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.
Guest Stars:
Robert J. Wilke, Elisha Cook Jr., Bruce Gordon, John George, Dick Rich
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.
Guest Stars:
Martin Landau, Peter Breck, Ken Lynch
Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.
Guest Stars:
Dabbs Greer, Frank De Kova, Paul Langton, Sam Edwards
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.
Guest Stars:
J. Pat O'Malley, Harry Townes, Robert Gist, Clegg Hoyt, John George
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.
Guest Stars:
Clifton James, Al Ruscio, Mary Carver, Bartlett Robinson, Harold J. Stone
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.
Guest Stars:
Ron Randell, Walter Barnes
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.
Guest Stars:
Sandy Kenyon, Charles Aidman, John Anderson, John George
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.
Guest Stars:
Lew Gallo, Charles Bronson, Tom Greenway
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.
Guest Stars:
Nita Talbot, Dennis Patrick, Murray Hamilton, Ross Martin
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.
Guest Stars:
O.Z. Whitehead, George Macready, Chuck Hayward, Bing Russell, Charles Gray
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.
Guest Stars:
Philip Abbott, Pat Conway, James Westerfield
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.
Guest Stars:
Chris Alcaide
When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.
Guest Stars:
Robert F. Simon
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.
Guest Stars:
Donald Randolph, Frank Maxwell, John George, Roy Damron
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.
Guest Stars:
Warren Oates, Charles Maxwell, Andy Clyde, John George
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.
Guest Stars:
Hope Summers, William Schallert
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.
Guest Stars:
Wesley Lau, Jon Lormer, Joan Taylor, Charles Cooper
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.
Guest Stars:
Dabbs Greer, Howard Culver
A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.
Guest Stars:
Carl Benton Reid, Alfred Ryder, Dabbs Greer, Read Morgan, John George
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.
Guest Stars:
Jacqueline Scott, Kevin Hagen
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.
Guest Stars:
Jack Elam, Lane Bradford, Chuck Hayward
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.
Guest Stars:
Richard Rust, Addison Powell, Barry McGuire, Tom Greenway, Ben Wright
Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.
Guest Stars:
Allen Case, Linda Watkins, Roy Barcroft, Patricia Huston
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.
Guest Stars:
Fiona Hale, Wendell Holmes, Jack Grinnage, Bartlett Robinson
Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.
Guest Stars:
Norma Crane, Grant Williams, Guy Wilkerson, Russell Johnson, Denver Pyle
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.
Guest Stars:
Sheldon Allman, House Peters Jr., William Phipps, Barry Atwater, Barney Phillips
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.
Guest Stars:
Bert Freed, Joe Flynn, Edward Faulkner, Steve Raines, Herschel Graham
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.
Guest Stars:
Whitney Blake, Dabbs Greer, Mark Miller, Walter Burke, Allan Lurie
After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.
Guest Stars:
Peggy Stewart, Robert Rockwell, Raymond Guth, Phil Harvey, Robert Karnes
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.
Guest Stars:
Hank Patterson, Barney Phillips, Michael Pate
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.
Guest Stars:
Onslow Stevens, Ed Nelson, Mort Mills, Joseph Kearns
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.
Guest Stars:
James Drury
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.
Guest Stars:
Tom Holland, Garry Walberg, Harold J. Stone, Lou Krugman
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.
Guest Stars:
Darryl Hickman, Charles Maxwell, Dick Rich
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.
Guest Stars:
William Wellman Jr., Jack Lambert, Joseph Sargent
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.
Guest Stars:
Robert Ivers, Ted Knight, J. Pat O'Malley
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.
Guest Stars:
John Mitchum, Victor Lundin, William Bryant, John Larch, Joseph Kearns
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.
Guest Stars:
Monte Hale, Gene Nelson, Michael Pate
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.
Guest Stars:
Walter Brooke, Chuck Roberson, Tom Brown, Ralph Moody, Eddie Little Sky

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