29 épisodes
(21 h 45 min)
Épisodes
S1 E1 • The Royce Bennett Story
Royce Bennett's wife Ella is worried about him. Although he has been a champion rodeo performer for years, his recent work has not been up to par and he has become moody and difficult to live with.
Première diffusion : 20 septembre 1962
S1 E2 • A Guy For Clementine
Première diffusion : 27 septembre 1962
S1 E3 • Journey Down a Dusty Road
Mitch Guthrie learns a hard lesson in loyalty and sacrifice when he hitches a ride in a broken-down old pickup truck with a three-generation family of migrant farm workers.
Première diffusion : 4 octobre 1962
S1 E4 • Who Killed Eddie Gannon?
Mitch Guthrie's Korean War unit reunites for the dedication of a monument to their fallen comrade Eddie Gannon. The reunion quickly devolves into a series of painful recollections of the night Eddie died. A compelling character study.
Première diffusion : 11 octobre 1962
S1 E5 • What Are Friends For?
Mitch agrees to testify in a hearing as a favor to ex-rodeo hand Barney, who is now a small town sheriff. But the town's power brokers have bigger plans, plotting to use Mitch as a pawn and a patsy in their political campaign.
Première diffusion : 18 octobre 1962
S1 E6 • Straitjacket For An Indian
The best laid plans of Mitch Guthrie go awry when he asks his Indian friend Bullriver to drive twenty wild broncs from the Indian reservation to the rodeo arena two states away.
Première diffusion : 25 octobre 1962
S1 E7 • Our Ernie Kills People
Andy is savagely beaten with a lug wrench by Ernie Stannard, the sixteen-year-old son of wealthy, doting parents. Is the boy a pathological criminal or a victim of society? Will justice or his parents' pull in the community prevail?
Première diffusion : 1 novembre 1962
S1 E8 • A Devil In The Chute
En route to a rodeo, Mitch and Andy pick up an ex-con with a chip on his shoulder and a longstanding score to settle.
Première diffusion : 8 novembre 1962
S1 E9 • The Girl In The Sunshine Smile
Andy falls hard for a carnival dancer, much to Mitch's displeasure. This leads to friction between the brothers, and causes Andy to feel the need to prove his independence by signing up to ride a bull in the rodeo.
Première diffusion : 15 novembre 1962
S1 E10 • Tears On A Painted Face
A veteran rodeo clown is noticeably slowing down due to arthritis, leading to an injury when a bull knocks him over. Everyone is encouraging him to retire, but he refuses because he wants to continue to make money to support his spendthrift son.
Première diffusion : 29 novembre 1962
S1 E11 • The Bravest Man In The World
Andy is impressed by the stories Warren Price tells him about all of his exploits, which have even been put into a book. But Mitch is highly skeptical of Price's claims and suspects that they are all made up.
Première diffusion : 6 décembre 1962
S1 E12 • Good Old Uncle Walt
Mitch and Andy cross paths with their Uncle Walt, a curmudgeonly old con man running rigged shell games and selling shares in a phony uranium mine. Can a kindly widow's back rubs and oatmeal rehabilitate the reprobate grifter?
Première diffusion : 13 décembre 1962
S1 E13 • My Candle Burns At Both Ends
Both Mitch and Andy fall for the same young woman, but she falls more for Mitch, to Andy's disappointment. What neither brother knows is that her zest for life and adventure masks the fact that she is dying of leukemia.
Première diffusion : 20 décembre 1962
S1 E14 • Memory Of A Filly
Mitch and Andy escort their friend Slim's kid sister to her far backwoods home town. Not so easy, as the girl has a mind of her own and is the one who really turns out to be in control of the trip.
Première diffusion : 3 janvier 1963
S1 E15 • Step Over The Sky
Mitch's old mentor and idol Johnny Prewitt is now aged, crippled, and embittered. His one goal in life is to capture and break the wild stallion that crippled him. Mitch tries to help him do so, even though finding the horse puts him in conflict with the man who now owns Johnny's old ranch.
Première diffusion : 10 janvier 1963
S1 E16 • A Cry From The Mountain
After their plane crashes in a remote area, Andy must travel down a mountain to get help for a seriously injured Mitch.
Première diffusion : 17 janvier 1963
S1 E17 • Don't Cry For Johnny Devlin
Première diffusion : 24 janvier 1963
S1 E18 • Speckle Bird
Wealthy rancher and one-time rodeo rider Lynn Horn has no sympathy or understanding of his sensitive son Gabriel's interest in drawing, and pushes him into doing something more manly. When Gabriel thus tries to ride a dangerous horse and is crippled in the attempt, Lynn blames the horse and plans to kill it.
Première diffusion : 31 janvier 1963
S1 E19 • The Man Who Ran Away
Andy is accused of hit-and-run after a little girl identifies him in a lineup as the one who hit her, but he insists that he is innocent, and Mitch tries to prove it.
Première diffusion : 7 février 1963
S1 E20 • Whose Hand At My Throat?
A brilliant surgeon who fled Hungary for America finds it too difficult and time-consuming to obtain a license to practice here, so he has been working as a veterinarian instead. But he can't resist giving his medical opinion to people, which causes friction with the local doctor.
Première diffusion : 14 février 1963
S1 E21 • The Judas Goat
A friend of Mitch, a popular country singer, is suggested by his wife as the ideal gubernatorial candidate whom a newspaper editor is looking for to defeat the crooked incumbent. But after he gets into the race and ahead in the polls, the honest candidate finds himself having to deal with the less than scrupulous methods of those on his own side.
Première diffusion : 21 février 1963
S1 E22 • To Cindy, With Love
When young Cindy Hopkins' beloved horse breaks her leg, the vet tells her that she must be put down, but Cindy refuses to accept it. Another vet, an old friend of Mitch and Andy, thinks the horse can be saved, but is too unsure of himself to attempt it. Cindy is thus driven to desperate measures.
Première diffusion : 28 février 1963
S1 E23 • The Quest for Jacob Blaufus
Mitch and Andy become involved in the dispute between an Amish farmer and his son. The son wants to read books on many subjects, such as dinosaurs and rockets, but his father strongly disapproves, believing it will lead his son away from their simple way of life.
Première diffusion : 7 mars 1963
S1 E24 • Farewell to Margarita
Delirious after being hit by a car, Mitch rides a bus deep into Mexico, where he is taken in by a beautiful young Mexican woman. She tells him she works as a secretary, but he learns soon that this is for her elderly grandfather's benefit; she actually is a cabaret dancer who's boss is not about to let her go.
Première diffusion : 21 mars 1963
S1 E25 • The Girl From Nob Hill
Mitch develops an attraction for a socialite who he first met when she picked him out on her scavenger hunt when she was looking for a cowboy, though Andy tries to warn him not to get involved with her.
Première diffusion : 28 mars 1963
S1 E26 • Yanqui, Go Home!
Mitch and Andy pick up Carlos Rodriguez and his girlfriend and take them back to their hometown, where a charity rodeo is planned in which the young man hopes to earn some money so he can marry the girl. But Communists there are stirring up discontent with the Americans, and plan to use Carlos to bring it to a head and make Mitch into the town's symbolic pariah.
Première diffusion : 4 avril 1963
S1 E27 • The Lucky Punch
Mitch knocks out a man with a lucky punch in a barroom brawl, only to then learn that the man in Tom Kidwell, a contender for world heavyweight champion. The good-hearted Tom is totally forgiving about the incident, but his manager tells him that the upcoming match and his career are both finished unless he fights Mitch and wins---and only by a knockout.
Première diffusion : 18 avril 1963
S1 E28 • The Care and Handling of Tigers
While driving through a town Mitch and Andy almost hit a boy who is running away from his classmates. Soon they learn why: the boy is the son of the manager of the mill which the town depends on for its income. The manager is too risk-averse to reopen the mill after a shutdown of several weeks, and the anger of the townfolk has reached boiling point.
Première diffusion : 25 avril 1963
S1 E99 • Épisode 99