S17E5
New Doctor in Town
Gunsmoke · 1971-10-11 · 45 min
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what happens
Dr. Chapman is arrested by Festus when he tries to sleep in Doc's office even though he has explained that Doc went to Baltimore to hone his medical skills. A letter explains that Doc felt so badly about a little girl's death that he could have prevented if he had been more in tune with modern medicine, that he had to leave. Not many in town are very cordial to Dr. Chapman and when Newly's shop blows up with Newly and Festus in it, they dislike him even more. Festus is all right, but Newly has a bone splinter in his brain and needs an operation. Chapman wins the town by performing the operation and saving Newly's life.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S17E5 →who made it
- directed
- Philip Leacock
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Glenn Strange as Sam Noonan
Pat Hingle as Dr. John Chapman
Jon Lormer as Cody Sims
Lane Bradford as Dump Hart
Ted Jordan as Burke