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Season 2

29 episodes · 1957

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    The Deserters

    Oct 4, 195730 min★ 7.5

    Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.

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    Blood in the Dust

    Oct 11, 195730 min★ 7.7

    Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.

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    A Gun is for Killing

    Oct 18, 195730 min★ 7.5

    ""Make your play Billy Jack,"" says young Bobby as he pretends with his father's pistol, which is against the family's rules. But when the real Billy Jack shows up in town and threatens the Andrews family trouble begins for Russ who can't find his gun.

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    Proud Woman

    Oct 25, 195730 min★ 7.3

    When Consuela Bowers arrives in the West, she hires a man to work on her father's ranch. She does not know that he is a professional gunman.

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    Ride a Lonely Trail

    Nov 2, 195730 min★ 7.5

    The town council decides to retire old Sheriff Larson against much protest from the oldtime sheriff himself who does not want to be put out to pasture. He tries to prove to the town just how valuable and useful he still is.

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    The Promise

    Nov 8, 195730 min★ 7.8

    A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.

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    Episode in Darkness

    Nov 15, 195730 min★ 8.3

    Traveling cattleman Ethan Boyan is framed in a frontier town for the slaying of a woman in a stagecoach holdup. The only person present when the crime was committed was Isabelle Rutledge, an embittered blind woman.

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    The Open Cell

    Nov 22, 195730 min★ 7.0

    Sheriff Morgan Winter decides to give a young man involved in a shooting another chance by taking him into his custody for a year. But the rest of the town, including Winter's deputy, just wants to see the boy fail and get sent up to prison.

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    A Man to Look Up To

    Nov 29, 195730 min★ 7.9

    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.

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    The Bitter Land

    Dec 6, 195730 min★ 7.7

    A matriarch is adamanant about keeping the Spring Waters for her ranch and endangers her grandson, while other ranchers seek to use the water for their cattle, trouble ensues.

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    Gift From a Gunman

    Dec 13, 195730 min★ 7.5

    After he is wounded in a gun duel, Will Gorman resolves to forsake the gunman's life. He visits an old friend, whose restless wife and gun-eager son weaken his resolution to reform.

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    A Gun for My Bride

    Dec 27, 195730 min★ 7.4

    The daughter of a wealthy cattleman elopes with one of her father's ranch hands. Then he learns that her new husband is a fugitive from justice.

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    Man Unforgiving

    Jan 3, 195830 min★ 7.8

    Ex-army Medical corp doctor Ben Harper winds up in a town run by a crippled sheriff who holds a personal grudge against the doctor.

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    Trial by Fear

    Jan 10, 195830 min★ 7.7

    Gunslinger Tod Owen is on trial for murder, when he is found not guilty, it comes out that the dead man's brother had more reason to want his brother dead.

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    The Freighter

    Jan 17, 195830 min★ 7.7

    Belle is running a freightline outfit. Murdock and his sons are causing problems for Belle and are forcing a merger the hard way. Without the contracts needed for her line, the Murdocks make life miserable for Belle and her Grandfather who founded the line.

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    This Man Must Die

    Jan 24, 195830 min★ 7.7

    A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.

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    Wire

    Jan 31, 195830 min★ 7.3

    A man who has spent most of his life working other people's property, vows to own land of his own. He homesteads on government land until violence breaks out with ranchers who want the land for grazing.

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    License to Kill

    Feb 7, 195830 min★ 7.5

    A frontier sheriff finds he is unable to cope with a group of trouble-making trailherders when he breaks his arm. The his younger brother arrives in town and the sheriff swears him in as his deputy. But the older man learns that his brother's idea of law enforcement is to kill any lawbreaker regardless of the crime.

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    Sundown at Bitter Creek

    Feb 14, 195830 min★ 7.8

    A man arrives in the town of Bitter Creek. Though he is trying to live down his past as a gun fighter the stranger learns that his appearance has a decided effect on three of the town's inhabitants.

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    The Stranger

    Feb 28, 195830 min★ 7.7

    Cort McConnell rides into town, when he sees a man running out of the general store and after he wrestles him down they fight until a shot goes off killing the man. With the shopkeeper dead the townspeople charge Cort with the crime.

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    The Sharpshooter

    Mar 7, 195830 min★ 9.0

    Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale.

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    Man of Fear

    Mar 14, 195830 min★ 7.6

    The famed gunman Doc Holliday visits a young married couple who are friends of his. He learns that the wife holds her husband in contempt because he is paying protection money to a gang of thieves in order to keep his home and ranch safe.

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    The Doctor Keeps a Promise

    Mar 21, 195830 min★ 7.5

    Dr. Allan McMurdo tries to save the life of Dave Bechdolt who was shot when he tried to rob a man so that he could buy some seeds to grow his crops for his family.

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    Three Days to Death

    Apr 4, 195830 min★ 8.0

    An Easterner learns that his brother has been killed out West and sets out to find the murderer. He learns that the killer's identity is known, but that the law does not have the men to go after him.

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    Shadow of a Dead Man

    Apr 11, 195830 min★ 8.1

    Logan Wheeler seeks Raney Benson, a wanted bank robber for the reward money. Logan's father is close to losing his ranch and Logan sets out to help him.

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    Debt of Gratitude

    Apr 18, 195830 min★ 8.0

    Marshal Cam Tolby faces the enmity of the townspeople when he tries to take an outlaw to Prescott, Ariz., to stand trial for robbery and murder. His difficulties increase when the outlaw, despite handcuffs, manages to save a group of schoolchildren from disaster.

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    A Handful of Ashes

    May 2, 195830 min★ 7.7

    Old timer Ben Carey wants to become Deputy but the town thinks he's too old for the job. He takes in a man with a snake bite and realizes that he is outlaw Jerrod Toll.

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    Threat of Violence

    May 23, 195830 min★ 8.4

    A gunman, tired of violence, hangs up his guns and tries to make a new life for himself as an attorney. But he finds that his reputation as a gunman hinders him. Then he takes the case of a man whose past record makes him the prime suspect in a murder case.

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    Utopia, Wyoming

    Jun 6, 195830 min★ 7.2

    A clan of Confederates from Georgia looking for a new way of life settle in a deserted Wyoming ghost town that they have named 'Utopia'.