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#1 - The Day the Empire Stood Still
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1962
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Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Kathleen Hite, Frank S. Nugent
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#2 - Ballard Number One
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1962
Sam Ballard's embezzling killed Redigo's father. Now Sam's back---digging for oil near the Garret ranch.
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#3 - A Place to Put a Life
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1962
Redigo returns to the small ranch his father left him and finds that it's being run by a teen-ager.
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#4 - Ride to a Fall
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1962
Dahlbeck's guest at a ranch party seems to wield an eerie hold over him.
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#5 - Long Past, Long Remembered
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1962
Wealthy Tom Cole visits the spread during a severe drought and his untimely friendliness suggests he wants to buy the ranch.
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#6 - Walk Like a King
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1962
Ex-employee Barney Swanton returns to the ranch rich but is still envious of Redigo, whose job he always wanted.
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#7 - The Fire Dancer
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1962
Story of a raging oil-well fire and the man who offers to put it out.
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#8 - The Tall Shadow
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1962
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#9 - The Earth Mover
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1962
Glenn Kassin wants to build a model city near Mesa, but the landowner refuses to sell.
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#10 - Pressure Lock
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1962
In the midst of negotiating for oil rights, Redigo is called out of town---leaving Tal to handle the bargaining.
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#11 - Echo of a Man
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1962
Worries over his pretty young ward are causing a drop in efficiency for chief engineer Tabor.
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#12 - When the Gods Laugh
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1962
A sharecropper who objects to education uses abusive tactics to keep his son home from school.
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#13 - Green, Green Hills
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1962
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#14 - The Four Thumbs Story
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1963
A Native American war veteran's penchant for violence is isolating him from his friends, neighbors and family.
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#15 - End of an Image
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1963
Janet Rainey claims she's just going shopping---but there are those who suspect she's leaving town.
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#16 - The Loner
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1963
Mike Novak wants to work on the Garret spread until he's paid for a mare of his choice, but his choice is Tal's favorite.
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#17 - Where the Hawk Is Wheeling
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1963
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#18 - No Small Wars
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1963
Adding urgency to his surgery-or-death status, Redigo's sick friend is a very uncooperative patient.
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#19 - The Tiger Inside
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1963
Afraid that a volunteer posse may take the law into its own hands, Redigo joins the hunt for a man accused of robbery.
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#20 - Season of Growth
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1963
Connie's former beau is back at the ranch---expressing a new interest in working and a renewed interest in her.
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#21 - Seven Days on Rough Street
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1963
After claiming he doesn't need the security of the Garret ranch, Tal leaves for Delgado---on the bet he can't stay a week.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Kathleen Hite
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#22 - A House in Order
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1963
News of her fatal illness inspires Lucia to establish a better relationship between son Tal and foreman Redigo.
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#23 - Down There, the World
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1963
The mine shuts down when the heady enchantress running a vital processing plant decides to buy out the Garrets.
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#24 - Burnout
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1963
Forest Ranger Tom Barton has problems: the Garret logging operation is violating the timber contract with the Forest Service--and logging foreman Chris Norden is a tough guy to deal with.
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#25 - Arrow in the Sky
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/9/1963
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The Worst Episodes of Empire
Every episode of Empire ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Empire!
Empire is an hour-long Western television series set on a 1960s 500,000-acre ranch in New Mexico, starring Richard Egan, Terry Moore, Charles Bronson, and Ryan...
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Day the Empire Stood Still" is the worst rated episode of "Empire". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Kathleen Hite, Frank S. Nugent, it aired on 9/25/1962. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Ballard Number One".