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Originally aired on August 9, 1952. The Tolmans from Kentucky include a good lookin' mountain gal, a drinking old father with a secret, and a son willing to kill to get at it. Hannah Tolman is concerned that her father is going to get himself killed and wants Marshall Dillon to save his skin by placing him in jail. Jed won’t tell Dillon who is trying to kill him but he has an idea it could have something to do with Vic Tolman, his own son who is wanted for robbery and murder who just got out of jail last week.

Originally aired on August 2, 1952. Hoard Spicer, who sells rifles to the Cheyenne, kills two cowboys with his new Sharps rifles. Wild Hogg was chief of the Cheyenne Indians and was paying Hoard Spicer big money for supplying them with rifles. Marshall Matt Dillon had more respect for the Cheyenne than for Spicer who was a killer and a white renegade.

Originally aired on September 20, 1959. Ed Beaudry comes to Dodge to kill Bert Wells. A showdown seems inevitable, but Beaudry is found dead first!

Originally aired on July 19, 1952. Doc Holliday has come to Dodge to kill Big Jack Finley. But Big Jack's son, Thorne Finley, is the real problem. Doc Holliday may be a gunman but he’s square with the law and a better man than Thorne Finley the son of Jack Finley will ever be. Big Jack Finley was the self made “king” of Southern Kansas no better or worse than most of the men carving empires out of the west until love for his son blinded him to the fact that Thorne Finley had gone bad.

Originally aired on July 12, 1952. The stage has been robbed of $50,000, and also Mr. Carter's fiance! When the girl is returned to Dodge, she's not very eager to be with her husband-to-be. It had been a long time since they’d had any real trouble and Matt Dillon, United States Marshall liked it peaceful for a change and hoped it would stay that way. But of course it doesn’t. The stage that was due in was carrying fifty thousand dollars in gold when it was held up and Mr. Carter’s fiancé was kidnapped. However the stage rider said it didn’t much look like she was kidnapped, more like she went along willingly.

Originally aired on July 5, 1952. Two Texas cowboys drag Chester behind a horse for fun, almost killing him. Marshal Dillon brings in the cowboys...without his guns. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on November 16, 1957. A couple of cowboys have had a bit too much to drink and are harassing the ladies on the high street. Chester goes to ask them politely to leave the ladies alone as they don’t want any trouble. But trouble is what they are going to get from Marshall Dillon after they rope Chester and drag him out of town.

Originally aired on June 7, 1952. An albino buffalo skin is the clue to the murder of two buffalo hunters, and their father. Part of one promotional announcement has been deleted.They all drifted here to Dodge City one time or another, the buffalo killers, the saddle bums the spoilers. It was the end of the track and the start of the wilderness, a place to stop and take the kind of pleasure you need. It’s a place to pass through and sometimes it’s a place to die. Ten buffalo were found skinned and left. Captain Quince knew that this was not the job of Indians as the Indians used up all the buffalo and in this instance there was a lot of meat left on the carcasses and furthermore there were wagon tracks and Indians don’t hunt buffalo with wagons. If buffalo hunters were moving up top the high plains Quince was afraid there would be trouble.

Originally aired May 31, 1952. After the army payroll has been robbed, an army Major threatens to declare martial law in Dodge! Connie Dell, a good looking girl keeping bad company becomes the key to the crime.

Originally aired on May 10, 1952. "Jaliscoe Pete" and his three friends murder Will Thompson and his family and try to make it look like it was done by Indians. Will Thompson's son staggers into the Marshal's office. Before he dies from his gunshot wounds he manages to tell Dillon that their farm has been burnt to the ground. The Marshall and Chester ride out to the farm to find the house still burning, a dog shot dead, Will Thompson scalped, his seventeen year old daughter dead in the bushes and his wife only barely alive.

Originally aired April 26, 1952. A Dutchman draws a lynch mob after the whole town accuses him of murder. A very well-written story with a surprise ending. Georgia Ellis plays the widow of the dead man, not Miss Kitty! + Clay Richards is wanted for robbing a bank and for murdering an old cashier and a Chinese cook and the Marshall of Dodge City is on his trail, only to find that Zeigler the Dutchman has already found Clay's dead body. To add to Dillon's troubles he has a young runaway boy from Cottonwood to sort out, a boy by the name of William, otherwise known as Billy the Kid.