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Season 8 Episode 38: The Quest for Asa Janin

20 SeasonsJun 01, 1963TV-G1h8.8

A young man is convicted of killing the saloon girl he wanted for his own. Matt is so sure that the young man is really innocent that he goes on the road after another suspect to prevent an unjust hanging.

Season 8 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Search

1. The Search

Aired: Sep 15, 1962

When stable hand Cale is found with paralyzed legs after his horse threw him,...

Episode 2 Call Me Dodie

2. Call Me Dodie

Aired: Sep 22, 1962

An adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, an...

Episode 4 Root Down

4. Root Down

Aired: Oct 6, 1962

Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter wh...

Episode 5 Jenny

5. Jenny

Aired: Oct 13, 1962

A bank robber hides out in Dodge, bringing along his girl. While he's gamblin...

Episode 6 Collie's Free

6. Collie's Free

Aired: Oct 20, 1962

Released after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adj...

Episode 7 The Ditch

7. The Ditch

Aired: Oct 27, 1962

A young woman who's heir to her father's land decides to carry out his plan t...

Episode 8 The Trappers

8. The Trappers

Aired: Nov 2, 1962

A trapper leaves his friend dying alone in order to save his own life, only l...

Episode 9 Phoebe Strunk

9. Phoebe Strunk

Aired: Nov 9, 1962

A band of ne'er-do-wells, led by their mother, see in town a young woman that...

Episode 10 The Hunger

10. The Hunger

Aired: Nov 16, 1962

Matt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially a...

Episode 11 Abe Blocker

11. Abe Blocker

Aired: Nov 23, 1962

Civilization is moving in on the isolation of a rugged pioneer friend of Matt...

Episode 12 The Way It Is

12. The Way It Is

Aired: Nov 30, 1962

While Matt is out of town, putting lawman's business ahead of Kitty yet again...

Episode 13 Us Haggens

13. Us Haggens

Aired: Dec 7, 1962

To avenge the death of his twin brother Fergus, savvy plainsman Festus Haggen...

Episode 14 Uncle Sunday

14. Uncle Sunday

Aired: Dec 14, 1962

Chester gets a letter from his uncle Sunday, a 'crook', on his upcoming trip ...

Episode 15 False Front

15. False Front

Aired: Dec 21, 1962

A slick city reporter sets out to prove that even a milquetoast can pass for ...

Episode 16 Old Comrade

16. Old Comrade

Aired: Dec 28, 1962

The "town fool" has a chance to change his life when he learns that a famous ...

Episode 17 Louie Pheeters

17. Louie Pheeters

Aired: Jan 4, 1963

The town drunk who saw a man drowned, believes it was dream, until he meets u...

Episode 18 The Renegades

18. The Renegades

Aired: Jan 11, 1963

Quint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids a...

Episode 19 Cotter's Girl

19. Cotter's Girl

Aired: Jan 18, 1963

A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting ...

Episode 20 The Bad One

20. The Bad One

Aired: Jan 25, 1963

When a young pretty farm woman becomes attracted to and sees some good in a w...

Episode 21 The Cousin

21. The Cousin

Aired: Feb 1, 1963

Chance Hopper is Matt's young foster brother, torn between loyalty to Matt an...

Episode 22 Shona

22. Shona

Aired: Feb 8, 1963

Gib Dawson brings his beautiful Indian wife, Shona, in to Dodge for treatment...

Episode 23 Ash

23. Ash

Aired: Feb 15, 1963

Ben and Ash are business partners and the best of friends, until a blow on th...

Episode 24 Blind Man's Bluff

24. Blind Man's Bluff

Aired: Feb 22, 1963

Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another t...

Episode 25 Quint's Indian

25. Quint's Indian

Aired: Feb 28, 1963

Two ne'er-do-wells come to town and soon cook up a plot under which half-Coma...

Episode 27 Two of a Kind

27. Two of a Kind

Aired: Mar 15, 1963

O'Ryan and Finnegan, feuding over a girl they both knew back home, are caught...

Episode 28 I Call Him Wonder

28. I Call Him Wonder

Aired: Mar 22, 1963

An orphaned Indian boy latches on to a cowboy in need of work and the two of ...

Episode 29 With a Smile

29. With a Smile

Aired: Mar 29, 1963

A rancher's spoiled son believes even after he is convicted of murder that hi...

Episode 30 The Far Places

30. The Far Places

Aired: Apr 5, 1963

A rancher's widow regrets having spent her life away from the bright lights o...

Episode 31 Panacea Sykes

31. Panacea Sykes

Aired: Apr 12, 1963

Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes l...

Episode 32 Tell Chester

32. Tell Chester

Aired: Apr 19, 1963

Chester is smitten with Polly, but she has eyes only for Wade, a man new in t...

Episode 33 Quint-Cident

33. Quint-Cident

Aired: Apr 26, 1963

A woman newly widowed is powerfully attracted to Quint, but when he gently tu...

Episode 34 Old York

34. Old York

Aired: May 4, 1963

Pardoned for his Civil War service, an old outlaw finds his way to Dodge, whe...

Episode 35 Daddy Went Away

35. Daddy Went Away

Aired: May 11, 1963

Chester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on ...

Episode 37 Jeb

37. Jeb

Aired: May 25, 1963

A prized Appaloosa, grazing alone and apparently without owner on the prairie...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Western

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