The Best Episodes Written By Kathleen Hite

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

   S8:E263/8/1963

   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.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Cotter's Girl

   S8:E191/19/1963

   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.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Daddy Went Away

   S8:E355/11/1963

   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.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Long, Long Trail

   S7:E611/4/1961

   A headstrong young woman will undertake the long, dangerous journey to her fiancé's fort on her own if she must, so Matt nominates himself to escort her.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Lacey

   S7:E161/13/1962

   A hired man is sweet on his boss's daughter and disliked by his boss. When the boss is killed, his own daughter claims to have done it, but Matt is suspicious.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Collie's Free

   S8:E610/20/1962

   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.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Quint's Trail

   S9:E711/9/1963

   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.

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   #8 - The Children's Carol

   S6:E1212/15/1977

   Two British children escape the London Blitz to find safety in Walton's Mountain with the Baldwins and the Waltons for Christmas. Meanwhile, Jason contemplates whether he can fight in the impending war, and Olivia has a faith crisis as she can't understand how God could allow war.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #9 - Miss Kitty

   S7:E310/14/1961

   Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Tea Time

    S4:E1012/14/1958

    It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Root Down

    S8:E410/6/1962

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

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - My Sister's Keeper

    S9:E611/2/1963

    A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Friend

    S9:E171/25/1964

    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.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - The Search

    S8:E19/15/1962

    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.

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    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Call Me Dodie

    S8:E29/22/1962

    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.

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