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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

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S0 E1 · Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge is the first TV-movie based on the 20-year television version of Gunsmoke starring James Arness. Although it is supposed to be set in the wilds of Kansas it was filmed in Alberta, Canada.

S0 E2 · Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache is a 1990 film directed by Charles Correll.

S0 E3 · Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man is a 1992 TV-movie starring James Arness as retired Marshal Matt Dillon and featuring Pat Hingle. Hapless rustlers make the fatal mistake of stealing Matt Dillon's cattle and Dillon blunders into the gory Pleasant Valley War during the process of hunting them down and killing two of them. The film, set in the 1880s, was directed by Jerry Jameson and based upon the long-running American television series Gunsmoke. The supporting cast includes Matt Mulhern as Will McCall, Joseph Bottoms as villainous Tommy Graham, and Morgan Woodward as Sheriff Abel Rose.

S0 E4 · Gunsmoke : The Long Ride

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride is a 1993 western TV series based on the popular series Gunsmoke, in which the main character, Matt Dillon is again played by James Arness.

S0 E5 · Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice

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.

S0 E6 · Remembering James Arness

A brief look at James Arness in the role of Matt Dillon through short excerpts and behind the scenes moments in the filming of Gunsmoke.

S0 E7 · Sponsor Spots, Part 1

Early television sponsor spots

S0 E8 · Sponsor Spots, Part 2

Early television sponsor spots

S0 E9 · Sponsor Spots, Part 3

Early television sponsor spots

S0 E10 · Sponsor Spots, Part 4

Early television sponsor spots

Season 1

39 episodes

This is a list of episodes from the first season of the television series version of Gunsmoke.

S1 E1 · Matt Gets It

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

S1 E2 · Hot Spell

Matt intercedes on behalf of ex-con Cope Borden, when Rance Bradley accuses Cope of horse theft and attempts to lynch him. Cope is proven innocent of the charge, but later kills Bradley's nephew in a fair fight during a gambling dispute. Matt is caught in an awkward situation when he must defend the unsavory Cope against the decent people of Dodge.

S1 E3 · Word of Honor

Hank Worth, son of wealthy rancher Jake Worth, is kidnapped by three men and held for $20,000 ransom. They shoot him in the back for trying to escape. They call on Doc but Hank dies. The killers decide to let Doc go because he is the only doctor within 400 miles and they fear they might need his services someday. Before sparing his life and freeing him, they force the reluctant Doc to give his word of honor that he will never reveal their identities.

S1 E4 · Home Surgery

When returning to Dodge, Chester and Matt are confronted by Holly Hawtree, whose father is desperately ill with gangrene. His only hope for survival is amputation of the affected leg. Matt performs the surgery, but the gangrene has spread too far and the old man dies. Matt later discovers that the presumed accident leading to Mr. Hawtree's condition was actually caused by Ben Walling, who has his sights on Holly.

S1 E5 · Obie Tater

Two outlaws seek the rumored hidden fortune of old prospector Obie. They drag him to get him to tell. Obie forgets his cares and disappears on honeymoon with newcomer Ella May. Matt suspiciously questions the simple Obie about Ella May's motives and finds Obie is deeper than he seems.

S1 E6 · Night Incident

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

S1 E7 · Smoking Out the Nolans

Clay Young is trying to evict Josh Nolan, who says he paid for the property. Matt and Chester are tied up in reluctantly enforcing eviction law unless they can find another way.

S1 E8 · Kite's Reward

Matt warns skilled gunman Andy Travis, of his choice between quitting the gun or else being constantly hunted and forced to prove himself. Matt finds a way to foil the $1000 bounty on Andy's head.

S1 E9 · The Hunter

Buffalo hunter Jase Murdock is warned by storekeeper Ross to stay out of Indian territory. Matt talks with Murdock's skinner, Golden Calf, who determines that Murdock's medicine is no longer good.

S1 E10 · The Queue

Two bullies cut off Chen's pig-tail, gravely dishonoring him in Chinese culture. Chen vows vengeance.

S1 E11 · General Parsley Smith

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

S1 E12 · Magnus

Chester is embarrassed at a visit by his estranged mountain man brother Magnus. To prove that Magnus is too uncivilized for town, Chester tours him through the highlights of Dodge: card gambling, drinking, and talking with Kitty. Meanwhile, the Long Branch women plan a Christmas Eve dance which is busted by the spiteful Lucifer Jones.

S1 E13 · Reed Survives

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

S1 E14 · Professor Lute Bone

Doc is enraged by traveling medicine man Professor Lute Bone and his opium elixir, and digs up a gun to shoot him with. A lad also hunts him because his father died drinking his elixir, so Bone reconsiders the patent medicine business.

S1 E15 · No Handcuffs

A dishonest deputy sheriff steals a prisoner from Matt's jail, so Matt and Chester hunt them.

S1 E16 · Reward for Matt

Matt kills a man and his widow posts a $1,000 bounty in vengeance. Everyone from sodbusters to gunslingers are out for that reward.

S1 E17 · Robin Hood

Witnesses refuse to testify against a notorious outlaw.

S1 E18 · Yorky

Yorky, a white boy who was brought up by Arapahoes, is victimized by horse thieves. Accused of their crime, he is shot by the vengeful Abe Brandt and his son. Matt is also targeted by the horse thieves.

S1 E19 · 20-20

A former lawman tries to keep his failing eyesight a secret from his enemies.

S1 E20 · Reunion '78

A well-liked hardware drummer is actually a man wanted for multiple murders.

S1 E21 · Helping Hand

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

S1 E22 · Tap Day for Kitty

An old sodbuster comes to town and decides he wants to marry Kitty. When he won't leave her alone she declares she'll shoot him if he pesters her anymore.

S1 E23 · Indian Scout

When an old Indian scout (Eduard Franz) murders a man (DeForest Kelley), Matt pursues him into Comanche territory.

S1 E24 · The Pest Hole

Doc must find a way to thwart a typhoid epidemic in Dodge (Howard McNear appears).

S1 E25 · The Big Broad

Matt has to figure a way around a six-foot-tall, 200-pound woman with a six-gun.

S1 E26 · Hack Prine

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

S1 E27 · Cooter

A dishonest gambler (Vinton Hayworth) uses a mentally challenged man (Strother Martin) in a plot against Matt (Robert Vaughn appears).

S1 E28 · The Killer

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

S1 E29 · Doc's Revenge

A stranger comes to Dodge, and Doc bewilders and dismays Chester and Matt by arming himself and vowing to kill the man.

S1 E30 · The Preacher

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

S1 E31 · How to Die for Nothing

The brother of a man Matt was forced to kill vows to kill Matt by any means necessary (Mort Mills appears).

S1 E32 · Dutch George

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

S1 E33 · Prairie Happy

A bitter old man spreads rumors of an impending Indian raid on Dodge.

S1 E34 · Chester's Mail Order Bride

When Chester's mail-order bride arrives, neither she nor Chester are what the other are expecting (first credited appearance of Bert Rumsey as 'Sam').

S1 E35 · The Guitar

An ex-Union soldier is forced to use violence against a pair of diehard Rebels (Jacques Aubuchon appears). First episode without the "Boot Hill" intro.

S1 E36 · Cara

Matt encounters an ex-girl friend---who's now working on the wrong side of the law.

S1 E37 · Mr. and Mrs. Amber

A self-styled religious prophet (Ainslie Pryor) is making life miserable for his daughter and new son-in-law..

S1 E38 · Unmarked Grave

A young outlaw uses an old woman as a pawn in his bid for freedom.

S1 E39 · Alarm at Pleasant Valley

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

Season 2

39 episodes

S2 E1 · Cow Doctor

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.

S2 E2 · Brush at Elkader

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

S2 E3 · Custer

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

S2 E4 · The Round Up

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

S2 E5 · Young Man with a Gun

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

S2 E6 · Indian White

At Fort Dodge, home of the third cavalry, Mrs. Mary Cullen tells the colonel that the twelve year old white boy they recovered from the Cheyenne is her son Dennis. The tribe had taken him when he was two years old.

S2 E7 · How to Cure a Friend

Matt is used by an old friend (Andrew Duggan) in a con game (Simon Oakland appears).

S2 E8 · Legal Revenge

Doc comes upon a homesteader (Philip Bourneuf) with a busted leg and a gun to protect himself from his wife (Cloris Leachman).

S2 E9 · The Mistake

Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender', but referred to by Chester as 'Sam Noonan').

S2 E10 · Greater Love

An outlaw (Claude Akins) threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy (Frank de Kova and Amzie Strickland appear).

S2 E11 · No Indians

Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws (including Mickey Simpson) that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians (Fintan Meyler and Herbert Rudley appear).

S2 E12 · Spring Term

Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating (Stanley Adams, Jack Kruschen, Paul Newlan, Harry Townes, and H. M. Wynant appear).

S2 E13 · Poor Pearl

Matt helps a woman (Constance Ford) whose suitors (including Denver Pyle) are about to duel for her affections.

S2 E14 · Cholera

A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear).

S2 E15 · Pucket's New Year

An old buffalo hunter (Edgar Stehli) swears revenge on the skinner (Grant Withers) that left him to die (Richard Deacon appears as banker Botkin, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender').

S2 E16 · The Cover Up

Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear).

S2 E17 · Sins of the Father

An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).

S2 E18 · Kick Me

A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears).

S2 E19 · Executioner

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

S2 E20 · Gone Straight

Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear).

S2 E21 · Bloody Hands

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 (Lawrence Dobkin, Russell Johnson, and Gloria Marshall appear).

S2 E22 · Skid Row

An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her.

S2 E23 · Sweet and Sour

Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kitty's negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, 4 men are dead and Rena is the cause.

S2 E24 · Cain

Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.

S2 E25 · Bureaucrat

A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.

S2 E26 · Last Fling

Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.

S2 E27 · Chester's Murder

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

S2 E28 · The Photographer

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

S2 E29 · Wrong Man

A cowboy vows revenge for the shooting of his friend, who was mistaken for a criminal (Don Keefer and Catherine McLeod, real-life husband and wife, appear as a husband and wife).

S2 E30 · Big Girl Lost

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

S2 E31 · What the Whiskey Drummer Heard

Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Sam').

S2 E32 · Cheap Labor

A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight.

S2 E33 · Moon

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

S2 E34 · Who Lives by the Sword

Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed.

S2 E35 · Uncle Oliver

Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears).

S2 E36 · Daddy-O

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

S2 E37 · The Man Who Would Be Marshal

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

S2 E38 · Liar from Blackhawk

A braggart tries to provoke a gunfight with a harmless drunk.

S2 E39 · Jealousy

Jack Kelly plays a hot-tempered husband who thinks Matt is after his wife.

Season 3

39 episodes

S3 E1 · Crack-Up

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

S3 E2 · Gun for Chester

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

S3 E3 · Blood Money

After Harry Spencer's life is saved Matt receives a wanted poster for Joe Sharpe who robbed a bank. Matt learns that Joe and Shape left Dodge so Sharpe could try and get the reward money.

S3 E4 · Kitty's Outlaw

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

S3 E5 · Potato Road

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

S3 E6 · Jesse

Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.

S3 E7 · Mavis McCloud

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

S3 E8 · Born to Hang

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

S3 E9 · Romeo

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

S3 E10 · Never Pester Chester

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

S3 E11 · Fingered

The people of Dodge gets suspicious of Jim Cobbett (John Larch) when his second wife (Virginia Christine) vanishes just like his first (Karl Swenson appears).

S3 E12 · How to Kill a Woman

Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.

S3 E13 · Cows and Cribs

The whole town is caught up in a mystery: where does Joe Nadler get all his money---and where does he go to spend it?

S3 E14 · Doc's Reward

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

S3 E15 · Kitty Lost

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

S3 E16 · Twelfth Night

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

S3 E17 · Joe Phy

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

S3 E18 · Buffalo Man

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

S3 E19 · Kitty Caught

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

S3 E20 · Claustrophobia

Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kitty's saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollie's hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men. Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men. After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollie's friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.

S3 E21 · Ma Tennis

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

S3 E22 · Sunday Supplement

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

S3 E23 · Wild West

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

S3 E24 · The Cabin

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

S3 E25 · Dirt

Nat Seiber and Polly Troyman are to be married. When Polly's younger Brother finds out that Nat had visited another woman (Beulah)late one evening at her house, Polly's Brother (Henry Troyman) thinks that Nat has dishonored his Sister Polly and promises to stop the wedding anyway he can. When Nat is shot on his wedding day, everyone thinks Polly's Brother committed the shooting. After Matt and Chester do an investigation, Matt comes to another conclusion about the shooting of Nat Seiber.

S3 E26 · Dooley Surrenders

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

S3 E27 · Joke's on Us

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

S3 E28 · Bottleman

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

S3 E29 · Laughing Gas

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

S3 E30 · Texas Cowboys

The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.

S3 E31 · Amy's Good Deed

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

S3 E32 · Hanging Man

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

S3 E33 · Innocent Broad

A woman's boyfriend causes trouble for Matt with his constant fits of jealousy.

S3 E34 · The Big Con

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

S3 E35 · Widow's Mite

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

S3 E36 · Chester's Hanging

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

S3 E37 · Carmen

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

S3 E38 · Overland Express

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

S3 E39 · The Gentleman

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

Season 4

39 episodes

S4 E1 · Matt for Murder

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

S4 E2 · The Patsy

Matt doubts the veracity of Long Branch hostess Holly Fanshaw's claim that she saw trail drover Fly Hoyt murder young Dave Thorp. His suspicions increase further when Hoyt voluntarily returns to Dodge in order to clear his name.

S4 E3 · Gunsmuggler

Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.

S4 E4 · Monopoly

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.

S4 E5 · Letter of the Law

A rich landowner seizes the chance to get a little more acreage when he discovers that a homesteader has failed to file the paperwork to make his quarter section his own.

S4 E6 · Thoroughbreds

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.

S4 E7 · Stage Hold-Up

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.

S4 E8 · Lost Rifle

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.

S4 E9 · Land Deal

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

S4 E10 · Lynching Man

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.

S4 E11 · How to Kill a Friend

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.

S4 E12 · Grass

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.

S4 E13 · The Cast

When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.

S4 E14 · Robber Bridegroom

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.

S4 E15 · Snakebite

Claustrophobic plainsman Poney Thompson is arrested for murdering a man who maliciously shot his dog, but an ironic fate awaits him after he breaks free from Chester's custody.

S4 E16 · Gypsum Hills Feud

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.

S4 E17 · Young Love

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.

S4 E18 · Marshal Proudfoot

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

S4 E19 · Passive Resistance

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

S4 E20 · Love of a Good Woman

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.

S4 E21 · Jayhawkers

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.

S4 E22 · Kitty's Rebellion

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

S4 E23 · Sky

Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.

S4 E24 · Doc Quits

Doc takes hard the death of a homesteader under his care; then a flashy new medicine man comes to town and takes away many of his patients.

S4 E25 · The Bear

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

S4 E26 · The Coward

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.

S4 E27 · The F.U.

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

S4 E28 · Wind

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.

S4 E29 · Fawn

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

S4 E30 · Renegade White

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.

S4 E31 · Murder Warrant

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.

S4 E32 · Change of Heart

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.

S4 E33 · Buffalo Hunter

Marshal Dillon has to stop a ruthless, cold-blooded, greedy, buffalo hunter who is in the habit of brutally killing his hired help to avoid paying them their wages.

S4 E34 · The Choice

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.

S4 E35 · There Was Never a Horse

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.

S4 E36 · Print Asper

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.

S4 E37 · The Constable

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.

S4 E38 · Blue Horse

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.

S4 E39 · Cheyennes

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

39 episodes

S5 E1 · Target

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.

S5 E2 · Kitty's Injury

When Kitty is hurt in a fall from a horse, she and Matt must seek help from shiftless dirt farmers who are oddly uninterested in aiding them.

S5 E3 · Horse Deal

Horses with Bar S brand are being sold to unsuspecting buyers. Deesha moves in to claim the horses, leaving the buyer with nothing.

S5 E4 · Johnny Red

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.

S5 E5 · Tail to the Wind

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.

S5 E6 · Annie Oakley

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

S5 E7 · Kangaroo

Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself.

S5 E8 · Saludos

Matt, escorting 3 men back to Dodge, claims a beautiful wounded Indian woman will be able to identify the one who shot her and killed her husband.

S5 E9 · Brother Whelp

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

S5 E10 · The Boots

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.

S5 E11 · Odd Man Out

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.

S5 E12 · Miguel's Daughter

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

S5 E13 · Box o' Rocks

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

S5 E14 · False Witness

A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.

S5 E15 · Tag, You're It

When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them.

S5 E16 · Thick 'n' Thin

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.

S5 E17 · Groat's Grudge

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.

S5 E18 · Big Tom

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.

S5 E19 · Till Death Do Us

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.

S5 E20 · The Tragedian

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

S5 E21 · Hinka Do

Matt has reason to believe that the new overweight, gun toting, straight shooting, female owner of the Lady Gay saloon may have killed the previous owner, or did she?

S5 E22 · Doc Judge

While Matt is away on business, Doc gets threatened by an ex convict (Brice Harp) who claims that Doc Adams sentenced him to a long term in Prison.

S5 E23 · Moo Moo Raid

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.

S5 E24 · Kitty's Killing

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.

S5 E25 · Jailbait Janet

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.

S5 E26 · Unwanted Deputy

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.

S5 E27 · Where'd They Go

When Jonas accuses Clint Dodie of robbing his store, Matt and Chester set out in the bitter cold go to Clint's farm to make an arrest.

S5 E28 · Crowbait Bob

When the greedy relatives of a dying man (Crowbait Bob) learn that he might be dying, they come to Dodge to grab anything of value they can get from the dying man.

S5 E29 · Colleen So Green

A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but Kitty isn't falling for her charms.

S5 E30 · The Ex-Urbanites

Far from Dodge, Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Doc's life after the two are ambushed by a pair of savage prairie wolfers.

S5 E31 · I Thee Wed

A man beats his wife and is sentenced to fifty days or fifty dollars by the judge. The beaten woman scrapes together the money for her husband's fine, only to be beaten again.

S5 E32 · The Lady Killer

A saloon girl shoots a man who came to her room, claiming he attacked her, but as the dead man was to testify against a man from the woman's past, Matt is suspicious.

S5 E33 · Gentleman's Disagreement

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.

S5 E34 · Speak Me Fair

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

S5 E35 · Belle's Back

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.

S5 E36 · The Bobsy Twins

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

S5 E37 · Old Flame

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.

S5 E38 · The Deserter

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.

S5 E39 · Cherry Red

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

38 episodes

S6 E1 · Friend's Pay-Off

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.

S6 E2 · The Blacksmith

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

S6 E3 · Small Water

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.

S6 E4 · Say Uncle

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

S6 E5 · Shooting Stopover

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.

S6 E6 · The Peace Officer

Matt is called in to deal with a corrupt sheriff in Tascosa.

S6 E7 · Don Matteo

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

S6 E8 · The Worm

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

S6 E9 · The Badge

Out on the prairie, Matt is shot and taken captive by two outlaws, one of whom is a weakling abused and bossed around by the other.

S6 E10 · Distant Drummer

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

S6 E11 · Ben Tolliver's Stud

Jake Creed accuses his young hired hand, Ben Tolliver, of horse theft.

S6 E12 · No Chip

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

S6 E13 · The Wake

Gus Mather arrives in Dodge in a wagon, carrying the coffin of his best friend, Orson Boggs, to give him a proper wake. There's only one problem: according to Mrs. Boggs, her late husband didn't have any friends.

S6 E14 · The Cook

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

S6 E15 · Old Fool

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

S6 E16 · Brother Love

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?

S6 E17 · Bad Sheriff

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

S6 E18 · Unloaded Gun

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.

S6 E19 · Tall Trapper

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.

S6 E20 · Love Thy Neighbor

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

S6 E21 · Bad Seed

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.

S6 E22 · Kitty Shot

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.

S6 E23 · About Chester

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

S6 E24 · Harriet

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.

S6 E25 · Potshot

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.

S6 E26 · Old Faces

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.

S6 E27 · Big Man

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.

S6 E28 · Little Girl

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.

S6 E29 · Stolen Horses

A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.

S6 E30 · Minnie

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

S6 E31 · Bless Me Till I Die

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.

S6 E32 · Long Hours, Short Pay

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

S6 E33 · Hard Virtue

Hot tempered Andy Coe and his wife want to sell their wagon to Moss, but can't when Ed Fallon's team spooks and crashes into their wagon.

S6 E34 · The Imposter

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 lawman.

S6 E35 · Chester's Dilemma

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.

S6 E36 · The Love of Money

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.

S6 E37 · Melinda Miles

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.

S6 E38 · Colorado Sheriff

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

34 episodes

S7 E1 · Perce

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.

S7 E2 · Old Yellow Boots

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.

S7 E3 · Miss Kitty

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?

S7 E4 · Harper's Blood

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?

S7 E5 · All That

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.

S7 E6 · Long, Long Trail

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.

S7 E7 · The Squaw

His mother has been dead almost a year, and Cully is troubled by his pa's carousing. When they discuss his getting married again, it seems like a good idea until he returns from a business trip with a new wife, an Arapaho squaw, who he has conflicted emotions about.

S7 E8 · Chesterland

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.

S7 E9 · Milly

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

S7 E10 · Indian Ford

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

S7 E11 · Apprentice Doc

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

S7 E12 · Nina's Revenge

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.

S7 E13 · Marry Me

Orkey Cathcart is looking for a wife and sets his sites on Miss Kitty.

S7 E14 · A Man a Day

Outlaws want Matt to leave Dodge so they can steal from the bank or they will kill a man per day.

S7 E15 · The Do-Badder

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.

S7 E16 · Lacey

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.

S7 E17 · Cody's Code

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.

S7 E18 · Old Dan

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

S7 E19 · Catawomper

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.

S7 E20 · Half Straight

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?

S7 E21 · He Learned About Women

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.

S7 E22 · The Gallows

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.

S7 E23 · Reprisal

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.

S7 E24 · Coventry

A speculator in land is already unpopular in Dodge, but when he is acquitted of the murder of a man he killed, he finds himself "sent to Coventry": no one in town, not even Kitty, will buy, sell, or even speak to him.

S7 E25 · The Widow

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.

S7 E26 · Durham Bull

Little Bit and his grandpa, from Texas, are passing through Dodge after buying 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.

S7 E27 · Wagon Girls

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.

S7 E28 · The Dealer

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.

S7 E29 · The Summons

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.

S7 E30 · The Dreamers

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.

S7 E31 · Cale

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.

S7 E32 · Chester's Indian

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.

S7 E33 · The Prisoner

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.

S7 E34 · The Boys

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

Season 8

38 episodes

S8 E1 · The Search

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.

S8 E2 · Call Me Dodie

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.

S8 E3 · Quint Asper Comes Home

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.

S8 E4 · Root Down

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

S8 E5 · Jenny

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.

S8 E6 · Collie's Free

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.

S8 E7 · The Ditch

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.

S8 E8 · The Trappers

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.

S8 E9 · Phoebe Strunk

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.

S8 E10 · The Hunger

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.

S8 E11 · Abe Blocker

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.

S8 E12 · The Way It Is

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.

S8 E13 · Us Haggens

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.

S8 E14 · Uncle Sunday

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.

S8 E15 · False Front

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.

S8 E16 · Old Comrade

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.

S8 E17 · Louie Pheeters

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

S8 E18 · The Renegades

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.

S8 E19 · Cotter's Girl

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.

S8 E20 · The Bad One

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

S8 E21 · The Cousin

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.

S8 E22 · Shona

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.

S8 E23 · Ash

The friendship between business partners is jeopardized when one of them sustains a head injury, changing his personality. The injured man threatens to kill West's character, the fiancé of a young saloon woman.

S8 E24 · Blind Man's Bluff

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.

S8 E25 · Quint's Indian

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.

S8 E26 · Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

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.

S8 E27 · Two of a Kind

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.

S8 E28 · I Call Him Wonder

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.

S8 E29 · With a Smile

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.

S8 E30 · The Far Places

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.

S8 E31 · Panacea Sykes

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

S8 E32 · Tell Chester

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.

S8 E33 · Quint-Cident

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.

S8 E34 · Old York

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

S8 E35 · Daddy Went Away

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.

S8 E36 · The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

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.

S8 E37 · Jeb

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

S8 E38 · The Quest for Asa Janin

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

36 episodes

S9 E1 · Kate Heller

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.

S9 E2 · Lover Boy

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.

S9 E3 · Legends Don't Sleep

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

S9 E4 · Tobe

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.

S9 E5 · Easy Come

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

S9 E6 · My Sister's Keeper

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

S9 E7 · Quint's Trail

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.

S9 E8 · Carter Caper

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.

S9 E9 · Ex-Con

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.

S9 E10 · Extradition (1)

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.

S9 E11 · Extradition (2)

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

S9 E12 · The Magician

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.

S9 E13 · Pa Hack's Brood

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

S9 E14 · The Glory and the Mud

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.

S9 E15 · Dry Well

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.

S9 E16 · Prairie Wolfer

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.

S9 E17 · Friend

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.

S9 E18 · Once a Haggen

A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.

S9 E19 · No Hands

The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Will's hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he can't carve wood anymore.

S9 E20 · May Blossom

Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus

S9 E21 · The Bassops

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.

S9 E22 · The Kite

Festus finds a little girl out on the prairie. He learns she saw her mother 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.

S9 E23 · Comanches Is Soft

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.

S9 E24 · Father's Love

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.

S9 E25 · Now That April's Here

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.

S9 E26 · Caleb

Caleb Marr comes to Dodge in search of a meaningful life after finally acknowledging his failure at farming.

S9 E27 · Owney Tupper Had a Daughter

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.

S9 E28 · Bently

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

S9 E29 · Kitty Cornered

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.

S9 E30 · The Promoter

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.

S9 E31 · Trip West

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.

S9 E32 · Scot Free

Rob Scot 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, along with her husband, take over an abandoned homestead, and they come to where Rob works to look over some stock.

S9 E33 · The Warden

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.

S9 E34 · Homecoming

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.

S9 E35 · The Other Half

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.

S9 E36 · Journey for Three

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

36 episodes

S10 E1 · Blue Heaven

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.

S10 E2 · Crooked Mile

Cyrus Degler is determined to keep Quint away from his 19-year old daughter, but no threats or beatings can keep them apart. They are about to leave town to get married when cousin Praylie comes to town bent on putting a stop to their plans any way he has to.

S10 E3 · Old Man

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

S10 E4 · The Violators

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.

S10 E5 · Doctor's Wife

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.

S10 E6 · Take Her, She's Cheap

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

S10 E7 · Help Me, Kitty

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.

S10 E8 · Hung High

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

S10 E9 · Jonah Hutchinson

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.

S10 E10 · Big Man, Big Target

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.

S10 E11 · Chicken

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.

S10 E12 · Innocence

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.

S10 E13 · Aunt Thede

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. At the time he appeared in this episode, Howard McNear was appearing on The Andy Griffith Show as regular, Floyd Lawson the town barber.

S10 E14 · Hammerhead

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.

S10 E15 · Double Entry

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.

S10 E16 · Run, Sheep, Run

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.

S10 E17 · Deputy Festus

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.

S10 E18 · One Killer on Ice

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.

S10 E19 · Chief Joseph

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.

S10 E20 · Circus Trick

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

S10 E21 · Song for Dying

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

S10 E22 · Winner Take All

Two brothers quarrel to the death over a woman, and as the survivor flees with her, pursued by Matt, the killing may not be over.

S10 E23 · Eliab's Aim

The goofy nephew of Festus, Eliab Haggen, comes to Dodge with the hope 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.

S10 E24 · Thursday's Child

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.

S10 E25 · Breckinridge

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.

S10 E26 · Bank Baby

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.

S10 E27 · The Lady

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.

S10 E28 · Dry Road to Nowhere

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

S10 E29 · Twenty Miles from Dodge

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

S10 E30 · The Pariah

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.

S10 E31 · Gilt Guilt

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

S10 E32 · Bad Lady from Brookline

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.

S10 E33 · Two Tall Men

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.

S10 E34 · Honey Pot

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

S10 E35 · The New Society

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.

S10 E36 · He Who Steals

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

32 episodes

S11 E1 · Seven Hours to Dawn

Mace Gore's gang has taken over Dodge. When Matt is believed killed, Festus and Doc have a plan to lure Gore into a trap, even though his usual plan is to leave by dawn.

S11 E2 · The Storm

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.

S11 E3 · Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood

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.

S11 E4 · Ten Little Indians

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

S11 E5 · Taps for Old Jeb

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

S11 E6 · Kioga

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

S11 E7 · The Bounty Hunter

Lured out of retirement with the promise of land, a bounty hunter is aimed by his boss at the man who killed his son; however, he neglects to tell his hound that the reward and charges had been dropped.

S11 E8 · The Reward

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.

S11 E9 · Malachi

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.

S11 E10 · The Pretender

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.

S11 E11 · South Wind

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.

S11 E12 · The Hostage

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.

S11 E13 · Outlaw's Woman

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.

S11 E14 · The Avengers

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.

S11 E15 · Gold Mine

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.

S11 E16 · Death Watch

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.

S11 E17 · Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs

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.

S11 E18 · The Raid (1)

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.

S11 E19 · The Raid (2)

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.

S11 E20 · Killer at Large

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.

S11 E21 · My Father's Guitar

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

S11 E22 · Wishbone

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.

S11 E23 · Sanctuary

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.

S11 E24 · Honor Before Justice

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

S11 E25 · The Brothers

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.

S11 E26 · Which Dr.

Buffalo hunters kidnap Doc and Festus. Guest starring R.G. Armstrong, George Lindsey, Gregg Palmer, and Shelley Morrison (Trivia: directed by James Arness' kid brother Peter Graves just prior to his finding fame as Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible.)

S11 E27 · Harvest

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.

S11 E28 · By Line

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.

S11 E29 · Treasure of John Walking Fox

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.

S11 E30 · My Father, My Son

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.

S11 E31 · Parson Comes to Town

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.

S11 E32 · Prime of Life

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

29 episodes

S12 E1 · Snap Decision

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

S12 E2 · The Goldtakers

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

S12 E3 · The Jailer

Six years after her husband's hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt to be hanged on the morning of the second day with Kitty watching as her man died.

S12 E4 · The Mission

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

S12 E5 · The Good People

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

S12 E6 · Gunfighter, R.I.P.

A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.

S12 E7 · The Wrong Man

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

S12 E8 · The Whispering Tree

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

S12 E9 · The Well

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

S12 E10 · Stage Stop

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

S12 E11 · The Newcomers

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

S12 E12 · Quaker Girl

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

S12 E13 · The Moonstone

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

S12 E14 · Champion of the World

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

S12 E15 · The Hanging

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

S12 E16 · Saturday Night

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

S12 E17 · Mad Dog

Festus Haggen is mistaken for a hired gunman and offered $300 to fight, and run out of town, the 3 sons of a man his cousin is accused of killing.

S12 E18 · Muley

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

S12 E19 · Mail Drop

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

S12 E20 · Old Friend

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

S12 E21 · Fandango

Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice in spite of an onslaught of an crazed vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.

S12 E22 · The Returning

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

S12 E23 · The Lure

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

S12 E24 · Noose of Gold

Deputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able to give himself up.

S12 E25 · The Favor

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

S12 E26 · Mistaken Identity

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

S12 E27 · Ladies from St. Louis

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

S12 E28 · Nitro! (1)

Part 1: Down on his luck drifter is offered a dangerous, but profitable job of mixing nitroglycerine for outlaws who are using it to rob banks. George also falls in love with a saloon girl and begins a business venture with his earnings.

S12 E29 · Nitro! (2)

Part 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.

Season 13

25 episodes

S13 E1 · The Wreckers

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.

S13 E2 · Cattle Barons

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

S13 E3 · The Prodigal

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

S13 E4 · Vengeance (1)

Part 1: Bob Johnson, Zack Johnson and Floyd Binnes are accused of cattle rustling by Parker a powerful land baron, Floyd is killed while being 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.

S13 E5 · Vengeance (2)

Part 2: Matt goes after Bob Johnson who is planning to kill Parker to avenge the death of his friends.

S13 E6 · A Hat

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

S13 E7 · Hard Luck Henry

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.

S13 E8 · Major Glory

Two deserting soldiers stab their hated Sergeant and frame Festus.

S13 E9 · The Pillagers

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

S13 E10 · Prairie Wolfer

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.

S13 E11 · Stranger in Town

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

S13 E12 · Death Train

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

S13 E13 · Rope Fever

Falsely jailed on charges of murder and bank robbery, Festus is ordered to lead an aging sheriff and his zealous deputy to the missing loot. (60 mins)

S13 E14 · Wonder

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

S13 E15 · Baker's Dozen

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

S13 E16 · The Victim

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

S13 E17 · Deadman's Law

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

S13 E18 · Nowhere to Run

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

S13 E19 · Blood Money

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

S13 E20 · Hill Girl

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

S13 E21 · The Gunrunners

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

S13 E22 · The Jackals

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

S13 E23 · The First People

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

S13 E24 · Mr. Sam'l

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

S13 E25 · A Noose for Dobie Price

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

Season 14

26 episodes

S14 E1 · Lyle's Kid

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

S14 E2 · The Hide Cutters

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

S14 E3 · Zavala

Good western. Mostly action, not too much girl stuff. Gunplay by Dillon very very good in this one. Story is about Dillon taking a warrant into Mexico. He finds the culprit and outdraws him. One of the latter's gang members travels back to the US and tells Jim Davis that Dillon killed his brother. Davis responds with violence, then rides into Mexico and faces Dillon. The human interest part of this movie centers about the likeable Mexican kid, ""Paco"". Dillon and him get along so good that I'm wondering about the sexuality of one of the film bosses. About Rico Alaniz... top-notch performance. He's the guy who, in the movie ""Magnificent Seven"", was always saying 'no, don't anger Calvera, give him what he wants"".

S14 E4 · Uncle Finney

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

S14 E5 · Slocum

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

S14 E6 · O'Quillian

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

S14 E7 · 9:12 to Dodge

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.

S14 E8 · Abelia

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

S14 E9 · Railroad!

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

S14 E10 · The Miracle Man

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.

S14 E11 · Waco

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

S14 E12 · Lobo

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

S14 E13 · Johnny Cross

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

S14 E14 · The Money Store

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

S14 E15 · The Twisted Heritage

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

S14 E16 · Time of the Jackals

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

S14 E17 · Mannon

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

S14 E18 · Gold Town

Will Mannon, a sharpshooter who rode with Quantrill's Raiders, terrorizes Dodge City as he waits for Matt to return and face him in a showdown.

S14 E19 · The Mark of Cain

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

S14 E20 · Reprisal

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.

S14 E21 · The Long Night

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

S14 E22 · The Night Riders

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

S14 E23 · The Intruder

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.

S14 E24 · The Good Samaritans

Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a Judge that will hang a man, the man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Meanwhile, Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading West, and now being pursued by the hunters.

S14 E25 · The Prisoner

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

S14 E26 · Exodus 21.22

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

Season 15

26 episodes

S15 E1 · The Devil's Outpost

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

S15 E2 · Stryker

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.

S15 E3 · Coreyville

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

S15 E4 · Danny

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

S15 E5 · Hawk

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

S15 E6 · A Man Called Smith

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

S15 E7 · Charlie Noon

Matt, his hardened prisoner Charlie Noon, an Indian woman and her white stepson are tracked by the Comanches as they try to cross the desert. The Indians are going to kill all of them unless Matt hands over the woman, because she left the Comanche leader years before.

S15 E8 · The Still

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

S15 E9 · A Matter of Honor

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.

S15 E10 · The Innocent

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.

S15 E11 · Ring of Darkness

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

S15 E12 · MacGraw

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

S15 E13 · Roots of Fear

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

S15 E14 · The Sisters

A scoundrel tries to con three nuns.

S15 E15 · The War Priest

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.

S15 E16 · The Pack Rat

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

S15 E17 · The Judas Gun

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

S15 E18 · Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.

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

S15 E19 · The Badge

Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.

S15 E20 · Albert

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

S15 E21 · Kiowa

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

S15 E22 · Celia

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

S15 E23 · Morgan

With Matt out helping the Army deliver a gold shipment, Dodge is wide open for Morgan and his men to come in with a Gatlin gun and take over. Breaking into the Long Branch, Morgan is helping himself to whiskey when Kitty shoots him hitting him in the shoulder and the face. With Matt and the gold on the way and Morgan sitting with a big gun and a fever and a crazy streak from the permanent scar he's gonna have, Dodge can only wait to see what comes next.

S15 E24 · The Thieves

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

S15 E25 · Hackett

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

S15 E26 · The Cage

After an outlaw becomes a victim of his own gang he tries to Matt bring in the gang that made him a victim.

Season 16

24 episodes

S16 E1 · Chato

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

S16 E2 · The Noose

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

S16 E3 · Stark

Adam, the son of one Dodge City's revered citizens returns. But upon arriving someone takes a shot at him. The man who shot him, is Stark, a bounty hunter. It seems that Adam was in jail in Texas and broke out, Stark found him and is planning to take him back. Adam then tells him that he can get $1000 to pay him if they go to his father. Stark accepts. But when he goes to his father, his father refuses to help him. But Adam's sister, Glory, does. However, Stark feels that it's not enough, he tells Adam that he thinks that his father has five thousand on hand and tells him that's what it'll take. Adam refuses. When Stark goes to see Adam's father, he threatens Stark and reveals that after Adam stopped writing his sister for money he hired some detectives and they found him shortly after he broke out of jail. He then proceeds to pay Stark off but Adam upon learning of this refuses to let Stark leave with the money. Matt arrives and arrests Stark. Adam then goes to tell his father that he

S16 E4 · Sam McTavish, M.D.

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

S16 E5 · Gentry's Law

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

S16 E6 · Snow Train (1)

Matt is trapped with passengers on a train.

S16 E7 · Snow Train (2)

Matt is trapped with passengers on a train.

S16 E8 · Luke

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

S16 E9 · The Gun

After a yong man kills a gunfighter he become the victim of publicity.

S16 E10 · The Scavengers

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

S16 E11 · The Witness

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

S16 E12 · McCabe

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

S16 E13 · The Noon Day Devil

A bandit who is wanted by Matt hides from him.

S16 E14 · Sergeant Holly

Sgt Holly has stolen an army payroll and is framed for it.

S16 E15 · Jenny

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

S16 E16 · Captain Sligo

A Captain of the sea wants to live Dodge City.

S16 E17 · Mirage

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

S16 E18 · The Tycoon

Festus becomes a rich man.

S16 E19 · Jaekel

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

S16 E20 · Murdoch

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

S16 E21 · Cleavus

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

S16 E22 · Lavery

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

S16 E23 · Pike: Part 1

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.

S16 E24 · Pike: Part 2

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

24 episodes

S17 E1 · The Lost

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.

S17 E2 · Phoenix

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

S17 E3 · Waste (1)

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

S17 E4 · Waste (2)

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

S17 E5 · New Doctor in Town

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.

S17 E6 · The Legend

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

S17 E7 · Trafton

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

S17 E8 · Lynott

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

S17 E9 · Lijah

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

S17 E10 · My Brother's Keeper

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

S17 E11 · Drago

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

S17 E12 · Gold Train: The Bullet (1)

A hidecutter starts trouble in the Long Branch and Matt comes to the rescue throwing him out of town. When Festus goes up to fetch Dr. Chapman, he finds the old scudder there himself. Offering to buy Doc a drink, he can't resist and they surprise everyone down at the Long Branch. While they are all excited to see Doc, Matt is out checking the town and ends up shot in the back by the hidecutter he just threw out. Doc's homecoming is ruined when he realizes that if he tries to remove the bullet he could paralyze Matt and he doesn't want to be the one to do it. So, he contacts a surgeon in Denver, and loading Matt in the baggage car of the train, Kitty, Doc, Festus, and Newly all head for Denver along with a Federal gold shipment.

S17 E13 · Gold Train: The Bullet (2)

As the train moves along to Denver we meet several passengers. One is a Pinkerton man handcuffed to Beth Tilton, a woman who doesn't want to go back to Colorado to her husband. The other, Allie Dawson, is a young girl that Newly befriends who does not believe in violence. The train is taken over by Jack Sinclair, an old enemy of Matt's. Matt had shot his hand off before sending him to prison. Making it look like Matt is a dead body in the baggage car, he is safe for now with Doc standing guard, but it can't last long. Kitty senses trouble when Beth starts cozying up to Jack Sinclair and worries she'll tell him what she knows. Warning her that she'll do anything for her man, Kitty watches Beth like a hawk. Festus and Newly are forced to help load the gold shipment on the wagon and when they get it loaded they end up driving off with it luring the gang out on foot to chase them. Beth tells one of the guards about Dillon in the back, and he goes to kill him.

S17 E14 · Gold Train: The Bullet (3)

The conclusion to this three parter. Dillon kills the guard that was gunning for him and the passengers take the train back over. The only problem, all the fuel has been destroyed so they have to get more fast. Festus and Newly are still out with the gold leading the men from the train on foot. Dillon's legs are numb and Doc has no choice but to operate whether he cripples him or not. Leaving the gold shipment and taking the mules, Newly and Festus head back to the train to try to get it going. Sinclair has the men push the wagon back to the train and gets there in time to keep it from taking off. Beth tells Sinclair about Matt Dillon, but Dillon's faster than a gun even lying down and ends up killing him. The train takes off leaving the bad guys and all their gold sitting at the tracks with no way to get anywhere.

S17 E15 · P.S. Murry Christmas

The meanest outlady in the US is coming to Dodge, at least that's what Festus has heard, but it's really Emma Grundy out to retrieve her seven orphans from Titus Spangler and take them back to the orphanage where they belong. The town finds it ludicrous that these children have never had a Christmas and plan on putting one on in the Long Branch. The problem arises when Mrs. Grundy arrives, and she has her own personal reasons for not giving the children Christmas. Kitty steps in to solve the problem single handedly and ends up messing things up worse than they were.

S17 E16 · No Tomorrow

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

S17 E17 · Hidalgo

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

S17 E18 · Tara

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

S17 E19 · One for the Road

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.

S17 E20 · The Predators

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?

S17 E21 · Yankton

A drifter wants to marry the rich family's daughter

S17 E22 · Blind Man's Buff

A man gets shot, loses his memory, and gets taken in by a lonely woman

S17 E23 · Alias Festus Haggin

Festus is mistaken for a killer.

S17 E24 · The Wedding

A father disapproves of the man her daughter marries.

Season 18

24 episodes

S18 E1 · The River (1)

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

S18 E2 · The River (2)

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

S18 E3 · Bohannan

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

S18 E4 · The Judgement

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

S18 E5 · The Drummer

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

S18 E6 · Sarah

While trying to catch an outlaw (by riding to the outlaw's hideout) Matt runs into Sarah where she wonders if Matt ever wed. We find that Matt was a deputy in San Antonio. Sarah later tells the group she married Charlie Jackson (Matt) days ago. Charlie Jackson was somebody Sarah knew. Charlie tries to get the outlaws to stop hurting Sarah, Charlie begins to find out of plan that may cause trouble. Sarah later tells Matt that she loves him, but learns that those feelings are not going to return. We find out Matt is after someone who gave him four days in jail. Sarah is forced to Vesco why Charlie Jackson is back in Mexico, because one of Vesco's men knows Charlie Jackson is dead. Sarah tells Matt to leave, but Matt tries to protect Sarah.

S18 E7 · The Fugitives

Doc Adams comes into The Long Branch just in time to stop Festus from telling one of his long stories, Doc tells of how his day began and then rest before a baby has to be delivered. Now Doc and Festus have to treat the outlaws younger brother. Festus goes to get Matt as Doc is now left alone to treat the victim. The outlaws are ready for their brother to ride Doc warns that if moved the brother could die. Matt gets there in time to find that Doc is fine, but Festus is bleeding bad. The outlaws brother is dead. Doc tries to get the bullet out of Festus who is weak. One of the Stalcup outlaws comes back to get his brother Danny. Festus turns out fine only to drive Doc crazy!

S18 E8 · Eleven Dollars

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.

S18 E9 · Milligan

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

S18 E10 · Tatum

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

S18 E11 · The Sodbusters

Matt seen in Doc's office as he tries to asks a farmer how he was shot, the farmer can't say how he was hurt. Lamoor Underwood wants the water on the dead farmer's ground to run free, Pete Brown sets out to make sure that happens. Clarabelle is asked to leave her land because somebody wants the water rights. Pete Brown is shot for trying to help Clarabelle and other farmers. Matt tries to get Underwood to work with the farmers over water rights. Matt arrests Pete Brown but doesn't want to leave. Matt is hit in the back of the head because he knew Pete's real name. Matt takes Pete under arrest.

S18 E12 · The Brothers

One psychotic brother is after Kitty to avenge his brother's death.

S18 E13 · Hostage!

The greatest bad-guy character actor of our time, William Smith, plays Jude Bonner, a bad guy who kidnaps, brutalizes, and shoots Miss Kitty in retaliation for his brother having been caught by Matt Dillon and hung for his crimes. Probably for the first time in seventeen years of Gunsmoke, Dillon takes off his marshal's badge before going after Bonner, with the intent of killing him.

S18 E14 · Jubilee

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

S18 E15 · Arizona Midnight

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

S18 E16 · Homecoming

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.

S18 E17 · Shadler

Boone Shadler kills a guard and comes to a stricken town as a priest to keep from been caught by the law. Newly rides into town to try an help take care of sick people. Newly helps take care of Cyrus Himes who is dying. Newly thinks people may have gotten sick because of drinking bad water. Newly test the water to find out what is in it, Matt gets a wire (letter) saying a sheriff released a prisoner 5 days ago. Matt wonders why Newly didn't return to Dodge with the prisoner. Newly wonders if the priest is who he says after seeing Sadler look for a Bible. Sadler tells Dallas Fair he is a convict and that Dallas should go with him.

S18 E18 · Patricia

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.

S18 E19 · A Quiet Day in Dodge

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.

S18 E20 · Whelan's Men

A former lawman that Dillon put out of business years earlier comes back with a group of men to gun him down. Since Dillon is out of town, they settle in at the Long Branch to play poker and wait. Kitty does the only thing she can do. She bets the entire town's wealth and Matt's life against the outlaw's hand.

S18 E21 · Kimbro

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

S18 E22 · Jesse

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.

S18 E23 · Talbot

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.

S18 E24 · This Golden Land

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

24 episodes

S19 E1 · Women for Sale (1)

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

S19 E2 · Women for Sale (2)

When we left the end of part 1: Matt was stopped by indians who wanted to team up with Matt and share food Matt continues to help Marcy and Stella and finds her gone. Stella would rather go home on her own Meanwhile Cynthia and Britt help each other. Matt tells Stella to look for landmarks. Britt wants to leave slave trading behind. Cynthia and Britt try and leave to freedom Blue Jacket is shot and lets Britt and Cynthia go. Later Cynthia is trapped after spotting Matt she stabs Britt and runs to Matt and soon is dead because Britt didn't want anything said. Marcy is taken home to her Grandpa and yells for Stella to stay with her.

S19 E3 · Matt's Love Story

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.

S19 E4 · The Boy and the Sinner

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

S19 E5 · The Widow-Maker

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

S19 E6 · Kitty's Love Affair

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.

S19 E7 · The Widow and the Rogue

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

S19 E8 · A Game of Death...An Act of Love (1)

Bear Sanderson tells his wife Cora is coming home but Mrs. Sanderson is unhappy because she hates her marriage Bear whishes his wife dead He soon finds his wish true. Festus is getting deputies to help with the renegades, Doc Adams tells Cora that her home is gone and her mom has died. Cora asks how her mom died, Newly continues to track the renegades, Matt tells Bear he is sorry for what happened. Matt warns Bear not take the into his own hands because he wants the Indians dead for killing his wife. Cora wants her dad to let the law handle the raids. Matt hires a lawyer to defend the Indians in jail but doesn't want to take the case, Cora talks to Cicero Wolfe to take the case but he still won't take it. Matt feels that Bear let him down. Baer brings up the time when Kitty was shot and took off his badge and went to find Kitty's attackers alone with hurting Dodge. Mr. Wolfe takes the case only to tell Matt that he is an Indian and says the case is a sham.

S19 E9 · A Game of Death...An Act of Love (2)

Mr. Wolfe has taken the case and said it was sham, Matt offers to protect the lawyer. Cora feels lied to because she didn't know Mr. Wolfe was an indian. Cicero wolfe continues his after defense lawyer objects to the facts proving nothing. Cora feels that the case could hurt her dad no matter how the case ends. Cora feels her dad drove his wife to her death.Mr. Wolfe rests his case. Bear realizes that what Cora said was right and still loves her. Mr. Wolfe asks for a friend and says he always loved her.

S19 E10 · Lynch Town

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.

S19 E11 · The Hanging of Newly O'Brien

Newly trying to save a hillbilly's life by inserting a tube in their throat loses his patent causing the family members to plan to execute him.

S19 E12 · Susan Was Evil

Nellie and Susan get ready to leave for St. Louis when Matt brings a prisoner to be treated for a wound he got while robing a bank. Susan wants to leave for St. Louis right away. Susan worries she and Nellie may never leave because of her love for the prisoner. Mr. Boswell asks Nellie to marry him. Susan puts a stop to Nellie getting married.

S19 E13 · The Deadly Innocent

Billy comes back to Dodge because he has trouble finding anyone to listen to his stories and visit Festus who is a friend of his. Billy retarded and tells Festus a riddle and the answer given isn't funny to Billy, Doc tells Festus that Billy has the mind of a seven or eight year old and needs better care. Billy sees a man hurting a cat and almost kills the man, not knowing that what he did was wrong Matt and Festus talk to Judge Brooker and Festus becomes a guardian to Billy. When a deer is shot for food Billy attacks Festus. Festus has a hard time trying to make Billy understand why the deer was shot. Doc tells Festus to take Billy back to where he came from but finds that hard to do. They go to the place Doc suggested and Billy gets worried about the noises inside the place. Festus tells Billy he is going to kill rabbits for dinner and try to give Billy a taste of life. Matt, Doc & Festus find Billy telling kids stories at an orphan's home.

S19 E14 · The Child Between

Lew Harrod rides to Dodge looking for Doc Adams but learn he is out Newly goes to help but finds that the boy's mom doesn't newly to help. Newly tries to have the parent's take the baby to Dodge, the mom doesn't like the medicine Newly wants to use, and the dad is a wanted man. The dad is angry because he didn't know Newly is a deputy. Harrod trusts newly and his wife doesn't want to go to Dodge because she knows Newly might bring men to take husband away. Makesha takes the baby to her people after Newly asks them to go to Dodge under the oath doctors take that way Newly can't say anything about her husband.

S19 E15 · A Family of Killers

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

S19 E16 · Like Old Times

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.

S19 E17 · The Town Tamers

Matt and Luke come to restore order to a town and hide their badge as walk in a bar. They find out that it will be hard work. Luke runs into a woman that he once loved Caleb wants Luke as his dad. Luke is told to go after the woman he loves and take her back. Luke wonders if being a Marshal is a good idea, he marries Caleb's mom and is told men are coming to the café to keep the town from dying. Matt returns with Festus and Newly to help out. Luke is leaving his job as Marshal.

S19 E18 · The Foundling

After being forced to shoot a man who is breaking up the Long Branch, Matt goes off to be alone only to find a young girl and a newborn in a cave. Neither she nor her parents want the child, and they send it with Matt. Matt finds the only logical choice, Miss Kitty, to deposit the baby with till something can be done with it. Matt decides to give it to the widow of the man he just killed but doesn't realize that Kitty is willing to sell the Long Branch to keep the baby for herself.

S19 E19 · The Iron Blood of Courage

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.

S19 E20 · The Schoolmarm

Sarah takes her class on picnic trip to enjoy nature but is attacked by Mr. Stokes who is drunk and will have a baby but doesn't know yet and has hidden the secret. Doc tells her but she doesn't believe him. Mr. Pruitt and his son Lester love her. Carl feels hurt that he couldn't tell Sarah he would love the baby anyway. Carl goes to jail for not telling Matt why he fought Mr. Stokes. Sarah doesn't want to help Carl get out of jail because she was attacked and wants to leave Dodge.

S19 E21 · Trail of Bloodshed

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

S19 E22 · Cowtown Hustler

Jack Albertson plays a former pool player who tries to get some respect back. The men playing with him punch him because they realize he still has the touch to win. Sally's husband wants to use Moses to get money from him for him & Sally. Sally doesn't want her husband to gamble anymore. Sally wants Dave to take her somewhere, Moses uses Dave to get some respect back. Kitty asks some to leave the bar because she feels Moses might get hurt. Sally learns from Dave that he bet their money on another man so Dave can win. Moses hasn't lost his touch and plays for love.

S19 E23 · To Ride a Yeller Horse

Joan Shepherd wants Anna May to marry Steven Rogers, not Newly or Orlo who is a farmer. Ana May wants to date Newly. Newly drops by to take Anna May for a ride and is told she won't be back for awhile. Orlo fights Newly over Anna May, Orlo hits his head on the wagon causing him to lose his memory.

S19 E24 · Disciple

When a lawman's gun arm is shot up, he's essentially a sitting duck. That's what Matt figures when his ability to shoot again is in doubt. So, he leaves the badge and Dodge behind as well as Kitty, Festus, Doc, and Newly. Like vultures circling, outlaws start coming in to gun Dillon down. But, Dillon is out and about and a new marshal is in town. He meets a young man who is handy with a gun but refuses to shoot any living creature even if it were for his own life. Circumstances prove to both men that sometimes responsibility to duty requires more than just the ability to shoot.

Season 20

24 episodes

S20 E1 · Matt Dillon Must Die

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

S20 E2 · Town in Chains

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

S20 E3 · The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1)

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

S20 E4 · The Guns of Cibola Blanca (2)

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

S20 E5 · Thirty a Month and Found

Matt houses a drunk Will & Friends in the jail they go looking for $300 that they think Bill took. Matt thinks it was a misunderstanding. Will doesn't want to tell Matt that they shot Curly Wills (They buried him before going to Dodge. Doak stops to see his girlfriend and says marriage will need to wait, as Will & Quincy leaves without Doak Quincy and the storekeepers are shot.

S20 E6 · The Wiving

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

S20 E7 · The Iron Men

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

S20 E8 · The Fourth Victim

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

S20 E9 · The Tarnished Badge

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

S20 E10 · In Performance of Duty

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

S20 E11 · Island in the Desert (1)

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

S20 E12 · Island in the Desert (2)

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

S20 E13 · The Colonel

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

S20 E14 · The Squaw

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.

S20 E15 · The Hiders

A farmer comes by and asks Sharp where is cow is, Matt tells the milk cow owner that he has no proof to arrest ""the hiders."" The farmer wants to go after them himself. Matt tells the men that will leave Dodge if anyone else complains. Dink escapes from Carp after being hurt, Festus finds Dink and treats his wounds. Dink tells Festus he likes waking up in the morning, Martha warns Dink to watch for Carp. Carp asks Dink to help kill Festus.

S20 E16 · Larkin

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

S20 E17 · The Fires of Ignorance

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.

S20 E18 · The Angry Land

Matt takes a young orphan Bessie Sutherland after her parents were killed on the prairie, to live with her Aunt Rachel. Rachel tells Matt that because of the devastating experiences that she has had, does not want to take in her niece, besides she wants to sell her land.

S20 E19 · Brides and Grooms

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

S20 E20 · Hard Labor

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

S20 E21 · I Have Promises to Keep

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

S20 E22 · The Busters

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

S20 E23 · Manolo

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

S20 E24 · The Sharecroppers

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