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The Best Episodes of Alias Smith and Jones

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Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of

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    Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 8 - Night of the Red Dog
    8.7/10(103 votes)

    #1 - Night of the Red Dog

    S2:E8

    A group of men, among them Heyes and the Kid, witness an old man lose consciousness, because of all the gold he was carrying. A doctor says to the man that he is dying. The man then produces a map showing his mining concession, which he testaments to the group. The group travels to the place, and starts to dig. Soon conflict arises, however, when Heyes and the Kid's gold is stolen. Twice. Things get worse when the cabin is covered with snow, and they realize that they will have to stay there for the winter. Now a game of poker starts, with very high stakes. And neither Heyes nor the Kid can be sure of who to trust...

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  2. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 5 - The Posse That Wouldn't Quit
    8.6/10(109 votes)

    #2 - The Posse That Wouldn't Quit

    S2:E5

    After being chased for weeks by a posse, Heyes and the Kid hide out on a ranch where a nice but poor family lives. They become idols of sorts for the two daughters, and quickly learn to like all of them. Then, when the posse finally shows up and demand that Heyes and the Kid come out, Heyes suggests that the family collects the bounty rather than the posse. The posse reluctantly gives them up, and the leader of the posse will not leave their side. On the way to the nearest sheriff office, however, the remaining posse are attacked - by the daughters. Heyes and the Kid get away, but changes their mind when they realize that the family could get in trouble for their sake. They return, but how can they stay out of jail if they have to give their identities away to the judge?

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 18 - The Men That Corrupted Hadleyburg
    8.6/10(91 votes)

    #3 - The Men That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    S2:E18

    The capture of Heyes and Curry represents pay dirt for a poor prospector and his family.

    Director:Jeff Corey
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  4. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 16 - The McCreedy Bust: Going, Going, Gone!
    8.5/10(89 votes)

    #4 - The McCreedy Bust: Going, Going, Gone!

    S2:E16

    ""Big Mac"" MacCreedy tries to get the boys to steal the Roman bust from Armendariz - again, but this time the boys refuse. But when Big Mac threatens to reveal their secret identities they agree to transport the bust to an auction after it has been stolen. While they wait for the bust to be delivered to the drop spot, Heyes and the Kid meet a bullying foreman, who makes the Kid do a little jig every time he finds the Kid still wearing his gun. Heyes can't understand why the Kid doesn't comply for the sake of peace and quiet - but a former priest, turned town drunk has an interesting idea: that the Kid is a saint who always turns the other cheek.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 4 - Smiler with a Gun
    8.4/10(93 votes)

    #5 - Smiler with a Gun

    S2:E4

    Heyes and the Kid meet two men at a carnival - one of them a gold digger, the other a fast-drawing cowboy with a big smile. The gold digger likes the three of them, and makes them an offer. If they come with him and work in his mine, they can share the gold between the four of them. When they decide that they've got enough gold, though, the smiling man disappears with the gold, the horses, and all provisions. Now Heyes, the Kid and the gold digger must get back to civilisation to get their gold back. But can they ""persuade"" the smiling man to share his gold with them? And can the Kid out-draw him?

    Director:Fernando Lamas
    Writer:Max Hodge

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  6. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 10 - Dreadful Sorry, Clementine
    8.4/10(91 votes)

    #6 - Dreadful Sorry, Clementine

    S2:E10

    The fellows get involved in a $50,000 swindle.

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  7. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 15 - 21 Days to Tenstrike
    8.4/10(93 votes)

    #7 - 21 Days to Tenstrike

    S2:E15

    The guys join a cattle drive and Kid Curry finds himself accused of murder again.

    Director:Mel Ferber
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 4 - Wrong Train to Brimstone
    8.3/10(129 votes)

    #8 - Wrong Train to Brimstone

    S1:E4

    Heyes and Curry gain passage on a train that is full of Bannerman detectives who are setting a trap for them and their gang

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 3 - Jailbreak at Junction City
    8.3/10(86 votes)

    #9 - Jailbreak at Junction City

    S2:E3

    Curry and Heyes try to avoid a sheriff who is sure to recognize them.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 12 - The Bounty Hunter
    8.3/10(98 votes)

    #10 - The Bounty Hunter

    S2:E12

    A black bounty hunter catches Heyes and Curry and hangs onto them even after they twice save his life from bigots determined to turn them in themselves.

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 8 - A Fistful of Diamonds
    8.2/10(108 votes)

    #11 - A Fistful of Diamonds

    S1:E8

    After an embezzling banker / murderer sets up Curry and Heyes to take the fall for his crimes, the boys try to clear themselves by playing on his greed with a salted diamond field.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  12. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 6 - Something to Get Hung About
    8.2/10(91 votes)

    #12 - Something to Get Hung About

    S2:E6

    Heyes tries to talk a runaway wife into returning to her husband while Curry distracts the gentleman with her.

    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 11 - Shootout at Diablo Station
    8.2/10(87 votes)

    #13 - Shootout at Diablo Station

    S2:E11

    The passengers of a coach are taken hostage at Diablo Station by four cowboys. Not discussing their ultimate goal, they keep Heyes and the Kid and the others tied up, just waiting. Soon, the goal becomes very clear to Heyes. The leader wants to avenge his brother's death - upon sheriff Lom Trevors. Can Heyes and the Kid, or any of the other passengers warn Lom before he arrives?

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 13 - Everything Else You Can Steal
    8.2/10(80 votes)

    #14 - Everything Else You Can Steal

    S2:E13

    Tired and weary, Heyes and the Kid discover that they are accused of burgling a bank. They decide to go there and investigate, since their amnesty is at stake. Also present is Blackjack Jenny, whose son Billy disappeared after telegraphing her about a job there. She is convinced that Billy and his friend Caleb are dead. Heyes and the Kid confront the bank manager, and manage to convince him that they are bounty hunters, and that they were on Heyes and the Kid's track far away when the burglary took place. That way he gives them the name of the woman who said that it was Heyes and the Kid who stole the money. But is there someone else involved?

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 2 - The McCreedy Bust
    8.1/10(135 votes)

    #15 - The McCreedy Bust

    S1:E2

    Smith and Jones become the pawns of two greedy ranchers who have a running feud about the ownership of a Roman bust.

    Director:Gene Levitt
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 3 - Exit from Wickenburg
    8.1/10(135 votes)

    #16 - Exit from Wickenburg

    S1:E3

    Someone's trying to get the guys out of a town where they are helping a widow run from the saloon left to her by her late husband, but they can't figure out who's doing it or why.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  17. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 9 - Stagecoach Seven
    8.1/10(111 votes)

    #17 - Stagecoach Seven

    S1:E9

    A stationmaster battles for his own interests against a band of outlaws.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  18. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 14 - Never Trust an Honest Man
    8.1/10(96 votes)

    #18 - Never Trust an Honest Man

    S1:E14

    The boys return a fortune in jewels to a railroad magnate, who promptly sets a posse after them when he learns the gems are fake.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 17 - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Red Gap
    8.1/10(73 votes)

    #19 - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Red Gap

    S2:E17

    The guys are framed for bank robbery by an embezzling banker, but they turn the tables on him by arranging for a second bank robbery to clear their names.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 11 - The Root of It All
    7.9/10(98 votes)

    #20 - The Root of It All

    S1:E11

    Smith and Jones retrieve a letter for a young lady and wind up searching for a buried Army payroll.

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Howard Browne

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  21. Alias Smith and Jones Season 2 Episode 2 - How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson
    7.9/10(88 votes)

    #21 - How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson

    S2:E2

    Heyes and Curry meet up with an offbeat crook when they fall once gain for the old lady-in-distress gambit.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:David Moessinger

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  22. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 6 - The Great Shell Game
    7.8/10(110 votes)

    #22 - The Great Shell Game

    S1:E6

    Heyes seems to be reverting to his old thieving ways when he sets up a pretty young woman to lose $10,000 in a phony horse betting operation.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  23. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 12 - The Fifth Victim
    7.8/10(96 votes)

    #23 - The Fifth Victim

    S1:E12

    The guys become involved with a friendly rancher in a not-so-friendly poker game.

    Director:Fernando Lamas
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  24. Alias Smith and Jones Season 1 Episode 15 - The Legacy of Charlie O'Rourke
    7.8/10(90 votes)

    #24 - The Legacy of Charlie O'Rourke

    S1:E15

    A saloon entertainer and a special agent suspect that Heyes and Curry's interest in a condemned robber is the same as their own; a rumored fortune in stolen buried gold.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  25. Alias Smith and Jones Season 3 Episode 1 - The Long Chase
    7.8/10(72 votes)

    #25 - The Long Chase

    S3:E1

    A farmer spots the two boys and alerts the sheriff, but Heyes and the Kid jumps on a train and manage to get away. On the train they meet Harry Briscoe, who's now fired from Bannerman Detectives Inc. But when the posse telegraphs ahead, Heyes quickly reinstates Harry - and the boys become his prisoners. The sheriff doesn't buy it though, and sends a deputy along with them to make sure they get to Wyoming. Harry manages to fool the deputy into believing that the Devil's hole gang is after them, and makes the deputy the decoy, while he and his two prisoners take another route. Soon, the Kid's newly requisitioned horse is hurt, and they have to board a train again. Unfortunally the train heads back to the town they came from, so Heyes and the Kid decide to jump off the train to wait for Harry, who thinks that the sheriff might be fooled by the same trick twice... But is Harry wrong, and will Heyes and the Kid survive until Harry can save them?

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Night of the Red Dog" is the best rated episode of "Alias Smith and Jones". It scored 8.7/10 based on 103 votes. Directed by Russ Mayberry and written by Dick Nelson, it aired on 11/4/1971. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Posse That Wouldn't Quit".