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25 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 1
Mon, Sep 11, 196760 mins
Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell are escorting a notorious outlaw back to Dodge City to stand trial. A member of another outlaw gang sees them traveling by stagecoach and switches out cotter pins on the yoke that keeps the stage tied to the horses. The pin obligingly breaks on a mountain road, causing a spectacular crash. Kitty crawls out unscathed and checks on Matt, who's unconscious but will be okay, and the outlaw -- who's comatose and dying. When she hears the outlaw gang approach, she takes Matt's Marshal's badge off his shirt and puts it on the outlaw, then spins a deceptive web for the gang, who believes her until the outlaw awakens and uses his last breaths to tell the gang what really happened. Most of the occasional-player cast of Dodge City is on hand for Kitty's later speech asking the citizens of Dodge to ransom Matt.
Episode 2
Mon, Sep 18, 196760 mins
Two long time feuding cattle barons are set for a showdown in Dodge. This will place Marshal Dillon and the town right in the middle of the trouble.
Episode 3
Mon, Sep 25, 196760 mins
A notorious outlaw was shot in the back, fatally, before Matt could arrest him. The large bounty on the man's head was never collected. Now a "crusading" newspaper reporter is trying to goad the dead man's two young sons into a showdown with Matt Dillon, who would have been legally enjoined from getting the bounty money because of his lawman status and thus is the main suspect in the shooting.
Episode 4
Mon, Oct 2, 196760 mins
Plot summary is wrong, and is critical to the story. They were not trying to steal a calf. The calf was lame and they put it down. .......Instead of: Bob Johnson is a super fast gunman looking for revenge against the men who paralyzed his foster father and killed his foster brother, when they were attempting to steal a calf........... Should be: Bob Johnson is a super fast gunman looking for revenge against the men who paralyzed his foster father and killed his foster brother, after they put down a lame calf, and were accused of being rustlers.
Episode 5
Mon, Oct 9, 196760 mins
Fast on the draw, Bob Johnson continues to give into the temptation to use his gun to extract revenge through self defense, even if he crosses the line into murder.
Episode 6
Mon, Oct 16, 196760 mins
Clint Sorils, a notorious gunman, is minding his own business when a stray bullet ruins his hat. In trying to obtain payment, Clint runs afoul of Red Conniston, a powerful rancher. The ensuing clash leaves men dead and gravely wounded, all because of a hat.
Episode 7
Mon, Oct 23, 196760 mins
Hard-Luck Henry Haggen comes to Dodge City to persuade his cousin Festus to return home on an important mission. Festus, as the wisest of the Haggens, is to act as Solomon and divide a chest of Confederate gold pieces among the Haggen clan. Henry's constant mishaps thwart Festus's efforts in one of the funniest episodes of the series.
Episode 8
Mon, Oct 30, 196760 mins
When some soldiers come to Dodge, the sergeant who earlier caught two soldiers deserting, is now using this information as potential blackmail against them. When they come into town, the sergeant has a run in with Festus. Later, the soldiers stab the sergeant. The commanding officer, upon hearing of the sergeant's run in with Festus, tells Matt to turn him over or he'll tear up the town to look for him. Festus then turns himself in to the Major.
Episode 9
Mon, Nov 6, 196760 mins
Buck Taylor joins the cast as Newly O'Brian when Newly and Kitty are kidnapped by a gang who mistakenly believe he is a doctor. His skills as a gunsmith are central to their escape.
Episode 10
Mon, Nov 13, 196760 mins
Two fur trappers find their furs are worthless and their plan for moving westward are crushed. In a desperate move the two scheme a robbery with intentions of leaving for California. But things do not go as planned.
Episode 11
Mon, Nov 20, 196760 mins
Harvey Cagle, a resident of Dodge, owes money to someone in another town. He tries to convince the man he owes to give him time to pay him back, but the man gives him only a few weeks. While there he sees a gunfighter, named Dave Reeves, kills someone and decides to hire him to kill his partner Carl Anderson so that he could get control of the business they share. When Reeves arrives he finds out that the woman Anderson is seeing is his wife, who left him a few years ago, and this makes him want to kill Anderson more.
Episode 12
Mon, Nov 27, 196760 mins
Matt and Doc quarantine private car of a train. One of the passengers is suspected of having the plague. There's a major flaw in the scene where they isolate the infected car. The conductor that was servicing the passengers of the quarantined car was allowed to leave with the remainder of the train.
Episode 13
Mon, Dec 4, 196760 mins
Festus is jailed for a robbery and murder he did not commit in Pierceville, by an aging Sheriff who's too proud to investigate leads that would prove him innocent.
Episode 14
Mon, Dec 18, 196760 mins
A cowboy finds a lone Indian boy near his burned-out village. They become attached to each other, but the boy is met by racism when they reach Dodge City.
Episode 15
Mon, Dec 25, 196760 mins
When triplets are born to a dying woman, Doc Adams will do all he can to keep the babies together instead of sending them to an orphanage.
Episode 16
Mon, Jan 1, 196860 mins
When a childlike simpleton is accused of murder, Matt will have his hands full trying to keep the man from being lynched in a town that cries for blood.
Episode 17
Mon, Jan 8, 196860 mins
Matt's horse shows up riderless in Dodge City, and there is blood on the saddle. While Festus and Newly search for Matt, ruthless vigilantes take over.
Episode 18
Mon, Jan 15, 196860 mins
A wounded man falls into his father's well, and rescue attempts are complicated by nearby blasting and the fact that the rescue party includes two men who don't want him to be rescued.
Episode 19
Mon, Jan 22, 196860 mins
Nick Skouras, a hired gunman, is crippled by his father Alex and can no longer use his right hand. Now he must face a vengeful killer in spite of his father's wishes. This episode should not be confused with "Blood Money" (Season 3, Episode 3) broadcast 28 September 1957.
Episode 20
Mon, Jan 29, 196860 mins
Newly rescues an ignorant hill girl, Merry Florene, from her uncivilized half-brothers Roland and Elbert. He brings her to Dodge City and arranges for a job at Jonas' general store. The two ruffians find her and try to force her to help them rob the store.
Episode 21
Mon, Feb 5, 196860 mins
Jubal Gray and his gang of renegade ex-soldiers steal a cache of rifles and gunpowder to sell to a band of marauding Indians. In a chance encounter they seriously injure Tahrohon, an Indian friend of buffalo-man Noah Meek. Noah vows revenge for his friend's wounds.
Episode 22
Mon, Feb 12, 196860 mins
Matt goes to Texas to attend the retirement party of his old friend, Sheriff Mark Handlin. After witnessing his friend's assassination by five desperadoes whom Mark had previously sent to prison, Matt chases them into Mexico.
Episode 23
Mon, Feb 19, 196860 mins
When a new Indian tribal leader wants changes, the white Reservation Police Chief balks. When Marshal Dillon arrives some free-rein Indian police officers drum up charges on Matt and the new leader.
Episode 24
Mon, Feb 26, 196860 mins
Almost nobody believes traveling medicine man Mr. Sam'l is really a "water witch" who can detect water underground with his divining rod. The exception is a ruthless land grabber who has capitalized on a prolonged drought and all the known wells drying up. The land grabber, secretly, hired professional geologists to locate hidden springs on farmland that the owners are about to abandon and sell -- for a song -- to him. Realizing that Mr. Sam'l could find the water through blind luck if nothing else, and that even if he doesn't he will inspire Dodge City to renew digging before the land grabber can secure the property, the land grabber hires a gunman ...
Episode 25
Mon, Mar 4, 196860 mins
When Dobie Price escapes from the Dodge jail, Dobie's former gang member and cousin rides with Marshal Dillon to bring Dobie back to justice and a date with the hangman.