THE GUNSMOKE SCRIPTS
THE B&W HOUR ERA OF TV GUNSMOKE
Season 7
Miss Kitty------------------------October 14, 1961------------ep# 236/7-3
Long, Long Trail-----------------November 4,1961-----------ep# 239/7-6
Chesterland----------------------November 18, 1961---------ep# 241/7-8
Apprentice Doc------------------December 9, 1961-----------ep# 244/7-11
Marry Me------------------------December 23, 1961---------ep# 246/7-13
Lacey-----------------------------January 13, 1962------------ep# 249/7-16
Old Dan--------------------------January 27, 1962------------ep# 251/7-18
The Summons-------------------April 21, 1962---------------ep# 262/7-29
Cale-------------------------------May 5, 1962----------------ep# 264/7-31
Chester's Indian-----------------May 12, 1962---------------ep# 265/7-32
Season 8
The Search-----------------------September 15, 1962--------ep# 268/8-1
Call Me Dodie--------------------September 22, 1962-------ep# 269/8-2
Root Down-----------------------October 5, 1962------------ep# 271/8-4
Collie's Free----------------------October 20, 1962----------ep# 273/8-6
The Way It Is--------------------December 1, 1962----------ep# 279/8-12
Cotter's Girl----------------------January 19, 1963-----------ep# 286/8-19
The Cousin-----------------------February 2, 1963-----------ep# 288/8-21
Anybody Can Kill a Marshal----March 8, 1963--------------ep# 293/8-26
I Call Him Wonder--------------March 23, 1963------------ep# 295/8-28
Panacea Sykes-------------------April 13, 1963--------------ep# 298/8-31
Quint-Cident---------------------April 27, 1963--------------ep# 300/8-33
Daddy Went Away---------------May 11, 1963---------------ep# 302/8-35
Season 9
Kate Heller-----------------------September 28, 1963----------ep #306/9-1
Legends Don't Sleep------------October 12, 1963-------------ep #308/9-3
My Sister's Keeper--------------November 2, 1963-----------ep #311/9-6
Quint's Trail---------------------November 9, 1963-----------ep #312/9-7
Friend----------------------------January 25, 1964-------------ep #322/9-17
May Blossoms-------------------February 15, 1964-----------ep #325/9-20
Comanches Is Soft--------------March 7, 1964----------------ep #328/9-23
Kitty Cornered------------------April 18, 1964----------------ep #334/9-29
Scot Free------------------------May 9, 1964------------------ep #337/9-32
Season 10
Take Her, She's Cheap---------October 31, 1964-------------ep#347/10-6
Help Me Kitty-------------------November 7, 1964-----------ep#348/10-7
Aunt Thede----------------------December 19, 1964----------ep#354/10-13
Gilt Guilt-------------------------April 24, 1965----------------ep#372/10-31
The story ideas for The Summons and The Cousin are credited to Marian Clark.
The Way It Is originates from Frank Paris' Kitty Love.
Which others among Hite's one-hour scripts were adaptations,
is subject to opinion and argument.
Quint-Cident is clearly a development of the script
for Woman at Horse Creek, a Fort Laramie episode
which aired on February 12, 1956.
Elements of Gilt Guilt clearly originate from Scurvy,
a Fort Laramie episode which aired on August 26, 1956.
Long Long Trail may not be an obvious adaptation
of John Dunkel's Captain's Widow as his own The Widow,
but there is an echo.
To speculate on others would be buffalo hunting.
June 6, 2005
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