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1 :01x01 - Double Showdown
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: King Donovan (Shorty Keenan), Robert Middleton (Big Keel Roberts), Charles Maxwell (Ed Caulder), K. L. Smith (Chuck), Jean Willes (Lucy Slater), Adele Mara (Maria), William Vaughn (Nelson), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Pete Sheeley)
To help a friend, Bat plays poker head to head with a saloon owner.
2 :01x02 - Two Graves for Swan Valley
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Broderick Crawford (Sgt. Foley), William Henry (Griff Hanley), Murvyn Vye (Big Ed Bacon), Marcia Henderson (Molly Doyle), Patrick McVey (Angus McLarnin)
Sgt. Foley orders Bat to leave Swan Valley, but after developing feelings for Molly Doyle, Bat is reluctant to do so. However, Molly happens to be Foley's girl and now Foley is out to get Bat.
3 :01x03 - Dynamite Blows Two Ways
Writer: Gene Levitt
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Tom McKee (Swede), Tyler McVey (Thompson), Susan Cummings (Valorie Mitchell), Reed Hadley (Raoul Cummings), Jeff De Benning (Horton)
Bat wins some heads of cattle in a poker game and attempts to drive them to a stockyard. But a man, Raoul Cummings, is determined to stop Bat and the other ranchers from making it to Cheyenne.
4 :01x04 - Stampede at Tent City
Writer: Morton Fine, David Friedkin
Director: David Friedkin
Guest star: Tom Vize (Wrangler), Troy Melton (Wrangler), James Best (Joe Best), Joseph Breen (Townsman), Joan Marshall (Laura Hopkins), William Conrad (Clark Benson)
A former fling of Bat's is getting married soon, but when her husband-to-be is accused of murder, she asks Bat for help.
5 :01x05 - The Fighter
Writer: Turnley Walker
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Ray Kellogg (Brock), Patrick Waltz (Jim Bemis), Marie Windsor (Polly Landers), Robert J. Wilke (Bull Kirby)
Bat wins the contract of a boxer in a poker game.
6 :01x06 - Bear Bait
Writer: Andy White
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: James Westerfield (Shapley Howell), Patricia Donahue (Joyce), Bobby Hall (Roger), Wayne Burson (U.S. Marshal), Milton Frome (Sheriff Clark)
Bat is hired to escort a hunting party on a bear hunt, but some of the hunters happen to be wanted for murder.
7 :01x07 - A Noose Fits Anybody
Writer: John Elliotte
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Murvyn Vye (Big Ed Bacon), George Jones (2nd Bartender), Billy Nelson (Ring Master), Clayton Behee (Aerialist), Robert Swan (Ben Thompson), Les Hellman (Ray Clinton), Max Palmer (1st Bartender), Jack Wagner (Deputy), William Henry (Griff Hanley), George Offerman (Dealer), Ernestine Clarke (Lola Faire), Gary Vinson (Billy Thompson)
Ben Thompson saves Bat's life during a gunfight and asks Bat to help him get his kid brother out of jail in exchange for his deed.
8 :01x08 - Dude's Folly
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Otto Lang
Guest star: Joe Turkel (Woody Larkin), Jack Reitzen (Packy), Nancy Hadley (Jan Larkin), Leo Gordon (Joe Quince), Allison Hayes (Ellie Winters)
Bat helps out two siblings who inherited a hardware store following the passing of their father. A man wants to take the store from the siblings and threatens to run them out of town if they don't hand it over.
9 :01x09 - The Treasure of Worry Hill
Writer: Gene Levitt
Director: John Rich
Guest star: Harvey Stephens (Isaac Parker), Ken Drake (Burdette), Audrey Dalton (Abigail Feather), Ross Martin (Caulder Larson), Robert Anderson (Richard Woodman)
Three men each inherit one-third of a treasure map. They hire Bat to lead them to the treasure.
10 :01x10 - Cheyenne Club
Writer: D. D. Beauchamp
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Leonard P. Geer (Woody), Dean Harens (Steven Haley), Louise Fletcher (Sarah Lou), William Tannen (John Conant), Olan Soule (Bartender), John Close (Homesteader), Karl Swenson (Pate), Frank Warren (Marshal), Joe Ferrante (Trent), Bill Catching (Kansas)
An influential man hires Bat to ascertain whether or not his daughter's fiancee has been cheating at poker games.
11 :01x11 - Sherman's March Through Dodge City
Writer: Maurice Tombragel
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Joseph Hamilton (President Hayes), Harvey Dunn (guest star), Phyllis Coghlan (guest star), Robert J. Stevenson (Luke), John Gallaudet (General Sherman), William Joyce (guest star), Michael Whalen (Marshal)
President Rutherford B. Hayes and famed Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman arrive in Dodge City on a campaign tour.
12 :01x12 - Trail Pirate
Writer: Wells Root
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Kenneth Alton (Hyde), Charles MacDonald Heard (Vail), Gloria Talbott (Ellen Parish), Howard Wright (Trail Outfitter), Barry Atwater (Egan), Frank Watkins (Man), Jim Bannon (Sheriff), Hank Patterson (Prospector)
Bat tries to discover who's been destroying wagon train after wagon train and uncovers a sinister conspiracy.
13 :01x13 - Double Trouble in Trinidad
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Guest star: Yvette Vickers (Jessie Simmons), Richard Bakalyan (Sam Teller), John Falvo (Joe), Johnny Silver (Drummer), David Tyrell (Grant Keely), Charles Seel (Barkeep), Harry Clexx (Hotel Clerk), Richard Reeves (George Swift), John Baxter (Lead Guard), Robert Lynn (Transfer Clerk), Lance Fuller (Mornsby)
Bat learns that a man has been impersonating him in the town of Trinidad.
14 :01x14 - Election Day
Writer: Turnley Walker
Director: Monroe P. Askins
Guest star: Gene Roth (Oliver Hinton), Dan Sheridan (Joe Rankin), Peter Hansen (Teddy Wright), Kasey Rogers (Kitty Meadows), Vance Skarstedt (Sheriff), Ken Christy (Morgan)
Bat encounters trouble when he signs on to boss a cattle drive.
15 :01x15 - One Bullet from Broken Bow
Writer: Andy White
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: Joan O'Brien (Dolores Clark), H. M. Wynant (Stone Calf), Charles Maxwell (General Sheridan), Susan Whitney (Lori Rafferty), Bob Shield (Captain Dayton), Donna Martell (Barbara Rafferty)
Bat sets out to rescue two sisters from a Native American war party that kidnapped them.
16 :01x16 - A Personal Matter
Writer: Fran Van Hartsveldt
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Robert Lynn (Inn Clerk), Don Eitner (Stage Driver), Alan Hale, Jr. (Bailey Harper), Dennis Moore (Tim Clovis), Pierce Lyden (Blacksmith), Tom London (Sheriff), Raymond Hatton (Adam Fairbanks), Peggy Knudsen (Louisa Carey)
Bat goes after an outlaw who has stolen his gun, money, and horse.
17 :01x17 - License to Cheat
Writer: George F. Slavin
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Andy Albin (Eddie), Brett King (Hub Elliott), Douglas Kennedy (Jeb Crater), Allison Hayes (Ellie Winters), William Phipps (Ken Wills), Moody Blanchard (Red), James Winslow (Stan Larson), Frank Scammell (Sandy), Jean Paul King (Curly), Joel Riordan (Chuck)
A sheriff locks Bat in the hoosegow for refusing to join an organization known as the Protective Gamblers' Association.
18 :01x18 - Sharpshooter
Writer: Maurice Tombragel
Director: John Rich
Guest star: Conrad Nagel (Harry Varden), Harry Fleer (Darby Cole), Lisa Gaye (Lori Dowling), Anne Dore (Jezebel), Paul Dubov (Danny Dowling)
A Dodge City saloonkeeper sends his triggerman after Bat's hide.
19 :01x19 - River Boat
Writer: Gene Levitt
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Clark Howat (Murdock), Walter Barnes (Paulson), Bob Jellison (Perry), Patricia Powell (Nora), Brett Halsey (Kyle), Jacques Aubuchon (King Henry)
A riverboat gets robbed and among the loot in the robbery is $10,000 belonging to Bat Masterson.
20 :01x20 - Battle of the Pass
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Roy Engel (Maloney), Emile Meyer (General Moran), Leo Needham (Bartender), Wayne Morris (Mace Pomeroy), Will Wright (Billy Willow)
Bat gets involved in a war between two railroads attempting to beat each other in laying tracks through a canyon.
21 :01x21 - Marked Deck
Director: Otto Lang
Guest star: Denver Pyle (Dan Morgan), Leake Bevil (Bartender), Cathy Downs (Amelia Roberts), Tom McKee (Derelict), Charles Boaz (Taggert), Richard Emory (William Roberts), Ollie O'Toole (Rinehart), George Offerman (Dealer), Ed Nelson (Jedrow), Phil Chambers (Sheriff)
After being cheated in a card game, Bat is determined to retrieve his money as well as the money of others who were also cheated by the crook.
22 :01x22 - Incident in Leadville
Writer: Harry Essex
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Edward Platt (Roy Evans), Kathleen Crowley (Jo Hart), John Cliff (Jess Santola), Jack Lambert (King Fisher), Jonathan Hole (Mart)
Bat clashes with a female newspaper editor who referred to him as a scoundrel.
23 :01x23 - The Tumbleweed Wagon
Writer: Wells Root
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: John Carradine (Vince Morgan), Noel Drayton (Guitarist), Paul Lambert (Luke Steiger), Fay Spain (Julie Poe)
Bat is deputized to transport an outlaw to trial in Fort Smith for killing a friend of his but the reprobate disappears on the night before they're scheduled to leave.
24 :01x24 - Brunette Bombshell
Writer: John Elliotte
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Rebecca Welles (Isabel Fowler), Gene Nelson (Whit Morrison), Charles Fredericks (Marty), George Eldredge (Monroe Fowler)
Bat purchases the Denver Athletic Club but the fire marshal of Denver declares the building a hazard and orders it torn down.
25 :01x25 - Deadline
Writer: George F. Slavin
Director: John Rich
Guest star: Harry Dean Stanton (Jay Simms), Eve Brent (Lorna Adams), Ralph Moody (Garth), Ken Lynch (Tim Minto)
Bat is a passenger in a most unusual stagecoach robbery--the bandits steal only the horses.
26 :01x26 - Man of Action
Writer: Gene Levitt
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Joan Elan (Deborah Jenkins), Harold Stone (Jess Hobart), Gavin Muir (Oliver Jenkins)
Bat pays a visit to his tailer in New Mexico which leads to an unusual adventure.
27 :01x27 - A Matter of Honor
Writer: Wells Root
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Paula Raymond (Millie Wilkins), John Vivyan (Chip Grimes), Stephen Bekassy (Anton von Landi), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Tack Colby)
Bat goes in pursuit of an Austrian nobleman who robbed a gambling casino because he was short of funds.
28 :01x28 - Lottery of Death
Writer: Don Ingalls
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Bill Erwin (Teller), John Sutton (Andrew Stafford), Constance Ford (Gwen Parsons), Jack Lester (Bartender), Warren Oates (Sonny Fowler), Myron Healey (Jack Latigo), Len Hendry (Manager)
Bat wins half of a lottery ticket in a poker game and trouble follows.
29 :01x29 - The Death of Bat Masterson
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Claude Akins (Jack Fontana), Willard Waterman (Bank Manager), Cliff Edwards (A. J. Mulcaney), Ruth Lee (Nellie Fontana)
Bat tries to withdraw money from one of his bank accounts only to be told that the account has been closed because of his "death."
30 :01x30 - The Secret Is Death
Writer: Mikhail Rykoff
Director: Otto Lang
Guest star: Troy Melton (Government Agent), Larry Darr (Bank Robber #1), Joel Ashley (Sam Groebler), Leonard P. Geer (Bank Robber #2), George N. Neise (Calhoun), Allison Hayes (Ellie Winters), William Boyett (Bodyguard #1), Tom Vize (Bodyguard #2), Mel Bishop (Henchman), John Larch (Garrickson)
When a crime wave begins sweeping Cheyenne, Bat is called in to save the day.
31 :01x31 - Promised Land
Writer: D. D. Beauchamp
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Rance Howard (Fletcher), John Thye (Spade), Cal Tinney (U.S. Marshal), Carol Ohmart (Linda Beaudine), Bill Walker (Driver), Arthur Space (Doc Ferguson), Gerald Mohr (Courtney Shepherd)
Bat finds himself named president of a bank in a community composed primarily of reformed lawbreakers.
32 :01x32 - The Conspiracy (Part 1)
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Paul Richards (Ned Ruggles), Ted de Corsia (Bartender), John Hart (Wilson), Arthur Shields (John Surratt), Diane Brewster (Lynn Harrison), Jerome Cowan (Jasper Salt), Willis Bouchey (Marshal)
Bat tries to prevent the publication of the papers of Lincoln assassination conspirator John Surratt.
33 :01x33 - The Conspiracy (Part 2)
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: John Hart (Wilson), Willis Bouchey (Marshal), Ted de Corsia (Bartender), Arthur Shields (John Surratt), Jerome Cowan (Jasper Salt), Paul Richards (Ned Ruggles), Diane Brewster (Lynn Harrison)
Bat tries to discover who gave the story of John Surratt's involvement in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy to the newspapers.
34 :01x34 - The Black Pearls
Writer: Wells Root
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Gerald Milton (Sheriff Gowdy), Jacqueline Scott (Carol Otis), James Coburn (Polk Otis)
After being jailed on suspicion of cheating at cards, Bat finds himself involved in a wild adventure involving black pearls, a train robbery, and a homicidal cellmate.
35 :01x35 - The Desert Ship
Writer: Wells Root
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: John Wengraf (Anders Dorn), Michael Forest (Les Wilkins), Karen Steele (Elsa Dorn), Jack Kruschen (Ben Tarko)
Bat and a Dutchman search for a legendary wrecked ship.
36 :01x36 - The Romay Knives
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Frank Silvera (Grasia), Ray Danton (Tonio), Paul Sorenson (Man), Chana Eden (Leda), Eve Collins (Erma Colton)
A gypsy offers Bat numerous women in return for services rendered.
37 :01x37 - Buffalo Kill
Writer: Leo Gordon
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: John Doucette (Luke Simes), Lisa Gaye (Susan Carver), Ted Jacques (J. J. Carver)
Bat heads to Native American country on a mission to buy buffalo hides.
38 :02x01 - To the Manner Born
Writer: Wells Root
Director: John Rich
Guest star: Myron Healey (Colonel Marc James), Jack Hogan (Stuart Chancellor), Ernestine Barrier (Mrs. Dwight Chancellor), James Hong (Ching Sun), Audrey Dalton (Abby Chancellor), Marie Tsien (Dealer), David Thursby (Captain Larkin)
Bat challenges a blackmailer who's posing as a war hero to a duel in order to expose his cowardice.
39 :02x02 - Wanted ... Dead
Writer: Gene Levitt
Director: William Conrad
Guest star: Dennis Moore (Tom), John Archer (Jim), John Moloney (guest star), Dabbs Greer (Will), John Dehner (Sheriff), Wayne Burson (guest star), Bethel Leslie (Mildred Conrad), Don Kennedy (Gunman)
Bat steps between a trigger happy sheriff and a reformed gunman.
40 :02x03 - No Funeral for Thorn
Writer: John McGreevey
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Joi Lansing (Sapphira Gardiner), Dehl Berti (Tobe Pruitt), Chuck Webster (guest star), John Cliff (guest star), Wayne Burson (guest star), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Thorn Loomis), Ray Teal (Virgil Gardiner)
Bat gets caught up in a battle between two towns vying to be the seat of a county.
41 :02x04 - Shakedown at St. Joe
Writer: Maurice Tombragel
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Frank Warren (Edgar), Joan O'Brien (Dora Miller), House Peters, Jr. (Marshal), Bruce Gordon (Jason Medford), Joe Guardino (Usher), Harvey Stephens (Judge Thatcher), Frank Wilcox (Tobias Manning)
Arriving at the St. Joseph opera house to see his old galpal, Bat discovers that the place is being shaken down for protection by a Fank Nittiesque character.
42 :02x05 - Lady Luck
Writer: Harry Essex
Director: John Rich
Guest star: Quintin Sondergaard (guest star), Harry Woods (Morgan), Bob Tetrick (guest star), Pamela Duncan (Rachel Lowery), Don Haggerty (Jess Porter), Lee Sands (guest star), Charles Maxwell (guest star), Dick Bernie (guest star), Ken Drake (Sheriff), Dyan Cannon (Mary Lowery)
At a Sacramento casino, Bat comes to the aid of two hot chicks and their father who are being blackmailed.
43 :02x06 - Who'll Bury My Violence?
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Joanna Moore (Sharon Stabler), Arthur Lovejoy (Crenshaw), Mort Mills (Barney Kaster), Willard Waterman (Town Merchant), Sam Buffington (Captain Fogarty), John Parks (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), Charles Buck (guest star)
Bat takes a stand for fair trade when he takes on a trader who has a monopoly on riverboat cargo.
44 :02x07 - Dead Men Don't Pay Debts
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
Director: Lew Landers
Guest star: Diana Darrin (Joan), Jerome Loden (Unknown), Steve Terrell (Hal Clements), Buck Young (Bill Bassett), Robert Swan (Unknown), June Blair (Louise Clements), Jack Lester (Unknown), Robert J. Wilke (Rod Clements), Eve Cotton (Jane Wilkens), Jeremy Slate (Bob Clements), Jack Ging (Clark Bassett)
Bat steps in to halt a gun shooting feud between two families because members of one of them owe him money.
45 :02x08 - Death and Taxes
Writer: Paul Franklin
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Don Kennedy (Sheriff Tim Lockhart), Kenneth Alton (Ed Lauber), Jack Lemaire (Shorty Mason), Susan Cummings (Lili Napoleon), Fred Catania (Albert Hastings), Ken Christy (Eli), John Holland (Charlie Griswold), Richard Arlen (John Minor), Frank J. Scannell (Gus)
Bat helps a sheriff collect taxes and discovers some evaders who are shipping their assets out of the county.
46 :02x09 - Bat Plays a Dead Man's Hand
Writer: Harry Essex
Director: Otto Lang
Guest star: Bud Osborne (Fred Starr), Jan Harrison (Belle Sims), Jeff De Benning (guest star), Bruce Wendell (guest star), Stanley Erickson (guest star), Ken Christy (guest star), Marx Hartman (guest star), Guy Prescott (Phil Hood), Leake Bevil (guest star), Don C. Harvey (John Mills)
Bat turns lawyer to fight a tyrannical town boss.
47 :02x10 - Garrison Finish
Writer: Maurice Tombragel
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Lynn Cartwright (Ruby Red), Jack Haddock (guest star), John Gallaudet (Colonel Pierce), Frankie Darro (Edward 'Snapper ' Garrison), Britt Lomond (Latimer), Frank Watkins (guest star), Emile Meyer (General Moran)
Bat's friend bets his railroad that his prized racehorse can defeat the mount of a rival.
48 :02x11 - The Canvas and the Cane
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Bill Walker (guest star), Patrick Whyte (Willard Quentin), Jack Reitzen (Clyde), Dean Harens (Sheriff), Jacqueline Scott (Teresa Renault), John Sutton (Orrin Thackeray)
Bat tries to determine whether or not a purported valuable painting purchased by a friend is the real deal.
49 :02x12 - The Inner Circle
Writer: Andy White
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Jean Willes (Grace Williams), Phillip Baird (John Scott Powers), Frank Ferguson (Old Billy North), Sherwood Keith (Lewis), Marcia Henderson (Susan Stevens), Jack Kruschen (Patch Finley), Charlene Glazer (Suffragette), Don Ross (Amos Bentley)
Bat stands up for women's suffrage when he opposes an outfit called the Inner Circle who are determined to keep members of the fairer sex from voting.
50 :02x13 - The Pied Piper of Dodge City
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Charlie Crafts (Unknown), Milton Frome (Governor), Mel A. Bishop (Charlie Bassett), William Boyett (Marshal), Ron Hayes (Wyatt Earp), King Calder (Mayor Dan Webber), Tom Montgomery (Frank McLean), Don 'Red' Barry (Luke Short), Matt Pelto (Nervous Neal Brown), Evan Macneil (Dolly McGregor), Robert Swan (Bill Harris)
Bat steps in when a feud breaks out between rival saloon owners in Dodge City.
51 :02x14 - A Picture of Death
Writer: Samuel A. Peeples
Director: John Rich
Guest star: Charles Calvert (Judge Morse), Perry Cook (Casey), Patricia Donahue (Billie Tuesday), Allen Jaffe (Coleman), John Hart (Jacobs), Dennis Moore (Sheriff), Howard Petrie (Hugh Blaine), Donald Woods (Roger Purcell), Pierre Watkin (Judge Smith)
Bat asserts that a racehorse's four feet can be off the ground at the same time and sets out to prove his theory.
52 :02x15 - Pigeon and Hawk
Writer: John Tucker Battle
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Lisa Montell (Selena Thorn), Ralph Helfer (Roberts), Howard Petrie (Hugh Blaine), Jack W. Harris (David), Rand Brooks (Willard Wynant), Hugh Sanders (Lee Baxter), Tom London (Carpenter), Mickey Simpson (Eric)
A stockbroker asks Bat to keep his competitors from cornering the local market.
53 :02x16 - Flume at the Mother Lode
Writer: Gene Levitt
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Paul Lambert (Charles Hamilton), Frank Harding (Will), Arnold Daly (Spencer), John Baxter (Curt), Stephen Bekassy (Emile Barole), Miranda Jones (Nancy Wilkerson), Bobby Hall (Miller), Jerome Cowan (Ben Wilson), Nick Nicholson (Stock Exchange Agent)
Prospecting for gold, Bat becomes involved in a timber war.
54 :02x17 - Death by the Half Dozen
Writer: Guy De Vry
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Norman Sturgis (Slim Tobey), Dorothy Johnson (Claire Cantrell), Patrick Waltz (Buck Peters), William Vaughn (Eddie Griswell), Willard Waterman (Mayor Goodwin), Terry Frost (Tom Kearns), Ted de Corsia (Hank Griswell), Terry Rangno (Johnny Kearns)
When a young bride is kidnapped, the abductors force Bat to deliver the ransom note.
55 :02x18 - Deadly Diamonds
Writer: John McGreevey
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Bill Catching (Mine Guard), Allison Hayes (Ellie Winters), Hank Patterson (Soda Smith), William Schallert (Dr. Harold Dunsmore), William Tannen (Charles Graves), Kenneth Tobey (Reed Amherst)
Bat buys a silver mine of questionable value because he suspects that a hoax is being perpetrated on the citizens of Leadville, CO.
56 :02x19 - Mr. Fourpaws
Writer: D. D. Beauchamp, Mary Beauchamp
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Frank J. Scannell (Roulette Dealer), Les Hellman (Brad Pierce), Edmund Cobb (Joe), Gregory Walcott (Sam Long), Frank Gerstle (Hank), Paula Raymond (Linda Wills)
On a seemingly routine journey, Bat finds a dead man, encounters a larcenous dog, and nearly assumes room temperature himself.
57 :02x20 - Six Feet of Gold
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Ron Foster (Toby Dawson), William Fawcett (Sheriff), James Coburn (Leo Talley), Lester Dorr (Land Office Clerk), Woody Chambliss (O'Malley), Carol Ohmart (Lisa Truex)
Bat decides to turn a piece of wasteland into a graveyard but finds himself accused of being a swindler.
58 :02x21 - Cattle and Canes
Writer: Harry Essex
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: John Parrish (guest star), Dan White (Ben Taylor), K. L. Smith (guest star), Wayne Heffley (guest star), Ken Drake (Colby), Brad Dexter (Dallas Agate), Joyce Taylor (Jane Taylor), James Nusser (Isaac), Ted Markland (guest star)
Bat is forced to choose sides when he steps into the middle of a range war.
59 :02x22 - The Disappearance of Bat Masterson
Writer: Maurice Tombragel
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: Oscar Beregi, Jr. (Hermann the Great), Ray Kellogg (Deputy Sheriff), Robert Karnes (Landry), Erin O'Brien (Jeanie Landry), Liam Sullivan (Blackie), Doris Fesette (Magician's Assistant), Chuck Roberson (Henchman), Jack Williams (Henchman)
Bandits use a slight of hand trick to disarm Bat during a robbery.
60 :02x23 - The Snare
Writer: Samuel A. Peeples
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Ted Jacques (Horse Renter), Yvonne Lime (Lola White), Henry Wills (Stagecoach Driver), Henry Rowland (Naylor, henchman), Faith Langley (Miss Todd), Charlotte Knight (Old Woman on Stagecoach), William Henry (Sheriff Brady), Marshall Reed (Alf Hayman), Robert Ivers (Yaqui Kid)
Bat joins a posse to track down the notorious Yaqui Kid, who just killed a friend of his. But the Kid is deadly with a gun and keeps killing members of the posse eventually leaving Bat to go it alone.
61 :02x24 - Three Bullets for Bat
Writer: Dean Riesner
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Suzanne Lloyd (Linda), Brett King (Dan Moseley), Tristram Coffin (Marshal Roy Dunning), Stephen Coit (John La Tour), Dennis Moore (Barker), Miguel Ángel Landa (Carlos), Kent Taylor (John Martin / Gabilan), George Eldredge (Judge)
Crooks trick Bat into going to Mexico in order to prevent him from testifying at a trial.
62 :02x25 - The Reluctant Witness
Writer: George F. Slavin
Director: William Conrad
Guest star: Donald Murphy (Charlie Ryan), David Perna (Hub Mason), Allison Hayes (Ellie Winters), Ron Hayes (Wyatt Earp), Charles Bail (Tod Mason), Robert Swan (Charlie Bassett), Harry Lauter (Sheriff Conners), Charles Reade (Clerk), George Ross (Charley)
Bat enlists the aid of old pal Wyatt Earp to defend a woman in a murder case.
63 :02x26 - Come Out Fighting
Writer: Paul Franklin
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Guy Teague (Unknown), Rhys Williams (Malachi Brody), Ken Mayer (Largo Morgan), Joan Granville (Belinda Muldoon), Clark Smith (Unknown), Alex Sharp (Moose Morgan), Jean Paul King (Alistaire Drago), Steve Warren (Paddy Muldoon), Connie Buck (Lolita)
On his way to a championship boxing match, Bat finds himself under arrest and taken before a notorious hanging judge.
64 :02x27 - Stage to Nowhere
Writer: Ron Bishop, Wells Root
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Craig Duncan (Casey), Bill Catching (guest star), William Yip (guest star), Michael Forest (Noah Gannon), James Seay (Parker James), Constance Ford (Ivy Dickson)
Bat comes up with an ingenious plan to thwart stagecoach robbers after the silver bullion being transported in the coaches.
65 :02x28 - Incident at Fort Bowie
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Franklin Adreon
Guest star: Will Wright (Billy Willow), Robert J. Stevenson (Ben Roper), Tyler McVey (Colonel Sloan), Dennis O'Flaherty (Corporal), Cathy Downs (Julie Giles)
Bat goes into the horse trading business and makes a deal to sell mounts to the cavalry--only to have a thief make off with his stock.
66 :02x29 - Masterson's Arcadia Club
Writer: Paul Franklin
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: X Brands (Jeb Mitchell), Morgan Jones (Mace Gunnison), Kasey Rogers (Dixie Mayhew), Andy Albin (guest star), Lane Bradford (Rod Bradbury), Larry Hudson (Clark Chisum), Charles Fredericks (Marshal)
An outlaw takes control of a Kansas town using Bat's identity.
67 :02x30 - Welcome to Paradise
Writer: Guy De Vry
Director: James Goldstone
Guest star: James Parnell (Sheriff Joe Fassett), Bill Hickman (Unknown), Gerald Milton (John Whelan), Simon Prescott (Unknown), Charles Reade (Jeriah Smith), Robert Foulk (Judge Pete Perkins), Lonnie Blackman (Elsie Snow), Ralph Taeger (Frank Dexter)
In the town of Paradise, CO, Bat receives a heavy fine for carrying a firearm in the town limits.
68 :02x31 - A Grave Situation
Writer: Maurice Tombragel
Director: Franklin Adreon
Guest star: Lance Fuller (Powers), John Doucette (Lemuel Carstairs), Howard Petrie (Hugh Blaine), Peggy Knudsen (Katie), Jack W. Harris (David), Allen Jaffe (Harry)
Bat baits a trap for cattle thieves with the sum of $15,000.
69 :02x32 - Gold is Where You Steal It
Writer: Michael Fessier
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Charles Reade (Unknown), Rosa Turich (Anita), Martin Garralaga (Pio Anselm), Gloria Castillo (Rosita Anselm), Carlos Romero (Juan Torrino), Byron Morrow (Henry Hansen)
Bat travels to Southern California where he becomes involved with a hot chick and a notorious bandito.
70 :02x33 - Wanted ... Alive, Please
Writer: D. D. Beauchamp
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Diana Crawford (Renee Hudson), H. M. Wynant (Benton Foster), Tony Stimolo (guest star), Joe Turkel (Fargo), Gary Spencer (guest star), Douglas Dumbrille (General Taylor Milland), Chuck Couch (guest star), Steve Darrell (Alec Hudson), Jean Paul King (guest star), John Verros (guest star)
Bat tries to stop the smuggling of diseased cattle into the United States from Mexico.
71 :02x34 - The Elusive Baguette
Writer: George F. Slavin
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Leslie Parrish (Lucy Carter), Ralph Gary (Riverboat Captain), Allison Hayes (Ellie Winters), Don Kelly (Reed Morgan), Stanley Farrar (Mr. Stacy), Frank Warren (Sheriff Simpson)
Bat is hired as a bodyguard to a San Francisco hottie and her prized diamond but becomes the prime suspect when the gem disappears.
72 :02x35 - The Big Gamble
Writer: Michael Fessier
Director: Franklin Adreon
Guest star: Heather Ames (Angelita), Evan Thompson (Steve Fansler), Morgan Woodward (Kana), Arch Johnson (Mr. Smith), Anthony Dexter (Allesandro Belleen), Gene Roth (Barkeep)
Bat stakes an expedition to the Lost Dutchman Mine. Then the prospector he staked disappears.
73 :02x36 - Blood on the Money
Writer: Mikhail Rykoff
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Kaye Elhardt (Eva Rogers), Chuck Hayward (guest star), Len Lesser (Frank Holloway), Walter Coy (Andrew Strathmere), Paul Fierro (Hidalgo), Page Slattery (Dane Holloway)
Bat is searching for a young man to whom he is carrying a bequest but receives misleading information from a cattle baron.
74 :02x37 - Barbary Castle
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: George Eldredge (Doctor), Rusty Lane (Marshal), Stewart Bradley (Tracy Crow), Gloria Talbott (Mary MacLeod), Jay Novello (Captain Angus MacLeod)
Bat gets involved with a Scotsman who's trying to smuggle an entire Scottish castle, piece by piece, into San Francisco.
75 :03x01 - Debt of Honor
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Norman Foster
Guest star: Jack Lester (Eddy), Don Haggerty (Gordon Hall), Paul Langton (Marshal), Page Slattery (Marc Branden), Hal Baylor (Eli Fisher), Edgar Buchanan (Cactus Charlie)
When Bat gets repaid by a miner who struck gold it's revealed that the gold is part of a missing shipment.
76 :03x02 - Law of the Land
Writer: Andy White
Director: Herman Hoffman
Guest star: Leo Gordon (Red Eric Peterson), Ray Teal (H.G. Cogswell), Barbara Lawrence (Melanie Haywood), Allen Jaffe (Wolff), Buff Brady (Guard), Howard Petrie (Hugh Blaine)
Bat gets involved in a struggle between cattlemen and the railroad.
77 :03x03 - Bat Trap
Writer: John Tucker Battle
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: Maggie Pierce (Amber Mason), Frank Ferguson (Dick Pierce), Robin Riley (Eddie), Dick Ryan (Burt Mason), Lon Chaney, Jr. (Rance Fletcher), Jack Ging (Billy Webb)
Bat gets hired to judge a turkey shoot and make sure that the town bully doesn't interfere with the proceedings.
78 :03x04 - The Rage of Princess Anne
Writer: Ellis Kadison
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Elaine Stewart (Ann Eaton), Paul Lambert (Augustus Ulbrecht), Marx Hartman (guest star), Bill Hickman (guest star), Gene Roth (Miner), Ron Hayes (Jeremy French)
The manager of an unsafe mine begins forcing his employees to work in it.
79 :03x05 - The Hunter
Writer: Joseph Stone, Paul King
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: John Vivyan (Sir Edward Marion), Mickey Simpson (Donovan), Allan Ray (Winning Poker Player), Sue Randall (Elizabeth), Gerald Milton (Middlesworth), Brett King (Johnny Hillman)
A British gentleman acquires unwanted notoriety when he downs a noted fast gun.
80 :03x06 - Murder Can be Dangerous
Writer: Mikhail Rykoff
Director: Herman Hoffman
Guest star: Art Tenen (Henchman), Phil Dean (Henchman), Tip McClure (Shad), Allison Hayes (Ellie Winters), Kathleen Crowley (Mari Brewster), Ken Drake (Secret), Michael T. Mikler (Henchman)
After buying into a gambling parlor, Bat discovers that his partner has sticky fingers.
81 :03x07 - High Card Loses
Writer: Gene Levitt
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest star: Leatrice Leigh (Anna Calder), Donald Douglas (Bank Manager), Paul Fierro (Jose Tomas Reilly), Marshall Reed (Romer), Ray Ballard (Clerk), Francis McDonald (Winkler), Joan O'Brien (Eileen McDermott), Jean Blake (Mildred Vaughn)
Bat steps in and escorts three mail order brides to the metropolis of Noble Creek.
82 :03x08 - Dakota Showdown
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: James Best (Danny), James Seay (Harry Cassidy), Kasey Rogers (Francie Wallace), Tom Gilson (Jocko Dakota), Quintin Sondergaard (Jeb Dakota), Les Hellman (Gus Dakota)
Bat has to stand up to three gun toting brothers who just gunned down the only lawman in their town.
83 :03x09 - Last of the Night Raiders
Writer: Richard Collins
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Steve Mitchell (Tulsa Jack), Eugene Martin (Jimmy), Don Kelly (Jim Doolin), William Vaughn (Arkansas Tom), Harry Clexx (Stableman), Paula Raymond (Angie Pierce)
A woman and her son seek Bat's help when they get terrorized by the notorious Doolin gang.
84 :03x10 - Last Stop to Austin
Writer: Teddi Sherman
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Jan Merlin (Kid Jimmy Fresh), Susan Cummings (Rona Glyn), Charles Fredericks (Sheriff Ankers), Troy Melton (guest star), Robert Karnes (Marshal), Charles Reade (Teller)
Bat tries to discover whether or not a young gunslinger is the orphaned son of an old pal who died in a battle with Native Americans.
85 :03x11 - A Time to Die
Writer: Frank Grenville
Director: Lew Landers
Guest star: William Tannen (Sheriff Geary), Robert Strauss (Howard C. Smith), Jackie Searl (O'Brien), Art Stewart (Old Man), Leslie Parrish (Lisa Anders)
Bat must testify at the trial of a man charged with murdering a friend of his during a poker game.
86 :03x12 - Death by Decree
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Guest star: Wayne C. Treadway (Bank Manager), Leon Alton (guest star), Raymond Bailey (Justice Bradshaw), June Blair (Constance Whitney), Paul Richards (Marshal Corbett), Allen Jaffe (Bolo), Robert F. Simon (Harrison Whitney)
A dying friend will Bat a gambling casino which is about to go under financially.
87 :03x13 - The Lady Plays Her Hand
Writer: Guy De Vry
Director: Norman Foster
Guest star: Johnny Seven (Burt Comers), Judith Rawlins (Elsie), Dave Cameron (Danny Smith), Robert Lynn (Zach), William Schallert (George Winston), Tom London (Pop), Wanda Hendrix (Daphne Kaye)
A gambler breaks the bank at Bat's gambling joint with the aid of a female blackjack dealer.
88 :03x14 - Tempest at Tioga Pass
Writer: Andy White
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: George MacReady (Clyde Richards), John Burns (Hunch), Jack Reitzen (Motto), Bill Walker (Stagecoach Driver), Hank Patterson (Soda Smith)
Bat comes to the aid of a crew building a road from Nevada into California.
89 :03x15 - The Court Martial of Major Mars
Writer: Paul King, Joseph Stone
Director: Elliott Lewis
Guest star: John Anderson (Major Liam Mars), Sarita Vara (Kiola), Peggy Knudsen (Lottie Tremaine), Barry Russo (Magnus), Glen Gordon (Jake Sims), Stephen Ellsworth (Amos Rapp), Dick Wilson (Tobias Tinker)
At an isolated stagecoach way station, an Army major is the victim of a bizarre court martial. It's up to Bat to put an end to things.
90 :03x16 - The Price of Paradise
Writer: John McGreevey
Director: Lew Landers
Guest star: Richard Arlen (Sheriff Dan Rainey), A. G. Vitanza (guest star), Dyan Cannon (Diane Jansen), Jack Mann (guest star), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Sam Jansen), John Dennis (guest star), Lance Fuller (Walker Hayes)
Bat gets thrown out of a saloon when he tries to collect a debt from its owner.
91 :03x17 - End of the Line
Writer: Lee Karson
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Paul Lukather (Lieutenant), Thom Carney (Captain Scott), Liam Sullivan (Dick Jeffers), Denver Pyle (Walsh)
Bat gets put in charge of a crew building a railroad and is plagued by numerous misfortunes.
92 :03x18 - The Prescott Campaign
Writer: Ellis Kadison
Director: Elliott Lewis
Guest star: Emory Parnell (Ira Ponder), John Dehner (Marshal Ben Holt), Philip Ober (Sid Guild), George Sawaya (Harry Sutton), Joseph Crehan (Thomas Bolland), Valerie Allen (Catherine Guild)
Bat steps in when a marshal is accused of illegal activities.
93 :03x19 - Bullwhacker's Bounty
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Rayford Barnes (Ed Twister), Will Wright (Billy Willow), Jack Lambert (Wancho Tully), Jan Shepard (Jody Reese)
Wagonmaster Bat is forced by necessity to hire a crew of unsavory characters to transport a convoy of explosives.
94 :03x20 - A Lesson in Violence
Writer: Frank Grenville
Director: Franklin Adreon
Guest star: Larry Darr (Page Grant), Allen Jaffe (Cross), Jerry Catron (John Grant), Virginia Gregg (Nora Grant), Richard Eastham (Orin Dills)
Bat encounters a shotgun toting female when he arrives at a farm in Texas in response to an urgent telegram.
95 :03x21 - Run for Your Money
Writer: John McGreevey
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Jan Harrison (Lori Adams), Dennis Moore (Hacker), Carlyle Mitchell (Theo Stebbins), Gerald Mohr (Crimp Ward), Ray Hamilton (Terry Bowen), Robert Swan (Charlie Bassett), Harry Woods (Dr. Fleming)
Bat takes over as manager of a bank in Denver and is soon faced with a run on his institution when a saloon keeper casts doubt upon its solvency.
96 :03x22 - Terror on the Trinity
Writer: Andy White
Director: Elliott Lewis
Guest star: Mickey Morton (Bearded Man), William Conrad (Dick McIntyre), Wally Campo (Mickey), Lisa Lu (Hsieh Lin), Billy Wells (Bob Bradbury)
Bat gets involved in an adventure that includes a Chinese damsel, a lottery, and a mining claim.
97 :03x23 - Episode in Eden
Writer: Ellis Kadison
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Bob Rice (Sam Shanks), Ken Drake (Ron Daigle), Dan White (Sheriff Sloane), Bek Nelson (Martha Yale)
Bat tries to establish some semblance of justice in a New Mexico desert town.
98 :03x24 - The Good and the Bad
Writer: Ellis Kadison
Director: William Conrad
Guest star: Jeanette Nolan (Sister Mary Paul), Anna Navarro (Teresa Martinez), Grace Lee Whitney (Louise Talbot), Robert Ivers (Charley Boy)
There's no ugly in this episode that involves Bat ransoming a Medal of Honor.
99 :03x25 - No Amnesty for Death
Writer: Andy White
Director: Elliott Lewis
Guest star: R. G. Armstrong (Marshal MacWilliams), Betty Barry (Mrs. Kendall), Robert Blake (Billy MacWilliams), DeForest Kelley (Brock Martin)
Bat wonders what's going on when he finds the son of a marshal hiding in the graveyard of a town that's about to hang three men.
100 :03x26 - Ledger of Guilt
Writer: Frank Grenville
Director: William Conrad
Guest star: Jean Allison (Lorna), Jack Hogan (Johnny Quinn), Barry Kelley (Frank Williams), Trudy Ellison (Honey Evans), Don Wilbanks (Leith Windsor)
Three men arrive in the town of Meeker, CO intent on killing a woman who resides there.
101 :03x27 - Meeting at Mimbres
Writer: Ron Bishop
Director: Elliott Lewis
Guest star: John Burns (Jess Crail), Don Kelly (Tom Smith), Warren Oates (Cat Crail), Harry Shannon (Jobe Crail)
Bat steps in when two horse thieves try to start a conflict between two Native American tribes.
102 :03x28 - Valley of Death
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: William Tannen (Doc), Marya Stevens (Nione), Ken Mayer (Major Whitsett), Byron Morrow (Amos Judd), George Eldredge (Colonel Downey), Tom Greenway (Ben Pick)
Working as a civilian scout for the Army, Bat gets involved in an affair involving crooked Colorado politics.
103 :03x29 - The Fourth Man
Writer: Mikhail Rykoff
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guest star: Dehl Berti (Grant Barth), Audrey Dalton (Cally Armitage), George Kennedy (Zeke Armitage), Mickey Finn (Hunk Bass), Kevin Hagen (Ace Williams)
Bat travels to Lordsburg, NM when he learns that his friend got shot in a poker game.
104 :03x30 - Dead Man's Claim
Writer: George F. Slavin
Director: Lew Landers
Guest star: Tyler McVey (Vernon Ellwood), Stefanie Powers (Ann Elkins), Craig Duncan (Clay Adams), Charles Maxwell (Harvey Mason), John Close (Jenkins), Chuck Webster (Judd Wilkins)
Bat travels to Monument City, a once deserted mining town, when he hears that silver has been found again in the area. He wants to protect an old claim but finds out that interlopers have other ideas.
105 :03x31 - The Marble Slab
Writer: Paul Franklin, Glenhall Taylor
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: Erin O'Brien (Marie), Rick Vallin (Jenks), Joe Yrigoyen (Stagecoach Driver), Robert Bice (Bledsoe), Marvin Miller (John Kelso), Paul Sorenson (Macy)
Bat joins the Pinkerton detective agency in order to find evidence that will put a crime kingpin behind bars.
106 :03x32 - Farmer with a Badge
Writer: Monroe Manning, Alan Woods
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: Dehl Berti (Lanky), King Calder (Dinny Cave), Ken Drake (Scratchy), Jackie Loughery (Martha Phelps), Joe Brown (Harkness), John Agar (Sam Phelps), Gregory Walcott (Lou)
On his way to Tombstone, Bat gets ambushed by outlaws and left to die.
107 :03x33 - The Fatal Garment
Writer: Fran Van Hartsveldt, S. H. Barnett
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Guest star: Ron Hayes (Wyatt Earp), Les Hellman (Outlaw), Lisa Gaye (Elena), Ed Nelson (Browder)
A plush El Paso saloon hires Bat as its guard and bouncer. As is the norm, it's not long until trouble arrives.
108 :03x34 - Jeopardy at Jackson Hole
Writer: Guy De Vry
Director: Franklin Adreon
Guest star: Joan Tabor (Kate), Ron Foster (Sheriff Simpson), Harry Fleer (Harvey Field), Nick Paul (Al Stowe), Larry Pennell (Cal Beamus), Paul Dubov (Tom Fulton)
Bat tracks the outlaws who murdered a pal to the Jackson Hole in Wyoming.