The Marple Brothers
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1957
Hoby tracks the four Marple brothers to Stockton, Texas, and discovers that they've taken a church full of hostages and are demanding a doctor for one of their wounded.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1957
Hoby tracks the four Marple brothers to Stockton, Texas, and discovers that they've taken a church full of hostages and are demanding a doctor for one of their wounded.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1957
Hoby ends up in a town where the people are ready to hang a man for murderer. However, the Ranger believes that the accused is innocent... but no one is interested in justice.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1957
While escorting a wagon of prisoners to the state penitentiary, Hoby ends up playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a man who wants the money the prisoners stole before they were convicted.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1957
Hoby is called in to check ouit a bank robbery in Easton, but isn't convinced that the crime is as simple as it looks.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1957
Hoby tries to show a young boy that the boy's father, outlaw Blaine Sand, isn't as innocent as the boy thinks.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1957
At the site of a stagecoach robbery that left the driver and two passengers dead, Hoby finds a baby and rides into nearby Sweetwater to find the robber and the woman the baby belongs to.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1957
Hoby checks out the death of a Ranger in Alpine, and discovers that the the locals claim the dead man was a drunken, trigger-happy thug... and they consider Hoby the same.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1957
Grieving widow Polly Webster tells Hoby and the town sheriff that she plans to kill the man who gunned down her husband, claiming self-defense.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1957
Hoby and fellow Ranger Dick Wade track down outlaw Sam Bass and his gang.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1957
Hoby ides to protect the sister of a dead bank robber, when the man's partners threaten her life.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1957
Hoby chases bank robber Ben Fraser into Ben's hometown... and discovers that Ben and Cal control everything. The Ranger is soon alone and unarmed against the Frasers and their men.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 27, 1957
To recover stolen bank money, Hoby finds the wounded robber and offers to split the money if he helps him... and if the robber takes him to the money.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1958
A florist who overheard five bank robbers discussing where to rendezvous to recover and split up the money disappears before Hoby can deliver the reward.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1958
A jealous deputy sheriff kills his girlfriend's secret lover and then goes after her.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1958
In Bowie, the sheriff and the townspeople all think Billy Burkett murdered beloved rancher Vern Fowler. Hoby thinks differently, and sets out to find the real killer.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1958
A trapper, Aaron Yewcic, is the only man who can clear Hoby's friend Ned of a murder charge. But Aaron is hiding in the mountains, and Hoby has to find him.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1958
The miserly ex-mayor of Garrison flats controls a toll road leading in and out of town. Someone kills him, but Hoby figures that the motive was robbery rather than revenge.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1958
Hoby poses as a robber to trick a young first-offender into leading him to his fellow bank robbers and the stolen money.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1958
Hoby investigates the death of a rich man--and the disappearance of the $8,000 he was carrying--on the day that he was riding to Barkerville to marry a spinster, Matilda Parsons.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1958
Hoby tracks a train robber to Mexico and takes the man into custody. But when Hoby is bit by a snake on the ride back, the robber abandons him and a vengeful ex-Ranger accuses Hoby of taking bribes and letting the robber go.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1958
Hoby teams up with bounty hunter Josh Randall, who is looking for a serial philanderer with a $500 reward on his head.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1958
Porter judge Nelson Henry faces a touch decision when his wild son is arrested for the murder of a card sharp.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1958
A bind woman comes to Porter looking for her mother, who disappeared after marrying a Porter resident several months earlier.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1958
Joel Paine escapes after eight years in prison and comes to Porter to get his stepson back.
Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1958
A former Porter resident comes back to town with a reputation as a ruthless gunfighter: the Pueblo Kid. Hoby soon learns that the Kid's reputation is a fake... but a man looking to make his reputation doesn't care.
Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1958
The Rangers ask Hoby to guard a former outlaw who set up the Winter Brothers for arrest. But one of the brothers, Thad, escapes and comes to Porter looking for the witness.
Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Apr 18, 1958
When Bud Ehlers goes on trial for murder, Hoby helps convince the jury that Bud is innocent. Afterward, Bud privately tells Hoby that he's guilty. Now Nelson's partner Steve is in town and dogging Bud, and Bud wants protection.
Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1958
Gunman Dingo Noble befriends a young runaway, and then demands a ransom from the people of Porter to get him to bring the boy back.
Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: May 2, 1958
Outlaw Brock Childers is awaiting transfer to Austin for hanging... and takes Ralph and Aaron hostage.
Episode: 1x30 | Airdate: May 9, 1958
Hoby enters a town where a con man has driven the people into a frenzy claiming that the end of the world is coming... unless they buy his "magnetium repellers."
Episode: 1x31 | Airdate: May 16, 1958
Hoby goes on a special assignment to bring in a killer, Mal Cody, but gets ambushed and his ID taken. When he arrives in Jacksboro, he discovers that someone posing as him has taken Mal away... and Mal has a twin brother, Wes.
Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: May 23, 1958
An undercover Ranger is killed in the town of Garret while checking out a tip about the assassination of the visiting Governor, and Hoby goes in to investigate his fellow Ranger's death.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1958
A rancher turns up dead, his body dumped outside of Porter. Hoby investigates and discovers that the rancher had a secret life as a gambler... and several people that wanted him dead.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1958
Aaron's old girlfriend Abigail returns to Porter. When the townswomen find out, they want Hoby to run Abigail out of town because Abigail was married to a murderous outlaw.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1958
A Chinese laundry owner, Wong, moves to Porter and hopes to find respect from the townspeople. One cowhand, Les Morgan, insists on riding Wong.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1958
Rex Carlson arrives in Porter and proposes to Henrietta. However, when the Porter bank is robbed, Hoby figures that Rex is responsible and Henrietta launches a campaign against Hoby.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1958
Hoby tries to shield his prisoner from a backwoodsman and his brood.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1958
An outlaw, her wounded accomplice, and a blinding snowstorm add up to danger for Hoby.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1958
Hoby is called in to protect a town when the citizens believe an outlaw gang is coming to free one of their own.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1958
A group of trail hands threaten to tear Porter apart looking for the card shark who shot their friend in self-defense.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1958
A local man Lance Garth is shot robbing the mining company, but the $10,000 disappears by the time he rides into Porter and dies in the apartment of dance hall girl Grace Marsden. Now everyone figures that Grace has the money... including Lance's vengeful brother.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1958
Town bully Quince means to run new schoolteacher Jim Martin out of town... unless Jim faces him in a gunfight.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1958
Hoby rides with former Ranger Stan Elliott to identify the body of a wanted man... the man who shot off Stan's arm and caused his retirement.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1958
When gambler Joe Sunday comes to town with a court order allowing him to collect his baby daughter from his estranged wife, Hoby has no choice but to let him.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1958
After a five year prison sentence, a man comes back to Porter to avenge the death of his brother.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1958
:Legendary outlaw Ben Moss is pushing 60, and gets together his old gang to pull off a bank robbery in Porter.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1958
Hoby ends up shooting a 16-year-old boy in the back while tracking down a prowler. The townspeople think that Hoby acted wrongly, and the boy's father swears vengeance.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1958
Hoby rides into the town of Caldwell to tell a drunken father that his son--convicted of murder and imprisoned for life--is coming to visit. The news worries two men who know the truth about the murder.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Dec 26, 1958
The Rangers send Hoby to a town to investigate the lynching of a half-breed. The townspeople claim that it was all a set-up to get the suspected killer to talk, and the horse bolted. But Hoby soon suspects that it was a second murder to cover the first.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1959
A young girl reports that her father is planning a robbery. When a rancher is badly wounded during a robbery attempt, the townspeople are ready to take law into their own hands. However, Hoby suspects that all isn't as it seems.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1959
Hoby is called in to persuade a witness to testify against a killer. The killer's brother has been threatening the witnesses family to keep him quiet.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1959
Typhoid breaks out in Porter, and Hoby and Doc Calhoun launch a desperate search to find the carrier before it's too late.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1959
Maude Turley returns to Porter after 17 years. The Turleys and Corbetts feuded 17 years ago and almost wiped each out, and now Maude wants to buried next to her husband.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1959
Hoby gets caught in a family feud after he frees a stranger from a bear trap... and the man pistol-whips him unconscious and leaves him in the trap.
Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1959
Six members of the Hastings Gang ride into Porter and take over the Buckhorn while Hoby is away, using Tenner as a hostage.
Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1959
A genial man walks into the Bank of Porter and demands that they give him $10,000 within the hour... or he'll blow the town off the face of the earth.
Episode: 2x25 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1959
A man convicted of cowardice and desertion returns to his home town of Porter, but the townspeople don't want him.
Episode: 2x26 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1959
Ambrose Hooker goads his kid brother Beamer into trying to shoot Hoby. Hoby is forced to kill him, and Ambrose begins a campaign of terror to break Hoby's nerves.
Episode: 2x27 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1959
A man that Hoby put away eight years ago is out of prison, and once he's released sends a letter to the Enterprise saying that he intends to to kill Hoby.
Episode: 2x28 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1959
A distinguished lawman has turned his town into a haven for outlaws, and now his daughter Ann plans to run off with one.
Episode: 2x29 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1959
Marcy James rides hard for several days to get to Porter and testify that a convicted killer is innocent. However, Hoby soon discovers that she's lying.
Episode: 2x30 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1959
A man Tenner helped put away for murder comes to the Buckhorn looking for revenges, and brings a young gun with him to deal with Tenner after he provokes the owner into a fight.
Episode: 2x31 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1959
Drummer Manny Brock is killed in his hotel room, and Hoby soon discovers that local farm girl Pearl Adamson had a thing for Brock. He believes that she shot Brock dead, but soon learns that the truth is much stranger.
Episode: 2x32 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1959
Ralph's two long-lost uncles arrive in Porter to find their nephew. However, Hoby suspects that something is up even though the two old men know all about Ralph's history.
Episode: 2x33 | Airdate: May 6, 1959
A smooth talking brother and sister arrive in Porter to campaign for women to get the vote. However, Hoby notices some holes in their story and does some investigating.
Episode: 2x34 | Airdate: May 13, 1959
Hoby is called to Glenville when the sheriff is seemingly killed... by witchcraft, wielded by a religious group that has recently settled near town.
Episode: 2x35 | Airdate: May 20, 1959
Hoby is caught in the middle when a vengeful man rides into Porter to kill his brother-in-law… who he believes killed his father to get the family ranch.
Episode: 2x36 | Airdate: Sep 2, 1959
Hoby looks into an apparent suicide murder where neither the dead man's widow, the doctor, nor the sheriff seem to want answers.
Episode: 2x37 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1959
A threat on his sister Norah's life brings Hoby back to his hometown of Crawford... where he finds someone out for revenge against him.
Episode: 2x38 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1959
Hoby trains a blinded Michael Hardesty how to fight when Rufus Cole comes after Michael for killing his brother in a fair fight.
Episode: 2x39 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1959
Two brothers will do anything to protect their mother suffering from senile dementia... including murder.