Seasons & episodes

S9 · E1Kate Heller 1963-09-28 · 45 min＋

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 grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.

S9 · E2Lover Boy 1963-10-05 · 45 min＋

A charming cowboy apparently is guilty only of breaking hearts until he gets to Dodge, where he finds two women who may make a killer of him.

S9 · E3Legends Don't Sleep 1963-10-12 · 45 min＋

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

S9 · E4Tobe 1963-10-19 · 45 min＋

Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.

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

S9 · E6My Sister's Keeper 1963-11-02 · 45 min＋

A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.

S9 · E7Quint's Trail 1963-11-09 · 45 min＋

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.

S9 · E8Carter Caper 1963-11-16 · 45 min＋

A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.

S9 · E9Ex-Con 1963-11-30 · 45 min＋

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.

S9 · E10Extradition (1) 1963-12-07 · 45 min＋

When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.

S9 · E11Extradition (2) 1963-12-14 · 45 min＋

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.

S9 · E12The Magician 1963-12-21 · 45 min＋

A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.

S9 · E13Pa Hack's Brood 1963-12-28 · 45 min＋

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

S9 · E14The Glory and the Mud 1964-01-04 · 45 min＋

A retired lawman and showman wants only to settle down with the Dodge seamstress he left behind twenty years ago, but a young whippersnapper hopes to make a name for himself by challenging the aging gun to a duel.

S9 · E15Dry Well 1964-01-11 · 45 min＋

It's 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.

S9 · E16Prairie Wolfer 1964-01-18 · 45 min＋

Festus returns to Dodge from wolfing and is hired by the Cattleman's Association to hunt down the wolves killing everyone's cattle. What he finds is that what's been doing the preying may wind him up in prison if he doesn't get Matt's help.

S9 · E17Friend 1964-01-25 · 45 min＋

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.

S9 · E18Once a Haggen 1964-02-01 · 45 min＋

A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.

S9 · E19No Hands 1964-02-08 · 45 min＋

The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Will's hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he can't carve wood anymore.

S9 · E20May Blossom 1964-02-15 · 45 min＋

Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus

S9 · E21The Bassops 1964-02-22 · 45 min＋

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.

S9 · E22The Kite 1964-02-29 · 45 min＋

Festus finds a little girl out on the prairie. He learns she saw her mother get killed by a stranger. When he takes her to Dodge, Matt hears she was hiding when this happened but can identify this man who may already be in town.

S9 · E23Comanches Is Soft 1964-03-07 · 45 min＋

After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's 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.

S9 · E24Father's Love 1964-03-14 · 45 min＋

A saloon girl spurns a man's advances in Wichita and moves to Dodge, where she becomes a respectable married woman, only to be confronted with her past when she discovers that her rancher husband is the nephew of the man she refused.