A shepherd ignores the Cartwrights' warning not to drive his flock across the Ponderosa; guest Everett Sloane.
The widow of a man slain in a gunfight with Marshal Dillon swears to avenge her husband's death.
A man who saved Matt Dillon's life 10 years earlier turns up in Dodge City - again in the role of Good Samaritan.
The identity of a criminal is confused with that of a deputy marshal when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.
Four escaped convicts capture Marshal Matt Dillon and hold him hostage in their flight to the Mexican border.