39 episodesFirst aired 7 September 1956
E1Sept 195626m
After he is summoned unknowingly by Ben Pitcher to treat one of his cows, a human patient of Doc's dies. During a fight with Pitcher, Doc is knifed.
E2Sept 195626m
After his friend Ben Williams is shot down by Lou Shippen, Matt travels to Elkader to bring him him. The only problem, he doesn't know what he looks like and the town is protecting Shippen.
E3Sept 195626m
Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial.
E4Sept 195626m
Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.
E5Oct 195626m
After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year-old brother arrives to fight Matt.
E6Oct 195626m
At Fort Dodge, home of the third cavalry, Mrs. Mary Cullen tells the colonel that the twelve year old white boy they recovered from the Cheyenne is her son Dennis. The tribe had taken him when he was two years old.
E7Nov 195626m
Matt is used by an old friend in a con game.
E8Nov 195626m
Doc comes upon a homesteader with a busted leg—and a gun to protect himself from his wife.
E9Nov 195626m
Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender', but referred to by Chester as 'Sam Noonan').
E10Dec 195626m
An outlaw threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy.
E11Dec 195626m
Matt and Chester act as decoys to ambush outlaws (including Mickey Simpson) that are masking their crimes as those of renegade Indians (Fintan Meyler and Herbert Rudley appear).
E12Dec 195626m
Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating.
E13Dec 195626m
Matt helps a woman whose suitors are about to duel for her affections.
E14Dec 195626m
A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear).
E15Jan 195726m
An old buffalo hunter (Edgar Stehli) swears revenge on the skinner (Grant Withers) that left him to die (Richard Deacon appears as banker Botkin, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender').
E16Jan 195726m
Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear).
E17Jan 195726m
An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).
E18Jan 195726m
A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears).
E19Feb 195726m
A young gunfighter, Tom Clegg, forces farmer Abe Curry into a duel and kills him. Matt can't arrest Clegg since Abe drew first. However, Abe's brother Morgan plots revenge.
E20Feb 195726m
Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear).
E21Feb 195726m
The shooting of several members of an outlaw gang, though in self defense, triggers an emotional crisis in Matt, haunted by memories of all the men he has killed (Lawrence Dobkin, Russell Johnson, and Gloria Marshall appear).
E22Feb 195726m
An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her.
E23Mar 195726m
Rena Decker, a new dance hall girl, purposely gets her admirers into fighting over her. Despite Kitty's negative opinion of her, Matt befreinds Rena and gets her a job at the Long Branch. Soon afterward, 4 men are dead and Rena is the cause.
E24Mar 195726m
Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.
E25Mar 195726m
A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.
E26Mar 195726m
Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.
E27Mar 195726m
Chester is drinking at the Long Branch and gets into an argument with a gambler over a girl. When the marshal breaks it up, he tells Chester to bring the man to jail. On the way there, the man is killed and everyone thinks Chester did it.
E28Apr 195726m
Dodge City meets a Photographer who shows the residents how a camera works. Jacoby wants to take pictures of how the Wild West looks. When Matt learns someone died, he thinks the photographer may have hired someone to kill Grubby for a picture of the west.
E29Apr 195726m
A cowboy vows revenge for the shooting of his friend, who was mistaken for a criminal (Don Keefer and Catherine McLeod, real-life husband and wife, appear as a husband and wife).
E30Apr 195726m
Philip Locke is looking for Laura Simmons, a saloon girl, but she doesn't want him to know where she works. Laura tells Matt that she and Philip were previously engaged, and she asks him not to say anything about her job. Philip warns Matt that he will be killed if he doesn't tell the truth.
E31Apr 195726m
Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Sam').
E32May 195726m
A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight.
E33May 195726m
After Charlie Brewer is found dead, Jack Salter who was a friend of Charlie Brewer comes to Matt's office saying Vint killed Brewer. Matt then tries to find out if Jack is right.
E34May 195726m
Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed.
E35May 195726m
Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears).
E36Jun 195726m
Kitty's father, Wayne Russell, arrives in Dodge to meet his daughter after abandoning her and her mother as a baby. He insists that saloon life is not fit for a proper lady and wants to take her back to New Orleans so he can pamper her and invest her savings in his freight business.
E37Jun 195726m
A former Army Officer wants Matt Dillon's job. Matt then takes Mr. Egan on his rounds. Matt lets Egan try his brand of justice that almost costs Egan his life.
E38Jun 195726m
A braggart tries to provoke a gunfight with a harmless drunk.
E39Jul 195726m
Jack Kelly plays a hot-tempered husband who thinks Matt is after his wife.