his terrified wife,...

Episode 19 Executioner

19. Executioner

Aired: Feb 1, 1957

Grief-stricken rancher Morgan Curry proves willing to go to any length necess...

Episode 20 Gone Straight

20. Gone Straight

Aired: Feb 8, 1957

When Matt serves a warrant in another town for a wanted man, there are two me...

Episode 21 Bloody Hands

21. Bloody Hands

Aired: Feb 15, 1957

The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, tr...

Episode 22 Skid Row

22. Skid Row

Aired: Feb 22, 1957

When a lady comes to town looking for her betrothed, Matt takes it upon himse...

Episode 23 Sweet and Sour

23. Sweet and Sour

Aired: Mar 1, 1957

Violence and tragedy result when Matt and Chester persuade a reluctant Kitty ...

Episode 24 Cain

24. Cain

Aired: Mar 8, 1957

Told he has only two months to live, a man is determined to avenge the suicid...

Episode 25 Bureaucrat

25. Bureaucrat

Aired: Mar 15, 1957

A government official from Washington warns Matt that he will relieve him of ...

Episode 26 Last Fling

26. Last Fling

Aired: Mar 22, 1957

Miss Kitty is suspected of taking a shot at drunkard John Peavy for harassing...

Episode 27 Chester's Murder

27. Chester's Murder

Aired: Mar 29, 1957

When the drunkard whom Chester escorts to jail is shot dead, Chester is suspe...

Episode 28 The Photographer

28. The Photographer

Aired: Apr 5, 1957

Professor Jacoby is a photographer from back East in Dodge, willing to do any...

Episode 29 Wrong Man

29. Wrong Man

Aired: Apr 12, 1957

Sam Rickers shot a man dead in the back to try and claim a $1,000 reward, but...

Episode 30 Big Girl Lost

30. Big Girl Lost

Aired: Apr 19, 1957

A saloon gal's old beau is in town, and she expects trouble when he finds out...

Episode 32 Cheap Labor

32. Cheap Labor

Aired: May 4, 1957

A man wants to marry a woman whose brother may be willing to resort to violen...

Episode 33 Moon

33. Moon

Aired: May 11, 1957

Vint is a crooked card dealer being watched by a gunman hired by a card playe...

Episode 35 Uncle Oliver

35. Uncle Oliver

Aired: May 25, 1957

Uncle Oliver arrives in town and believes his simpleton nephew would be a goo...

Episode 36 Daddy-O

36. Daddy-O

Aired: Jun 1, 1957

Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in ...

Episode 38 Liar from Blackhawk

38. Liar from Blackhawk

Aired: Jun 22, 1957

Hank Shinn is a newcomer in town bragging about his reputation as gunman, but...

Episode 39 Jealousy

39. Jealousy

Aired: Jul 6, 1957

A card dealer, newly married, wants to kill his old friend, Marshal Dillon, w...

Info about Gunsmoke

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Western