Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.
Guest Stars:
Joe De Santis, Margaret Hayes
Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.
Guest Stars:
Claudette Colbert, Alexander Lockwood, Joseph V. Perry, Harry Bartell, Denver Pyle
""Make your play Billy Jack,"" says young Bobby as he pretends with his father's pistol, which is against the family's rules. But when the real Billy Jack shows up in town and threatens the Andrews family trouble begins for Russ who can't find his gun.
Guest Stars:
Marsha Hunt, Edmond O'Brien, Walter Reed, Robert Vaughn
When Consuela Bowers arrives in the West, she hires a man to work on her father's ranch. She does not know that he is a professional gunman.
Guest Stars:
Iphigenie Castiglioni, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Richards, Val Avery
The town council decides to retire old Sheriff Larson against much protest from the oldtime sheriff himself who does not want to be put out to pasture. He tries to prove to the town just how valuable and useful he still is.
Guest Stars:
John Zaremba, Val Dufour, Walter Brennan
A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.
Guest Stars:
Whitney Blake, Carl Benton Reid, Tommy Sands, Gary Merrill
Traveling cattleman Ethan Boyan is framed in a frontier town for the slaying of a woman in a stagecoach holdup. The only person present when the crime was committed was Isabelle Rutledge, an embittered blind woman.
Guest Stars:
Mason Curry, Phillip Pine, Dewey Martin, Anne Bancroft, John Anderson
Sheriff Morgan Winter decides to give a young man involved in a shooting another chance by taking him into his custody for a year. But the rest of the town, including Winter's deputy, just wants to see the boy fail and get sent up to prison.
Guest Stars:
Marshall Thompson, Frances Robinson
Lawyer Jud Lester is just arriving in town right after a robbery when he finds one of the robbers hiding in his office wounded. The robber passes out and people in town assume that Jud shot him, and treat him as a hero. Unfortunately Jud decides to let them keep thinking this, and helps make plans to capture the rest of the gang when the captured man is scheduled to be hanged. But things may backfire.
Guest Stars:
Will Wright, Robert Gothie, Lew Ayres, Diane Brewster, Willis Bouchey
A matriarch is adamanant about keeping the Spring Waters for her ranch and endangers her grandson, while other ranchers seek to use the water for their cattle, trouble ensues.
Guest Stars:
Marian Seldes, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Beymer, Peggy Wood
After he is wounded in a gun duel, Will Gorman resolves to forsake the gunman's life. He visits an old friend, whose restless wife and gun-eager son weaken his resolution to reform.
Guest Stars:
Howard Keel, Michael Landon, Jean Willes, John Dehner
The daughter of a wealthy cattleman elopes with one of her father's ranch hands. Then he learns that her new husband is a fugitive from justice.
Guest Stars:
Onslow Stevens, Jane Greer, Chris Alcaide, Eddie Albert, Robert Karnes
Ex-army Medical corp doctor Ben Harper winds up in a town run by a crippled sheriff who holds a personal grudge against the doctor.
Guest Stars:
Joseph Cotten, Johnny Crawford, Mary Shipp, S. John Launer, Claude Akins
Gunslinger Tod Owen is on trial for murder, when he is found not guilty, it comes out that the dead man's brother had more reason to want his brother dead.
Guest Stars:
Edward Platt, Dick Crockett, Raymond Bailey, Joseph V. Perry, Robert Ryan
Belle is running a freightline outfit. Murdock and his sons are causing problems for Belle and are forcing a merger the hard way. Without the contracts needed for her line, the Murdocks make life miserable for Belle and her Grandfather who founded the line.
Guest Stars:
Barbara Stanwyck, Robert H. Harris, John Archer, James Bell, Jason Johnson
A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.
Guest Stars:
Dan Duryea, Joseph Sargent, Chuck Hayward, Karl Swenson, Carole Mathews
A man who has spent most of his life working other people's property, vows to own land of his own. He homesteads on government land until violence breaks out with ranchers who want the land for grazing.
Guest Stars:
Dale Van Sickel, James Drury, Tom Holland, David Opatoshu, Edward Binns
A frontier sheriff finds he is unable to cope with a group of trouble-making trailherders when he breaks his arm. The his younger brother arrives in town and the sheriff swears him in as his deputy. But the older man learns that his brother's idea of law enforcement is to kill any lawbreaker regardless of the crime.
Guest Stars:
Macdonald Carey, Gene Roth, Peter Whitney, John Ericson, Stacy Harris
A man arrives in the town of Bitter Creek. Though he is trying to live down his past as a gun fighter the stranger learns that his appearance has a decided effect on three of the town's inhabitants.
Guest Stars:
Nick Adams, Cathy O'Donnell, Tex Ritter, Jeanne Cooper, Dennis Cross
Cort McConnell rides into town, when he sees a man running out of the general store and after he wrestles him down they fight until a shot goes off killing the man. With the shopkeeper dead the townspeople charge Cort with the crime.
Guest Stars:
William Schallert, Rachel Ames, Mark Stevens, Denver Pyle
Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale.
Guest Stars:
Leif Erickson, R.G. Armstrong, Sidney Blackmer, Chuck Connors, Dennis Hopper
The famed gunman Doc Holliday visits a young married couple who are friends of his. He learns that the wife holds her husband in contempt because he is paying protection money to a gang of thieves in order to keep his home and ranch safe.
Guest Stars:
Julie Adams, Arthur Franz, Dewey Martin, Robert Gothie, Chuck Hayward
Dr. Allan McMurdo tries to save the life of Dave Bechdolt who was shot when he tried to rob a man so that he could buy some seeds to grow his crops for his family.
Guest Stars:
Alex Gerry, Forrest Taylor, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Nelson, Peter Breck
An Easterner learns that his brother has been killed out West and sets out to find the murderer. He learns that the killer's identity is known, but that the law does not have the men to go after him.
Guest Stars:
Michael Rennie
Logan Wheeler seeks Raney Benson, a wanted bank robber for the reward money. Logan's father is close to losing his ranch and Logan sets out to help him.
Guest Stars:
Barry Sullivan, Fred Kohler Jr., Whitney Blake, Carl Benton Reid, DeForest Kelley
Marshal Cam Tolby faces the enmity of the townspeople when he tries to take an outlaw to Prescott, Ariz., to stand trial for robbery and murder. His difficulties increase when the outlaw, despite handcuffs, manages to save a group of schoolchildren from disaster.
Guest Stars:
Henry Rowland, Howard Culver, Ben Wright, Sam Edwards, Steve Cochran
Old timer Ben Carey wants to become Deputy but the town thinks he's too old for the job. He takes in a man with a snake bite and realizes that he is outlaw Jerrod Toll.
Guest Stars:
Jon Lormer, June Lockhart, Gene Evans, Thomas Mitchell, William Schallert
A gunman, tired of violence, hangs up his guns and tries to make a new life for himself as an attorney. But he finds that his reputation as a gunman hinders him. Then he takes the case of a man whose past record makes him the prime suspect in a murder case.
Guest Stars:
Cesar Romero, Bruce Cowling, Lyle Bettger, Alex Gerry, Chris Alcaide