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The Mail Riders

Battle at Apache Pass

Indian Agent

The Captive

Passage Deferred

Medicine Men

A young Indian working as a scout for the Army is struggling between his loyalty to the Army and his loyalty to his brother, a member of Geronimo's renegade Indians.

Hermano

A sideshow owner schemes to turn an Indian into his star attraction. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Cheewaukee: Eugene Iglesias.

Caged

A lieutenant once lured five Indians into a murderous trap. Now he faces the only one who escaped---Cochise (Michael Ansara). Haskell: Robert Cornthwaite.

Return from the Shadows

A youngster reports that he saw a camel, a dinosaur---and a murder. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Ramon: Ricky Vera.

Cry Wolf

Jeffords heads for San Francisco when a Government clothing order is sidetracked. Terry: Angie Dickinson. Emperor Norton: Florenz Ames.

The Conspirators

Area commodity providers conduct raids which turn deadly disguised as Aravaipa Apaches to foment conflict and draw military into the area and so gain profit from the increased presence of troops.

The Raiders

White settlers attack an Indian village in reprisal for Geronimo's raids. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Griffin: Hal Smith.

Apache Massacre

The Mexican Army aids Jeffords' search for Geronimo. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cathy: Kathleen Nolan. Cochise: Michael Ansara.

The Rescue

A theft of horses as a wedding gift for a tribeswoman by one of Cochise's braves imperils peace with the Chiricahua and the relationship of Jeffords and Cochise.

Apache Dowry

Quarry: an Indian brave suspected of shooting a woman. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Hawkins: Damian O'Flynn. Walters: Philip Van Zandt.

The Trial

Against Jeffords' advice, a brother and sister wish to take an Apache boy back east to be given a white man's education.

The Missionaries

Cochise arranges a peace conference with Geronimo. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Chato: Anthony Caruso. Jeffords: John Lupton. Toweega: Christopher Dark.

The Challenge

A Chiricahua man who has just completed medical school finds himself lacking acceptance of both Apache and white populations while the injury of Chiricahua and white playmates exacerbates the predicament.

Doctor

When a retired Apache hating general visits the territory as a now Washington official and is shot by an unrequited love, an Apache brave is blamed by the biased settlers.

Powder Keg

The son of a storekeeper who was killed by white reservation poachers when defending an Apache brave is captured and held for ransom when he pursues the poachers.

Legacy of a Hero

Apaches blame a malaria outbreak on neighboring settlers. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cholano: John Beradino.

Rebellion

During a harsh winter, Jeffords is compelled to use his own means to provide food for the reservation and keep the peace while an army officer and government agencies delay the delivery of promised provisions .

Ghost Face

The Apaches fight a Government official's efforts to push them off their land. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Flagstaff: James Craig.

Johnny Flagstaff

Jeffords tries to spring a murder suspect from Cochise's custody. Younger: Paul Richards. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara.

The Desperado

A former general schemes to push the Indians off their land. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara.

Fathers and Sons

Jeffords and Cochise head for the Mexican border in pursuit of a boy and his herd of infected cattle. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Teeahbay: Eugene Martin. Harrison: Clancy Cooper.

Quarantine

Cochise and Jeffords trap a killer, then lose their horses in the desert. Taggert: John Larch. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara.

Ordeal

The Assassin

Two archaeologists prowl the reservation recording Indian customs. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Morgan: Arthur Hanson. Regis: Anthony Eustrel. Katena: Richard Hale. Nogalo: Alex Montoya.

The Archaeologist

An Indian girl is hampered in her efforts to get an education. Marsheela: Donna Martell. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Jeffords: John Lupton. Pete: Jan Merlin.

Apache Girl

A chief's son is being framed for arson and murder. Rano: Buzz Henry. Kotoy: George J. Lewis. Jeffords: John Lupton. Tim: James Dobson. Bobo: John Doucette.

The Broken Wire

Cochise and Jeffords join forces to thwart Geronimo's attack plans. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Jeffords: John Lupton. Geronimo: Charles Horvath. Louise: Mae Clark.

Attack on Fort Grant

White Man's Magic

A Mexican ranch owner is pressured by his foreman to not allow Cochise to move and water his cattle on the ranch property, by threatening to tell the don's daughter that her mother was Apache.

Conquistador

Jeffords intervenes when an exiled Apache abandons his child. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Manuel: Dan Casbian. Sanza: Jil Jarmyn. Tabor: Ken Christy.

Apache Child

Ghost Sickness

Black Moment

Gun runners intent on supplying arms to the factions in a Mexican power struggle steal and buy all the guns and ammunition in the area and use outlaw Chiricahuas to blame Cochise's group.

The Arsenal

Devil's Eye

Cochise asks for a teacher to instruct in the ways of white culture. To his chagrin, the one he gets is not only a woman, but a woman who holds fast to cultural values that demean Apache customs.

The Teacher

The Bounty Hunters

Renegades Return

Smoke Signal

Son of Cochise

White Savage

Indian Medicine

Water Witch

An outlaw sells whiskey to the Apaches which causes several deaths among the Indians. Cochise begins a search for the outlaw.

Outlaws

When a boy from a criminal family is caught stealing, Jeffords takes custody of him to prevent his imprisonment. But he then farms the boy to Cochise to teach him life lessons, to the mortification of his parents and the settlement folk.

Bad Boy

Massacre

Shadow of Cochise

Warrant for Arrest

Escape

Aztec Treasure

Hired Killer

Panic

The Duel

The Iron Maiden

The Sisters

War Trail

Turncoat

Cochise, is wounded in a battle and appoints a subchief to rule the Chiracahuas. The new leader, intoxicated with power, tries to lead the Apaches back to war.

Power

Bear Trap

Old Enemy

A US Cavalry general posts troops on the Chirikawa reservation, distrustful of Cochise.

Blood Brothers

The Courage of Ling Tang

Backlash

Manhunt

The Outlaws

Jeopardy

The Transfer

Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 season. Selected repeats were then shown once again in prime time during the summer of 1960.

The Best Seasons of Broken Arrow

The Best Seasons of Broken Arrow

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