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Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) presides over Dodge City, a Wild West town that sees more than its fair share of frontier lawlessness. When rustling, gunfights or brawling disrupt the peace, it's up to Dillon to restore law and order. When he isn't fighting the bad guys, the lawman is trying to win over the affections of Kitty (Amanda Blake), known around Dodge as "The Marshal's Woman."

Next Airings

  • 12/23 1:00PMMilligan
    "A farmer is accused of shooting someone in the back."
  • 12/24 1:00PMTatum
    "A dying gunman endures a long, sad journey to see his estranged daughters."
  • 12/25 1:00PMThe Sodbusters
    "A sodbuster fights a cattle baron for her water supply."
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Milburn Stone loved the chemistry between the cast on Gunsmoke
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James Arness made more money from Gunsmoke than John Wayne did in his entire film career
James Arness said that this unexpected sport was his favorite
About that time James Arness was named ''Man of the Year'' in 1973
Ken Curtis' Colorado accent helped make his acting career
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James Arness corrects the record regarding role in The Thing from Another World
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Ken Curtis dishes on jailhouse meals and musical moments with famous bank robbers
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James Arness explained what set Gunsmoke apart from other Western shows
Which Western has the best theme song?
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Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Season 1
  • Season 1
  • Season 2
  • Season 3
  • Season 4
  • Season 5
  • Season 6
  • Season 7
  • Season 8
  • Season 9
  • Season 10
  • Season 11
  • Season 12
  • Season 13
  • Season 14
  • Season 15
  • Season 16
  • Season 17
  • Season 18
  • Season 19
  • Season 20

Ep 1: Matt Gets It

Dan Grat, a gunman hunted by Texas authorities, seeks refuge in Dodge City. Marshal Dillon goes into action against this outlaw who shoots before he talks.

Ep 2: Hot Spell

Matt intercedes on behalf of ex-con Cope Borden, when Rance Bradley accuses Cope of horse theft and attempts to lynch him. Cope is proven innocent of the charge, but later kills Bradley's nephew in a fair fight during a gambling dispute.

Ep 3: Word of Honor

Hank Worth, son of wealthy rancher Jake Worth, is kidnapped and held for $20,000 ransom by three men. The kidnappers call on Doc to aid young Hank, who has been shot in the back while trying to escape.

Ep 4: Home Surgery

When returning to Dodge, Chester and Matt are confronted by Holly Hawtree, whose father is desperately ill with gangrene. His only hope for survival is amputation of the affected leg.

Ep 5: Obie Tater

An old prospector named Obie Tater causes trouble for himself, his bride, and Matt when he refuses to tell where his fortune of gold is hidden.

Ep 6: Night Incident

Little Timmy Wyatt witnesses a series of bizarre murders. He has a habit of telling tall tales, so no one will believe him.

Ep 7: Smoking Out the Nolans

Clay Young is trying to evict Josh Nolan. Josh tells Matt he paid Clay for the property. Clay denies it.

Ep 8: Kite's Reward

Andy Travis shoots a guy. Matt tells him you're real good with the gun, but you have a choice either put it down or you will have to constantly prove yourself.

Ep 9: The Hunter

A buffalo hunter, Jase Murdock, is warned by Ross the storekeeper to stay out of Indian Territory.

Ep 10: The Queue

After two bullies cut off Chen's pig-tail (queue), the man vows vengeance.

Ep 11: General Parcley Smith

Old-timer Smith is a former Army officer considered a butcher. He arrives in Dodge City spreading rumors about the new Banker, Drew Holt.

Ep 12: Magnus

Chester is concerned when his nomadic and "uncivilized" brother pays a Christmas visit to Dodge, but Magnus Goode proves worldlier and more adaptable to town life than anyone thought possible.

Ep 13: Reed Survives

Lucy also professes her love for handsome Booth Rider, and concocts a scheme in which Ephram is the intended victim. Booth becomes the unwitting pawn in a homicide that culminates in an ironic twist of fate.

Ep 14: Professor Lute Bone

Doc is so angered by a traveling medicine man and his opium elixir that he wants to get a gun and shoot him. When a fellow comes to town trying to kill Professor Lute Bone because his father died drinking his elixir, Bone decides that it's time to give up the patent medicine business.

Ep 15: No Handcuffs

When a dishonest Deputy Sheriff takes a prisoner from Matt's jail without Matt's approval or knowledge, Matt and Chester go after the Deputy Sheriff and the Prisoner.

Ep 16: Reward for Matt

Matt kills a man and his widow posts a $1,000 reward for his death. Everyone in the country from sodbusters to gunslingers is out to get the reward.

Ep 17: Robin Hood

Victims won't testify against John Henry Jordan at his trial for robbing the stage. He's found innocent. Matt asks Vince a card sharp he reformed to clean out Jordan. Jordan rides off. Matt's going to follow, but Chester says Vince has been hurt bad.

Ep 18: Yorky

Yorky, a white boy who was brought up by Arapahoes, is victimized by horse thieves. Seeking revenge, he gets shot by Abe Brandt and his son who said that Yorky was trying to steal "their" horses.

Ep 19: 20-20

Troy Carver, an aging ex-lawman gets off the stage. Matt calls to him. Troy turns and almost shoots Matt. Matt tells Troy if someone is after you I'll help. Troy says mind your own business. Moss tells Matt Lee Polen has been hanging for several days. Lee says he's going to kill Troy for killing his brother.

Ep 20: Reunion '78

Belle Archer recognizes Jerry Shand and hides her face. Jerry has a grudge against Andy Cully, a paunchy hardware drummer. At the Long Branch Jerry is beating Andy up. Matt's ready to lock Jerry up. Andy bails him out. On the street Andy apologizes and offers Jerry $600. Jerry knows Andy is a murderer.

Ep 21: Helping Hand

A would-be tough guy picks on the wrong man in an attempt to make a name for himself when he tries to involve Marshal Matt Dillon by staging a street fight.

Ep 22: Tap Day for Kitty

An old sodbuster comes to town and decides he wants to marry Kitty. When he won't leave her alone she declares she'll shoot him if he pesters her anymore. Out at night, he's shot in the back and Kitty is suspected, but then she is shot at too.

Ep 23: Indian Scout

Twenty-three soldiers died at the hands of the Comanches at Cold Creek. Will Bailey lost his brother. Will says Amos Cartwright, the scout led them into an ambush. Matt tells Bailey let the cavalry handle it, and leave Amos alone.

Ep 24: The Pest Hole

Doc is using the jail to quarantine people as they fall ill. The common thread between them seems to be that they all had a dinner meeting together, about the upcoming German festival, at Bendino's restaurant.

Ep 25: The Big Broad

Big Lena Wave and her man, diminutive Emmett Fitzgood ride into Dodge to run a card game at the Long Branch. Chester accuses Emmett of cheating. Lena socks him. Lena uses a bottle on a guy. Matt's trying to figure out how to handle her. Lena kills Ed James, a buffalo hunter who made advances toward her.

Ep 26: Hack Prine

Hack Prine, a friend of Matt's rides into Dodge. However he is there as a gunman, to kill Matt Dillon.

Ep 27: Cooter

Cooter brings Mr. Ben Sissell, a gambler, a drink. A kid accuses Ben of dealing off the bottom of the deck, and draws. The third man at the table, Pate, shoots the kid.

Ep 28: The Killer

Charles Bronson guest stars as a cowardly gunslinger who only goes after old men or young kids who aren't very experienced with guns. But, when Matt Dillon gives him an ultimatum, he shows his true colors.

Ep 29: Doc's Revenge

Clem Maddow rides into Dodge. Doc syas to Chester "I'm going kill a man."

Ep 30: The Preacher

Seth, a newcomer to Dodge is bullied by Keeler, a boxer.

Ep 31: How to Die for Nothing

Zach and Bulow, up with a cattle drive, are raising a ruckus.

Ep 32: Dutch George

Matt's Childhood hero, Dutch George is now the leader of a notorious gang of horse thieves he must now stop.

Ep 33: Prairie Happy

Chester and Matt are out riding when they get shot at by a boy.

Ep 34: Chester's Mail Order Bride

Chester's drinking a lot at the Long Branch. A buffalo hunter takes his picture of a girl.

Ep 35: The Guitar

Augie Shart and Gene Tyler a couple of drunks try to hang Weed Pindle from Texas once they find he fought for the Union.

Ep 36: Cara

Doc tends Cara, who slashed her forearm, to make it look like a suicide attempt. She asks for Matt. They haven't seen each other in twelve years since Yuma. Cara wants to stay awhile. Kitty doesn't want to hear about Matt's old flame.

Ep 37: Mr. and Mrs. Amber

Peak Fletcher says his sister Sarah Amber stole a calf. She was set up.

Ep 38: Unmarked Grave

On a stage heading for Dodge Sheriff Darcy has a heart attack while guarding a murderer, Blackie.

Ep 39: Alarm at Pleasant Valley

While on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester discover a homesteading family fleeing Pleasant Valley, which is besieged by Indians.

Ep 1: Cow Doctor

After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows, a human patient of Doc's dies. During a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed.

Ep 2: Brush at Elkader

After his friend Ben Williams is shot down by Lou Shippen, Matt travels to Elkader to bring him him. The only problem, he doesn't know what he looks like and the town is protecting Shippen.

Ep 3: Custer

Matt refuses to turn Joe Trimble a rustler over to Major Banker for court-martial.

Ep 4: The Round Up

Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.

Ep 5: Young Man with a Gun

After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year old brother arrives to fight Matt.

Ep 6: Indian White

At Fort Dodge, home of the third cavalry, Mrs. Mary Cullen tells the colonel, that the twelve year old they got from the Cheyenne is her son Dennis. The Indians took him when he was two years old.

Ep 7: How to Cure a Friend

Matt's getting his haircut. The barber tells about a couple of Texans he shaved, who talked about a crooked gambler they played in San Antonio, named Nick Search. Matt saved Nick's life. Nick arrives on the stage and goes to see Bill Pence, who runs the Long Branch, about setting up a poker game.

Ep 8: Legal Revenge

Doc rides up to the Tibbs house to say his services are available. Florie won't invite him in, but her husband yells to let him in. He cut his leg chopping wood. Doc wants to take him to Dodge. Forie says no. Doc does what he can. Doc tells Matt Mr. Tibbs was holding a gun under his blanket. It was no wood cutting accident. She cut him with a knife.

Ep 9: The Mistake

Kitty is in her cowgirl outfit. She's just return from a morning ride. Earl Haney, who runs the faro table, has had somebody bust his head open. Earl says he had a red shirt, black hair and mustache.

Ep 10: Greater Love

Doc is sick and tired of working day and night and being paid off in promises. He wants to go to San Francisco.

Ep 11: No Indians

Sam tells Matt the Pawnees killed and scalped a family. Matt and Chester go to look. They meet Captain Starr. Matt says he'd like to tag along. They find a man, woman, boy and little girl shot and scalped. Matt remarks every family was killed in the open. Matt says it wasn't Indians.

Ep 12: Spring Term

Matt talks to a wounded man who was shot with a bullet meant for him. The wounded man says Stone shot him, Matt tells Chester that he knew Stone a while back and is worried that he will be shot next, Chester tells Matt that the Danch left before dawn. Matt learns that Danch was hired to kill Matt for Stone.

Ep 13: Poor Pearl

Willie Calhoun's in town for a bath and a haircut, in preparation to court Pearl Bender. Willie meets Pearl in the Long Branch. He asks her to marry him. She says Webb Thorne won't let me marry you. Willie gets a rifle and goes after Webb.

Ep 14: Cholera

Chester worries about bugs & sees Billy messing with a wagon. Matt & Chester meet the owners of the wagon, they feel the newcomers have more trouble a head. McCready accuses the new family of stealing from him. A man comes looking for Doc because Cholera may have come to Dodge.

Ep 15: Pucket's New Year

Ira Pucket was abandoned on the prairie in subfreezing weather by his skinner Jed Larner. It's been 20 below the last three nights. Doc checks Ira out, and operates on his foot. Matt tells Ira he'll try to find Jed.

Ep 16: The Cover Up

Kitty's been riding in her riding skirt. Hoffer says he's going to kill Zach Ritter. Matt tries to take Hoffer's gun, as Zach enters. Matt gets winged.

Ep 17: Sins of the Father

Mr. Dobie, the hotel owner, wants Matt to make Big Dan Daggit and Rose, an Indian,leave the Dodge house.

Ep 18: Kick Me

Harry Bent and Fred Myers just robbed the bank in Wichita. Harry and Fred's wife, Jennifer, plan on running away together. Fred followed Harry after they split up and overheard their plans.

Ep 19: Executioner

A young gunfighter, Tom Clegg, forces farmer Abe Curry into a duel and kills him. Matt can't arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abe's brother Morgan plots revenge. Morgan, who is unarmed, follows Clegg constantly. Clegg soon grows tired of it and attempts to take care of his "problem."

Ep 20: Gone Straight

A man comes into Dodge City looking for Jim Glass, Matt believes Jim Glass changed his name and learns that Nate Timble was protecting someone Matt was looking for.

Ep 21: Bloody Hands

Matt Dillon begins having nightmares due to a gunfight in which Matt killed three men. Joe Stranger thinks Matt likes killing people. When Matt refuses to fight him, he calls Matt a coward. Matt turns in his badge because he's sick of killing.

Ep 22: Skid Row

Hank Groat bothers Kitty. Chester comes to her rescue. Ann Cabot arrives from Connecticut to marry Jack Shomer. Matt, Chester and Doc go to see Jack. He's drunk in his shack as usual. They sober him up. Jack says he can't face Ann.

Ep 23: Sweet and Sour

Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kitty's negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, four men are dead and Rena is the cause.

Ep 24: Cain

A rancher comes to terms with his past.

Ep 25: Bureaucrat

A Washington Bureaucrat comes to Dodge to change the way Matt runs the town.

Ep 26: Last Fling

John Peevy and Milligan Rives go out for one "Last Fling" and Peevy makes a pass at Kitty. Kitty threatens to shoot him if he comes back. When Peevy gets shot he tells the marshall that Kitty did it. Someone takes a shot at Kitty and Matt thinks Peevy did it and goes looking for him.

Ep 27: Chester's Murder

Chester is drinking at the Long Branch and gets into an argument with a gambler over a girl. When the marshall breaks it up he tells Chester to bring the man to jail. On the way there the man is killed and everyone thinks Chester did it. Matt has to prove Chester is innocent.

Ep 28: The Photographer

Dodge City meets a Photographer who shows the residents how a camera works. Jacoby wants to take pictures of how the Wild West looks. When Matt learns someone died he thinks the photographer may have hired someone to kill Grubby for a picture of the west.

Ep 29: Wrong Man

Sam Rickers comes to the Marshal's Office asking to see Matt. Chester looks inside the wagon to find a dead man, Sam thinks he killed a criminal hoping to get $1,000 for the crime.

Ep 30: Big Girl Lost

Philip Locke is looking for Laura Simmons, but she doesn't want him to know where she works. Laura tells Matt she and Philip were to wed she asks Matt not to say anything about her job. Philip warns Matt that he will be killed if he doesn't tell the truth.

Ep 31: What the Whiskey Drummer Heard

Matt goes inside The Long Branch and meets Wilbur Hawkins a whiskey Drummer tells Matt he will die. Matt is almost shot while feeding the horses, in Doc Adams's office Matt plans to let everyone thinks he died. Kitty tells a man at The Long Branch is telling a different story.

Ep 32: Cheap Labor

Matt meets Fos Capper, who wants to marry Flora Stancil. Flora's brother Ben may give Matt some trouble that may lead to Foss Capper's death.

Ep 33: Moon

After Charlie Brewer is found dead, Jack Salter who was a friend of Charlie Brewer comes to Matt's office saying Vint killed Brewer. Matt then tries to find out if Jack is right.

Ep 34: Who Lives by the Sword

Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two young men, who were loved by all in Dodge, but only after being drawn into the gunfights by Delk.

Ep 35: Uncle Oliver

After Chester & Matt meet Uncle Oliver, Chester feels uneasy after Viney suggests he "Get rid of Chester." Uncle Oliver feels Viney would be a good replacement for Chester.

Ep 36: Daddy-O

Kitty's father, Wayne Russell, arrives in Dodge to meet his daughter after abandoning her and her mother as a baby. He insists that saloon life is not fit for a proper lady and wants to take her back to New Orleans so he can pamper her and invest her savings in his freight business.

Ep 37: The Man Who Would Be Marshal

A former Army Officer wants Matt Dillon's job. Matt then takes Mr. Egan on his rounds. Matt lets Egan try his brand of justice that almost costs Egan his life.

Ep 38: Liar from Blackhawk

A drunken man tries to beat Shinn to the draw (with his gun) but the drunken man dies trying. Hank Shinn tells Matt he doesn't want to kill people, Matt & Chester doesn't believe Shinn until He tries to tell Al James he is unarmed.

Ep 39: Jealousy

Matt wonders how Cam is doing after not seeing him in a few days, Matt then sees Cam at The Long Branch and notices Cam acting strange. Cam sets out to kill Matt after Lonnie Pike tells Cam he saw Matt with Tilda.

Ep 1: Crack-Up

Matt learns there is a hired killer in Dodge City, the hired killer gives Matt a challenge to find out who paid Nate Springer to kill Matt.

Ep 2: Gun for Chester

Chester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. After Chester is shot, he tells Matt Asa Ledbetter shot him. Matt worries that Chester may be working too hard on finding Asa Ledbetter. Asa Ledbetter claims Chester killed his brother.

Ep 3: Blood Money

When Harry Speener learns that the man who saved his life is a wanted fugitive, he kills the man for the reward, then finds out that the people of Dodge don't like those who kill for money.

Ep 4: Kitty's Outlaw

Doc, Chester, and Matt suspect Kitty of helping a bank robber when she invites Matt to an out of the way spot for dinner. What they didn't know was that the bank robber was the first 'man' Kitty had ever known.

Ep 5: Potato Road

Budge wants the Marshall to arrest his Pa for murder but when they get to Budge's house they get captured by Bud & his Ma so they can rob the bank.

Ep 6: Jesse

Festus runs into Jesse Dillard, who is wanted for shooting a black man. Festus wants to find out more and takes his friend to prison.

Ep 7: Mavis McCloud

Mavis McCloud comes to Dodge to get married. She marries Barny but Lou Staley comes looking for Mavis and wants to kill Barney and the Marshall.

Ep 8: Born to Hang

Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.

Ep 9: Romeo

A powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.

Ep 10: Never Pester Chester

When Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.

Ep 11: Fingered

Jim Cobb comes to town to marry a woman from back East. Hank accuses Jim of murdering his first wife then of murdering his second wife. Hank doesn't like Jim because Jim got a claim on some land before him.

Ep 12: How to Kill a Woman

When a man is murdered on a stagecoach, the stagecoach driver thinks that there might some connection between the stagecoach station manager (Jesse Daggett) and the stagecoach robber (Nate Pilcher).

Ep 13: Cows and Cribs

When a young couple dies of the fever out on the prairie, Doc, Matt and Chester bring the couple's young baby into Dodge to find a good home for the young baby. Matt turns the baby over to Ma Smalley for temporary care until adoptive parents can be found.

Ep 14: Doc's Reward

Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The man's brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.

Ep 15: Kitty Lost

An eastern dude asks Kitty if she'd like to take a midnight drive, but when she doesn't return the next day, Matt goes looking.

Ep 16: Twelfth Night

A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.

Ep 17: Joe Phy

Matt goes to Elkader after the man who shot him and runs into Joe Phy "US Marshall."

Ep 18: Buffalo Man

Matt & Chester are taken prisoner by two buffalo hunters who are hunting buffalo in Indian territory. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.

Ep 19: Kitty Caught

The Gunner brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty hostage.

Ep 20: Claustrophobia

Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men.

Ep 21: Ma Tennis

Andy Tennis kills a gambler. Matt arrests him but Andy's mother breaks him out of jail.

Ep 22: Sunday Supplement

Clifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.

Ep 23: Wild West

Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prarie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.

Ep 24: The Cabin

Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.

Ep 25: Dirt

Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married. When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman (Beulah)late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother (Henry Troyman) thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can.

Ep 26: Dooley Surrenders

Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.

Ep 27: Joke's on Us

Jake Kaiser and some other ranchers hung Frank Tillman thinking he was a horse thief but they were wrong. Tillman's wife and son won't tell the Marshall who did it.

Ep 28: Bottleman

Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.

Ep 29: Laughing Gas

Ernie Stubblefield trying to put his past behind him changes his name to Earl Stafford and is traveling with a laughing gas show. Cloud Marsh tries the gas and gets laughed at by the town. Angry he and his brothers attack Stubblefield/Stafford.

Ep 30: Texas Cowboys

A Texas cowhand is murdered and they won't tell the Marshall who did it so Matt decides to close all the saloons and shops till they do.

Ep 31: Amy's Good Deed

Amy Slatter comes to Dodge to try and get Matt to kill her because in the Dakota territory Matt had to kill her brother.

Ep 32: Hanging Man

Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.

Ep 33: Innocent Broad

Linda Bell comes to Dodge to meet her fiance Lou Paxon. Lou makes Linda take a job at the Long Branch. Matt is suspicious of Lou and Joe Bassett.

Ep 34: The Big Con

Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. Doc gets kidnapped.

Ep 35: Widow's Mite

Gambler Leach Fields marries Zach Morton's widow Ada thinking she knows where the money Zach stole is.

Ep 36: Chester's Hanging

Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.

Ep 37: Carmen

A secret Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers killed. The Major threatens Matt with marshal law if the thieves aren't caught. Matt suspects Jenny Lane, a new girl at the Long Branch of being involved.

Ep 38: Overland Express

Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.

Ep 39: The Gentleman

Marcus France, a "Gentleman Gambler" comes to Dodge and falls in love with Bonnie Damon. Tiller Evans thinks Bonnie is his girl. Matt has to keep Tiller from killing France.

Ep 1: Matt for Murder

Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man. However Doc, Matt and Matt's old friend Wild Bill Hickock come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder.

Ep 2: The Patsy

After a young man is shot in the back, people think it was young Fly Hoyt. Holly Fanshaw was the only person who saw the murder happen and she tells Matt that Fly Hoyt committed the murder The Older Brother (Joe Thorp)vows revenge for the murder of his Brother.

Ep 3: Gunsmuggler

When renegade Pawnee Indians attack some local ranchers, Matt and Major Evans think that white gunrunners supplied the Renegades the rifles.

Ep 4: Monopoly

A stranger by the name of Ivy comes to Dodge and proceeds to buy up all the local freight lines. Old Joe Trimble refuses to sell and soon afterwards his home is set on fire. Trimble's wife dies in the fire.

Ep 5: Letter of the Law

When Matt is forced to serve an eviction notice on farmer Brandon Teek, Matt tries every way he can to help the farmer.

Ep 6: Thoroughbreds

CK Portis comes to Dodge City and Matt is suspicious of him. Kitty sees him in a gunfight and claims she saw him draw first against two cowboys.

Ep 7: Stage Hold-Up

Three men hold up the stage Marshall Dillon and Chester are riding on. One of the men kills a passenger. In Dodge the Marshall recognizes the voice of one of the robbers.

Ep 8: Lost Rifle

Andy Spangler finds the body of Will Gibbs and suspects Ben Tiple of the murder. But Tiple is a good friend of Matt's and Ben denies murdering Gibbs. Matt tries to help Ben out.

Ep 9: Land Deal

A man tries to swindle a group of immigrants with the promise of railroad land and then tries to run off with the wife of one the immigrants.

Ep 10: Lynching Man

Bob Gringle and Ed Shelby lynch Hank Blenis and take his horse. Charlie Drain doesn't think Matt is doing a good enough job trying to find the lynchers and decides to do it himself.

Ep 11: How to Kill a Friend

Ben Corden and Harry Duggan try to bribe Matt so they can run a crooked game. When the Marshall refuses they hire an old friend of Matt's (Toque Morlan) to kill him.

Ep 12: Grass

Joe Carter and Earl Brant try scaring Harry Pope pretending to be Indians. Pope defends himself killing Carter so their boss Ned Curry wants revenge.

Ep 13: The Cast

Shell Tucker is normally a friendly and peaceful sort of a man. When Shell Tucker's wife swallows a nail, Shell's son (Rufe Tucker) sends for Doc Adams; however, Doc is unable to save Mrs. Tucker from this illness. Since Matt knows that Shell Tucker dislikes Doctors, Matt thinks Shell might try and take the death of his wife out on Doc Adams.

Ep 14: Robber Bridegroom

Jack Fitch, a down on his luck rancher, robs the stage and kidnaps Laura. They fall in love but Laura's fiance wants Jack killed.

Ep 15: Snakebite

When two town troublemakers kill Poney Thompson's dog , Poney goes after the two men. When one of the men who shot and killed Poney's Dog is found dead, Matt and Chester suspect that Poney killed the man.

Ep 16: Gypsum Hills Feud

Matt & Chester are hunting when Matt gets shot at. This puts him in the middle of a feud.

Ep 17: Young Love

Rod Allison and Jim Box work for Jesse Wheat. Jim kills Jesse. Rod is in love with Jesse's widow Anna. Jim starts selling Anna's cattle and shoots Rod.

Ep 18: Marshal Proudfoot

Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant.

Ep 19: Passive Resistance

Joe Kell and Hank Voyles kill all Gideon Seek's sheep and burn his house but Gideon won't tell the Marshall who did it.

Ep 20: Love of a Good Woman

Doc's nurse from the war, Abbie, comes to Dodge. So does Coney who's out to kill Matt for putting him in jail for 5 years. Coney gets sick and Abbie takes care of him.

Ep 21: Jayhawkers

Dolph Quince (Jack Elam) sends Phil Jacks (Ken Curtis) into Dodge to bring Marshall Dillon out to their herd to help with Jayhawkers.

Ep 22: Kitty's Rebellion

An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed. Intent on defending her honor wherever she is insulted, he nearly gets himself killed.

Ep 23: Sky

While Chester is teaching Miss Kitty guitar playing and singing technics, the cowpokes at the Long Branch are making quite a fuss over Frog mouth Kate. Kate has a fondness for a younger man almost half her age (Billy Daunt).

Ep 24: Doc Quits

When another doctor shows up in Dodge promising lower doctor's fees and miracle cures, Doc gets angry and many Dodge citizens think Doc Adams has quit as Dodge's doctor.

Ep 25: The Bear

Joe Plummer is mad and jealous because his boss Mike Blocker is marrying Tilda. So he tries to frame Blocker for murder.

Ep 26: The Coward

Gambler Ed Eby has a grudge against the Marshall and starts talking about how "big" someone would be if they were to kill Matt.

Ep 27: The F.U.

When Onie Becker is shot down on the streets of Dodge after quarreling with Al Clovis in a poker game, everyone thinks Al Clovis committed the shooting. The plot thickens after Matt and Chester pursue Clovis on a train headed out of Dodge.

Ep 28: Wind

Men at the Long Branch believe one of the "saloon girls" brings them luck at Blackjack. Matt's suspicious and tries to run her and the dealer out of Dodge when men start killing each other over her.

Ep 29: Fawn

Matt rescues a white woman (who was let go by the Cheyene) and a child from buffalo hunters then has to protect her from her Boston husband.

Ep 30: Renegade White

Matt goes after Ord Spencer for murder. He gets thrown by his horse and hits his head then gets kidnapped by the Cheyene.

Ep 31: Murder Warrant

Lee Prentice is shot by Jake Harbin who has a dead or alive bogus murder warrant for him. Matt has to try and figure a way to keep him and Sherriff Ben Goddard from taking Lee back.

Ep 32: Change of Heart

Bella Grant is brought to Dodge by Brisco Cass (Ken Curtis) to get Jerry Cass away from his ranch so his brother, Brisco, can claim the ranch as his own.

Ep 33: Buffalo Hunter

When a Buffalo hunter dies from injuries from burning lead, Matt and Doc think that their boss (Jim Gatluf) might have had something to do with the man's dying.

Ep 34: The Choice

Andy Hill comes to Dodge looking for a job. Matt finds out he's wanted for robbery but decides to take a chance on him.

Ep 35: There Never Was a Horse

Gunman Kin Creed comes to Dodge and tries everything to get Matt into a gunfight.

Ep 36: Print Asper

Lawyer Jay Rabb tries to cheat Print Asper out of his ranch. Print threatens to kill him unless he makes it right. When Rabb is shot he tells the Marshall that Print did it.

Ep 37: The Constable

The businessmen of Dodge tell the Marshall to stay out of the town affairs while Texas cowboys come to town and hire a constable to deal with things.

Ep 38: Blue Horse

Matt and Chester are taking a prisoner across the prairie when Matt's horse goes down and breaks Matt's leg. Chester rides for Dodge to get Doc leaving Matt alone with the prisoner. When the prisoner overpowers Matt, Blue Horse comes to Matt's rescue.

Ep 39: Cheyennes

Matt and Chester come across a family murdered by renegade Cheyennes. The Cavalry arrests Matt by mistake then let him go. Matt goes after the gunrunners who sold the guns to the Indians.

Ep 1: Target

Danny Kader falls in love with a Gypsy camped on his father's land. Pa Kader (John Carradine) takes potshots at the Gypsies trying to force them off his land. Danny & Nayomi try to get away from both their families.

Ep 2: Kitty's Injury

After Miss Kitty is injured from falling from a horse, Matt seeks help from some poor farmers. Matt determines early on that the Farmer (Raff Judson), his wife and son are strange people that will probably not offer any assistance in helping Miss Kitty When the Farmer refuses to help Matt and Kitty, Matt forces Raff Judson's son (Lootie) to go into Dodge to get Doc Adams.

Ep 3: Horse Deal

Deesha accuses Emmett Bowers of stealing his horses. Bowers tells Matt he bought them. Slim and Jake Wirth have the same trouble. Matt must find the horse thief before a lynch mob forms.

Ep 4: Johnny Red

Johnny Red asks the Marshall where the Crale ranch is. Says he's Mrs Crale's long lost son Billy. Matt doesn't think so because the War Dept said that Billy was killed at the Battle of Shilo.

Ep 6: Tail to the Wind

Burke Reese and his son want Pezzy Nellar & his wife Cora to sell their farm but they don’t want to sell. Matt asks Pezzy to swear out a complaint against Reese and his son when Pezzy’s chicken coop gets burned but he says he can’t swear it was Reese.

Ep 7: Annie Oakley

Kate wants her husband Jeff Kinsman to kill Ed Dolliver because she says Dolliver insulted her. When Jeff winds up dead Kate accuses Dolliver. Kate gets mad when Matt doesn’t arrest Dolliver and tells him she’ll make trouble if Matt doesn’t do something about it. Matt comes up with a plan to find out who really killed Jeff.

Ep 5: Kangaroo

When a crazy man and his two sons whip a cowboy with a bullwhip almost killing the cowboy, Matt rescues the cowboy from the severe whipping. When Matt asks Chester to untie the cowboy, the man makes threats to punish Chester for his sinful ways. As Chester is walking home from the Long Branch, the man and his two sons kidnap Chester.

Ep 8: Saludos

Matt and Chester find a young Indian woman (Sochi) on the prairie suffering from a gunshot wound. Matt and Chester take the young woman to Doc Adams for medical treatment, but the overall outlook for recovery does not look promising Once Matt hears that a white man shot the woman, Matt and Chester set after the man.

Ep 9: Brother Whelp

Sted Rutgers comes back to Dodge after 3 years to find that his brother Tom married his girl Tassy. Now Sted wants to kill Tom.

Ep 10: The Boots

Drunken ex-gunfighter Zeno promises 12 yr old orphan Tommy boots for his birthday. Gunfighter Hank Fergus who made Zeno lose his nerve comes back to Dodge to get Zeno to rob the General Store for him.

Ep 11: Odd Man Out

Cyrus Tucker tells the Marshall his wife has disappeared. When Hody Peel shows up in town selling used women's clothes it looks like he had something to do with her disappearance.

Ep 12: Miguel's Daughter

Two drunken cowboys assault Chavela (Miguel's Daughter). When they come to talk to her later, they hit her father and while running away Chavela falls and hits her head. Miguel says the law has to be by a man's own hands. Matt says that he is the law not Miguel.

Ep 13: Box o' Rocks

Packy Roundtree changes his name and pretends to be dead because of his fear of Jed Crooder. He asks the Parson to bury a coffin to make everyone think he is dead but the coffin is nothing but a Box of Rocks.

Ep 14: False Witness

Crep tells the Marshall he saw Tom murder a man. Tom is convicted on Crep's testimony and sentenced to hang. A couple weeks later Crep witnesses another murder.

Ep 15: Tag, You're It

Hired killer Carl Killion comes to Dodge to kill Rusty but he didn't know Rusty was a woman.

Ep 16: Thick 'n' Thin

Otie and Brace, who have a ranch together, start a feud with each other and both ask Matt to kick the other off. When they start shooting at each other Matt locks them up till they can settle their argument.

Ep 17: Groat's Grudge

Lee, a Southerner, comes to Dodge to wait for Tom Haskins. Lee wants to kill him. Lee believes Haskins was responsible for burning Lee's house outside Atlanta and killing his wife during the Civil War.

Ep 18: Big Tom

Ex-prize fighter Tom Burr decides to fight Hob Creel but Doc tells him he has a bad heart and it could kill him. Matt locks Tom up so he can't fight. Matt winds up fighting Creel instead.

Ep 19: Till Death Do Us

Jezra Cobb is shot at but the man gets away. Kitty overhears a drifter named Puggy say that he was paid $300 to kill Jezra. Matt rides out to Jezra's ranch to talk to him but his wife insists they have a piece of pie first before going to see Jezra in the barn.

Ep 20: The Tragedian

Edward, as washed up actor, gets caught cheating at cards. Matt gets him a job washing dishes but Edward steals money and gets drunk. Matt has Chester lock him up while he looks for the brother of a murder who's out to shoot him so his brother won't stand trial.

Ep 21: Hinka Do

The new rootin tootin owner of "The Lady Gay" (Mamie) comes to Dodge and opens a saloon. When she opens the saloon, she lets the Dodge cowpokes know that she is very handy with a gun and will use that gun on any trouble makers in her saloon.

Ep 22: Doc Judge

While Matt is away on business, Doc gets threatened by an ex-convict (Brice Harp) who claims that Doc Adams sentenced him to a long term in Prison. Doc tries to explain to the man that he was never a judge and has always been a doctor, but the man does not believe Doc.

Ep 23: Moo Moo Raid

Tush (a cattle boss) accuses Bert (cattle boss of another herd) of murdering Onie Tucker & his cow. An all-out war is looming when Matt won't arrest Burt right away.

Ep 24: Kitty's Killing

When an older gentlemen, Jacob Leech, comes into the Dodge jail house and tells Matt and Chester that he plans to kill a man named Ollie Radford, Matt puts Jacob Leech in the jail for the night to cool off.

Ep 25: Jailbait Janet

A man his son and daughter hold up a train. The man kills a train employee to get some money to avenge the loss of the man's wife and everything they owned. Earlier the sparks from another train had set fire to the prairie where they lived in Newton, Ks. and caused their loss.

Ep 26: Unwanted Deputy

Vince Wiley come to Dodge to try and make Marshall Dillon draw on him first so he can kill Matt "in self-defense". Wiley is not his real name and he wants the Marshall dead for killing his brother.

Ep 27: Where'd They Go

When Jonas accuses Clint Dodie of robbing his store, Matt and Chester set out in the bitter cold go to Clint's farm to make an arrest. Once they arrive at Clint's farm, instead of making an arrest, Matt and Chester wind up doing most of Clint's farm chores.

Ep 28: Crowbait Bob

When the greedy relatives of a dying man (Crowbait Bob)learn that he might be dying, they come to Dodge to grab anything of value they can get from the dying man. When his relatives find out that Bob has willed all of his possessions to Miss Kitty, they show their true hateful feelings about their relative, Crowbait Bob.

Ep 29: Colleen So Green

A southern belle named Colleen comes to Dodge and charms her way through Dodge. Kitty is not charmed by the woman. She leaves Matt and Doc at Delmonicos in the middle of dinner, and the reason she gives is she's not going to watch them" Moon" over Colleen.

Ep 30: The Ex-Urbanites

While Doc and Chester are traveling on the prairie, Doc is shot by some wolfers. Doc's gunshot wounds are serious enough where Chester is worried that Doc might die on the prairie. Chester not only has to remove the bullet from Doc, but he also has to fight off an attack by the wolfers.

Ep 31: I Thee Wed

After Sam Hackett physically beats his wife on the streets of Dodge, Matt and Doc try to persuade Mrs. Hackett to prefer charges on her husband, but she refuses to do so. When Mrs. Hackett comes into Doc's office suffering from a beating she received from her husband, Matt decides to go after Sam Hackett.

Ep 32: The Lady Killer

While Grant Lucas is in Dodge to testify in court against Cy Welch, Grant goes into the Long Branch for a drink. While Grant is at the Long Branch, he sets up a late night meeting with one of Miss Kitty's saloon girls, Mae Talmey. When Grant goes to Mae's house later that evening, Mae shoots Grant clamming that she thought Grant was trying to rob her; however, Matt does not believe Mae's story.

Ep 33: Gentleman's Disagreement

Ed Beaudry comes to Dodge to kill Bert Wells for marrying Jeanne. When Beaudry turns up dead everyone thinks Bert did it. But when Tulsa starts buying drinks and shooting off his mouth Matt thinks different.

Ep 34: Speak Me Fair

Matt, Doc, and Chester are out hunting when Matt finds an Indian boy half beaten to death. Matt and Chester go back out to prairie and split up looking for clues. Matt comes upon and Indian scout (Ken Curtis) and finds out the boy is the Kiowa Chief’s son. Matt and Chester find the men who were rustling Traych’s cattle and takes them by his ranch for identification and winds up finding out who beat up the boy.

Ep 35: Belle's Back

Belle Ainsley comes back to Dodge after 3 years being with an outlaw. Belle tells Matt she left him for good. Matt gets suspicious when Belle's sister Phyllis goes missing from the Dodge House.

Ep 36: The Bobsy Twins

A very bizarre episode about two brothers who have come West to kill Indians.

Ep 37: Old Flame

Matt’s old flame Dolly Winters comes and asks Matt to help her find her husband Rad Meadows. Kitty’s suspicious of Dolly. Matt finds Rad but he’s not like Dolly said he was. Matt tells Dolly to leave town but instead she rides to Rad’s house.

Ep 38: The Deserter

Corporal Janice takes off with the Army payroll after an ambush. Matt has to find his accomplice who no one got a look at. Matt gets a line on Janice and finds him. His father gets the drop on Matt and shoots Chester and holds them hostage at his house.

Ep 39: Cherry Red

Red Larned comes to Dodge and tells Cherry Odell he’s going to marry her. Red is a special agent for a stagecoach line that was robbed by Slim Odell, Cherry’s husband. Red killed Slim during the robbery.

Ep 1: Friend's Pay-Off

Matt’s good friend Ab Butler sends a note to him saying he’s laying out near Cotton Well with a bullet in his back. Matt and Chester go to find him and bring him back to Dodge.

Ep 2: The Blacksmith

German immigrant and town blacksmith, Emil Wolhter and his German mail order bride, Gretchen Mueller, are to be married. Matt, Doc and Chester along with Emil meet Gretchen at the stage station. Emil and Gretchen throw a big wedding party for all their friends in Dodge;however, not everyone in Dodge is friendly to Emil and Gretchen.

Ep 3: Small Water

Matt & Chester are bringing in Leroy Finn to face murder charges. Leroy gets the drop on Chester during the night and Matt kills him. Matt & Chester go to Leroy's home to tell his father about what happened and to tell him to keep the rest of his sons out of Dodge.

Ep 4: Say Uncle

Martin Nagel is a hard working store owner that has plans to build up his business and eventually leave the business to his son, Lee Nagel. When Martin Nagel is killed in a freak accident, Lee Nagel thinks that his Uncle (Hutch) did the killing.

Ep 5: Shooting Stopover

While Matt and Chester are transporting a prisoner on a stage coach to Wichita, Matt learns that the stage is also carrying gold. Matt fears that outlaws might attack the stage for the gold. While at a stagecoach stopover, the outlaws attack the station.

Ep 6: The Peace Officer

Stella (played by Susan Cummings) leaves Tascosa to escape her bad boyfriend Clegg Rawlins. Stella is shot when she tries to help Matt. Matt takes her to a rancher's cabin and takes care of her wound. Then brings her back to Dodge.

Ep 7: Don Matteo

Garth Tabor makes threats after Bill Pence throws him out of the Long Branch for being rough with the ladies. Estaban Garcia (Matt’s old friend comes into Dodge looking for Matt and Tabor. Estaban wants to kill a man.

Ep 8: The Worm

A buffalo hunter (Spadden) and his partner Ritchie come to Dodge City causing trouble. Spadden has the reputation for bullying other people and bullying his buffalo skinner, Ritchie. When Jim Cornet's friend is killed in a fight by Spadden, Spadden and Cornet have angry words.

Ep 9: The Badge

Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.

Ep 10: Distant Drummer

While Marshall Matt Dillon is riding alone on a prairie road, he is shot and taken captive by two outlaws who at first wanted his horse.

Ep 11: Ben Tolliver's Stud

Ben Tolliver quits working Jake Creed. Ben’s in love with Jake’s daughter Nancy. Jake accuses Ben of stealing one of his stud horses.

Ep 12: No Chip

Hutch Dolan and his brothers cause trouble by putting their cattle on Jeff Mossman’s land. They cause more trouble but pouring flour onto Pete, Jeff’s son. When Jeff confronts the Dolan’s with a gun, Hutch shoots him. With Jeff in town at Doc's the Dolan's ride back to Mossman's ranch.

Ep 13: The Wake

Gus Mather comes into Dodge and throws a big wake for a man named Orson Boggs Doc and Chester are suspicious of this whole wake situation, but Chester and Doc attend the wake nonetheless and partake of the free drinks. When Matt comes back to Dodge from his business trip, Chester informs Matt on what has been going on . Matt also thinks something strange is going on as well.

Ep 14: The Cook

Sandy Keane takes over as the cook at Delmonico’s and suddenly the place is loaded with customers. One customer complains about his eggs and hits Sandy in the head with a plate. Sandy hits the man back and kills him.

Ep 15: Old Fool

A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!

Ep 16: Brother Love

Gus Blake is killed when Jonas’s store is robbed by one of the Cumber’s brothers. Matt has to figure out which brother it was Nate or Frank.

Ep 17: Bad Sheriff

Ed Gance shoots his partner thinking he’s trying to back shoot him. James Hark and Bill Turloe catch Gance and pretend to bring him in for the reward. Matt and Chester meet them on the prairie and tell them they’ll all ride back to Dodge together.

Ep 18: Unloaded Gun

When 2 outlaws shoot and kill a storekeeper and his young employee, Matt sets out on to the prairie to find the killers. When one of the killers (Red Lime) dies from a gunshot wound from Marshall Dillon's gun, the other outlaw (Joe Lime) vows revenge on Matt Dillon for killing his brother.

Ep 19: Tall Trapper

Marv Rowley and his wife Tassie stop for the night and camp with a trapper named Ben. Marv comes into Dodge for a doctor saying his wife is sick but when Doc gets there he discovers she was beaten to death. Rowley accuses Ben. When Matt gets to the wagon her body is gone.

Ep 20: Love Thy Neighbor

12 yr old Pete Scooper dies after tearing his leg on barbed wire and getting blood poisoning. Leroy Galloway and his son chased Pete thinking he stole a sack of potatoes. Ben Scooper and his other son Harley come gunning for the Galloways. A bloody feud ensues with no winners.

Ep 21: Bad Seed

Trudy Trainer sneaks into Matt’s camp and tries to steal some meat. Trudy ran away from home and Matt tells her he’s bringing her back in the morning. Matt decides to bring Trudy to Dodge then the trouble begins.

Ep 22: Kitty Shot

Kitty is shot by a man named Bayloe. Matt goes after Bayloe and catches him but while trying to bring him back to Dodge, they keep getting shot at.

Ep 23: About Chester

Matt and Chester go looking for Doc who’s missing. Chester’s horse comes up lame and when he comes upon a small ranch he gets taken prisoner.

Ep 24: Harriet

Harriet’s father is murdered out on the prairie and she walks 40 miles to Dodge. She lies to the Marshal about what happened out on the prairie then gets a job at the Long Branch to look for the men who murdered her dad.

Ep 25: Potshot

Hutch Dawkins sets off firecrackers in front of the Long Branch. Chester gets shot by a man hiding in the alley. Matt thinks its bank robbers trying to get him. Matt gets the robbers but they didn’t shoot Chester. Kitty thinks Hutch might have shot Chester.

Ep 26: Old Faces

Tilda and Tom Cook come to Dodge. Ed Ivers and Varden start trouble with Tom at the Long Branch. Tom is going to face Ivers in a gunfight until Tilda tells Tom the truth about her past. Ivers eggs Tom into a fight anyway.

Ep 27: Big Man

Pat Swarmer gives Kitty a hard time at the Long Branch. Matt comes in and hits Pat and makes him leave but Swarmer says he’ll be back and get Kitty. When Pat is beaten to death Jud, who was drunk at the time, thinks he saw the Marshal do it. Matt has to prove it wasn’t him that did it.

Ep 28: Little Girl

Matt & Chester come upon a burning house. A man is dead but his step daughter is alive and now orphaned.

Ep 29: Stolen Horses

Jim is murdered and his horses stolen. After burying Jim, Matt and Chester go looking for Thibault, the man who did it. The trail they pick-up leads to a Kiowa camp where they find the stolen horses.

Ep 30: Minnie

Rough and rowdy Minnie comes to Dodge City and sets her designs on Doc Adams much to the delight of Matt, Chester and Kitty.

Ep 31: Bless Me Till I Die

Cole Treadwell and his wife get into Dodge and Nate Bush tries to run them out of town. Cole is studying to become a doctor. Bush continues to bother the Treadwells and threatens everyone who helps them. Cole is hiding a secret.

Ep 32: Long Hours, Short Pay

Matt is on the trail of a gunrunner and catches him. However the Indians catch Matt and take him prisoner and release the gunrunner.

Ep 33: Hard Virtue

Hot tempered Andy Coe and his wife want to sell their wagon to Moss but can’t when Ed Fallon’s team spooks and crashes into their wagon. Fallon pays for the broken wagon and gives Andy a job. Fallon is sweet on Andy’s wife.

Ep 34: The Imposter

Sheriff Ab Stringer from Miami, TX. sends Matt a telegram asking for help with a prisoner. Turns out he’s looking for Rob Curtain who isn’t who he says he is but neither is the Sheriff.

Ep 35: Chester's Dilemma

Edna Walsh comes to Dodge. Chester gets her a job at Jonas’s store. Edna steals a letter meant for the Marshal. Chester has to make a decision on how to handle it.

Ep 36: The Love of Money

Nate Tatum, an ex-U.S. Marshal, stops in Dodge to say hi to Matt. Nate is killed, shot in the back and Matt thinks Bonnie, the new girl at the Long Branch might have something to do with it.

Ep 37: Melinda Miles

Tom Potter is courting Melinda Miles. When Roy Tayloe is killed Melinda’s dad thinks Tom did it but Melinda gives Tom an alibi.

Ep 38: Colorado Sheriff

Matt and Chester find Rod Ellison out on the prairie with bullet in his back. When Ben Whitter shows up with a bullet in his shoulder, Matt thinks it might be the man shooting at them out on the prairie. Whitter says he’s a deputy from Colorado and he’s been trailing Ellison.

Ep 1: Perce

An outlaw named Perce McCall helps Matt fend off three gunmen, much to everyone's surprise.

Ep 2: Old Yellow Boots

A fortune-hunting cowboy engaged to a wealthy woman is suspected of murdering her brother, who objected to their union.

Ep 3: Miss Kitty

When Kitty takes a young boy off the stagecoach one night, Matt attempts to figure out his identity.

Ep 4: Harper's Blood

A man tries to balance the bad blood between his sons upon learning that his wife's grandfather was a murderer.

Ep 5: All That

A rancher tries to save his property from foreclosure.

Ep 6: Long, Long Trail

Matt accompanies a young woman on a treacherous journey across the desert, where the pair must brave sandstorms, thirst and Indians.

Ep 7: The Squaw

A young man is unwelcoming toward the young Indian bride his father brings home.

Ep 8: Chesterland

Chester purchases a piece of land when he gets engaged.

Ep 9: Milly

Milly Glover decides to marry the first available man in order to support herself and her brother.

Ep 10: Indian Ford

Matt helps an Indian-hating officer find a white girl, hoping the search will not end in violence.

Ep 11: Apprentice Doc

Doc is kidnapped by a gang of outlaws to treat one of their own.

Ep 12: Nina's Revenge

Nina Sharky hatches a plan to get away from her tight-fisted father and fortune-hunting husband.

Ep 13: Marry Me

Billy Cathcart tries to find a woman for his big brother because family custom dictates that the oldest marries first.

Ep 14: A Man a Day

Outlaws threaten to kill one person every day until Matt gets out of town.

Ep 15: The Do-Badder

A pair of drifters plot to ambush a prospector who's on his way to Dodge after striking big.

Ep 16: Lacey

A man is suspected of murdering his fiancée's father.

Ep 17: Cody's Code

A wounded outlaw jeopardizes Cody Durham's courtship with Rose Loring.

Ep 18: Old Dan

Doc tries to keep an alcoholic off the bottle.

Ep 19: Catawomper

A woman tries to make her boyfriend jealous when she's had enough of his attitude.

Ep 20: Half Straight

Matt is stalked by a hired killer.

Ep 21: He Learned About Women

Matt goes after a band of comancheros that raided a camp and kidnapped a girl.

Ep 22: The Gallows

Matt is certain that the convicted murderer he's taking to the gallows is innocent.

Ep 23: Reprisal

A woman plots her revenge on Matt for killing her husband in a gunfight.

Ep 24: Coventry

When a man and his expectant wife are stranded on the prairie, their only hope—a man ostracized by the community—is unwilling to help them.

Ep 25: The Widow

A widow arrives in Dodge to witness the shenanigans of town drunk Emil Peck.

Ep 26: Durham Bull

A gang's luck turns around when they come to Dodge.

Ep 27: Wagon Girls

Matt meets a mail-order bride on the prairie who claims she's trying to run away from a ruthless wagon master.

Ep 28: The Dealer

A woman resents her suitor more than ever when he kills her father in self-defense.

Ep 29: The Summons

An outlaw kills his partner thinking he will get a huge reward.

Ep 30: The Dreamers

A miner tries to use his new-found wealth to win over Kitty.

Ep 31: Cale

A young rider is wounded when he's suspected of being a horse thief's accomplice.

Ep 32: Chester's Indian

While on a fishing trip, Chester shoots an Indian who was courting a white teenage girl, whom Matt then tries to save from her ruthless father.

Ep 33: The Prisoner

A military prison escapee shows up in Dodge.

Ep 34: The Boys

A snake-oil pitchman hatches a scheme to swindle the citizens of Dodge.

Ep 1: The Search

A suspected horse thief tries to survive in the wilderness when he gets hurt fleeing from his pursuers.

Ep 2: Call Me Dodie

Matt meets a girl who ran away from an orphanage that functions like a prison.

Ep 3: Quint Asper Comes Home

A halfbreed named Quint Asper vows revenge on all white men when a pair of drifters kills his father and threatens his mother.

Ep 4: Root Down

A woman attempts to lure Chester into marriage.

Ep 5: Jenny

An outlaw's girl takes a shine to Matt.

Ep 6: Collie's Free

After spending eight years in prison, Collie Patten plots his revenge on Matt.

Ep 7: The Ditch

Matt tries to prevent a range war as a rancher takes steps to cut off the homesteaders' water supply.

Ep 8: The Trappers

The friendship between two trappers is ruined when one leaves the other to die during an Indian attack.

Ep 9: Phoebe Strunk

Phoebe Strunk and her murderous clan terrorize Dodge.

Ep 10: The Hunger

Matt comes to the rescue when a father and son abuse the mother and daughter.

Ep 11: Abe Blocker

Matt pursues a frontiersman who's using force to take homesteaders' land.

Ep 12: The Way It Is

Kitty meets an injured traveler after Matt breaks a date with her.

Ep 13: Us Haggens

Matt hunts down outlaw Black Jack Haggen, assisted by the killer's nephew, Festus, who has his own reasons for wanting to find his uncle.

Ep 14: Uncle Sunday

When his uncle comes to visit, Chester's plan to shorten his stay doesn't exactly work out.

Ep 15: False Front

A gambler makes a bet that a man who's never used a gun can pass as a gunslinger.

Ep 16: Old Comrade

A fall guy learns that his father, a general, is dying.

Ep 17: Louis Pheeters

The town drunk witnesses a man killing his wife's alleged lover.

Ep 18: The Renegades

Quint tries to convince an Army officer that white renegades are responsible for starting the latest Indian uprising.

Ep 19: Cotter's Girl

Matt attempts to civilize a teenage mountain girl.

Ep 20: The Bad One

Matt investigates why a woman refuses to identify a stagecoach robber.

Ep 21: The Cousin

Matt's foster brother forces him into a showdown.

Ep 22: Shona

As the citizens of Dodge deal with the strain of Indian raids, a farmer brings his ailing Indian wife into town for treatment.

Ep 23: Ash

The friendship between business partners is jeopardized when one of them sustains a head injury, changing his personality.

Ep 24: Blind Man's Bluff

Matt must rely on his wits and instincts when he goes blind while on the prairie.

Ep 25: Quint's Indian

Quint is accused of horse theft and beaten by a group of vigilantes.

Ep 26: Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

A pair of outlaws hire a drifter to do what they couldn't: kill Matt Dillon.

Ep 27: Two of a Kind

Matt gets caught in the middle of a feud between two immigrants.

Ep 28: I Call Him Wonder

The citizens of Dodge refuse to hire a drifter because he's decided to look after an orphaned Indian boy.

Ep 29: With a Smile

A powerful rancher's spoiled son gets violent when a pretty girl rebuffs his affections.

Ep 30: The Far Places

Matt tries to ease the tension between a rancher and her son.

Ep 31: Panacea Sykes

Elderly Panacea Sykes is a conniving thief bent on robbing Kitty.

Ep 32: Tell Chester

A girl Chester likes has no idea that the man she has her eye on is already married.

Ep 33: Quint-Cident

Quint incurs the wrath of a widow he turned down.

Ep 34: Old York

Matt comes face to face with the outlaw who saved his life long ago.

Ep 35: Daddy Went Away

A widow returns Chester's affections.

Ep 36: The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

A saloon girl and a drifter team up to find the man who did them both wrong.

Ep 37: Jeb

A man buys an allegedly stolen horse from a farm boy, which proves to be a big mistake.

Ep 38: The Quest for Asa Janin

Convinced that Dave Ingalls is innocent of murder, Matt sets out to find the real killer before Ingalls is wrongfully hanged.

Ep 1: Kate Heller

A young man commits murder and ambushes Matt.

Ep 2: Lover Boy

A ladies' man takes up with a married woman.

Ep 3: Legends Don't Sleep

After getting out of prison, an infamous gunman meets a cocky young man eager to cash in on his reputation.

Ep 4: Tobe

Tobe Hostader befriends a saloon girl whose ex-boyfriend is near.

Ep 5: Easy Come

Elmo Sippy may seem polite on the outside, but he's a murderer on the inside.

Ep 6: My Sister's Keeper

A grief-stricken widower gets a job as a hired hand for two sisters.

Ep 7: Quint's Trail

Quint guides a family on a hazardous trail to Oregon.

Ep 8: Carter Caper

After a man gets beaten up for trying to steal a horse, he plots his revenge.

Ep 9: Ex-Con

An ex-convict comes to Dodge with the intention of shooting Matt dead.

Ep 10: Extradition: Part 1

Matt tracks an accused murderer to Texas.

Ep 11: Extradition: Part 2

Thrown into a Mexican prison, Matt tries to convince the authorities that he is a U.S. marshal.

Ep 12: The Magician

A traveling medicine man is accused of cheating at cards.

Ep 13: Pa Hack's Brood

The patriarch of the Hack family has a vested interest in trying to get his daughter to marry a farmer's son.

Ep 14: The Glory and the Mud

A young man tries to make a name for himself as a fast draw when Matt turns him down as deputy.

Ep 15: Dry Well

A recently married woman takes the first opportunity to welcome a stranger into her home.

Ep 16: Prairie Wolfer

Someone or something is slaughtering cattle.

Ep 17: Friend

Matt heads to a nearby town to investigate a friend's death.

Ep 18: Once a Haggen

A friend of Festus' is accused of murdering the man who bested them at poker.

Ep 19: No Hands

Doc is threatened by the Ginnis clan when he fails to respond quickly to their demands for treatment.

Ep 20: May Blossom

Festus' cousin, May Blossom, comes to town to marry him, honoring a pact between their fathers.

Ep 21: The Bassops

A family finds Matt and a prisoner handcuffed to one another—with the prisoner claiming to be the marshal.

Ep 22: The Kite

Matt must stop a killer from realizing his victim's daughter was a witness.

Ep 23: Comanches is Soft

After spending a wild night in Wichita, Quint and Festus deal with a saloon girl who claims they invited her to Dodge.

Ep 24: Father's Love

A woman learns that the man who tried to have his way with her is her husband's uncle.

Ep 25: Now That April's Here

The only ones who believe Festus' girlfriend witnessed a murder are the killers themselves.

Ep 26: Caleb

Having grown tired of farming, Caleb Marr comes to Dodge in search of adventure.

Ep 27: Owney Tupper Had a Daughter

Owney Tupper decides to take action when he's forced to give up custody of his daughter.

Ep 28: Bently

Chester doubts a man's deathbed murder confession, so he sets out to find the real killer.

Ep 29: Kitty Cornered

A rival saloon owner forces Kitty into a deadly competition.

Ep 30: The Promoter

An ex-farmer decides to become a fight promoter to make his fortune.

Ep 31: Trip West

A timid bank clerk goes through a surprising change in personality when he's told he only has a short time to live.

Ep 32: Scot Free

Rob Scot leaves his family and prepares to start a new life with Nora Brand—after they dispose of her husband's body.

Ep 33: The Warden

Festus protects a young Indian maiden from a farmer who bought her from her father.

Ep 34: Homecoming

The ex-husband of Hector Lowell's wife claims that the Lowells' home, land and business belong to him.

Ep 35: The Other Half

A love triangle between a girl and twin brothers turns tragic.

Ep 36: Journey for Three

A stranger accompanies two brothers on their trip to California.

Ep 1: Blue Heaven

A young man and a fugitive team up as they run from their respective pursuers.

Ep 2: Crooked Mile

A girl's whip-wielding father does not approve of her romance with Quint.

Ep 3: Old Man

Matt searches for the real killer of Joe Silva when an old man is framed for the crime.

Ep 4: The Violators

When someone is scalped in Dodge, the townsfolk are eager to blame the Indians.

Ep 5: Doctor's Wife

When a new doctor arrives in Dodge, his wife starts a smear campaign against Doc Adams.

Ep 6: Take Her, She's Cheap

A grateful family wants Matt to marry their daughter.

Ep 7: Help Me Kitty

Kitty and an unmarried expectant mother end up stranded in the desert when bandits attack their stagecoach.

Ep 8: Hung High

A lawman-hater causes trouble for Matt and a retired marshal.

Ep 9: Jonah Hutchinson

After spending 30 years in prison, Jonah Hutchinson sets out to rebuild his ranching empire.

Ep 10: Big Man, Big Target

A wanted criminal in love with a married woman succeeds in getting her husband out of the picture—with unexpected ramifications.

Ep 11: Chicken

A meek man is given credit for killing four outlaws.

Ep 12: Innocence

The hatred between two men is intensified by their affections for the same girl.

Ep 13: Aunt Thede

Festus' Aunt Thede and a young woman named Ivy Norton both seek to get married.

Ep 14: Hammerhead

When a wealthy gambler comes to Dodge to buy horses, rival traders race to demonstrate the speed of their steeds.

Ep 15: Double Entry

Brad McCain tries to take advantage of his friendship with Matt.

Ep 16: Run, Sheep, Run

A man causes trouble for a young couple when he buys a ranch from them but refuses to pay for a year.

Ep 17: Deputy Festus

Festus, now Matt's deputy, learns that the drunken trappers he put in jail are his cousins.

Ep 18: One Killer on Ice

Two bounty hunters talk Matt into protecting them and their prisoner from ambush.

Ep 19: Chief Joseph

A desperately ill chief causes tension when he lodges in the Dodge House.

Ep 20: Circus Trick

Festus' girlfriend joins a circus troupe.

Ep 21: Song for Dying

A carefree minstrel faces the wrath of the vengeful Lukens clan.

Ep 22: Winner Take All

Matt intervenes when an intense feud between the Renner brothers reaches its breaking point.

Ep 23: Eliab's Aim

Festus' nephew Eliab comes gunning for him.

Ep 24: Thursday's Child

Doc falls for a woman who seems to be haunted by her past.

Ep 25: Breckinridge

A lawyer from the east questions Matt's every move.

Ep 26: Bank Baby

Bert Clum plots to rob pilgrim families in nearby camps.

Ep 27: The Lady

A woman who used to be rich takes a job at the Long Branch while she and her niece are on their way to San Francisco.

Ep 28: Dry Road to Nowhere

Matt investigates why a gunman is stalking a temperance preacher.

Ep 29: Twenty Miles from Dodge

A gang of outlaws abducts Kitty and her fellow stagecoach passengers.

Ep 30: The Pariah

An immigrant's life improves after he kills an outlaw—at least for a while.

Ep 31: Gilt Guilt

Doc treats a woman and her son for scurvy.

Ep 32: Bad Lady from Brookline

A woman tries to raise her son in Dodge after her husband is killed in a gunfight.

Ep 33: Two Tall Men

Matt faces fear and hostility in Ridge Town where he investigates an old murder case.

Ep 34: Honey Pot

Newcomer Ben Stack makes a play for saloon girl Honey Dare.

Ep 35: The New Society

A cowboy admires a buffalo hunter too much to admit that the man also is a thief.

Ep 36: He Who Steals

Festus goes after the bandits who robbed and assaulted Doc.

Ep 1: Seven Hours to Dawn

A treacherous gang of outlaws takes over Dodge.

Ep 2: The Storm

A buffalo hunter is sentenced to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit, the real culprits being the sons of Matt's old friend, Adam Benteen.

Ep 3: Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood

Thad Greenwood trails the four tough guys who caused his father to have a fatal heart attack.

Ep 4: Ten Little Indians

Matt must out who hired the gunfighters he's been facing in and out of Dodge.

Ep 5: Taps for Old Jeb

Prospector Jeb Carter hires a bodyguard to protect his gold after years of searching finally pay off.

Ep 6: Kioga

A young wounded Indian hunts down the fur trader who killed his father and attacked his sister.

Ep 7: The Bounty Hunter

A bounty hunter comes out of retirement to find the man who murdered a rich rancher's son.

Ep 8: The Reward

A convicted gold-mine swindler gets out of prison to resume mining—with money he's accused of stealing.

Ep 9: Malachi

Town drunk Malachi Harper poses as marshal just to impress his brother.

Ep 10: The Pretender

The Dano brothers return home from prison to a dying mother and a bitter father.

Ep 11: South Wind

A boy goes into hiding after witnessing his father's murder.

Ep 12: The Hostage

Four convicts take Matt hostage on their way to Mexico.

Ep 13: Outlaw's Woman

Matt is surprised to see that the fleeing train robber he shot is a woman.

Ep 14: The Avengers

A judge and his two sons plot their revenge when they suspect Festus and Kitty of murdering a member of their family.

Ep 15: Gold Mine

Kitty meets a young mute boy in a rough mining town where she's come to claim a gold mine.

Ep 16: Death Watch

Matt attempts to protect a wounded outlaw from a pair of bounty hunters.

Ep 17: Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs

Festus' nephew, Billy, comes to Dodge to find a wife.

Ep 18: The Raid: Part 1

A band out of outlaws terrorize Dodge.

Ep 19: The Raid: Part 2

Outlaws take Doc hostage after they rob the bank and set Dodge on fire.

Ep 20: Killer at Large

Festus flees Dodge after killing a medicine show sharpshooter in a gunfight.

Ep 21: My Father's Guitar

A wanderer believes his father's guitar is worth killing for.

Ep 22: Wishbone

Matt goes after three bandits who robbed a stagecoach and killed the driver and guard.

Ep 23: Sanctuary

A bank robber takes refuge in a church, holding the pastor and two women hostage.

Ep 24: Honor Before Justice

An Indian girl's father is sentenced to die for a murder he didn't commit.

Ep 25: The Brothers

Matt captures a young outlaw, who waits for his brother to free him.

Ep 26: Which Doctor

Buffalo hunters kidnap Doc and Festus.

Ep 27: Harvest

Ben Payson's daughter falls for one of the Scottish homesteaders who have threatened to take his land.

Ep 28: By Line

Despite his illiteracy, Festus becomes a reporter for Dodge's new paper.

Ep 29: Treasure of John Walking Fox

A hunter and his companion are taunted by the bigoted townspeople of Dodge.

Ep 30: My Father, My Son

A gunslinger kills a young man out to gain a reputation, and then faces the wrath of the dead man's family.

Ep 31: Parson Comes to Town

A stranger wearing a murdered preacher's coat causes tension in Dodge when he announces his intention to watch someone die.

Ep 32: Prime of Life

Young Kyle Stoner is involved with a pair of thieves who beat up Festus.

Ep 1: Snap Decision

Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.

Ep 2: The Goldtakers

A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.

Ep 3: The Jailer

Six years after her husband's hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt with the intention to hang him.

Ep 4: The Mission

Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.

Ep 5: The Good People

A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.

Ep 6: Gunfighter, R.I.P.

When hired gunslinger Joe Bascome balks at his obligation to kill Matt Dillon, his employers, the Douglas brothers, are not pleased.

Ep 7: The Wrong Man

Hootie Kyle is a poor but honest farmer whose credit has run out. Matt Dillon and Festus lend him some money, only to be swindled out of it in a poker game. Later, Hootie gets circumstantially framed for the murder of the card shark who swindled him.

Ep 8: The Whispering Tree

After eight years in a prison for robbery, a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.

Ep 9: The Well

All of Dodge City is suffering from a drought. A rainmaker (Guy Raymond) tries to put an end to it before the town's public well, their last source of water, runs dry.

Ep 10: Stage Stop

Doc Adams takes up arms to defend a gold shipment from bandits, first during a stagecoach ambush and then at a weigh station. He is aided by a blind man and a wounded man in the battle against the bandits.

Ep 11: The Newcomers

Lars Karlgren, a Scandinavian immigrant and his teenage son, Petter, find the west even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dodge City. Petter gets framed for the murder of a man who was picking a fight with him.

Ep 12: Quaker Girl

The identity of a criminal is confused with that of Deputy Marshal Thad when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.

Ep 13: The Moonstone

A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.

Ep 14: Champion of the World

Bull Bannock (Alan Hale), retired heavyweight champion of the world, attempts to make a home for himself in Dodge City, and tries to buy Miss Kitty's Longbranch Saloon.

Ep 15: The Hanging

To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years—the hanging of a ruthless gunman.

Ep 16: Saturday Night

A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.

Ep 17: Mad Dog

Festus Haggen is mistaken for a hired gunman and offered $300 to fight and run out of town the three sons of a man his cousin is accused of killing.

Ep 18: Muley

A young gunman (Zalman King) falls for one of Kitty's saloon girls (Lane Bradbury) while waiting to kill Marshal Matt Dillon and rob the bank.

Ep 19: Mail Drop

A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father, only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.

Ep 20: Old Friend

An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.

Ep 21: Fandango

Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice despite the onslaught of a crazed, vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.

Ep 22: The Returning

After eight years as a down-on-his-luck farmer, husband and father, a reformed outlaw (Michael Ansara) tries to make ends meet by rejoining his old gang to rob the Dodge City freight office.

Ep 23: The Lure

Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).

Ep 24: Noose of Gold

Deputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, rather than giving him the chance to turn himself in.

Ep 25: The Favor

Kitty's conscience is torn between her sense of obligation to a man who saved her life (James Daly) and her concern for the law and Marshal Matt Dillon.

Ep 26: Mistaken Identity

Outlaw Ed Carstairs trades identities with a man dying of a snakebite wound. He is surprised, however, when the man is brought into Dodge and seems to be recovering.

Ep 27: Ladies from St. Louis

A group of traveling nuns nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.

Ep 28: Nitro!: Part 1

Down-on-his-luck drifter George is offered the dangerous but profitable job of mixing nitroglycerine for outlaws who are using it to rob banks. George also falls in love with a saloon girl and begins a business venture with his earnings.

Ep 29: Nitro!: Part 2

George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.

Ep 1: The Wreckers

In a moment of quick wit, Kitty has Matt switch identities with an injured outlaw, fooling the man's gang into believing they can extort money from Dodge in exchange for Matt's life.

Ep 2: Cattle Barons

Feuding cattle barons are headed to Dodge City from opposite directions for a showdown.

Ep 3: The Prodigal

Amos and William Cole come to Dodge to find the back-shooting killer of their outlaw father, who was murdered many years before.

Ep 4: Vengeance: Part 1

Bob Johnson, Zack Johnson and Floyd Binnes are accused of cattle rustling by Parker, a powerful land baron. Floyd is killed while being dragged behind a horse, Zack is crippled by a horse stomping on him and Bob is beaten.

Ep 5: Vengeance: Part 2

Matt goes after Bob Johnson, who is planning to kill Parker to avenge the death of his friends.

Ep 6: A Hat

Tough Texas cattleman Red Conniston is headed to Dodge to kill Clint Sorils, who killed Conniston's son, Ben, in a gunfight.

Ep 7: Hard Luck Henry

In this comedic episode, Festus tries to get a box full of gold coins away from his relatives and back to Dodge. The Dooleys, who are feuding with the Haggens, are also trying to get their hands on the box.

Ep 8: Major Glory

Two deserting soldiers stab their hated sergeant and frame Festus for the crime.

Ep 9: The Pillagers

Kitty and fellow traveling passenger Newly O'Brien are captured by Mexican outlaw Manez and his gang.

Ep 10: Prairie Wolfer

Two prairie wolfers steal money from Dolan, a hardened storekeeper. When one tries to give it back trouble starts.

Ep 11: Stranger in Town

Professional gunman Dave Reeves comes to Dodge for an assignment: kill his ex-wife's new husband-to-be.

Ep 12: Death Train

A group of wealthy passengers on a private railroad car are quarantined in Dodge.

Ep 13: Rope Fever

Falsely jailed on charges of murder and bank robbery, Festus is ordered to lead an aging sheriff and his zealous deputy to the missing loot.

Ep 14: Wonder

Drfter Jud Pryor tries to clear his name of murder; meanwhile, the two brothers of his girlfriend are planning to kill him.

Ep 15: Baker's Dozen

Three baby boys are born on a stagecoach that arrives in Dodge just after being robbed. Their mother dies and Doc fights to keep the boys together instead of going to an orphanage.

Ep 16: The Victim

Matt investigates a murder in a nearby town, trying to prove that town simpleton Bo Remick did not kill the son of the town's powerful rancher.

Ep 17: Deadman's Law

While Matt is out of town tracking outlaws, the cattleman's co-op takes over the town putting their own man in charge of the law.

Ep 18: Nowhere to Run

A teenage burglar involved in a murder is shot and left to die by his partners.

Ep 19: Blood Money

The father of a young gunfighter tries to end his son's career by wounding his gun hand.

Ep 20: Hill Girl

Hillbilly girl Merry Florene comes to town to get some schooling to better herself. Meanwhile, her two cousins also arrive in Dodge and force her to rob Mr. Jonas' store.

Ep 21: The Gunrunners (Buffalo Man)

After a renegade band of ex-soldiers seriously injure Tahrohon, his friend, buffalo man Noah Meek, vows revenge on the group.

Ep 22: The Jackals

After a group of outlaws assassinates a Texas border town sheriff at his retirement party, Matt Dillon chases the desperadoes to Mexico.

Ep 23: The First People

Matt has to intervene when an honest but strict indian agent charges an innocent indian of murder.

Ep 24: Mr. Sam'l

Durning a drought, a watch witch (someone who can find water), comes to town. Meanwhile, a businessman attempts to buy up farms during this time, no matter the method.

Ep 25: A Noose for Dobie Price

Matt and former outlaw Elihu Gorman go after Dobie Price, who has just broken out of jail.

Ep 15: The Twisted Heritage

Kitty saves the life of a man during a stage hold-up. Taking him back to his ranch, she finds his mother a ruthless matron and his daughter alienated from her father.

Ep 1: Lyle's Kid

Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man responsible for his maimed hands.

Ep 2: The Hide Cutters

Festus is rescued from a rock avalanche by a young hide cutter. His fellow cutters are following a herd of cattle with hopes of stealing them for the hides.

Ep 3: Zavala

After Matt Dillon shoots and kills an outlaw in Mexico, the man's brother seeks vengeance on Dillion.

Ep 4: Uncle Finney

In this comedic episode, two hillbillies attempt to turn in their 102-year-old relative for the bounty on him.

Ep 5: Slocum

Grizzily mountain man Slocum tracks the sons of a man who tried to bushwhack his good friend, Matt Dillon.

Ep 6: O'Quillian

Leary O'Quillan kills a card cheat in self-defense and is pursued to Dodge by the man's brother, Clay Tynan.

Ep 7: 9:12 to Dodge

Matt and Doc are escorting outlaw Johnny August by train to trial for murder. Also on board are August's men, who are waiting for the chance to free him.

Ep 8: Abelia

A young woman, her kids and Festus are held hostage by a man Matt is trying to find.

Ep 9: Railroad!

Matt clashes with maverick railroad builder Wes Cameron, who wants to run a railroad line through Dodge.

Ep 10: The Miracle Man

Con man Bob Sullivan tries to swindle a widow with the tale of a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.

Ep 11: Waco

While bringing in outlaw Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with Thompson's outlaw band in hot pursuit—and has to deliver a baby.

Ep 12: Lobo

Mountain man Luke Brazo joins Matt in a hunt for a vicious wolf terrorizing the area.

Ep 13: Johnny Cross

Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.

Ep 14: The Money Store

When he is refused a loan by the bank, Ray Jarvis' children find a way to steal the money.

Ep 16: Time of the Jackals

A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link to catch a notorious killer.

Ep 17: Mannon

After shooting Festus and taking his mule, gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge to face Matt in a gunfight.

Ep 18: Gold Town

Two hillbillies attempt to swindle the townspeople of Dodge City by selling them worthless mining claims.

Ep 19: The Mark of Cain

A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.

Ep 20: Reprisal

Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder or delivering a baby. He choses to save the man first, and the baby dies in childbirth. The baby's father, Tom Butler, blames Doc and plans to get even.

Ep 21: The Long Night

Three bounty hunters hold hostages in the Long Branch in an effort to get Matt to turn over a prisoner to them.

Ep 22: The Night Riders

Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.

Ep 23: The Intruder

Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Sharp's ex-wife and her brutish husband live.

Ep 24: The Good Samaritans

Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a judge that will hang a man. The man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading west who are being pursued by hunters.

Ep 25: The Prisoner

Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty, believing in his innocence, does all she can to stop bounty hunter Jarvis and Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.

Ep 26: Exodus 21.22

A friend of Matt's, a former lawman, arrives in Dodge to kill the men responsible for his wife's death.

Ep 1: The Devil's Outpost

Outlaw Yancy Tyce and his gang try to free Tyce's younger brother, who's under arrest and being taken to Dodge by Matt.

Ep 2: Stryker

Former Dodge Marshal Josh Stryker arrives in town after being released from prison for killing an outlaw in cold blood. He holds Matt responsible for the loss of his arm and the years he spent in prison.

Ep 3: Coreyville

Matt is summoned to Coreyville, a run-down cowtown, by a young woman whose brother is on trial for murder.

Ep 4: Danny

An old friend of Kitty's learns that he is dying, and decides to come out to Dodge to "go out in style."

Ep 5: Hawk

A white woman refuses to accept her half-breed son, who Festus brings to her home wounded and needing help.

Ep 6: A Man Called "Smith"

Abelia, the young widow who once saved Festus' life, returns. She learns that she isn't a widow when her outlaw husband appears and forces her to exchange his stolen gold for cash.

Ep 7: Charlie Noon

Matt, his hardened prisoner Charlie Noon, an indian woman and her white stepson are tracked by the Comanches as they try to cross the desert. The indians are going to kill all of them unless Matt hands over the woman.

Ep 8: The Still

Festus gets mixed up with Merry Florene and her hillbilly clan again as they try to hide a moonshining still and a stolen prize bull in the cellar of the local school.

Ep 9: A Matter of Honor

Unable to remember the events of a night on which he is accused of killing a man, Louie Pheeters has one last chance to set the record straight before being sent off to serve a five-year prison sentence.

Ep 10: The Innocent

Festus acts as guide and driver for an eastern missionary teacher en route to her first assignment. The only problem is trying to stay ahead of a murderous hillbilly family following them and planning an ambush.

Ep 11: Ring of Darkness

In an attempt to help his blind daughter, farmer Ben Hurley steals horses for an outlaw gang. Deputy Newly O'Brien arrives at his farm investigating, followed by the outlaws.

Ep 12: MacGraw

Arriving in Dodge after 20 years in prison, James MacGraw takes a job as piano player at the Long Branch and woos one of the saloon girls. It looks like MacGraw is starting over, but things are not what they appear.

Ep 13: Roots of Fear

Amos Sadler, a dirt farmer, faces the loss of his home when a panic closes down the Dodge City bank. To save it he and his wife plan to break into the bank.

Ep 14: The Sisters

Trapper Pack Landers finds his cabin occupied by three nuns and two children he has never seen. The sisters are bringing the children to Landers, who is their father.

Ep 15: The War Priest

Sergeant Holly, an alcoholic Army veteran, is getting ready to retire. However, there is one more order of business he must attend to: an Apache prisoner in his custody has escaped with Kitty as a hostage, and Holly must go after them.

Ep 16: The Pack Rat

An orphan steals from Matt and then risks his life when he tries to help out in an ambush.

Ep 17: The Judas Gun

The feud between Noah Haimes and Clete Bloden gets very bad as romance begins between Haime's son and Bloden's daughter.

Ep 18: Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.

Doc Adams's old friend is thought to be a thief.

Ep 19: The Badge

Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.

Ep 20: Albert

After a bank teller foils a robbery, he steals money from the bank for himself.

Ep 21: Kiowa

Matt must rescue a teenage girl from indians and bring her back to her family.

Ep 22: Celia

A friend of Newly's is the victim of a con game.

Ep 23: Morgan

With Matt out helping the Army deliver a gold shipment, Dodge is wide open for Morgan and his men to come in with a Gatlin gun and take over.

Ep 24: The Thieves

Sam takes a special interest in Eric Tabray, who is running around in a gang committing crimes in Dodge.

Ep 25: Hackett

An ex-convict wants revenge against the partner that ran out on him.

Ep 26: The Cage

After an outlaw becomes a victim of his own gang, he tries to get Matt to bring down his ex-cohorts.

Ep 1: Chato

After a friend of Matt's dies, he goes to New Mexico to find the killer.

Ep 2: The Noose

Kitty is held hostage in a ghost town as bait to get Matt to attempt a rescue.

Ep 3: Stark

Adam, the son of one of Dodge City's revered citizens returns. But upon arriving someone takes a shot at him. The man who shot him, Stark, is a bounty hunter. It seems that Adam was in jail in Texas and broke out, and Stark aims to bring him back.

Ep 4: Sam McTavish, M.D.

The arrival of the first woman doctor in Dodge City, Dr. Sam McTavish, riles Doc Adams. However, she soon wins his confidence and that of his patients, and the two physicians make a startling medical discovery.

Ep 5: Gentry's Law

A baron gives Matt trouble when Matt wants the man's sons in jail for a crime they committed.

Ep 6: Snow Train: Part 1

A train that Matt, Doc and Festus are riding is stopped by Indians who request two passengers be turned over to their custody for selling them poisonous whiskey.

Ep 7: Snow Train: Part 2

A train that Matt, Doc and Festus are riding is stopped by Indians who request two passengers be turned over to their custody for selling them poisonous whiskey.

Ep 8: Luke

As Luke Dangerfield lies shot and dying, he requests that his protégé, Austin, brings him to Dodge so he can see his estranged daughter one last time.

Ep 9: The Gun

After a young man kills a gunfighter, he becomes the victim of publicity.

Ep 10: The Scavengers

In order for a black man to save his life he must say that indians held up a wagon train.

Ep 11: The Witness

A family is held hostage so they can't testify at the trial of a killer.

Ep 12: McCabe

Matt has two problems on his hands: he must arrest an outlaw while also freeing hostages.

Ep 13: The Noon Day Devil

Pursued by Matt Dillon, a Mexican bandit seeks sanctuary with his twin brother, a priest.

Ep 14: Sergeant Holly

An Army sergeant is accused of desertion and the theft of an Army payroll.

Ep 15: Jenny

Jenny arrives in Dodge City where she will meet her father. Newly releases him for two days as a free man to allow him to see his daughter. Jenny has no idea that her father is wanted and there is a reward of $2,000 for his capture.

Ep 16: Captain Sligo

A sea captain wants to live in Dodge City.

Ep 17: Mirage

Festus comes back from a shootout and can't tell the story well.

Ep 18: The Tycoon

Festus becomes a rich man.

Ep 19: Jaekel

A convict returns to Dodge City to get a woman back.

Ep 20: Murdoch

A former lawman tries to go after a gang of outlaws and gets a shock of his own.

Ep 21: Cleavus

Cleavus think he could be rich, but he soon finds fool's gold in the mine.

Ep 22: Lavery

Matt is saved by a cowhand from an ambush. He then does a favor for the cowhand.

Ep 23: Pike: Part 1

Riding away from Dodge after a $2,800 robbery, four bandits escape into the night. With one of them wounded it seems like a three-way split until Pike, the wounded one, surprises the other three.

Ep 24: Pike: Part 2

Riding away from Dodge after a $2,800 robbery, four bandits escape into the night. With one of them wounded it seems like a three-way split until Pike, the wounded one, surprises the other three.

Ep 1: The Lost

When Kitty gets lost and wanders through the countryside, she encounters a feral little girl who has been on her own for years. Having befriended the child, Kitty is later horrified to learn that the girl has been captured and is headed for a freak show.

Ep 2: Phoenix

A convict wants to kill a man he has never seen before after he gets out of prison.

Ep 3: Waste: Part 1

While pursuing an outlaw, Matt stops to help a young boy find his mother.

Ep 4: Waste: Part 2

Matt helps a young boy find his mom while finding an outlaw. Marshal Dillon confronts the outlaw after helping the boy locate his mother.

Ep 5: New Doctor in Town

When Festus catches Dr. Chapman sleeping in Doc's office, he finds a letter explaining that Doc went to Baltimore to hone his medical skills after the death of one of his patients.

Ep 6: The Legend

When two outlaw brothers of a troubled family attempt to get their other brother to join them in a robbery, Dr. John Chapman, filling in for Doc Adams, steps in to help.

Ep 7: Trafton

Matt is out to find a gunfighter who killed two people.

Ep 8: Lynott

A former Marshall helps Matt by filling in for him after he is wounded and sent to bed so he can rest.

Ep 9: Lijah

A jury has the fate of a mountain man in it's hands.

Ep 10: My Brother's Keeper

During a thunderstorm, Festus seeks refuge in a cave, finding an old Indian waiting to die. Festus decides to be his "brother's keeper," taking the old man to Dodge in an attempt to civilize him.

Ep 11: Drago

Drago wants to find the person who killed a woman who helped him.

Ep 12: Gold Train: The Bullet: Part 1

Unable to operate on Matt's bullet wound, Doc puts him on a train en route to a specialist. However, the train is hijacked by bandits out to steal its gold shipment.

Ep 13: Gold Train: The Bullet: Part 2

Unable to operate on Matt's bullet wound, Doc puts him on a train en route to a specialist. However, the train is hijacked by bandits out to steal its gold shipment.

Ep 14: Gold Train: The Bullet: Part 3

Unable to operate on Matt's bullet wound, Doc puts him on a train en route to a specialist. However, the train is hijacked by bandits out to steal its gold shipment.

Ep 15: P.S. Murry Christmas

The meanest outlady in the U.S. is coming to Dodge, at least that's what Festus has heard. In actuality, it's Emma Grundy out to retrieve her seven orphans from Titus Spangler and take them back to the orphanage.

Ep 16: No Tomorrow

Ben Justin must try to clear his name of false charges.

Ep 17: Hidalgo

After Matt is injured, he makes friends who must help him stay alive.

Ep 18: Tara

Newly falls in love with a woman who could put him in danger because of secrets in her past.

Ep 19: One for the Road

Lucius's daughter wants her dad locked up so she and Tom can have his estate. Judge Broker thinks Mr. Prince is sane, and Mr. Prince proves he can be a dad.

Ep 20: The Predators

A former gunfighter returns to Dodge, which worries Matt because Howard Cane survived the rage war. Can Matt stop him before more trouble comes to Dodge?

Ep 21: Yankton

A drifter wants to marry a rich family's daughter

Ep 22: Blind Man's Buff

Phoebe nurses a wounded man with amnesia back to health. But with his memory returning it could lead to even more danger for the confused man and heartache for the lonely Phoebe.

Ep 23: Alias Festus Haggen

Festus is mistaken for a killer.

Ep 24: The Wedding

A father disapproves of the man her daughter marries.

Ep 1: The River: Part 1

Matt is tracked, with bad intent, along a river gorge by a gang of villains while in custody of one of the gang and $24,000 of their money. Escaping the gang by jumping into the river, Matt is rescued by two kids on a raft.

Ep 2: The River: Part 2

Matt is tracked, with bad intent, along a river gorge by a gang of villains while in custody of one of the gang and $24,000 of their money. Escaping the gang by jumping into the river, Matt is rescued by two kids on a raft.

Ep 3: Bohannan

A faith-healer comes to Dodge. Doc is skeptical.

Ep 4: Judgement

A man comes to Dodge for revenge on a man who might just deserve it.

Ep 5: The Drummer

Daniel Shay comes to Dodge City as a drummer who peddles rat traps as a way of making money. While Daniel continues to look for buyers of his rat traps, he sees a Cheyenne boy stealing a horse. As he looks on memories of a battle at Rock Creek return.

Ep 6: Sarah

Matt runs into an old flame named Sarah who now runs a one-woman saloon for bandits out in the desert. Matt will have to pass as a villain in order to save Sarah's reputation as a trusted confidant.

Ep 7: The Fugitives

When Danny Stalcup, a young member of a gang on the run, is mortally wounded in a fall, Doc Adams is kidnapped, along with Festus, and forced to help.

Ep 8: Eleven Dollars

Headed to Abilene to bring a woman $11 owed to her, Fetus teaches two boys a lesson along the way.

Ep 9: Milligan

Harry Morgan guest stars as a farmer accused of shooting someone in the back.

Ep 10: Tatum

An ex-gunfighter is dying. He must reconcile with the daughters he abandoned, and find a way to be buried next to his wife, who is buried in a town that hates him.

Ep 11: The Sodbusters

Matt has trouble getting a fight about water rights under control when things escalate to violence.

Ep 12: The Brothers

After killer Jay Wrecken is shot dead, man's brother begins methodically murdering everyone connected to the incident.

Ep 13: Hostage!

Outlaw gang leader Jude Bonner will stop at nothing to persuade Matt to stay his brother's execution, going so far as to kidnap Kitty.

Ep 14: Jubilee

A man neglects his family in favor of raising his prize possession: a race horse.

Ep 15: Arizona Midnight

A midget arrives in Dodge City claiming he will turn into an elephant at the stroke of midnight. Arizona begins asking for someone to care for him along with three bales of hay. Everyone finds the story a bit far fetched.

Ep 16: Homecoming

Coming home proves difficult for two brothers on the run who just want to visit their sick mother. With a desperate and wanted friend along, they make choices they soon come to regret.

Ep 17: Shadler

Just before he's to be hung, stage robber Shadler busts out of jail by slugging his last rites priest and donning the robes as a disguise. The escapee soon finds himself on the other side of the law, helping Deputy U.S. Marshal Newly elude hostile lawmen.

Ep 18: Patricia

Newly falls in love with a young woman who is drying of leukemia. Doc Adams offers to teach Newly how to become a doctor.

Ep 19: A Quiet Day in Dodge

After 36 hours in the saddle, Matt rides into Dodge exhausted and, rather than finding some rest, is bombarded with constant yet trivial annoyances.

Ep 20: Whelan's Men

A former lawman that Dillon put out of business years earlier comes back with a group of men to gun him down. Since Dillon is out of town, they settle in at the Long Branch to play poker and wait.

Ep 21: Kimbro

Matt runs into his former mentor, Adam Kimbro, and decides to build his self-confidence by deputizing him as a deputy marshal.

Ep 22: Jesse

Festus runs into Jesse Dillard who is wanted for shooting a black man. Festus wants to find out more and takes his friend to prison.

Ep 23: Talbot

Talbot falls in love with Katherine after shooting her husband in self-defense. But when Katherine learns of Talbot's plans to rob a bank, she puts her life in danger by telling him she will leave him if he does.

Ep 24: This Golden Land

Matt asks a Russian family to identify three men who killed one of their own, but the family's patriarch is hesitant to trust American justice.

Ep 1: Women for Sale: Part 1

Matt becomes involved in investigating the disappearance of female settlers and travelers in the region. He links it to a band of renegade Native Americans, who plan to sell the women as sex slaves to a band of ruthless white mercenaries.

Ep 2: Women for Sale: Part 2

Matt helps Stella and Marcy escape their bloodthirsty indian captor. After Matt and Stella bring the shaken Marcy out of her shell, the three team together to bring the ringleader of the white slave trade to justice before he can escape to Mexico.

Ep 3: Matt's Love Story

A wounded Matt Dillon suffers amnesia then falls in love with a widow. It's Matt's first TV kiss, not to Miss Kitty, but to guest star Michael Learned.

Ep 4: The Boy and the Sinner

Ron Moody guest stars as a man torn between keeping his own self-respect and the friendship of a young boy or keeping his drunken promise to two hired gunmen.

Ep 5: The Widow-Maker

A gunfighter wants to forget his past...and wants everyone else to forget it, too. Unfortunately for him, this is not easy to accomplish.

Ep 6: Kitty's Love Affair

Upset with Matt, Kitty meets gunslinger Stambridge, who ends up saving her life. When he proceeds to court her, Kitty has to decide whether to leave Matt after an 18-year relationship or stay with Stambridge.

Ep 7: The Widow and the Rogue

James Stacy stars as a roguish thief who's long on charm but a bit short on ethics. His real test of character comes on a long, adversity-plagued journey to Dodge with his captor, Festus.

Ep 8: A Game of Death...An Act of Love: Part 1

A lawyer passing through Dodge is reluctant to defend two renegade indians suspected of killing a powerful rancher's wife.

Ep 9: A Game of Death...An Act of Love: Part 2

The lawyer defends the two renegade indians accused of murder, and the victim's husband's is determined to see they are lynched if they are acquitted.

Ep 10: Lynch Town

Dillon forces an alcoholic Circuit Judge to hold an inquest into the death of a woman saloon owner that had resulted in the lynching of an innocent drifter.

Ep 11: The Hanging of Newly O'Brien

Newly attempts to save a hillbilly's life by using drastic measures. The family wants to hang Newly after the man dies.

Ep 12: Susan Was Evil

When a woman and Dillon's wounded prisoner fall in love, her selfish niece makes plans to turn him over to bounty hunters.

Ep 13: The Deadly Innocent

Festus does what he can to help a mentally challenged young man, but soon learns the responsibility is more than he can handle.

Ep 14: The Child Between

A wanted man goes into Dodge to get help for his sick baby and his indian wife. With Doc unavailable, Newly offers to help but will be torn between healing and his duty as a lawman.

Ep 15: A Family of Killers

Matt and a fellow lawman go after a vicious family of robbers and killers.

Ep 16: Like Old Times

An old safe cracker comes back to Dodge to find his former lady love. When two men looking to steal a lot of money approach him about unlocking the safe at the station, he accepts their proposal, sort of.

Ep 17: The Town Tamers

Marshal Dillon teams up with old friend Marshal Luke Rumbaugh to tame the town of Hilt.

Ep 18: The Foundling

When the parents of a daughter who was raped refuse to accept the girl's baby, Marshal Dillon must find a home for the child.

Ep 19: The Iron Blood of Courage

Gunfighter William Talley is hired by a farmer's coalition in Dodge to kill rancher Shaw Anderson, their main obstacle in taking over land they want.

Ep 20: The Schoolmarm

After being raped, Dodge City school teacher Sarah Merkle struggles with the implications of being an unwed mother.

Ep 21: Trail of Bloodshed

Buck Henry Woolf is on the trail of his uncle, who killed his father, stole their money and wounded him. Festus is on the same mission and also to stop the young man from taking the law into his own hands.

Ep 22: Cowtown Hustler

A broke young man seeks his fortune with an old drifter, a formerly legendary champion billiards player.

Ep 23: To Ride a Yeller Horse

The schemes of a mother trying to control the lives of her son and daughter lead to tragic results.

Ep 24: Disciple

After Matt's gun arm is shot, he's essentially a sitting duck. That's what he figures when his ability to shoot again is in doubt. So, he leaves the badge and Dodge behind as well as Kitty, Festus, Doc and Newly.

Ep 1: Matt Dillon Must Die

A mountain family in an attempt to avenge the death of one of their own capture Matt.

Ep 2: A Town in Chains

A group of bandits attempt to rob a town while masquerading as soldiers.

Ep 3: The Guns of Cibola Blanca: Part 1

Doc and fellow stage passenger, Lyla, are captured by renegade Comancheros.

Ep 4: The Guns of Cibola Blanca: Part 2

Matt, Festus and Newly attempt to rescue Doc and Lyla from Shindrow's camp.

Ep 5: Thirty a Month and Found

Three cattle drivers find that railroads are forcing them out of business. Two of them turn to crime for a temporary fix.

Ep 6: The Wiving

Farmer Jed Hockett (Harry Morgan) orders his three boys to go to town and return with prospective brides.

Ep 7: The Iron Men

Matt and lawman-turned-alcoholic Chauncey Demon go up against land baron Carl Ryker.

Ep 8: The Fourth Victim

A series of seemingly random killings have the citizens of Dodge City in near panic, but Dillon believes they are part of a pattern in which Doc is slated to be the next target.

Ep 9: The Tarnished Badge

Matt's friend, Sheriff Harker, runs his town ruthlessly, punishing anyone who dares to disobey him.

Ep 10: In The Performance Of Duty

Matt is frustrated by Judge Kendall's insistence that the letter of the law be maintained, which could result in Emmett Kaysinger and his boys, all known outlaws, to be set free unless there is solid evidence to hold them for a double murder and robbery.

Ep 11: Island in the Desert: Part 1

Festus, in the desert hunting escaped killer Gard Dixon, is wounded by the outlaw. He is found by Ben Snow, a half-crazy hermit who has been living in the desert with his gold for many years.

Ep 12: Island in the Desert: Part 2

While Matt and Newly hunt for Festus, Ben Snow and Festus attempt to haul his gold out of the desert.

Ep 13: The Colonel

Lee J. Cobb and his daughter, Julie, appear together for the first time when Cobb guest stars as a once-proud military officer who is suddenly faced with a painful and unplanned reunion with his daughter.

Ep 14: The Squaw

Fleeing from both Matt Dillon and his double-crossed partners, outlaw Gristy Calhoun discovers that his survival in the badlands depends on help from an indian woman.

Ep 15: The Hiders

When a young teenager from a group of squatters decides he can do better than stealing, he changes his ways. But the leader of the squatters will try to manipulate the young man with the people who have treated him best.

Ep 16: Larkin

Newly finds himself in a strange alliance with a professional killer as he tries to return to Dodge City with his prisoner (Jaeckel) before they are both killed by a trio of bounty hunters.

Ep 17: The Fires of Ignorance

Henry Decory is a schoolteacher who makes a strong statement for compulsory education for frontier children, while a stubborn father feels that books and education are a waste of time and tries to keep his son, Tommy, out of school.

Ep 18: The Angry Land

After her parents are killed on the prairie, Matt takes young orphan Bessie Sutherland to live with her Aunt Rachel. However, Matt finds that the girl's aunt is unwilling to take her in.

Ep 19: Brides and Grooms

Farmer Jed Hackett (Harry Morgan) decides it's time for his three sons marry the women they brought back from Dodge City.

Ep 20: Hard Labor

Matt Dillon is sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting a fugitive in the town of Bedrock.

Ep 21: I Have Promises to Keep

Festus is caught in the middle when an Eastern preacher (David Wayne) wants to build a church for the Indians and the townspeople to share, but by all of whom that are filled with prejudice.

Ep 22: The Busters

Two bronco busters try to raise money for a ranch in Montana, only to have the dream ruined when one of them gets a life-threatening head injury when thrown off by a wild stallion.

Ep 23: Manolo

Manolo (Robert Urich) is a Basque youth who is not recognized as a man in the eyes of his people because he refuses to fight his father Alejo (Nehemiah Persoff), a traditional Basque custom to prove one's manhood.

Ep 24: The Sharecroppers

A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers.