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26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona...
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Season 1

  • The Recruit
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    The Recruit

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/1957

    The newspaper editor of Wilcox asks the Rangers for help, and two of them are dispatched to the town. However, when they get there they find the editor has been lynched and is hanging from a tree.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Trouble At Pinnacle Peak
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    Trouble At Pinnacle Peak

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1957

    A gang of desperadoes cuts a swath of murder and robbery across the whole Arizona Territory, laughing at the Rangers attempts to bring them to heel. Since the gang uses every trick in the book to cover their tracks, Rynning hires an Apache tracker to find the outlaws.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Wild Bunch
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    The Wild Bunch

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/1957

    A member of the notorious Wild Bunch bandit gang escapes from Ranger Clint Travis' custody, resulting in his being fired. Furious, Travis sets out to take on the whole gang and salvage his career and reputation.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Border Incident
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    Border Incident

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/1957

    Clint Travis goes undercover as a gun smuggler to stop Mexican revolutionary Juan Morales' plans to topple the Mexican government.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Destination Nowhere
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    Destination Nowhere

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1957

    The Rangers set out to stop a smuggling ring that's bringing Chinese immigrants across the Colorado River.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Incident at Yuma
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    Incident at Yuma

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1957

    A gang of convicts has escaped from prison, but Capt. Rynning's can't get any more men to help capture them.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Slater Brothers
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    The Slater Brothers

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1957

    When Clint Travis is falsely accused of Murder. Rynning sends him into Galioro Mountains to prove his innocence by finding the cattle rustlers who actually committed the crime.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Dead Man In Tucson
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    Dead Man In Tucson

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1957

    Travis goes after escaped con Cain Devers, a bank robber and counterfeiter who is using his counterfeit plates as part of a plot to destroy his father and younger brother.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Man on the Run
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    Man on the Run

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1957

    A Ranger suddenly resigns without explanation. Rynning tries to discover what's behind it and finds that the man is hiding a secret that he won't take a chance on anyone finding out about.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Big Rope
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    The Big Rope

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1957

    The wife of a preacher who recently established a mission for Apaches living near Galeyville receives a suspicious telegram and fears her husband has been murdered. Travis learns that a lynch mob hung two Indians accused of being horse thieves and the minister who tried to prevent the hanging. He also discovers that, in a moment of cowardice, the town sheriff failed to prevent the hangings.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Valley of Fear
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    Valley of Fear

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/24/1957

    Travis poses as an outlaw in what seems to be a very peaceful valley to try to find the reason behind the disappearance of a U.S. Marshal.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Indian Gunslinger
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    Indian Gunslinger

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/1957

    An Apache inherits a small ranch and his white neighbors don't care for the idea of having an Indian for a neighbor.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Trail of Darkness
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    Trail of Darkness

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1958

    Rynning and Travis investigate when a number of women are murdered in a small Arizona town. Since the circumstances surrounding each murder are identical, the rangers fear that they are trying to capture a psychopathic misogynist. When Travis finds a footprint with a distinctive heel mark near the body, the lawmen search the surrounding area for the owner of such a boot.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Trade Me Deadly
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    Trade Me Deadly

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1958

    In order to prevent the hanging of their gang members a family of outlaws kidnaps the daughter of the commander of an army post instructing him to release his prisoner or the young woman will meet the same fate. When the army carries out the execution anyway, Rynning, Travis and two undercover Army officers must free the girl before word of the gang members death leaks out.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Violent Land
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    Violent Land

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1958

    Ranger Joe Pierce captures a pair of outlaws and turns them over to a sheriff for safe keeping. Sheriff Brennan recognizes that one of the outlaws is a dead ringer for the son of a wealthy rancher who went missing in action while serving in the military and uses the chance for to earn some quick cash so he can woo a pretty saloon girl.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Panic at Bisbee
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    Panic at Bisbee

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1958

    Unemployed miners threaten to burn down the Bisbee bank unless they can withdraw money from their accounts. Unfortunately, the local office doesn't have enough money to meet their demands, so they must pull cash from other locations to survive. Travis is ordered to guard the shipment and must deal with corrupt businessmen and crooks with itchy trigger fingers to get the money through on time.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Insurrection
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    Insurrection

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/11/1958

    The careless activities of a former Ranger (Walter Kelly) have Mexico and Arizona on the brink of war.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Slaughter Trail
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    Slaughter Trail

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1958

    The Rangers try to capture a ruthless cattle baron and his gang.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Gun Hand
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    Gun Hand

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/25/1958

    An Arizona Ranger is shot in the arm while attempting to thwart a hold-up. He convinces the doctor not to inform Captain Rynning of the seriousness of his injury until he can at least try to regain his shooting form. His fiancée fears that he will be no match for the outlaws who are hijacking gold shipments near his station.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Cattle Embargo
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    Cattle Embargo

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/4/1958

    While trying to enforce the embargo placed on Mexican cattle, an Arizona ranger is shot and left for dead by a trio of cowboys. One of the cowmen takes pity on the wounded lawman and takes him to a nearby ranch for medical assistance. Rynning is determined to bring the shooter to justice and break up the cross-border cattle trade to an end.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Badge to Kill
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    Badge to Kill

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/11/1958

    After a shipment of gold guarded by the Arizona Rangers is stolen, the U.S. Marshals assigned to the region accuse Ranger Ben Thorpe of complicity in the theft.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Montezuma's Cave
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    Montezuma's Cave

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/18/1958

    Rynning and Travis assist the Mexican Rurales hunt down the remnants of an army of bandits who sought to overthrow the government. During the chase, one of the outlaws is killed by the border patrol and incorrectly identified as the movement's commander, Romero. Meanwhile, the erstwhile leader assumes the identity of a poor peon and goes in search of the loot from a train robbery hidden nearly ten years earlier.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sundown Decision
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    Sundown Decision

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/25/1958

    Kevin Hardy, a rancher who is about to be released from prison gets a visit from his crippled brother, Arron, who goads him into taking revenge against the former sheriff who arrested him for manslaughter. Meanwhile Arron has hired an outlaw to kill his brother and frame the ex-lawman for the crime.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Parrish Gang
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    The Parrish Gang

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/1/1958

    Clint Travis works his way into the heart of a gang of bank robbers.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Hoax at Globe
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    Hoax at Globe

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/8/1958

    During an election campaign for the office of Sheriff of Globe, Arizona, a crooked drifter plots to embarrass the incumbent by bringing in an "escaped" prisoner he took from Ranger Clint Travis' custody the day before the election. To make his election more likely, his gang robs the town's express office and shooting the Sheriff's leading advocate while Harding is out of town helping the Rangers locate their escaped prisoner.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Bounty Hunters
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    Bounty Hunters

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/15/1958

    After a rancher is convicted of robbery based upon flimsy circumstantial evidence, his young brother in law appeals to Captain Rynning to find the real criminals.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Apache Winter
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    Apache Winter

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/22/1958

    The Rangers try to convince a group of settlers illegally homesteading on the Apache reservation to leave before violence occurs.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Legacy of Death
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    Legacy of Death

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/29/1958

    Tom Rynning learns that Bart Evans' will includes a clause that requires Betty Evans to give $10,000 to the man the rancher hired to killer the Ranger captain - and his daughter is willing to pay the bounty.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Chain Gang
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    Chain Gang

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 5/6/1958

    Arizona's territorial governor orders Rynning to investigate reports of abuses by prison guards of convicts working on chain gangs.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Bells of St. Thomas
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    The Bells of St. Thomas

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/13/1958

    Captain Rynning and several of his Rangers join a posse to smoke out the remnants of Luke Baxter's gang. The outlaws momentarily give the posse the slip and double back to take refuge in a mission school run for the reservation's Indian children and hold the priests and the youngsters as hostages.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Hondo Man
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    Hondo Man

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/20/1958

    A reformed gunman is forced to take up arms after he finds a Ranger murdered.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Vanquisher
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    The Vanquisher

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/27/1958

    Ranger Andrew Shoreham requests a leave of absence after receiving a plea from his wife to return to his home and help her move. When his request is denied, Shoreham resigns, but Rynning has a change of heart and orders the ranger to Kelso to drive out the outlaws who have taken over the town.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Ranger and the Lady
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    The Ranger and the Lady

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 6/3/1958

    Rynning and Travis are urged to come to Bisbee when trouble arises when women demand the right to vote.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Idol in the Dust
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    Idol in the Dust

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 6/10/1958

    Captain Rynning sends Travis to Duncan, Arizona to investigate reports that legendary lawman Ben Salem has thrown in with the crooked town boss to keep the residents under his thrall. Travis can't believe the reports since he lived with Salem in his salad days, but soon learns that the his former idol was crippled by a gunshot and was forced to find work as a hired gun.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Runaway Stage
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    Runaway Stage

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/17/1958

    The attorney general and the local businessman ask that Andy Shoreham be forced to resign from Rangers because of the wild days in his youth. Rynning backs the young ranger, but when he's knocked off the stagecoach he's supposed to be guarding and the stage disappears along with the silver shipment it contained, calls for his dismissal are renewed.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Wayward Gun
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    Wayward Gun

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/24/1958

    Bud Larch, a short man constantly being teased about his height, turns robber and killer to prove he's as tough as anyone in Arizona.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Hole Up
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    Hole Up

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 7/1/1958

    While escorting an Apache Indian to prison, Travis stops by a remote railroad station for food and water and learns that Bert Alvord and his partner have just held up the train. While awaiting reinforcement, Alvord returns to the station and abducts the station master's granddaughter in order to obtain food and water.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Unholy Partners
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    Unholy Partners

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 7/8/1958

    Rynning and Travis investigate the hijacking of a valuable freight wagon and are aided by the youngest member of the outlaw gang who has second thoughts about a criminal career.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Killer's Trail
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    Killer's Trail

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/15/1958

    When four murderers break out of Yuma Prison, Rynning mobilizes his entire force to capture the escapees.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown