Season 4

1. 
   S04 E01

   Matt for Murder

   13 Sept 1958 · 26 min

   Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man;however, Doc and Matt's old friend Wild Bill Hickok come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder.

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   S04 E02

   The Patsy

   20 Sept 1958 · 26 min

   Matt doubts the veracity of Long Branch hostess Holly Fanshaw's claim that she saw trail drover Fly Hoyt murder young Dave Thorp. His suspicions increase further when Hoyt voluntarily returns to Dodge in order to clear his name.

3. 
   S04 E03

   Gunsmuggler

   27 Sept 1958 · 26 min

   Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.

4. 
   S04 E04

   Monopoly

   4 Oct 1958 · 26 min

   Two murders result when an unscrupulous Eastern businessman named Ivy hires a psychotic killer to help him establish undisputed control of Dodge City's freight shipment business.

5. 
   S04 E05

   Letter of the Law

   11 Oct 1958 · 26 min

   A rich landowner seizes the chance to get a little more acreage when he discovers that a homesteader has failed to file the paperwork to make his quarter section his own.

6. 
   S04 E06

   Thoroughbreds

   18 Oct 1958 · 26 min

   Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him later in Dodge, he is much different: friendly and spending money freely.

7. 
   S04 E07

   Stage Hold-Up

   25 Oct 1958 · 26 min

   A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thieves when a "cowboy" appears and offers to show him where one of the thieves may be buried.

8. 
   S04 E08

   Lost Rifle

   1 Nov 1958 · 26 min

   Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.

9. 
   S04 E09

   Land Deal

   8 Nov 1958 · 26 min

   When a stranger leading some immigrants planning on settling outside of Dodge wants Matt to give him a badge to avert trouble, Matt gets suspicious and rides out to their camp to see what is really up.

10. 
    S04 E10

    Lynching Man

    15 Nov 1958 · 26 min

    After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into his own hands and is led tragically astray by the culprits.

11. 
    S04 E11

    How to Kill a Friend

    22 Nov 1958 · 26 min

    Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matt's close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.

12. 
    S04 E12

    Grass

    29 Nov 1958 · 26 min

    White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.

13. 
    S04 E13

    The Cast

    6 Dec 1958 · 26 min

    When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.

14. 
    S04 E14

    Robber Bridegroom

    13 Dec 1958 · 26 min

    Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous businessman who threatened to ruin her father if he did not agree to the marriage.

15. 
    S04 E15

    Snakebite

    20 Dec 1958 · 26 min

    Claustrophobic plainsman Poney Thompson is arrested for murdering a man who maliciously shot his dog, but an ironic fate awaits him after he breaks free from Chester's custody.

16. 
    S04 E16

    Gypsum Hills Feud

    27 Dec 1958 · 26 min

    Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and isolated mountain families.

17. 
    S04 E17

    Young Love

    3 Jan 1959 · 26 min

    Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattle from Wheat's young widow.

18. 
    S04 E18

    Marshal Proudfoot

    10 Jan 1959 · 26 min

    Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant.

19. 
    S04 E19

    Passive Resistance

    17 Jan 1959 · 26 min

    A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.

20. 
    S04 E20

    Love of a Good Woman

    24 Jan 1959 · 26 min

    An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunning for him even though he thought he was innocent five years ago.

21. 
    S04 E21

    Jayhawkers

    31 Jan 1959 · 26 min

    Trail boss Dolph Quince sends for his friend Matt to help escort his cattle herd into Dodge because he is having trouble with Jayhawkers (Kansas renegades), and he hopes to ease the animosity his men have towards all Kansans.

22. 
    S04 E22

    Kitty's Rebellion

    7 Feb 1959 · 26 min

    An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed. Intent on defending her honor wherever she is insulted, he nearly gets himself killed. Kitty finally tells him that she has no honor, and he keeps making a fool out of himself thinking otherwise. It sends him away and saves his life at the same time.

23. 
    S04 E23

    Sky

    14 Feb 1959 · 26 min

    Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.

24. 
    S04 E24

    Doc Quits

    21 Feb 1959 · 26 min

    Doc takes hard the death of a homesteader under his care; then a flashy new medicine man comes to town and takes away many of his patients.

25. 
    S04 E25

    The Bear

    28 Feb 1959 · 26 min

    Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.

26. 
    S04 E26

    The Coward

    7 Mar 1959 · 26 min

    A coward gambler, who's too cheap to hire a gunman, wants Matt dead for a beating he got from him years ago, so he starts some talk around Dodge about the big reputation any person could gain, if they simply killed Matt.

27. 
    S04 E27

    The F.U.

    14 Mar 1959 · 26 min

    When Onie Becker is shot down on the streets of Dodge after quarreling with Al Clovis in a poker game, everyone thinks Al Clovis committed the shooting. The plot thickens after Matt and Chester pursue Clovis on a train headed out of Dodge.

28. 
    S04 E28

    Wind

    21 Mar 1959 · 26 min

    Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden, who seems to bring gamblers luck just by standing next to them when they're playing cards.

29. 
    S04 E29

    Fawn

    4 Apr 1959 · 26 min

    After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.

30. 
    S04 E30

    Renegade White

    11 Apr 1959 · 26 min

    A gunfight in the Long Branch forces Matt to arrest a drunk. Letting him go since it was a fair fight, he suspects him of selling guns to the Indians, and goes after him even though he may run into those Indians.

31. 
    S04 E31

    Murder Warrant

    18 Apr 1959 · 26 min

    Matt and Dodge City's businessmen employ an unusual tactic to save ambush victim Lee Prentice from being taken to corrupt Baker City to face certain hanging on a trumped-up murder charge.

32. 
    S04 E32

    Change of Heart

    25 Apr 1959 · 26 min

    Matt becomes suspicious when Jerry Cass's plans to marry saloon hostess Bella Grant are complicated by Bella's sudden insistence that Jerry leave his recently-inherited ranch for six months.

33. 
    S04 E33

    Buffalo Hunter

    2 May 1959 · 26 min

    Marshal Dillon has to stop a ruthless, cold-blooded, greedy, buffalo hunter who is in the habit of brutally killing his hired help to avoid paying them their wages.

34. 
    S04 E34

    The Choice

    9 May 1959 · 26 min

    Matt tries to help Andy Hill, a young gunman who is apparently trying very hard to go straight, by getting him a job riding shotgun on the stagecoach.

35. 
    S04 E35

    There Was Never a Horse

    16 May 1959 · 26 min

    Gunman Kin Creed arrives in Dodge determined to enhance his reputation by outdrawing Matt in a gunfight. He goes to great lengths to force Matt into a confrontation and is able to wound him, but it proves to be a pyrrhic victory.

36. 
    S04 E36

    Print Asper

    23 May 1959 · 26 min

    Print Asper is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him, and the lawyer still ends up getting shot later by someone.

37. 
    S04 E37

    The Constable

    30 May 1959 · 26 min

    Dodge City's businessmen learn a hard lesson when they reject Matt's advice and hire a meek constable to handle a gang of rowdy but free-spending trail cowboys.

38. 
    S04 E38

    Blue Horse

    6 Jun 1959 · 26 min

    Seriously injured Matt faces a moral dilemma when Blue Horse saves his life and prevents the escape of a prisoner. The Marshal knows that Blue Horse is being sought by the Cavalry as a fugitive from a reservation, and he is well aware that he is duty-bound to assist their search in any way possible.

39. 
    S04 E39

    Cheyennes

    13 Jun 1959 · 26 min

    Matt seeks the help of wise Chief Long Robe to track down gunrunners who are supplying renegade Cheyenne braves with rifles used to murder prairie-dwelling families. Long Robe provides Matt with the needed information, but warns him that the death of even a single brave could lead to a violent uprising.

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