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- Bill hopes to prove that his friend Steve Murrow is innocent of killing the man who married the girl he was hoping to marry. But he only has 24 hours to do it before Steve is hung, and the town sheriff has threatened to kill Bill if he tries to break Steve out.
- A priest asks Vint to accompany him, along with two nuns, to check on the status of a mission in the midst of hostile Indian territory. Vint agrees, even though he knows that whites are forbidden in the area and are not known to have ever returned alive.
- Foreman and Chalk team with sheriff Ned Danvers in the hunt for an outlaw. For Danvers, it's especially important, as his upcoming reelection depends on him capturing the outlaw, and his opponent in the race is trying to capture the man with less concern for how many are killed in the process.
- In a reversal of the more common situation, a conventional young friend of Julie's asks the trio's help in locating her father, who has gone into the hippie subculture. Unknown to any of them, he has also unwittingly become involved in a girl's murder, which the trio is also trying to solve.
- Aaron defends a high school basketball star against charges of vandalism and assault on a custodian. But his biggest obstacle may be not the prosecution but the school, and the boy's sister, who are so determined that he go on to a college scholarship that it casts doubt on their testimonies in his favor.
- Gangster Vincent Pavanne's nephew Rick refuses to follow in his footsteps or come to see his dying father. In the hope of changing his mind, Vincent decides to prove to his nephew that anyone can be bought, and thus decides to bribe Rick's best friend, a college basketball star, into throwing a game.
- A woman who just lost her husband after a long illness wants to volunteer at Blair to help severely ill patients. She decides to try to give a terminally ill young boy a day of happiness. But she violates procedure in order to do so, not getting true consent from the boy's emotionally distant young stepmother.
- Linc comes to the airport to meet a friend who is returning from Vietnam, only to learn that he was killed by a sniper on the day he was supposed to go home. Suspicious of the story of how his friend died, he wonders if any of the four other servicemen in his unit who have returned know more than they are telling.
- Kildare finds it necessary to call out intern Louis Miller for incompetent acts on several occasions. After Miller's wife is hospitalized with Kildare as her physician, Miller in turn accuses Kildare of using the occasion to begin a relationship with her.
- Neil defends a man and woman accused of killing the woman's husband. Another man confesses to the killing, but Neil then suspects the detective assigned to the case of deliberately planting false evidence against the original defendants. When he begins investigating this, Neil is framed for heroin possession, and he and Brian try to prove the cop was behind it.
- When Russ Andrews' oldest son is killed by a young punk who goaded him into drawing first, his wife begs him to stay away from the killer, but that's not so easy, as whenever Russ comes into town to buy supplies, the punk does his best to goad him as well.
- A little girl is brought to Blair after being found unconscious on the street. She has no identification and no one comes to identify her. On examination no physical reason can be determined for her apparent comatose state. Kildare begins to suspect that she is suffering from a dissociative reaction to some emotional trauma.
- In an episode filmed entirely in the daylight---a change of pace for this nocturnal series---Cat tries to protect a man and woman as they ride through the desert in the blazing sun, trying to evade the sadistic mobster the man is scheduled to testify against.
- After suffering a heart attack, the hard-driving president of a major corporation still refuses to put his health ahead of his business. After a second attack, immediate surgery is indicated, sending the business world into a frenzy and putting pressure on his executive vice-president as well.
- Graham Lanier, a new patient, is a mystery man - whose resemblance to Dr. Gillespie does not go unnoticed.
- Hawkins defends a man who is charged with killing one of the two psychology professors whom he blames for the suicide of his son. Making it worse is that he was recorded on a television news tape vowing to make both men pay "a life for a life".
- In the pilot for this series, which originally aired as an episode of "Cheyenne", Marshal Frank Ragan, who has already given his resignation, comes to town to learn what happened to his friend Johnny Wilson. But it is apparent that everyone in the town wants him to stop investigating, especially town boss Ben Stark, who is willing to kill to keep him from finding out too much.
- Lawyer Jud Lester is just arriving in town right after a robbery when he finds one of the robbers hiding in his office wounded. The robber passes out and people in town assume that Jud shot him, and treat him as a hero. Unfortunately Jud decides to let them keep thinking this, and helps make plans to capture the rest of the gang when the captured man is scheduled to be hanged. But things may backfire.
- An Indian regarded as a healer by his tribe is arrested while trying to heal a young boy according to tribal customs. Released on condition that he enroll in college, he finds himself torn between his traditions and his effort to succeed in the white man's world. But his community still wants him as a healer.
- Kildare considers transferring to research after a close friend dies of leukemia, and after meeting a 14-year-old girl who is believed to also have the disease. But Kildare is not certain of her diagnosis, putting him at odds with the efficient but seemingly impersonal researcher who is working on the girl's case.
- Hoss brings young Skeeter Dexter to live at the Ponderosa after his brutal stepfather leaves the area. Skeeter, a boy with a natural affinity for animals, has had no luck with his home life: his mother is bitter and destitute and has blamed him ever since his father abandoned her.
- An American general (Boone) and attorney Paul Welles (Stockwell) arrive in a revolt-torn Southeast Asian nation to find the truth about the ambush which killed the general's soldier-son. Information leads both to believe that the son may have been betrayed by people he trusted.
- Janitor Joe Hogan refuses to have another operation for the cancer he's been battling for several years, because he feels he has no one to live for. But Kildare learns of one person: a girl in the apartment building Joe worked in, who is now dealing with a highly dysfunctional family life.
- Nora Sutton asks Tom to take her to Clifford Henderson's house. After he does so, she calmly takes out her gun and shoots Henderson dead. She refuses to say why she did it or even ask for an attorney, so Tom is appointed to that role, and he determines to get the answers himself.
- A friend of Johnny's is killed in a bar by Tom Nevill, the son of the powerful rancher who runs the town. Johnny is wounded while fighting with Tom, and flees town as he is accused of the killing. He finds shelter at a farm, but the girl who finds him is engaged to Tom, whose father has ordered his men to kill Johnny when they find him. The girl still helps Johnny, but her mother is most concerned with how she can benefit financially.
- After Kildare saves the life of a young woman who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on barbiturates, the girl's parents (particularly her father) become so worshiping of him that they put him on a pedestal and talk as if he can do no wrong. Kildare finds it hard to tell them that she is still not out of the woods.
- Wanted gunman Pierce Martin comes to the stagecoach line, looking for the man he calls his only friend, the local minister. Pierce says he's tired of being forced to kill, but he may have to again, as a posse forms to hunt him down, and the minister is torn between his loyalty to Pierce and to the town he's been serving.
- An eccentric, acerbic author checks himself in at Blair. Despite tests showing him to be in perfect health, he insists that he has a premonition that he is going to die, and refuses to leave the hospital even when it is loaded beyond capacity with victims of an explosion.
- A young man is killed by police after he attempts to kill an assistant district attorney at a courthouse. Kojak learns that the young man was a boyfriend of an ice skater who is in prison for the murder of her mother two years before. But when he tries to look further into the case, he gets pressured to drop it, with the orders ultimately coming from a powerful political operative.
- A teenage boy comes to Aaron's office, begging for him to take the case of his older brother, who is serving time for second degree murder after a plea bargaining agreement. The boy insists his brother is totally innocent, but the lawyer who represented him is a well respected civil rights attorney who has since been appointed a judge. Despite this, the law firm begins to believe that on this occasion he did not give his client his best defense.
- Cat tries to dissuade the daughter of an old friend who is determined to start a career as a cat burglar by cracking the safe of a dangerous king aboard his ship. And the king has something he wants no one to know about, and is willing to kill to keep it a secret.
- The police investigate the bombing of a restaurant in which several people were killed, including the mistress of one of the detectives working of the case, who doesn't tell the others about his relationship with her, and who is unaware that the person who committed the bombing is his own emotionally unstable wife.
- Prater Beasley is a teller of tall tales, but Israel and a disabled friend decide to follow him to see the mythical bear he talks about. Beasley may be just what the disabled boy, caught between an overprotective mother and an overly macho father, really needs.
- Lawyer Clay Culhane doesn't get the job with the mining company that he was first promised, after they learn he was once a famous gunfighter. But he soon finds a new client, a Mexican rancher friend who is accused of killing the man who he believes stole his land from him. This is the pilot for the series "Black Saddle" which premiered a year later, with Peter Breck in the role of Culhane.
- As the trio reminisces over two years together, and Pete considers quitting the group to work with his father, an old nemesis arrives: Beau Graves, one of those they helped put in jail in the premier episode. He has just been paroled and has come seeking revenge against the trio.
- While on a motorcycle trip to Mexico, Pete and Linc are detoured by a biker gang into a border town and held hostage along with all of the town's residents. The gang refuses to leave until they find out who in the town killed two of their members.
- After Jenny May McElroy's husband was killed in a gunfight, no one in town would give her a job to support her children, except for the saloon owner, who hired her as a bookkeeper. Because of this some of the "proper" townspeople want to take her children and make them wards of the state. They also want to fire the schoolteacher, the only other person in town who supports Jenny May.
- A neurologist is accidentally exposed to an excessive amount of radiation, which will cause him to go blind in a matter of weeks, just as his family is hoping for him to go on a vacation, and as one of his patients is desperate for him to perform surgery to correct her symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
- A man cold-bloodedly kills the pusher who was supplying his teenage son with drugs, but insists on going to trial for first degree murder totally defending his action and refusing to accept a lesser plea. His lawyer asks Graham to examine him, but he appears to be totally sane.
- A highly tenacious yet compassionate nun is determined to continue her social work at the hospital despite having medical issues herself. When finally admitted, she tries to help her roommate, a woman suffering from bone cancer who stubbornly refuses to let doctors amputate her leg and has become bitter toward God because of her situation.
- While in the Badlands looking for a band that's been conducting raids, Ragan and the deputies join with a group of cavalry officers after the same men---a breakaway group led by one of their own captains. Soon the marshals begin to have doubts about the lieutenant in charge, and arguments over the use of the limited amount of water bring conflict.
- Sam defends an old client whom he had helped to find a job. The man has participated in a robbery in which a man was killed, but he refuses to say whether he or his accomplice actually pulled the trigger, as he believes the accomplice is his friend whom he does not want to betray. But the accomplice's lawyer is determined to spare his client the death penalty at any cost.
- A girl that Gannon has known for years is suffering from blackouts, and also from a delusion that she and Joe are in love with each other. When she learns she is pregnant, she claims he is the father, and her protective older brother believes it.
- A man from another island, visiting with his young daughter, witnesses a murder and then leaves the scene. The real killers decide to find him and make him confess to the murder before killing him. Tracy and Greg, along with Cricket's cousin Junebug, try to help the little girl while trying to find her father before the killers do.
- While on his way to testify at the trial of a killer bushranger, Cobb stops at a way station run by a widow with a young son. To prevent him from testifying, a gang arrives and holds Cobb, along with the widow, the boy, and Cobb's passengers, a man and his pregnant wife. Cobb notices a strange familiarity between the widow and the gang leader.
- A new neighbor, a rancher from Wyoming, plans to buy more property around Wameru and fence it off, which will create a major problem for migrating animals. He also wants to use the area inside the fences for charging tourists to hunt animals, despite the objections of the Wameru staff.
- Alex Spence, a world judo champion, is also a braggart who wants to prove he can best Tarzan in any physical endeavor. This rivalry is being taken advantage of by a band of ruthless smugglers, whose diminutive leader wants to steal a huge golden idol and use Alex's boat to hijack it out of the country. To achieve this goal he also kidnaps Alex's girlfriend.
- Little Michael Thorpe's father is accidentally shot and gravely injured. Believing that only God can save his father, and told by his Indian ranch hand that God lives on a mountain, Michael wanders off onto that mountain, and finds an old hermit who he thus thinks is God.
- Foreman receives word that a paroled outlaw plans to come to Stillwater to kill him. But the marshal is frustrated in his efforts to be on guard for the man, because he has to deal with so many other complaints from townspeople over less serious matters. Plus, a man arrives in town and claims to be a deputy sent to help, but his attitude makes everyone suspicious of him.
- Carl Macklin (Stevens) arrives in Europe to reunite with members of the resistance group he worked with in World War II. He is persuaded by Paul Marchand (Boone) to help free Marchand's brother, who is somewhere in Spain after escaping from prison there. But Macklin soon learns he may be being used for another more sinister purpose.