Name: Gunsmoke: Collie's Free
Uploaded: 1962-11-09T16:00:00-08:00
Duration: 50 min 46 s
Description: After eight years in prison, embittered Collie Patten is unable to adjust to the changes he finds when he returns home.

United States Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City must deal with fast trigger-happy outlaw Dan Grat (Paul Richards) who wants his way with the town.

Gunsmoke

Matt Gets It

Matt must defend a gunman he despises from townspeople who want to lynch him for a crime he didn't commit.

Hot Spell

To save his own life, murder witness Doc gives his word of honor to the killers (including Claude Akins) that he won't expose them.

Word of Honor

Matt tries to save the life of a man dying of gangrene.

Home Surgery

A group of outlaws try to force an old prospector to give up his gold.

Obie Tater

No one believes a boy's claims that he overheard an outlaw planning a robbery.

Night Incident

A landowner asks Matt to remove a couple from a home on part of his land, which the couple insists they bought and paid for, and which they refuse to vacate.

Smoking Out the Nolans

An ex-outlaw's attempt to hang up his gun proves difficult.

Kite's Reward

A legendary buffalo hunter invites the wrath of Indians when he sets out to cross their sacred hunting grounds.

The Hunter

Two men try to force a Chinese man out of Dodge.

The Queue

Parsley Smith, a teller of tall tales, claims the new town banker is plotting to make off with the depositors' money.

General Parcley Smith

It's Christmas in Dodge and Chester isn't pleased when his brother Magnus arrives for a visit (Robert Easton appears). One of very few times a radio episode was adapted to TV with the same guest actor playing the role in both media.

Magnus

A beautiful young wife (Lola Albright) manipulates a young hired hand into killing her older husband.

Reed Survives

A peddler's miracle curative contains opium and proves fatal.

Professor Lute Bone

A man who claims he's innocent of a murder in a corrupt town breaks out of Matt's jail, and his trail leads Matt to the corrupt sheriff (Mort Mills appears).

No Handcuffs

A woman offers a $1,000 reward to the man who kills Matt Dillon.

Reward for Matt

Witnesses are refusing to testify against an infamous outlaw.

Robin Hood

Matt saves the life of a white boy raised by Indians who was shot trying to retrieve horses stolen from his tribe.

Yorky

An ex-lawman and old friend of Matt's arrives in Dodge with failing eyesight, and a man who wants to kill him.

20 - 20

A well-liked hardware drummer is actually a man wanted for multiple murders.

Reunion 78

Matt attempts to reform a young troublemaker (including James Nusser in a role other than Louie Pheeters).

Helping Hand

An old rancher decides that he is going to marry Kitty.

Tap Day for Kitty

When an old Indian scout murders a man  Matt pursues him into Comanche territory.

When an old Indian scout murders a man, Matt pursues him into Comanche territory.

Indian Scout

Doc must find a way to thwart a typhoid epidemic in Dodge.

The Pest Hole

Matt has to figure a way around a six-foot-tall, 200-pound woman with a six-gun.

Big Broad

An old friend  of Matt's is now a gun-for-hire, in town to kill him. This is the actual pilot episode of the television Gunsmoke.

Hack Prine

A dishonest gambler uses a mentally challenged man in a plot against Matt.

Cooter

Matt has to stop a cold-blooded killer who preys on over-matched opponents.

The Killer

Doc has a change of heart about a man he hates and wants to kill face to face when the man is later shot in the back.

Doc's Revenge

A preacher disgusted by violence is harassed by bully Sam Keeler who despises his timid nature.

The Preacher

The brother of a man Matt was forced to kill vows to kill Matt by any means necessary.

How to Die for Nothing

Matt is forced to arrest his childhood hero, who is now the leader of a gang of horse thieves.

Dutch George

A bitter old man tells fibs about Indians preparing to strike Dodge.

Prairie Happy

When Chester's mail-order bride arrives, neither she nor Chester are what the other are expecting.

Chester's Mail Order Bride

An ex-Union soldier is forced to use violence against a pair of diehard Rebels.

The Guitar

Matt discovers that an old girlfriend is working on the opposite side of the law.

Cara

A self-described religious prophet makes life miserable for his sister and her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Amber

An old woman grieving over the loss of her outlaw son tries to help another young outlaw escape justice. Boot Hill Intro returns for this episode and appears intermittently hereafter.

Unmarked Grave

Homesteaders are ambushed on the way to Dodge.

Alarm at Pleasant Valley

Pluto

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

Collie's Free

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

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

Quint Asper Comes Home

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

Cotter's Girl

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

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

Blind Man's Bluff

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

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

Quint's Indian

Marshall Matt Dillon er ansvarlig for å bringe lov og orden til Dodge City i dette western-actiondramaet. I svart-hvitt.

Collie's Free

Full Episodes

Season 8, 5 episodes