Season 8

E1. The Search

Sep 15, 1962 · 45m

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.

E2. Call Me Dodie

Sep 22, 1962 · 45m

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.

E3. Quint Asper Comes Home

Sep 29, 1962 · 45m

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.

E4. Root Down

Oct 6, 1962 · 45m

Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.

E5. Jenny

Oct 13, 1962 · 45m

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.

E6. Collie's Free

Oct 20, 1962 · 45m

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.

E7. The Ditch

Oct 27, 1962 · 45m

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.

E8. The Trappers

Nov 3, 1962 · 45m

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.

E9. Phoebe Strunk

Nov 10, 1962 · 45m

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.

E10. The Hunger

Nov 17, 1962 · 45m

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.

E11. Abe Blocker

Nov 24, 1962 · 45m

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.

E12. The Way It Is

Dec 1, 1962 · 45m

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.

E13. Us Haggens

Dec 8, 1962 · 45m

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.

E14. Uncle Sunday

Dec 15, 1962 · 45m

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.

E15. False Front

Dec 22, 1962 · 45m

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.

E16. Old Comrade

Dec 29, 1962 · 45m

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.

E17. Louie Pheeters

Jan 5, 1963 · 45m

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

E18. The Renegades

Jan 12, 1963 · 45m

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.

E19. Cotter's Girl

Jan 19, 1963 · 45m

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.

E20. The Bad One

Jan 26, 1963 · 45m

When a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a would-be robber, she refuses to identify him.

E21. The Cousin

Feb 2, 1963 · 45m

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.

E22. Shona

Feb 9, 1963 · 45m

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.

E23. Ash

Feb 16, 1963 · 45m

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.

E24. Blind Man's Bluff

Feb 23, 1963 · 45m

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.

E25. Quint's Indian

Mar 1, 1963 · 45m

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.

E26. Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

Mar 8, 1963 · 45m

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.

E27. Two of a Kind

Mar 16, 1963 · 45m

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.

E28. I Call Him Wonder

Mar 23, 1963 · 45m

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.

E29. With a Smile

Mar 30, 1963 · 45m

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.

E30. The Far Places

Apr 6, 1963 · 45m

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.