The Best Episodes Written By John Meston

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   #1 - Reprisal

   S7:E233/10/1962

   Oren was a rancher who liked his drink, gambling and women, even though he had a pretty wife at home. Matt is forced to kill him and when he breaks the news to her, all she can see is getting revenge for his death, and Matt is her target.

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   #2 - Blind Man's Bluff

   S8:E242/23/1963

   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.

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   #3 - Magnus

   S1:E1212/24/1955

   Chester is embarrassed at a visit by his estranged mountain man brother Magnus. To prove that Magnus is too uncivilized for town, Chester tours him through the highlights of Dodge: card gambling, drinking, and talking with Kitty. Meanwhile, the Long Branch women plan a Christmas Eve dance which is busted by the spiteful Lucifer Jones.

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   #4 - Tail to the Wind

   S5:E510/10/1959

   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.

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   #5 - Money Crop

   S1:E202/19/1975

   A college-educated farmer named Joe moves to Walnut Grove with his pregnant wife. He tells the Walnut Grove-area farmers of a new hybrid of corn that would produce good crops, to which the farmers are very enthused. They decide to buy some of this new seed. While on the way back to Walnut Grove with the seed, Joe gets into an accident, as the farmers wait for his return.

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   #6 - Home Surgery

   S1:E410/8/1955

   When returning to Dodge, Chester and Matt are confronted by Holly Hawtree, whose father is desperately ill with gangrene. His only hope for survival is amputation of the affected leg. Matt performs the surgery, but the gangrene has spread too far and the old man dies. Matt later discovers that the presumed accident leading to Mr. Hawtree's condition was actually caused by Ben Walling, who has his sights on Holly.

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   #7 - Smoking Out the Nolans

   S1:E711/5/1955

   Clay Young is trying to evict Josh Nolan, who says he paid for the property. Matt and Chester are tied up in reluctantly enforcing eviction law unless they can find another way.

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   #8 - Perce

   S7:E19/30/1961

   Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.

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   #9 - The Gallows

   S7:E223/3/1962

   While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.

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    #10 - With a Smile

    S8:E293/30/1963

    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.

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    #11 - Child of Pain

    S1:E192/12/1975

    When it is found out that a young boy, Graham, is being beaten by his alcoholic father, John, Caroline takes care of the boy while Charles stays with John to try to get him to stay sober.

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    #12 - General Parsley Smith

    S1:E1112/10/1955

    Old-timer Smith is a former Army officer considered a butcher. He arrives in Dodge City speading rumors about the new Banker, Drew Holt.

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    #13 - All That

    S7:E510/28/1961

    A man who lost his wife and all he had returns to Dodge from gold prospecting with three bulging bags to deposit in the bank, and all who scorned him before, including his ex-wife, can't do enough for him.

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    #14 - He Learned About Women

    S7:E212/24/1962

    Taken prisoner by a band of comancheros, Chester is helped to escape by one of the band's women and flees with another who may or may not be worthy of his trust.

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    #15 - Ash

    S8:E232/16/1963

    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.

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    #16 - The Queue

    S1:E1012/3/1955

    Two bullies cut off Chen's pig-tail, gravely dishonoring him in Chinese culture. Chen vows vengeance.

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    #17 - Harper's Blood

    S7:E410/21/1961

    A hard man has given his two sons a hard raising, sure that they inherited their mother's bad blood from their murderous ancestor. The old man may be right: one of his sons may be a murderer. Or is it the other son?

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    #18 - Hack Prine

    S1:E265/12/1956

    Hack Prine, a friend of Matt's rides into Dodge. However he is there as a gunman, for Matt Dillon.

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    #19 - Minnie

    S6:E304/15/1961

    Rough and rowdy Minnie comes to Dodge City and sets her designs on Doc Adams, much to the delight of Matt, Chester and Kitty. Trouble comes though when Minnie's husband comes to Dodge and finds out that his Minnie is sweet on Doc.

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    #20 - Old Yellow Boots

    S7:E210/7/1961

    Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.

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    #21 - Half Straight

    S7:E202/17/1962

    A man has been hired to kill Matt, but when he meets and quickly falls in love with a decent girl, he has a change of heart--or does he?

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    #22 - Quint Asper Comes Home

    S8:E39/29/1962

    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.

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    #23 - Jenny

    S8:E510/13/1962

    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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    #24 - Phoebe Strunk

    S8:E911/10/1962

    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.

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