Gunsmoke Season 9 Episode 31

Trip West

Festus is looking for Professor Ramsay who's been selling his elixir. Doc says Matt ran him out of town. In North Fork, Kansas, Ramsay diagnoses Elwood Hardacre with calcification of the liver. He gives him three months to live and prescribes a dozen bottle of his elixir. The sheriff runs Ramsay out of town. Elwood has one bottle and it gets broken. Elwood asks to go home sick from his bank job. Arbuckle, the owner, says no. Elwood calls him a warthog and quits. Elwood goes to the bar and orders a whiskey. Frank, Lucille and others make fun of him. Annie Gilroy rescues him. She orders a bottle. Elwood tells Annie she's beautiful. He says he never liked the name Elwood. She asks his middle name. James, she'll call him Jim. Meade Agate throws Jim out. Annie is his girl. Annie tells Meade off. Elwood withdraws his $1523.40. He wants to go to California. He takes the next stage to Dodge as is Annie. At three springs relay station, Annie says it wouldn't be good for th