Season 3

1957–1958

Sep 17, 1957 · 25m

The town council wants Jim Kelley to run for mayor, and Wyatt agrees. However, Kelley soon discovers that his opponent, Madigan, and his crooked cronies will stop at nothing to win.

E2. The Big Bellyache

Sep 24, 1957 · 25m

Wyatt goes fishing with Dr. Fabrique when the doctor returns to Dodge City, but local cattle baron Shanghai Pierce is stricken with what he believes is appendicitis. Pierce's men abduct Fabrique and Wyatt and force the doctor to treat their boss.

E3. Pinkytown

Oct 1, 1957 · 25m

The local shantytown of Pinkytown rebels against Dodge City, refusing to be taxed. Doc Holliday decides to take a hand and help the independent citizens, putting him on the wrong side of Wyatt

E4. Shoot to Kill

Oct 8, 1957 · 25m

Two brothers who shot a peace officer in Texas flee to Dodge City, and Wyatt tries to keep things from getting out of hand.

E5. Wells Fargo vs. Doc Holliday

Oct 15, 1957 · 25m

Doc Holliday is accused of robbing a Wells Fargo stage and Wyatt sets out to bring him in on his own.

E6. Warpath

Oct 22, 1957 · 25m

An Army officer is captured by Pawnee Indians who have left the reservation and bought faulty guns. The undercover officer is trying to find who is selling the guns. Earp has to rescue the officer but to do so must find the seller.

E7. Hung Jury

Oct 29, 1957 · 25m

When a well-liked cattle buyer is shot, then townspeople are eager to convict a drunken Reb Thomas. Reb was found with the gun in his hand, standing over the body, but he insists that he passed out and never fired a shot. Wyatt soon discovers that Reb may be telling the truth.

E8. Little Pistol

Nov 5, 1957 · 25m

Earp and Doc capture a very young female outlaw called Little Pistol while tracking a band who robbed Doc's saloon. She likes Earp but refuses to talk until Doc uses nitrous oxide to pull her impacted wisdom teeth causing her to open up.

E9. The Magic Puddle

Nov 12, 1957 · 25m

When the townspeople refuse to let Kate Holliday join their church, Doc comes up with a scheme for revenge. He convinces a couple that the oil puddle they have on the road to Dodge City passing through their land can be used to make a medical ointment. All they have to do is fence it off, and the mule-skinners who use the road aren't happy.

E10. Mr. Buntline's Vacation

Nov 19, 1957 · 25m

A near-penniless Ned returns to Dodge City to after losing big to a gambler, but the gambler comes looking for his money.

E11. Fortitude

Nov 26, 1957 · 25m

Kate Holliday gets word that a cattleman with a grudge plans to kill Wyatt at a cattleman's convention and convinces Doc to look into it.

E12. The Good and Perfect Gift

Dec 3, 1957 · 25m

Doc reluctantly befriends a young boy, Benny Burkett, who looks to the gambler and gunfighter as a role model. Wyatt has to step in to make sure that Benny gets a proper education and runs up against the boy's stubborn father.

E13. Indian Wife

Dec 10, 1957 · 25m

Wyatt has to intervene when a white homesteader and his Indian wife move to Dodge City and encounter bigotry.

E14. Woman Trouble

Dec 17, 1957 · 25m

Jennie Brant, a reluctant member of a religious sect known as the True Lighters, has never met a man she wanted to marry... until Wyatt rescues her from the sect.

E15. Shadow of a Man

Dec 24, 1957 · 25m

While away for the day helping Sheriff Masterson, Earp appoints Hal Norton as his Chief Deputy. Hal is forced to confront several problems while Earp is gone. He recalls how Earp would act in similar cases in deciding on what to do.

E16. Bad Woman

Dec 31, 1957 · 25m

When outlaw Marie Burden's brother Dan takes their gang into Dodge City and ends up getting shot down, Marie swears revenge

E17. One-Man Army

Jan 7, 1958 · 25m

Texan Drum Denman goes after northerner Earp by backing a free newspaper to print false stories about Earp trying to draw him out of Dodge City. His second story says Earp is having an affair with the minister's teenage daughter.

E18. The General's Lady

Jan 14, 1958 · 25m

Custer's widow is worried about an upcoming hearing on Major Reno's actions during Custer's last stand. A civilian scout for Reno at the battle is trying to blackmail her. They meet at Dodge City where Earp tries to intercede and help her.

E19. The Manly Art

Jan 21, 1958 · 25m

A boxing promoter comes to Dodge City challenging men to fight "Champ" Starbuck for money. Local businessman Moresby is willing to pay the promoter $500 if the "Champ" fights Earp and severely injures him while a youngster wants a chance.

E20. Sweet Revenge

Jan 28, 1958 · 25m

In which Wyatt Earp is beset by two perils, a man and a woman both determined to kill him. Both arrive in Dodge simultaneously. The man, an ex-convict, awaits his opportunity, which arrives when Wyatt, very interested in the girl, takes her picknicking. After Wyatt disposes of the girl and her gun the man attacks him - making Wyatt's innocent picnic one of the most eventful Sunday afternoons any Marshal ever spent.

E21. The Imitation Jesse James

Feb 4, 1958 · 25m

A Jesse James imitator, Henry Harrison Hammer, strikes at stagecoaches around Dodge City and builds his reputation by only robbing the rich, not the poor. Wyatt arrests Hammer on the testimony of one of his victims, a banker, but the working-class people that Hammer ignored refuse to testify against him

E22. The Kansas Lily

Feb 11, 1958 · 25m

Lily Reeve - known as the Kansas Lily - arrives in Dodge City. After pulling a gun while gambling, she is arrested by Earp while Bat thinks she is a nice innocent lady. Neither man's opinion about her proves to be the truth as events unfold.

E23. Wyatt Earp Rides Shotgun

Feb 18, 1958 · 25m

There have been repeated attacks on the Wells, Fargo coaches running from Hays, Kansas to Dodge City. To Wyatt Earp, an old and trusted former employee, comes the request that he again ride shotgun over the line and thus put renewed confidence in those who shipped money by Wells, Fargo. But the order only served to bring out the guilty verdicts in renewed force, for they were anxious to get Earp, their greatest enemy in the state.

E24. Wyatt Fights

Feb 25, 1958 · 25m

Wyatt has to step in when Jim Cockrell tries to force Luke Short to sell the Long Branch saloon to him.

E25. Ballad and Truth

Mar 4, 1958 · 25m

Railroad engineman Tex McVey arrives in Dodge City, eager to break a new record. But when he runs a train off the tracks, he claims that robbers sabotaged the tracks because of the cattle he was carrying.

E26. The Schoolteacher

Mar 11, 1958 · 25m

A stagecoach arrives in Dodge City with an injured driver, a dead passenger, and an empty case that held $5,000 gold from the Denver Mint. The driver, Billy Hanley, claims that he recognized one of the masked robbers by his voice. Wyatt figures that Billy's story doesn't add up when he confirms that the accused man has an alibi. Then Billy turns up dead, leaving a grief-stricken girlfriend, schoolteacher Miss Nancy, to mourn his death

E27. When Sherman Marched Through Kansas

Mar 18, 1958 · 25m

The controversial General Sherman is due to visit Dodge City, and passions are running high.

E28. Big Brother Virgil

Mar 25, 1958 · 25m

Virgil Earp arrives in Dodge City and inadvertently gets caught in a misunderstanding between a woman and her beau.

E29. It Had to Happen

Apr 1, 1958 · 25m

The town council gives Wyatt an order to use lethal force and he refuses. A hired gun, Hoyt, comes after Wyatt and the marshal inadvertently ends up killing a man for the first time.

E30. County Seat War

Apr 8, 1958 · 25m

Dodge City and Fort Dodge argue over which town should be the county seat, and the parties involved soon turn to guns to settle their dispute