Season 8

1. 
   S08 E01

   The Search

   15 Sept 1962 · 45 min

   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.

2. 
   S08 E02

   Call Me Dodie

   22 Sept 1962 · 45 min

   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.

3. 
   S08 E03

   Quint Asper Comes Home

   29 Sept 1962 · 45 min

   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.

4. 
   S08 E04

   Root Down

   6 Oct 1962 · 45 min

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

5. 
   S08 E05

   Jenny

   13 Oct 1962 · 45 min

   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.

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   S08 E06

   Collie's Free

   20 Oct 1962 · 45 min

   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.

7. 
   S08 E07

   The Ditch

   27 Oct 1962 · 45 min

   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.

8. 
   S08 E08

   The Trappers

   3 Nov 1962 · 45 min

   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.

9. 
   S08 E09

   Phoebe Strunk

   10 Nov 1962 · 45 min

   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.

10. 
    S08 E10

    The Hunger

    17 Nov 1962 · 45 min

    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.

11. 
    S08 E11

    Abe Blocker

    24 Nov 1962 · 45 min

    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.

12. 
    S08 E12

    The Way It Is

    1 Dec 1962 · 45 min

    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.

13. 
    S08 E13

    Us Haggens

    8 Dec 1962 · 45 min

    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.

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    S08 E14

    Uncle Sunday

    15 Dec 1962 · 45 min

    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.

15. 
    S08 E15

    False Front

    22 Dec 1962 · 45 min

    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.

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    S08 E16

    Old Comrade

    29 Dec 1962 · 45 min

    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.

17. 
    S08 E17

    Louie Pheeters

    5 Jan 1963 · 45 min

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

18. 
    S08 E18

    The Renegades

    12 Jan 1963 · 45 min

    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.

19. 
    S08 E19

    Cotter's Girl

    19 Jan 1963 · 45 min

    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.

20. 
    S08 E20

    The Bad One

    26 Jan 1963 · 45 min

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

21. 
    S08 E21

    The Cousin

    2 Feb 1963 · 45 min

    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.

22. 
    S08 E22

    Shona

    9 Feb 1963 · 45 min

    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.

23. 
    S08 E23

    Ash

    16 Feb 1963 · 45 min

    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.

24. 
    S08 E24

    Blind Man's Bluff

    23 Feb 1963 · 45 min

    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.

25. 
    S08 E25

    Quint's Indian

    1 Mar 1963 · 45 min

    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.

26. 
    S08 E26

    Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

    8 Mar 1963 · 45 min

    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.

27. 
    S08 E27

    Two of a Kind

    16 Mar 1963 · 45 min

    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.

28. 
    S08 E28

    I Call Him Wonder

    23 Mar 1963 · 45 min

    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.

29. 
    S08 E29

    With a Smile

    30 Mar 1963 · 45 min

    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.

30. 
    S08 E30

    The Far Places

    6 Apr 1963 · 45 min

    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.

31. 
    S08 E31

    Panacea Sykes

    13 Apr 1963 · 45 min

    Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kitty's possessions.

32. 
    S08 E32

    Tell Chester

    20 Apr 1963 · 45 min

    Chester is smitten with Polly, but she has eyes only for Wade, a man new in town and newly her father's employee. Knowing little about Wade, Polly agrees quickly to marry him, but Chester discovers that Wade already has a wife.

33. 
    S08 E33

    Quint-Cident

    27 Apr 1963 · 45 min

    A woman newly widowed is powerfully attracted to Quint, but when he gently turns her down, she vows to make him pay for scorning a white woman.

34. 
    S08 E34

    Old York

    4 May 1963 · 45 min

    Pardoned for his Civil War service, an old outlaw finds his way to Dodge, where there's a lawman who's in his debt.

35. 
    S08 E35

    Daddy Went Away

    11 May 1963 · 45 min

    Chester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on marriage but eager to make changes in Chester as well, he has second thoughts--especially after a talk with her child suggests that the widow may still be a wife.

36. 
    S08 E36

    The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

    18 May 1963 · 45 min

    Aaron, sweet on saloon girl Leah and wanting to make her his wife, is attacked and killed by Colie Fletcher. When Matt goes after him, Colie runs into Jubal Tanner, wounds him, and steals his horse. Jubal, ungrateful to those who help him, meets Leah, and each helps the other's outlook.

37. 
    S08 E37

    Jeb

    25 May 1963 · 45 min

    A prized Appaloosa, grazing alone and apparently without owner on the prairie, proves to be the ruin of more than one man.

38. 
    S08 E38

    The Quest for Asa Janin

    1 Jun 1963 · 45 min

    A young man is convicted of killing the saloon girl he wanted for his own. Matt is so sure that the young man is really innocent that he goes on the road after another suspect to prevent an unjust hanging.

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