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Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Matt Gets It
Original Air Date: 10 September 1955Matt is critically wounded while attempting to arrest super-fast gunman Dan Grat. Grat runs rampant in Dodge while Matt recovers, but is unpleasantly surprised when the recovered marshal challenges him again.
Season 1, Episode 2: Hot Spell
Original Air Date: 17 September 1955Temperatures are high, tempers are short, and Matt is unenviably duty-bound to protect despicable gunman Cope Borden from being lynched by a group of normally law-abiding and hard-working ranchers and cowhands.
Season 1, Episode 3: Word of Honor
Original Air Date: 1 October 1955Season 1, Episode 4: Home Surgery
Original Air Date: 8 October 1955The frightened teenage daughter of a rancher enlists Matt to attempt to save her father's life by amputating his gangrenous leg.
Season 1, Episode 5: Obie Tater
Original Air Date: 15 October 1955Season 1, Episode 6: Night Incident
Original Air Date: 29 October 1955Matt is dubious of young Timmy Wyatt's stories concerning nighttime robberies and assaults, but he agrees to investigate and is surprised by what he discovers.
Season 1, Episode 7: Smoking Out the Nolans
Original Air Date: 5 November 1955Season 1, Episode 8: Kite's Reward
Original Air Date: 12 November 1955Season 1, Episode 9: The Hunter
Original Air Date: 26 November 1955Season 1, Episode 10: The Queue
Original Air Date: 3 December 1955Season 1, Episode 11: General Parsley Smith
Original Air Date: 10 December 1955An inveterate liar is loudly insistent that Dodge City's new banker is a swindler who will abscond with the townspeople's savings at his earliest opportunity.
Season 1, Episode 12: Magnus
Original Air Date: 24 December 1955Chester 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.
Season 1, Episode 13: Reed Survives
Original Air Date: 31 December 1955Season 1, Episode 14: Professor Lute Bone
Original Air Date: 7 January 1956Doc Adams complains vehemently to Matt when a medicine man's opium-laden "cure-all" nearly kills an infant girl. Matt initially finds himself unable to intervene legally, but he is finally able to do so when abuse of the elixir results in the death of an elderly man.
Season 1, Episode 15: No Handcuffs
Original Air Date: 21 January 1956Season 1, Episode 16: Reward for Matt
Original Air Date: 28 January 1956Season 1, Episode 17: Robin Hood
Original Air Date: 4 February 1956Holdup man John Henry Jordan repeatedly escapes conviction by robbing only the wealthy and sparing poorer persons who are potential witnesses against him. His luck runs out when Matt's efforts force him to victimize ordinary citizens.
Season 1, Episode 18: Yorky
Original Air Date: 18 February 1956Season 1, Episode 19: 20-20
Original Air Date: 25 February 1956Season 1, Episode 20: Reunion '78
Original Air Date: 3 March 1956Jerry Shand finds himself facing a hangman's noose after killing jovial hardware drummer Andy Culley, but Matt learns that Culley was a former Quantrill raider and senses that reticent Long Branch hostess Belle Archer is the key to proving Jerry's claim of self-defense.
Season 1, Episode 21: Helping Hand
Original Air Date: 17 March 1956Season 1, Episode 22: Tap Day for Kitty
Original Air Date: 24 March 1956Season 1, Episode 23: Indian Scout
Original Air Date: 31 March 1956Season 1, Episode 24: The Pest Hole
Original Air Date: 14 April 1956Season 1, Episode 25: The Big Broad
Original Air Date: 28 April 1956Season 1, Episode 26: Hack Prine
Original Air Date: 12 May 1956Far from Dodge and without a horse Matt Dillon still manages to bring in Lee Trimble...a man wanted for murder. Lee's brother Dolph swears that he'll get him out. Meanwhile, an old friend of Dillon's, Hack Prine, has arrived in Dodge to take a job. Happy to see each other they reminisce about old times both unaware that the job Hack is in Dodge for is killing Dillon.
Season 1, Episode 27: Cooter
Original Air Date: 19 May 1956After Matt exposes gambler Ben Sissle as a cheat, Sissle attempts to extract revenge by giving brain-damaged Cooter Smith a gun and telling the marshal that Cooter plans to challenge him to a gunfight.
Season 1, Episode 28: The Killer
Original Air Date: 26 May 1956A brutal killer named Crego is in Dodge. His game is to goad slower men into drawing first and then gunning them down and claiming self defense. Each time Dillon confronts him he backs down. If Matt can't rely on the law to provide a solution to this problem he may be forced to resort to Crego's tactics to mete out justice.
Season 1, Episode 29: Doc's Revenge
Original Air Date: 9 June 1956Season 1, Episode 30: The Preacher
Original Air Date: 16 June 1956The stage coach arrives in Dodge carrying two distinct personalities. Sam Keeler, a loud braggart of a man who boasts he can beat any man with his fists and Seth Tandy a quiet, meek man who refuses to raise his hands in violence. Keeler tries to provoke Tandy into a fight and Dillon is forced to intervene to prevent Tandy's beating. Soon Keeler has a grudge against Tandy and Dillon which will lead to an inevitable confrontation between Keeler and Dillon.
Season 1, Episode 31: How to Die for Nothing
Original Air Date: 23 June 1956Season 1, Episode 32: Dutch George
Original Air Date: 30 June 1956Season 1, Episode 33: Prairie Happy
Original Air Date: 7 July 1956Season 1, Episode 34: Chester's Mail Order Bride
Original Air Date: 14 July 1956Season 1, Episode 35: The Guitar
Original Air Date: 21 July 1956Weed Pindle is a rather mild mannered wandering guitar player who is in Dodge. A couple of the rowdier cowboys have started having fun at his expense getting him drunk. When they find out he fought for the Union in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry their fun turns serious and they are set on hanging the peaceful player. Chester and some of the other citizens are just as determined to prevent it.
Season 1, Episode 36: Cara
Original Air Date: 28 July 1956Season 1, Episode 37: Mr. and Mrs. Amber
Original Air Date: 4 August 1956A struggling prairie couple endures harassment and torment at the hands of the wife's self-righteous brother.
Season 1, Episode 38: Unmarked Grave
Original Air Date: 18 August 1956A distraught middle-aged woman becomes determined to aid a young murderer in Matt's custody after she learns of her own son's violent death and unceremonious burial on Boot Hill.
Season 1, Episode 39: Alarm at Pleasant Valley
Original Air Date: 25 August 1956Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Cow Doctor
Original Air Date: 8 September 1956Season 2, Episode 2: Brush at Elkader
Original Air Date: 15 September 1956Matt must resort to trickery after he and Chester trail psychopathic killer Lou Shippen to a small town whose citizenry is so frightened of Shippen that they refuse to even point him out.
Season 2, Episode 3: Custer
Original Air Date: 22 September 1956"Rough justice" awaits cocksure Army deserter Joe Trimble after a civilian jury wrongly acquits him of murder and the Army forgoes prosecution in favor of returning him to his unit.
Season 2, Episode 4: The Round Up
Original Air Date: 29 September 1956Matt goes on a rampage to close down Front Street after he accidentally shoots and kills his old friend (and temporary deputy) while trying to defend himself from a sneak attack by a murderous saloonkeeper.
Season 2, Episode 5: Young Man with a Gun
Original Air Date: 20 October 1956After Matt unceremoniously kills despicable gunman Sam Kircher, teen-age brother Peyt Kircher arrives in Dodge and announces that he plans to practice drawing and shooting until he is good enough to face Matt and avenge his brother's death.
Season 2, Episode 6: Indian White
Original Air Date: 27 October 1956Season 2, Episode 7: How to Cure a Friend
Original Air Date: 10 November 1956Season 2, Episode 8: Legal Revenge
Original Air Date: 17 November 1956Doc rides out to a small farm to greet newcomers and let them know a doctor is available if needed. He is rudely met by Flory Tibbs who claims her husband is out working. Someone calls from inside the cabin and Doc finds him lying in bed with a wounded leg. It's obvious she doesn't want Doc around so fearing for the man's life Doc tells Matt about the strange behavior and Matt and Chester ride out to investigate.
Season 2, Episode 9: The Mistake
Original Air Date: 24 November 1956Season 2, Episode 10: Greater Love
Original Air Date: 1 December 1956Season 2, Episode 11: No Indians
Original Air Date: 8 December 1956Matt strongly suspects that it is actually white men who are responsible for a murderous series of "Indian raids" that have terrorized prairie-dwelling families.
Season 2, Episode 12: Spring Term
Original Air Date: 15 December 1956Season 2, Episode 13: Poor Pearl
Original Air Date: 22 December 1956Tragedy results when Long Branch hostess Pearl Bender finds herself compelled to choose between the marriage proposals of an honest farmer and a callous-seeming gambler.
Season 2, Episode 14: Cholera
Original Air Date: 29 December 1956Season 2, Episode 15: Pucket's New Year
Original Air Date: 5 January 1957Season 2, Episode 16: The Cover Up
Original Air Date: 12 January 1957Season 2, Episode 17: Sins of the Father
Original Air Date: 19 January 1957Big Dan Taggitt, a mountain man, signs up for a room at the Dodge House for he and his wife. Everything is fine until Mr. Dobie finds out his wife is an Indian. Not just any Indian...she is the daughter of Yellow Horse an Indian raider who had killed many settlers. Dobie riles the town up against them while Matt tries to keep the peace. Dobie's ranting eventually leads to violence.
Season 2, Episode 18: Kick Me
Original Air Date: 26 January 1957Season 2, Episode 19: Executioner
Original Air Date: 2 February 1957Season 2, Episode 20: Gone Straight
Original Air Date: 9 February 1957Season 2, Episode 21: Bloody Hands
Original Air Date: 16 February 1957Season 2, Episode 22: Skid Row
Original Air Date: 23 February 1957Season 2, Episode 23: Sweet and Sour
Original Air Date: 2 March 1957Violence and tragedy result when Matt and Chester persuade a reluctant Kitty to hire flirtatious Rena Decker as a Long Branch hostess.
Season 2, Episode 24: Cain
Original Air Date: 9 March 1957Season 2, Episode 25: Bureaucrat
Original Air Date: 16 March 1957Season 2, Episode 26: Last Fling
Original Air Date: 23 March 1957Season 2, Episode 27: Chester's Murder
Original Air Date: 30 March 1957Season 2, Episode 28: The Photographer
Original Air Date: 6 April 1957Season 2, Episode 29: Wrong Man
Original Air Date: 13 April 1957Season 2, Episode 30: Big Girl Lost
Original Air Date: 20 April 1957Season 2, Episode 31: What the Whiskey Drummer Heard
Original Air Date: 27 April 1957Season 2, Episode 32: Cheap Labor
Original Air Date: 4 May 1957Season 2, Episode 33: Moon
Original Air Date: 11 May 1957Season 2, Episode 34: Who Lives by the Sword
Original Air Date: 18 May 1957Despicable gunman Joe Delk provokes Lew and Billy Baxter and easily kills the inexperienced young men in gunfights, but Matt's swift and unexpected reaction soon has Delk experiencing nightmares and self-doubt.
Season 2, Episode 35: Uncle Oliver
Original Air Date: 25 May 1957Season 2, Episode 36: Daddy-O
Original Air Date: 1 June 1957Season 2, Episode 37: The Man Who Would Be Marshal
Original Air Date: 15 June 1957Season 2, Episode 38: Liar from Blackhawk
Original Air Date: 22 June 1957Season 2, Episode 39: Jealousy
Original Air Date: 6 July 1957Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Crack-Up
Original Air Date: 14 September 1957Season 3, Episode 2: Gun for Chester
Original Air Date: 21 September 1957Season 3, Episode 3: Blood Money
Original Air Date: 28 September 1957Season 3, Episode 4: Kitty's Outlaw
Original Air Date: 5 October 1957Season 3, Episode 5: Potato Road
Original Air Date: 12 October 1957Season 3, Episode 6: Jesse
Original Air Date: 19 October 1957Season 3, Episode 7: Mavis McCloud
Original Air Date: 26 October 1957Season 3, Episode 8: Born to Hang
Original Air Date: 2 November 1957Season 3, Episode 9: Romeo
Original Air Date: 9 November 1957Season 3, Episode 10: Never Pester Chester
Original Air Date: 16 November 1957Matt sets out with a vengeance to capture two trouble-making Texas cowhands who dragged Chester and left him near death.
Season 3, Episode 11: Fingered
Original Air Date: 23 November 1957Season 3, Episode 12: How to Kill a Woman
Original Air Date: 30 November 1957Season 3, Episode 13: Cows and Cribs
Original Air Date: 7 December 1957Season 3, Episode 14: Doc's Reward
Original Air Date: 14 December 1957Season 3, Episode 15: Kitty Lost
Original Air Date: 21 December 1957Season 3, Episode 16: Twelfth Night
Original Air Date: 28 December 1957Season 3, Episode 17: Joe Phy
Original Air Date: 4 January 1958Matt and Chester travel to the small town of Elkader to arrest would-be killer Kerry Post, but find they must first expose a bogus U.S. Marshal in order to lure him into town.
Season 3, Episode 18: Buffalo Man
Original Air Date: 11 January 1958Season 3, Episode 19: Kitty Caught
Original Air Date: 18 January 1958Season 3, Episode 20: Claustrophobia
Original Air Date: 25 January 1958Season 3, Episode 21: Ma Tennis
Original Air Date: 1 February 1958Season 3, Episode 22: Sunday Supplement
Original Air Date: 8 February 1958Season 3, Episode 23: Wild West
Original Air Date: 15 February 1958Season 3, Episode 24: The Cabin
Original Air Date: 22 February 1958To escape a potentially lethal blizzard, Matt seeks shelter in a cabin in which two psychopathic bandits have enslaved and repeatedly molested a young woman after murdering her father.
Season 3, Episode 25: Dirt
Original Air Date: 1 March 1958Season 3, Episode 26: Dooley Surrenders
Original Air Date: 8 March 1958Season 3, Episode 27: Joke's on Us
Original Air Date: 15 March 1958Season 3, Episode 28: Bottleman
Original Air Date: 22 March 1958Season 3, Episode 29: Laughing Gas
Original Air Date: 29 March 1958When town bully Cloud Marsh experiences public humiliation during a laughing gas show, he and his surly brothers assault proprietor Earle Stafford and attempt to molest his kind-hearted wife.
Season 3, Episode 30: Texas Cowboys
Original Air Date: 5 April 1958Season 3, Episode 31: Amy's Good Deed
Original Air Date: 12 April 1958Season 3, Episode 32: Hanging Man
Original Air Date: 19 April 1958Season 3, Episode 33: Innocent Broad
Original Air Date: 26 April 1958Season 3, Episode 34: The Big Con
Original Air Date: 3 May 1958Season 3, Episode 35: Widow's Mite
Original Air Date: 10 May 1958Season 3, Episode 36: Chester's Hanging
Original Air Date: 17 May 1958Season 3, Episode 37: Carmen
Original Air Date: 24 May 1958Season 3, Episode 38: Overland Express
Original Air Date: 31 May 1958Season 3, Episode 39: The Gentleman
Original Air Date: 7 June 1958Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Matt for Murder
Original Air Date: 13 September 1958Season 4, Episode 2: The Patsy
Original Air Date: 20 September 1958Season 4, Episode 3: Gunsmuggler
Original Air Date: 27 September 1958Season 4, Episode 4: Monopoly
Original Air Date: 4 October 1958Season 4, Episode 5: Letter of the Law
Original Air Date: 11 October 1958Season 4, Episode 6: Thoroughbreds
Original Air Date: 18 October 1958Season 4, Episode 7: Stage Hold-Up
Original Air Date: 25 October 1958Season 4, Episode 8: Lost Rifle
Original Air Date: 1 November 1958Season 4, Episode 9: Land Deal
Original Air Date: 8 November 1958Season 4, Episode 10: Lynching Man
Original Air Date: 15 November 1958Season 4, Episode 11: How to Kill a Friend
Original Air Date: 22 November 1958Season 4, Episode 12: Grass
Original Air Date: 29 November 1958Season 4, Episode 13: The Cast
Original Air Date: 6 December 1958Season 4, Episode 14: Robber Bridegroom
Original Air Date: 13 December 1958Season 4, Episode 15: Snakebite
Original Air Date: 20 December 1958Season 4, Episode 16: Gypsum Hills Feud
Original Air Date: 27 December 1958Season 4, Episode 17: Young Love
Original Air Date: 3 January 1959Season 4, Episode 18: Marshal Proudfoot
Original Air Date: 10 January 1959Season 4, Episode 19: Passive Resistance
Original Air Date: 17 January 1959Season 4, Episode 20: Love of a Good Woman
Original Air Date: 24 January 1959Season 4, Episode 21: Jayhawkers
Original Air Date: 31 January 1959Season 4, Episode 22: Kitty's Rebellion
Original Air Date: 7 February 1959Season 4, Episode 23: Sky
Original Air Date: 14 February 1959Season 4, Episode 24: Doc Quits
Original Air Date: 21 February 1959Season 4, Episode 25: The Bear
Original Air Date: 28 February 1959Season 4, Episode 26: The Coward
Original Air Date: 7 March 1959Season 4, Episode 27: The F.U.
Original Air Date: 14 March 1959Season 4, Episode 28: Wind
Original Air Date: 21 March 1959Season 4, Episode 29: Fawn
Original Air Date: 4 April 1959Season 4, Episode 30: Renegade White
Original Air Date: 11 April 1959Season 4, Episode 31: Murder Warrant
Original Air Date: 18 April 1959Season 4, Episode 32: Change of Heart
Original Air Date: 25 April 1959Season 4, Episode 33: Buffalo Hunter
Original Air Date: 2 May 1959Season 4, Episode 34: The Choice
Original Air Date: 9 May 1959Season 4, Episode 35: There Was Never a Horse
Original Air Date: 16 May 1959Season 4, Episode 36: Print Asper
Original Air Date: 23 May 1959Season 4, Episode 37: The Constable
Original Air Date: 30 May 1959Dodge City's businessmen learn a hard lesson when they reject Matt's advice and hire a meek constable to handle a gang of rowdy but free-spending trail cowboys.
Season 4, Episode 38: Blue Horse
Original Air Date: 6 June 1959Season 4, Episode 39: Cheyennes
Original Air Date: 13 June 1959Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: Target
Original Air Date: 5 September 1959Season 5, Episode 2: Kitty's Injury
Original Air Date: 19 September 1959Season 5, Episode 3: Horse Deal
Original Air Date: 26 September 1959Season 5, Episode 4: Johnny Red
Original Air Date: 3 October 1959Season 5, Episode 5: Kangaroo
Original Air Date: 10 October 1959Season 5, Episode 6: Tail to the Wind
Original Air Date: 17 October 1959Season 5, Episode 7: Annie Oakley
Original Air Date: 24 October 1959Season 5, Episode 8: Saludos
Original Air Date: 31 October 1959Season 5, Episode 9: Brother Whelp
Original Air Date: 7 November 1959Season 5, Episode 10: The Boots
Original Air Date: 14 November 1959Season 5, Episode 11: Odd Man Out
Original Air Date: 21 November 1959Season 5, Episode 12: Miguel's Daughter
Original Air Date: 28 November 1959Season 5, Episode 13: Box O' Rocks
Original Air Date: 5 December 1959Season 5, Episode 14: False Witness
Original Air Date: 12 December 1959Season 5, Episode 15: Tag, You're It
Original Air Date: 19 December 1959Season 5, Episode 16: Thick 'N' Thin
Original Air Date: 26 December 1959Season 5, Episode 17: Groat's Grudge
Original Air Date: 2 January 1960Season 5, Episode 18: Big Tom
Original Air Date: 9 January 1960Season 5, Episode 19: Till Death Do Us
Original Air Date: 16 January 1960Season 5, Episode 20: The Tragedian
Original Air Date: 23 January 1960Season 5, Episode 21: Hinka Do
Original Air Date: 30 January 1960Season 5, Episode 22: Doc Judge
Original Air Date: 6 February 1960Season 5, Episode 23: Moo Moo Raid
Original Air Date: 13 February 1960Season 5, Episode 24: Kitty's Killing
Original Air Date: 20 February 1960Season 5, Episode 25: Jailbait Janet
Original Air Date: 27 February 1960Season 5, Episode 26: Unwanted Deputy
Original Air Date: 5 March 1960Season 5, Episode 27: Where'd They Go
Original Air Date: 12 March 1960Season 5, Episode 28: Crowbait Bob
Original Air Date: 26 March 1960Season 5, Episode 29: Colleen So Green
Original Air Date: 2 April 1960Season 5, Episode 30: The Ex-Urbanites
Original Air Date: 9 April 1960Season 5, Episode 31: I Thee Wed
Original Air Date: 16 April 1960Season 5, Episode 32: The Lady Killer
Original Air Date: 23 April 1960Season 5, Episode 33: Gentleman's Disagreement
Original Air Date: 30 April 1960Season 5, Episode 34: Speak Me Fair
Original Air Date: 7 May 1960Season 5, Episode 35: Belle's Back
Original Air Date: 14 May 1960Season 5, Episode 36: The Bobsy Twins
Original Air Date: 21 May 1960Season 5, Episode 37: Old Flame
Original Air Date: 28 May 1960Season 5, Episode 38: The Deserter
Original Air Date: 4 June 1960Season 5, Episode 39: Cherry Red
Original Air Date: 11 June 1960Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1: Friend's Pay-Off
Original Air Date: 3 September 1960Season 6, Episode 2: The Blacksmith
Original Air Date: 17 September 1960Season 6, Episode 3: Small Water
Original Air Date: 24 September 1960Season 6, Episode 4: Say Uncle
Original Air Date: 1 October 1960Season 6, Episode 5: Shooting Stopover
Original Air Date: 8 October 1960Season 6, Episode 6: The Peace Officer
Original Air Date: 15 October 1960Season 6, Episode 7: Don Matteo
Original Air Date: 22 October 1960Season 6, Episode 8: The Worm
Original Air Date: 29 October 1960Season 6, Episode 9: The Badge/I
Original Air Date: 12 November 1960Season 6, Episode 10: Distant Drummer
Original Air Date: 19 November 1960Season 6, Episode 11: Ben Tolliver's Stud
Original Air Date: 26 November 1960Season 6, Episode 12: No Chip
Original Air Date: 3 December 1960Season 6, Episode 13: The Wake
Original Air Date: 10 December 1960Season 6, Episode 14: The Cook
Original Air Date: 17 December 1960Season 6, Episode 15: Old Fool
Original Air Date: 24 December 1960Season 6, Episode 16: Brother Love
Original Air Date: 31 December 1960Season 6, Episode 17: Bad Sheriff
Original Air Date: 7 January 1961Season 6, Episode 18: Unloaded Gun
Original Air Date: 14 January 1961Season 6, Episode 19: Tall Trapper
Original Air Date: 21 January 1961Season 6, Episode 20: Love Thy Neighbor
Original Air Date: 28 January 1961The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.
Season 6, Episode 21: Bad Seed
Original Air Date: 4 February 1961Season 6, Episode 22: Kitty Shot
Original Air Date: 11 February 1961Season 6, Episode 23: About Chester
Original Air Date: 25 February 1961Season 6, Episode 24: Harriet
Original Air Date: 4 March 1961Season 6, Episode 25: Potshot
Original Air Date: 11 March 1961Season 6, Episode 26: Old Faces
Original Air Date: 18 March 1961Season 6, Episode 27: Big Man
Original Air Date: 25 March 1961Season 6, Episode 28: Little Girl
Original Air Date: 1 April 1961Season 6, Episode 29: Stolen Horses
Original Air Date: 8 April 1961Season 6, Episode 30: Minnie
Original Air Date: 15 April 1961Season 6, Episode 31: Bless Me Till I Die
Original Air Date: 22 April 1961Season 6, Episode 32: Long Hours, Short Pay
Original Air Date: 29 April 1961Season 6, Episode 33: Hard Virtue
Original Air Date: 6 May 1961Season 6, Episode 34: The Imposter
Original Air Date: 13 May 1961Season 6, Episode 35: Chester's Dilemma
Original Air Date: 20 May 1961Season 6, Episode 36: The Love of Money
Original Air Date: 27 May 1961Season 6, Episode 37: Melinda Miles
Original Air Date: 3 June 1961Season 6, Episode 38: Colorado Sheriff
Original Air Date: 17 June 1961Season 7
Season 7, Episode 1: Perce
Original Air Date: 30 September 1961Season 7, Episode 2: Old Yellow Boots
Original Air Date: 7 October 1961Season 7, Episode 3: Miss Kitty
Original Air Date: 14 October 1961Season 7, Episode 4: Harper's Blood
Original Air Date: 21 October 1961Season 7, Episode 5: All That
Original Air Date: 28 October 1961Season 7, Episode 6: Long, Long Trail
Original Air Date: 4 November 1961Season 7, Episode 7: The Squaw
Original Air Date: 11 November 1961Season 7, Episode 8: Chesterland
Original Air Date: 18 November 1961Season 7, Episode 9: Milly
Original Air Date: 25 November 1961Season 7, Episode 10: Indian Ford
Original Air Date: 2 December 1961Season 7, Episode 11: Apprentice Doc
Original Air Date: 9 December 1961Season 7, Episode 12: Nina's Revenge
Original Air Date: 16 December 1961Season 7, Episode 13: Marry Me
Original Air Date: 23 December 1961Season 7, Episode 14: A Man a Day
Original Air Date: 30 December 1961Season 7, Episode 15: The Do-Badder
Original Air Date: 6 January 1962Season 7, Episode 16: Lacey
Original Air Date: 13 January 1962Season 7, Episode 17: Cody's Code
Original Air Date: 20 January 1962Season 7, Episode 18: Old Dan
Original Air Date: 27 January 1962Season 7, Episode 19: Catawomper
Original Air Date: 10 February 1962Season 7, Episode 20: Half Straight
Original Air Date: 17 February 1962Season 7, Episode 21: He Learned About Women
Original Air Date: 24 February 1962Season 7, Episode 22: The Gallows
Original Air Date: 3 March 1962Season 7, Episode 23: Reprisal
Original Air Date: 10 March 1962Season 7, Episode 24: Coventry
Original Air Date: 17 March 1962Season 7, Episode 25: The Widow
Original Air Date: 24 March 1962Season 7, Episode 26: Durham Bull
Original Air Date: 31 March 1962Season 7, Episode 27: Wagon Girls
Original Air Date: 7 April 1962Season 7, Episode 28: The Dealer
Original Air Date: 14 April 1962Season 7, Episode 29: The Summons
Original Air Date: 21 April 1962Season 7, Episode 30: The Dreamers
Original Air Date: 28 April 1962Season 7, Episode 31: Cale
Original Air Date: 5 May 1962Season 7, Episode 32: Chester's Indian
Original Air Date: 12 May 1962Season 7, Episode 33: The Prisoner
Original Air Date: 19 May 1962Season 7, Episode 34: The Boys
Original Air Date: 26 May 1962Season 8
Season 8, Episode 1: The Search
Original Air Date: 15 September 1962Season 8, Episode 2: Call Me Dodie
Original Air Date: 22 September 1962Season 8, Episode 3: Quint Asper Comes Home
Original Air Date: 29 September 1962Season 8, Episode 4: Root Down
Original Air Date: 6 October 1962Season 8, Episode 5: Jenny
Original Air Date: 13 October 1962Season 8, Episode 6: Collie's Free
Original Air Date: 20 October 1962Season 8, Episode 7: The Ditch
Original Air Date: 27 October 1962Season 8, Episode 8: The Trappers
Original Air Date: 3 November 1962Season 8, Episode 9: Phoebe Strunk
Original Air Date: 10 November 1962Season 8, Episode 10: The Hunger
Original Air Date: 17 November 1962Season 8, Episode 11: Abe Blocker
Original Air Date: 24 November 1962Season 8, Episode 12: The Way It Is
Original Air Date: 1 December 1962Season 8, Episode 13: Us Haggens
Original Air Date: 8 December 1962Season 8, Episode 14: Uncle Sunday
Original Air Date: 15 December 1962Season 8, Episode 15: False Front
Original Air Date: 22 December 1962Season 8, Episode 16: Old Comrade
Original Air Date: 29 December 1962Season 8, Episode 17: Louie Pheeters
Original Air Date: 5 January 1963Season 8, Episode 18: The Renegades
Original Air Date: 12 January 1963Season 8, Episode 19: Cotter's Girl
Original Air Date: 19 January 1963Season 8, Episode 20: The Bad One
Original Air Date: 26 January 1963Season 8, Episode 21: The Cousin
Original Air Date: 2 February 1963Season 8, Episode 22: Shona
Original Air Date: 9 February 1963Season 8, Episode 23: Ash
Original Air Date: 16 February 1963Season 8, Episode 24: Blind Man's Bluff
Original Air Date: 23 February 1963Season 8, Episode 25: Quint's Indian
Original Air Date: 2 March 1963Season 8, Episode 26: Anybody Can Kill a Marshal
Original Air Date: 9 March 1963Season 8, Episode 27: Two of a Kind
Original Air Date: 16 March 1963Season 8, Episode 28: I Call Him Wonder
Original Air Date: 23 March 1963Season 8, Episode 29: With a Smile
Original Air Date: 30 March 1963Season 8, Episode 30: The Far Places
Original Air Date: 6 April 1963Season 8, Episode 31: Panacea Sykes
Original Air Date: 13 April 1963Season 8, Episode 32: Tell Chester
Original Air Date: 20 April 1963Season 8, Episode 33: Quint-Cident
Original Air Date: 27 April 1963Season 8, Episode 34: Old York
Original Air Date: 4 May 1963Season 8, Episode 35: Daddy Went Away
Original Air Date: 11 May 1963Season 8, Episode 36: The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner
Original Air Date: 18 May 1963Season 8, Episode 37: Jeb
Original Air Date: 25 May 1963Season 8, Episode 38: The Quest for Asa Janin
Original Air Date: 1 June 1963Season 9
Season 9, Episode 1: Kate Heller
Original Air Date: 28 September 1963Season 9, Episode 2: Lover Boy
Original Air Date: 5 October 1963Season 9, Episode 3: Legends Don't Sleep
Original Air Date: 12 October 1963Season 9, Episode 4: Tobe
Original Air Date: 19 October 1963Season 9, Episode 5: Easy Come
Original Air Date: 26 October 1963Season 9, Episode 6: My Sister's Keeper
Original Air Date: 2 November 1963Season 9, Episode 7: Quint's Trail
Original Air Date: 9 November 1963Season 9, Episode 8: Carter Caper
Original Air Date: 16 November 1963Season 9, Episode 9: Ex-Con
Original Air Date: 30 November 1963Season 9, Episode 10: Extradition: Part 1
Original Air Date: 7 December 1963Season 9, Episode 11: Extradition: Part 2
Original Air Date: 14 December 1963Season 9, Episode 12: The Magician
Original Air Date: 21 December 1963Season 9, Episode 13: Pa Hack's Brood
Original Air Date: 28 December 1963Season 9, Episode 14: The Glory and the Mud
Original Air Date: 4 January 1964Season 9, Episode 15: Dry Well
Original Air Date: 11 January 1964Season 9, Episode 16: Prairie Wolfer
Original Air Date: 18 January 1964Season 9, Episode 17: Friend
Original Air Date: 25 January 1964Season 9, Episode 18: Once a Haggen
Original Air Date: 1 February 1964Season 9, Episode 19: No Hands
Original Air Date: 8 February 1964Season 9, Episode 20: May Blossoms
Original Air Date: 15 February 1964Season 9, Episode 21: The Bassops
Original Air Date: 22 February 1964Season 9, Episode 22: The Kite
Original Air Date: 29 February 1964Season 9, Episode 23: Comanches Is Soft
Original Air Date: 7 March 1964Season 9, Episode 24: Father's Love
Original Air Date: 14 March 1964Season 9, Episode 25: Now That April's Here
Original Air Date: 21 March 1964Season 9, Episode 26: Caleb
Original Air Date: 28 March 1964Season 9, Episode 27: Owney Tupper Had a Daughter
Original Air Date: 4 April 1964Season 9, Episode 28: Bently
Original Air Date: 11 April 1964Season 9, Episode 29: Kitty Cornered
Original Air Date: 18 April 1964Season 9, Episode 30: The Promoter
Original Air Date: 25 April 1964Season 9, Episode 31: Trip West
Original Air Date: 2 May 1964Season 9, Episode 32: Scot Free
Original Air Date: 9 May 1964Season 9, Episode 33: The Warden
Original Air Date: 16 May 1964Season 9, Episode 34: Homecoming
Original Air Date: 23 May 1964Season 9, Episode 35: The Other Half
Original Air Date: 30 May 1964Season 9, Episode 36: Journey for Three
Original Air Date: 6 June 1964Season 10
Season 10, Episode 1: Blue Heaven
Original Air Date: 26 September 1964Season 10, Episode 2: Crooked Mile
Original Air Date: 3 October 1964Season 10, Episode 3: Old Man
Original Air Date: 10 October 1964Season 10, Episode 4: The Violators
Original Air Date: 17 October 1964Season 10, Episode 5: Doctor's Wife
Original Air Date: 24 October 1964Season 10, Episode 6: Take Her, She's Cheap
Original Air Date: 31 October 1964Season 10, Episode 7: Help Me, Kitty
Original Air Date: 7 November 1964Season 10, Episode 8: Hung High
Original Air Date: 14 November 1964Season 10, Episode 9: Jonah Hutchinson
Original Air Date: 21 November 1964Season 10, Episode 10: Big Man, Big Target
Original Air Date: 28 November 1964Season 10, Episode 11: Chicken
Original Air Date: 5 December 1964Season 10, Episode 12: Innocence
Original Air Date: 12 December 1964Season 10, Episode 13: Aunt Thede
Original Air Date: 19 December 1964Season 10, Episode 14: Hammerhead
Original Air Date: 26 December 1964Season 10, Episode 15: Double Entry
Original Air Date: 2 January 1965Season 10, Episode 16: Run, Sheep, Run
Original Air Date: 9 January 1965Season 10, Episode 17: Deputy Festus
Original Air Date: 16 January 1965Season 10, Episode 18: One Killer on Ice
Original Air Date: 23 January 1965Anderson, a stylish bounty hunter, rides into Dodge City. He informs Matt that his partner has a wanted criminal at an ice house. The locale is a two-day ride from Dodge; Anderson wants Matt's help to bring the criminal in. The outlaw's brother intends to go gunning for Matt and Anderson. There's also a twist: Matt finds out Anderson didn't tell him the truth about what happened. Both Anderson's partner and the outlaw lie dead at the ice house.
Season 10, Episode 19: Chief Joseph
Original Air Date: 30 January 1965Season 10, Episode 20: Circus Trick
Original Air Date: 6 February 1965Season 10, Episode 21: Song for Dying
Original Air Date: 13 February 1965Season 10, Episode 22: Winner Take All
Original Air Date: 20 February 1965Season 10, Episode 23: Eliab's Aim
Original Air Date: 27 February 1965Season 10, Episode 24: Thursday's Child
Original Air Date: 6 March 1965Season 10, Episode 25: Breckinridge
Original Air Date: 13 March 1965Season 10, Episode 26: Bank Baby
Original Air Date: 20 March 1965Season 10, Episode 27: The Lady
Original Air Date: 27 March 1965Season 10, Episode 28: Dry Road to Nowhere
Original Air Date: 3 April 1965Season 10, Episode 29: Twenty Miles from Dodge
Original Air Date: 10 April 1965Season 10, Episode 30: The Pariah
Original Air Date: 17 April 1965Season 10, Episode 31: Gilt Guilt
Original Air Date: 24 April 1965Season 10, Episode 32: Bad Lady from Brookline
Original Air Date: 1 May 1965Season 10, Episode 33: Two Tall Men
Original Air Date: 8 May 1965Season 10, Episode 34: Honey Pot
Original Air Date: 15 May 1965Season 10, Episode 35: The New Society
Original Air Date: 22 May 1965Season 10, Episode 36: He Who Steals
Original Air Date: 29 May 1965Season 11
Season 11, Episode 1: Seven Hours to Dawn
Original Air Date: 18 September 1965Season 11, Episode 2: The Storm
Original Air Date: 25 September 1965Season 11, Episode 3: Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood
Original Air Date: 2 October 1965Season 11, Episode 4: Ten Little Indians
Original Air Date: 9 October 1965Season 11, Episode 5: Taps for Old Jeb
Original Air Date: 16 October 1965Season 11, Episode 6: Kioga
Original Air Date: 23 October 1965Season 11, Episode 7: The Bounty Hunter
Original Air Date: 30 October 1965Season 11, Episode 8: The Reward
Original Air Date: 6 November 1965Season 11, Episode 9: Malachi
Original Air Date: 13 November 1965Season 11, Episode 10: The Pretender
Original Air Date: 20 November 1965Season 11, Episode 11: South Wind
Original Air Date: 27 November 1965Season 11, Episode 12: The Hostage
Original Air Date: 4 December 1965Season 11, Episode 13: Outlaw's Woman
Original Air Date: 11 December 1965Season 11, Episode 14: The Avengers
Original Air Date: 18 December 1965Season 11, Episode 15: Gold Mine
Original Air Date: 25 December 1965Season 11, Episode 16: Death Watch
Original Air Date: 8 January 1966Season 11, Episode 17: Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs
Original Air Date: 15 January 1966Season 11, Episode 18: The Raid: Part 1
Original Air Date: 22 January 1966Season 11, Episode 19: The Raid: Part 2
Original Air Date: 29 January 1966Season 11, Episode 20: Killer at Large
Original Air Date: 5 February 1966Season 11, Episode 21: My Father's Guitar
Original Air Date: 12 February 1966Season 11, Episode 22: Wishbone
Original Air Date: 19 February 1966Season 11, Episode 23: Sanctuary
Original Air Date: 26 February 1966Season 11, Episode 24: Honor Before Justice
Original Air Date: 5 March 1966Season 11, Episode 25: The Brothers
Original Air Date: 12 March 1966Season 11, Episode 26: Which Dr.
Original Air Date: 19 March 1966Season 11, Episode 27: Harvest
Original Air Date: 26 March 1966Season 11, Episode 28: By Line
Original Air Date: 9 April 1966Season 11, Episode 29: Treasure of John Walking Fox
Original Air Date: 16 April 1966Season 11, Episode 30: My Father, My Son
Original Air Date: 23 April 1966Season 11, Episode 31: Parson Comes to Town
Original Air Date: 30 April 1966Season 11, Episode 32: Prime of Life
Original Air Date: 7 May 1966Season 12
Season 12, Episode 1: Snap Decision
Original Air Date: 17 September 1966Matt has the unhappy task of tracking down Gilcher, a long-ago friend of his, who fell on hard times and turned to horse theft and attempted murder. Matt surprises Gilcher at his mountain camp, and the two men sadly reminisce over old times. Suddenly, Gilcher sees a man up on the next hill holding a rifle. Gilcher warns Matt that the man (whom Matt can't see because his back is to the hill) is about to throw down on them both. Matt thinks Gilcher is bluffing. Gilcher makes a lunge for his discarded rifle -- and Matt -- thinking Gilcher is about to shoot him -- fires. An instant later, a rifle slug whizzing past Matt's ear confirms Gilcher's story. Matt promises to the dying Gilcher that he will give up law enforcement, which he does. He takes a room in Dodge while the new marshal tries to deal with a bounty hunter who shows up in town. Soon afterward, a young man shows up in town, seeking out Matt and claiming to be Gilcher's son. Matt tries to befriend the young man and get him out of scrapes. The bounty hunter, hearing of this and knowing a secret nobody else does, soon corners the young man and hires him as a hired gun. The two of them bushwhack a wanted man in the Long Branch, accidentally shooting a saloon girl in the process. The incident convinces Matt that he needs to resume his marshal's job and purge Dodge of the bounty hunter -- and find out why the young man took up with him.
Season 12, Episode 2: The Goldtakers
Original Air Date: 24 September 1966A murderous band of outlaws bushwhacks an Army pay train and murders every man among them for the $200,000 in gold they are carrying. They throw open the pay chest and find -- lead. The leader scratches the lead with a knife and uncovers a gold streak, and realizes that the Army had amalgamated the two metals together before the pay train started to try to prevent just such an occurrence. So the leader (Martin Landau, just before starting "Mission: Impossible") and his men strip the dead soldiers of their uniforms and head for the nearest blacksmith's shop, which happens to be in Dodge. There they will melt down the alloy into pieces of gold, which they plan to distribute amongst themselves after leaving. Matt, who was off fishing, returns in time to catch the thieves in the act -- but is taken hostage and forced to help them. Features a rare view of Dodge City's outdoor back lot set for the final gunfight (in fact, the main characters watch the outlaws ride off the sound stage and onto the outdoor street!)
Season 12, Episode 3: The Jailer
Original Air Date: 1 October 1966In an episode that made TV Guide's list of "Top 50 Dramatic Episodes of All Time" (and quite high on the list at that), "Miss" Bette Davis gets a credit card in typeface as big as James Arness's for her role as Etta Stone, matriarch of a crime family, whose husband was hanged and three sons imprisoned six years earlier at Matt's instigation. Now the sons have gotten out of jail and their first order of business is to kidnap Kitty, forcing Matt to come alone to rescue her. He gets a dire welcome when he sees a do-it-yourself working gallows right in the Stone front yard, and he is quickly seized and locked in the barn (Kitty is locked in the house). Etta Stone, with the help of the three imprisoned sons, tells Matt that he will be hanged from the gallows "on the morning of the second day." The only honest people around are the youngest son (Tom Skerritt) and the wife (Julie Sommars) of another son, who have developed a romance of their own. One of the other sons (Zalman King) can be bought, but he comes to a bad end -- Etta catches him helping Kitty try to escape and blows her own son away with the rifle she always carries. Now Kitty will also hang for "murder" immediately after Matt does, unless somehow Matt and Kitty can outwit the remaining crooks (which is hard; Matt survives a second botched escape attempt only because Etta demands that he be hanged rather than shot when cornered) and escape Etta herself. Many bits of business from this episode (including the entire storyline, with a twist) were recycled in later-season shows.
Season 12, Episode 4: The Mission
Original Air Date: 8 October 1966Matt travels to Mexico to pick up an outlaw (Jim Davis) wanted for murder in Kansas. The outlaw is truly a nasty piece of work, which makes him good company for two drifters (Steve Ihnat, Warren Oates) who bushwhack Matt and steal his identity papers and the extradition warrant. After "arresting" the outlaw leader, the two men form a gang with him. The three killers are soon joined by a fourth, Reb (Bob Random), the son of a Confederate colonel who fled to Mexico rather than acknowledge the war was over. Matt soon meets the colonel, who apologizes for his son's helping steal from Matt but refuses help of any other kind to a Yankee. The sergeant who was the colonel's aide and is now his ranch foreman is more sympathetic, but refuses to abandon his boss. Meanwhile, Reb is caught up in a robbery and murder spree led by the other three outlaws, who knock over a small-town bank and kill numerous citizens. A deputy sheriff who survived the massacre (thanks to Reb firing at him and intentionally missing) joins Matt on the deadly hunt, which climaxes at the colonel's house when Reb and the first outlaw hide out in the barn. Every major character except Matt and the sergeant gets killed, along with numerous extras.
Season 12, Episode 5: The Good People
Original Air Date: 15 October 1966Season 12, Episode 6: Gunfighter, R.I.P
Original Air Date: 22 October 1966Season 12, Episode 7: The Wrong Man
Original Air Date: 29 October 1966Season 12, Episode 8: The Whispering Tree
Original Air Date: 12 November 1966Season 12, Episode 9: The Well
Original Air Date: 19 November 1966Season 12, Episode 10: Stage Stop
Original Air Date: 26 November 1966Season 12, Episode 11: The Newcomers
Original Air Date: 3 December 1966Season 12, Episode 12: Quaker Girl
Original Air Date: 10 December 1966Season 12, Episode 13: The Moonstone
Original Air Date: 17 December 1966Season 12, Episode 14: Champion of the World
Original Air Date: 24 December 1966Season 12, Episode 15: The Hanging
Original Air Date: 31 December 1966Season 12, Episode 16: Saturday Night
Original Air Date: 7 January 1967Season 12, Episode 17: Mad Dog
Original Air Date: 14 January 1967Season 12, Episode 18: Muley
Original Air Date: 21 January 1967Season 12, Episode 19: Mail Drop
Original Air Date: 28 January 1967Season 12, Episode 20: Old Friend
Original Air Date: 4 February 1967Season 12, Episode 21: Fandango
Original Air Date: 11 February 1967Season 12, Episode 22: The Returning
Original Air Date: 18 February 1967Season 12, Episode 23: The Lure
Original Air Date: 25 February 1967Season 12, Episode 24: Noose of Gold
Original Air Date: 4 March 1967Season 12, Episode 25: The Favor
Original Air Date: 11 March 1967Season 12, Episode 26: Mistaken Identity
Original Air Date: 18 March 1967Mal Gates, a traveler, stops by a river to get a drink -- and a rattler chomps onto his face. His screams and his gunshots at the escaping snake are heard by Ed Carstairs, coming to the same watering hole from a different direction. But Carstairs is in no charitable mood. He's wanted in another town for killing a sheriff during a poker game, and justice in that town is notoriously corrupt (Matt later asks two sheriff's deputies snidely: "Was the town boss shot in the hip? Well, isn't that where he keeps the sheriff, isn't it ... in his hip pocket?"). So Carstairs tries to finish what the snake started by kicking Gates unconscious and switching identity papers with him. The ruse seems to work, but shortly after Carstairs arrives in Dodge he spots Gates being dragged unconscious on a litter behind Matt's horse -- Matt, making his rounds, also heard the commotion and found Gates still alive. Carstairs sneaks into Doc Adams' office and tries to smother Gates in his sleep, but jerks the pillow back when he hears Matt and Doc coming. Shortly thereafter, Gates wakes up. He's on the road to recovery, but he has completely lost his memory. This gives Carstairs (posing as Gates) a new opportunity. He befriends Gates on the one hand, and the two corrupt sheriff's deputies (who weren't on the scene and don't know Carstairs by sight) on the other. Carstairs tells Gates that he (as Carstairs) is wanted for a shooting he can't even remember, and offers to hide him and help him get out of Dodge, while he tells the deputies when and how "Carstairs" will make a break for it. And that's just to start with!
Season 12, Episode 27: Ladies from St. Louis
Original Air Date: 25 March 1967Season 12, Episode 28: Nitro: Part 1
Original Air Date: 8 April 1967Two smooth thugs and their trigger-happy partner (the actor is given significantly lower billing than Tom Reese and Eddie Firestone, who play the sharpies) extract nitroglycerin from dynamite by boiling it until the nitro floats "like an oil" on the water's surface and skimming it off. It's fully as dangerous as it sounds, so they have hired men to do it for huge sums of money which they get from burglarizing banks and blowing up their safes. The first one goes up in an gigantic explosion which shatters windows miles away, so they turn to a young ex-cowboy with no prospects except his saloon-girl girlfriend. The young man reluctantly agrees, hoping to make a fresh start by investing in petroleum development (Buck Taylor's dad Dub plays the developer). But when a cougar spooks the thugs' horse and causes horse and buggy to be strewn all over the landscape, the thugs must regroup. They have accidentally knocked over the bank where the Kansas Petoleum Development Company's money was stored, so they have to try and play nice to the young man and get him to mix more nitro.
Season 12, Episode 29: Nitro: Part 2
Original Air Date: 15 April 1967To get the young man back to extracting nitroglycerin for them, the bank robbers offer him a straight-up deal of $5,000 per batch, with the understanding that they will soon leave the area and he can go in peace. The young man agrees, but soon finds that his nerves are shot. He recruits town drunk Louie Pheeters (James Nusser, who gets "And Featuring" billing) to do the job for him, but then stops it before it starts and tries to make the batch himself. But the trigger-happy thug murders a man, which finally leads Matt to capture the robbers. Meanwhile, unaware of what's going on, the young man is mixing the last batch ...
Season 13
Season 13, Episode 1: The Wreckers
Original Air Date: 11 September 1967Season 13, Episode 2: Cattle Barons
Original Air Date: 18 September 1967Season 13, Episode 3: The Prodigal
Original Air Date: 25 September 1967A notorious outlaw was shot in the back, fatally, before Matt could arrest him. The large bounty on the man's head was never collected. Now a "crusading" newspaper reporter (Lamont Johnson) is trying to goad the dead man's two young sons into a showdown with Matt Dillon, who would have been legally enjoined from getting the bounty money because of his lawman status and thus is the main suspect in the shooting. Lamont Johnson's final acting role is directed by Vincent NcEveety, who also directed Robert Totten in five shows.
Season 13, Episode 4: Vengeance: Part 1
Original Air Date: 2 October 1967Season 13, Episode 5: Vengeance: Part 2
Original Air Date: 9 October 1967Season 13, Episode 6: A Hat
Original Air Date: 16 October 1967Clint Sorils (Gene Evans), a notorious gunman, is minding his own business when a stray bullet ruins his hat. In trying to obtain payment, Clint runs afoul of Red Conniston (Chill Wills), a powerful rancher. The ensuing clash leaves men dead and gravely wounded, all because of a hat.
Season 13, Episode 7: Hard Luck Henry
Original Air Date: 23 October 1967Hard-Luck Henry Haggens (John Astin) comes to Dodge City to persuade his cousin Festus (Ken Curtis) to return home on an important mission. Festus, as the wisest of the Haggenses, is to act as Solomon and divide a chest of Confederate gold pieces among the Haggens clan. Henry's constant mishaps thwart Festus's efforts in one of the funniest episodes of the series.
Season 13, Episode 8: Major Glory
Original Air Date: 30 October 1967Season 13, Episode 9: The Pillagers
Original Air Date: 6 November 1967Buck Taylor joins the cast as Newly O'Brien when Newly and Kitty are kidnapped by a gang who mistakenly believe he is a doctor. His skills as a gunsmith are central to their escape.
Season 13, Episode 10: Prairie Wolfers
Original Air Date: 13 November 1967Season 13, Episode 11: Stranger in Town
Original Air Date: 20 November 1967Season 13, Episode 12: Death Train
Original Air Date: 27 November 1967Season 13, Episode 13: Rope Fever
Original Air Date: 4 December 1967Season 13, Episode 14: Wonder
Original Air Date: 18 December 1967Season 13, Episode 15: Baker's Dozen
Original Air Date: 25 December 1967Season 13, Episode 16: The Victim
Original Air Date: 1 January 1968Season 13, Episode 17: Deadman's Law
Original Air Date: 8 January 1968Matt's horse shows up riderless in Dodge City, and there is blood on the saddle. While Festus and Newly search for Matt, ruthless vigilantes take over.
Season 13, Episode 18: Nowhere to Run
Original Air Date: 15 January 1968Season 13, Episode 19: Blood Money/II
Original Air Date: 22 January 1968The father of a young gunfighter tries to end his son's career by wounding his gun hand.
Season 13, Episode 20: Hill Girl
Original Air Date: 29 January 1968Newly rescues an ignorant hill girl, Merry Florene from her uncivilized half-brothers, Roland and Elbert. He brings her to Dodge City and arranges for a job at Jonas' general store. The two ruffians find her and try to force her to help them rob the store.
Season 13, Episode 21: The Gunrunners
Original Air Date: 5 February 1968Jubal Gray (Jim Davis) and his gang of renegade ex-soldiers steal a cache of rifles and gunpowder to sell to a band of marauding Indians. In a chance encounter they seriously injure Tahrohon (Dan Ferrone), an Indian friend of buffalo-man Noah Meek (Michael Constantine). Noah vows revenge for his friend's wounds.
Season 13, Episode 22: The Jackals
Original Air Date: 12 February 1968Season 13, Episode 23: The First People
Original Air Date: 19 February 1968Season 13, Episode 24: Mr. Sam'l
Original Air Date: 26 February 1968Almost nobody believes traveling medicine man Mr. Sam'l is really a "water witch" who can detect water underground with his divining rod. The exception is a ruthless land grabber who has capitalized on a prolonged drought and all the known wells drying up. The land grabber, secretly, hired professional geologists to locate hidden springs on farmland that the owners are about to abandon and sell -- for a song -- to him. Realizing that Mr. Sam'l could find the water through blind luck if nothing else, and that even if he doesn't he will inspire Dodge City to renew digging before the land grabber can secure the property, the land grabber hires a gunman ...
Season 13, Episode 25: A Noose for Dobie Price
Original Air Date: 4 March 1968Season 14
Season 14, Episode 1: Lyle's Kid
Original Air Date: 23 September 1968Season 14, Episode 2: The Hide Cutters
Original Air Date: 30 September 1968Season 14, Episode 3: Zavala
Original Air Date: 7 October 1968Matt pursues the Rawlins gang into Mexico to the village of Zavala. Here he meets Paco (Manuel Padilla Jr.) and his widowed mother. Paco's father had been killed when he stood up to outlaws intimidating the people of Zavala. In his whole life, the only strong willed people Paco had ever seen were outlaws. He first thinks of Matt as such a person, until Matt tells him that he not here to kill the Rawlins' but to arrest them. "But only outlaws ever come to Zavala." Paco is fascinated with the fact that Matt is a US Marshall. In an unusual episode of Gunsmoke an unlikely relationship develops amongst the trio, Paco, his mother, and Matt. Paul Savage later adapted this episode into made for TV movie "Cutter's Trail" where Manuel Padilla Jr. reprises his role as Paco.
Season 14, Episode 4: Uncle Finney
Original Air Date: 14 October 1968Season 14, Episode 5: Slocum
Original Air Date: 21 October 1968Season 14, Episode 6: O'Quillian
Original Air Date: 28 October 1968Season 14, Episode 7: 9:12 to Dodge
Original Air Date: 11 November 1968Season 14, Episode 8: Abelia
Original Air Date: 18 November 1968Season 14, Episode 9: Railroad
Original Air Date: 25 November 1968Season 14, Episode 10: The Miracle Man
Original Air Date: 2 December 1968Season 14, Episode 11: Waco
Original Air Date: 9 December 1968Matt Dillon (James Arness) and his prisoner, Waco Thompson (Victor French), begin the trek to Dodge City, where Waco is wanted for robbery. Along the way they find a young Kiowa woman, One Moon (Pat Thompson), who is about to have a baby in the wilderness. Matt and Waco must help her while eluding four ex-henchmen of Waco who are bent on revenge for his duplicity. Harry Carey Jr. and Louise Latham play important roles in the action.
Season 14, Episode 12: Lobo
Original Air Date: 16 December 1968Season 14, Episode 13: Johnny Cross
Original Air Date: 23 December 1968Season 14, Episode 14: The Money Store
Original Air Date: 30 December 1968Down on his luck, a widowed farmer is unable to get a loan from his brother-in-law, a banker in Dodge City. The two briefly argue. The farmer's son and daughter, however, go back to the bank, cause a commotion and steal an envelope full of money. Marshal Matt Dillon is out of town, leaving Festus in charge of investigating the incident. The farmer is arrested for the robbery. Upon hearing from his children that they took the money, he forbids them from telling the law; he feels he'll only be using his children as scapegoats. A short time later, the children run away and encounter Matt.
Season 14, Episode 15: The Twisted Heritage
Original Air Date: 6 January 1969On her way back to Dodge after a short trip, Kitty shares a stagecoach ride with Blaine Copperton, a gentlemanly but uncertain man who seems to be far less mature than his age. Suddenly, two armed bandits attack the stage, killing the driver and seriously wounding Copperton. Copperton manages to grab a shotgun and kill the bandits, but then collapses unconscious. Kitty drives the stage to Copperton's ranch, where she finds a family of squatters living in a shack. The squatters, who have a long-running feud with the powerful Copperton family, refuse to give any help. When Kitty gets to the ranch headquarters and finds Copperton's mother, she finds a powerful matriarch who treats her son like a child, her granddaughter (copperton's daughter) as barely legitimate and everyone else like so many servants. The mother soon finds out about the squatters. She goes to their shack, burns it to the ground, and shoots a squatter in the leg. Kitty calls for help before things get way out of hand, but before Matt can get there, the squatters kidnap Kitty and demand that Copperton show up to rescue her and get shot in the leg himself. Copperton defies his mother and shows up at an old mine where the squatters have hidden out, but will the feud turn deadly?
Season 14, Episode 16: Time of the Jackals
Original Air Date: 13 January 1969Matt and Festus shoot it out with an outlaw who was a member of the infamous Jess Trevor gang, particularly notorious for murder and mayhem. Matt finally kicks in the outlaw's door and shoots him. The outlaw lives for a few minutes, and Matt asks him why he deserted the Trevor gang. The dying outlaw reveals that he left at the request of Trevor's girlfriend, who was also shocked by his cruelty and wishes to leave. The woman is then shown lying in a corner, having accidentally been shot by Matt. To his horror, Matt recognizes the woman as Leona, a woman he knew and loved before he came to Dodge City. Guilt-ridden, he brings Leona back to Dodge and learns her story: she had drifted after leaving Matt, turning to prostitution and hooking up with various gang members, closing with Trevor himself. Trevor has learned of Leona's defection and puts out a murder contract on her. While Matt searches for Trevor (and Trevor orders a hit on Matt), Kitty (who is nursing Leona) struggles with her feelings toward her boyfriend's past girlfriend, finally making an uneasy alliance with Leona. When Matt gets to Trevor first and takes him in, Trevor warns "there will be twenty shotguns pointed at your head" when Matt sends Trevor off to court for trial. Matt warns Trevor that "there's going to be one aimed at yours" in return. The extradition trip to the train station begins in an atmosphere of the highest tension, as Leona watches from a sidewalk.
Season 14, Episode 17: Mannon
Original Air Date: 20 January 1969Mannon (Steve Forrest), arguably the fastest gun in the West, terrorizes Dodge City while he waits for Matt Dillon (James Arness) to return. A cruel, violent encounter with Kitty Russell (Amanda Blake) sets up the inevitable showdown.
Season 14, Episode 18: Gold Town
Original Air Date: 27 January 1969This episode is a follow-up to "Hill Girl" (#13:20). Merry Florene is back, along with her remaining half-brother Elbert Moses and cousin Smiley. Merry Florene pesters Newly while the boys scam Dodge City with a salted gold mine.
Season 14, Episode 19: The Mark of Cain
Original Air Date: 3 February 1969Season 14, Episode 20: The Reprisal
Original Air Date: 10 February 1969Season 14, Episode 21: The Long Night
Original Air Date: 17 February 1969After surviving (barely) a bounty hunter's attempt to assassinate him, an outlaw tries to turn himself in to Matt Dillon. But Matt's out of town, and the bounty hunters' companions get to the outlaw first. They aren't so much interested in the outlaw as they are in killing Matt, so they take over the Long Branch and hold everyone hostage. They also get word out to a land baron whose wife the outlaw accidentally killed: come here and pick up the prisoner in return for your gunmen to waste the marshal. The land baron accepts the deal, but the outlaw's girlfriend shoots him as he's about to take the outlaw away. While Doc performs an emergency operation, the land baron's hirelings are torn between their promise to punish the outlaw and their revulsion at the bounty hunters' sadistic leader, who forces town drunk Louie Pheeters to crawl on his hands and knees the length of the saloon to get a drink (which he then refuses in a dramatic sequence). This episode's production number indicates it was actually filmed at the end of the previous season and held up for reasons unknown (it's shown in broadcast order in syndication).
Season 14, Episode 22: The Night Riders
Original Air Date: 24 February 1969The Civil War isn't over -- not nearly -- for Judge Proctor, a respected Missouri man who was on the losing side and had his home devastated by a guerrilla band led by a Kansas man. Now the judge has formed a gang of his own and sweeps through Kansas seeking the guerrilla leader. A tip-off tells the group that the man is in or near Dodge, but the judge can't locate his exact whereabouts and sets fire to a wheat field as a warning to the local citizenry. When that fails to produce the man, the judge threatens to burn all of Dodge City.
Season 14, Episode 23: The Intruder
Original Air Date: 3 March 1969Season 14, Episode 24: The Good Samaritans
Original Air Date: 10 March 1969A group of former slaves on their way to Oregon are temporarily halted to repair a broken wheel. They find Matt on the prairie, wounded by two outlaws trying to prevent his reaching Dodge City, and hide him until he can recover.
Season 14, Episode 25: The Prisoner
Original Air Date: 17 March 1969Season 14, Episode 26: Exodus 21:22
Original Air Date: 24 March 1969Season 15
Season 15, Episode 1: The Devil's Outpost
Original Air Date: 22 September 1969While foiling a stage holdup Dillon takes one of the men prisoner. While bringing him back to Dodge he must deal with the prisoner's brother and his gang and their attempts to free him. Things become more complicated when Newly is taken prisoner.
Season 15, Episode 2: Stryker
Original Air Date: 29 September 1969Josh Stryker (Morgan Woodward), a former U. S. Marshal, returns to Dodge City after fifteen years in prison for murder. His former deputy, Matt Dillon (James Arness) was the main witness who convicted him. Now Stryker is torn between his hatred for Matt, his reconciliation with his daughter Sarah Jean (Joan Van Ark), and the threat he faces from two outlaws, Jessup (Royal Dano) and Reager (Mills Watson).
Season 15, Episode 3: Coreyville
Original Air Date: 6 October 1969Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) is brought to Coreyville by Ellie Wylie (Jo Ann Harris) to ensure a fair trial for her father, Titus (Bruce Glover). In the process Matt must deal with the town matriarch, Agatha Corey (Nina Foch) and her sons Billy Joe (Kevin Coughlin) and Frank (Thomas Hunter). Flo Watson (Ruth Roman), the redheaded saloon keeper, plays a prominent part in the intrigue.
Season 15, Episode 4: Danny
Original Air Date: 13 October 1969Season 15, Episode 5: Hawk
Original Air Date: 20 October 1969Season 15, Episode 6: A Man Called 'Smith'
Original Air Date: 27 October 1969Season 15, Episode 7: Charlie Noon
Original Air Date: 3 November 1969Matt Dillon is escorting his prisoner Charlie Noon back to Dodge City when he encounters a runaway Indian bride being pursued by the braves of her tribe. The Indians have mistaken Charlie Noon as the man who stole her and are seeking revenge. The suspense builds in this episode as all parties are seen to match wits and maneuver for strategic advantage rather than employ violence. "Charlie Noon" is thus noted more for intrigue than the activity one would expect of a typical western.
Season 15, Episode 8: The Still
Original Air Date: 10 November 1969Season 15, Episode 9: A Matter of Honor
Original Air Date: 17 November 1969Season 15, Episode 10: The Innocent
Original Air Date: 24 November 1969Season 15, Episode 11: Ring of Darkness
Original Air Date: 1 December 1969Ben Hurley (Tom Drake), a poor farmer, steals horses for outlaws to get enough money to take his blind daughter Susan (Pamela Dunlap) to Kansas City, where she can learn to read and lead a better life. Newly (Buck Taylor) tries to find the rustlers and becomes involved in the young girl's plight.
Season 15, Episode 12: MacGraw
Original Air Date: 8 December 1969After twenty years in prison, Jake MacGraw comes to DodgeCity to start over. He takes a job as piano player at the Longbranch, but is this really why he came to town? He woos one of the saloon girls and seems to want a fight with her beau. What's that all about?
Season 15, Episode 13: Roots of Fear
Original Air Date: 15 December 1969Season 15, Episode 14: The Sisters
Original Air Date: 29 December 1969Season 15, Episode 15: The War Priest
Original Air Date: 5 January 1970An Indian warrior, Gregorio (Richard Anderson) is wounded escaping from the U. S. Army Fourth Cavalry, and the bigoted, ruthless Sgt. Emmet Holly (Forrest Tucker) sets out in hot pursuit. Gregorio encounters Kitty Russell (Amanda Blake), steals her horse and takes her hostage. Meanwhile, Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) is tracking all of them.
Season 15, Episode 16: The Pack Rat
Original Air Date: 12 January 1970As Matt escorts a wounded prisoner to Ft. Union, his camp is invaded by a thieving young boy, whom Matt takes into custody. In Dodge City the journey to Ft. Union is joined by two women, one pregnant traveling to see her husband, the other secretly the wife of the prisoner. A trio of outlaws waits on the trail to kill Matt and rescue the prisoner.
Season 15, Episode 17: The Judas Gun
Original Air Date: 19 January 1970Season 15, Episode 18: Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.
Original Air Date: 26 January 1970Dr. Herman Schultz, a longtime friend of Doc Adams comes to Dodge City to experiment with Mesmerization (hypnotism) as a medical procedure. However, his motives seem to be less noble.
Season 15, Episode 19: The Badge/II
Original Air Date: 2 February 1970Matt is seriously wounded in a gun fight. Kitty is so despondent, she puts up