S1 E1 • The Arrival

Ringo tires of his life as a gunfighter and becomes Sheriff of a lawless Arizona town known as Velardi. He hires the town drunk as deputy, who repays Ringo's faith in him when the chips are down.

Première diffusion : 1 octobre 1959

S1 E2 • Cully

A carnival whose primary attraction is young sharpshooter Kid Adonis arrives in town. Max Healey wants to make the big-time by adding to Adonis' reputation as the man who killed Johnny Ringo. Adonis believes Ringo killed his father and wants vengeance. To make sure the young gunfighter wins, Healey plans to shoot Ringo from ambush before he can get off a shot at Adonis.

Première diffusion : 8 octobre 1959

S1 E3 • The Accused

Virgil Kincaid, the owner of a hardscrabble ranch, is accused of murdering Lorna Parrott. Her 6 year old son identifies Kincaid as the killer but, during Kincaid's subsequent trial, identifies a different man. The jury finds Kincaid not guilty, but the Velardi townspeople hound the rancher, killing his stock and destroying his water barrels despite Ringo's efforts to shield him from their wrath.

Première diffusion : 15 octobre 1959

S1 E4 • A Killing For Cully

Cully kills a drunken rancher who threatened him in a saloon and is stricken with remorse. Rather than face the man's three brothers who ride into Velardi demanding revenge, Cully plans to slip out of town leaving Ringo to confront the men alone.

Première diffusion : 22 octobre 1959

S1 E5 • The Hunters

Ringo and Cully join a pair of guards from Yuma prison searching for three escaped convicts. The lawmen quickly discover that the sadistic guards would prefer to kill the escapees then return them to state custody.

Première diffusion : 29 octobre 1959

S1 E6 • The Posse

Jessie Mead rides into town and begs Johnny to put him in jail, going so far as to break a store front window to provide an excuse. Ringo soon learns why Mead wants to be locked up - a posse of bounty hunters demands custody of the prisoner who's wanted dead or alive. Mead begs Johnny to turn him over to the U.S. Marshal, but the posse won't wait and whip the townsmen into a lynch mob. While the mob attacks the jail, the posse reveals their true nature by robbing the bank while Ringo and Cully protect their prisoner.

Première diffusion : 5 novembre 1959

S1 E7 • Ghost Coach

Cully and Ringo stumbles across an old army stagecoach hidden in an abandoned mine with a skeleton inside. After the lawmen drag the coach into town, men with no apparent connection to one another are found dead, one after the other. Ringo attempts to determine if the murders are connected to the abandoned coach or just coincidence.

Première diffusion : 12 novembre 1959

S1 E8 • Dead Wait

After a rock slide wrecks the stagecoach transporting dangerous convicts to Yuma prison, Ringo attempt to force the men to their destination across the desert on foot.

Première diffusion : 19 novembre 1959

S1 E9 • The Rain Man

During a devastating heat wave, a rain maker dressed in Biblical robes comes to Velardi and guarantees to deliver rivers of water. Ringo doesn't trust the man and Cully recognizes the man's carny pitch, but the desperate townspeople's put their faith in the bearded stranger - who is really the front man for a sinister plot.

Première diffusion : 26 novembre 1959

S1 E10 • The Cat

Cyrus Hampton, a rich old man dying of an incurable disease, arrives in Velarde with a wild tiger. He plans to release the animal in a remote canyon and then hunt him down. Johnny refuses to grant him permission fearing the big cat will kill livestock or a cowboy rounding up strays. Hampton's assistant ignores the warning and releases the cat and Ringo's fears come true when a cattleman is found severely mauled by the beast.

Première diffusion : 3 décembre 1959

S1 E11 • Love Affair

A middle-aged saloon singer, determined to leave her abusive boyfriend, shoots him in her hotel room, then flees to Velardi. Cully sees her perform and is promptly smitten. Their romance quickly develops and appears to be headed towards the altar until the ex-boyfriend, a notorious gunslinger now recovered from his wound, traces the chanteuse to Ringo's town.

Première diffusion : 17 décembre 1959

S1 E12 • Kid With A Gun

A little girl comes into Cason's general store to buy a gun. The child says her father has been murdered and she's going to find his killer.

Première diffusion : 24 décembre 1959

S1 E13 • Bound Boy

Ringo investigates a report that a rancher charged with the care of several orphans is abusing the young men and turning them into virtual slaves.

Première diffusion : 31 décembre 1959

S1 E14 • East Is East

Ringo investigates a brutal stagecoach robbery where the driver and one of the passengers were killed. The only survivor is Agnes St. John, an author writing a book about the brutal violence of the West. Agnes soon must confront the violence head-on when the murderers learn that a witness that can identify them survived the hold-up.

Première diffusion : 7 janvier 1960

S1 E15 • Poster Incident

Silky Carter robs and kills a shop owner in Tate City and the local sheriff believes he's heading towards Johnny Ringo's jurisdiction. Due to a mix-up at the printer's office, Carter's wanted poster has a photograph of Arthur Tobias, Arizona Territory's treasurer. When Carter learns that Tobias, who is scheduled to collect money collected to fight for Arizona's water rights in Congress, he kills the politician in order to impersonate him and abscond with the proceeds.

Première diffusion : 14 janvier 1960

S1 E16 • Die Twice

Acting on information provided by a neighboring sheriff, Ringo requests the exhumation of Boone Hackett's grave. Needing the signature of his next of kin, Johnny asks his "widow" to travel to Velardi to handle the necessary paperwork. When the woman disappears from her hotel room, Ringo realizes that either Boone Hackett's ghost is continuing his career of mayhem, or the outlaw's grave contains an empty coffin.

Première diffusion : 20 janvier 1960

S1 E17 • Four Came Quietly

When Billy Boy Jethro forces his attentions upon Laura, Ringo thrashes the younger man and throws him jail. A lonely waitress who takes a shine to Billy Boy sneaks a pistol into his cell allowing him to break jail. When Ringo tries to recapture Billy, a gun battle ensues leaving the escaped prisoner dead. Billy's relatives, led by the hard-bitten Gabe Jethro, come to town for avenge the young man's death.

Première diffusion : 28 janvier 1960

S1 E18 • The Liars

Posing as a condemned killer, Johnny Ringo is locked up with four other men in death row. Ringo's job is to determine which of the four is innocent.

Première diffusion : 4 février 1960

S1 E19 • Mrs. Ringo

A woman arrives in Velardi claiming to be Johnny Ringo's wife and has a marriage certificate to back up her story.

Première diffusion : 11 février 1960

S1 E20 • The Assassins

An aging Russian violinist takes up residence in Velardi but refuses Johnny's offer of assistance when members of his country's secret police arrive soon after.

Première diffusion : 18 février 1960

S1 E21 • The Reno Brothers

The Reno Brothers, relatives of notorious bank robbers, are searching for the outlaw gang that led their siblings into a trap, killed their father and made off with the stolen loot. The trail leads to Velarde but they before they can make their move, the last member of the gang frames them for robbery and murder.

Première diffusion : 25 février 1960

S1 E22 • The Raffertys

After learning that a ruthless bounty hunter is on the trail of Rafferty, a local rancher, because of an outstanding arrest warrant, Ringo tries to find the man first to convince him to turn himself in. The bounty hunter isn't interested in justice, only the $2500 reward for Rafferty, dead or alive, and he doesn't mind killing Rafferty, his two children and Ringo to collect it.

Première diffusion : 3 mars 1960

S1 E23 • Uncertain Vengeance

When Emilia Crane's younger son, Harley, announces his intention of riding off with his outlaw brother, she informs Ringo that her older son, Red, is a notorious criminal who dyes his hair and calls himself "Jack Raven". Ringo attempts to arrest Red but in the ensuing gunfight accidentally shoots him in the back. Red's wife, Suzanne, plots revenge against Ringo, while Harley devises a more elaborate plan to kill not only Johnny, but Red's wife, too.

Première diffusion : 10 mars 1960

S1 E24 • Border Town

After Case Thomas is killed during a robbery, Ringo and Cully trail the alleged murderer to a wide-open town on the Arizona-New Mexico border. Their efforts to apprehend the suspect are hindered by a gambling house owner who owes the suspect's father a debt of gratitude.

Première diffusion : 17 mars 1960

S1 E25 • The Gunslinger

Two brothers are out to kill Ringo and avenge a third brother who was killed by Johnny in a gunfight.

Première diffusion : 24 mars 1960

S1 E26 • The Vindicator

Brad, a young ranch hand who was celebrating his 21st birthday, was arrested for the murder of the wife of an escaped convict. When the jailbird on-the-lam learns that the evidence against the youth is entirely circumstantial, he decides to meet out his own justice and informs Ringo that the ranch hand's parents will be killed if he doesn't force Brad to return to the family home in order to be lynched.

Première diffusion : 31 mars 1960

S1 E27 • Black Harvest

Ringo investigates when a stranger looking for his sister mysterious disappears and a pretty mute woman starts to act strangely. Not trusting in coincidences, Johnny rides out to the mute woman's ranch and discovers her husband has gone insane and is holding the stranger captive.

Première diffusion : 7 avril 1960

S1 E28 • Judgement Day

Ringo is enraged when the Judge Bentley allows several hardened criminals to be let off with light sentences. After consideration, Ringo decides that the jurist needs to see first-hand the dangers lawmen face when tracking down thieves and murderers, so he convinces Bentley to serve on the posse deputized to find the murderers who held up a stagecoach. When the judge is slain by the robbers, Durant is assailed by not only the jurist's widow, but the state governor himself.

Première diffusion : 14 avril 1960

S1 E29 • The Killing Bug

When a shopkeeper is found hanging from a lamppost the same even three strangers ride into Velardi, Sheriff Ringo suspects that the two are not coincidence. He learns that the murdered man, his son and his partner were participants in Wyoming Johnson County War, as were the saddle tramps - all of whom have vengeance on their minds. Without hard evidence to back his suspicions, Ringo is powerless to prevent the deadly game of cat-and-mouse that is being played on the town's streets during the hours just before dawn.

Première diffusion : 28 avril 1960

S1 E30 • Soft Cargo

While Ringo works with the army to track the comancheros who have been raiding nearby ranches, Cully rides to meet a troupe of dancing girls whose next stop is Velarde. He learns that the girls have been abducted by two teamsters who plan to turn them over to the renegades for ransom. Cully and Ringo rescue the troupe and using the girls as bait hope to wipe out the comancheros before they strike again.

Première diffusion : 5 mai 1960

S1 E31 • Single Debt

Ringo stumbles into town after a long absence reeking of alcohol, calls out two cowboys from a saloon and guns them down. Mayor Henderson demands to know Ringo's reasons for killing the men and the sheriff explains that he found three Chinese tied up in the desert who died from lack of water and tracked the killers into town with only whiskey to keep him from falling victim to the same fate as the other victims. His mission isn't complete - one of the murderers is still at large.

Première diffusion : 12 mai 1960

S1 E32 • The Stranger

Tad Stuart and two of his henchman plot to avenge themselves on Ringo for arresting his brother and Lil Blanchard for testifying against him. Their plans are thwarted by a stranger from Boston who devoted much of his life studying karate and jiu-jitsu in Japan and has taken a liking to the lovely Lil.

Première diffusion : 19 mai 1960

S1 E33 • The Derelict

The town bank refuses to lend Wes Tymon money to provide medical attention for his wife. When Mrs. Tymon dies, Wes goes gunning for the town banker.

Première diffusion : 26 mai 1960

S1 E34 • Shoot The Moon

The United States Secretary of State, Charles Seward, requests that Ringo help a famous Italian astronomer take pictures of a solar eclipse from on top of Superstition Mountain. The owner of the mountain fears that the local Yacqui Indians will be become violent if strangers go near their ancient burial caves on the mountain and is determined to prevent the scientist from accomplishing his mission.

Première diffusion : 2 juin 1960

S1 E35 • Killer, Choose A Card

Mamie Murphy, Broken Wagon's hard-bitten saloon-keeper, is accused of murder. She telegraphs Johnny Ringo to save her.

Première diffusion : 9 juin 1960

S1 E36 • Reputation For Murder

Coffin Sam Sabine, a gunslinger with eleven notches on his pistol handle, arrives in Valerdi and offers Ringo a unique proposition. Sam claims his gun hand is becoming crippled and the only way he'll be able to fend off kids who want to outdraw him is to make his reputation so fierce that they'll never try. His plan - paying Johnny one hundred dollars to lose to him in a staged gunfight.

Première diffusion : 16 juin 1960

S1 E37 • Lobo Lawman

U.S. Marshal Kramer arrives in Velardi with a notorious Mexican bandit as his prisoner. Ringo recognizes him as the man who killed his uncle and challenges the lawman to a gunfight, which the marshal declines until after the bandit is taken to prison. Ringo decides to join Kramer on his trek across to the desert to settle accounts with the bandit's outlaw gang hot on their trail. (Last filmed episode)

Première diffusion : 23 juin 1960

S1 E38 • Cave-In

Clay Horne, an old gunslinger friend of Ringo's, rents an old codger's mine as a refuge against four men hired to avenge another man's death by Horne in a fair fight. Ringo is trapped in the middle when Horne's enemies decide to take the law into their own hands. (Last Broadcast episode)

Première diffusion : 30 juin 1960