10.0/101 votes#1 - Reprisal
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 3/10/1962
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: John Meston
10.0/101 votes#2 - Blind Man's Bluff
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 2/23/1963
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.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: John Meston
9.5/102 votes#3 - Magnus
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1955
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Meston
8.0/101 votes#4 - Money Crop
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1975
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.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: John Meston
8.0/101 votes#5 - Home Surgery
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1955
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.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: John Meston
8.0/101 votes#6 - Smoking Out the Nolans
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1955
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.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writer: John Meston
8.0/101 votes#7 - Perce
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1961
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: John Meston
8.0/101 votes#8 - The Gallows
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/1962
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: John Meston
8.0/101 votes#9 - With a Smile
Season 8 Episode 29 - Aired 3/30/1963
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: John Meston
7.0/101 votes#10 - Child of Pain
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1975
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.
Director: Victor French
Writer: John Meston
7.0/101 votes#11 - General Parsley Smith
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1955
Old-timer Smith is a former Army officer considered a butcher. He arrives in Dodge City speading rumors about the new Banker, Drew Holt.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Meston
7.0/101 votes#12 - All That
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1961
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: John Meston
7.0/101 votes#13 - He Learned About Women
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/1962
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.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: John Meston
6.0/101 votes#14 - Hack Prine
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/12/1956
Hack Prine, a friend of Matt's rides into Dodge. However he is there as a gunman, for Matt Dillon.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Meston
6.0/101 votes#15 - Old Yellow Boots
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1961
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.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: John Meston
6.0/101 votes#16 - Half Straight
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 2/17/1962
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?
Director: Ted Post
Writer: John Meston
5.0/101 votes#17 - Harper's Blood
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1961
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?
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: John Meston
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"Reprisal" is the best rated episode written by John Meston. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Harry Harris. It aired on 3/10/1962 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Blind Man's Bluff".