7.5/10138 votes#1 - The Century Turns
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1972
An aging lawman in the turn-of-the century West finds himself out of step with the times and reluctantly accepts a job as a deputy to an inexperienced college-educated Police Chief in Oklahoma. He uses his brain and primitive beginnings of early-day criminal science to solve crimes.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom
- 8.1/1045 votes
#2 - Hangman's Wages
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1972
The electric chair is about to make it's Western debut with a captured killer, but someone is attempting to cheat justice. Someone is making annonymous threats that there will be a murder a day until the killer is set free.
Director: George Marshall
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1040 votes
#3 - The Mystery of the Green Feather
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/1972
Hec sets out to clear innocent Indians and catch the real killers of three ranchers. Color blindness is a strange key to solving the mystery.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1039 votes
#4 - The Mystery Of The Yellow Rose
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1973
Hec acts as lawyer to a former girlfriend. Savannah is accused of killing the son of the richest man in New Mexico, a powerful man who controls both the Sheriff and Judge.
Director: Douglas Benton
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1039 votes
#5 - The Mystery Of Chalk Hill
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/18/1973
Hec hunts the killers of his fiancee, Norma Muldoon and her son Andy during a stagecoach robbery. His chief suspect is the son of an old friend and fellow lawman.
Director: Harry Morgan
Writer: N/A
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Hec Ramsey is a television Western, a production of Jack Webb's production company, Mark VII Limited, in association with Universal Studios, broadcast in the United...
Genre:Western
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Century Turns" is the best rated episode of "Hec Ramsey" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 138 votes. Directed by Daniel Petrie and written by Harold Jack Bloom, it aired on 10/8/1972. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Hangman's Wages".