Seasons & episodes
S7 · E22The Gallows 1962-03-03 · 45 min
While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.
S7 · E23Reprisal 1962-03-10 · 45 min
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.
S7 · E24Coventry 1962-03-17 · 45 min
A speculator in land is already unpopular in Dodge, but when he is acquitted of the murder of a man he killed, he finds himself "sent to Coventry": no one in town, not even Kitty, will buy, sell, or even speak to him.
S7 · E25The Widow 1962-03-24 · 45 min
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.
S7 · E26Durham Bull 1962-03-31 · 45 min
Little Bit and his grandpa, from Texas, are passing through Dodge after buying a breeding bull. When they meet Silva, someone grandpa considers a "fooler", they have their hands full making it back with their stock and their lives.
S7 · E27Wagon Girls 1962-04-07 · 45 min
A group of women are going by wagon train to Colorado, lured by the promise of marrying rich miners, but Matt learns that the leader's actual plan for the women is quite different.
S7 · E28The Dealer 1962-04-14 · 45 min
Johnny Cole kills a crooked card dealer in self defense, and then falls in love with the dealer's beautiful daughter, but she resists his advances and wants to seriously hurt him instead.
S7 · E29The Summons 1962-04-21 · 45 min
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 isn't as ready as he thought to give him his bounty.
S7 · E30The Dreamers 1962-04-28 · 45 min
Henry and Jake have struck it rich. Now they want to follow their dream and buy a Mississippi river boat. When Henry spots Miss Kitty, he fancies marrying her but she will have nothing to do with his dream or him.
S7 · E31Cale 1962-05-05 · 45 min
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.
S7 · E32Chester's Indian 1962-05-12 · 45 min
On his way to a fishing vacation, Chester stumbles into a human drama when he wounds a fleeing Indian he mistakes for a thief, who has touched the heart of a lonely young white woman.
S7 · E33The Prisoner 1962-05-19 · 45 min
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.
S7 · E34The Boys 1962-05-26 · 45 min
The market for snake oil is on the decline, so a peddler and his sons expand their con game with murder.
S8 · E1The Search 1962-09-15 · 45 min
A young man named Cale may have earned Marshal Dillon's respect, but Tate Gifford says Cale has just ridden off on a stolen horse - Tate's horse.
S8 · E2Call Me Dodie 1962-09-22 · 45 min
An adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, and she starts learning it from the rough-and-tumble characters and loafers she encounters in Dodge.
S8 · E3Quint Asper Comes Home 1962-09-29 · 45 min
A half-Comanche has joined his mother's 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.
S8 · E4Root Down 1962-10-06 · 45 min
Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.
S8 · E5Jenny 1962-10-13 · 45 min
A bank robber hides out in Dodge, bringing along his girl. While he's gambling away his loot, his girl casts her eye on Matt.
S8 · E6Collie's Free 1962-10-20 · 45 min
Released after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adjusting to the fact that things have inevitably changed with respect to his relationships with his wife, his son, and the citizens of Dodge.
S8 · E7The Ditch 1962-10-27 · 45 min
A young woman who's heir to her father's 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.
S8 · E8The Trappers 1962-11-03 · 45 min
A trapper leaves his friend dying alone in order to save his own life, only later to stumble across that friend in Dodge, very much alive and wanting him dead.
S8 · E9Phoebe Strunk 1962-11-10 · 45 min
A band of ne'er-do-wells, led by their mother, see in town a young woman that pleases them and decide to take her by force.
S8 · E10The Hunger 1962-11-17 · 45 min
Matt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially are kept as prisoners by the farmer and his son.
S8 · E11Abe Blocker 1962-11-24 · 45 min
Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt's, and he starts using lethal force against the settlers encroaching on the land he regards as his.