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The Worst Episodes of Bordertown

Every episode of Bordertown ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Bordertown!

Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown...
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:ABC Family

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Reaper" is the worst rated episode of "Bordertown". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Stuart Gillard and written by N/A, it aired on 3/4/1989. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Gunfighter".

  • The Reaper
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    #1 - The Reaper

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/1989

    The lawmen are troubled when an aging gunfighter comes to Bordertown, followed by glory-seekers who are out to kill him, and a novelist, who wants to write a story about him.

    Director: Stuart Gillard

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gunfighter
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    #2 - The Gunfighter

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/1989

    A young easterner challenges his employer to a gunfight after he is cheated out of part of his wages. Jack attempts to teach the young man to shoot.

    Director: Stuart Gillard

    Writer: Peter Mohan

  • Trapped
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    #3 - Trapped

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/1989

    Two outlaw brothers, believed to be dead, come to Bordertown to rob the bank. Before they can carry out their plan, they are recognized by Hiram. When he speaks up, he is fatally struck by one of them. The brothers leave an accomplice behind so that they can escape, and when he tries to rejoin them, they shoot him. Knowing that the brothers will return, Clive and Jack set a trap to capture them.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Slave
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    #4 - Slave

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/1989

    Severely traumatized when her former ""master"" comes to Bordertown, Diane Denny tries to shoot him to avenge the beating death of her father, killed years earlier while attempting to escape.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: N/A

  • One of the Boys
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    #5 - One of the Boys

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/8/1989

    A young woman, posing as a male ranchhand in an effort to find her husband's murderer, is shot on the streets of Bordertown.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • When Dreams Die
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    #6 - When Dreams Die

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/15/1989

    Two escaped convicts come to Bordertown looking for the only man who can identify them. Claiming to be friends of Sally Duffield's imprisoned husband, they swindle her out of her jewelry by insisting that he can be paroled if she pays them a thousand dollars.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lady and the Corpse
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    #7 - The Lady and the Corpse

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/1989

    When Dom's friend dies, he leaves instructions that half his gold goes to Dom, but it is stolen before it can be recovered. Jack believes Clive's new lady friend is involved, but the mountie refuses to believe it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fur Trader
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    #8 - The Fur Trader

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/1989

    A local trapper is found murdered and his furs stolen. The only clue left at the scene is a sliver of bone from the handle of a knife, and the only suspect is a French entrepeneur, a friend of Marie's, who is found holding the murder weapon after a dispute with an employee. Jack and Clive formulate a plan to flush out the real killer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ties That Bind
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    #9 - Ties That Bind

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/1989

    Willie's father comes to Bordertown with the intention of taking the boy back to France with him. Meanwhile, an escaped criminal is seeking revenge on Clive.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bounty Hunter
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    #10 - The Bounty Hunter

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/1989

    When a Mexican bounty hunter shows up in Bordertown, Jack is instantly suspicious, suspecting that the Mexican has actually come for him. When he and Marie are jailed by the bounty hunter, Jack confesses his secret past to Marie, revealing that his wife and daughter had been murdered by Don Carlos, a wealthy Mexican landowner who had been trying to drive Jack and his family from their land. In the ensuing fight, Jack had killed the Mexican's son. Seeking revenge, Don Carlos wants Jack delivered to him alive, but his bounty hunter has no problem with using Marie as a pawn to control him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pretty Shadows [aka Legacy]
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    #11 - Pretty Shadows [aka Legacy]

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/20/1989

    A band of teenaged outlaws ride into Bordertown intending to rob the bank. Marie reports to Clive when she sees the young outlaws go into the bank with their guns drawn. Clive is shot attempting to prevent the hold-up, and is dragged into the store by the robbers. Jack, in the marshal's office, and the outlaws in Marie's store exchange shots. Meanwhile, Clive, who knows one of the boys, tries to convince him that he is headed down the wrong path.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bad Memories
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    #12 - Bad Memories

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/27/1989

    A visiting German is knocked unconscious while being chased by bank robbers who want the map he carries that will lead them to the money. He awakens with amnesia. Meanwhile, Clive's supervisor comes for inspection.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Craddock vs. Bennett
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    #13 - Craddock vs. Bennett

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/3/1989

    While giving Jack an eye exam during a physical, Marie discovers that he cannot read. Worried that many others in the area cannot read, either, she decides to order some primers. In spite of Marie's objections, Moberley proposes a boxing match between the marshal and the mountie to raise money for the books, but during the fight, his plans are to rob the town.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nahanni
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    #14 - Nahanni

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/10/1989

    Clive's training officer arrives in Bordertown with his pregnant Indian wife, Nahanni. Driscoll had been shot in a skirmish with the U.S. Cavalry, who had apprehended Chief Sitting Bull from a reservation in Canada. Driscoll, determined to free Sitting Bull, had killed two of the soldiers, who follow him to Bordertown, seeking revenge.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Vigilante
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    #15 - Vigilante

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/17/1989

    A teenaged boy is hired by a group of horse thieves to deliver six horses stolen from a local ranch. When he realizes the horses have been stolen, Johnny intends to return the horses to their rightful owner, but when he is caught with them, the rancher decides to hang him as a horse thief.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gold and Lead
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    #16 - Gold and Lead

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/24/1989

    While escorting a large amount of gold to Bordertown, Wendell is robbed and wounded, and the armed guard is killed by a couple of thieves. Then the killer turns the gun on his accomplice. Jack and Clive have trouble identifying the dead outlaw, but the killer turns out to be the estranged father of Bruno's girlfriend. Holding his family at gunpoint, he orders Bruno to bring him a horse and supplies.

    Director: Michael Robison

    Writer: N/A

  • Keenan's Raiders
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    #17 - Keenan's Raiders

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 7/1/1989

    Three members of outlaw gang Keenan's Raiders plan to meet in Bordertown to recover stolen gold they had buried years earlier. One dies of a heart attack on the stage, a second is found shot to death outside town. The third member has been wounded, and seeks medical attention from Marie. Jack and Clive discover that the two dead men are wearing identical belt buckles with a secret compartment, which conceals pieces of a map. Meanwhile, Marie has been taken hostage by the wounded man as he tries to dig up the buried gold.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hunter's Moon
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    #18 - Hunter's Moon

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1990

    Bat Masterson tracks a gang of outlaws into Canada, and refuses to adhere to Canadian jurisdiction. When Jack and Clive accompany him into Canada, Masterson leaves them, allowing them to ride into an outlaw ambush.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hand to Hand
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    #19 - Hand to Hand

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1990

    A Mountie wagon is ambushed, and the Mounties, including a friend of Clive's, are murdered by a gang of outlaw brothers. One of the brothers is captured and taken to Bordertown. When Clive decides to take him to Ft McLeod to stand trial, Jack and several of the townspeople act as decoys in an attempt to lead the rest of the gang away from the stagecoach on which Clive had elected to transport the prisoner. The outlaws do not fall for the decoy, and attack the stagecoach, wounding their own brother. Clive handcuffs himself to his prisoner as they are forced to flee on foot.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Malcolm MacRury

  • The Last Shot
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    #20 - The Last Shot

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1990

    Stricken with guilt, Jack resigns after he accidentally kills a saloon girl during a dispute with a gang of ruffians. With the marshal's position vacant, the gang takes over Bordertown, and the Mountie is powerless to keep law and order on the American side of town. In attempt to regain order, he ""appoints"" Couteau temporary marshal.

    Director: Stuart Gillard

    Writer: N/A

  • The Convoy
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    #21 - The Convoy

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1990

    The U.S. Cavalry is turning over a Gatling Gun to the Canadian Mounted Police, but when Clive arrives to escort the wagon into town, he is shot by one of the Mountie impersonators who has already killed the Mounties assigned to the transport. When they arrive in Bordertown to assume possession of the gun, Jack becomes suspicious of their behavior, and arrests one of them when he becomes aggressive with Marie. The next morning, the ""Mounties"" take the gun, and leave Bordertown. Meanwhile, Couteau has found the wounded Clive, and reports it to Jack, who must find a way to recover the stolen gun.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Last Fenian Raid
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    #22 - The Last Fenian Raid

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1990

    A retired Canadian colonel arrives in Bordertown with a stongbox containing money obtained by docking his men's pay. His intentions are to set up an estate for the men to work on when they muster out. Liam's niece, her husband, and cousin have joined the Fenian Brotherhood, and are after the money. Along with the strongbox, they kidnap the colonel, who had helped protect Canada from the Fenians years earlier.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Letter of the Law
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    #23 - Letter of the Law

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/1990

    When an American is killed over a land dispute, a Canadian is accused of the crime. Jurisdiction is questioned because the Canadian was standing on the Canadian side of the line, the American was standing on the American side.

    Director: Neill Fearnley

    Writer: N/A

  • White Feather
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    #24 - White Feather

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/1990

    A Blackfoot warrior rescues Marie when her horse bolts after being spooked by a snake. Jack recognizes her horse, and arrests the Indian for stealing it. Marie insists that he be released from jail, but he returns to bring gifts and to seek her attention. Infatuated with her, White Feather kidnaps her and takes her to the Blackfoot village with the intention of making her his wife. Clive must prevail in a test of manhood to win her back.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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    #25 - Skirmishes

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/9/1990

    Two local ranchers become involved in a dispute over water rights between their properties. Meanwhile, a young physician comes to Bordertown and questions Marie's right to practice medicine. He takes his concerns to Clive, and threatens to press charges against her if she does not comply. Her ability is proven when Henry Jordan's son is shot over the water dispute.

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