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Air date: 1955-09-10 · 30 min
Matt is critically wounded while attempting to arrest super-fast gunman Dan Grat. Grat runs rampant in Dodge while Matt recovers, but is unpleasantly surprised when the recovered marshal challenges him again.
Open episode 1 ↗Air date: 1955-09-17 · 30 min
Temperatures are high, tempers are short, and Matt is unenviably duty-bound to protect despicable gunman Cope Borden from being lynched by a group of normally law-abiding and hard-working ranchers and cowhands.
Open episode 2 ↗Air date: 1955-10-01 · 30 min
Doc is sworn to secrecy to protect a cruel gang guilty of murder.
Open episode 3 ↗Air date: 1955-10-08 · 60 min
The frightened teenage daughter of a rancher enlists Matt to attempt to save her father's life by amputating his gangrenous leg.
Open episode 4 ↗Air date: 1955-10-15 · 60 min
An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.
Open episode 5 ↗Air date: 1955-10-29 · 30 min
Matt is dubious of young Timmy Wyatt's stories concerning nighttime robberies and assaults, but he agrees to investigate and is surprised by what he discovers.
Open episode 6 ↗Air date: 1955-11-05 · 60 min
Matt has the unpleasant task of evicting some squatters from a rancher's land, but the squatters claim the rancher sold the land to them legally.
Open episode 7 ↗Air date: 1955-11-12 · 60 min
Dillon takes away the gun of Andy Travis after he kills a man in self defense, figuring no one will challenge an unarmed man to a gunfight, but it's an action that might prove to be very costly.
Open episode 8 ↗Air date: 1955-11-26 · 60 min
Marshal Dillon has to keep bullying buffalo hunter Jase Murdock from traveling south into Indian territory on a hunt for hides. Murdock's plan to trespass and wantonly massacre buffalo promises to spark an uprising.
Open episode 9 ↗Air date: 1955-12-03 · 60 min
Two men cut off a Chinese immigrant's pigtail, and he tells Matt that he can return home to China only with the pigtail or by taking the lives of the men who stole it.
Open episode 10 ↗Air date: 1955-12-10 · 60 min
An inveterate liar is loudly insistent that Dodge City's new banker is a swindler who will abscond with the townspeople's savings at his earliest opportunity.
Open episode 11 ↗Air date: 1955-12-24 · 60 min
Chester is concerned when his nomadic and "uncivilized" brother pays a Christmas visit to Dodge, but Magnus Goode proves worldlier and more adaptable to town life than anyone thought possible.
Open episode 12 ↗Air date: 1955-12-31 · 60 min
Booth Rider is being played for a sucker by the wife of the ranch owner he works for, in the hopes that he will have to kill her husband in self defense.
Open episode 13 ↗Air date: 1956-01-07 · 60 min
Professor Bone is a well meaning medicine man who shows up in Dodge selling an elixir with potentially deadly side effects.
Open episode 14 ↗Air date: 1956-01-21 · 60 min
Hank Springer who claims the sheriff of Mingo framed him for murder, escapes from Matt's jail, wrongly believing he has killed a deputy in the process, and now has the intention of killing the apparently corrupt sheriff.
Open episode 15 ↗Air date: 1956-01-28 · 60 min
A woman puts a price on Matt's head after he shoots down her husband.
Open episode 16 ↗Air date: 1956-02-04 · 60 min
Holdup man John Henry Jordan repeatedly escapes conviction by robbing only the wealthy and sparing poorer persons who are potential witnesses against him. His luck runs out when Matt's efforts force him to victimize ordinary citizens.
Open episode 17 ↗Air date: 1956-02-18 · 60 min
A young white boy, taken hostage years earlier by the Pawnee, must steal from or kill a white in order to be accepted by the tribe as a brave.
Open episode 18 ↗Air date: 1956-02-25 · 60 min
Troy Carver is an aging ex lawman with poor eyesight being chased by a dirt farmer who wants revenge for the killing of his brother 2 years before.
Open episode 19 ↗Air date: 1956-03-03 · 60 min
Long Branch hostess Belle Archer sees Jerry Shand shoot a former Quantrill Raider dead in self defense, but refuses to say so, and now he faces a murder trial.
Open episode 20 ↗Air date: 1956-03-17 · 60 min
Matt saves suspected 18 year old cattle thief Steve Elser, from a would be lynch group, and tries to help him find a job, but discovers he might be a hopeless case.
Open episode 21 ↗Air date: 1956-03-24 · 60 min
Matt suspects Kitty of shooting and wounding an old man who attempted to abduct her in hopes of forcing her to marry him.
Open episode 22 ↗Air date: 1956-03-31 · 60 min
Amos Cartwright is an Indian scout for the army and is suspected of deliberately allowing his troop to be ambushed by the Comanches, and now the brother of one of the dead soldiers is planning to kill him.
Open episode 23 ↗Air date: 1956-04-14 · 60 min
When an epidemic of typhoid fever hits Dodge, some citizens want to take the law into their own hands against the person suspected as the carrier of the disease.
Open episode 24 ↗Air date: 1956-04-28 · 60 min
A large woman and her small companion bring trouble to Kitty's saloon, as the woman has a way of causing guns to be drawn.
Open episode 25 ↗Air date: 1956-05-12 · 60 min
Far from Dodge and without a horse Matt Dillon still manages to bring in Lee Timble...a man wanted for murder. Lee's brother Dolph swears that he'll get him out. Meanwhile, an old friend of Dillon's, Hack Prine, has arrived in Dodge to take a job. Happy to see each other they reminisce about old times both unaware that the job Hack is in Dodge for is killing Dillon.
Open episode 26 ↗Air date: 1956-05-19 · 60 min
After Matt exposes gambler Ben Sissle as a cheat, Sissle attempts to exact revenge by giving brain-damaged Cooter Smith a gun and telling the marshal that Cooter plans to challenge him to a gunfight.
Open episode 27 ↗Air date: 1956-05-26 · 60 min
Matt must go to extreme lengths to stop the killing spree of a psychopathic murderer who provokes gunfights with cowboys, farmers, and others who he knows have no chance against him.
Open episode 28 ↗Air date: 1956-06-09 · 60 min
A stranger comes to Dodge, and Doc bewilders and dismays Chester and Matt by arming himself and vowing to kill the man.
Open episode 29 ↗Air date: 1956-06-16 · 60 min
A brutal prize fighter who has been punching on a meek preacher, kidnaps him and tells Dillon he will beat the man to death.
Open episode 30 ↗Air date: 1956-06-23 · 60 min
Trail herder Howard Bulow swears to shoot Marshal Dillon in the back after he kills his drunken brother in self-defense.
Open episode 31 ↗Air date: 1956-06-30 · 60 min
Dutch George runs a large horse theft operation. The law can't touch him because others take the risk. He makes a big mistake when he personally steals one horse for himself.
Open episode 32 ↗Air date: 1956-07-07 · 60 min
Matt tries to quell rumors of a planned Pawnee attack.
Open episode 33 ↗Air date: 1956-07-14 · 60 min
Chester has been writing to a mail-order bride who is now coming to Dodge to marry him. What Chester has neglected to tell Matt and Doc is that the picture he sent her wasn't his but the marshal's.
Open episode 34 ↗Air date: 1956-07-21 · 60 min
Weed Pindle is a friendly guitar player in Dodge, but when certain cowboys find out he fought for a particular division of the Union Army, they become set on trying to hang him.
Open episode 35 ↗Air date: 1956-07-28 · 60 min
An old flame of Matt's comes to town, but her presence in Dodge may be motivated by more than sentiment.
Open episode 36 ↗Air date: 1956-08-04 · 60 min
A struggling prairie couple endures harassment and torment at the hands of the wife's self-righteous brother.
Open episode 37 ↗Air date: 1956-08-18 · 60 min
A distraught middle-aged woman becomes determined to aid a young murderer in Matt's custody after she learns of her own son's violent death and unceremonious burial on Boot Hill.
Open episode 38 ↗Air date: 1956-08-25 · 60 min
While on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester help homesteaders besieged by Indians.
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