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The Best Episodes of Death Valley Days Season 16

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The Best Episodes of Death Valley Days Season 16

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    #1 - Shanghai Kelly's Birthday Party

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    Shanghai Kelly works a side job filling ships with shanghaied sailors. He counts on long sea voyages to insure his "clients" don't come back after him. His fiancé sets him up to retire early.

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    #2 - Chicken Bill

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    Chicken Bill (Dub Taylor) owns a silver mine that isn't paying out. He salts his mine to get his competition to pay off his old debit and fund his future.

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    #3 - Let My People Go

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    The Chumash Indians, enslaved by Spanish soldiers in early day California, rebel against their captors. Their leader Paconio realizes they are trapped in the mission and talks with the Padre to find a solution.

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    #4 - The Lone Grave

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    John Hail honors his wife's dying wish and returns to make a solitary journey to place a headstone on her remote grave.

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    #5 - The Girl Who Walked the West

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    Sacagawea leads the Lewis and Clark expedition.

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    #6 - The Informer Who Cried

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    Jim Murphy is about to be sentenced when Texas Ranger Captain Peak offers him a deal in exchange for his freedom. He must help capture bandit Sam Bass dead or alive but fellow gang member Barnes is suspicious of his return.

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    #7 - Spring Rendezvous

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    At a gathering of trappers Kit Carson takes on a belligerent man, who has insulted the Indians, in a series of contests.

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    #8 - Lost Sheep in Trinidad

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    Sister Blandina comes to the aid of a wounded robbery in the rough frontier town of Trinidad when no one else will. As she works to comfort him she learns he is a friend of the notorious Billy the Kid.

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    #9 - The Saga of Sadie Orchard

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    The Orchards get the contract to deliver silver in the isolated town of Hillsboro. After her husband is waylaid and beaten by bandits, Sadie takes over as the stage driver.

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    #10 - The Indiana Girl

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    A tomboy changes her ways when she meets the handsome constable of a mining town.

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    #11 - Prince of the Oyster Pirates

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    Jack agrees to buy French Frank's oyster boat but only if he spares Scratch's life. French, a violent man, vows vengeance when he loses his girl Mamie to Jack. Jack must outwit and diminish French as a hooligan.

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    #12 - The Friend

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    An inexperienced young man hears about a planned ambush on the sheriff and vows to help.

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    #13 - The Great Diamond Mines

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    A prospector and his partner try to con a banker.

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    #14 - Count Me In, Count Me Out

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    Count Peter is a charming rascal in Old California who expects to marry the beautiful heiress of a wealthy Don. But first he must serve a brief stint in a jail he designed and clear up a misunderstanding that might get him killed.

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    #15 - Dress for a Desert Girl

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    While her husband Zeb looks for gold, Cynthia lives in isolation in Death Valley. Although he has promised they will eventually leave, Cynthia begins to give up hope and her health fails. Zeb hopes a new dress will help.

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    #16 - Britta Goes Home

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    Gustaf Olaffson eagerly awaits the arrival of his future bride Britta from Sweden. Heading to Gustaf's sod house, Britta becomes disillusioned about her future. Visiting with Dan and Mary Brown, other Dakota homesteaders, help her overcome her fears.

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    #17 - Bread on the Desert

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    Two Americans on their way to Santa Fe are captured by Mexican troops and held prisoner until an Indian woman comes to their aid.

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    #18 - Green Is the Color of Gold

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    Aaron brings his new bride Rosie to Death Valley where his place is isolated and rundown. Aaron continues a futile look for gold but as Rosie is about to leave him, he discovers another mineral to make them wealthy.

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    #19 - Out of the Valley of Death

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    A wagon train takes the wrong cutoff and end up in Death Valley running short of food and water. Two of the stronger men leave to find supplies but those left behind start to give up hope of their return.

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    #20 - The Gold Mine on Main Street

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    Jesse declares the middle of Main Street is the place to find gold and is seemingly correct after the mine is successful. But his backers in town become increasingly suspicious when their questions go unanswered.

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    #21 - A Friend Indeed

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    Ten years after the events described in "Out of the Valley of Death", Asa Bennett is persuaded to join an expedition to find the Lost Gunsight Mine, a legendary vein of silver in the heart of Death Valley.

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    #22 - The Thirty-Caliber Town

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    The story of how the Winchester repeating rifle helped to bring law and order to a new north Idaho town. An epilogue featuring host Robert Taylor and Lester Shadduck, the mayor of Winchester, Idaho, was shot on location in 1967.

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    #23 - The Other Side of the Mountain

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    Wagonmaster Lassen faces an unruly mob when he tries a new route to California in the 1840s and is overheard saying he may be lost.

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    #24 - By the Book

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    Two young ladies move to Colorado to prove their land claim, but the local land manager intends to own it himself. Two brothers are enlisted to hinder the women, but find their charms irresistible.

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    #25 - The Pieces of the Puzzle

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    "The Baron of Arizona," James Reavis, files a claim against the government.

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Season 16 Ratings Summary

"Shanghai Kelly's Birthday Party" is the best rated episode of "Death Valley Days" season 16. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by Dennis Whitcomb, it aired on 10/7/1967. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Chicken Bill".