ou Police des plaines () est une série télévisée américaine en 233 épisodes de 26 minutes (1955-1961) et 402 épisodes de 52 minutes (1961-1975), en noir et blanc puis en couleurs, créée par John Meston et diffusée entre le et le sur le réseau CBS, ce qui en fait la plus longue série télévisée western de l'histoire.
Au Québec, la série (Le Justicier) était diffusée en 1964 sur Télé-Métropole et ses affiliés ; en France, à partir du sur TF1.
Synopsis Cette série met en scène les aventures du marshal Matt Dillon à Dodge City dans le Kansas, après la guerre de Sécession.
Distribution James Arness (VF : André Valmy) : Marshal Matt Dillon Dennis Weaver : Chester Goode (1955-1964) Milburn Stone : « Doc » Adams Amanda Blake : Kitty Russell (1955-1974) Burt Reynolds : Quint Asper (1962-1965) Ken Curtis : Festus Haggen (1964-1975) Roger Ewing : Thad Greenwood (1965-1967) Buck Taylor : Newly O'Brien (1967-1975)
Acteurs invités thumb|Dennis Weaver avec Susan Cummings en 1960.
Claude Akins Florenz Ames Richard Anderson Charles Bronson William Bryant Tim Considine Pat Conway Jim Davis DeForest Kelley Bruce Dern Harrison Ford Jodie Foster Susan Gordon Virginia Gregg Robert Hogan Ben Johnson L.Q. Jones Jack Kelly Douglas Kennedy George Kennedy Joseph Kearns June Lockhart Robert Loggia Ross Martin Leonard Nimoy Barney Phillips Dick Sargent Sarah Selby Aaron Spelling Tom Skerritt Dub Taylor Lee Van Cleef Robert Vaughn Jon Voight William Windom Susan Cummings
Épisodes Les saisons 1 à 6, soit de à , sont d'une durée de 26 minutes. Toutes les saisons suivantes sont d'une durée de 52 minutes. La série est tournée en couleurs à partir de la douzième saison, soit .
Première saison (1955-1956)
Matt Gets It Hot Spell Word of Honor Home Surgery Obie Tater Night Incident Smoking Out the Nolans Kite's Reward The Hunter The Queue General Parsley Smith Magnus Reed Survives Professor Lute Bone No Handcuffs Reward for Matt Robin Hood Yorky 20-20 Reunion '78 Helping Hand Tap Day for Kitty Indian Scout The Pest Hole The Big Broad Hack Prine Cooter The Killer Doc's Revenge The Preacher How to Die for Nothing Dutch George Prairie Happy Chester's Mail Order Bride The Guitar Cara Mr. and Mrs. Amber Unmarked Grave Alarm at Pleasant Valley
Deuxième saison (1956-1957)
Cow Doctor Brush at Elkader Custer The Round Up Young Man with a Gun Indian White How to Cure a Friend Legal Revenge The Mistake Greater Love No Indians Spring Term Poor Pearl Cholera Pucket's New Year The Cover Up Sins of the Father Kick Me Executioner Gone Straight Bloody Hands Skid Row Sweet and Sour Cain Bureaucrat Last Fling Chester's Murder The Photographer Wrong Man Big Girl Lost What the Whiskey Drummer Heard Cheap Labor Moon Who Lives by the Sword Uncle Oliver Daddy-O The Man Who Would Be Marshal Liar from Blackhawk Jealousy
Troisième saison (1957-1958)
Crack-Up Gun for Chester Blood Money Kitty's Outlaw Potato Road Jesse Mavis McCloud Born to Hang Romeo Never Pester Chester Fingered How to Kill a Woman Cows and Cribs Doc's Reward Kitty Lost Twelfth Night Joe Phy Buffalo Man Kitty Caught Claustrophobia Ma Tennis Sunday Supplement Wild West The Cabin Dirt Dooley Surrenders Joke's on Us Bottleman Laughing Gas Texas Cowboys Amy's Good Deed Hanging Man Innocent broad The Big Con Widow's Mite Chester's Hanging Carmen Overland Express The Gentleman
Quatrième saison (1958-1959)
Matt for Murder The Patsy Gunsmuggler Monopoly Letter of the Law Thoroughbreds Stage Hold-Up Lost Rifle Land Deal Lynching Man How to Kill a Friend Grass The Cast Robber Bridegroom Snakebite Gypsum Hills Feud Young Love Marshal Proudfoot Passive Resistance Love of a Good Woman Jayhawkers Kitty's Rebellion Sky Doc Quits The Bear The Coward The F.U. Wind Fawn Renegade White Murder Warrant Change of Heart Buffalo Hunter The Choice There Never Was a Horse Print Asper The Constable Blue Horse Cheyennes
Cinquième saison (1959-1960)
Target Kitty's Injury Horse Deal Johnny Red Kangaroo Tail to the Wind Annie Oakley Saludos Brother Whelp The Boots Odd Man Out Miguel's Daughter Box o' Rocks False Witness Tag, You're It Thick 'n' Thin Groat's Grudge Big Tom Till Death Do Us The Tragedian Hinka Do Doc Judge Moo Moo Raid Kitty's Killing Jailbait Janet Unwanted Deputy Where'd They Go Crowbait Bob Colleen So Green The Ex-Urbanites I Thee Wed The Lady Killer Gentleman's Disagreement Speak Me Fair Belle's Back The Bobsy Twins Old Flame The Deserter Cherry Red
Sixième saison (1960-1961)
Friend's Pay-Off The Blacksmith Small Water Say Uncle Shooting Stopover The Peace Officer Don Matteo The Worm The Badge Distant Drummer Ben Tolliver's Stud No Chip The Wake The Cook Old Fool Brother Love Bad Sheriff Unloaded Gun Tall Trapper Love Thy Neighbor Bad Seed Kitty Shot About Chester Harriet Potshot Old Faces Big Man Little Girl Stolen Horses Minnie Bless Me Till I Die Long Hours, Short Pay Hard Virtue The Imposter Chester's Dilemma The Love of Money Melinda Miles Colorado Sheriff
Septième saison (1961-1962)
Perce Old Yellow Boots Miss Kitty Harper's Blood All That Long, Long Trail The Squaw Chesterland Milly Indian Ford Apprentice Doc Nina's Revenge Marry Me A Man a Day The Do-Badder Lacey Cody's Code Old Dan Catawomper Half Straight He Learned About Women The Gallows Reprisal Coventry The Widow Durham Bull Wagon Girls The Dealer The Summons The Dreamers Cale Chester's Indian The Prisoner The Boys
Huitième saison (1962-1963)
The Search Call Me Dodie Quint Asper Comes Home Root Down Jenny Collie's Free The Ditch The Trappers Phoebe Strunk The Hunger Abe Blocker The Way It Is Us Haggens Uncle Sunday False Front Old Comrade Louis Pheeters The Renegades Cotter's Girl The Bad One The Cousin Shona Ash Blind Man's Bluff Quint's Indian Anybody Can Kill a Marshal Two of a Kind I Call Him Wonder With a Smile The Far Places Panacea Sykes Tell Chester Quint-Cident Old York Daddy Went Away The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner Jeb The Quest for Asa Janin
Neuvième saison (1963-1964)
Kate Heller Lover Boy Legends Don't Sleep Tobe Easy Come My Sister's Keeper Quint's Trail Carter Caper Ex-Con Extradition: Part 1 Extradition: Part 2 The Magician Pa Hack's Brood The Glory and the Mud Dry Well Prairie Wolfer Friend Once a Haggen No Hands May Blossom The Bassops The Kite Comanches Is Soft Father's Love Now That April's Here Caleb Owney Tupper Had a Daughter Bently Kitty Cornered The Promoter Trip West Scot Free The Warden Homecoming The Other Half Journey for Three
Dixième saison (1964-1965)
Blue Heaven Crooked Mile Old Man The Violators Doctor's Wife Take Her, She's Cheap Help Me Kitty Hung High Jonah Hutchinson Big Man, Big Target Chicken Innocence Aunt Thede Hammerhead Double Entry Run, Sheep, Run Deputy Festus One Killer on Ice Chief Joseph Circus Trick Song for Dying Winner Take All Eliab's Aim Thursday's Child Breckinridge Bank Baby The Lady Dry Road to Nowhere Twenty Miles from Dodge The Pariah Gilt Guilt Bad Lady from Brookline Two Tall Men Honey Pot The New Society He Who Steals
Onzième saison (1965-1966)
Seven Hours to Dawn The Storm Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood Ten Little Indians Taps for Old Jeb Kioga The Bounty Hunter The Reward Malachi The Pretender South Wind The Hostage Outlaw's Woman The Avengers Gold Mine Death Watch Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs The Raid: Part 1 The Raid: Part 2 Killer at Large My Father's Guitar Wishbone Sanctuary Honor Before Justice The Brothers Which Dr. Harvest By Line Treasure of John Walking Fox My Father, My Son Parson Comes to Town Prime of Life
Douzième saison (1966-1967)
Snap Decision The Goldtakers The Jailer The Mission The Good People Gunfighter, R.I.P. The Wrong Man The Whispering Tree The Well Stage Stop The Newcomers Quaker Girl The Moonstone Champion of the World
Épisode 15 : Le Pendu
Saturday Night Mad Dog Muley Mail Drop Old Friend Fandango The Returning The Lure Noose of Gold The Favor Mistaken Identity Ladies from St. Louis Nitro ! Part 1 Nitro ! Part 2
Treizième saison (1967-1968)
The Wreckers Cattle Barons The Prodigal Vengeance - Part 1 Vengeance - Part 2 A Hat Hard Luck Henry Major Glory The Pillagers Prairie Wolfer Stranger in Town Death Train Rope Fever Wonder Baker's Dozen
Épisode 16 : La Victime
Deadman's Law Nowhere to Run Blood Money Hill Girl The Gunrunners The Jackals The First People Mr. Sam'l A Noose for Dobie Price
Quatorzième saison (1968-1969) Lyle's Kid The Hide Cutters Zavala Uncle Finney Slocum O'Quillian Épisode 7 : 9 h 12 pour Dodge
Abelia Railroad! The Miracle Man Waco Lobo Johnny Cross The Money Store The Twisted Heritage Time of the Jackals Mannon Gold Town The Mark of Cain Reprisal The Long Night
Épisode 22 : Les Cavaliers de la nuit
Épisode 23 : The Intruder
Épisode 24 : The Good Samaritans
Épisode 25 : Le Prisonnier
Épisode 26 : Exodus
Quinzième saison (1969-1970)
Épisode 1 : Les Démons de l'au-delà
Stryker Coreyville Danny Hawk A Man Called Smith Charlie Noon The Still A Matter of Honor The Innocent Ring of Darkness MacGraw Roots of Fear The Sisters The War Priest The Pack Rat The Judas Gun Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D. The Badge Albert Kiowa Celia Morgan The Thieves Hackett The Cage
Seizième saison (1970-1971)
Chato The Noose Stark Sam McTavish, M.D. Gentry's Law Snow Train: Part 1 Snow Train: Part 2 Luke The Gun The Scavengers The Witness McCabe The Noonday Devil Sergeant Holly Jenny Captain Sligo Mirage The Tycoon Jaekel Murdoch Cleavus Lavery Pike: Part 1 Pike: Part 2
Dix-septième saison (1971-1972)
The Lost Phoenix Waste - Part 1 Waste - Part 2 New Doctor in Town The Legend Trafton Lynott Lijah My Brother's Keeper Drago Gold Train: The Bullet: Part 1 Gold Train: The Bullet: Part 2 Gold Train: The Bullet: Part 3 P.S. Murry Christmas No Tomorrow Hidalgo Tara One for the Road The Predators Yankton Blind Man's Buff Alias Festus Haggin The Wedding
Dix-huitième saison (1972-1973) The River: Part 1 The River: Part 2 Bohannan The Judgement The Drummer Sarah The Fugitives Eleven Dollars Milligan
Épisode 10 : Tatum
The Sodbusters The Brothers Hostage! Jubilee Arizona Midnight Homecoming Shadler Patricia A Quiet Day in Dodge Whelan's Men Kimbro Jesse
Épisode 23 : Talbot
Épisode 24 : This Golden Land
Dix-neuvième saison (1973-1974)
Women for Sale: Part 1 Women for Sale: Part 2 Matt's Love Story The Boy and the Sinner The Widow-Maker Kitty's Love Affair The Widow and the Rogue A Game of Death…An Act of Love: Part 1 A Game of Death…An Act of Love: Part 2 Lynch Town The Hanging of Newly O'Brien Susan Was Evil The Deadly Innocent The Child Between A Family of Killers Like Old Times The Town Tamers The Foundling The Iron Blood of Courage The Schoolmarm Trail of Bloodshed Cowtown Hustler To Ride a Yeller Horse The Disciple
Vingtième saison (1974-1975)
Matt Dillon Must Die A Town in Chains The Guns of Cibola Blanca: Part 1 The Guns of Cibola Blanca: Part 2 Thirty a Month and Found The Wiving The Iron Men The Fourth Victim The Tarnished Badge In Performance of Duty Island in the Desert: Part 1 Island in the Desert: Part 2 The Colonel The Squaw The Hiders Larkin The Fires of Ignorance The Angry Land Brides and Grooms Hard Labor I Have Promises to Keep The Busters Manolo The Sharecroppers
Téléfilms 1987 : La vengeance du forçat (Gunsmoke : Return to Dodge)