GUNSMOKE: MATT DILLON MUST DIE {TWENTIETH SEASON PREMIERE} (TV)

Summary

One in this series of western dramas about Marshal Matt Dillon, lawman of Dodge City, Kansas, and the people who lived in and passed through that town in the closing decades of the 19th century. In this episode, Dillon kills one of the Wakefield brothers, a gang of outlaws. Led by their father, Abraham, a man obsessed with vengeance because a lawman killed his wife twenty years before, the gang captures Dillon and plans to kill him. The father, however, decides to release Dillon so he can hunt him down. Commercials deleted.

Details

• NETWORK: CBS
• DATE: September 9, 1974 8:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:49:21
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T82:0605
• GENRE: Drama, western
• SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, western
• SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1955-1975
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• John Mantley … Executive Producer
• Leonard Katzman … Producer
• Ron Honthaner … Associate Producer
• Victor French … Director
• Ray Goldrup … Writer
• Jerrold Immel … Music by
• James Arness … Cast, Matt Dillon
• Morgan Woodward … Cast, Abraham Wakefield
• Joseph Hindy … Cast, Jacob
• Bill Lucking … Cast, Esau
• Henry Olek … Cast, Isaac
• Douglas Dirkson … Cast, Abel
• Frederick Herrick … Cast, Laban
• Elaine Fulkerson … Cast, Annabel