Seasons & episodes
S8 · E12The Way It Is 1962-12-01 · 45 min
While Matt is out of town, putting lawman's business ahead of Kitty yet again, a new man in her life has plenty of time and attention to give--perhaps too much attention.
S8 · E13Us Haggens 1962-12-08 · 45 min
When a boy witnesses his grandfather's murder, it sends Matt looking for a new found companion's uncle. Festus Haggen is tracking his uncle for killing his twin brother Fergus. Matt is wary but learns to trust Festus when he's shot and in bad shape.
S8 · E14Uncle Sunday 1962-12-15 · 45 min
Chester gets a letter from his uncle Sunday, a 'crook', on his upcoming trip to Dodge city. When he arrives with a niece, he finds he has to watch them both or what they have planned just might work, at his expense.
S8 · E15False Front 1962-12-22 · 45 min
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.
S8 · E16Old Comrade 1962-12-29 · 45 min
The "town fool" has a chance to change his life when he learns that a famous general, now on his deathbed, believes him to be his long-lost son.
S8 · E17Louie Pheeters 1963-01-05 · 45 min
The town drunk who saw a man drowned, believes it was dream, until he meets up with the guy who did the drowning.
S8 · E18The Renegades 1963-01-12 · 45 min
Quint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids around Dodge. Working shotgun on the stage, he proves his point when he is attacked, then pursued by those renegades. His "Indian" skills save him and a colonel's daughter who has contempt for half-Comanche Quint.
S8 · E19Cotter's Girl 1963-01-19 · 45 min
A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.
S8 · E20The Bad One 1963-01-26 · 45 min
When a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a would-be robber, she refuses to identify him.
S8 · E21The Cousin 1963-02-02 · 45 min
Chance Hopper is Matt's 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.
S8 · E22Shona 1963-02-09 · 45 min
Gib Dawson brings his beautiful Indian wife, Shona, in to Dodge for treatment of a badly infected hand wound, at a time when racial tensions are running high against the Comanches.
S8 · E23Ash 1963-02-16 · 45 min
The friendship between business partners is jeopardized when one of them sustains a head injury, changing his personality. The injured man threatens to kill West's character, the fiancé of a young saloon woman.
S8 · E24Blind Man's Bluff 1963-02-23 · 45 min
Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance from other men who hate lawmen.
S8 · E25Quint's Indian 1963-03-01 · 45 min
Two ne'er-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.
S8 · E26Anybody Can Kill a Marshal 1963-03-08 · 45 min
Two men want to rob the bank in Dodge, but are unwilling to try it while Matt lives. A man agrees to accept the job of killing the marshal, attaching some rather peculiar conditions to his acceptance.
S8 · E27Two of a Kind 1963-03-16 · 45 min
O'Ryan 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.
S8 · E28I Call Him Wonder 1963-03-23 · 45 min
An orphaned Indian boy latches on to a cowboy in need of work and the two of them find all doors closed to them in Dodge.
S8 · E29With a Smile 1963-03-30 · 45 min
A rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that his father's wealth and influence will save him from the hangman.
S8 · E30The Far Places 1963-04-06 · 45 min
A rancher's widow regrets having spent her life away from the bright lights of a city, and is desperate that her son not share her fate.
S8 · E31Panacea Sykes 1963-04-13 · 45 min
Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kitty's possessions.
S8 · E32Tell Chester 1963-04-20 · 45 min
Chester is smitten with Polly, but she has eyes only for Wade, a man new in town and newly her father's employee. Knowing little about Wade, Polly agrees quickly to marry him, but Chester discovers that Wade already has a wife.
S8 · E33Quint-Cident 1963-04-27 · 45 min
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.
S8 · E34Old York 1963-05-04 · 45 min
Pardoned for his Civil War service, an old outlaw finds his way to Dodge, where there's a lawman who's in his debt.
S8 · E35Daddy Went Away 1963-05-11 · 45 min
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.