Season Sixteen

Chato, September 14, 1970 Written by Paul Edwards, Directed by Vincent McEveety, Guest Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Miriam Colon, Peggy McKay, William Bryant, Rodolfo Hoyos, Robert Knapp, Pedro Regas, Jim Sheppard. When a renegade Indian kills Matt's friend, the Marshal pursues the killer high into the New Mexico mountains.

Ricardo Montalban (Title role in The Wrath of Khan)Ricardo Montalban as Chato

The Noose, September 21, 1970 Written by Arthur Browne, Directed by Vincent McEveery, Guest Cast: Tom Skerritt, William Fawcett. A young drifter kidnaps Kitty and holds her captive in a ghost town to lure Doc Adams, Festus, and Matt to the area.

Stark, September 28, 1970 Written by Don Sanford, Directed by Robert Totten, Guest Cast: Richard Kiley, Suzanne Pleshette, Henry Wilcoxon, Shelly Novak, Bob Burrows, Rusty Lane. The son of a wealthy rancher escapes from prison and is captured by a bounty hunter--who attempts to blackmail the youth's family.

Suzanne Pleshette (The Bob Newhart Show)

Sam McTavish, MD, October 5, 1970 Written by Gerry Day & Bethel Leslie, Directed by Bernard McEveety, Guest Cast: Vera Miles, Arch Johnson, Dee Carroll, Lisa Gerritsen, Glenn Redding, Kathleen O'Malley, Amzie Strickland. Doc Adams considers it a threat to both himself and his patients when a woman doctor arrives to become his replacement.

Lisa Gerritsen (left) with Gunsmoke alumnus Cloris Leachman on Phyllis.

Gentry's Law, October 12, 1970 Written by Jack Miller, Directed by Vincent McEveety; Guest Cast: John Payne, Louise Latham, Shug Fisher, Peter Jason, Robert Pine, Don Heifer, Darlene Conley, Robert Totten, John Finn, Ron Keefer. A heavy-handed land baron refuses to turn his two criminal sons over to Marshal Dillon.

John Payne

Snow Train (Part One), October 19, 1970 Written by Preston Wood, Directed by Gunnar Hellstrom, Guest Cast: Clifton James, Gene Evans, Ken Lynch, Roy Engel, Pamela Dunlap, Richard Lapp, Loretta Swit, Doreen Long, Tim Considine, Richard D. Kelton, John Milford, Dana Elcar, Ron Hayes, Ann Seymour, Eddie Applegate, X Brands. Matt, Doc, Festus, and several other passengers are trapped on a train by a band of Indians in the snowy Colorado mountains.

Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H)

Tim Considine (My Three Sons)

Gene Evans with James Arness

Snow Train (Part Two), October 26, 1970 Written by Preston Wood, Directed by Gunnar Hellstrom, Guest Cast: Clifton James, Gene Evans, Ken Lynch, Roy Engel, Pamela Dunlap, Richard Lapp, Loretta Swit, Doreen Long, Tim Considine, Richard D. Kelton, John Milford, Dana Elcar, Ron Hayes, Ann Seymour, Eddie Applegate, X Brands. Marshal Dillon is cornered by three Sioux Indians as he goes for help for the freezing passengers of a trapped train.

Luke, November 2, 1970 Written by Jack Miller, Directed by Bernard McEveety, Guest Cast: Morgan Woodward, Katherine Justice, Anthony Costello, Rex Holman, Victor Izzy. A seriously wounded old-time outlaw is brought to Dodge City, where he tries to find his long-neglected daughter before he dies.

The Gun, November 9, 1970 Written by Don Sanford, Directed by Bernard McEveety, Guest Cast: L.Q. Jones, Kevin Coughlin, Patricia Morrow, Robert Phillips, Sam Melville, Ken Mayer, Stanley Clements. A young man kills a notorious gunfighter in self-defense and becomes the victim of an unscrupulous reporter's publicity build-up.

Patricia Morrow

The Scavengers, November 16, 1970 Written by Jack Miller, Directed by Bernard McEveery, Guest Cast: Yaphet Kotto, Slim Pickens, Cicely Tyson, Roy Jenson, Link Wyler, Steve Patmes, Eddie Little Sky. To save his own life, a black man must falsely accuse a band of Indians of wiping out a wagon train.

Cicely Tyson (Miss Jane Pittman)

Slim Pickens (Rode the bomb in Dr. Strangelove).

The Witness, November 23, 1970 Written by Shimon Wincelberg, Directed by Philip Leacock, Guest Cast: Harry Morgan, Tim O'Connor, Barry Brown, Dack Rambo, Annette O'Toole, June Dayton, l. Stanford Jolley, Roy Young, Herb Vigran, I. Stanford Jolley. An outlaw grabs a hostage while Marshal Dillon is trying to arrest him, forcing the Marshal to work out a deal.

Harry Morgan (M*A*S*H and Dragnet)

McCabe, November 30, 1970 Written by Jim Byrnes, Directed by Bernard McEveety, Guest Cast: Dan Kemp, Mitch Vogel, Jim Davis, David Brian, Jon Lormer, Robert Sorrells, Tani Phelps, Mills Watson, Lew Brown, Marie Cheatham, Tom Sutton. An outlaw grabs a hostage while Marshal Dillon is trying to arrest him, forcing the Marshal to work out a deal.

Mitch Vogel

The Noon Day Devil, December 7, 1970 Written by William Kelley, Directed by Philip Leacock, Assistant Director Martin Cohan, Guest Cast: Anthony Zerbe, Ernest Sarracino, Warren Vanders, Anthony Cordova, Pepe Callahan, Natividad Vacio, Annehe Cardona, Fred Coby, Tony Davis, Julio Medina, Bert Madrid, John Dullaghan, Natividad Vacio. Anthony Zerba deserved an emmy for hgis incredible performance.

Sergeant Holly, December 14, 1970 Written by William Kelley, Directed by Bernard McEveety, Guest Cast: Forrest Tucker, Albert Salmi, Victor Eberg, Gregg Palmer, Vito Scotti, David Renard, Med Flory, Read Morgan. An Army sergeant is accused of desertion and the theft of an Army payroll.

Forrest Tucker (F Troop)

Med Flory

Jenny, December 28, 1970 Written by Jack Miller, Directed by Robert Totten; Guest Cast: Lisa Gerritson, Steve Ihnat, Rance Howard, Steve Raines, Bob Burrows. Newly runs afoul of the law when he releases a dangerous outlaw to visit his nine-year-old daughter.

Captain Sligo, January 4, 1971 Written by William Kelley, Directed by William Conrad, Guest Cast: Richard Basehart, Salome Jens, Royal Dano, Stacy Harris, Bobby Eilbacher, Geri Reischi, Royce Donnet. A middle-aged sea captain gives up the sea and decides to settle near Dodge City.

Richart Basehart

Salome Jens

Mirage, January 11, 1971 Written by Jack Miller, Directed by Vincent McEveety, Guest Cast: John Anderson, Gary Wood, Mary Rings, Kevin Burchett, Harry Raybould, Robert Knapp, Daniel McWhite. Deputy Festus Haggen, lost in the desert, stumbles into a ghost town where he is attacked by a killer.

Tycoon, January 25, 1971 Written by Robert Vincent Wright, Directed by Bernard McEveety, Guest Cast: Shug Fisher, Nora Marlowe, Gwynne Gilford, John Beck, James Minotto. Festus tries to go into the freight business and it nearly results in matrimony.

Jaekel, February 1, 1971 Written by Calvin Clement, Story by True Boardman, Directed by Bernard McEveety, Guest Cast: Eric Braeden, Julie Gregg, Mia Bendixsen. A released convict comes to claim as his own a married woman who for years had been corresponding with him purely out of kindness.

Murdock, February 8, 1971 Written by Jack Miller, Directed by Robert Totten, Guest Cast: Jack Elam, Anthony Caruso, Jim Davis, Bob Random. An aging marshal sets out to trap a band of outlaws.

Cleavus, February 15, 1971 Written by Donald Z. Koplowitz & Richard, D. Scott, Directed by Robert Totten, Guest Cast: Robert Totten, Arthur Hunnicutt, William Challee, Robert Cornthwaite, Rocky B. Williams. A childhood friend of Festus's kills a prospector and then loses his mind when he finds that the apparently rich mine contains only fool's gold.

Lavery, February 22, 1971 Written by Don Sanford, Directed by Vincent McEveety, Guest Cast: Anthony Costello, Judi West, David Carradine, Karl Swenson, Ken Swofford, David Huddleston. A young cowhand saves Matt Dillon from an ambush, and it isn't long before the Marshal has an opportunity to return the favor.

David Carradine (Kung Fu)

Pike (Part One), March 1, 1971 Written by Jack Miller, Directed by Bernard McEveery, Guest Cast: Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, Cliff Osmond, Jim Boles, William Murphy, Ross Hagen, William Mims. A young outlaw is reformed by the kindness and help of an elderly female junk collector named Dirty Sally.

Pike (Part Two), March 8, 1971 Written by Jack Miller, Directed by Bernard McEveety, Guest Cast: Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, Cliff Osmond, Jim Boles, William Murphy, Ross Hagen, William Mims. A young outlaw is reformed by the kindness and help of an elderly female junk collector named Dirty Sally.