It's always an occupational hazard of being the elderly father of a newly-introduced leading lady in a western that you're not going to live long; and sure enough Roy Roberts as crooked card dealer Billy Baskin is dead within minutes of his first appearance and his daughter Lily is left alone in the world. Lily manages to find employment at Kitty's saloon, however; and being both good at her job and played by the ever dramatic looking Judi Meredith (with jet black hair on this occasion) she's quickly pulling in the punters. Unfortunately the two most serious admirers she attracts are a hulking great oaf called Champ Larkin, and Johnny Cole, who still fancies his chances with the lovely Lily despite it being him who killed her father (in self-defence, admittedly, but still hardly the best grounds on which to claim her acquaintance).
Lily decides to play these two unwelcome suitors off against each other and more gunplay ensues. But although rather a lot happens it's never very involving. Meredith does her best with an underwritten part and George Mathews is as usual a memorably intimidating heavy as Champ; but I'm with earlier reviewer 'grizzledgeezer' that the Season 18 episode 'Talbot', despite having only 43 rather than 50 minutes to play around with (presumably because by 1973 there were more commercials per hour) shows what a missed opportunity 'The Dealer' was. Miss Meredith was 25 when she made the earlier episode and it would been interesting to have seen her as Katherine in 'Talbot'; at 36 she would have been the right age.