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Season 1

  • S01E01 Matt Gets It

    • September 10, 1955
    • CBS

    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.

  • S01E02 Hot Spell

    • September 17, 1955
    • CBS

    Matt is caught in an awkward position when he defends an unsavory ex-con against the decent residents of Dodge City.

  • S01E03 Word of Honor

    • October 1, 1955
    • CBS

    Three kidnappers force Doc to make a promise that will be hard for him to keep.

  • S01E04 Home Surgery

    • October 8, 1955
    • CBS

    Matt is forced to perform an emergency amputation on an old man who is desperately ill with gangrene.

  • S01E05 Obie Tater

    • October 15, 1955
    • CBS

    A saloon girl is suspected of being a gold-digger when she comes to town looking for a husband.

  • S01E06 Night Visitor

    • October 29, 1955
    • CBS

    A young boy is accused of lying when he claims to have witnessed a series of crimes.

  • S01E07 Smoking Out the Nolans

    • November 5, 1955
    • CBS

    When a dispute arises over a piece of land, Matt and Chester are forced to evict the current occupants.

  • S01E08 Kite's Reward

    • November 12, 1955
    • CBS

    A reformed outlaw is haunted by the discovery that there is still a price on his head.

  • S01E09 The Hunter

    • November 26, 1955
    • CBS

    Matt sets out after a cruel buffalo hunter who is heading for Indian land.

  • S01E10 The Queue

    • December 3, 1955
    • CBS

    Revenge is a definite possibility when a Dodge City newcomer is disgraced by two ruffians.

  • S01E11 General Parsley Smith

    • December 10, 1955
    • CBS

    The honesty of the town's new banker is questioned - especially after he hires an ex-con to guard the money.

  • S01E12 Magnus

    • December 24, 1955
    • CBS

    Chester is far from brotherly when an uncivilized sibling shows up in town just in time for Christmas.

  • S01E13 Reed Survives

    • December 31, 1955
    • CBS

    The young wife of an elderly farmer plots her husband's death.

  • S01E14 Professor Lute Bone

    • January 7, 1956
    • CBS

    Doc takes the law into his own hands when he discovers that a medicine man's "cure-all" tonic could be deadly.

  • S01E15 No Handcuffs

    • January 21, 1956
    • CBS

    Matt investigates a neighboring sheriff when his deputy arrives in Dodge City to make an arrest.

  • S01E16 Reward for Matt

    • January 28, 1956
    • CBS

    A bounty is placed on Matt's head when he kills a rancher during an attempted arrest.

  • S01E17 Robin Hood

    • February 4, 1956
    • CBS

    Matt turns the tables against a criminal who repeatedly bribes witnesses to escape justice.

  • S01E18 Yorky

    • February 18, 1956
    • CBS

    When Matt comes to the aid of an accused horse thief he becomes a target of the real perpetrators.

  • S01E19 20-20

    • February 25, 1956
    • CBS

    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 gonna kill Troy for killing his brother. Lee asks Matt to tell Troy he is in town and clear Front Street at 10:00 AM. Polen knows Troy is losing his sight. Matt sends Doc to find out just how bad his eyesight is. Doc says the only thing he can focus on quickly is a match. Matt tells Lee he's told Troy to leave. Doc tells Lee Troy's eyesight is fine. Lee goes looking for Troy. Troy goes out the back of the stable and faces off with Lee. Troy shoots the gun out of Lee's hand. Troy's wounded. Troy shot at the only thing he could see, the flash of Lee's gun.

  • S01E20 Reunion '78

    • March 3, 1956
    • CBS

    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. Andy pulls a gun. Jerry shoots him. Belle sees it all from her window. Andy was really Bloody Bille Ashley one of Quantrill's raiders. He killed Jerry's father and carried his Ma from Lawrence, Kansas. Matt looks for Andy's gun. Matt tells Kitty they need a witness. They see Belle in her room. Belle says she didn't see anything. Belle watches from her window as they prepare for a hanging. Jerry says Quantrill took his girl Ellie and I haven't seen her since. Just then Matt brings in Belle (Ellie). She says Andy drew first. As Jerry rides past her window, he calls to Ellie. Belle says Ellie's gone, goodbye.

  • S01E21 Helping Hand

    • March 17, 1956
    • CBS

    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.

  • S01E22 Tap Day for Kitty

    • March 24, 1956
    • CBS

    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.

  • S01E23 Indian Scout

    • March 31, 1956
    • CBS

    Twenty-three soldiers died a the hands of the Comamches at Cold Creek. Will Bailey lost his brother. Will says Amos Cartwwright, the scout led them into an ambush. Matt tells Bailey let the cavalry handle it, and leave Amos alone. Amos comes into the Long Branch with a rifle to see Bailey. Matt escorts Amos out. Amos tells Bailey I'll see you later. Matt suggests Amos stay out at the fort for a couple of days. Amos says don't worry about me. Amos kills Bailey. Matt and Chester are out tracking Amos, so is an indian. Matt finds Amos. Amos married a Comanche and was respected and loved. She died in childbirth. Amos knew about the ambush and did nothing. An indian war party appears on the ridge, friends of Amos. Amos' wife's brother Buffalo Tongue rides down. Amos goes out to meet him. Buffalo Tongue kills him. The indians ride off.

  • S01E24 The Pest Hole

    • April 14, 1956
    • CBS

    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. Doc, at first, suspects some type of food poisoning as the culprit, but then discovers it's really Typhus. Leading citizen Mr. Matthews takes a few of his men over to Bendino's and beat him to death. Matt arrests Matthews and throws him in jail, much to Matthew's disdain with all the patients. When Mrs. Saur, a German resident living outside of Dodge, comes down with the disease Doc has to look elsewhere for the cause. He sets up an experiment that could cause him to come down with the disease himself, and possibly die!

  • S01E25 Big Broad

    • April 28, 1956
    • CBS

    A large woman and her small companion bring trouble to Kitty's saloon, as the woman has a way of causing guns to be drawn.

  • S01E26 Hack Prine

    • May 12, 1956
    • CBS

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

  • S01E27 Cooter

    • May 19, 1956
    • CBS

    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. Matt asks Ben how long Pate has been working for him. Ben and Matt go to see Pate. Matt calls Ben a coward and tells Pate to get out of Dodge. Matt tells Ben the next time you make a mistake I'll see you hang. Cooter is packing a gun. Doc says Cooter was shot in the head and shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun. Ben hired Cooter. Ben tells Matt Cooter says he's gonna kill you, because he thinks you are going to take his gun away and lock him up. Cooter enters and tells Matt he's gonna kill him. Matt outdraws him. Cooter asks Ben did I do the joke good. Matt tells Cooter the joke's on you and me. Matt throws Ben out. Cooter puts a gun in Ben's back. Ben runs, Cooter cuts him down.

  • S01E28 The Killer

    • May 26, 1956
    • CBS

    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.

  • S01E29 Doc's Revenge

    • June 9, 1956
    • CBS

    Clem Maddow rides into Dodge. Doc tells Chester I'm gonna kill a man. Chester gets Matt. Doc's ready to shoot Clem, he won't say why. Clem says he won't defend himself. Matt tells Doc to put his Colt 36 away. Matt tells Clem to get outta Dodge. Matt can't find Doc. Clem is shot in the back and his brother George is hit on the head. Doc heard the shot and shows up. Doc digs a .45 caliber bullet out of Clem. George shot Clem. Doc says he doesn't hate Clem anymore. Doc loved a woman, she loved Clem. He left her after a miscarriage and never returned.

  • S01E30 The Preacher

    • June 16, 1956
    • CBS

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

  • S01E31 How to Die for Nothing

    • June 23, 1956
    • CBS

    Zach and Bulow, up with a cattle drive, are raising a ruckus. Matt wants Zach's gun. He won't give it up. Matt hits him. Bulow draws his gun. Matt kills him. Zach tells Matt Bulow's brother Howard will shoot you in the back. Matt sees a guy hiding in the shadows. It's not Howard, but Howard comes up and introduces himself. Matt locks Howard up. Will Jacklin, the trail boss, comes for Howard. Will says he has fourteen men down the street. Reisling, the hotel owner, tells Matt you have to set him free. Matt tells Chester to go get Howard. Matt tells Jacklin, his men and Howard to get outta Dodge. Howard reaffirms he is going to kill Matt. Ben Cherry, a friend of Chester's Pa, raised Chester. Reisling says he's going to ride out to the cattle drive camp and tell the men they're welcome in Dodge. Matt and Chester go to the Dodge House to see how he did. Howard shoots at Matt from upstairs. Matt kills Howard.

  • S01E32 Dutch George

    • June 30, 1956
    • CBS

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

  • S01E33 Prairie Happy

    • July 7, 1956
    • CBS

    Chester and Matt are out riding when they get shot at by a boy. His father says the Pawnee are on the warpath. Jonas tells Matt we have to protect our women and children. Matt wants to know how this scare got started. A grizzled old timer, Tewksbury, says he lived with the Pawnee, and they'll attack at dawn. Jonas and his bunch want a strategy meeting. Matt asked have you ever heard of indians announcing when they were going to attack. Matt tells them to go home. That night there's a fire at the Danver's rooming house, with Pawnee arrows around. Matt tells Chester to keep an eye on Tewksbury. Chester calls for Matt, Tewksbury has set a fire. Tewksbury says he set Danver's on fire and put the arrows there. Two cowboys died in the fire. Tewksbury daughter, Quiet One, says he tried to turn the indians against the whites, but couldn't. Tewksbury's Pawnee name is Lost Warrior, he wanted to die in battle. Quiet One gives Lost Warrior poison and takes his body home.

  • S01E34 Chester's Mail Order Bride

    • July 14, 1956
    • CBS

    Chester's drinking a lot at the Long Branch. A buffalo hunter, Nate takes his picture of a girl. Chester hits the hunter. Nate decks Chester. Chester has been sending the girl in the picture letters and she is coming to marry him. Chester sent her Matt's picture. Matt meets Ann Smithwright. She doesn't look like the picture Chester has. Matt takes Ann to Kitty. Chester comes in all duded up. Chester tells Ann she's too young and doesn't know what she's doing. Chester's going to take up farming. A Pinkerton agent, Brady, tells Matt Ann comes from one of the best families in Philadelphia. Her father is a judge. Matt tells Chester marrying Ann wouldn't be the right thing. Anne goes back to Philadelphia. Nate wants to take Brady out on the prairie and lose him, for breaking up Chester's engagement. Chester says he never should have learned to write.

  • S01E35 The Guitar

    • July 21, 1956
    • CBS

    Augie Shart and Gene Tyler a couple of drunks try to hang Weed Pindle from Texas once they find he fought for the Union. Chester stops it. Chester get Weed to play his guitar and take up a collection. Tyler and Shart paint Rainbow, Weed's burro, and smash his guitar. Matt slaps Shart and Tyler and tells them you two are through in Dodge. Weed washes Rainbow and rides out. Tyler and Shart follow. The townfolk follow. Tyler and Shart lasso Weed. We see one guy hung. As the camera pulls back there's two. Matt aks everybody where they were. They all have alibis. Doc wonders if Shart and Tyler had time to enjoy it, the hanging they wanted.

  • S01E36 Cara

    • July 28, 1956
    • CBS

    An old flame of Matt's comes to town, but her presence in Dodge may be motivated by more than sentiment.

  • S01E37 Mr. and Mrs. Amber

    • August 4, 1956
    • CBS

    Peak Fletcher says his sister Sarah Amber stole a calf. She was set up. Matt tells Peak to take the calf and leave. Simon, Peak's son tells Matt Neal, Sarah's husband, is just rocking in the dark and Sarah's gone. Neal says he sent her back east and that he loved her. Chester finds Sarah under a blanket in the shed. Neal says he shot her. Matt locks him up. Peak wants to know when he hangs. Neal has been let out to eat. Simon says she lived in unrighteousness. Neal grabs a rifle and shoots Simon. Simon shoots Neal. Neal says Sarah gave up and died. He put a bullet in her after she died.

  • S01E38 Unmarked Grave

    • August 18, 1956
    • CBS

    On a stage heading for Dodge Sheriff Darcy has a heart attack while guarding a murderer, Blackie. Mrs. Randolph is looking for her son Whitey. Matt tells her he was shot by a deputy two years ago. Darcy brings the kid in to Matt. He shot the cashier in a bank robbery in Caldwell. Mrs. Randolph fawns over the kid. Tasca Sloan and his gang, who the kid rode with, ride into town. Matt takes the kid to the Dodge House. Randolph tries vainly to try to help the kid escape. In the morning Blackie breaks a window to let Tasca know where he is. Matt heads for the train with Blackie. Mrs. Randolph follows. Tasca shoots Blackie. Matt shoots Tasca. Matt's wounded. The rest of the gang bite the dust. Mrs. Randolph tells Matt she was wrong.

  • S01E39 Alarm at Pleasant Valley

    • August 25, 1956
    • CBS

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

Season 2

  • S02E01 Cow Doctor

    • September 8, 1956
    • CBS

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

  • S02E02 Brush at Elkader

    • September 15, 1956
    • CBS

    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.

  • S02E03 Custer

    • September 22, 1956
    • CBS

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

  • S02E04 The Round Up

    • September 29, 1956
    • CBS

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

  • S02E05 Young Man with a Gun

    • October 20, 1956
    • CBS

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

  • S02E06 Indian White

    • October 27, 1956
    • CBS

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

  • S02E07 How to Cure a Friend

    • November 10, 1956
    • CBS

    Matt is put in a difficult position by the arrival of Nick Search, an old friend who has since become a gambler with a fast draw and a reputation for dishonesty.

  • S02E08 Legal Revenge

    • November 17, 1956
    • CBS

    Doc comes upon a new homesteader confined to bed with a badly infected leg and a gun under the bedclothes for protection against his wife.

  • S02E09 The Mistake

    • November 24, 1956
    • CBS

    When a man suspected of murder can't establish his alibi, Matt arrests the man. After the prisoner draws a gun on Chester and escapes, evidence suggests he might not be guilty.

  • S02E10 Greater Love

    • December 1, 1956
    • CBS

    Killer Jed Butler takes Doctor Adams hostage to help his dying partner, and learns the true meaning of love for a friend, when Matt risks his life to rescue the good doctor.

  • S02E11 No Indians

    • December 8, 1956
    • CBS

    Matt strongly suspects that it is actually white men who are responsible for a murderous series of "Indian raids" that have terrorized prairie-dwelling families.

  • S02E12 Spring Term

    • December 15, 1956
    • CBS

    A man is shot on the streets of Dodge, and Matt realizes that shot was meant for him.

  • S02E13 Poor Pearl

    • December 22, 1956
    • CBS

    A saloon gal past her youth suddenly receives two marriage proposals, one from a sweet country bumpkin, one from a menacing dandy, but it's no embarrassment of riches: each suitor threatens violence if she selects his rival.

  • S02E14 Cholera

    • December 29, 1956
    • CBS

    A landowner's attempt to evict homesteaders is helped by a cholera outbreak.

  • S02E15 Pucket's New Year

    • January 5, 1957
    • CBS

    A man, abandoned and permanently crippled by the cold on the prairie, is rescued by Matt and Chester and struggles to find a purpose.

  • S02E16 Cover Up

    • January 12, 1957
    • CBS

    Matt jails the wife abusing Sam Baxter on suspicion of murdering 2 squatters on his land, but after he gets locked up, a 3rd squatter is murdered.

  • S02E17 Sins of the Father

    • January 19, 1957
    • CBS

    A white man and his Indian wife, passing through Dodge, become targets of violence after it is learned that the wife's father led deadly raids against white settlers.

  • S02E18 Kick Me

    • January 26, 1957
    • CBS

    A bank robber murders his partner and comes to Dodge with his terrified wife, hoping to keep a low profile, but an Indian he once humiliated won't let him be.

  • S02E19 Executioner

    • February 2, 1957
    • CBS

    Grief-stricken rancher Morgan Curry proves willing to go to any length necessary to get revenge after cocksure gunman Tom Clegg kills his brother Abe in a needlessly provoked gunfight.

  • S02E20 Gone Straight

    • February 9, 1957
    • CBS

    When Matt serves a warrant in another town for a wanted man, there are two men answering the possible suspect's description, and they both have gone totally straight.

  • S02E21 Bloody Hands

    • February 16, 1957
    • CBS

    The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed.

  • S02E22 Skid Row

    • February 23, 1957
    • CBS

    When a lady comes to town looking for her betrothed, Matt takes it upon himself to sober up the man, who, in his fiancée's absence, has become the town drunk.

  • S02E23 Sweet and Sour

    • March 2, 1957
    • CBS

    Violence and tragedy result when Matt and Chester persuade a reluctant Kitty to hire flirtatious Rena Decker as a Long Branch hostess.

  • S02E24 Cain

    • March 9, 1957
    • CBS

    Told he has only two months to live, a man determines to avenge the suicide of a young woman by killing the womanizer he blames for her death.

  • S02E25 Bureaucrat

    • March 16, 1957
    • CBS

    A government official from Washington warns Matt that he will relieve him of his duties if he does not start using a firmer hand in Dodge.

  • S02E26 Last Fling

    • March 23, 1957
    • CBS

    Miss Kitty is suspected of taking a shot at drunkard John Peavy for harassing her earlier, and shortly thereafter someone fires a shot at her.

  • S02E27 Chester's Murder

    • March 30, 1957
    • CBS

    When the drunkard Chester is escorting to jail is shot dead, Chester is suspected of the murder.

  • S02E28 The Photographer

    • April 6, 1957
    • CBS

    Professor Jacoby is a photographer from back East in Dodge, willing to do anything for a picture, even to the point of committing murder.

  • S02E29 Wrong Man

    • April 13, 1957
    • CBS

    Sam Rickers shot a man dead in the back to try and claim a $1,000 reward, but it turns out that the dead man was never wanted by the law.

  • S02E30 Big Girl Lost

    • April 20, 1957
    • CBS

    A saloon gal's old beau is in town, and she expects trouble when he finds out where she is working.

  • S02E31 What the Whiskey Drummer Heard

    • April 27, 1957
    • CBS

    A weird whiskey drummer named Wilbur Hawkins makes a claim to Matt that he overheard a man making a offer to pay 300 dollars to kill him, and shortly thereafter an attempt is made on Matt's life.

  • S02E32 Cheap Labor

    • May 4, 1957
    • CBS

    A man wants to marry a woman whose brother may be willing to resort to violence to keep her from leaving home.

  • S02E33 Moon

    • May 11, 1957
    • CBS

    Vint is a crooked card dealer being watched by a gunman hired by a card player to make sure he can not cheat, so he resorts to murder and robbery to recover his losses.

  • S02E34 Who Lives by the Sword

    • May 18, 1957
    • CBS

    Despicable 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.

  • S02E35 Uncle Oliver

    • May 25, 1957
    • CBS

    Uncle Oliver arrives in town and believes his simpleton nephew would be a good deputy for Matt, instead of Chester.

  • S02E36 Daddy-O

    • June 1, 1957
    • CBS

    Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her back to New Orleans with him.

  • S02E37 The Man Who Would Be Marshal

    • June 15, 1957
    • CBS

    Emmett Egan has been approved for the job of marshal by War Department, and Matt agrees to let him have his job, if he follows him around for a week, to see if he can handle it.

  • S02E38 Liar from Blackhawk

    • June 22, 1957
    • CBS

    Hank Shinn is a newcomer in town bragging about his reputation as gunman, but Marshal Dillon suspects he is nothing more than a liar.

  • S02E39 Jealousy

    • July 6, 1957
    • CBS

    A card dealer, newly married, wants to kill his old friend, Marshal Dillon, when a crooked gambler starts rumors that Dillon is courting the dealer's wife.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Crack-Up

    • September 14, 1957
    • CBS

    Gunman Nate Springer arrives in Dodge with the obvious intention of committing murder, but his nervousness and unpredictability make Matt determined to find out who hired him and why he seems so different from his steel-nerved reputation.

  • S03E02 Gun for Chester

    • September 21, 1957
    • CBS

    Chester claims the new stranger in town is really there to kill him and Matt investigates, but remains skeptical even after Chester is shot in the arm by an unseen person.

  • S03E03 Blood Money

    • September 28, 1957
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E04 Kitty's Outlaw

    • October 5, 1957
    • CBS

    While Kitty dines with Matt on the edge of town, Kitty's old beau robs the bank.

  • S03E05 Potato Road

    • October 12, 1957
    • CBS

    An addled and desperate prairie family lures Matt and Chester out of town as a preliminary part of their plan for attempting a violent robbery of the Dodge City bank.

  • S03E06 Jesse

    • October 19, 1957
    • CBS

    Young and likable Jesse Pruett teams up with an unlikely "partner" in the person of Bill Stapp, a murderous former Quantrill raider. Stapp has promised to lead Jesse to the man who killed his father so he can avenge his death, but the young man is tragically unaware of Stapp's true intentions

  • S03E07 Mavis McCloud

    • October 26, 1957
    • CBS

    On her way to Dodge to marry, Mavis McCloud sends a telegram to the Marshal of Dodge City. Chester and Doc want to know "Is she coming here to marry Matt" or is something else going on?

  • S03E08 Born to Hang

    • November 2, 1957
    • CBS

    Joe Digger is nearly killed by two men who tried to lynch him. Now he is giving Matt until midnight the next day to bring them to jail, or he will track them down and kill them both.

  • S03E09 Romeo

    • November 9, 1957
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E10 Never Pester Chester

    • November 16, 1957
    • CBS

    Matt sets out with a vengeance to capture two trouble-making Texas cowhands who dragged Chester and left him near death.

  • S03E11 Fingered

    • November 23, 1957
    • CBS

    Losing his first wife when she disappeared, Jim Cobbett tries marriage again. All seemed fine until she turned up missing too. Did he have something to do with her absence as some think he did with his first?

  • S03E12 How to Kill a Woman

    • November 30, 1957
    • CBS

    Matt investigates why a gunman is harassing station master Jesse Daggett by killing his passengers in cold blood, when things reach a climax after a female passenger is shot dead.

  • S03E13 Cows and Cribs

    • December 7, 1957
    • CBS

    An impoverished but hardworking woman's plans to adopt an orphan baby are jeopardized when Matt discovers that her improvident husband is involved in cattle rustling.

  • S03E14 Doc's Reward

    • December 14, 1957
    • CBS

    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.

  • S03E15 Kitty Lost

    • December 21, 1957
    • CBS

    Kitty takes a buggy ride with a dandified stranger. When he makes a pass, her spirited rejection of it results in her being left alone on the prairie.

  • S03E16 Twelfth Night

    • December 28, 1957
    • CBS

    A feud begun between two families when they lived in the Ozarks continues with fresh bloodshed, and Matt gets caught in the middle.

  • S03E17 Joe Phy

    • January 4, 1958
    • CBS

    Matt 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.

  • S03E18 Buffalo Man

    • January 11, 1958
    • CBS

    Doc finds a half-dead man on the side of the road and tells Matt. Matt and Chester ride out to a buffalo hunter's camp but before they get far, the occupants show up not treating them much better than the man the doc found.

  • S03E19 Kitty Caught

    • January 18, 1958
    • CBS

    Kitty is taken hostage during a bank robbery and killer Jed Gunther warns everyone not to follow them, or he will use Dillon's gun to kill her.

  • S03E20 Claustrophobia

    • January 25, 1958
    • CBS

    Matt and Chester find a man shot in back in his lonely cabin and the immediate suspects are two men who have been trying to force him to sell his land.

  • S03E21 Ma Tennis

    • February 1, 1958
    • CBS

    A strong-willed, shotgun-wielding matriarch helps her son escape from Matt's custody, but the Marshal is equally determined to see the young man tried and sentenced for killing an unarmed man.

  • S03E22 Sunday Supplement

    • February 8, 1958
    • CBS

    "There's no law west of Dodge." Two writers in from New York want to see if that's true. When a Pawnee Indian uprising seems to be brewing, they may have found their story.

  • S03E23 Wild West

    • February 15, 1958
    • CBS

    On the prairie, Matt meets up with a young boy who tells him that some men tied up and abducted his father the night before.

  • S03E24 The Cabin

    • February 22, 1958
    • CBS

    To 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.

  • S03E25 Dirt

    • March 1, 1958
    • CBS

    The only man who didn't treat Beulah like dirt is marrying another woman, whose brother doesn't want him in the family. When the groom is shot leaving the church, everyone suspects the new brother-in-law.

  • S03E26 Dooley Surrenders

    • March 8, 1958
    • CBS

    Addled hide skinner Emmett Dooley believes that he killed a man and demands to be put in jail. Matt is convinced that Dooley was not the culprit and tries to lure the real killer into giving himself away.

  • S03E27 Joke's on Us

    • March 15, 1958
    • CBS

    A horse thief is headed for a rope. At least that's how his friends see it. They find out too late they may have the wrong man. The joke may be on all of them now as someone is killing them one by one.

  • S03E28 Bottleman

    • March 22, 1958
    • CBS

    There's a new Faro dealer at the Long Branch. When the town drunk, the meekest man in town, tries to attack him, the dealer swears he'll kill him if he ever tries that again. But he also swears he "never seen him before in his life."

  • S03E29 Laughing Gas

    • March 29, 1958
    • CBS

    When 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.

  • S03E30 Texas Cowboys

    • April 5, 1958
    • CBS

    A headstrong Texas trail boss is determined to prevent Matt from learning which one of his men was responsible for murdering another by shooting him in the back.

  • S03E31 Amy's Good Deed

    • April 12, 1958
    • CBS

    Amy Slater gets to Dodge and tells Matt she came to die. He suggests seeing Doc Adams, she says she's not sick but that Matt could help. When asked how, she says "you're going to kill me." Learning the truth, he decides how to handle it.

  • S03E32 Hanging Man

    • April 19, 1958
    • CBS

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

  • S03E33 Innocent Broad

    • April 26, 1958
    • CBS

    Lou and Linda met in St. Louis and are engaged to be married. Lou is waiting in Dodge for her but a man he says he never met rides in on the stage too and makes Matt suspicious when Lou says he doesn't know him.

  • S03E34 The Big Con

    • May 3, 1958
    • CBS

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

  • S03E35 Widow's Mite

    • May 10, 1958
    • CBS

    Matt is strongly suspicious of the character and the intentions of gentleman gambler Leach Fields, especially when he proposes marriage to a recently-widowed woman who may know the location of $10,000 in stolen money.

  • S03E36 Chester's Hanging

    • May 17, 1958
    • CBS

    When Jim Cando is thrown in jail by Matt, for a robbery and murder, he orders his partner to get him out by any means, or he will implicate him in the crime too.

  • S03E37 Carmen

    • May 24, 1958
    • CBS

    When an Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers are murdered, the commanding officer of Fort Dodge threatens to put Dodge City under martial law unless Matt can capture the perpetrators within 48 hours.

  • S03E38 Overland Express

    • May 31, 1958
    • CBS

    After capturing suspected murderer Jim Nation, Matt has to eventually trust the suspect to help out when he and other stagecoach passengers are held at gunpoint by an outlaw.

  • S03E39 The Gentleman

    • June 7, 1958
    • CBS

    Suave and enigmatic gambler Marcus France falls in love with Long Branch hostess Boni Damon. France is curiously unwilling to marry Boni, though he is willing to risk death to protect her from the unwanted advances of vicious Tiller Evans.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Matt for Murder

    • September 13, 1958
    • CBS

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

  • S04E02 The Patsy

    • September 20, 1958
    • CBS

    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. After Holly gives this information to Matt, Matt and Chester set off to bring in Fly Hoyt for murder. After Matt talks to Fly Hoyt, Matt thinks that Fly did not commit the murder and attempts to prove Fly's innocence. Fly gets into this deeper when Holly is shot. Hoyt claims someone shot Holly and the person who shot Holly also knocked Hoyt in the head from behind. Kitty thinks Hoyt is the murderer and can not understand why Matt is supportive of Hoyt. Matt's lawman's instincts and experience determine that Hoyt did not commit these murders. Matt's investigation finally brings him back to Joe Thorp again.

  • S04E03 Gunsmuggler

    • September 27, 1958
    • CBS

    When renegade Pawnee Indians attack some local ranchers, Matt and Major Evans think that white gunrunners supplied the Renegades the rifles. Matt, Chester and Indian scout Tobeel, go the scene of the massacre to pick up the trail of the renegades in the hopes that the Indians will lead them to the camp of the gunrunners. One thing that the gunrunners were not counting on was that the riffles that were sold to the renegades were an outdated Henry 44. Matt thinks that once the Indian renegades find out that they have been cheated and have purchased outdated rifles that no longer have the ammunition in supply, the Indians will go after the gunsmugglers. The Indians do take out revenge on one of the Gunsmugglers, but the other man tries to flee. With the information supplied by a cowboy on the prairie, Matt finally arrives in the camp of the remaining gumsmuggler to confront the man.

  • S04E04 Monopoly

    • October 4, 1958
    • CBS

    Two murders result when an unscrupulous Eastern businessman named Ivy hires a psychotic killer to help him establish undisputed control of Dodge City's freight shipment business.

  • S04E05 Letter of the Law

    • October 11, 1958
    • CBS

    When Matt is forced to serve an eviction notice on farmer Brandon Teek, Matt tries every way he can to help the farmer. Matt tries to speak with Judge Rambeau in the hope the Judge will stop the eviction process in the proper legal manner. When the Judge refuses to stop the court order eviction of Brandon Teek, Matt refuses to serve the eviction. The Judge hires another man to evict Teek, but the man finds the job of evicting Brandon Teek harder than he ever thought it would be. The man hired to evict Brandon Teek meets resistance from Brandon Teek and a scuffle ensues. Brandon's pregnant wife, Sarah Teek, is injured in the scuffle and loses her child because of the injuries suffered.

  • S04E06 Thoroughbreds

    • October 18, 1958
    • CBS

    Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him later in Dodge, he is much different: friendly and spending money freely.

  • S04E07 Stage Hold-Up

    • October 25, 1958
    • CBS

    A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thieves when a "cowboy" appears and offers to show him where one of the thieves may be buried.

  • S04E08 Lost Rifle

    • November 1, 1958
    • CBS

    Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.

  • S04E09 Land Deal

    • November 8, 1958
    • CBS

    When a stranger leading some immigrants planning on settling outside of Dodge wants Matt to give him a badge to avert trouble, he gets suspicious and rides out to their camp to see what is really up.

  • S04E10 Lynching Man

    • November 15, 1958
    • CBS

    After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into his own hands and is led tragically astray by the culprits.

  • S04E11 How to Kill a Friend

    • November 22, 1958
    • CBS

    Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matt's close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.

  • S04E12 Grass

    • November 29, 1958
    • CBS

    White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.

  • S04E13 The Cast

    • December 6, 1958
    • CBS

    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.. When Doc is shot at on the streets of Dodge, Matt, Chester and Doc ride out to Shell Tucker's farm to talk with Shell. Upon their arrival, they all notice that Shell's horse appears to have a broken leg. Doc believes that it is just a small fracture in the horse's leg and with the placement of a cast, the horse can be saved from being destroyed. Matt tells Shell that he will be arrested for attempted murder unless he agrees to let Doc treat the horse. Several weeks pass when Shell rides into Dodge and confronts Chester. Chester tells Matt and Doc that Shell might be out to get Doc Adams, but when Matt finally confronts Shell Tucker, he finds out

  • S04E14 Robber Bridegroom

    • December 13, 1958
    • CBS

    Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous businessman who threatened to ruin her father if he did not agree to the marriage.

  • S04E15 Snakebite

    • December 20, 1958
    • CBS

    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. Matt is forced to arrest Poney, but as Chester is taking Poney to jail, Poney escapes from Chester Matt, Chester and one of the men who killed Poney's dog (Jed Hakes), go after Poney. Along the trail, Matt and Chester discover Poney dead in a cave from a snakebite wound. Jed Hakes later makes a fatal slip of the tongue and reveals that he killed his partner (Walt Moorman).

  • S04E16 Gypsum Hills Feud

    • December 27, 1958
    • CBS

    Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and isolated mountain families.

  • S04E17 Young Love

    • January 3, 1959
    • CBS

    Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattle from Wheat's young widow.

  • S04E18 Marshal Proudfoot

    • January 10, 1959
    • CBS

    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.

  • S04E19 Passive Resistance

    • January 17, 1959
    • CBS

    A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.

  • S04E20 Love of a Good Woman

    • January 24, 1959
    • CBS

    An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunning for him even though he thought he was innocent five years ago.

  • S04E21 Jayhawkers

    • January 31, 1959
    • CBS

    Trail boss Dolph Quince sends for his friend Matt to help escort his cattle herd into Dodge because he is having trouble with Jayhawkers (Kansas renegades), and he hopes to ease the animosity his men have towards all Kansans.

  • S04E22 Kitty's Rebellion

    • February 7, 1959
    • CBS

    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. Kitty finally tells him that she has no honor, and he keeps making a fool out of himself thinking otherwise. It sends him away and saves his life at the same time.

  • S04E23 Sky

    • February 14, 1959
    • CBS

    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). Billy does not share the same feelings for Kate and runs away much to the delight to the Long Branch barflies. Late that night, Chester wakes Matt in the middle of the night to tell Matt that Kate had been shot at Ma Torvet's boarding house. Ma Torvet tells Matt that Billy was the one who shot Kate. Ma also believes that Billy shot Kate because Kate kept some money stashed away under her bed. Matt and Chester search the countryside for Billy Daunt. While Matt and Chester are conducting their search, they discover the wife of a destitute farmer who claims Billy killed her husband and tortured a very old man. Matt and Chester finally overtake a desperate Billy Daunt and transport Billy back to Dodge. Shortly after their arrival in Dodge, Matt finds out some more tro

  • S04E24 Doc Quits

    • February 21, 1959
    • CBS

    When another Doctor shows up in Dodge promising lower Doctor's fees and miracle cures, Doc gets angry and and many Dodge citizens think Doc Adamas has quit as Dodge's doctor. When Doc comes up missing, Matt looks for Doc and finds him fishing outside of Dodge. Doc tells Matt that he thinks the new Doctor is nothing but a quack. Doc Adamas believes the new Doctor is a quack. Doc's beliefs are later proven to be true when the new Doctor's medical treatments amost kill a young boy.

  • S04E25 The Bear

    • February 28, 1959
    • CBS

    Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.

  • S04E26 The Coward

    • March 7, 1959
    • CBS

    A coward gambler, who's too cheap to hire a gunman, wants Matt dead for a beating he got from him years ago, so he starts some talk around Dodge about the big reputation any person could gain, if they simply killed Matt.

  • S04E27 The F.U. (aka Al Clovis)

    • March 14, 1959
    • CBS

    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.

  • S04E28 Wind

    • March 21, 1959
    • CBS

    Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden, who seems to bring gamblers luck just by standing next to them when they're playing cards.

  • S04E29 Fawn

    • April 4, 1959
    • CBS

    After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.

  • S04E30 Renegade White

    • April 11, 1959
    • CBS

    A gunfight in the Long Branch forces Matt to arrest a drunk. Letting him go since it was a fair fight, he suspects him of selling guns to the Indians, and goes after him even though he may run into those Indians.

  • S04E31 Murder Warrant

    • April 18, 1959
    • CBS

    Matt and Dodge City's businessmen employ an unusual tactic to save ambush victim Lee Prentice from being taken to corrupt Baker City to face certain hanging on a trumped-up murder charge.

  • S04E32 Change of Heart

    • April 25, 1959
    • CBS

    Matt becomes suspicious when Jerry Cass's plans to marry saloon hostess Bella Grant are complicated by Bella's sudden insistence that Jerry leave his recently-inherited ranch for six months.

  • S04E33 Buffalo Hunter

    • May 2, 1959
    • CBS

    When a Buffalo hunter dies from injuries from burning led, Matt and Doc think that their boss (Jim Gatluf) might have had something to do with the man's dying. After Matt speaks with one of Gatluf's employees about the killing of the Buffalo skinner, Matt is convinced that Gatluff murdered the man. Soon after, Chester informs Matt that another Buffalo skinner had been murdered. Since Matt is now convinced without any doubt that Guttliff committed these murders, Matt and Chester set off to bring Gattluff in for murder. While Matt and Chester are searching for Gatluff out on the prairie, they run into a buying agent who tells Matt that he had recently done business with Gatluff. The agent also informs Matt where Gatluff's is. When Matt and Chester ride into Gutluff's camp, they discover another one of Gutluff's men who has been attacked by Guttluf with a knife. Matt and Chester finally find Guttluff's camp, but soon discover some more troubling information about this case.

  • S04E34 The Choice

    • May 9, 1959
    • CBS

    Matt tries to help Andy Hill, a young gunman who is apparently trying very hard to go straight, by getting him a job riding shotgun on the stagecoach.

  • S04E35 There Never Was a Horse

    • May 16, 1959
    • CBS

    Gunman Kin Creed arrives in Dodge determined to enhance his reputation by outdrawing Matt in a gunfight. He goes to great lengths to force Matt into a confrontation and is able to wound him, but it proves to be a pyrrhic victory.

  • S04E36 Print Asper

    • May 23, 1959
    • CBS

    Print Asper is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him, and the lawyer still ends up getting shot later by someone.

  • S04E37 The Constable

    • May 30, 1959
    • CBS

    Dodge 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.

  • S04E38 Blue Horse

    • June 6, 1959
    • CBS

    Seriously injured Matt faces a moral dilemma when Blue Horse saves his life and prevents the escape of a prisoner. The Marshal knows that Blue Horse is being sought by the Cavalry as a fugitive from a reservation, and he is well aware that he is duty-bound to assist their search in any way possible.

  • S04E39 Cheyennes

    • June 13, 1959
    • CBS

    Matt seeks the help of wise Chief Long Robe to track down gunrunners who are supplying renegade Cheyenne braves with rifles used to murder prairie-dwelling families. Long Robe provides Matt with the needed information, but warns him that the death of even a single brave could lead to a violent uprising.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Target

    • September 5, 1959
    • CBS

    Ironic tragedy results when Danny Kader stubbornly disregards his father's predispositions (and Matt's pragmatic advice) in order to attempt an elopement with a young gypsy woman.

  • S05E02 Kitty's Injury

    • September 19, 1959
    • CBS

    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 Juson), 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. When Lootie does not return from Dodge with Doc, Matt sends the Farmer (Raff Judsin) to search for them. Lootie eventually returns from Dodge, but returns without Doc. Insted of helping Miss KItty, Lootie has plans to run off with Miss Kitty. When Matt fails to persuade Lootie to do what is right for Miss Kitty, Matt is forced to confront a hostile Lootie Judson.

  • S05E03 Horse Deal

    • September 26, 1959
    • CBS

    Deesha is running a scam in which his partner sells an unbranded horse to an unsuspecting buyer, after which Deesha moves in to claim the horse, leaving the buyer with nothing.

  • S05E04 Johnny Red

    • October 3, 1959
    • CBS

    A man suddenly turns up in Dodge City claiming to be Billy Crale, the long-lost son of a well-to-do local widow. Matt knows that Billy Crale was reported dead during the Civil War and he becomes highly concerned for Mrs. Crale's safety when he confirms that the man is actually a onetime outlaw known as Johnny Red.

  • S05E05 Kangaroo

    • October 10, 1959
    • CBS

    When a crazy man and his two songs 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 songs kidnap Chester. They bring Chester to their camp to stand trial in a Kangaroo court. Since they think Chester interfered with the with the whipping of the cowboy, they plan to cut off Chester's hand. One of the crazy man's sons starts to feel some compassion for Chester and attempts to save Chester from this punishment. Just as the crazy man is about to hit Chester with an ax, the man is shot down. Chester is surprised when he learns who saved him.

  • S05E06 Tail to the Wind

    • October 17, 1959
    • CBS

    A father and son bully a farmer and his wife who won't sell their land, but the farmer is oddly reluctant to let Matt arrest the two, even when they resort to gunfire.

  • S05E07 Annie Oakley

    • October 24, 1959
    • CBS

    Is the homely, sharp-tongued, middle-aged wife of a homesteader really inspiring men to fight to the death for her affections?

  • S05E08 Saludos

    • October 31, 1959
    • CBS

    Matt and Chester find a young Indian woman (Sochi) on the prairie suffering from a gun shot 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. While Matt and Chester are searching the prairie for the man who shot Sochi, they run into three white men. Matt and Chester plan to take the three men back to Dodge so Sochi can identify the man who shot her;however, before Matt and Chester can get them into Dodge, the truth is finally made known about who shot Sochi.

  • S05E09 Brother Whelp

    • November 7, 1959
    • CBS

    A man wants to gunfight when he returns home, after years away, and finding his brother married to his girl.

  • S05E10 The Boots

    • November 14, 1959
    • CBS

    Onetime gunman Zeno Smith faces an unenviable choice. If he does not help would-be gambler Hank Fergus rob Mr. Jonas's general store, Fergus will tell 12-year old orphan Tommy the full story of how Zeno's descent into deprivation and alcoholism dates to the day he backed down from facing Fergus in a gunfight.

  • S05E11 Odd Man Out

    • November 21, 1959
    • CBS

    Matt is uncertain what to make of Cyrus Tucker's confused claim that his wife of 32 years "just ran off", especially when a homesteader claims that he saw the old man digging a large hole just behind his house.

  • S05E12 Miguel's Daughter

    • November 28, 1959
    • CBS

    A father threatens to kill the two drifters who have been plaguing his daughter.

  • S05E13 Box o' Rocks

    • December 5, 1959
    • CBS

    A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.

  • S05E14 False Witness

    • December 12, 1959
    • CBS

    A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.

  • S05E15 Tag, You're It

    • December 19, 1959
    • CBS

    When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them, but it turns out his paid target is a woman.

  • S05E16 Thick 'n' Thin

    • December 26, 1959
    • CBS

    A quarrel between two partners in homesteading escalates to the point of gunfire. Matt tries to make peace between them by locking them up together.

  • S05E17 Groat's Grudge

    • January 2, 1960
    • CBS

    An ex-Confederate waits to settle the score with the Union man whose unit cost him a loved one and property in the late war.

  • S05E18 Big Tom

    • January 9, 1960
    • CBS

    Despite a serious heart condition, onetime prizefighter Tom Burr is determined to go through with his plans to fight vicious Hob Creel. The only way Matt can stop the mismatch and save Burr's life is to fight Creel himself.

  • S05E19 Till Death Do Us

    • January 16, 1960
    • CBS

    Someone takes a shot at a hard man who is brutal to his wife, and someone is overheard claiming he was offered money to kill the man.

  • S05E20 The Tragedian

    • January 23, 1960
    • CBS

    Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards.

  • S05E21 Hinka Do

    • January 30, 1960
    • CBS

    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. At first Matt, Doc and Chester are quite amused at Mamie, but Matt begins to have some concerns about Mamie. Matt, Doc and Chester think that Mamie might be involved in some foul play concerning the previous owner of the Lady Gay Saloon (Herman Bleeker). When a Mexican man tells Matt that he saw Mamie sneaking around late the previous evening night with a lantern and a shovel, Matt, Doc and Chester investigate. They find a vest owned by the previous owner with blood stains. Matt thinks he has to arrest Mamie, but is concerned that Mamie might cause some problems;however, Matt tries to trick Mamie into an arrest. Just about the time that Matt is ready to haul Mamie to the Dodge City jail, he learns the truth about Herman Bleeker.

  • S05E22 Doc Judge

    • February 6, 1960
    • CBS

    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. Since Chester is worried about the ex convict trying to take out some kind of revenge on Doc, Chester cooks up a scheme that will save Doc from possible danger.

  • S05E23 Moo Moo Raid

    • February 13, 1960
    • CBS

    Old man Onie has a great swimming cow that can lead herds across rivers, and when they both come up missing, one trail boss accuses another of killing them.

  • S05E24 Kitty's Killing

    • February 20, 1960
    • CBS

    Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter in childbirth.

  • S05E25 Jailbait Janet

    • February 27, 1960
    • CBS

    After a train sparks a fire that destroys a family's crops, the man, his son, and his daughter rob another train of fifty thousand dollars. A baggage clerk is killed and the crusty representative of the railroad pressures Matt to solve it.

  • S05E26 Unwanted Deputy

    • March 5, 1960
    • CBS

    Determined to avenge his murderous brother's hanging, Vince Walsh begins a self-serving campaign of unofficially helping to keep the peace in Dodge City over Matt's objections. Walsh is certain that his actions and his taunts will eventually goad the Marshal into a gunfight.

  • S05E27 Where'd They Go

    • March 12, 1960
    • CBS

    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. Doc later arrives at Clint's house and when he sees what Matt and Chester have been doing the last 24 hours at the Dodie farm, he finds all of this amusing. Doc informs Matt and Chester of what really happened at Jonas's store..

  • S05E28 Crowbait Bob

    • March 26, 1960
    • CBS

    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. When Miss Kitty finally opens Bob's chest box filled with Bob's possessions , Kitty and Matt find out the true value of Bob's possessions.

  • S05E29 Colleen So Green

    • April 2, 1960
    • CBS

    A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, not including Kitty.

  • S05E30 The Ex-Urbanites

    • April 9, 1960
    • CBS

    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.. Since Chester must also find enough food to keep Doc alive, Chester is forced to kill one of the horses so Doc can receive the proper nutrients. Chester kills one of the wolfers and takes another one into custody. Matt finally arrives on the scene and hears about Chester's heroic deeds.

  • S05E31 I Thee Wed

    • April 16, 1960
    • CBS

    After Sam Lackett physically beats his wife on the streets of Dodge, Matt and Doc try to persuade Mrs. Lackett to prefer charges on her husband, but she refuses to so. When Mrs. Lackett comes into Doc's office suffering from a beating she received from her husband, Matt decides to go after Sam Hackett. After the Judge finds Hackett guilty of several minor crimes, he sentences Hacket to 50 dollars or 50 days in Dodge City's jail. Mrs. Hackett comes up with the 50 dollars for Hacket's fine, Matt reluctantly releases Hacket from the jail;however, once Hackett is free from jail, Mrs. Hacket learns that Hackett has not changed his ways one bit. He still threatens to bully and beat Mrs. Hackett. When Sam Hackett attempts to beat his wife again, she pulls a gun and kills her husband.

  • S05E32 The Lady Killer

    • April 23, 1960
    • CBS

    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. When Doc tells Matt that he used to know Cy Welch from Doc's days on the Mississippi river. According to Doc, Cy Welch was some kind of riverboat gambler. Doc also tells Matt that Mae Talmey was also there in those days as well. When Matt hears this information from Doc, he makes the connection between Cy Welch and Mae Talmey. Matt goes to Mae's house to ask her some questions about this, but when Matt arrives at her house, he stumbles into a deadly scene.

  • S05E33 Gentleman's Disagreement

    • April 30, 1960
    • CBS

    Ed makes no secret of his intention to kill Bert for marrying the girl Ed wanted. So when Ed is the one who turns up dead, folks assume that Bert did it.

  • S05E34 Speak Me Fair

    • May 7, 1960
    • CBS

    There's a cattle drive near town, and the cowboys are nervous about a series of cattle rustling events that have taken place recently.

  • S05E35 Belle's Back

    • May 14, 1960
    • CBS

    Belle Ainesly rides into town after 3 years absence. Seems she ran off with an unsavory character 3 years ago, and all of Dodge feels she's a "bad" woman. Belle says she is coming back to stay at the family ranch.

  • S05E36 The Bobsy Twins

    • May 21, 1960
    • CBS

    Two brothers have decided that it is their mission to rid the West of Indians.

  • S05E37 Old Flame

    • May 28, 1960
    • CBS

    Kitty doubts the veracity of Matt's old friend Dolly Winters, who arrives in Dodge seeking the Marshal's help and claiming to have been robbed, beaten, and jilted by a man named Rad Meadows.

  • S05E38 The Deserter

    • June 4, 1960
    • CBS

    Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the drop on him and wounds Chester.

  • S05E39 Cherry Red

    • June 11, 1960
    • CBS

    The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Friend's Pay-Off

    • September 3, 1960
    • CBS

    Matt is summoned to help an old friend, Ab Butler, who has been shot in the back and left for dead. However, Matt faces a difficult situation when Ab's partner shows up and tells his side of the story.

  • S06E02 The Blacksmith

    • September 17, 1960
    • CBS

    Troublemakers trick an immigrant blacksmith into leaving his house on his wedding night, then burn it down.

  • S06E03 Small Water

    • September 24, 1960
    • CBS

    Matt arrests Finn Pickett after recognizing his face from a wanted poster. On the way back to Dodge, Pickett's vengeful sons try to free their father as Matt and Chester face a water shortage.

  • S06E04 Say Uncle

    • October 1, 1960
    • CBS

    Lee Nagel suspects his visiting uncle of murder when his father is killed in their store in an apparent accident.

  • S06E05 Shooting Stopover

    • October 8, 1960
    • CBS

    While transporting a prisoner with Chester on a stagecoach to Wichita, Matt learns that the stagecoach is also carrying a shipment of gold, and he suspects the coach might be targeted by outlaws.

  • S06E06 The Peace Officer

    • October 15, 1960
    • CBS

    Dillon heads to Dodge to get a new man to replace the brutal, corrupt sheriff of Tascosa, with hired killers in pursuit who are unaware that the sheriff's ex-girlfriend has joined up with Dillon.

  • S06E07 Don Matteo

    • October 22, 1960
    • CBS

    Matt's old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.

  • S06E08 The Worm

    • October 29, 1960
    • CBS

    Murders follow when a buffalo hunter and his browbeaten partner come to town.

  • S06E09 The Badge

    • November 12, 1960
    • CBS

    Matt is taken prisoner by a madman named Rack and his simpleton partner, Augie. Matt's only hope is to turn Augie against Rack.

  • S06E10 Distant Drummer

    • November 19, 1960
    • CBS

    A young army drummer named Raffie is terrorized by two bullying mule skinners.

  • S06E11 Ben Tolliver's Stud

    • November 26, 1960
    • CBS

    A row with his boss makes Ben quit his job. He leaves but says goodbye to Jake's daughter first. When he takes a horse for lost wages, Jake swears he'll kill him. The tables are turned when a hard and fast rule of Jake's soon backfires.

  • S06E12 No Chip

    • December 3, 1960
    • CBS

    The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.

  • S06E13 The Wake

    • December 10, 1960
    • CBS

    A man brings his dead friend into Dodge to give him a proper wake.

  • S06E14 The Cook

    • December 17, 1960
    • CBS

    A young drifter takes a job as cook at Delmonico's but accidentally kills a crazy buffalo hunter who complains about his cooking.

  • S06E15 Old Fool

    • December 24, 1960
    • CBS

    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!

  • S06E16 Brother Love

    • December 31, 1960
    • CBS

    In a family that believes in taking care of its own--including administering punishment within the family for crime--one of two grown brothers appears to have committed murder, but which one?

  • S06E17 Bad Sheriff

    • January 7, 1961
    • CBS

    A man shoots his partner, flees, and is caught by two men claiming to be lawmen.

  • S06E18 Unloaded Gun

    • January 14, 1961
    • CBS

    Red and Joe Lime are no-good murderous brothers, and Matt has to track 'em down out on the prairie. Trouble is, Matt comes down with a fever due to missing out on so much sleep in the last couple of weeks. This situation causes some serious problems for all involved when Matt has to return to Dodge because he is too sick to pursue the Lime brothers.

  • S06E19 Tall Trapper

    • January 21, 1961
    • CBS

    A man and his wife come across a lone trapper and make camp with him. Next day, the husband comes to Dodge to report to Doc that his wife is sick, but Doc finds the woman beaten to death, and the husband accuses the trapper.

  • S06E20 Love Thy Neighbor

    • January 28, 1961
    • CBS

    The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.

  • S06E21 Bad Seed

    • February 4, 1961
    • CBS

    Matt rescues teen-aged Trudy Trent from a life of isolated poverty with her incestuous and alcoholic father, but he subsequently learns that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" when he rejects her misguided romantic overtures toward him.

  • S06E22 Kitty Shot

    • February 11, 1961
    • CBS

    Dillon goes after cowboy Jake Bayloe after he guns down his partner in the Long Branch , shooting Kitty in the crossfire and critically wounding her.

  • S06E23 About Chester

    • February 25, 1961
    • CBS

    While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.

  • S06E24 Harriet

    • March 4, 1961
    • CBS

    After witnessing the callous murder of her kindly father, Harriet Horne disregards Matt's advice and unwisely attempts to extract revenge from the perpetrators by making them jealous rivals for her attention.

  • S06E25 Potshot

    • March 11, 1961
    • CBS

    A concealed gunman takes a shot at Chester, and it may have been a bank robber, or it may have been someone who's been making trouble at the Long Branch.

  • S06E26 Old Faces

    • March 18, 1961
    • CBS

    Hot-headed Tom's new wife used to be a river-boat girl, and when a gunman from her old life recognizes her, a battle between the two men is brewing.

  • S06E27 Big Man

    • March 25, 1961
    • CBS

    To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found murdered, oft-inebriated Jud Sloan's claim that the Marshal was the killer seems uncomfortably credible.

  • S06E28 Little Girl

    • April 1, 1961
    • CBS

    Marshal Dillon must find a suitable home for Charity Gill, a young orphan, after the little girl's father dies when his cabin catches fire. Charity insists that she should live with the Dodge City lawman.

  • S06E29 Stolen Horses

    • April 8, 1961
    • CBS

    Horse thieves murder a man to get his animals. Matt tracks the criminals to a Kiowa camp.

  • S06E30 Minnie

    • April 15, 1961
    • CBS

    Rough and rowdy Minnie comes to Dodge City and sets her designs on Doc Adams much to the delight of Matt, Chester and Kitty. Trouble comes though when Minnie's husband comes to Dodge and finds out that his Minnie is sweet on Doc.

  • S06E31 Bless Me Till I Die

    • April 22, 1961
    • CBS

    Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.

  • S06E32 Long Hours, Short Pay

    • April 29, 1961
    • CBS

    A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.

  • S06E33 Hard Virtue

    • May 6, 1961
    • CBS

    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.

  • S06E34 The Imposter

    • May 13, 1961
    • CBS

    A man claiming to be a sheriff from Texas comes to Dodge and asks Matt for help tracking down a named fugitive, but the man may not be a sheriff.

  • S06E35 Chester's Dilemma

    • May 20, 1961
    • CBS

    A pretty girl arrives in town and chases Chester, who's happy for her to do so, but the young woman has a secret that may land her in jail.

  • S06E36 The Love of Money

    • May 27, 1961
    • CBS

    When an ex-marshal passing through town is shot in the back, Matt suspects a new saloon gal might have had something to do with it.

  • S06E37 Melinda Miles

    • June 3, 1961
    • CBS

    When Roy Tayloe is murdered following a poker game, quick-tempered Harry Miles is certain that daughter Melinda's suitor Tom Potter is the killer. Miles quickly becomes impatient with Matt's methodical investigation of the crime and threatens to kill Potter himself unless he stays away from Melinda.

  • S06E38 Colorado Sheriff

    • June 17, 1961
    • CBS

    Matt and Chester find Rod Ellison shot and paralyzed on the prairie and return him to Dodge for surgery. Ben Witter abrasively advises Matt that he is a deputy sheriff from Pueblo who has come to Dodge to arrest Ellison for robbery, but Matt is suspicious of Witter's refusal to produce a valid arrest warrant.

Season 7

  • S07E01 Perce

    • September 30, 1961
    • CBS

    Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.

  • S07E02 Old Yellow Boots

    • October 7, 1961
    • CBS

    Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.

  • S07E03 Miss Kitty

    • October 14, 1961
    • CBS

    Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?

  • S07E04 Harper's Blood (AKA: Harper)

    • October 21, 1961
    • CBS

    A hard man has given his two sons a hard raising, sure that they inherited their mother's bad blood from their murderous ancestor. The old man may be right: one of his sons may be a murderer. Or is it the other son?

  • S07E05 All That

    • October 28, 1961
    • CBS

    A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, can't do enough for him.

  • S07E06 Long, Long Trail

    • November 4, 1961
    • CBS

    A headstrong young woman will undertake the long, dangerous journey to her fiancé's fort on her own if she must, so Matt nominates himself to escort her.

  • S07E07 The Squaw

    • November 11, 1961
    • CBS

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

  • S07E08 Chesterland

    • November 18, 1961
    • CBS

    Chester becomes engaged more or less accidentally, but he takes to heart his obligation to his betrothed, leaving his job with Mr. Dillon to devote himself to homesteading a barren quarter section.

  • S07E09 Milly

    • November 25, 1961
    • CBS

    The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.

  • S07E10 Indian Ford

    • December 2, 1961
    • CBS

    Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.

  • S07E11 Apprentice Doc

    • December 9, 1961
    • CBS

    A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.

  • S07E12 Nina's Revenge

    • December 16, 1961
    • CBS

    A homesteader hires a man to make the appearance of a scandal with his wife so that he can blackmail his wife's wealthy father.

  • S07E13 Marry Me

    • December 23, 1961
    • CBS

    An uncouth young mountain man is told by his pa that it's time he had himself a wife, so he comes to Dodge, is pleased by the looks of Miss Kitty, and simply kidnaps her.

  • S07E14 A Man a Day

    • December 30, 1961
    • CBS

    A band of outlaws offer to pay Matt to make himself scarce while they rob the bank. If he refuses, they promise to kill one man per day until he agrees.

  • S07E15 The Do-Badder

    • January 6, 1962
    • CBS

    Prospector Harvey Easter settles in Dodge City after striking it rich in the Colorado Rockies. His heavy handed attempts at philanthropy soon have unintended results.

  • S07E16 Lacey

    • January 13, 1962
    • CBS

    A hired man is sweet on his boss's daughter and disliked by his boss. When the boss is killed, his own daughter claims to have done it, but Matt is suspicious.

  • S07E17 Cody's Code

    • January 20, 1962
    • CBS

    Cody is a well-liked citizen of Dodge. He's building a house and getting married. When he befriends a stranger, his perfect life is turned upside down.

  • S07E18 Old Dan

    • January 27, 1962
    • CBS

    Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.

  • S07E19 Catawomper

    • February 10, 1962
    • CBS

    Chester is getting home-cooked meals from, and giving guitar lessons to, a spirited young woman who hopes thereby to make her estranged sweetheart jealous.

  • S07E20 Half Straight

    • February 17, 1962
    • CBS

    A man has been hired to kill Matt, but when he meets and quickly falls in love with a decent girl, he has a change of heart--or does he?

  • S07E21 He Learned About Women

    • February 24, 1962
    • CBS

    Taken prisoner by a band of comancheros, Chester is helped to escape by one of the band's women and flees with another who may or may not be worthy of his trust.

  • S07E22 The Gallows

    • March 3, 1962
    • CBS

    While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.

  • S07E23 Reprisal

    • March 10, 1962
    • CBS

    Oren was a rancher who liked his drink, gambling and women, even though he had a pretty wife at home. Matt is forced to kill him and when he breaks the news to her, all she can see is getting revenge for his death, and Matt is her target.

  • S07E24 Coventry

    • March 17, 1962
    • CBS

    The official summary is Matt persuades Dodge City to ignore a criminal. He never actually talks to the town about ignoring the criminal, they just all do it.

  • S07E25 The Widow

    • March 24, 1962
    • CBS

    A young woman comes to Dodge insisting on an escort to Indian country so that the body of her husband, believed to have been killed fighting the Kiowa, may be recovered.

  • S07E26 Durham Bull

    • March 31, 1962
    • CBS

    Little Bit and his grandpa, from Texas, are passing through Dodge to buy a breeding bull. When they meet Silva, someone grandpa considers a fooler, they have their hands full making it back with their stock and their lives.

  • S07E27 Wagon Girls

    • April 7, 1962
    • CBS

    A group of women are going by wagon train to Colorado, lured by the promise of marrying rich miners, but Matt learns that the leader's actual plan for the women is quite different.

  • S07E28 The Dealer

    • April 14, 1962
    • CBS

    Johnny Cole kills a crooked card dealer in self defense, and then falls in love with the dealer's beautiful daughter, but she resists his advances and wants to seriously hurt him instead.

  • S07E29 The Summons

    • April 21, 1962
    • CBS

    Loy has always felt he could do what he pleased. When he shoots one of his gang members in the back just for the reward, he takes the body into Dodge to Matt Dillon who isn't as ready as he thought to give him his bounty.

  • S07E30 The Dreamers

    • April 28, 1962
    • CBS

    Henry and Jake have struck it rich. Now they want to follow their dream and buy a Mississippi river boat. When Henry spots Miss Kitty, he fancies marrying her but she will have nothing to do with his dream or him.

  • S07E31 Cale

    • May 5, 1962
    • CBS

    Cale is a bullheaded young drifter who takes a nap in a barn he comes across only to wake up to a shootout between a horse thief and the owner. Cale is shot, wounded, and becomes a suspected accomplice.

  • S07E32 Chester's Indian

    • May 12, 1962
    • CBS

    On his way to a fishing vacation, Chester stumbles into a human drama when he wounds a fleeing Indian he mistakes for a thief, who has touched the heart of a lonely young white woman.

  • S07E33 The Prisoner

    • May 19, 1962
    • CBS

    A charmer escapes from federal prison to Dodge and finds himself caught up in the drama among two brothers, the wife of one of them, and their domineering father.

  • S07E34 The Boys

    • May 26, 1962
    • CBS

    The market for snake oil is on the decline, so a peddler and his sons expand their con game with murder.

Season 8

  • S08E01 The Search

    • September 15, 1962
    • CBS

    A young man named Cale may have earned Marshal Dillon's respect, but Tate Gifford says Cale has just ridden off on a stolen horse - Tate's horse.

  • S08E02 Call Me Dodie

    • September 22, 1962
    • CBS

    An adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, and she starts learning it from the rough-and-tumble characters and loafers she encounters in Dodge.

  • S08E03 Quint Asper Comes Home

    • September 29, 1962
    • CBS

    A half-Comanche has joined his mother's tribe in killing whites to avenge the murder of his father, but Matt sees the good in the man and the chance to re-integrate him, perhaps, into white society.

  • S08E04 Root Down

    • October 6, 1962
    • CBS

    Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.

  • S08E05 Jenny

    • October 13, 1962
    • CBS

    A bank robber hides out in Dodge, bringing along his girl. While he's gambling away his loot, his girl casts her eye on Matt.

  • S08E06 Collie's Free

    • October 20, 1962
    • CBS

    Released after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adjusting to the fact that things have inevitably changed with respect to his relationships with his wife, his son, and the citizens of Dodge.

  • S08E07 The Ditch

    • October 27, 1962
    • CBS

    A young woman who's heir to her father's land decides to carry out his plan to build a ditch that will impair her neighbors' access to water and perhaps trigger a range war.

  • S08E08 The Trappers

    • November 3, 1962
    • CBS

    A trapper leaves his friend dying alone in order to save his own life, only later to stumble across that friend in Dodge, very much alive and wanting him dead.

  • S08E09 Phoebe Strunk

    • November 10, 1962
    • CBS

    A band of ne'er-do-wells, led by their mother, see in town a young woman that pleases them and decide to take her by force.

  • S08E10 The Hunger

    • November 17, 1962
    • CBS

    Matt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially are kept as prisoners by the farmer and his son.

  • S08E11 Abe Blocker

    • November 24, 1962
    • CBS

    Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt's, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encroaching on the land he regards as his.

  • S08E12 The Way It Is

    • December 1, 1962
    • CBS

    While Matt is out of town, putting lawman's business ahead of Kitty yet again, a new man in her life has plenty of time and attention to give--perhaps too much attention.

  • S08E13 Us Haggens

    • December 8, 1962
    • CBS

    When a boy witnesses his grandfather's murder, it sends Matt looking for a new found companion's uncle. Festus Haggen is tracking his uncle for killing his twin brother Fergus. Matt is wary but learns to trust Festus when he's shot and in bad shape.

  • S08E14 Uncle Sunday

    • December 15, 1962
    • CBS

    Chester gets a letter from his uncle Sunday, a 'crook', on his upcoming trip to Dodge city. When he arrives with a niece, he finds he has to watch them both or what they have planned just might work, at his expense.

  • S08E15 False Front

    • December 22, 1962
    • CBS

    A slick city reporter sets out to prove that even a milquetoast can pass for a feared gunfighter, if a few well-placed tidbits of rumor precede him.

  • S08E16 Old Comrade

    • December 29, 1962
    • CBS

    The "town fool" has a chance to change his life when he learns that a famous general, now on his deathbed, believes him to be his long-lost son.

  • S08E17 Louie Pheeters

    • January 5, 1963
    • CBS

    The town drunk believes he saw a man drowned in a dream, until he meets up with the man who did the drowning.

  • S08E18 The Renegades

    • January 12, 1963
    • CBS

    Quint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids around Dodge. Working shotgun on the stage, he proves his point when he is attacked, then pursued by those renegades. His "Indian" skills save him and a colonel's daughter who has contempt for half-Comanche Quint.

  • S08E19 Cotter's Girl

    • January 19, 1963
    • CBS

    A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.

  • S08E20 The Bad One

    • January 26, 1963
    • CBS

    When a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a would-be robber, she refuses to identify him.

  • S08E21 The Cousin

    • February 2, 1963
    • CBS

    Chance Hopper is Matt's young foster brother, torn between loyalty to Matt and to his partners in crime, who are counting on Chance to divert Matt from their course and make good their getaway.

  • S08E22 Shona

    • February 9, 1963
    • CBS

    Gib Dawson brings his beautiful Indian wife, Shona, in to Dodge for treatment of a badly infected hand wound, at a time when racial tensions are running high against the Comanches.

  • S08E23 Ash

    • February 16, 1963
    • CBS

    Ben and Ash are business partners and the best of friends, until a blow on the head changes Ben's personality and leads to a confrontation over a woman that may part the friends for good.

  • S08E24 Blind Man's Bluff

    • February 23, 1963
    • CBS

    Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance from other men who hate lawmen.

  • S08E25 Quint's Indian

    • March 1, 1963
    • CBS

    Two ne'er-do-wells come to town and soon cook up a plot under which half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper is framed for the theft of a horse. The atmosphere in Dodge quickly becomes dangerously ugly for Quint.

  • S08E26 Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

    • March 8, 1963
    • CBS

    Two men want to rob the bank in Dodge, but are unwilling to try it while Matt lives. A man agrees to accept the job of killing the marshal, attaching some rather peculiar conditions to his acceptance.

  • S08E27 Two of a Kind

    • March 16, 1963
    • CBS

    O'Ryan and Finnegan, feuding over a girl they both knew back home, are caught in a legal loophole to take ownership of a mine and land they both own. When Matt is forced in the middle of it, he has to work fast so no one else is hurt.

  • S08E28 I Call Him Wonder

    • March 23, 1963
    • CBS

    An orphaned Indian boy latches on to a cowboy in need of work and the two of them find all doors closed to them in Dodge.

  • S08E29 With a Smile

    • March 30, 1963
    • CBS

    A rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his father's wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.

  • S08E30 The Far Places

    • April 6, 1963
    • CBS

    A rancher's widow regrets having spent her life away from the bright lights of a city, and is desperate that her son not share her fate.

  • S08E31 Panacea Sykes

    • April 13, 1963
    • CBS

    Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kitty's possessions.

  • S08E32 Tell Chester

    • April 20, 1963
    • CBS

    Chester is smitten with Polly, but she has eyes only for Wade, a man new in town and newly her father's employee. Knowing little about Wade, Polly agrees quickly to marry him, but Chester discovers that Wade already has a wife.

  • S08E33 Quint-Cident

    • April 27, 1963
    • CBS

    A woman newly widowed is powerfully attracted to Quint, but when he gently turns her down, she vows to make him pay for scorning a white woman.

  • S08E34 Old York

    • May 4, 1963
    • CBS

    Pardoned for his Civil War service, an old outlaw finds his way to Dodge, where there's a lawman who's in his debt.

  • S08E35 Daddy Went Away

    • May 11, 1963
    • CBS

    Chester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on marriage but eager to make changes in Chester as well, he has second thoughts--especially after a talk with her child suggests that the widow may still be a wife.

  • S08E36 The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

    • May 18, 1963
    • CBS

    Aaron, sweet on saloon girl Leah and wanting to make her his wife, is attacked and killed by Colie Fletcher. When Matt goes after him, Colie runs into Jubal Tanner, wounds him, and steals his horse. Jubal, ungrateful to those who help him, meets Leah, and each helps the other's outlook.

  • S08E37 Jeb

    • May 25, 1963
    • CBS

    A prized Appaloosa, grazing alone and apparently without owner on the prairie, proves to be the ruin of more than one man.

  • S08E38 The Quest for Asa Janin

    • June 1, 1963
    • CBS

    A young man is convicted of killing the saloon girl he wanted for his own. Matt is so sure that the young man is really innocent that he goes on the road after another suspect to prevent an unjust hanging.

Season 9

  • S09E01 Kate Heller

    • September 28, 1963
    • CBS

    A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.

  • S09E02 Lover Boy

    • October 5, 1963
    • CBS

    A charming cowboy apparently is guilty only of breaking hearts until he gets to Dodge, where he finds two women who may make a killer of him.

  • S09E03 Legends Don't Sleep

    • October 12, 1963
    • CBS

    A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.

  • S09E04 Tobe

    • October 19, 1963
    • CBS

    Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.

  • S09E05 Easy Come

    • October 26, 1963
    • CBS

    A mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.

  • S09E06 My Sister's Keeper

    • November 2, 1963
    • CBS

    A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.

  • S09E07 Quint's Trail

    • November 9, 1963
    • CBS

    Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.

  • S09E08 Carter Caper

    • November 16, 1963
    • CBS

    A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.

  • S09E09 Ex-Con

    • November 30, 1963
    • CBS

    On his way to Larned, Matt, feverish, spends the night at an abandoned shack. When he wakes up after losing a day, a recently released convict who swore to kill Matt, is himself found against a wall, dead, unarmed, shot twice, and the murder weapon appears to belong to the marshal.

  • S09E10 Extradition (1)

    • December 7, 1963
    • CBS

    When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.

  • S09E11 Extradition (2)

    • December 14, 1963
    • CBS

    Matt finally catches up to killer Charlie Hacker in Mexico, and has make a deal with the greedy Mexican police to get Hacker back to the border, with revengeful Mexican bandits in pursuit.

  • S09E12 The Magician

    • December 21, 1963
    • CBS

    A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.

  • S09E13 Pa Hack's Brood

    • December 28, 1963
    • CBS

    A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.

  • S09E14 The Glory and the Mud

    • January 4, 1964
    • CBS

    A retired lawman and showman wants only to settle down with the Dodge seamstress he left behind twenty years ago, but a young whippersnapper hopes to make a name for himself by challenging the aging gun to a duel.

  • S09E15 Dry Well

    • January 11, 1964
    • CBS

    It's a test of wills when Quint witnesses a murder and the father of one of the prime suspects lowers Quint into a well to try to force him to promise his silence.

  • S09E16 Prairie Wolfer

    • January 18, 1964
    • CBS

    Festus returns to Dodge from wolfing and is hired by the Cattleman's Association to hunt down the wolves killing everyone's cattle. What he finds is that what's been doing the preying may wind him up in prison if he doesn't get Matt's help.

  • S09E17 Friend

    • January 25, 1964
    • CBS

    A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.

  • S09E18 Once a Haggen

    • February 1, 1964
    • CBS

    Bucko, a close friend of Festus, is accused of murdering a man to whom he lost at poker. When his alibi witness lies out of fear, Bucko is sentenced to hang, and Festus, who'd begun to see the marshal as a friend, vows Bucko won't swing.

  • S09E19 No Hands

    • February 8, 1964
    • CBS

    The Ginnis family, not from any town, live on the prairie and are used to getting their own way. When one son gets hurt, they ride to town to get help. That was just their first brush with the folks of Dodge but proves not to be their last.

  • S09E20 May Blossom

    • February 15, 1964
    • CBS

    Festus's beautiful young cousin, whom he has not seen since she was a little one, arrives in Dodge to keep the pact her father made for her when she was a baby: to marry Festus.

  • S09E21 The Bassops

    • February 22, 1964
    • CBS

    A family in search of a doctor find Matt and his prisoner unconscious and handcuffed to each other on the prairie. The prisoner wakens first and announces that Matt is the condemned man he is transporting for hanging.

  • S09E22 The Kite

    • February 29, 1964
    • CBS

    Festus finds a little girl out on the prairie. He learns she saw her ma get killed by a stranger. When he takes her to Dodge, Matt hears she was hiding when this happened but can identify this man who may already be in town.

  • S09E23 Comanches Is Soft

    • March 7, 1964
    • CBS

    After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's equipment. To repair or get anew, they travel to Wichita and meet a saloon girl who tells them she needs to get away from town but her jealous boyfriend is now hot on their trail.

  • S09E24 Father Love

    • March 14, 1964
    • CBS

    A saloon girl spurns a man's advances in Wichita and moves to Dodge, where she becomes a respectable married woman, only to be confronted with her past when she discovers that her rancher husband is the nephew of the man she refused.

  • S09E25 Now That April's There

    • March 21, 1964
    • CBS

    Festus, returning to Dodge after doing some trapping, sees his girl, April, and they argue over a gift she received. Running off, she hides but her perch gives her a bird's eye view of a murder, one no one believes she witnessed but the killers.

  • S09E26 Caleb

    • March 28, 1964
    • CBS

    Childless and poor, farmer Caleb feels like a failure, and his wife assures him he is one. Caleb moves into town to seek some meaning in his life, and soon finds himself--a man who doesn't wear a gun--challenged to a duel.

  • S09E27 Owney Tupper Had a Daughter

    • April 4, 1964
    • CBS

    To earn money to recover the custody of his daughter, an aging man accepts the job of Dodge's first in-town hangman, work no one else wants.

  • S09E28 Bently

    • April 11, 1964
    • CBS

    A dying man confesses to a murder of which he was acquitted, but Chester suspects the man was lying.

  • S09E29 Kitty Cornered

    • April 18, 1964
    • CBS

    Competing with Kitty is a fancy new woman in town with plenty of money to build a new saloon and a secret from the past life she recently left behind.

  • S09E30 The Promoter

    • April 25, 1964
    • CBS

    Henry Huckaby, a local farmer and fed up with a sore back and an empty belly leaves to seek his fortune in Dodge. After several failed ideas he hits on one that may make him rich but could also cost him his life.

  • S09E31 Trip West

    • May 2, 1964
    • CBS

    Given three months to live by a quack peddler of patent medicines, a mousy bank clerk quits his job, withdraws all his money, makes ready to go to California, and falls for a girl who may endanger what time he has remaining.

  • S09E32 Scot Free

    • May 9, 1964
    • CBS

    Rob Scott considers himself a man who could stay or go when it came to women. He may have met his match though when a woman he desires and her husband take over an abandoned homestead and they come to where he works to look over some stock.

  • S09E33 The Warden

    • May 16, 1964
    • CBS

    A traveling salesman meets up with Bull Foot, an Indian who mainly sells vegetables. When goods are traded for a squaw, he is upset when she runs away and into the arms of Festus, whose mule she steals, only to return home awaiting sale to the next customer.

  • S09E34 Homecoming

    • May 23, 1964
    • CBS

    Orval returns from seven years in prison for killing his wife's lover, vowing to reclaim his house and business. Edna tries to goad her new husband and Orval's son into a plot to kill Orval; then her head is turned by a traveling salesman.

  • S09E35 The Other Half

    • May 30, 1964
    • CBS

    Jess, Jay's twin, is shot and killed by an unknown assailant while working late at the family business. When a stranger to Dodge is suspected, Matt does his best to track him down and bring him to justice.

  • S09E36 Journey for Three

    • June 6, 1964
    • CBS

    Two brothers traveling to California are joined by a third man who soon proves to be a wrong 'un, manhandling and killing a young woman they encounter on the prairie and turning on Quint when he shows up to share his rabbits with them.

Season 10

  • S10E01 Blue Heaven

    • September 26, 1964
    • CBS

    A runaway kid and a wanted man from East Texas team up to first find the kid's mother and second to shake those who have been chasing the man about a murder in Carver County and robbery he just didn't commit.

  • S10E02 Crooked Mile

    • October 3, 1964
    • CBS

    Mr. Degler is determined to break up the romance between his adult daughter and half Indian Quint, so he sends for his cousin Praylie to help out, but Praylie has murder in mind instead.

  • S10E03 Old Man

    • October 10, 1964
    • CBS

    Having already rescued an old man once, Danny may have to try to save him again when his friend is framed for murder.

  • S10E04 The Violators

    • October 17, 1964
    • CBS

    A violent killing appears to be the work of Indians, but Matt doubts it. Someone accuses Quint of it and the solution involves secret motives and revenge in Indian country.

  • S10E05 Doctor's Wife

    • October 24, 1964
    • CBS

    There's trouble for Doc Adams, and perhaps for Dodge, when a new doctor and his wife arrive in town and the wife resorts to spreading a nasty rumor about Doc to get the new practice started.

  • S10E06 Take Her, She's Cheap

    • October 31, 1964
    • CBS

    When a shiftless farmer offers his daughter to Matt, Matt demurs, but the smitten girl comes after Matt, bringing danger with her.

  • S10E07 Help Me, Kitty

    • November 7, 1964
    • CBS

    When a young pregnant woman seeks Kitty's aid in escaping from the child's father, the two women take the stagecoach from Dodge and meet with greater danger.

  • S10E08 Hung High

    • November 14, 1964
    • CBS

    As Matt takes a convicted man to Hays City for hanging, Matt and the prisoner are waylaid, the prisoner lynched, and Matt is framed for the killing, then arrested by a sergeant with a grudge against him.

  • S10E09 Jonah Hutchinson

    • November 21, 1964
    • CBS

    An old rancher returns home after many years in prison, ready to reclaim what is his by any means necessary, including burning out the squatters on his land.

  • S10E10 Big Man, Big Target

    • November 28, 1964
    • CBS

    Ellie Merchant, the wife of farmer Joe Merchant, is having a passionate affair with outlaw Pike Beechum. Beechum intends to remove Joe and any other obstacle between him and Ellie.

  • S10E11 Chicken

    • December 5, 1964
    • CBS

    Mistakenly hailed as a hero who downed four robbers, a man rethinks his decision to let folks regard him as a gunfighter when protecting the woman he wants calls for a gunman's skill.

  • S10E12 Innocence

    • December 12, 1964
    • CBS

    Art and Bob both have an eye on a new girl in town. She works at the Long Branch but only has eyes for the most well-liked man in town. On the eve of their marriage, it all comes to a head and the town is out for blood.

  • S10E13 Aunt Thede

    • December 19, 1964
    • CBS

    Festus's ornery aunt arrives, squats on a piece of land, sets up a still, and comes to the rescue of a pair of star-crossed lovers.

  • S10E14 Hammerhead

    • December 26, 1964
    • CBS

    Festus takes part in a horse race in which big money is at stake, tempting some to sabotage the race in order to make sure of the outcome.

  • S10E15 Double Entry

    • January 2, 1965
    • CBS

    Matt's old friend comes to town, announcing plans to settle down and start a business, but the business he has in mind involves dishonesty and perhaps murder.

  • S10E16 Run, Sheep, Run

    • January 9, 1965
    • CBS

    The body of a no-good man is found in his burning store on the same night as the sudden disappearance of the nice couple he cheated out of the money for their ranch.

  • S10E17 Deputy Festus

    • January 16, 1965
    • CBS

    On their way out of town, some cousins of Festus come across a badly injured man whom they assume is dead, so they flee, pursued by Festus, who believes his cousins attacked the man.

  • S10E18 One Killer on Ice

    • January 23, 1965
    • CBS

    Anderson, 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.

  • S10E19 Chief Joseph

    • January 30, 1965
    • CBS

    Chief Joseph has come to town suffering from pneumonia. When he and his party are refused lodging at the hotel, a stranger steps in offering his room. Local sentiment is against this and like a boiling over teapot, trouble begins to brew.

  • S10E20 Circus Trick

    • February 6, 1965
    • CBS

    A circus family comes to town and charms the populace who don't know the family's real stock-in-trade is larceny.

  • S10E21 Song for Dying

    • February 13, 1965
    • CBS

    The head of the Luken clan blames Martin Kellum for not helping his young bride during a difficult childbirth when the doctor was away. When he runs to Dodge, Matt does his best to keep everyone safe including the local citizens.

  • S10E22 Winner Take All

    • February 20, 1965
    • CBS

    Matt must try and end a feud brothers are having.

  • S10E23 Eliab's Aim

    • February 27, 1965
    • CBS

    The goofy nephew of Festus, Eliab Haggen, comes to Dodge with the hopes of shooting off a tiny piece of his ear, because Festus bit off a piece of his dad's ear years ago in a fight.

  • S10E24 Thursday's Child

    • March 6, 1965
    • CBS

    Kitty welcomes her mentor to town, but her friend is burdened by a secret: she's here to deliver the child of her outlaw son, a man willing to take his own mother hostage.

  • S10E25 Breckinridge

    • March 13, 1965
    • CBS

    A young attorney newly arrived in Dodge works the law to keep his client out of Matt's clutches, then has ample reason to regret it.

  • S10E26 Bank Baby

    • March 20, 1965
    • CBS

    Bert Clum uses his clan to get what he wants. They are camped outside of Dodge. When they meet a small wagon train, he hatches a plot to rob the local bank. But he needs to snatch a baby to hide behind first.

  • S10E27 The Lady

    • March 27, 1965
    • CBS

    A woman and her adult, attractive niece stop in Dodge to earn some money to complete their journey to San Francisco. When an offer of marriage to her aunt threatens to derail those plans, the niece takes action.

  • S10E28 Dry Road to Nowhere

    • April 3, 1965
    • CBS

    A temperance agitator wants to shut down Kitty's saloon and end all the drinking in Dodge.

  • S10E29 Twenty Miles from Dodge

    • April 10, 1965
    • CBS

    On a stagecoach returning to Dodge, Kitty and her traveling companions are waylaid and held for ransom.

  • S10E30 The Pariah

    • April 17, 1965
    • CBS

    A mousy local man is hailed as a hero when he shoots and kills a man wanted for murder. Then a newspaper reporter interviews him and uncovers facts that cast a very different light on the shooting.

  • S10E31 Gilt Guilt

    • April 24, 1965
    • CBS

    Drought and crop failure leave Dodge without fruit or vegetables and a farming widow and her son very ill with scurvy.

  • S10E32 Bad Lady from Brookline

    • May 1, 1965
    • CBS

    Just arriving in Dodge, Molly McConnell looks for her husband. When she finds out he's been killed, and Dillon is responsible, she wonders why he didn't tell her in the first place and sets out to learn how to shoot so she can kill him.

  • S10E33 Two Tall Men

    • May 8, 1965
    • CBS

    Doc, carrying money on an errand for Matt, is found near death. In Matt's absence, the townsfolk figure there's no need to wait for official justice to deal with those deemed responsible.

  • S10E34 Honey Pot

    • May 15, 1965
    • CBS

    A man comes to town and tells Sam he's going to shoot Matt. It's soon understood he is an old friend. Involved in shooting and killing a man, their friendship is stretched as he claims self defense even though he was the only one armed.

  • S10E35 The New Society

    • May 22, 1965
    • CBS

    Matt is ordered to Ridge Town to reopen the case of an army major who was murdered 12 years before, when a dying outlaw he shot swears he did not commit the crime, and it appears the whole town is hiding something.

  • S10E36 He Who Steals

    • May 29, 1965
    • CBS

    A buffalo hunter who doesn't hold with ranching is acquitted of shooting the man who tries to stop him from stealing a calf, but he isn't finished with stealing to get his way.

Season 11

  • S11E01 Seven Hours to Dawn

    • September 18, 1965
    • CBS

    Matt has to get Dodge City back from outlaws.

  • S11E02 The Storm

    • September 25, 1965
    • CBS

    A man is convicted of robbing and murdering his partner, but the sons of Matt's old friend are responsible. Matt must arrest the remaining son after the other's dying declaration and make it to Hays City in time to stop the hanging.

  • S11E03 Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood

    • October 2, 1965
    • CBS

    Thad, son of and deputy to an Oklahoma sheriff, arrives in Dodge pursuing vandals on his father's warrant, not realizing the Oklahoma warrant isn't executable in Dodge.

  • S11E04 Ten Little Indians

    • October 9, 1965
    • CBS

    Someone has placed a fabulous price on Matt's head, and there are many competing to earn it.

  • S11E05 Taps for Old Jeb

    • October 16, 1965
    • CBS

    After a successful search for gold, two prospectors hire a man, who shows up at their campfire, as a bodyguard.

  • S11E06 Kioga

    • October 23, 1965
    • CBS

    A young Pawnee arrives in Dodge to seek his own revenge on a murderer, not trusting in the white man's justice.

  • S11E07 The Bounty Hunter

    • October 30, 1965
    • CBS

    Lured out of retirement with the promise of land, a bounty hunter is aimed by his boss at the man who killed his son. He just doesn't tell him the reward and charges had been dropped.

  • S11E08 The Reward

    • November 6, 1965
    • CBS

    A man who persuaded the good folks of Dodge to invest their money in a mine is out of prison and back to prove that there really is gold in the mine.

  • S11E09 Malachi

    • November 13, 1965
    • CBS

    While Matt's out of town, his friends play along with a drifter's innocent impersonation of the marshal, but a man comes to town determined to get revenge on the marshal, and he's not playing.

  • S11E10 The Pretender

    • November 20, 1965
    • CBS

    An elder brother took the blame for the younger as both were sent away for cattle rustling. When they return home, the younger is not done with doing wrong, nor with asking his brother to cover his tracks.

  • S11E11 South Wind

    • November 27, 1965
    • CBS

    A twelve-year-old boy recovers in Doc's office and then goes with a gun after the man who robbed and killed his father.

  • S11E12 The Hostage

    • December 4, 1965
    • CBS

    Twenty-two men escape from a territorial prison. The remaining 4 kidnap Matt hoping to get safe passage into Mexico. One of them has another agenda which he reveals to Matt as they get closer to the border.

  • S11E13 Outlaw's Woman

    • December 11, 1965
    • CBS

    After a risky train robbery and with two posses on their trail, four men hurriedly ride to some fresh horses. Dillon wounds one of the gang carrying the stolen money and it turns out to be a young woman.

  • S11E14 The Avengers

    • December 18, 1965
    • CBS

    A retired judge and his sons abduct Kitty, Festus, and Doc after Festus shoots his other son in order to defend Kitty. The judge "tries" Kitty and Festus for murder, pressing Doc into service as their defense attorney.

  • S11E15 Gold Mine

    • December 25, 1965
    • CBS

    When Matt is too busy to escort Kitty to a gold mine she inherited, she travels there alone and meets with claim jumpers and other difficulties.

  • S11E16 Death Watch

    • January 8, 1966
    • CBS

    Two Bounty hunters bring in a wounded Mexican bandit worth $30,000 and find out the Mexican government might not pay for a man who dies a natural death, so they get the idea of shooting him dead.

  • S11E17 Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs

    • January 15, 1966
    • CBS

    Festus's nephew arrives, seeking a bride who can read and write. He soon finds one, but runs into difficulties earning the money he needs for her dowry.

  • S11E18 The Raid (1)

    • January 22, 1966
    • CBS

    A band of robbers have hit numerous banks with uncanny precision, planning and ease. They have their sights on Dodge now but they must remove a big obstacle before they can proceed - Marshal Dillon.

  • S11E19 The Raid (2)

    • January 29, 1966
    • CBS

    When one of the gang is hurt after robbing Dodge, the Doc is taken to patch him up. The posse was preparing to go after them but a new problem has been set they must take care of before they can recover their friend.

  • S11E20 Killer at Large

    • February 5, 1966
    • CBS

    In Matt's absence, Festus is accused of drawing first on a drunken man. Though innocent, Festus leaves town to avoid Matt having to arrest him, and takes refuge across the border with a widow and her son.

  • S11E21 My Father's Guitar

    • February 12, 1966
    • CBS

    A talented guitarist impresses all who hear him on an instrument that is more precious to him than a man's life.

  • S11E22 Wishbone

    • February 19, 1966
    • CBS

    Festus has a habit of using the wishbone from a dead chicken for making wishes on. When he comes across Doc Adams, alone and snakebit, he uses that wish to help him, if it can. Meanwhile, Matt searches for three outlaws who held up a stage, killing the driver and guard.

  • S11E23 Sanctuary

    • February 26, 1966
    • CBS

    An outlaw gang shoots it out fleeing Dodge City. When one of them is injured real bad, he hides out in the church where the reverend is fearful but not for himself.

  • S11E24 Honor Before Justice

    • March 5, 1966
    • CBS

    The Osage Council has found Two Bears guilty of murder. His daughter rides into Dodge seeking Matt's help but he's out of town chasing horse thieves so Thad tries to help. He finds out that he and Matt are really riding the same trail.

  • S11E25 The Brothers

    • March 12, 1966
    • CBS

    Billy has always looked up to his brother Ed. During a robbery gone wrong, he is arrested. Matt begins to open Billy's naive eyes when his brother tries to free him from jail.

  • S11E26 Which Doctor

    • March 19, 1966
    • CBS

    While on a fishing trip with Festus, Doc is abducted and forced to operate on a sick child, then ordered to be a bridegroom in a true shotgun wedding.

  • S11E27 Harvest

    • March 26, 1966
    • CBS

    Some homesteaders have chosen a piece of land that is free to use per the government but Ben Payson has other ideas. When his daughter starts to care about the homesteaders' son, Ben decides to force them off the property regardless the cost.

  • S11E28 Byline

    • April 9, 1966
    • CBS

    The new newspaper in town seems to be in the business of fomenting trouble, starting with its employment as a reporter of the illiterate Festus.

  • S11E29 Treasure of John Walking Fox

    • April 16, 1966
    • CBS

    When old Jacob is shot dead in self defense, his loyal Indian partner, John Walking Fox, starts paying for things with $50 gold pieces, and he becomes the talk of the town, and a target for would be robbers.

  • S11E30 My Father, My Son

    • April 23, 1966
    • CBS

    Fast gunman Jim Barrett kills a man in self defense. Now the man's father and brothers are gunning for him, in addition to a young man who wants Barrett dead for a different reason.

  • S11E31 Parson Comes to Town

    • April 30, 1966
    • CBS

    A mysterious man rides into town and says he is after one of two men responsible for killing his brother. When he starts crowding a stranger in town, Matt must decide how to make sure he doesn't take the law into his own hands.

  • S11E32 Prime of Life

    • May 7, 1966
    • CBS

    Kyle Stoner is fast with a gun and likes to prove it. When he mixes with the wrong crowd and goes up against Matt, his father gets involved and he is a friend as well as an ex-lawman.

Season 12

  • S12E01 Snap Decision

    • September 17, 1966
    • CBS

    Matt quits his job as Marshal when he shoots Ray Gilcher, a prisoner and wartime buddy, dead in apparent self defense and it turns out Glicher was actually trying to save Matt's life.

  • S12E02 The Goldtakers

    • September 24, 1966
    • CBS

    A group of outlaws murder soldiers of a gold transport, put on their uniforms, then commandeer the blacksmith's shop in Dodge to extract the gold from its alloy.

  • S12E03 The Jailer

    • October 1, 1966
    • CBS

    Etta Stone is a very bitter, older, woman who has Kitty and Matt captured, and thrown into a homemade jail, and now she plans on hanging Matt for the execution of her husband 6 years before.

  • S12E04 The Mission

    • October 8, 1966
    • CBS

    Matt is in Mexico to pick up a wanted criminal. When bandits steal his credentials, they spring the criminal with the idea of forming a gang of violence.

  • S12E05 The Good People

    • October 15, 1966
    • CBS

    A bounty hunter is falsely charged with murder, when he lies about killing a lynched man he thought was wanted by the law.

  • S12E06 Gunfighter, R.I.P.

    • October 22, 1966
    • CBS

    A gunslinger hired to kill Matt, backs down from his obligation when he gets badly wounded and falls in love with a beautiful Asian woman who is caring for him, and his employers won't stand for it.

  • S12E07 The Wrong Man

    • October 29, 1966
    • CBS

    Hootie Kyle felt cheated in a card game by Tenner Jackson. Later, he punches Jackson and takes his thirty dollars back. The next Hootie returns the money to the Marshal only to be told that Jackson had been murdered.

  • S12E08 The Whispering Tree

    • November 12, 1966
    • CBS

    After a robbery, Virgil Stanley buries the money before being captured. It has been eight years and Virgil is being released. He has plans to use the money but has to deal with others with the same idea.

  • S12E09 The Well

    • November 19, 1966
    • CBS

    Dodge becomes restless when a severe drought dries up all the wells except for one. Now it becomes a fight to keep living, placing Marshal Dillon in the middle.

  • S12E10 Stage Stop

    • November 26, 1966
    • CBS

    A station master sets up stagecoaches to be robbed by a gang, and also routinely beats up his beautiful wife.

  • S12E11 The Newcomers

    • December 3, 1966
    • CBS

    Petter Karlgren, a Swedish immigrant, and his father arrive in the untamed west to settle in Dodge. When Petter is baited into a fight, they will find that the west is more untamed and unforgiving than they ever thought.

  • S12E12 Quaker Girl

    • December 10, 1966
    • CBS

    When a dying deputy swears in Thad to capture killer Fred Bateman, Thad ends up in a Quaker town, in which the people can not tell which one is the wanted man.

  • S12E13 The Moonstone

    • December 17, 1966
    • CBS

    Chad Timpson is taking care of his mentally challenged brother, Orv. But when a rider comes into Dodge we learn that Chad has a checkered past. A past that may break up the two brothers.

  • S12E14 Champion of the World

    • December 24, 1966
    • CBS

    Bull Bannock, ex world heavyweight champion, tries to make a place for himself in Dodge City.

  • S12E15 The Hanging

    • December 31, 1966
    • CBS

    Dodge City is the site where notorious outlaw, Billy Boles, is set to hang. However, the town is occupied by people determined for their own kind of justice.

  • S12E16 Saturday Night

    • January 7, 1967
    • CBS

    A cattle-drive, led by Virgil Powell, helps a sick Matt Dillon get his prisoner to Dodge. But the prisoner has made a deal with a cowboy on the drive to avoid a certain hanging.

  • S12E17 Mad Dog

    • January 14, 1967
    • CBS

    On the way to help his cousin, Festus is mistaken for a hired gunman. The slow-witted Watson Boys will try to make a name for themselves in this humorous offering.

  • S12E18 Muley

    • January 21, 1967
    • CBS

    After a young gunslinger wounds Matt, he comes to Dodge to finish him off and to rob the bank. He gets distracted after going to the saloon, where he meets and falls in love with one of Kitty's girls.

  • S12E19 Mail Drop

    • January 28, 1967
    • CBS

    A young boy comes to Dodge looking for his father. What he finds is that his father is a wanted outlaw on the run.

  • S12E20 Old Friend

    • February 4, 1967
    • CBS

    A Marshal from Arizona has tracked down the men responsible for pillaging his town to an area outside Dodge. He is bound to seek revenge on the outlaws at any cost.

  • S12E21 Fandango

    • February 11, 1967
    • CBS

    Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice but is hindered by a rancher who wants to kill the prisoner for his own reasons.

  • S12E22 The Returning

    • February 18, 1967
    • CBS

    Luke Todd's family is hurting due to severe drought. Luke calls his old gang and they decide to rob the freight office in Dodge. When things go wrong, Luke leaves the stolen money for his wife to find. This action only leads to problems.

  • S12E23 The Lure

    • February 25, 1967
    • CBS

    Kitty gets caught up in a scheme where lawmen will try to arrest known criminal Dal Neely by using his daughter as bait. But everyone gets more than they bargained for in this story.

  • S12E24 Noose of Gold

    • March 4, 1967
    • CBS

    An attorney general uses Matt's friendship with an outlaw for political gain.

  • S12E25 The Favor

    • March 11, 1967
    • CBS

    With a man being released from prison that has made threats toward Marshal Dillon, Kitty is torn between a man that saved her life and her duty as a citizen of Dodge City.

  • S12E26 Mistaken Identity

    • March 18, 1967
    • CBS

    A drifter tries to settle in Dodge after switching identities with a man he found who had been bit by a rattlesnake, but his plans are complicated when that man is brought into town still unconscious.

  • S12E27 Ladies from St. Louis

    • March 25, 1967
    • CBS

    When a bank robber saves five nuns, the nuns look to a higher power to convince the man to turn himself in to the authorities.

  • S12E28 Nitro! (1) (Tiger by the Tail)

    • April 8, 1967
    • CBS

    A gang hires a jobless man to extract nitroglycerin from dynamite, so they can much more effectively blow open safes.

  • S12E29 Nitro! (2) (Tiger by the Tail)

    • April 15, 1967
    • CBS

    The man extracting nitroglycerin from dynamite for the gang, begins to lose his nerve in the extremely dangerous process.

Season 13

  • S13E01 The Wreckers

    • September 11, 1967
    • CBS

    With a well earned vacation disturbed by the arrest of a hardened criminal, Matt and Kitty head back to Dodge. The stage they are on is sabotaged and end up wrecking. Kitty is quick witted enough to switch identities between Matt and the prisoner before the outlaws get to them. Thinking Dillon is dying and Matt is really Monk Wiley, they go on planning to extort money from Dodge to get Dillon back alive.

  • S13E02 Cattle Barons

    • September 18, 1967
    • CBS

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

  • S13E03 The Prodigal

    • September 25, 1967
    • CBS

    Amos and William Cole come to Dodge to find the backshooting killer of their outlaw father many years before.

  • S13E04 Vengeance! (1)

    • October 2, 1967
    • CBS

    Bob Johnson, Zack Johnson and Floyd Binnes are accused of cattle rustling by Parker a powerful land baron, Floyd is killed while being drug behind a horse, Zack is crippled by a horse stomping his legs and back. Bob is beaten. Once in Dodge Bob meets Angel, while Zack dies of his wounds. Bob in getting revenge taunts Parker's hot-headed son into a gunfight kills him, and plans to go after Parker.

  • S13E05 Vengeance! (2)

    • October 9, 1967
    • CBS

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

  • S13E06 A Hat

    • October 16, 1967
    • CBS

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

  • S13E07 Hard Luck Henry

    • October 23, 1967
    • CBS

    A 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.

  • S13E08 Major Glory

    • October 30, 1967
    • CBS

    Two deserting soldiers stab their hated Sergeant and frame Festus.

  • S13E09 The Pillagers

    • November 6, 1967
    • CBS

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

  • S13E10 Prairie Wolfer

    • November 13, 1967
    • CBS

    In an attempt to get money two prairie wolfers steal money from Dolan, a hardened storekeeper, then when one tries to give it back trouble starts.

  • S13E11 Stranger in Town

    • November 20, 1967
    • CBS

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

  • S13E12 Death Train

    • November 27, 1967
    • CBS

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

  • S13E13 Rope Fever

    • December 4, 1967
    • CBS

    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.

  • S13E14 Wonder

    • December 18, 1967
    • CBS

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

  • S13E15 Baker's Dozen

    • December 25, 1967
    • CBS

    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 orphange.

  • S13E16 The Victim

    • January 1, 1968
    • CBS

    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.

  • S13E17 Deadman's Law

    • January 8, 1968
    • CBS

    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.

  • S13E18 Nowhere to Run

    • January 15, 1968
    • CBS

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

  • S13E19 Blood Money

    • January 22, 1968
    • CBS

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

  • S13E20 Hill Girl

    • January 29, 1968
    • CBS

    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.

  • S13E21 The Gunrunners

    • February 5, 1968
    • CBS

    A buffalo hunter tracks the five men responsible for injuring his Indian son.

  • S13E22 The Jackals

    • February 12, 1968
    • CBS

    Matt tracks the four men responsible for the murder of his friend, a lawman who was shot at his retirement party.

  • S13E23 The First People

    • February 19, 1968
    • CBS

    Matt has to intervene when a honest, but strict Indian agent charges an innocent Indian of murder of his assistant.

  • S13E24 Mr. Sam'l

    • February 26, 1968
    • CBS

    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.

  • S13E25 A Noose for Dobie Price

    • March 4, 1968
    • CBS

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

Season 14

  • S14E01 Lyle's Kid

    • September 23, 1968
    • CBS

    Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for his hands.

  • S14E02 The Hide Cutters

    • September 30, 1968
    • CBS

    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.

  • S14E03 Zavala

    • October 7, 1968
    • CBS

    Matt pursues the Rawlins gang into Mexico to the village of Zavala. Here he meets Paco 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's not there 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 Marshal.

  • S14E04 Uncle Finney

    • October 14, 1968
    • CBS

    A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.

  • S14E05 Slocum

    • October 21, 1968
    • CBS

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

  • S14E06 O'Quillian

    • October 28, 1968
    • CBS

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

  • S14E07 9:12 to Dodge

    • November 11, 1968
    • CBS

    Matt and Doc are escorting outlaw Johnny August by train to trail for murder. Also on board and waiting along the line are his men waiting for a chance to free him.

  • S14E08 Abelia

    • November 18, 1968
    • CBS

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

  • S14E09 Railroad

    • November 25, 1968
    • CBS

    Matt clashes with maverick railroad builder Wes Cameron and his wild men running a railroad line through Dodge.

  • S14E10 The Miracle Man

    • December 2, 1968
    • CBS

    Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.

  • S14E11 Waco

    • December 9, 1968
    • CBS

    While bringing in outlaw, Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with his outlaw band following them while he has to deliver a baby.

  • S14E12 Lobo

    • December 16, 1968
    • CBS

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

  • S14E13 Johnny Cross

    • December 23, 1968
    • CBS

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

  • S14E14 The Money Store

    • December 30, 1968
    • CBS

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

  • S14E15 The Twisted Heritage

    • January 6, 1968
    • CBS

    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.

  • S14E16 Time of the Jackals

    • January 13, 1969
    • CBS

    A former girlfriend of Matt's provides a link with catching a notorious killer.

  • S14E17 Mannon

    • January 20, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S14E18 Gold Town

    • January 27, 1969
    • CBS

    Merry Florene is back, along with her remaining half-brother Elbert Moses and cousin Smiley. Merry pesters Newly while the boys scam Dodge City with a salted gold mine.

  • S14E19 The Mark of Cain

    • February 3, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S14E20 Reprisal

    • February 10, 1969
    • CBS

    Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder and 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.

  • S14E21 The Long Night

    • February 17, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S14E22 The Night Riders

    • February 24, 1969
    • CBS

    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.

  • S14E23 The Intruder

    • March 3, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S14E24 The Good Samaritans

    • March 10, 1969
    • CBS

    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. Meanwhile, Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading West, and now being pursued by the hunters.

  • S14E25 The Prisoner

    • March 17, 1969
    • CBS

    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 the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.

  • S14E26 Exodus 21.22

    • March 24, 1969
    • CBS

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

Season 15

  • S15E01 The Devil's Outpost

    • September 22, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S15E02 Stryker

    • September 29, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S15E03 Coreyville

    • October 6, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S15E04 Danny

    • October 13, 1969
    • CBS

    An old friend of Kitty's learns he is dying comes to Dodge to try to "go out in style".

  • S15E05 Hawk

    • October 20, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S15E06 A Man Called Smith

    • October 27, 1969
    • CBS

    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.

  • S15E07 Charlie Noon

    • November 3, 1969
    • CBS

    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, because she left the Comanche leader years before.

  • S15E08 The Still

    • November 10, 1969
    • CBS

    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.

  • S15E09 A Matter of Honor

    • November 17, 1969
    • CBS

    Louie Pheeters is found at the scene of a murder, the dying man's last words implicate the town alcoholic, who is too drunk to remember what he had just seen.

  • S15E10 The Innocent

    • November 24, 1969
    • CBS

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

  • S15E11 Ring of Darkness

    • December 1, 1969
    • CBS

    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.

  • S15E12 MacGraw

    • December 8, 1969
    • CBS

    Ex-guman Jake MacGraw arrives in Dodge after spending 20 years in prison. The townspeople think he has come for revenge.

  • S15E13 Roots of Fear

    • December 15, 1969
    • CBS

    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 it and steal some money.

  • S15E14 The Sisters

    • December 29, 1969
    • CBS

    Trapper Pack Landers returns and 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.

  • S15E15 The War Priest

    • January 5, 1970
    • CBS

    Sergeant Holly, a alcoholic loving veteran is getting ready to retire. Just hours before it, a Apache prisoner in his custody escapes with Kitty as a hostage, forcing the Sergeant to go AWOL to get the prisoner back.

  • S15E16 The Pack Rat

    • January 12, 1970
    • CBS

    An orphan steals from Matt but could risk his own life when he tries to help out in an ambush.

  • S15E17 The Judas Gun

    • January 19, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S15E18 Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.

    • January 26, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S15E19 The Badge

    • February 2, 1970
    • CBS

    Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.

  • S15E20 Albert

    • February 9, 1970
    • CBS

    After a Bank teller tries to foil a bank robber the bank teller takes some money which could cause trouble.

  • S15E21 Kiowa

    • February 16, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S15E22 Celia

    • February 23, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S15E23 Morgan

    • March 2, 1970
    • CBS

    Matt is away, and Morgan sees his chance to take over. He breaks into the Long Branch, and Kitty is forced to take action.

  • S15E24 The Thieves

    • March 9, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S15E25 Hackett

    • March 16, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S15E26 The Cage

    • March 23, 1970
    • CBS

    When a gang tries to kill one of their captured members, the member turns around and teams up with Matt to bring the rest of the members to justice.

Season 16

  • S16E01 Chato

    • September 14, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S16E02 The Noose

    • September 21, 1970
    • CBS

    Kitty is held hostage so Matt will rescue her in ghost town.

  • S16E03 Stark

    • September 28, 1970
    • CBS

    Adam Bramley, an immature selfish young man, has escaped from prison. Lewis Stark is a bounty hunter who catches him, then blackmails him for money with Bramley's father, John, a rancher with a serious heart condition. Adam's strong-willed sister Glory, has the ranch hands beat up Stark, while John pays him off to leave. Adam finally has an epiphany just as his father is dying of a heart attack.

  • S16E04 Sam McTavish, M.D.

    • October 5, 1970
    • CBS

    Doc Adams feels that Sam McTavish (who is a woman Doctor) may replace him.

  • S16E05 Gentry's Law

    • October 12, 1970
    • CBS

    A Baron may give Matt trouble because he won't let Matt put his sons in jail because of a crime they committed.

  • S16E06 Snow Train (1)

    • October 19, 1970
    • CBS

    Matt is trapped with passengers on a train.

  • S16E07 Snow Train (2)

    • October 26, 1970
    • CBS
  • S16E08 Luke

    • November 2, 1970
    • CBS

    A wounded outlaw comes to Dodge City to find his daughter before his death.

  • S16E09 The Gun

    • November 9, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S16E10 The Scavengers

    • November 16, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S16E11 The Witness

    • November 23, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S16E12 McCabe

    • November 30, 1970
    • CBS

    Matt has two problems he tries to arrest an outlaw then he must try to free the hostage.

  • S16E13 The Noonday Devil

    • December 7, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S16E14 Sergeant Holly

    • December 14, 1970
    • CBS

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

  • S16E15 Jenny

    • December 28, 1970
    • CBS

    A judge interferes when Newly allows an outlaw to make arrangements for his 10 year old daughter, and to surrender afterwards.

  • S16E16 Captain Sligo

    • January 4, 1971
    • CBS

    A Captain of the sea wants to live Dodge City.

  • S16E17 Mirage

    • January 11, 1971
    • CBS

    Festus is severely dehydrated and seeing blurred images, when he kills a man in a ghost town, and it's not a clear case of self defense.

  • S16E18 The Tycoon

    • January 25, 1971
    • CBS

    Festus tries to go into the freight business and it nearly results in matrimony.

  • S16E19 Jaekel

    • February 1, 1971
    • CBS

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

  • S16E20 Murdoch

    • February 8, 1971
    • CBS

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

  • S16E21 Cleavus

    • February 15, 1971
    • CBS

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

  • S16E22 Lavery

    • February 22, 1971
    • CBS

    Matt is saved by a cowhand from an ambush. Matt then gets to do a favor for the cowhand.

  • S16E23 Pike (1)

    • March 1, 1971
    • CBS

    Sally Fergus, called by many in Dodge "Dirty Sally" finds young wounded outlaw, Cyrus Pike at her home and nurses him back to health. His partners in a robbery are searching for him and their stolen loot.

  • S16E24 Pike (2)

    • March 8, 1971
    • CBS

    Dirty Sally becomes smitten with the outlaw Pike as he continues to heal up and the gang begins tracking Pike down.The friendship between the two grows as Pike is faced with leaving or standing his ground with the gang.

Season 17

  • S17E01 The Lost

    • September 13, 1971
    • CBS

    Kitty is in a stage wreck and dazed and confused she sets out in the wild. Meeting up with a wild girl who does not speak, she winds up at a shack where a family takes her and the wild girl hostage. Intent on turning the child into a sideshow, they tie Kitty up but are stopped before they can get too far.

  • S17E02 Phoenix

    • September 20, 1971
    • CBS

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

  • S17E03 Waste (1)

    • September 27, 1971
    • CBS

    Matt helps a young boy find his mom while finding an outlaw.

  • S17E04 Waste (2)

    • October 4, 1971
    • CBS
  • S17E05 New Doctor in Town

    • October 11, 1971
    • CBS

    Dr. Chapman is arrested by Festus when he tries to sleep in Doc's office even though he has explained that Doc went to Baltimore to hone his medical skills. A letter explains that Doc felt so badly about a little girl's death that he could have prevented if he had been more in tune with modern medicine, that he had to leave. Not many in town are very cordial to Dr. Chapman and when Newly's shop blows up with Newly and Festus in it, they dislike him even more. Festus is all right, but Newly has a bone splinter in his brain and needs an operation. Chapman wins the town by performing the operation and saving Newly's life.

  • S17E06 The Legend

    • October 18, 1971
    • CBS

    Ma Colter tries to dissuade her youngest son from following his older brothers into a life of crime.

  • S17E07 Trafton

    • October 25, 1971
    • CBS

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

  • S17E08 Lynott

    • November 1, 1971
    • CBS

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

  • S17E09 Lijah

    • November 8, 1971
    • CBS

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

  • S17E10 My Brother's Keeper

    • November 15, 1971
    • CBS

    While trying to hide from a storm Festus finds old Indian is about to die. Festus keeps trying to stop the Indian from dying.

  • S17E11 Drago

    • November 22, 1971
    • CBS

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

  • S17E12 The Bullet (1)

    • November 29, 1971
    • CBS

    Doc lacks the faith to operate on Matt's bullet wound, so he transports him to a specialist by train, which is taken over by bandits for its gold shipment.

  • S17E13 The Bullet (2)

    • December 6, 1971
    • CBS

    The robbers delay Doc's and Matt's journey to Denver while they offload the army gold from the train to a wagon.

  • S17E14 The Bullet (3)

    • December 13, 1971
    • CBS

    Festus and Newly try to delay the robbers from leaving with the gold to give the conductor time to get the train moving towards Denver again.

  • S17E15 P.S. Murry Christmas

    • December 27, 1971
    • CBS

    Handyman Titus Spangler rescues seven orphans from an overly stern headmistress, Emma Grundy, and winds up in Dodge City at Christmas time.

  • S17E16 No Tomorrow

    • January 3, 1972
    • CBS

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

  • S17E17 Hidalgo

    • January 10, 1972
    • CBS

    After Matt is hurt, He makes friends who must help him stay alive.

  • S17E18 Tara

    • January 17, 1972
    • CBS

    Newly falls in love with a woman who could put him in danger, once her past is known.

  • S17E19 One for the Road

    • January 24, 1972
    • CBS

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

  • S17E20 The Predators

    • January 31, 1972
    • CBS

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

  • S17E21 Yankton

    • February 7, 1972
    • CBS

    When wealthy Wil Donvan's daughter and cowboy Yankton fall in love with each other, the young woman's classy European born mother wants to put a stop to the romance.

  • S17E22 Blind Man's Bluff

    • February 21, 1972
    • CBS

    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.

  • S17E23 Alias Festus Haggen

    • March 6, 1972
    • CBS

    A case of mistaken identity is no laughing matter for Festus when a U.S. marshal arrests the good-natured deputy as bloodthirsty murderer Frank Eaton. While Festus stands trial, Matt investigates to clear his friend's name.

  • S17E24 The Wedding

    • March 13, 1972
    • CBS

    Walt Clayton is bound to protect his daughter from marrying a young local boy. But his protection may lead to Walt losing the most precious thing in his life.

Season 18

  • S18E01 The River (1)

    • September 11, 1972
    • CBS

    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, brother & sister on a raft, and floats downriver with adventures galore.

  • S18E02 The River (2)

    • September 18, 1972
    • CBS
  • S18E03 Bohannan

    • September 25, 1972
    • CBS

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

  • S18E04 The Judgement

    • October 2, 1972
    • CBS

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

  • S18E05 The Drummer

    • October 9, 1972
    • CBS

    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. While having dinner with Sarah Morgan Mr. Shay wonders about Jimmy Morgan's father who died in the Rock Creek massacre, Sarah mentions that the cavalry ran him down.

  • S18E06 Sarah

    • October 16, 1972
    • CBS

    Matt runs into an old flame named Sarah that 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 confidante.

  • S18E07 The Fugitives

    • October 23, 1972
    • CBS

    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.

  • S18E08 Eleven Dollars

    • October 30, 1972
    • CBS

    Festus heads to Abilene to bring a woman $11 left over from the sale of her things after her father's death, and finds time to teach two little boys a lesson along the way.

  • S18E09 Milligan

    • November 6, 1972
    • CBS

    When a family man lawfully kills a murderous outlaw by shooting him in the back, some people in town start to physically abuse him.

  • S18E10 Tatum

    • November 13, 1972
    • CBS

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

  • S18E11 The Sodbusters

    • November 20, 1972
    • CBS

    Farm owner Clarabelle Callahan has absolute rights to the water supply in her area. Rather than negotiate with Clarabelle, rancher Lamoor Underwood turns to hatred and violence by bringing in a gunslinger, Dick Shaw. Unknown to either side, farm hand Pete Brown is the noted gunfighter John Jobson and represents a deadly equalizer for Clarabelle.

  • S18E12 The Brothers

    • November 27, 1972
    • CBS

    Killer Jay Wrecken is shot dead by Kitty and another man, at the same time, and now the dead man's brother is methodically murdering everyone connected to the incident.

  • S18E13 Hostage!

    • December 11, 1972
    • CBS

    Outlaw gang leader Jude Bonner seeks to force Matt to try and keep his condemned brother from hanging by kidnapping Kitty, brutally abusing and threatening to kill her.

  • S18E14 Jubilee

    • December 18, 1972
    • CBS

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

  • S18E15 Arizona Midnight

    • January 1, 1973
    • CBS

    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.

  • S18E16 Homecoming

    • January 8, 1973
    • CBS

    Two outlaws head back to Dodge City to visit their mother who doesn't trust her son's. Who claim to want to work the farm and take care of their mother. They intend to take their mother's money along with Doc.

  • S18E17 Shadler

    • January 15, 1973
    • CBS

    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. While burglarizing an uninhabited farm, the escapee helps Deputy U.S. Marshal Newly elude hostile lawmen quarantining a nearby outpost struck by a mysterious plague. Newly believes his pursuers are actually a ring of vultures waiting to loot the dying settlement. When Newly heads back to the besieged town, the fake padre insists on riding with him to minister to the dying citizens.

  • S18E18 Patricia

    • January 22, 1973
    • CBS

    Newly falls in love with a woman he met while tending the injured after a tornado. It doesn't take him long to decide to ask to marry her. Doc notes an odd bruise on her arm and her lack of energy. After an exam he wars with his conscience over whether to tell Patricia that she's got a rare blood disorder. He tells Kitty, Matt, and Newly before he marries her. She dies shortly after in Newly's arms and prompts Newly to go back to studying medicine.

  • S18E19 A Quiet Day in Dodge

    • January 29, 1973
    • CBS

    Matt comes back to Dodge City after capturing a prisoner he has been following for two days straight. Kitty is upset with Matt for not attending a lunch. To make up for the mistake Matt asks her out for dinner.

  • S18E20 Whelan's Men

    • February 5, 1973
    • CBS

    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. Kitty does the only thing she can do. She bets the entire town's wealth and Matt's life against the outlaw's hand.

  • S18E21 Kimbro

    • February 12, 1973
    • CBS

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

  • S18E22 Jesse

    • February 19, 1973
    • CBS

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

  • S18E23 Talbot

    • February 26, 1973
    • CBS

    Talbot falls in love Katherine after shooting her husband in self-defense. Katherine wants to learn more about Talbot. Katherine learns of Talbot's plans to rob the bank, she puts her life in danger by telling Talbot she will leave him if he robs the bank.

  • S18E24 This Golden Land

    • March 5, 1973
    • CBS

    Matt asks a Russian family to identify three men who dragged their son away. Matt tries to convince Moshe Gorofsky to give his testimony as to how his son died, he isn't sure American laws will protect him. According to Russian law Mr. Gorfsky can't testify in court as to how his son died. He isn't sure if the evidence is strong enough to convict those who killed his son. Gearshon tries to convince his father to let the American judicial system do the job of figuring out who killed his brother.

Season 19

  • S19E01 Women for Sale (1)

    • September 10, 1973
    • CBS

    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.

  • S19E02 Women for Sale (2)

    • September 17, 1973
    • CBS

    Matt helps two of the captives (a one-time saloon girl named Stella and a young girl named Marcy) escape their bloodthirsty Indian captor. After Matt and Stella bring the shaken Marcy out of her shell - she had earlier witnessed her mother's murder at the hands of her would-be rapist - the three team together to stop the ringleader of the white slave trade to justice before he can escape to Mexico.

  • S19E03 Matt's Love Story

    • September 24, 1973
    • CBS

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

  • S19E04 The Boy and the Sinner

    • October 1, 1973
    • CBS

    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 help two hired gunmen.

  • S19E05 The Widow-Maker

    • October 8, 1973
    • CBS

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

  • S19E06 Kitty's Love Affair

    • October 22, 1973
    • CBS

    Kitty and Matt are off for St. Louis, until Matt is summoned back on business. Upset with him, Kitty sets off for herself meeting a gunslinger on the stage who ends up saving her life. He goes back to Dodge with her and proceeds to court her. Kitty has a hard decision. Leave Matt after 18 years of a relationship or stay with Stambridge.

  • S19E07 The Widow and the Rogue

    • October 29, 1973
    • CBS

    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.

  • S19E08 A Game of Death ... An Act of Love (1)

    • November 5, 1973
    • CBS

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

  • S19E09 A Game of Death ... An Act of Love (2)

    • November 12, 1973
    • CBS

    The lawyer defends the 2 renegades accused of murder, and the victim's husband is determined to see they are lynched if they are acquitted.

  • S19E10 Lynch Town

    • November 19, 1973
    • CBS

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

  • S19E11 The Hanging of Newly O'Brien

    • November 26, 1973
    • CBS

    When Newly performs emergency surgery on a patient in the back country and he dies, the ignorant families think it's murder and want to hang him.

  • S19E12 Susan Was Evil

    • December 3, 1973
    • CBS

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

  • S19E13 The Deadly Innocent

    • December 17, 1973
    • CBS

    When a mentally challenged young man comes to Dodge, Festus takes the man under his arm. But it will not be long until Festus knows the young man needs more help than he can give.

  • S19E14 The Child Between

    • December 24, 1973
    • CBS

    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.

  • S19E15 A Family of Killers

    • January 14, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S19E16 Like Old Times

    • January 21, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S19E17 The Town Tamers

    • January 28, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S19E18 The Foundling

    • February 11, 1974
    • CBS

    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.

  • S19E19 The Iron Blood of Courage

    • February 18, 1974
    • CBS

    William Talley, a gunfighter is hired by a farmer's collition in Dodge to kill rancher Shaw Anderson, their main obstickle in taking over the land.

  • S19E20 The Schoolmarm

    • February 25, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S19E21 Trail of Bloodshed

    • March 1, 1974
    • CBS

    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.

  • S19E22 Cowtown Hustler

    • March 11, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S19E23 To Ride a Yeller Horse

    • March 18, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S19E24 The Disciple

    • April 1, 1974
    • CBS

    Matt's life is changed when his gun arm is seriously wounded.

Season 20

  • S20E01 Matt Dillon Must Die

    • September 9, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S20E02 Town in Chains

    • September 16, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S20E03 The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1)

    • September 23, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S20E04 The Guns of Cibola Blanca (2)

    • September 30, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S20E05 Thirty a Month and Found

    • October 7, 1974
    • CBS

    Three cattle drivers find competition with railroads is forcing them out of business, and 2 of them mistakenly turn to crime for a temporary fix.

  • S20E06 The Wiving

    • October 14, 1974
    • CBS

    Jed Hockett, a farmer, orders his three boys to go to town and return with prospective brides.

  • S20E07 The Iron Men

    • October 21, 1974
    • CBS

    Matt and former lawman now turned alcoholic, Chauncey Demon go up against land baron Carl Ryker.

  • S20E08 The Fourth Victim

    • November 4, 1974
    • CBS

    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.

  • S20E09 The Tarnished Badge

    • November 11, 1974
    • CBS

    Matt's friend, Sheriff Harker runs his town ruthlessly, punishing anyone disobeying him.

  • S20E10 In Performance of Duty

    • November 18, 1974
    • CBS

    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, be set free unless there is solid evidence to hold them for a double murder and robbery they committed.

  • S20E11 Island in the Desert (1)

    • December 2, 1974
    • CBS

    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.

  • S20E12 Island in the Desert (2)

    • December 9, 1974
    • CBS

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

  • S20E13 The Colonel

    • December 16, 1974
    • CBS

    A drunkard ex colonel overhears plans of robbery and murder while spending a night in jail, but isn't sure if it was a dream.

  • S20E14 The Squaw

    • January 6, 1975
    • CBS

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

  • S20E15 The Hiders

    • January 13, 1975
    • CBS

    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 that has treated him the best.

  • S20E16 Larkin

    • January 20, 1975
    • CBS

    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.

  • S20E17 The Fires of Ignorance

    • January 27, 1975
    • CBS

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

  • S20E18 The Angry Land

    • February 3, 1975
    • CBS

    After Matt finds a young girl on the prairie whose parents have been killed, he takes her to her only relative, an aunt that has troubles of her own and wants no part of her niece's life.

  • S20E19 Brides and Grooms

    • February 10, 1975
    • CBS

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

  • S20E20 Hard Labor

    • February 24, 1975
    • CBS

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

  • S20E21 I Have Promises to Keep

    • March 3, 1975
    • CBS

    An aging pastor is determined to erect a church for the Indians on the reservation but is met with bigotry from the citizens of a nearby town.

  • S20E22 The Busters

    • March 10, 1975
    • CBS

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

  • S20E23 Manolo

    • March 17, 1975
    • CBS

    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.

  • S20E24 The Sharecroppers

    • March 31, 1975
    • CBS

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

  • Movies

    SPECIAL 0x1 Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

    • September 26, 1987

    Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins," is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there some 12 years ago -- Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell.

  • Movies

    SPECIAL 0x2 Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

    • March 18, 1990

    James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of Apache chief Geronimo out of the fort stockade and offers them in trade. Dillon is aided by an Army scout, Chalk Brighton (Kiley).

  • Movies

    SPECIAL 0x3 Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

    • January 10, 1992

    Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.

  • Movies

    SPECIAL 0x4 Gunsmoke: The Long Ride

    • May 8, 1993

    Retired marshal Matt Dillon must clear his name after mistaken identity makes him wanted: dead or alive.

  • Movies

    SPECIAL 0x5 Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice

    • February 10, 1994

    After his mother is killed in a wagoncoach robbery a young man pursues the gang responsible. Matt Dillon goes after him hoping to stop him before the gang can kill him. Dillon is joined by Davis Healy, a businessman, who is hiding a few secrets of his own.

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