A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.
Guest Stars:
Gregg Palmer, Whit Bissell, John Hoyt, Tony Bill, Lou Krugman
Sworn to avenge his brother's death, a hoodlum comes gunning for a small town's local minister. When Colton arrives to warn his old friend and ex-soldier, he finds the man unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.
Guest Stars:
Jack Lord, Joan Freeman, Bill Quinn, Ron Soble, Fred Kogan
A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.
Guest Stars:
Edward Faulkner, Jeanne Cooper
Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.
Guest Stars:
Ed Peck, Tom Lowell
Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.
Guest Stars:
Anne Baxter, Paul Richards, Lane Bradford
Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.
Guest Stars:
Larry Ward, Tom Stern
Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.
Guest Stars:
Alan Baxter, Lloyd Gough, Katharine Ross
While trying to defend his wife's honor, a friend of Colton is killed... and Colton is torn between seeking justice and keeping his word to turn the other cheek.
Guest Stars:
Lee Philips, Dick Wilson
Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.
Guest Stars:
Robin Hughes, Harold Peary, Dub Taylor, Hank Patterson
Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.
Guest Stars:
John Pickard, Russ Conway, Brock Peters, Don Keefer, Berkeley Harris
When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.
Guest Stars:
Warren Stevens, David Opatoshu
When a doctor proves to be as full of whiskey as he is of self-pity, Colton must perform an emergency appendectomy on a young gunfighter.
Guest Stars:
Barry Sullivan, Joby Baker, George J. Lewis, Robert F. Lyons
Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.
Guest Stars:
Bert Freed, Tom Tully, Burgess Meredith
A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.
Guest Stars:
Sheree North, Corey Allen, Jack Lambert, Sol Gorss
A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.
Guest Stars:
Jeff Bridges, Sonny Tufts, Bryan O'Byrne
While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.
Guest Stars:
Zalman King, Ina Balin, Stewart Moss
Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.
Guest Stars:
Mel Ruick, Bethel Leslie, Jerry Ayres, Pat Conway, Quinn K. Redeker
Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.
Guest Stars:
Dan Duryea, Robert Emhardt, Norman Leavitt
Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.
Guest Stars:
Deanna Lund, Curt Conway, Joe Mantell, Robert Lansing, Edward Binns
In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.
Guest Stars:
Jean Hale, James Gregory
While a young gunman lies dying in a cave, a ruthless man waits outside hoping to get his hands on the boy's loot. (Part 1 of 2)
Guest Stars:
Joyce Van Patten, James Whitmore, Skip Homeier, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle
Following the late Johnny Sharp's instructions, Colton arranges for the four people closest to the gunman to meet at the undertaker's parlor. (Part 2 of 2)
Guest Stars:
John Doucette, Skip Homeier, Pat Hingle, James Whitmore, Joyce Van Patten
Colton encounters a little girl riding his horse — which was stolen from Colton during the stagecoach robbery in which he was shot and left for dead.
Guest Stars:
Beverly Garland, Peter Mark Richman, Leonard P. Geer
Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.
Guest Stars:
Ed Peck, Mike Mazurki, Martin E. Brooks
A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.
Guest Stars:
William Henry, Victor Jory, Buff Brady