John Drew Barrymore, who looked like a wimp compared to all the tough cowboy actors in his gang, takes over a town and spends seven hours to dawn robbing everyone in Dodge City.
Why would any gang go house to house stealing silver pots and gold watches? It did not make much sense to have around ten thugs treeing a town just to rob the locals. It seems to me that they could have just robbed the freight office, the bank, and the Longbranch Saloon, in about 90 minutes or less?
So the whole drama of herding dozens of townspeople around, and beating up some of them (and shooting one) gets played out with Marshal Dillon, Festus, Doc Adams, and Miss Kitty watching the horror play out.
At the beginning of the episode, when Barrymore walks into Dillon's office, it seems to me that Dillon could have taken him out. Having watched every episode of Gunsmoke, there is no question that Dillon was fast enough to have put slugs in Barrymore and some of his henchmen.
Instead, Dillon gives up, and lets himself and everyone else get pushed around. At some point, Dillon decides to fight back and make a break for it. That did not make a lot of sense, since there were ten or more outlaws walking around armed and ready to kill. The villains shoot Dillon off his horse, and leave him for dead in the middle of the street.
The fantastic ending had Doc Adams pulling four bullets out of Dillon, and five minutes later Dillon is planning his revenge. The most memorable and best part of this episode is Doc Adams. He stands up to the gang, he outsmarts the villains, he saves Dillon's life, and he avoids getting caught. Episodes that featured Doc Adams were always my favorites.