Season 1

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  7.2/1016 votes

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  Pilot

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1981

  Sam arrives in town intending to run the general store, then runs into all kinds of trouble after turning down the protection racket.

  Director: James Burrows

  Writer: N/A

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  7.3/1014 votes

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  The Prisoner

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1981

  Sam must face a prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes ill on his way through town.

  Director: Will Mackenzie

  Writer: N/A

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  7.6/1014 votes

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  The Calico Kid Returns

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1981

  The Square Deal Saloon's new cook is the Calico Kid; he has sworn to never again kill anything he can't eat.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: Mitch Markowitz

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  7.7/1012 votes

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  They're Hanging Parker Tillman (1)

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1981

  Sam goes out on a limb and manages to save Tillman from a lynch mob, but at the trial, his mixed-up testimony has him back at the end of a rope.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.8/1018 votes

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  They're Hanging Parker Tillman (2)

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1981

  Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1012 votes

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  The New Marshal

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1981

  Sam loses his badge in a special election to Tillman's squeaky-clean candidate.

  Director: Tom Trbovich

  Writer: Mitch Markowitz

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  7.4/1011 votes

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  Daniel's First Love

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1981

  Daniel is as surprised as anyone when a few innocent kisses lead to a shotgun wedding.

  Director: James Burrows

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1011 votes

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  Laney in Love

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1981

  Laney is smitten with a smoothie who bids high for her at a social—but he turns out to be a low-down heel.

  Director: Stan Daniels

  Writer: Sam Simon

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  6.9/1010 votes

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  The Reunion

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/8/1981

  Elvira's die-hard Confederate father (Andy Griffith) stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town. His wife is trying to patch things up with their daughter; she married a Yankee!

  Director: Ed. Weinberger

  Writer: N/A

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  7.1/1010 votes

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  The Railroad

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1981

  Sam and Tillman try hard to convince the railroad to come to Copper Creek.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.4/1013 votes

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  The New Jail

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1981

  Sam's image as a lawman quickly loses its edge after he manages to shoot himself in the leg; the jail collapsing around him doesn't help.

  Director: James Burrows

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1010 votes

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  A Man, a Woman, and a Horse

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1981

  Sam doesn't pay attention to signs of discontent from Elvira until the day he comes home to finds her packed to leave.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.6/109 votes

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  Frog's First Gunfight

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1982

  Frog meets a woman who was recently jilted by her beau, but neither realizes he wants her back.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  8.1/1013 votes

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  The Calico Kid Goes to School

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1982

  The reformed Calico Kid decides he wants to be a United States Marshal. But he lacks one qualification: a third-grade education.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.8/1012 votes

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  Tillman Held for Ransom

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1982

  Tillman has been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom, but the Copper Creek citizens have no intention of paying up.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.4/109 votes

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  Mail Order Bride

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1982

  Doc's mail-order bride has a vivid personality with a past to match it.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.1/109 votes

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  The Cave-In

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/1982

  Elvira and her stepson explore an abandoned outlaw cave, unaware that it is booby-trapped to collapse.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: David Lloyd

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  6.9/1011 votes

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  Daniel Fights a Bully

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1982

  Daniel's refusal to fight a relentless bully leads to Sam having to fight the bully's father.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1011 votes

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  The Pretty Prisoner

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1982

  Sam is handcuffed to his prisoner—a flirtatious female outlaw—for an overnight journey.

  Director: N/A

  Writer: David Lloyd

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  7.0/108 votes

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  Elvira's Old Beau

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/7/1982

  Elvira's former fiance' comes to town, intent on taking her away with him.

  Director: Stan Daniels

  Writer: N/A

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  6.3/109 votes

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  Sam's Life Is Threatened

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/14/1982

  Sam receives an anonymous threatening note.

  Director: Stan Daniels

  Writer: N/A

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  6.5/1010 votes

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  The Funeral

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/21/1982

  Sam and Tillman try to foil a holdup by holding a funeral for Frog; the coffin contains the $20,000 the thieves are after.

  Director: Ed. Weinberger

  Writer: David Lloyd