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.
Guest Stars:
Betsy Jones-Moreland, Burt Reynolds, Tom Lowell, Harry Bartell, Mabel Albertson
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.
Guest Stars:
Sheree North, Richard Coogan, Allan Hunt, Burt Reynolds, Alan Baxter
A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.
Guest Stars:
William Talman, Scott Marlowe, Don Haggerty, Hope Summers
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.
Guest Stars:
L.Q. Jones, Bud Osborne, Harry Dean Stanton, Harry Townes, Philip Abbott
A mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.
Guest Stars:
Chubby Johnson, Dave Willock, Sam Edwards, Andrew Prine, Peggy Rea
A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.
Guest Stars:
James Broderick, Nancy Wickwire, Glenn Strange, Gage Clarke, Mike Lally
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.
Guest Stars:
Everett Sloane, Burt Reynolds, Sharon Farrell, Don Haggerty, Russell Custer
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.
Guest Stars:
Anjanette Comer, Glenn Strange, Michael Fox, Barney Phillips, Dennis Cross
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.
Guest Stars:
Jeanne Cooper, Roy Roberts, Howard Wendell, Harry Lauter, Raymond Guth
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.
Guest Stars:
Gilbert Roland, Gene Evans, Anna Navarro, Walter Burke
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.
Guest Stars:
Gilbert Roland, Pepe Hern, Gene Evans, Anna Navarro, Ted Jordan
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.
Guest Stars:
Brooke Bundy, Lloyd Corrigan, Burt Reynolds, Barry Kelley, Sheldon Allman
A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.
Guest Stars:
James Hampton, Marianna Hill, George Lindsey, Burt Reynolds, Milton Selzer
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.
Guest Stars:
James Best, Marsha Hunt, Burt Reynolds, Kent Smith, Robert Sorrells
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.
Guest Stars:
Glenn Strange, William Henry, Burt Reynolds, Ned Glass, Karen Sharpe
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.
Guest Stars:
Noah Beery Jr., Burt Reynolds, Don Dubbins, James Drake, Holly McIntire
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.
Guest Stars:
Glenn Strange, Butch Patrick, Burt Reynolds, Tom Reese, Ben Wright
A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.
Guest Stars:
Slim Pickens, Howard Wendell, Kenneth Tobey, Roy Barcroft, Elizabeth MacRae
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.
Guest Stars:
Glenn Strange, Burt Reynolds, Kevin Hagen, Conlan Carter, Orville Sherman
Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus
Guest Stars:
Lauri Peters, Richard X. Slattery, Burt Reynolds, Charles H. Gray, Jack Gordon
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.
Guest Stars:
Glenn Strange, Burt Reynolds, Robert J. Wilke, Warren Oates, James Griffith
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.
Guest Stars:
Glenn Strange, Lyle Bettger, Allyson Ames, Michael Higgins
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.
Guest Stars:
Kathleen Nolan, Burt Reynolds, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Reeves, Rex Holman
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.
Guest Stars:
Ben Wright, Burt Reynolds, Anthony Caruso, Ed Nelson, Robert F. Simon
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.
Guest Stars:
Glenn Strange, Burt Reynolds, Vic Perrin, Royal Dano, Hal Baylor
Caleb Marr comes to Dodge in search of a meaningful life after finally acknowledging his failure at farming.
Guest Stars:
Dabbs Greer, Glenn Strange, Burt Reynolds, John Dehner, Lane Bradford
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.
Guest Stars:
Jay C. Flippen, Noreen Corcoran, James Seay, Burt Reynolds, Berkeley Harris
A dying man confesses to a murder of which he was acquitted, but Chester suspects the man was lying.
Guest Stars:
Jan Clayton, Charles McGraw, Burt Reynolds, Bill Erwin, Rudy Doucette
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.
Guest Stars:
Glenn Strange, Joseph Sirola, Shug Fisher, Burt Reynolds, Jacqueline Scott
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.
Guest Stars:
Don Collier, Wilhelm von Homburg, Shug Fisher, Burt Reynolds, Allen Case
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.
Guest Stars:
Herbert Anderson, Percy Helton, Sharon Farrell, Henry Rowland, Vinton Hayworth
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.
Guest Stars:
Patricia Owens, Julie Sommars, Jack Betts, Russ McCubbin, Harry Bartell
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.
Guest Stars:
Christopher Connelly, Julie Parrish, George Kennedy, Anthony Caruso
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.
Guest Stars:
Burt Reynolds, Tom Lowell, Émile Genest, Jack Elam, Phyllis Coates
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.
Guest Stars:
Patric Knowles, Lee Kinsolving, Paul Fix
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.
Guest Stars:
Michael J. Pollard, Mark Goddard, Burt Reynolds

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