Season 9
Episodes
S9 · E1 · 28 Sept 1963 · 45 min
Kate Heller
A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.
S9 · E2 · 5 Oct 1963 · 45 min
Lover Boy
A charming cowboy apparently is guilty only of breaking hearts until he gets to Dodge, where he finds two women who may make a killer of him.
S9 · E3 · 12 Oct 1963 · 45 min
Legends Don't Sleep
A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.
S9 · E4 · 19 Oct 1963 · 45 min
Tobe
Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.
S9 · E5 · 26 Oct 1963 · 45 min
Easy Come
A mild-looking cowboy discovers that it's easy to steal, and, soon thereafter, that it's easy to kill as well.
S9 · E6 · 2 Nov 1963 · 45 min
My Sister's Keeper
A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.
S9 · E7 · 9 Nov 1963 · 45 min
Quint's Trail
Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.
S9 · E8 · 16 Nov 1963 · 45 min
Carter Caper
A man with a grudge hits upon the perfect revenge when he spreads the word in Dodge that short-tempered Billy is so good with a gun that he shot down the famous gunfighter, Beau Carter.
S9 · E9 · 30 Nov 1963 · 45 min
Ex-Con
On his way to Larned, Matt, feverish, spends the night at an abandoned shack. When he wakes up after losing a day, a recently released convict who swore to kill Matt, is himself found against a wall, dead, unarmed, shot twice, and the murder weapon appears to belong to the marshal.
S9 · E10 · 7 Dec 1963 · 45 min
Extradition (1)
When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.
S9 · E11 · 14 Dec 1963 · 45 min
Extradition (2)
Matt finally catches up to killer Charlie Hacker in Mexico, and has to make a deal with the greedy Mexican police to get Hacker back to the border, with revengeful Mexican bandits in pursuit.
S9 · E12 · 21 Dec 1963 · 45 min
The Magician
A mild old peddler of patent medicines and card tricks arrives in Dodge with his grown daughter, hoping to settle down, but instead they find their worst luck yet, beginning with a card game with a rich man and his spoiled son.
S9 · E13 · 28 Dec 1963 · 45 min
Pa Hack's Brood
A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.
S9 · E14 · 4 Jan 1964 · 45 min
The Glory and the Mud
A retired lawman and showman wants only to settle down with the Dodge seamstress he left behind twenty years ago, but a young whippersnapper hopes to make a name for himself by challenging the aging gun to a duel.
S9 · E15 · 11 Jan 1964 · 45 min
Dry Well
It's a test of wills when Quint witnesses a murder and the father of one of the prime suspects lowers Quint into a well to try to force him to promise his silence.
S9 · E16 · 18 Jan 1964 · 45 min
Prairie Wolfer
Festus returns to Dodge from wolfing and is hired by the Cattleman's Association to hunt down the wolves killing everyone's cattle. What he finds is that what's been doing the preying may wind him up in prison if he doesn't get Matt's help.
S9 · E17 · 25 Jan 1964 · 45 min
Friend
A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.
S9 · E18 · 1 Feb 1964 · 45 min
Once a Haggen
A man is stabbed after winning in a poker game, and Festus is suspected.
S9 · E19 · 8 Feb 1964 · 45 min
No Hands
The Ginnis family causes trouble for Doc Adams, because they hate waiting. Will Timble gets hurt at The Long Branch. Doc has to remove Will's hand, which causes Will to leave Dodge because he can't carve wood anymore.
S9 · E20 · 15 Feb 1964 · 45 min
May Blossom
Festus' cousin May Blossom arrives from Texas to marry Festus
S9 · E21 · 22 Feb 1964 · 45 min
The Bassops
A family in search of a doctor find Matt and his prisoner unconscious and handcuffed to each other on the prairie. The prisoner wakens first and announces that Matt is the condemned man he is transporting for hanging.
S9 · E22 · 29 Feb 1964 · 45 min
The Kite
Festus finds a little girl out on the prairie. He learns she saw her mother get killed by a stranger. When he takes her to Dodge, Matt hears she was hiding when this happened but can identify this man who may already be in town.
S9 · E23 · 7 Mar 1964 · 45 min
Comanches Is Soft
After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's equipment. To repair or get anew, they travel to Wichita and meet a saloon girl who tells them she needs to get away from town but her jealous boyfriend is now hot on their trail.
S9 · E24 · 14 Mar 1964 · 45 min
Father's Love
A saloon girl spurns a man's advances in Wichita and moves to Dodge, where she becomes a respectable married woman, only to be confronted with her past when she discovers that her rancher husband is the nephew of the man she refused.
S9 · E25 · 21 Mar 1964 · 45 min
Now That April's Here
Festus, returning to Dodge after doing some trapping, sees his girl, April, and they argue over a gift she received. Running off, she hides but her perch gives her a bird's eye view of a murder, one no one believes she witnessed but the killers.
S9 · E26 · 28 Mar 1964 · 45 min
Caleb
Caleb Marr comes to Dodge in search of a meaningful life after finally acknowledging his failure at farming.
S9 · E27 · 4 Apr 1964 · 45 min
Owney Tupper Had a Daughter
To earn money to recover the custody of his daughter, an aging man accepts the job of Dodge's first in-town hangman, work no one else wants.
S9 · E28 · 11 Apr 1964 · 45 min
Bently
A dying man confesses to a murder of which he was acquitted, but Chester suspects the man was lying.
S9 · E29 · 18 Apr 1964 · 45 min
Kitty Cornered
Competing with Kitty is a fancy new woman in town with plenty of money to build a new saloon and a secret from the past life she recently left behind.
S9 · E30 · 25 Apr 1964 · 45 min
The Promoter
Henry Huckaby, a local farmer and fed up with a sore back and an empty belly leaves to seek his fortune in Dodge. After several failed ideas he hits on one that may make him rich but could also cost him his life.
S9 · E31 · 2 May 1964 · 45 min
Trip West
Given three months to live by a quack peddler of patent medicines, a mousy bank clerk quits his job, withdraws all his money, makes ready to go to California, and falls for a girl who may endanger what time he has remaining.
S9 · E32 · 9 May 1964 · 45 min
Scot Free
Rob Scot considers himself a man who could stay or go when it came to women. He may have met his match though when a woman he desires, along with her husband, take over an abandoned homestead, and they come to where Rob works to look over some stock.
S9 · E33 · 16 May 1964 · 45 min
The Warden
A traveling salesman meets up with Bull Foot, an Indian who mainly sells vegetables. When goods are traded for a squaw, he is upset when she runs away and into the arms of Festus, whose mule she steals, only to return home awaiting sale to the next customer.
S9 · E34 · 23 May 1964 · 45 min
Homecoming
Orval returns from seven years in prison for killing his wife's lover, vowing to reclaim his house and business. Edna tries to goad her new husband and Orval's son into a plot to kill Orval; then her head is turned by a traveling salesman.
S9 · E35 · 30 May 1964 · 45 min
The Other Half
Jess, Jay's twin, is shot and killed by an unknown assailant while working late at the family business. When a stranger to Dodge is suspected, Matt does his best to track him down and bring him to justice.
S9 · E36 · 6 Jun 1964 · 45 min
Journey for Three
Two brothers traveling to California are joined by a third man who soon proves to be a wrong 'un, manhandling and killing a young woman they encounter on the prairie and turning on Quint when he shows up to share his rabbits with them.
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