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Season 17 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 24
TV Specials: 0
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	17x01 The Lost After being injured in a stage wreck, Kitty meets up with a wild girl who does not speak but both end up becoming prisoners of a weird family intent on making a freakshow out of the ...	Sep. 13, 1971
	17x02 Phoenix After being released from prison, Phoenix travels to Dodge to kill a man whom he has never seen or heard of before and ends up falling for his wife.	Sep. 20, 1971
	17x03 Waste (1) In hot pursuit of an outlaw, Matt pauses when he encounters a lost boy in search of his mother.	Sep. 27, 1971
	17x04 Waste (2) After helping a young boy find his mother, Matt resumes his pursuit of an outlaw.	Oct. 04, 1971
	17x05 New Doctor in Town After a patient dies, Doc leaves Dodge to go back east to Baltimore in order to take refresher courses in modern medicine. Dr. John Chapman arrives in Dodge to take his place and finds ...	Oct. 11, 1971
	17x06 The Legend A mother tries to dissuade her youngest son from following in the footsteps of his outlaw older brothers.	Oct. 18, 1971
	17x07 Trafton After a gunslinger kills a sheriff and a priest in a Kansas town, he has Matt Dillon on his trail.	Oct. 25, 1971
	17x08 Lynott When Matt is severely wounded in a gun battle, former lawman Tom Lynott steps in to keep the peace in Dodge City.	Nov. 01, 1971
	17x09 Lijah A mountain man named Lijah must face a jury after being accused of three wanton killings.	Nov. 08, 1971
	17x10 My Brother's Keeper Seeking shelter during a horrendous storm, Festus enters a cave where he discovers an elderly Native American who's waiting to die.	Nov. 15, 1971
	17x11 Drago Drago, a former Army scout, vows to hunt down and kill the outlaws who murdered a woman who was nice to him.	Nov. 22, 1971
	17x12 Gold Train: The Bullet (1) Doc returns to Dodge City but gets little rest when Matt is shot in the back by a sniper. With the bullet lodged near Matt's spine, Doc is afraid of crippling him if he operates so ...	Nov. 29, 1971
	17x13 Gold Train: The Bullet (2) A train carrying a seriously wounded Matt to Denver for an operation along with a gold shipment is taken over by bandits led by Jack Sinclair, an old enemy of Matt's who owes him a ...	Dec. 06, 1971
	17x14 Gold Train: The Bullet (3) Jack Sinclair, the leader of a gang of train robbers, discovers that his old enemy, Matt Dillon, is in the baggage car en route to Denver.	Dec. 13, 1971
	17x15 P.S. Murry Christmas Kitty wants to give seven orphans a Christmas that they've never had but orphanage director Emma Grundy is determined to prevent her from doing so.	Dec. 27, 1971
	17x16 No Tomorrow Young Ben Justin tries to clear his name of false charges of cattle rustling and murder.	Jan. 03, 1972
	17x17 Hidalgo Down in Mexico, Matt gets injured and his only allies against bandits are an old man, a boy, and a pretty senorita.	Jan. 10, 1972
	17x18 Tara Newly falls in love with a hot chick who recently arrived in Dodge City but it's later revealed that she has a checkered past.	Jan. 17, 1972
	17x19 One for the Road Eccentric Lucius Prince is the defendant in a sanity hearing brought by his daughter so she can takeover his estate.	Jan. 24, 1972
	17x20 The Predators Matt is worried when gunslinger Howard Kane shows up in Dodge City.	Jan. 31, 1972
	17x21 Yankton A drifter named Yankton seeks revenge against a wealthy rancher who cleaned him out in a poker game.	Feb. 07, 1972
	17x22 Blind Man's Buff Spinster Phoebe Preston finds romance with a wounded stranger whom she nurses back to health.	Feb. 21, 1972
	17x23 Alias Festus Haggen Festus is mistaken for a killer who's a dead ringer for him.	Mar. 06, 1972
	17x24 The Wedding A daughter gets married against the wishes of her domineering father.	Mar. 13, 1972

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Season 17 Characters

Matt Dillon	played by James Arness
Doc	played by Milburn Stone
Kitty	played by Amanda Blake
Festus	played by Ken Curtis
Newly	played by Buck Taylor
Burke	played by Ted Jordan
Sam	played by Glenn Strange
Townsman	played by Bert Madrid
Barfly	played by Jimmy Noel (II)
Dr. Chapman	played by Pat Hingle
Judge Brooker	played by Herb Vigran
Saloon Girl	played by Michelle Breeze
Ma Smalley	played by Sarah Selby
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams	played by Milburn Stone
Kitty Russell	played by Amanda Blake
Festus Haggen	played by Ken Curtis
Newly O'Brien	played by Buck Taylor
Jack Sinclair	played by Eric Braeden
Beth Tilton	played by Katherine Justice
Capt. Darnell	played by Robert Hogan
Conductor	played by Warren J. Kemmerling
Nebo	played by Sam Melville
Ed O'Connor	played by Tom Brown

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Season 17 / Episode 5: - New Doctor in Town

Kitty Russell: Living in Dodge has been the most rewarding experience of my life, but I've been so out of touch with modern medicine that when I arrived in Baltimore I felt like a schoolboy. I suddenly realized how little I know about medicine and how much has passed me by in the last twenty years... and that's why I've decided to stay on here at the university.

Newly O'Brien: This letter is the only way I know of to tell you my decision. I'll be gone from Dodge for a while. I don't know for how long, but it will not be forever. I will be back... and I'll think of you very often. I pray all of you will remember with affection, your old friend, Doc.

Season 17 / Episode 11: - Drago

Drago: He looks fine.
Dr. John Chapman: He is. He just started gettin' well right after you talked to him. You know, Drago, as a doctor it might help me if I knew what you said to him.
Drago: I just told him there weren't no catfish in heaven.

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Season 17 Trivia

Episode 11 - Goof (anachronisms): Rottweilers (Drago's dog) weren't seen in the U.S. until after World War l (1919). The breed was recognized by the American Kennel Club until 1936. Rottweilers were primarily a European herding dog used as far back as Roman times. The breed was in decline until World War l, which led t
Episode 12 - When Matt rides into Dodge at the beginning of the show, he asks Festus to put his horse into a livery stall. Festus addresses the horse as "Buck". This line probably wasn't in the script, because "Gunsmoke" had a rule that horses didn't have names (based on real life).
Episode 15 - This show was filmed before "Gold Train: The Bullet", and actually was Milburn Stone's first work on the show after he recovered from heart surgery. For some reason, the premiere of this show was postponed a week and aired after Christmas.
Episode 13 - Goof (anachronisms): In a scene towards the end, BURLINGTON NORTHERN R.R. can be seen written across the locomotive tender. The BNRR was created in 1970 after a merger of four railroad lines (Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Seattle Portland & Spokane, and the Chicago Burlington & Quincy.
Episode 14 - Goof (revealing mistake): Although most of the outdoor scenes for "The Bullet" were shot in Arizona, during this segment Doc and Father Sanchez, each trying to boost their courage, stand in front of a really obvious painted backdrop and pretend they are outside the studio. (The only other outdoor scenes

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