Jean Inness

Jerry Van Dyke, brother of Dick Van Dyke guest stars as a carnival's destitute banjo player. He also proves to be an inept lawman when he is hired in Barney's Fife's absence.

A rancher's widow offers a reward for Matt's death after he shoots her thieving husband.

Matt tracks an army deserter and thief to his father's remote cabin, where a bloody standoff develops.

Barney is taken hostage by an outlaw, Sam Spicer , who, along with his partner, Reno Sutton, has just robbed the local bank.

Beverly Garland guest stars as a would-be robber.

With their cattle in danger of dying from thirst, trail boss Gil Favor and his ramrod Rowdy Yates face an added threat from aging tyrant Jess Hode who harbors a bitter resentment toward the cattle drovers and, with a show of force, denies them access to an abundant water supply.