Matt leaves Dodge City unprotected when he sets out to find a killer (Mike Connors) (Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender', but referred to by Chester as 'Sam Noonan').

Doc comes upon a homesteader (Philip Bourneuf) with a busted leg and a gun to protect himself from his wife (Cloris Leachman).

Matt is used by an old friend (Andrew Duggan) in a con game (Simon Oakland appears).

A white boy who has been raised by Indians learns to live with his own race (Stanley Adams, Abel Fernandez, Clegg Hoyt, Alexander Lockwood, and Marian Seldes appear).

The brother of an outlaw (Fredd Wayne) Matt killed (by drawing first, as Doc notes aloud) swears revenge (Clegg Hoyt appears, Bert Rumsey credited as 'Bartender').

Dodge City merchants celebrate the end of a round-up and unite against any acts of violence (Jacques Aubuchon appears).

Matt refuses to turn in a rustler (Brian G. Hutton) for a court-martial. Boot Hill intro clearly shows grave markers with dates of 1882 & 1883, yet episode is set in 1876, the year of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Matt tracks a murderer (Paul Lambert) to a strange town (Elkader) where the people are unwilling to cooperate (Gage Clarke makes first appearance, but in a role other than Dodge House clerk Dobie or bank manager Botkin).

A wounded Doc may be forced to save the life of the man who wounded him (Tommy Kirk appears).

Homesteaders are ambushed on the way to Dodge (Dan Blocker appears as 'Lieutenant').