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.
Guest Stars:
Mike Road, Tom Reese
Troublemakers trick an immigrant blacksmith into leaving his house on his wedding night, then burn it down.
Guest Stars:
George Kennedy, Wesley Lau
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.
Guest Stars:
Rex Holman, Warren Oates, Trevor Bardette
Lee Nagel suspects his visiting uncle of murder when his father is killed in their store in an apparent accident.
Guest Stars:
Dabbs Greer, Harry Lauter, Richard Rust, Gene Nelson, Roy Barcroft
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.
Guest Stars:
Paul Guilfoyle, Anthony Caruso
Matt is called in to deal with a corrupt sheriff in Tascosa.
Guest Stars:
Gilman Rankin, Susan Cummings, Stafford Repp, Lane Bradford
Matt's old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.
Guest Stars:
Barney Phillips, Lawrence Dobkin, Bing Russell, Ben Wright, Roy Engel
Murders follow when a buffalo hunter and his browbeaten partner come to town.
Guest Stars:
Kenneth Tobey, H.M. Wynant, Ned Glass, Howard Culver, Jimmy Noel
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.
Guest Stars:
Conlan Carter, John Dehner, Allan Lane
A young army drummer named Raffie is terrorized by two bullying mule skinners.
Guest Stars:
Phil Chambers, Bruce Gordon, Jack Grinnage
Jake Creed accuses his young hired hand, Ben Tolliver, of horse theft.
Guest Stars:
John Lupton, Hank Patterson, Roy Barcroft
The vicious Dolan brothers move in on a tough cattle rancher and his non-violent son.
Guest Stars:
Guy Stockwell, Leo Gordon, John Hoyt, Rex Holman
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.
Guest Stars:
Anne Seymour, Denver Pyle, John George, Michael Hinn
A young drifter takes a job as cook at Delmonico's but accidentally kills a crazy buffalo hunter who complains about his cooking.
Guest Stars:
Sue Randall, John Milford, Guy Stockwell, Tom Greenway, John Pickard
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!
Guest Stars:
Hampton Fancher, Buddy Ebsen, Linda Watkins, Hope Summers
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?
Guest Stars:
Dabbs Greer, Lurene Tuttle, Kevin Hagen, Jack Grinnage
A man shoots his partner, flees, and is caught by two men claiming to be lawmen.
Guest Stars:
Lane Chandler, Don Keefer, Harry Carey, Jr., Ken Lynch
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.
Guest Stars:
Hank Patterson
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.
Guest Stars:
Jan Shepard, Tom Reese, Strother Martin
The theft of a sack of potatoes leads to increasingly violent hostilities between the Scooper and Galloway families.
Guest Stars:
Harry Dean Stanton, Warren Oates, Jack Elam, Nora Marlowe, Jeanette Nolan
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.
Guest Stars:
Anne Helm, Roy Barcroft
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.
Guest Stars:
Joseph Mell, George Kennedy
While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.
Guest Stars:
Harry Shannon, George Eldredge, House Peters Jr., Charles Aidman
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.
Guest Stars:
Tom Reese, Ron Hayes, Howard Culver
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.
Guest Stars:
Quentin Sondergaard, Joseph Mell, John Harmon, Karl Swenson, Cactus Mack
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.
Guest Stars:
James Drury, Ron Hayes, Jan Shepard, Glenn Strange
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.
Guest Stars:
George Kennedy, Barney Phillips, Sandy Kenyon, Chris Alcaide
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.
Guest Stars:
Susan Gordon, Wright King
A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.
Guest Stars:
Henry Brandon, Eddie Little Sky, Jack Lambert, Buck Young, Charles Seel
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.
Guest Stars:
Joseph Mell, Virginia Gregg
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.
Guest Stars:
Phyllis Love, Vic Perrin
A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.
Guest Stars:
John Larch, Allan Lane
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.
Guest Stars:
Robert Karnes
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.
Guest Stars:
Virginia Gregg, Garry Walberg, Paul Langton
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.
Guest Stars:
John van Dreelen, Dabbs Greer, Patricia Smith
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.
Guest Stars:
Tod Andrews, Cloris Leachman, Rudy Doucette, Warren J. Kemmerling, Jimmy Noel
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.
Guest Stars:
Diana Millay, Rand Brooks, Glenn Strange
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.
Guest Stars:
Robert Karnes, Wright King

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