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Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1959
Ironic tragedy results when Danny Kader stubbornly disregards his father's predispositions (and Matt's pragmatic advice) in order to attempt an elopement with a young gypsy woman.
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1959
Ironic tragedy results when Danny Kader stubbornly disregards his father's predispositions (and Matt's pragmatic advice) in order to attempt an elopement with a young gypsy woman.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1959
When Kitty is hurt in a fall from a horse, she and Matt must seek help from shiftless dirt farmers who are oddly uninterested in aiding them.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1959
Deesha is running a scam in which his partner sells an unbranded horse to an unsuspecting buyer, after which Deesha moves in to claim the horse, leaving the buyer with nothing.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1959
A man suddenly turns up in Dodge City claiming to be Billy Crale, the long-lost son of a well-to-do local widow. Matt knows that Billy Crale was reported dead during the Civil War and he becomes highly concerned for Mrs. Crale's safety when he confirms that the man is actually a onetime outlaw known as Johnny Red.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1959
A father and son bully a farmer and his wife who won't sell their land, but the farmer is oddly reluctant to let Matt arrest the two, even when they resort to gunfire.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1959
Is the homely, sharp-tongued, middle-aged wife of a homesteader really inspiring men to fight to the death for her affections?
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1959
Chester saves a man from a zealot's violent "justice" then faces a dose of the same himself.
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1959
Matt, escorting 3 men back to Dodge, claims a beautiful wounded Indian woman will be able to identify the one who shot her and killed her husband.
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1959
A man wants a gunfight with his brother when he returns home, after years away, and finds him married to his girl.
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1959
Onetime gunman Zeno Smith faces an unenviable choice. If he does not help would-be gambler Hank Fergus rob Mr. Jonas's general store, Fergus will tell 12-year old orphan Tommy the full story of how Zeno's descent into deprivation and alcoholism dates to the day he backed down from facing Fergus in a gunfight.
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1959
Matt is uncertain what to make of Cyrus Tucker's confused claim that his wife of 32 years "just ran off", especially when a homesteader claims that he saw the old man digging a large hole just behind his house.
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1959
A father threatens to kill the two drifters who have been plaguing his daughter.
Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1959
A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.
Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1959 (30 min)
A man is convicted of murder on doubtful testimony.
Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1959 (30 min)
When hired gunman Killion comes to Dodge, many of the men get scared thinking he is after them.
Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Dec 26, 1959 (30 min)
A quarrel between two partners in homesteading escalates to the point of gunfire. Matt tries to make peace between them by locking them up together.
Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1960
An ex-Confederate waits to settle the score with the Union man whose unit cost him a loved one and property in the civil war.
Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1960
Despite a serious heart condition, onetime prizefighter Tom Burr is determined to go through with his plans to fight vicious Hob Creel. The only way Matt can stop the mismatch and save Burr's life is to fight Creel himself.
Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1960
Someone takes a shot at a hard man who is brutal to his wife, and someone is overheard claiming he was offered money to kill the man.
Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1960
Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards
Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1960
Matt has reason to believe that the new overweight, gun toting, straight shooting, female owner of the Lady Gay saloon may have killed the previous owner, or did she?
Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1960
While Matt is out of town an ex-convict comes hunting Doc believing, despite the doctor's protests, that he is the judge who sentenced the man to a long stretch in prison.
Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1960 (30 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.
Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1960 (30 min)
Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter in childbirth.
Episode: 5x25 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1960 (30 min)
After a train sparks a fire that destroys a family's crops, the man, his son, and his daughter rob another train of fifty thousand dollars. A baggage clerk is killed and the crusty representative of the railroad pressures Matt to solve it.
Episode: 5x26 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1960 (30 min)
Determined to avenge his murderous brother's hanging, Vince Walsh begins a self-serving campaign of unofficially helping to keep the peace in Dodge City over Matt's objections. Walsh is certain that his actions and his taunts will eventually goad the Marshal into a gunfight.
Episode: 5x27 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1960 (30 min)
Accused of being the masked robber of the general store, a homesteader agrees to come along quietly with Matt and Chester, but he asks that they help him complete a few chores about the place for his poor wife, who's in the family way.
Episode: 5x28 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1960 (30 min)
A dying man's relations are much displeased when they learn that he's willed all he owns to Kitty.
Episode: 5x29 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1960 (30 min)
A southern belle charms Chester and many others in Dodge, but Kitty isn't falling for her charms.
Episode: 5x30 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1960 (30 min)
Far from Dodge, Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Doc's life after the two are ambushed by a pair of savage prairie wolfers.
Episode: 5x31 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1960 (30 min)
A man beats his wife and is sentenced to fifty days or fifty dollars by the judge. The beaten woman scrapes together the money for her husband's fine, only to be beaten again.
Episode: 5x32 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1960 (30 min)
A saloon girl shoots a man who came to her room, claiming he attacked her, but as the dead man was to testify against a man from the woman's past, Matt is suspicious.
Episode: 5x33 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1960 (30 min)
Ed makes no secret of his intention to kill Bert for marrying the girl Ed wanted. So when Ed is the one who turns up dead, folks assume that Bert did it.
Episode: 5x34 | Airdate: May 7, 1960 (30 min)
There's a cattle drive near town, and the cowboys are nervous about a series of cattle rustling events that have taken place recently.
Episode: 5x35 | Airdate: May 14, 1960 (30 min)
Belle Ainesly rides into town after 3 years absence. Seems she ran off with an unsavory character 3 years ago, and all of Dodge feels she's a "bad" woman. Belle says she is coming back to stay at the family ranch.
Episode: 5x36 | Airdate: May 21, 1960 (30 min)
Two brothers have decided that it is their mission to rid the West of Indians.
Episode: 5x37 | Airdate: May 28, 1960 (30 min)
Kitty doubts the veracity of Matt's old friend Dolly Winters, who arrives in Dodge seeking the Marshal's help and claiming to have been robbed, beaten, and jilted by a man named Rad Meadows.
Episode: 5x38 | Airdate: Jun 4, 1960 (30 min)
Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the drop on him and wounds Chester.
Episode: 5x39 | Airdate: Jun 11, 1960 (30 min)
The widow of a stagecoach robber is courted by the man who, unbeknownst to the widow, is the one who shot her husband.