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The Best Episodes of Death Valley Days Season 13

Every episode of Death Valley Days Season 13 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Death Valley Days Season 13!

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created...
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:Syndication

Season 13 Ratings Summary

"Honor the Name Dennis Driscoll" is the best rated episode of "Death Valley Days" season 13. It scored 7.7/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1964. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Lucky Cow".

  • Honor the Name Dennis Driscoll
    7.7/1038 votes

    #1 - Honor the Name Dennis Driscoll

    Season 13 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1964

    When an army convoy Is threatened by Indian attack, a young soldier played by a young Tom Skerritt volunteers to get help from a nearby fort.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lucky Cow
    7.7/1039 votes

    #2 - The Lucky Cow

    Season 13 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1964

    A scheming Indian chief sells cows to unsuspecting settlers, steals them, only to sell them back to the same unsuspecting settlers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Big John and the Rainmaker
    8.1/1034 votes

    #3 - Big John and the Rainmaker

    Season 13 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1964

    A charlatan traveling rainmaker gets hired during a long drought, sparking conflict between rival local governments.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • From the Earth, a Heritage
    7.4/1037 votes

    #4 - From the Earth, a Heritage

    Season 13 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1964

    A rival trapper is dogged in his pursuit to purchase Joe Meek's beautiful Indian wife from him, but he'll have none of it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Other White Man
    8.1/1033 votes

    #5 - The Other White Man

    Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1964

    Scipio Gaines is an escaped slave who has been living among the Indians for years. When a government official shows up Scipio is prepared to giving up his freedom, not knowing much has changed in the ensuing years.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hero of Fort Halleck
    7.6/1039 votes

    #6 - The Hero of Fort Halleck

    Season 13 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1964

    Jim Campbell has a rival in Lt. Harper for pretty newcomer Elsie's affections. He and his friends pretend to be rogue warriors to frighten the cavalryman but create a problem between the soldiers and Indians. It takes all of Jim's ingenuity to fix the situation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Left Hand Is Damned
    7.2/1038 votes

    #7 - The Left Hand Is Damned

    Season 13 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1964

    A kindhearted barroom singer nurses a gunfighter back to health.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • There Was Another Dalton Brother
    7.6/1039 votes

    #8 - There Was Another Dalton Brother

    Season 13 Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1964

    Newly appointed Deputy Marshal Frank Dalton takes his job seriously. However he must choose between duty and love when the father of his girl becomes the prime suspect in a missing persons case.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tribute to the Dog
    8.6/1059 votes

    #9 - Tribute to the Dog

    Season 13 Episode 9 - Aired 12/24/1964

    This is about real life attorney George Graham Vest (December 6, 1830 - August 9, 1904) who was also later a U.S. Congressman from Missouri. The story is about a man who is sued by a boy for shooting his dog named Old Drum on October 18, 1869. Vest's, "a man's best friend" closing arguments from the trial became more famous than Vest himself. Starring future Governor of California and President of The U.S. Ronald Reagan as George Graham Vest.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The $25,000 Wager
    8.1/1034 votes

    #10 - The $25,000 Wager

    Season 13 Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/1964

    California Governor Leland Stanford bets an enormous amount of money in trying to prove a point about horse racing. He needs photographer Eadward Muybridge to get the proof he needs to win the wager.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Bargain Is for Keeping
    7.8/1032 votes

    #11 - A Bargain Is for Keeping

    Season 13 Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/1964

    Andy Carter collects items cast off from wagon trains and then sales them. Mary Ann recognizes a family heirloom and demands it back but Andy insists she work for it's value. Left together they find they have more in common than not.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Peter the Hunter
    8.1/1039 votes

    #12 - Peter the Hunter

    Season 13 Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/1964

    A hunter and his daughters save an Easterner.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Paid in Full
    8.0/1027 votes

    #13 - Paid in Full

    Season 13 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1965

    Colonel Hunter, a former Confederate officer returns to Texas to call on Kathy McLennan, the wife of a dead soldier who had been killed while serving under him during the Civil War. He discovers that the widow and other ranchers in the valley had been cheated by a wealthy cattle baron who gave them legally unclaimable IOUs in when purchasing their stock. Hunter tries to reason with the cattle baron, but when this fails devises a tactic to recover the money stolen from them.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Bell for Volcano
    7.7/1031 votes

    #14 - A Bell for Volcano

    Season 13 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1965

    A town drunk and a businessman from a small town make a trip to San Francisco to buy a bell for the new Church In Volcano, California. While on the way back the businessman gets sick in Sacramento and the drunk is supposed to take the bell alone to Volcano but hatches a plan to steal it and go back to Frisco and sell it. Along the way a bandito tries to rob him and steal the bell, but the bandito who was going to kill the drunk, realizes who the bell is for, and allows the drunk to go on his way as the Preacher was kind to him. This makes the drunk change his ways and...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Trouble with Taxes
    8.6/1037 votes

    #15 - The Trouble with Taxes

    Season 13 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1965

    Jeb Slade talks his brother Billy into helping him rob Aaron Winters, who is wealthy from his borax findings. They fail and while Aaron escorts Billy to the authorities, he learns the type of character the young man has.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Race at Cherry Creek
    7.6/1034 votes

    #16 - The Race at Cherry Creek

    Season 13 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1965

    Two editors compete to give Denver it's first newspaper.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death in the Desert
    7.1/1033 votes

    #17 - Death in the Desert

    Season 13 Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/1965

    The Paiute tribe have their own traditions concerning justice but when there is a killing, the white settlers want the guilty punished by their system.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Raid on the San Francisco Mint
    7.9/1039 votes

    #18 - Raid on the San Francisco Mint

    Season 13 Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/1965

    Billy Ralston is a fast talking banker who cannot cover his customer's assets. He comes up with a scheme involving the mint to solve his problem yet remain out of jail.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Magic Locket
    8.2/1037 votes

    #19 - Magic Locket

    Season 13 Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/1965

    Librarian and part-time poet Ina Coolbrith takes precocious but intelligent young street waif Dorita under her wing. As their relationship grows Ina finds that a locket means more to her fulfillment than any literary renown.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Battle of San Francisco Bay
    7.6/1046 votes

    #20 - The Battle of San Francisco Bay

    Season 13 Episode 20 - Aired 3/18/1965

    After a mob takes control of the docks of San Francisco, Captain David Farragut formulates a plan to enable the Navy to regain control.

    Director: Jack Shea

    Writer: Robert Hardy Andrews, Jerry MacMullen

  • The Wild West's Biggest Train Holdup
    8.1/1039 votes

    #21 - The Wild West's Biggest Train Holdup

    Season 13 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1965

    The aging and ailing sheriff of Washoe County, Nevada gets a big assist from his deputy in the county's fight with the Central Pacific railroad over payment of back taxes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • No Gun Behind His Badge
    7.8/1058 votes

    #22 - No Gun Behind His Badge

    Season 13 Episode 22 - Aired 3/25/1965

    The new sheriff of Abilene, "Bear River" Smith, tries to uphold the law in the wild town without carrying a sidearm -- with mixed results.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fighting Sky Pilot
    8.4/1038 votes

    #23 - Fighting Sky Pilot

    Season 13 Episode 23 - Aired 3/25/1965

    Reverend Ben Darniell believes he should practice what he preaches, and he refuses to resort to violence in the face of opposition. But he finds a minister in Carson City must be prepared to fight for those who cannot defend themselves.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Journey
    7.9/1040 votes

    #24 - The Journey

    Season 13 Episode 24 - Aired 3/29/1965

    Two cavalry officers have very different attitudes about the treatment of their Indian prisoners. A showdown occurs after an escape.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Kate Melville and the Law
    8.0/1040 votes

    #25 - Kate Melville and the Law

    Season 13 Episode 25 - Aired 4/4/1965

    A new judge and a recently-appointed woman sheriff have conflict over the concepts of judicial fairness versus frontier justice.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A