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Tales of Wells Fargo - Episode Guide

Season 1

The Thin Rope

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1957 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie is assigned to ride shotgun on a stagecoach that was held up carrying a valuable cargo of gold, but has to contend with a driver who thinks he can handle any outlaws he meets with all by himself.

The Hasty Gun

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1957 (30 min)

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Jim investigates an accidental killing during a robbery.

Alder Gulch

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1957 (30 min)

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The office in Alder Gulch, Montana has reported a series of stage coach robberies and Jim Hardie is sent to investigate.

The Bounty

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1957 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie is off to Moose County, Canada. A man is trying to claim a reward for an outlaw's body and Jim must confirm the identity of the body.

A Time to Kill

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1957 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie follows stolen money to the home of a man who recently died. His sister and his son are certain the man was not involved in the robbery.

The Lynching

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: May 13, 1957 (30 min)

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Rio Grande

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Jun 3, 1957 (30 min)

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Sam Bass

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jun 10, 1957 (30 min)

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Jesse James

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jul 1, 1957 (30 min)

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Season 2

Belle Star

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1957 (30 min)

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Apache Gold

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1957 (30 min)

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The Target

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1957 (30 min)

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The Feud

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1957 (30 min)

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The Auction

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1957 (30 min)

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Hank (Chips)

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1957 (30 min)

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The Kid

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1957 (30 min)

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The General

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1957 (30 min)

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Laredo

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1957 (30 min)

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The Witness

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1957 (30 min)

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Doc Bell

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1958 (30 min)

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Stage West

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1958 (30 min)

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Hoss Tamer

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1958 (30 min)

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Hide Jumpers

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1958 (30 min)

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Bill Longley

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1958 (30 min)

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The Prisoner

Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1958 (30 min)

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Dr. Alice

Episode: 2x25 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1958 (30 min)

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The Sooners

Episode: 2x26 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1958 (30 min)

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Special Delivery

Episode: 2x30 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1958 (30 min)

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While riding shotgun to protect a valuable gold shipment, Hardie and his stagecoach driver have an interesting collection of passengers and cargo:a U.S. Army officer being sent to Fort Laramie to stand trial, a married couple and a baby.

Deadwood

Episode: 2x31 | Airdate: Apr 7, 1958 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie in Deadwood to protect a shipment tries to prove a notorious gunslinger, Billy Reno, has been framed for holding up the stagecoach and murder after he realizes the case against Billy has come together far too easily.

The Gun

Episode: 2x32 | Airdate: Apr 14, 1958 (30 min)

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During an attempted hold-up, Hardie guns down a man who the outlaw leader claims was not a member of their gang. Hardie learns the man was an ex-convict who had gone straight after being released from prison and investigates him.

The Reward

Episode: 2x33 | Airdate: Apr 21, 1958 (30 min)

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Hardie rides into Bridger to present a reward check to a man who helped prevent a stagecoach robbery. The fearful townspeople claim that they've never heard of the man and when the detective investigates, he discovers the hero's grave.

The Pickpocket

Episode: 2x34 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1958 (30 min)

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A friendly pickpocket helps Hardie bring thieves to justice after they rob his train.

Scapegoat

Episode: 2x35 | Airdate: May 5, 1958 (30 min)

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The Renegade

Episode: 2x36 | Airdate: May 12, 1958 (30 min)

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The Break

Episode: 2x37 | Airdate: May 19, 1958 (30 min)

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The Sniper

Episode: 2x38 | Airdate: May 26, 1958 (30 min)

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Season 3

The Gambler

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 8, 1958 (30 min)

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White Indian

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1958 (30 min)

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While Jim Hardie is in a town a Choctaw boy shows up with a note from Wells Fargo talking about a boy being ship to his parents from his grandmother. Hardie has to determine if the boy is the boy in the note and where his parents are.

Butch Cassidy

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1958 (30 min)

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When butch Cassidy is released from prison, Jim Hardie, who sent him to prison, is tasked with asking him to work for Wells Fargo. While on a train, Butch meets an outlaw friend, Idaho, who with others are planning to rob the train.

A Matter of Honor

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1958 (30 min)

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Hardie arrives in Medicine River to help set up a new office. He is greeted at the office by an employee who is the son of a Cheyenne chief he knew when the boy was young but the locals are unhappy he is to be the driver on the route.

The Most Dangerous Man

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1958 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie's task of catching the Manning Brothers is interrupted when his attempt to help a stranded man backfires. The man, John Leslie Nagel, has a $25,000 bounty on him so he trusts no one including Hardie who has no interest in him.

The Gunfighter

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1958 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to Comanche, Texas to find the Rucker brothers who are hanging around there. Unknown to Hardie, John Wesley Hardin is there, a cousin to the Rucker brothers and still holding a grudge against Hardie.

The Deserter

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1958 (30 min)

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Hardie is sent to confer with the Colonel at Fort Chaplin which is closing now that a peace treaty has been signed. Wells Fargo is concerned about a rash of robberies in the area by a gang led by an ex-Army officer who deserted the Army.

The Killer

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1958 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie is accompanying a stagecoach carrying a Senator. He has angered the large ranchers in the area with his plan to turn over untitled land to settlers. Three ranchers have hired a gunman to kill the Senator to protect their land.

The Counterfeiters

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1958 (30 min)

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Wells Fargo is threaten with bankruptcy if they don't find the source of counterfeit Bills of Exchange used to move money. The one man they have caught with them refuses to talk to Hardie forcing him to find the source of them by himself.

Cow Town

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1958 (30 min)

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The Dealer

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1958 (30 min)

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Showdown Trail

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1959 (30 min)

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Hardie runs into a whole family of outlaws—a father, three sons and a daughter. 

Wild Cargo

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1959 (30 min)

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The Cleanup

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1959 (30 min)

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Lola Montez

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1959 (30 min)

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The Legacy

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1959 (30 min)

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The Rawhide Kid

Episode: 3x26 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie stumbles on to a man and his daughter shot in the head. The dead man was holding a wanted poster for the Rawhide Kid who was wanted 20 years earlier. He finds a young man who was grazed who Hardie decides to use as a lure.

Toll Road

Episode: 3x27 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1959 (30 min)

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Hardie has his hands full with an escaped criminal Buff, Sheriff Huckaby considered a coward and a new road house manager who's a former drinker. Also a driver intent on setting a record plus a fancy lady with a tart tongue.

The Tired Gun

Episode: 3x28 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie tries to help pretty Pearl Watkins with her brother Ira who is becoming an outlaw but is not wanted by Wells Fargo. His attempt fails but it is not long before he and the Bill Tobey gang hit a Wells Fargo bank leaving two dead.

Terry

Episode: 3x29 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie stops by a relay station that has reported a theft of several horses. He is met at the door by a pretty young woman who unknowingly is at the center of the theft as a man vies for her hand versus the man he frames for the theft.

The Last Stand

Episode: 3x30 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie is sent to accompany a delayed and large payroll for a mine at Daleyville. Complicating things there is an employee who feels under appreciated by Wells Fargo but he has become a drunk trying to live up to his one claim on fame.

Bob Dawson

Episode: 3x31 | Airdate: Apr 20, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie makes a visit to his parolee Bob Dawson. While there someone tries to rob the Wells Fargo office killing a sleeping man. The technique used is a copy of one Dawson used 27 years earlier so the Marshal wants to lock up Dawson.

The Tall Texan

Episode: 3x32 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1959 (30 min)

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A tip sends Jim Hardie to Wagner, Montana on the outlook for outlaws. At the hotel he runs into Laurie Hammer who ran away from home with the outlaw Will Carver. He tells her he recently saw her parents and they would like her to return.

Doc Holliday

Episode: 3x33 | Airdate: May 4, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie at a stop finds a stagecoach holdup netted $50,000 in crisp new bills and Doc Holliday and his wife Amy are there. When Amy receives some of the bills from Doc she accuses him of staging the robbery but Jim is doubtful.

Kid Curry

Episode: 3x34 | Airdate: May 11, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie is sent after Kid Curry who has his Wells Fargo at Blue Cross, Wyoming. Hardie is able to catch him near Knoxville, Tennessee after he has been shot. However, Kid Curry tells Jim he won't be taken alive the next time by anyone.

The Little Man

Episode: 3x35 | Airdate: May 18, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie is in Clay City when the stage comes in driven by two passengers with the driver and shotgun dead and the cash stolen. They say two men held it up but Hardie suspects the two passengers but one of them would seem incapable.

The Daltons

Episode: 3x36 | Airdate: May 25, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie has been sent to capture the Dalton brothers by Wells Fargo after they strike several express shipments. Jim having worked with Bob goes to their mother's house to find them. However, when the boys show up, he is captured.

The Bounty Hunter

Episode: 3x37 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1959 (30 min)

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Hardie is sent in to investigate a railroad holdup with cash stolen and two railroad men wounded. With a big reward for the remaining outlaw, a bounty hunter named Briscoe is on the trail and he will do anything to eliminate competition.

Clay Allison

Episode: 3x38 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1959 (30 min)

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Season 4

The Jackass

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1959 (30 min)

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Tom Horn

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1959 (30 min)

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The Quiet Village

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1959 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie arrives in Kimball as a man forces the Wells Fargo agent into the office to rob him. He wounds the agent and kills another man. Several clues come in but one sounds right except the suspect has helped turn the life of a widow.

Home Town

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1959 (30 min)

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When Matthew Land returns to his hometown of Pueblo after three years in prison, he has little support. Jim Hardie is one of the few who helps him by having him return to his old job despite stealing $10,000 from Wells Fargo.

Long Odds

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1959 (30 min)

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Wanted: Jim Hardie

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1959 (30 min)

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A successful and egotistical outlaw decides to post his own reward for Jim Hardie - Wanted: Dead. He is offering $1000 hoping some of his gang will take the bait and be eliminated and perhaps Jim will be eliminated as well.

Cole Younger

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1960 (30 min)

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While on vacation Jim Hardie becomes involved with the Cole Younger gang as a hostage with a spunky young girl after the Northfield, Minnesota holdup. His primary goal is the protection of the girl but one of Younger's men has other ideas.

The Easterner

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1960 (30 min)

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After an attempted robbery of $50,000 on a train and two men killed, Jim Hardie is sent to carry the $50,000 on the rest of the trip by stagecoach. He is accompanied by the owner of the money - a lawyer from the east and a pretty woman.

The Journey

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1960 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie is sent to accompany Vincent Dodd, a jeweler, who is carrying $30,000 in gems from back east. Attempts have been made to steal the gems but Hardie is unable to stop a last attempt and there is a cast of possible suspects.

The Canyon

Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1960 (30 min)

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Jim Hardie decides to ride into an outlaw hangout known as "The Canyon of Wanted Men" to find the one man who can clear Ken Gibbons who is to hang in three days for a murder. The man Fred Kimball has his daughter Jane with him.

Red Ransom

Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1960 (30 min)

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Black Trail

Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1960 (30 min)

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The Town

Episode: 4x29 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1960 (30 min)

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Pearl Hart

Episode: 4x34 | Airdate: May 9, 1960 (30 min)

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Vasquez

Episode: 4x35 | Airdate: May 16, 1960 (30 min)

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Kid Brother

Episode: 4x36 | Airdate: May 23, 1960 (30 min)

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Season 5

Angry Town

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1960 (30 min)

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Doc Dawson

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1960 (30 min)

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The Kinfolk

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1960 (30 min)

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While tracking down a man wanted for robbery and murder, Hardie worries that the man's ties to a sheriff might make it difficult to serve justice.

 

A Study in Petticoats

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1960 (30 min)

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When a young woman becomes infatuated with Hardie, a seemingly simple Wells Fargo job gets complicated. A jewel shipment must be delivered, and the owner's daughter wants to do it personally.

All That Glitters

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1960 (30 min)

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When a stagecoach arrives in Denver with $50,000 worth of gold missing, Hardie investigates the town. When $50,000 goes missing from a stagecoach, and with few leads to go on, Jim suspects a safe-cracking marshal of the theft.

Run for the River

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1960 (30 min)

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When Hardie stops in a small town while transporting a prisoner to stand trial in Santa Fe, N.M., he discovers that there's a price on the prisoner's head and that the mayor and sheriff may not let him leave the town alive.

Leading Citizen

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1960 (30 min)

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The search for a missing stage leads Hardie (Dale Robertson) to a lawless border town and a gunfight with the town's "leading citizen."

The Wade Place

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1960 (30 min)

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Hearing about a holdup being staged at the Wade place, Hardie (Dale Robertson) goes into action.

Jeff Davis' Treasure

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1960 (30 min)

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An ex-convict seeks his partner, who escaped with a fortune in gold.

The Bride and the Bandit

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1960 (30 min)

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Jan Clayton appears as a mail-order bride who was the only witness to a holdup.

Frightened Witness

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Dec 26, 1960 (30 min)

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Walt Corbin faces a murder trial, but Corbin is all smiles —he claims that witnesses Frazier and Matson are going to suffer a lapse of memory. 

Captain Scoville

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1961 (30 min)

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Hardie's quick action prevents an innocent man who has suffered a serious injury from being convicted of murder.

The Has-Been

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1961 (30 min)

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Town Against a Man

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1961 (30 min)

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Hardie becomes suspicious when he is notified that a friend of his has "accidentally" drowned. 

Fraud

Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1961 (30 min)

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Spencer, Blazing Rock's Fargo agent, is found dead, with a gun in his hand. Marshal Williams says it is suicide, but Hardie believes otherwise. 

Prince Jim

Episode: 5x26 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1961 (30 min)

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Lady Trouble

Episode: 5x30 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1961 (30 min)

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Moment of Glory

Episode: 5x31 | Airdate: May 1, 1961 (30 min)

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Agent Hardie rides to Calico where a competitor of Wells Fargo is forcing passengers to transfer to his stage line at gunpoint.

The Lobo

Episode: 5x32 | Airdate: May 8, 1961 (30 min)

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A fellow Wells Fargo agent offers Hardie a large reward for the capture of an outlaw—dead or alive.

Rifles for Red Hand

Episode: 5x33 | Airdate: May 15, 1961 (30 min)

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Hardie suspects a casino owner is selling illegal guns to insurgent Indians.

Gunman's Revenge

Episode: 5x34 | Airdate: May 22, 1961 (30 min)

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An outlaw released early from prison has a hit-list of those responsible for his capture, including Hardie.

John Jones

Episode: 5x38 | Airdate: Jun 26, 1961 (30 min)

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The Dowry

Episode: 5x39 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1961 (30 min)

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Bertram La Tour has requested Wells Fargo send Jim Hardie personally to escort his dowry of $200,000 and his granddaughter Michelle Bovarde to Baton Rouge where she is to be married. However, Jim is unaware why this is being done.

Season 6

Casket 7.3

Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1961

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Jim and his foreman, Jeb Gaine, are busy moving onto the ranch purchased from Ovie and her two lovely daughters when the Wells Fargo agent is called back to service to retrieve plates used to counterfeit bonds. Hardie learns the plates were stolen by a group of former Confederate soldiers who plan to print enough worthless bonds that the United States economy would fall into shambles.

Treasure Coach

Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1961

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Acting on a tip that an outlaw gang may attack a gold shipment, Hardie and McCloud try to persuade group of stagecoach passengers to take the next stage so they can better protect the cargo. Each passenger has their own reasons for continuing the dangerous journey, and Hardie fears that the reasons of more than one are highway robbery.

Tanoa

Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1961

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Mr. Mute

Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1961

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Jeremiah

Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1961

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Trackback

Episode: 6x14 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1961

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Money-Run

Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1962

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Chauncey

Episode: 6x24 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1962

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Royal Maroon

Episode: 6x30 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1962

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An aspiring actress (Kathleen Crowley) becomes the dupe of bandits. 

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