Friday's Favorite OTR

Gunsmoke: “Johnny Red” 8/13/55

A man returns home to his aged mother after 17 years away. But according to Dillon’s information, the wayward son had died at the Battle of Shiloh over a decade earlier.

Gunsmoke never shied away from tragic endings when such an ending seemed appropriate to the story. This one seems pretty obviously pointed towards such an ending, but still manages an interesting twist at the end.

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