8.5/1040 votesLoading...#1 - The Brave Endure
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/25/1965
West Point Cadet Bain faces expulsion for making statements that support McCord's actions at Bitter Creek. Taking his outstanding record into account, the Academy gives Bain one month to re-consider his opinion. If he doesn't tender an apology to the Commandant, who happens to be the man who wrote the opinion on McCord's court martial, after a month, the cadet will face his own court martial. Meanwhile, Jason is working as an engineer on a silver mine that won't drain. Bain joins up with the outfit McCord is working with and tries to determine the truth about Bitter Creek.
Director: Ron Winston
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1023 votesLoading...
#2 - Call to Glory (1)
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1966
Jason McCord is sent undercover by the President to gain information on a potential Presidential bid by General George Armstrong Custer. Because McCord and Custer are old Academy buddies, President Grant hopes that Jason can uncover information on a plot to incite an Indian war that will place Custer in the Oval Office.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1036 votesLoading...
#3 - Very Few Heroes
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/11/1965
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Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: John Wilder
- 8.2/1031 votesLoading...
#4 - I Killed Jason McCord
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1965
A drifter robs McCord,stealing his horse. When he strolls into a saloon looking for trouble, the bandit winds up getting killed. After finding a letter addressed to Jason in the dead man's belonings, the town turns the young man who killed Jason McCord into a hero. That is, until the real Jason McCord shows up and wants his name back.
Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1029 votesLoading...
#5 - Nice Day for a Hanging
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1966
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Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1052 votesLoading...
#6 - Coward Step Aside
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/7/1965
A young deputy (Johnny Crawford) is ordered by a gang of thieves to surrender the town so they can rob the bank. Because of a silver strike in a nearby town, all that's left of the town is a deputy, a one-legged bartender and the senior citizens. They take the deputy's wife hostage and threaten to burn the town if he does not do what they say. While on his way to do a engineering job, Jas stops in this town and offers to help the deputy and the town. He tells Clay (the deputy), ""you'll have to stand up to them boy.....I'll back you."" Jas, the deputy and the town's citizens all pitch in and help Jas take back their town. Jas gives the young deputy some fatherly advice, a scene that they shared on the ""Rifleman"" hundreds of times.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1032 votesLoading...
#7 - Taste of Poison
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/2/1965
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Director: Ron Winston
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1033 votesLoading...
#8 - Now Join the Human Race
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1965
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Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1029 votesLoading...
#9 - Mightier than the Sword
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1965
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Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1032 votesLoading...
#10 - The Wolfers
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1966
McCord happens across a young Indian woman and a dead companion while traveling. He tries to help the women only to run afoul of a trio of wolf trappers, one of whom has taken the Indian as his own. Classic 60's Bruce Dern psycho performance.
Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1022 votesLoading...
#11 - Barbed Wire
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1966
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Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1024 votesLoading...
#12 - Headed for Doomsday
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/10/1966
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Director: Edward Ludwig
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1030 votesLoading...
#13 - Cowards Die Many Times
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/17/1966
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Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1041 votesLoading...
#14 - The Bounty
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/21/1965
While standing at the bar in a saloon, some cowboy comes up behind Jas and paints a yellow streak down his back. A fight breaks out amongst Jas and the Starrett brothers. Another cowboy by the name of Johnny Dolan steps in and helps Jas. Jas later finds out that his new friend is a bounty hunter and he is ""The Bounty."" The stranger forces Jas outside of town, but before he could kill Jas the Starrett brothers intervene and in a shoot out the bounty hunter gets shot but before he dies he tells Jason of a Paxton Detective Agency that is offering a $5,000 reward for the death of Jason McCord. So Jas goes to find out more on this bounty and pretends he killed Jason McCord and wants the reward. Using a grave, his sabre and his sexton as proof. Matthew Paxon the owner was just a go between and a meeting was set up between the two men with the man offering the reward. The man offering the reward was Thomas Frye, he was a civilian scout for the calvary and General Reed had hired him agai
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1037 votesLoading...
#15 - The First Kill
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/4/1965
McCord pays a call on the family of a Confederate officer he was forced to kill in battle during the war. The father hasn't taken the loss of his first son very well, taking it out on his younger son in the form of perpetual disappointment. When the younger son learns that McCord killed his brother, he decides to gain his father's favor by killing Jason.
Director: Alex March
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1030 votesLoading...
#16 - Salute the Soldier Briefly
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1965
McCord saves a man who claims to have witnessed the massacre at Bitter Creek. The witness agrees to testify to the Army that McCord didn't run out on the battle but something about the story doesn't seem to ring true for Jason.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1030 votesLoading...
#17 - The Richest Man in Boot Hill
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1965
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Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1027 votesLoading...
#18 - $10,000 for Durango
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1965
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Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1028 votesLoading...
#19 - McCord's Way
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1966
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Director: William Witney
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1020 votesLoading...
#20 - Call to Glory (3)
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/13/1966
The crisis averted and Custer's political ambitions quelled for now, McCord and Custer part ways as Custer tells his friend he is on his way to a place called Little Big Horn.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1065 votesLoading...
#21 - Survival
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/1965
Jason McCord comes to the aid of a man, Jed Colbee, who he finds on foot and near death in the desert. Colbee tell Jas of his wife Sally & his daughter Jessie... who will be five in three days and how important it is for his ""Survival"" and to get to Granite Wells before the wagon train pulls out. With half a canteen of water & one horse, they head out for a two day ride to Granite Wells. Colbee fears that two men can't make the desert...but one man alone would have a better chance. So he leaves Jas with no horse and no water. An old indian finds Jas and gives him water & a burro and tells him to find the man and repay him for doing this to him. Jason sets out for revenge and seeks out Colbee...but when he sees Colbee and his daughter he has a change of heart. He wishes Jessie a ""happy birhday."" Jason says to Colbee..""you still owe me a cup of cheer"" and rides off. trivia...Jason McCord's horse is named ""Domino.""
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1034 votesLoading...
#22 - Price of a Name
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/23/1965
Jason and his friend Roy ride into a town after working on a long cattle drive. Miss Benson hires McCord as a supervisor for her expanding ranch but when Jason begins his new job, he finds a number of men waiting to rough him up. As the abuse continues, Jason begins to suspect that this is more than just a group of people seeking revenge for Bitter Creek and all of the clues point to McCord's lovely new boss.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1033 votesLoading...
#23 - A Proud Town
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/1965
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Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1023 votesLoading...
#24 - Call to Glory (2)
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/6/1966
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Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1025 votesLoading...
#25 - The Assassins (1)
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 3/27/1966
McCord returns to Washington once again only to find himself in the middle of a plot to assassinate the President. McCord discovers the plot only to wind up unconscious and captured by the assassins.
Director: William Witney
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Branded
Every episode of Branded ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Branded!
Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m....
Genre:Western
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"The Brave Endure" is the best rated episode of "Branded". It scored 8.5/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by Ron Winston and written by N/A, it aired on 4/25/1965. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Call to Glory (1)".