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39 Episodes 1957 - 1958
Episode 1
Sat, Sep 14, 195730 mins
Gunman Nate Springer arrives in Dodge with the obvious intention of committing murder, but his nervousness and unpredictability make Matt determined to find out who hired him and why he seems so different from his steel-nerved reputation.
Episode 2
Sat, Sep 21, 195730 mins
Chester claims the new stranger in town is really there to kill him and Matt investigates, but remains skeptical even after Chester is shot in the arm by an unseen person.
Episode 3
Sat, Sep 28, 195730 mins
In order to collect a reward of $500, Harry Speener kills Joe Harpe even though Harpe had recently saved his life on the prairie. Matt grudgingly pays the reward, but unwittingly sends Speener to an ironic fate when he orders the opportunistic ex-bartender out of Dodge.
Episode 4
Sat, Oct 5, 195730 mins
While Kitty dines with Matt on the edge of town, Kitty's old beau robs the bank.
Episode 5
Sat, Oct 12, 195730 mins
Young Budge Grilk tells Matt that his father has committed a murder and offers to lead the Marshal to their homestead. Matt and Chester are wary of Budge because of his addled and unkempt demeanor, but they decide to accompany him. When they arrive at the decrepit homestead, Matt and Chester are surprised and taken as hostages at gunpoint and locked in a squalid potato cellar. Matt suspects that the entire family is half-starved and capable of desperate measures to ensure their survival. Pa Grilk confirms Matt's suspicion when he tells them that they are to be killed so that he and Budge can rob the Dodge City Bank without interference. Matt eventually gets the upper hand on Budge and is able to hold him at knife-point. He attempts to barter for his and Chester's freedom, but he is shocked and dismayed when the ruthless Pa Grilk proves fully willing to sacrifice the young man's life.
Episode 6
Sat, Oct 19, 195730 mins
Young and likable Jesse Pruett teams up with an unlikely "partner" in the person of Bill Stapp, a murderous former Quantrill raider. Stapp has promised to lead Jesse to the man who killed his father so he can avenge his death, but the young man is tragically unaware of Stapp's true intentions
Episode 7
Sat, Oct 26, 195730 mins
On her way to Dodge to marry, Mavis McCloud sends a telegram to the Marshal of Dodge City. Chester and Doc want to know "Is she coming here to marry Matt" or is something else going on?
Episode 8
Sat, Nov 2, 195730 mins
Joe Digger is nearly killed by two men who tried to lynch him. Now he is giving Matt until midnight the next day to bring them to jail, or he will track them down and kill them both.
Episode 9
Sat, Nov 9, 195730 mins
In a situation much like the play referenced by the title, the children of two prominent families have fallen in love, though the patriarchs of both have forbidden they see each other. Despite the girl's father having threatened the boy with death, the two run away, and go to Dodge City for Matt's help. He reluctantly does, though the father arrives soon afterward, warning that if he doesn't turn them over to him, he and his ranch hands will tear the town apart searching for them. Matt and Chester secretly have the young couple married and sent off in a stage coach, and delay the father back at his estate until he cools down, and finally accepts what has happened.
Episode 10
Sat, Nov 16, 195730 mins
Matt sets out with a vengeance to capture two trouble-making Texas cowhands who dragged Chester and left him near death.
Episode 11
Sat, Nov 23, 195730 mins
Losing his first wife when she disappeared, Jim Cobbett tries marriage again. All seemed fine until she turned up missing too. Did he have something to do with her absence as some think he did with his first?
Episode 12
Sat, Nov 30, 195730 mins
Matt investigates why a gunman is harassing station master Jesse Daggett by killing his passengers in cold blood, when things reach a climax after a female passenger is shot dead.
Episode 13
Sat, Dec 7, 195730 mins
An impoverished but hardworking woman's plans to adopt an orphan baby are jeopardized when Matt discovers that her improvident husband is involved in cattle rustling.
Episode 14
Sat, Dec 14, 195730 mins
Doc, on his way to an accident at a local farmhouse, is confronted by a stranger barring his way. When he feels forced to shoot him, he tells Matt to arrest him for it before the marshal's reputation comes into question by everyone in town.
Episode 15
Sat, Dec 21, 195730 mins
Kitty takes a buggy ride with a dandified stranger. When he makes a pass, her spirited rejection of it results in her being left alone on the prairie.
Episode 16
Sat, Dec 28, 195730 mins
A feud has existed between two families from the Ozarks for some 40 years. Now they are both in Kansas, and the feud continues with fresh bloodshed. Marshal Dillon finds himself caught in the middle.
Episode 17
Sat, Jan 4, 195830 mins
Matt and Chester travel to the small town of Elkader to arrest would-be killer Carey Post, but find they must first expose a bogus U.S. Marshal in order to lure him into town.
Episode 18
Sat, Jan 11, 195830 mins
Doc finds a half-dead man on the side of the road and tells Matt. Matt and Chester ride out to a buffalo hunter's camp but before they get far, the occupants show up not treating them much better than the man the doc found.
Episode 19
Sat, Jan 18, 195830 mins
The Gunther brothers rob the Dodge City Bank and take Kitty hostage. Matt and Chester follow at a discreet distance, waiting for their chance, knowing that sadistic Jed would be happy to make good on his threat to kill Kitty.
Episode 20
Sat, Jan 25, 195830 mins
Matt and Chester find a man shot in the back in his lonely cabin and the immediate suspects are two men who have been trying to force him to sell his land.
Episode 21
Sat, Feb 1, 195830 mins
A strong-willed, shotgun-wielding matriarch helps her son escape from Matt's custody, but the Marshal is equally determined to see the young man tried and sentenced for killing an unarmed man.
Episode 22
Sat, Feb 8, 195830 mins
"There's no law west of Dodge." Two writers in from New York want to see if that's true. When a Pawnee Indian uprising seems to be brewing, they may have found their story.
Episode 23
Sat, Feb 15, 195830 mins
On the prairie, Matt meets up with a young boy who tells him that some men tied up and abducted his father the night before.
Episode 24
Sat, Feb 22, 195830 mins
When caught in a powerful blizzard, Marshal Dillon seeks shelter in a remote cabin. Two men let Matt inside, but they are cruel, mean bandits who have killed the owner of the cabin. They are abusing his daughter, they promise to kill Matt.
Episode 25
Sat, Mar 1, 195830 mins
The brother of a prospective bride-to-be witnesses her fiance visiting Beulah, one of Kitty's saloon floozies. Outraged that his sister would marry a man of such low character, the brother vows to kill him if the wedding takes place.
Episode 26
Sat, Mar 8, 195830 mins
Addle-brained hide skinner Emmett Dooley believes that he killed a man after getting drunk and demands to be put in jail. Matt discovers that Dooley was not the culprit and tries to lure the real killer into giving himself away.
Episode 27
Sat, Mar 15, 195830 mins
A suspected horse thief is lynched by his former friends. They find out too late they may have had the wrong man. The joke may be on all of them now as someone is killing them one by one.
Episode 28
Sat, Mar 22, 195830 mins
A Faro dealer is talking with Pence about taking a job at the saloon. Tom Cassidy, the town drunk, attacks him with a bottle. The Faro dealer knocks him down and threatens to kill him. He claims he has never seen Cassidy before.
Episode 29
Sat, Mar 29, 195830 mins
When town bully Cloud Marsh experiences public humiliation during a laughing gas show, he and his surly brothers assault proprietor Earle Stafford and attempt to molest his kind-hearted wife.
Episode 30
Sat, Apr 5, 195830 mins
When Doc is called to a Texas cattle drive's camp due to a shooting, Matt comes along and learns that the victim was shot in the back and that one of the cowhands was responsible. Headstrong trail boss Kin Talley refuses to disclose the identity of the guilty party and Matt responds by ordering all of Front Street's saloons, gambling halls, and stores closed. Determined to get the saloons re-opened, Talley delivers sickly Sam Peeples to Matt and claims that he is the killer. Matt knows that Peeples is not the guilty party, but without evidence he has little choice other than to re-open Front Street. Inevitably, rowdy cowhands create trouble that ultimately leads to Talley's arrest, the death of a cowhand in a showdown with Matt, and a surprising turn of events that discloses the true identity of the killer.
Episode 31
Sat, Apr 12, 195830 mins
Amy Slater gets to Dodge and tells Matt she came to die. He suggests seeing Doc Adams, she says she's not sick but that Matt could help. When asked how, she says "you're going to kill me." Learning the truth, he decides how to handle it.
Episode 32
Sat, Apr 19, 195830 mins
Dodge would appear to be undergoing a rash of suicides--or is a murderer with a rope making the rounds?
Episode 33
Sat, Apr 26, 195830 mins
Linda Bell is on the stagecoach to Dodge City. She plans to marry her fiancé Lou Paxon. On the stage, Matt Dillon stops Joe Bassett from harassing her. When the stage arrives, Lou and Joe exchange glances. They obviously know each other.
Episode 34
Sat, May 3, 195830 mins
The Dodge City Bank's acting manager loses $20,000 of the bank's money when he imprudently makes a loan secured by a seemingly "can't lose" poker hand. Matt makes it apparent to the three "players" that he believes they actually worked together to defraud the bank, so they flee Dodge with Doc as a hostage.
Episode 35
Sat, May 10, 195830 mins
Matt is strongly suspicious of the character and the intentions of gentleman gambler Leach Fields, especially when he proposes marriage to a recently-widowed woman who may know the location of $10,000 in stolen money.
Episode 36
Sat, May 17, 195830 mins
When Jim Cando is thrown in jail by Matt, for a robbery and murder, he orders his partner to get him out by any means, or he will implicate him in the crime too.
Episode 37
Sat, May 24, 195830 mins
When an Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers are murdered, the commanding officer of Fort Dodge threatens to put Dodge City under martial law unless Matt can capture the perpetrators within 48 hours.
Episode 38
Sat, May 31, 195830 mins
After capturing suspected murderer Jim Nation, Matt has to eventually trust the suspect to help out when he and other stagecoach passengers are held at gunpoint by an outlaw.
Episode 39
Sat, Jun 7, 195830 mins
Suave and enigmatic gambler Marcus France falls in love with Long Branch hostess Boni Damon. France is curiously unwilling to marry Boni, though he is willing to risk death to protect her from the unwanted advances of vicious Tiller Evans.