Gunsmoke

Matt intercedes on behalf of ex-con Cope Borden, when Rance Bradley accuses Cope of horse theft and attempts to lynch him. Cope is proven innocent of the charge, but later kills Bradleys nephew in a fair fight during a gambling dispute. Matt is caught in an awkward situation when he must defend the unsavory Cope against the decent people of Dodge.

When returning to Dodge, Chester and Matt are confronted by Holly Hawtree, whose father is desperately ill with gangrene. His only hope for survival is amputation of the affected leg. Matt performs the surgery, but the gangrene has spread too far and the old man dies. Matt later discovers that the presumed accident leading to Mr. Hawtrees condition was actually caused by Ben Walling, who has his sights on Holly.

Little Timmy Wyatt witnesses a series of bizarre murders. He has a habit of telling tall tales, so no one will believe him.

Matt warns skilled gunman Andy Travis, of his choice between quitting the gun or else being constantly hunted and forced to prove himself. Matt finds a way to foil the $1000 bounty on Andys head.

Two bullies cut off Chens pig-tail, gravely dishonoring him in Chinese culture. Chen vows vengeance.

Chester is embarrassed at a visit by his estranged mountain man brother Magnus. To prove that Magnus is too uncivilized for town, Chester tours him through the highlights of Dodge: card gambling, drinking, and talking with Kitty. Meanwhile, the Long Branch women plan a Christmas Eve dance which is busted by the spiteful Lucifer Jones.

Doc is enraged by traveling medicine man Professor Lute Bone and his opium elixir, and digs up a gun to shoot him with. A lad also hunts him because his father died drinking his elixir, so Bone reconsiders the patent medicine business.

Matt kills a man and his widow posts a $1,000 bounty in vengeance. Everyone from sodbusters to gunslingers are out for that reward.

Yorky, a white boy who was brought up by Arapahoes, is victimized by horse thieves. Accused of their crime, he is shot by the vengeful Abe Brandt and his son. Matt is also targeted by the horse thieves.

A well-liked hardware drummer is actually a man wanted for multiple murders.

An old sodbuster comes to town and decides he wants to marry Kitty. When he wont leave her alone she declares shell shoot him if he pesters her anymore.

Doc must find a way to thwart a typhoid epidemic in Dodge (Howard McNear appears).

Hack Prine, a friend of Matts rides into Dodge. However he is there as a gunman, for Matt Dillon.

Charles Bronson guest stars as a cowardly gunslinger who only goes after old men or young kids who arent very experienced with guns. But, when Matt Dillon gives him an ultimatum, he shows his true colors.

Seth, a newcomer to Dodge is bullied by Keeler, a boxer.

Matts Childhood hero, Dutch George is now the leader of a notorious gang of horse thieves he must now stop.

When Chesters mail-order bride arrives, neither she nor Chester are what the other are expecting (first credited appearance of Bert Rumsey as Sam).

Matt encounters an ex-girl friend---whos now working on the wrong side of the law.

A young outlaw uses an old woman as a pawn in his bid for freedom.

After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows,a human patient of Docs dies. Durning a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed.

Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial.

After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year old brother arrives to fight Matt.

Matt is used by an old friend (Andrew Duggan) in a con game (Simon Oakland appears).

Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as Bartender, but referred to by Chester as Sam Noonan).

Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws (including Mickey Simpson) that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians (Fintan Meyler and Herbert Rudley appear).

Matt helps a woman (Constance Ford) whose suitors (including Denver Pyle) are about to duel for her affections.

An old buffalo hunter (Edgar Stehli) swears revenge on the skinner (Grant Withers) that left him to die (Richard Deacon appears as banker Botkin, Bert Rumsey credited as Bartender).

An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her fathers raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).

A young gunfighter, Tom Clegg, forces farmer Abe Curry into a duel and kills him. Matt cant arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abes brother Morgan plots revenge. Morgan, who is unarmed, follows Clegg constantly. Clegg soon grows tired of it and attempts to take care of his ""problem.""

The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed (Lawrence Dobkin, Russell Johnson, and Gloria Marshall appear).

Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kittys negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, 4 men are dead and Rena is the cause.

A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.

Chester is drinking at the Long Branch and gets into an argument with a gambler over a girl. When the marshal breaks it up, he tells Chester to bring the man to jail. On the way there the man is killed and everyone thinks Chester did it. Matt has to prove Chester is innocent.

A cowboy vows revenge for the shooting of his friend, who was mistaken for a criminal (Don Keefer and Catherine McLeod, real-life husband and wife, appear as a husband and wife).

Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as Sam).

After Charlie Brewer is found dead, Jack Salter who was a friend of Charlie Brewer comes to Matts office saying Vint killed Brewer. Matt then tries to find out if Jack is right.

Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears).

A former Army Officer wants Matt Dillons job. Matt then takes Mr. Egan on his rounds. Matt lets Egan try his brand of justice that almost costs Egan his life.

Jack Kelly plays a hot-tempered husband who thinks Matt is after his wife.

Chester believes Asa Ledbetter is out to kill him. After Chester is shot, he tells Matt Asa Ledbetter shot him. Matt worries that Chester may be working too hard on finding Asa Ledbetter. Asa Ledbetter claims Chester killed his brother.

Doc, Chester, and Matt suspect Kitty of helping a bank robber when she invites Matt to an out of the way spot for dinner. What they didnt know was that the bank robber was the first man Kitty had ever known.

Jesse comes to Dodge to kill the man who killed his Pa.

Joe Digger wants to kill the two men who tried to lynch him.

When Matt sends Chester out to handle a rowdy couple of cow pokers, Chester ends up nearly dead. Matt is so guilt ridden he vows to find the men who did it and make them pay.

Pernell Roberts appears in this episode, as Matt tries to find a killer who robbed the stagecoach.

Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The mans brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.

A hillbilly arrives in Dodge looking to continue a feud started back in the hills of Virginia.

Matt & Chester are taken prisoner by two buffalo hunters who are hunting buffalo in Indian territory. The hunters leave them tied to a wagon in hopes that the Indians will kill them.

Ollie Ridgers is a free spirited man who hates towns and lives free on the prairie. His friend Jim Branch convinces Ollie to go into Dodge for a good time at Miss Kittys saloon. While Ollie is in town, two men kill Ollies hogs and mule. Ollie goes after the two men thus killing one of the men. Matt is forced to arrest his good friend Ollie for killing one of the men. After Ollie has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a long prison term, Ollies friend, (Jim Branch) kills Ollie to spare Ollie from the cruelty of being being incarcerated for the rest of his life.

Clifton Bunker and Samuel Spring, writers from New York, come to Dodge looking for a story. Finding none they stir up trouble to get a story.

Matt get caught in a blizzard then finds shelter in a cabin but finds more than he bargained for.

Hide skinner Emmett Dooley thinks he killed a man while drunk and turns himself in.

Tom Cassidy (a drunk) tries to kill Dan Clell (a new gambler) in town.

The friends of a murdered Texan decide to take the law into their own hands.

Someone keeps hanging people in Dodge and making it look like suicide.

Mr. Shaneway wants Mr. Pap at the bank to loan him $20,000 for a poker bet. When the con begins to unfold, Doc gets kidnapped.

Matt arrests James Cando. Cando tells Lee Binders to break him out. In the attempt to get him out Cando tries to hang Chester.

Matt and Chester track Nation for a killing in Dodge. Nation kills their horses then gives himself up. They wind up having to take a stage back to Dodge. Nation recognizes a man on the stage and helps Matt prevent a robbery.

Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man;however, Doc and Matts old friend Wild Bill Hickok come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder.

Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.

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.

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.

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.

Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matts close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.

When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matts, blames Doc for her death.

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 Chesters custody.

Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattle from Wheats young widow.

A mans house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.

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.

Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.

Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.

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.

After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.

Matt and Dodge Citys 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.

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.

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.

Dodge Citys businessmen learn a hard lesson when they reject Matts advice and hire a meek constable to handle a gang of rowdy but free-spending trail cowboys.

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.

When Kitty is hurt in a fall from a horse, she and Matt must seek help from shiftless dirt farmers who are oddly uninterested in aiding them.

A man suddenly turns up in Dodge City claiming to be Billy Crale, the long-lost son of a well-to-do local widow. Matt knows that Billy Crale was reported dead during the Civil War, and he becomes highly concerned for Mrs. Crales safety when he confirms that the man is actually a onetime outlaw known as Johnny Red.

Is the homely, sharp-tongued, middle-aged wife of a homesteader really inspiring men to fight to the death for her affections?

Matt, escorting 3 men back to Dodge, claims a beautiful wounded Indian woman will be able to identify the one who shot her and killed her husband.

Onetime gunman Zeno Smith faces an unenviable choice. If he does not help would-be gambler Hank Fergus rob Mr. Jonass general store, Fergus will tell 12-year old orphan Tommy the full story of how Zenos descent into deprivation and alcoholism dates to the day he backed down from facing Fergus in a gunfight.

A father threatens to kill the two drifters who have been plaguing his daughter.

A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.

A quarrel between two partners in homesteading escalates to the point of gunfire. Matt tries to make peace between them by locking them up together.

Despite a serious heart condition, onetime prizefighter Tom Burr is determined to go through with his plans to fight vicious Hob Creel. The only way Matt can stop the mismatch and save Burrs life is to fight Creel himself.

Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards.

While Matt is away on business, Doc gets threatened by an ex convict (Brice Harp) who claims that Doc Adams sentenced him to a long term in Prison.

Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter in childbirth.

Determined to avenge his murderous brothers hanging, Vince Walsh begins a self-serving campaign of unofficially helping to keep the peace in Dodge City over Matts objections. Walsh is certain that his actions and his taunts will eventually goad the Marshal into a gunfight.

When the greedy relatives of a dying man (Crowbait Bob) learn that he might be dying, they come to Dodge to grab anything of value they can get from the dying man.

Far from Dodge, Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Docs life after the two are ambushed by a pair of savage prairie wolfers.

A saloon girl shoots a man who came to her room, claiming he attacked her, but as the dead man was to testify against a man from the womans past, Matt is suspicious.

Theres a cattle drive near town, and the cowboys are nervous about a series of cattle rustling events that have taken place recently.

Two brothers have decided that it is their mission to rid the West of Indians.

Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the drop on him and wounds Chester.

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 Abs partner shows up and tells his side of the story.

Matt arrests Finn Pickett after recognizing his face from a wanted poster. On the way back to Dodge, Picketts vengeful sons try to free their father as Matt and Chester face a water shortage.

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.

Matts old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.

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.

Jake Creed accuses his young hired hand, Ben Tolliver, of horse theft.

Gus Mather arrives in Dodge in a wagon, carrying the coffin of his best friend, Orson Boggs, to give him a proper wake. Theres only one problem: according to Mrs. Boggs, her late husband didnt have any friends.

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!

A man shoots his partner, flees, and is caught by two men claiming to be lawmen.

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.

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.

While Chester is out searching for Doc, his horse is injured. Chester goes to a house for help and is instead taken prisoner.

A concealed gunman takes a shot at Chester, and it may have been a bank robber, or it may have been someone whos been making trouble at the Long Branch.

To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found murdered, oft-inebriated Jud Sloans claim that the Marshal was the killer seems uncomfortably credible.

A horse thief murders a man to get his horses. Matt tracks the criminal to a Kiowa camp.

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.

Hot tempered Andy Coe and his wife want to sell their wagon to Moss, but cant when Ed Fallons team spooks and crashes into their wagon.

A pretty girl arrives in town and chases Chester, whos happy for her to do so, but the young woman has a secret that may land her in jail.

When Roy Tayloe is murdered following a poker game, quick-tempered Harry Miles is certain that daughter Melindas suitor Tom Potter is the killer. Miles quickly becomes impatient with Matts methodical investigation of the crime and threatens to kill Potter himself unless he stays away from Melinda.

Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matts life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.

Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?

A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, cant do enough for him.

His mother has been dead almost a year, and Cully is troubled by his pas carousing. When they discuss his getting married again, it seems like a good idea until he returns from a business trip with a new wife, an Arapaho squaw, who he has conflicted emotions about.

The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.

A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.

Orkey Cathcart is looking for a wife and sets his sites on Miss Kitty.

Prospector Harvey Easter settles in Dodge City after striking it rich in the Colorado Rockies. His heavy handed attempts at philanthropy soon have unintended results.

Cody is a well-liked citizen of Dodge. Hes building a house and getting married. When he befriends a stranger, his perfect life is turned upside down.

Chester is getting home-cooked meals from, and giving guitar lessons to, a spirited young woman who hopes thereby to make her estranged sweetheart jealous.

Taken prisoner by a band of comancheros, Chester is helped to escape by one of the bands women and flees with another who may or may not be worthy of his trust.

Oren was a rancher who liked his drink, gambling and women, even though he had a pretty wife at home. Matt is forced to kill him and when he breaks the news to her, all she can see is getting revenge for his death, and Matt is her target.

A young woman comes to Dodge insisting on an escort to Indian country so that the body of her husband, believed to have been killed fighting the Kiowa, may be recovered.

A group of women are going by wagon train to Colorado, lured by the promise of marrying rich miners, but Matt learns that the leaders actual plan for the women is quite different.

Loy has always felt he could do what he pleased. When he shoots one of his gang members in the back just for the reward, he takes the body into Dodge to Matt Dillon who isnt as ready as he thought to give him his bounty.

Cale is a bullheaded young drifter who takes a nap in a barn he comes across only to wake up to a shootout between a horse thief and the owner. Cale is shot, wounded, and becomes a suspected accomplice.

A charmer escapes from federal prison to Dodge and finds himself caught up in the drama among two brothers, the wife of one of them, and their domineering father.

A young man named Cale may have earned Marshal Dillons respect, but Tate Gifford says Cale has just ridden off on a stolen horse - Tates horse.

A half-Comanche has joined his mothers tribe in killing whites to avenge the murder of his father, but Matt sees the good in the man and the chance to re-integrate him, perhaps, into white society.

A bank robber hides out in Dodge, bringing along his girl. While hes gambling away his loot, his girl casts her eye on Matt.

A young woman whos heir to her fathers land decides to carry out his plan to build a ditch that will impair her neighbors access to water and perhaps trigger a range war.

A band of neer-do-wells, led by their mother, see in town a young woman that pleases them and decide to take her by force.

Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matts, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encroaching on the land he regards as his.

When a boy witnesses his grandfathers murder, it sends Matt looking for a new found companions uncle. Festus Haggen is tracking his uncle for killing his twin brother Fergus. Matt is wary but learns to trust Festus when hes shot and in bad shape.

A slick city reporter sets out to prove that even a milquetoast can pass for a feared gunfighter, if a few well-placed tidbits of rumor precede him.

The town drunk who saw a man drowned, believes it was dream, until he meets up with the guy who did the drowning.

A fathers dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one whos wild and desperately in need of civilizing.

Chance Hopper is Matts young foster brother, torn between loyalty to Matt and to his partners in crime, who are counting on Chance to divert Matt from their course and make good their getaway.

The friendship between business partners is jeopardized when one of them sustains a head injury, changing his personality. The injured man threatens to kill Wests character, the fiancé of a young saloon woman.

Two neer-do-wells come to town and soon cook up a plot under which half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper is framed for the theft of a horse. The atmosphere in Dodge quickly becomes dangerously ugly for Quint.

ORyan and Finnegan, feuding over a girl they both knew back home, are caught in a legal loophole to take ownership of a mine and land they both own. When Matt is forced in the middle of it, he has to work fast so no one else is hurt.

A ranchers spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his fathers wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.

Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kittys possessions.

A woman newly widowed is powerfully attracted to Quint, but when he gently turns her down, she vows to make him pay for scorning a white woman.

Chester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on marriage but eager to make changes in Chester as well, he has second thoughts--especially after a talk with her child suggests that the widow may still be a wife.

A prized Appaloosa, grazing alone and apparently without owner on the prairie, proves to be the ruin of more than one man.

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 grandmothers house to find her nursing Matt back to health.

A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.

A mild-looking cowboy discovers that its easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that its easy to kill as well.

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.

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.

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.

A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.

Its 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.

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.

The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Wills hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he cant carve wood anymore.

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.

After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quints 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.

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 birds eye view of a murder, one no one believes she witnessed but the killers.

To earn money to recover the custody of his daughter, an aging man accepts the job of Dodges first in-town hangman, work no one else wants.

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.

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.

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.

Jess, Jays 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.

A runaway kid and a wanted man from East Texas team up to first find the kids mother and second to shake those who have been chasing the man about a murder in Carver County and robbery he just didnt commit.

Having already rescued an old man once, Danny may have to try to save him again when his friend is framed for murder.

Theres trouble for Doc Adams, and perhaps for Dodge, when a new doctor and his wife arrive in town and the wife resorts to spreading a nasty rumor about Doc to get the new practice started.

When a young pregnant woman seeks Kittys aid in escaping from the childs father, the two women take the stagecoach from Dodge and meet with greater danger.

An old rancher returns home after many years in prison, ready to reclaim what is his by any means necessary, including burning out the squatters on his land.

Mistakenly hailed as a hero who downed four robbers, a man rethinks his decision to let folks regard him as a gunfighter when protecting the woman he wants calls for a gunmans skill.

Festuss ornery aunt arrives, squats on a piece of land, sets up a still, and comes to the rescue of a pair of star-crossed lovers. At the time he appeared in this episode, Howard McNear was appearing on The Andy Griffith Show as regular, Floyd Lawson the town barber.

Matts old friend comes to town, announcing plans to settle down and start a business, but the business he has in mind involves dishonesty and perhaps murder.

On their way out of town, some cousins of Festus come across a badly injured man whom they assume is dead, so they flee, pursued by Festus, who believes his cousins attacked the man.

Chief Joseph has come to town suffering from pneumonia. When he and his party are refused lodging at the hotel, a stranger steps in offering his room. Local sentiment is against this and like a boiling over teapot, trouble begins to brew.

The head of the Lukens clan blames Martin Kellums for not helping his young bride during a difficult childbirth when the doctor was away. When Kellums runs to Dodge, Matt does his best to keep everyone safe including the local citizens.

The goofy nephew of Festus, Eliab Haggen, comes to Dodge with the hope of shooting off a tiny piece of his ear, because Festus bit off a piece of his dads ear years ago in a fight.

A young attorney newly arrived in Dodge works the law to keep his client out of Matts clutches, then has ample reason to regret it.

A woman and her adult, attractive niece stop in Dodge to earn some money to complete their journey to San Francisco. When an offer of marriage to her aunt threatens to derail those plans, the niece takes action.

On a stagecoach returning to Dodge, Kitty and her traveling companions are waylaid and held for ransom.

Drought and crop failure leave Dodge without fruit or vegetables and a farming widow and her son very ill with scurvy.

Doc, carrying money on an errand for Matt, is found near death. In Matts absence, the townsfolk figure theres no need to wait for official justice to deal with those deemed responsible.

Matt is ordered to Ridge Town to reopen the case of an army major who was murdered 12 years before, when a dying outlaw he shot swears he did not commit the crime, and it appears the whole town is hiding something.

Mace Gores gang has taken over Dodge. When Matt is believed killed, Festus and Doc have a plan to lure Gore into a trap, even though his usual plan is to leave by dawn.

Thad, son of and deputy to an Oklahoma sheriff, arrives in Dodge pursuing vandals on his fathers warrant, not realizing the Oklahoma warrant isnt executable in Dodge.

After a successful search for gold, two prospectors hire a man, who shows up at their campfire, as a bodyguard.

Lured out of retirement with the promise of land, a bounty hunter is aimed by his boss at the man who killed his son; however, he neglects to tell his hound that the reward and charges had been dropped.

While Matts out of town, his friends play along with a drifters innocent impersonation of the marshal, but a man comes to town determined to get revenge on the marshal, and hes not playing.

A twelve-year-old boy recovers in Docs office and then goes with a gun after the man who robbed and killed his father.

After a risky train robbery and with two posses on their trail, four men hurriedly ride to some fresh horses. Dillon wounds one of the gang carrying the stolen money and it turns out to be a young woman.

When Matt is too busy to escort Kitty to a gold mine she inherited, she travels there alone and meets with claim jumpers and other difficulties.

Festuss nephew arrives, seeking a bride who can read and write. He soon finds one, but runs into difficulties earning the money he needs for her dowry.

When one of the gang is hurt after robbing Dodge, the Doc is taken to patch him up. The posse was preparing to go after them but a new problem has been set they must take care of before they can recover their friend.

A talented guitarist impresses all who hear him on an instrument that is more precious to him than a mans life.

An outlaw gang shoots it out fleeing Dodge City. When one of them is injured real bad, he hides out in the church where the reverend is fearful but not for himself.

Billy has always looked up to his brother Ed. During a robbery gone wrong, he is arrested. Matt begins to open Billys naive eyes when his brother tries to free him from jail.

Some homesteaders have chosen a piece of land that is free to use per the government, but Ben Payson has other ideas. When his daughter starts to care about the homesteaders son, Ben decides to force them off the property regardless the cost.

When old Jacob is shot dead in self defense, his loyal Indian partner, John Walking Fox, starts paying for things with $50 gold pieces, and he becomes the talk of the town, and a target for would be robbers.

A mysterious man rides into town and says he is after one of two men responsible for killing his brother. When he starts crowding a stranger in town, Matt must decide how to make sure he doesnt take the law into his own hands.

Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.

Six years after her husbands hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt to be hanged on the morning of the second day with Kitty watching as her man died.

A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.

Hootie Kyle is a poor but honest farmer whose credit has run out. Matt Dillon and Festus lend him some money, then he gets swindled out of it in a poker game. Later Hootie gets circumstantially framed for the murder of the card shark who swindled him.

All of Dodge City is suffering from a drought. A rainmaker (Guy Raymond) tries to put an end to it before the towns public well, their last source of water, runs dry.

Lars Karlgren, a Scandinavian immigrant and his teenage son Petter, find the West even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dodge City. Petter gets framed for a murder of a man who was picking a fight with him.

A young farmers former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.

To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.

Festus Haggen is mistaken for a hired gunman and offered $300 to fight, and run out of town, the 3 sons of a man his cousin is accused of killing.

A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.

Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice in spite of an onslaught of an crazed vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.

Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girls fugitive father (Stephen McNally).

Kittys conscience is torn between her sense of obligation to a man (James Daly) who saved her life and her concern for the law and Marshal Matt Dillon.

A group of Nuns traveling out West nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.

Part 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners wont let him.

Feuding cattle barons are headed to Dodge City from opposite directions for a showdown.

Part 1: Bob Johnson, Zack Johnson and Floyd Binnes are accused of cattle rustling by Parker a powerful land baron, Floyd is killed while being drug behind a horse, Zack is crippled by a horse stomping his legs and back. Bob is beaten. Once in Dodge Bob meets Angel, while Zack dies of his wounds. Bob in getting revenge taunts Parkers hot-headed son into a gunfight kills him, and plans to go after Parker.

Tough Texas cattleman Red Conniston is headed to Dodge to kill Clint Sorils, who killed Connistons son Ben in a gunfight.

Two deserting soldiers stab their hated Sergeant and frame Festus.

In an attempt to get money two prairie wolfers steal money from Dolan, a hardened storekeeper, then when one tries to give it back trouble starts.

A group of wealthy passengers on a private railroad car are quarantined in Dodge.

Drfter Jud Pryor tries to clear his name of murder, meanwhile the two brothers of his girlfriend are planning to kill him.

Matt investigates a murder in a nearby town, trying to prove that town simpleton Bo Remick did not kill the son of the towns powerful rancher.

A teenage burglar involved in a murder is shot and left to die by his partners.

Hillbilly girl Merry Florene comes to town to get some schooling to better herself. Meanwhile her two cousins also arrive in Dodge and force her to rob Mr. Jonas store.

Matt tracks the four men responsible for the murder of his friend an lawman who was shot at his retirement party.

Durning a drought, a watch witch (someone who can find water), comes to town. Meanwhile, a businessman attempts to buy up farms during this time, no matter the method.

Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for his hands.

Good western. Mostly action, not too much girl stuff. Gunplay by Dillon very very good in this one. Story is about Dillon taking a warrant into Mexico. He finds the culprit and outdraws him. One of the latters gang members travels back to the US and tells Jim Davis that Dillon killed his brother. Davis responds with violence, then rides into Mexico and faces Dillon. The human interest part of this movie centers about the likeable Mexican kid, ""Paco"". Dillon and him get along so good that Im wondering about the sexuality of one of the film bosses. About Rico Alaniz... top-notch performance. Hes the guy who, in the movie ""Magnificent Seven"", was always saying no, dont anger Calvera, give him what he wants"".

Grizzily mountain man, Slocum tracks the sons of a man who tried to bushwhack his good friend, Matt Dillon.

Matt and Doc are escorting outlaw Johnny August by train to trail for murder. Also on board and waiting along the line are his men waiting for a chance to free him.

Matt clashes with maverick railroad builder Wes Cameron and his wild men running a railroad line through Dodge.

While bringing in outlaw, Waco Thompson, Matt has to deal with his outlaw band following them while he has to deliver a baby.

Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims hes innocent.

Kitty saves the life of a man during a stage hold-up, taking him back to his ranch she finds his mother a ruthless matron and his daughter alienated from her father.

Gunman Will Mannon comes to Dodge, after shooting Festus and taking his mule, to face Matt in a gunfight.

A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.

Three bounty hunters hold hostages in the Long Branch to get Matt to turn over a prisoner to them.

Festus is escorting wounded prisoner Riley Sharp to Dodge. They are forced to stop at a farmhouse, where Rileys ex-wife and her brutish husband live.

Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.

Outlaw Yancy Tyce and his outlaw gang try to free Tyces younger brother now under arrest and being taken to Dodge by Matt.

Matt is summoned to Coreyville, a run-down cowtown, by a young woman whose brother is on trial for murder.

A white woman refuses to accept her half-breed son, who Festus brings to her home wounded and needing help.

Matt, his hardened prisoner Charlie Noon, an Indian woman and her white stepson are tracked by the Comanches as they try to cross the desert. The Indians are going to kill all of them unless Matt hands over the woman, because she left the Comanche leader years before.

Louie Pheeters is found at the scene of a murder, the dying mans last words implicate the town alcoholic, who is too drunk to remember what he had just seen.

In an attempt to help his blind daughter, farmer Ben Hurley steals horses for an outlaw gang. Deputy Newly OBrien arrives at his farm investigating, followed by the outlaws.

Amos Sadler, a dirt farmer faces the loss of his home when a panic closes down the Dodge City bank. To save it he and his wife plan to break into it and steal some money.

Sergeant Holly, a alcoholic loving veteran is getting ready to retire. Just hours before it, a Apache prisoner in his custody escapes with Kitty as a hostage, forcing the Sergeant to go AWOL to get the prisoner back.

The feund between Noah Haimes and Clete Bloden gets very bad as romance begins between Haimes son & Blodens daughter.

Kitty leaves Dodge City after seeing Matt hurt again.

Matt must rescue a teenage girl from indians and bring her back to her family.

With Matt out helping the Army deliver a gold shipment, Dodge is wide open for Morgan and his men to come in with a Gatlin gun and take over. Breaking into the Long Branch, Morgan is helping himself to whiskey when Kitty shoots him hitting him in the shoulder and the face. With Matt and the gold on the way and Morgan sitting with a big gun and a fever and a crazy streak from the permanent scar hes gonna have, Dodge can only wait to see what comes next.

An ex-convict wants revenge against the partner that ran out on him.

After a friend of Matts dies he goes to New Mexico to find the killer.

Adam, the son of one Dodge Citys revered citizens returns. But upon arriving someone takes a shot at him. The man who shot him, is Stark, a bounty hunter. It seems that Adam was in jail in Texas and broke out, Stark found him and is planning to take him back. Adam then tells him that he can get $1000 to pay him if they go to his father. Stark accepts. But when he goes to his father, his father refuses to help him. But Adams sister, Glory, does. However, Stark feels that its not enough, he tells Adam that he thinks that his father has five thousand on hand and tells him thats what itll take. Adam refuses. When Stark goes to see Adams father, he threatens Stark and reveals that after Adam stopped writing his sister for money he hired some detectives and they found him shortly after he broke out of jail. He then proceeds to pay Stark off but Adam upon learning of this refuses to let Stark leave with the money. Matt arrives and arrests Stark. Adam then goes to tell his father that he

A Baron may give Matt trouble because he wont let Matt put his sons in jail because of a crime they committed.

Matt is trapped with passengers on a train.

After a yong man kills a gunfighter he become the victim of publicity.

A family is held hostage so they cant testify at the trial of a killer.

A bandit who is wanted by Matt hides from him.

A strict judge interferes when Newly allows an outlaw to make arrangements for his 10-year-old daughter, and to surrender afterwards.

Festus comes back from a shootout and cant tell the story well.

A convict returns to Dodge City to get a woman back.

Cleavus think he could be rich, but he soon finds fools gold in the mine.

Sally Fergus, called by many in Dodge ""Dirty Sally"" finds young wounded outlaw, Cyrus Pike at her home and nurses him back to health. His partners in a robbery are searching for him and their stolen loot.

Kitty is in a stage wreck and dazed and confused she sets out in the wild. Meeting up with a wild girl who does not speak, she winds up at a shack where a family takes her and the wild girl hostage. Intent on turning the child into a sideshow, they tie Kitty up but are stopped before they can get too far.

Matt helps a young boy find his mom while finding an outlaw.

Dr. Chapman is arrested by Festus when he tries to sleep in Docs office even though he has explained that Doc went to Baltimore to hone his medical skills. A letter explains that Doc felt so badly about a little girls death that he could have prevented if he had been more in tune with modern medicine, that he had to leave. Not many in town are very cordial to Dr. Chapman and when Newlys shop blows up with Newly and Festus in it, they dislike him even more. Festus is all right, but Newly has a bone splinter in his brain and needs an operation. Chapman wins the town by performing the operation and saving Newlys life.

Matt is out to find a gunfigther who killed two people.

A jury has the fate of a mountain man in its hands.

Drago wants to find the person who killed a woman who helped him.

As the train moves along to Denver we meet several passengers. One is a Pinkerton man handcuffed to Beth Tilton, a woman who doesnt want to go back to Colorado to her husband. The other, Allie Dawson, is a young girl that Newly befriends who does not believe in violence. The train is taken over by Jack Sinclair, an old enemy of Matts. Matt had shot his hand off before sending him to prison. Making it look like Matt is a dead body in the baggage car, he is safe for now with Doc standing guard, but it cant last long. Kitty senses trouble when Beth starts cozying up to Jack Sinclair and worries shell tell him what she knows. Warning her that shell do anything for her man, Kitty watches Beth like a hawk. Festus and Newly are forced to help load the gold shipment on the wagon and when they get it loaded they end up driving off with it luring the gang out on foot to chase them. Beth tells one of the guards about Dillon in the back, and he goes to kill him.

The meanest outlady in the US is coming to Dodge, at least thats what Festus has heard, but its really Emma Grundy out to retrieve her seven orphans from Titus Spangler and take them back to the orphanage where they belong. The town finds it ludicrous that these children have never had a Christmas and plan on putting one on in the Long Branch. The problem arises when Mrs. Grundy arrives, and she has her own personal reasons for not giving the children Christmas. Kitty steps in to solve the problem single handedly and ends up messing things up worse than they were.

After Matt is hurt, He makes friends who must help him stay alive.

Luciuss daughter wants her dad locked up so she and Tom can have the estate. Judge Broker thinks Mr. Prince is sane and Mr. Prince proves he can be a dad.

A drifter wants to marry the rich familys daughter

Festus is mistaken for a killer.

Matt is tracked, with bad intent, along a river gorge by a gang of villains while in custody of one of the gang and $24,000 of their money. Escaping the gang by jumping into the river, Matt is rescued by two kids, brother & sister on a raft, and floats downriver with adventures galore.

A faith-healer comes to Dodge. Doc is skeptical.

Daniel Shay comes to Dodge City as a drummer who peddles rat traps as a way of making money. While Daniel continues to look for buyers of his rat traps, he sees a Cheyenne boy stealing a horse. As he looks on memories of a battle at Rock Creek return. While having dinner with Sarah Morgan Mr. Shay wonders about Jimmy Morgans father who died in the Rock Creek massacre, Sarah mentions that the cavalry ran him down.

Doc Adams comes into The Long Branch just in time to stop Festus from telling one of his long stories, Doc tells of how his day began and then rest before a baby has to be delivered. Now Doc and Festus have to treat the outlaws younger brother. Festus goes to get Matt as Doc is now left alone to treat the victim. The outlaws are ready for their brother to ride Doc warns that if moved the brother could die. Matt gets there in time to find that Doc is fine, but Festus is bleeding bad. The outlaws brother is dead. Doc tries to get the bullet out of Festus who is weak. One of the Stalcup outlaws comes back to get his brother Danny. Festus turns out fine only to drive Doc crazy!

When a family man lawfully kills a murderous outlaw by shooting him in the back, some people in town start to physically abuse him.

Matt seen in Docs office as he tries to asks a farmer how he was shot, the farmer cant say how he was hurt. Lamoor Underwood wants the water on the dead farmers ground to run free, Pete Brown sets out to make sure that happens. Clarabelle is asked to leave her land because somebody wants the water rights. Pete Brown is shot for trying to help Clarabelle and other farmers. Matt tries to get Underwood to work with the farmers over water rights. Matt arrests Pete Brown but doesnt want to leave. Matt is hit in the back of the head because he knew Petes real name. Matt takes Pete under arrest.

The greatest bad-guy character actor of our time, William Smith, plays Jude Bonner, a bad guy who kidnaps, brutalizes, and shoots Miss Kitty in retaliation for his brother having been caught by Matt Dillon and hung for his crimes. Probably for the first time in seventeen years of Gunsmoke, Dillon takes off his marshals badge before going after Bonner, with the intent of killing him.

A midget arrives in Dodge City claiming he will turn into an elephant at the stroke of midnight. Arizona begins asking for someone to care for him along with three bales of hay. Everyone finds the story a bit far fetched.

Boone Shadler kills a guard and comes to a stricken town as a priest to keep from been caught by the law. Newly rides into town to try an help take care of sick people. Newly helps take care of Cyrus Himes who is dying. Newly thinks people may have gotten sick because of drinking bad water. Newly test the water to find out what is in it, Matt gets a wire (letter) saying a sheriff released a prisoner 5 days ago. Matt wonders why Newly didnt return to Dodge with the prisoner. Newly wonders if the priest is who he says after seeing Sadler look for a Bible. Sadler tells Dallas Fair he is a convict and that Dallas should go with him.

Matt comes back to Dodge City after capturing a prisoner he has been following for two days straight. Kitty is upset with Matt for not attending a lunch. To make up for the mistake Matt asks her out for dinner.

Matt runs into his former mentor Adam Kimbro and decides to build his self-confidence by deputizing him as a Deputy Marshal.

Talbot falls in love Katherine after shooting her husband in self-defense. Katherine wants to learn more about Talbot. Katherine learns of Talbots plans to rob the bank, she puts her life in danger by telling Talbot she will leave him if he robs the bank.

Matt becomes involved in investigating the disappearance of female settlers and travelers in the region. He links it to a band of renegade Native Americans, who plan to sell the women as sex slaves to a band of ruthless white mercenaries.

A wounded Matt Dillon suffers amnesia then falls in love with a widow. Matts first TV kiss, not to Miss Kitty, but to guest star Michael Learned.

A gunfighter wants to forget his past... and wants everyone else to forget it too. Unfortunately for him, this is not easy to accomplish...

James Stacy stars as a roguish thief whos long on charm but a bit short on ethics. His real test of character comes on a long, adversity-plagued journey to Dodge with his captor Festus.

Mr. Wolfe has taken the case and said it was sham, Matt offers to protect the lawyer. Cora feels lied to because she didnt know Mr. Wolfe was an indian. Cicero wolfe continues his after defense lawyer objects to the facts proving nothing. Cora feels that the case could hurt her dad no matter how the case ends. Cora feels her dad drove his wife to her death.Mr. Wolfe rests his case. Bear realizes that what Cora said was right and still loves her. Mr. Wolfe asks for a friend and says he always loved her.

Newly trying to save a hillbillys life by inserting a tube in their throat loses his patent causing the family members to plan to execute him.

Billy comes back to Dodge because he has trouble finding anyone to listen to his stories and visit Festus who is a friend of his. Billy retarded and tells Festus a riddle and the answer given isnt funny to Billy, Doc tells Festus that Billy has the mind of a seven or eight year old and needs better care. Billy sees a man hurting a cat and almost kills the man, not knowing that what he did was wrong Matt and Festus talk to Judge Brooker and Festus becomes a guardian to Billy. When a deer is shot for food Billy attacks Festus. Festus has a hard time trying to make Billy understand why the deer was shot. Doc tells Festus to take Billy back to where he came from but finds that hard to do. They go to the place Doc suggested and Billy gets worried about the noises inside the place. Festus tells Billy he is going to kill rabbits for dinner and try to give Billy a taste of life. Matt, Doc & Festus find Billy telling kids stories at an orphans home.

Matt and a fellow lawman go after a vicious family of robbers and killers.

Matt and Luke come to restore order to a town and hide their badge as walk in a bar. They find out that it will be hard work. Luke runs into a woman that he once loved Caleb wants Luke as his dad. Luke is told to go after the woman he loves and take her back. Luke wonders if being a Marshal is a good idea, he marries Calebs mom and is told men are coming to the café to keep the town from dying. Matt returns with Festus and Newly to help out. Luke is leaving his job as Marshal.

William Talley, a gunfighter is hired by a farmers collition in Dodge to kill rancher Shaw Anderson, their main obstickle in taking over the land.

Buck Henry Woolf is on the trail of his uncle, who killed his father, stole their money, and wounded him. Festus is on the same mission and also to stop the young man from taking the law into his own hands.

Joan Shepherd wants Anna May to marry Steven Rogers, not Newly or Orlo who is a farmer. Ana May wants to date Newly. Newly drops by to take Anna May for a ride and is told she wont be back for awhile. Orlo fights Newly over Anna May, Orlo hits his head on the wagon causing him to lose his memory.

A mountain family in an attempt to avenge the death of one of their own capture Matt.

Doc and fellow stage passenger, Lyla are captured by renegade comancheros.

Matt houses a drunk Will & Friends in the jail they go looking for $300 that they think Bill took. Matt thinks it was a misunderstanding. Will doesnt want to tell Matt that they shot Curly Wills (They buried him before going to Dodge. Doak stops to see his girlfriend and says marriage will need to wait, as Will & Quincy leaves without Doak Quincy and the storekeepers are shot.

Matt and former lawman now turned alcoholic, Chauncey Demon go up against land baron Carl Ryker.

Matts friend, Sheriff Harker runs his town ruthlessly, punishing anyone disobeying him.

Festus, in the desert hunting escaped killer Gard Dixon is wounded by the outlaw. He is found by Ben Snow, a half-crazy hermit who has been living in the desert with his gold for many years.

Lee J. Cobb and his daughter Julie Cobb appear together for the first time when Cobb guest-stars as a once-proud military officer who is suddenly faced with a painful and unplanned reunion with his daughter.

A farmer comes by and asks Sharp where is cow is, Matt tells the milk cow owner that he has no proof to arrest ""the hiders."" The farmer wants to go after them himself. Matt tells the men that will leave Dodge if anyone else complains. Dink escapes from Carp after being hurt, Festus finds Dink and treats his wounds. Dink tells Festus he likes waking up in the morning, Martha warns Dink to watch for Carp. Carp asks Dink to help kill Festus.

Henry Decory is a schoolteacher who makes a strong statement for compulsory education for frontier children as a stubborn father feels that books and education are a waste of time and tries to keep his son Tommy out of school.

Farmer Jed Hackett (Harry Morgan) decides its time for his three sons marry the women they brought back from Dodge City.

Festus is caught in the middle when an Eastern preacher (David Wayne) wants to build a church for the Indians and the townspeople to share, but by all of whom that are filled with prejudice.

Manolo (Robert Urich)is a Basque youth who is not recognized as a man in the eyes of his people because he refuses to fight his father Alejo (Nehemiah Persoff), a traditional Basque custom to prove ones manhood.