Season 2

Season 2 • 1956

Episodes

1. Cow Doctor

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.

1956-09-08 • 26 min

2. Brush at Elkader

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.

1956-09-15 • 26 min

3. Custer

Matt refuses to turn the rustler Joe Trimble over to Major Banker for court-martial.

1956-09-22 • 26 min

4. The Round Up

Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.

1956-09-29 • 26 min

5. Young Man with a Gun

After gunman, Sam Kercher is killed by Matt, his 16-year-old brother arrives to fight Matt.

1956-10-20 • 26 min

6. Indian White

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.

1956-10-27 • 26 min

7. How to Cure a Friend

Matt is used by an old friend in a con game.

1956-11-10 • 26 min

8. Legal Revenge

Doc comes upon a homesteader with a busted leg—and a gun to protect himself from his wife.

1956-11-17 • 26 min

9. The Mistake

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').

1956-11-24 • 26 min

10. Greater Love

An outlaw threatens to kill Doc if he does not help his wounded buddy.

1956-12-01 • 26 min

11. No Indians

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).

1956-12-08 • 26 min

12. Spring Term

Matt discovers that he was the intended victim of a murder he is investigating.

1956-12-15 • 26 min

13. Poor Pearl

Matt helps a woman whose suitors are about to duel for her affections.

1956-12-22 • 26 min

14. Cholera

A landowner (Paul Fix) tries to terrorize homesteaders (Bartlett Robinson and Peg Hillias) off their land (Gordon Gebert, John Smith, and Stuart Whitman appear).

1956-12-29 • 26 min

15. Pucket's New Year

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').

1957-01-05 • 26 min

16. The Cover Up

Matt traps a cattleman (Tyler McVey) who shot two homesteaders (including Roy Engel) (Malcolm Atterbury and Vivi Janiss appear).

1957-01-12 • 26 min

17. Sins of the Father

An Indian woman (Angie Dickinson) faces prejudice for her father's raid on Dodge City (Peter Whitney and Paul Wexler appear).

1957-01-19 • 26 min

18. Kick Me

A bank robber (Robert H. Harris) murders his wife and frames Tobeel (Frank de Kova) for the crime (Paul Lambert appears).

1957-01-26 • 26 min

19. Executioner

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.

1957-02-02 • 26 min

20. Gone Straight

Townspeople protect an outlaw (Carl Betz) they believe has reformed (Tige Andrews, Joe De Santis, John Dierkes, Marianne Stewart, and Ward Wood appear).

1957-02-09 • 26 min

21. Bloody Hands

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).

1957-02-16 • 26 min

22. Skid Row

An Eastern girl makes the long trip to Dodge, only to find that her fiancé has lost his money and won't marry her.

1957-02-23 • 26 min

23. Sweet and Sour

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.

1957-03-02 • 26 min

24. Cain

Ex-gunslinger Joel Adams' past is about to catch up with him.

1957-03-09 • 26 min

25. Bureaucrat

A Washington official is determined to tame Dodge City.

1957-03-16 • 26 min

26. Last Fling

Kitty gets annoyed by a pair of old farmers who are each trying to have a fling with her.

1957-03-23 • 26 min

27. Chester's Murder

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.

1957-03-30 • 26 min

28. The Photographer

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.

1957-04-06 • 26 min

29. Wrong Man

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).

1957-04-13 • 26 min

30. Big Girl Lost

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.

1957-04-20 • 26 min

31. What the Whiskey Drummer Heard

Matt fakes his death to lure a gunman (Vic Perrin) out in the open (Robert Karnes appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Sam').

1957-04-27 • 26 min

32. Cheap Labor

A former gunfighter has turned away from violence, but his fiancee's brother is determined to goad him into a gunfight.

1957-05-04 • 26 min

33. Moon

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.

1957-05-11 • 26 min

34. Who Lives by the Sword

Joe Delk causes trouble at The Long Branch after shooting two men who were unarmed.

1957-05-18 • 26 min

35. Uncle Oliver

Matt goes after an outlaw (Earle Hodgins) who shot Chester (Paul Wexler appears).

1957-05-25 • 26 min

36. Daddy-O

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.

1957-06-01 • 26 min

37. The Man Who Would Be Marshal

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.

1957-06-15 • 26 min