7.5/10138 votesLoading...#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
- 7.8/1039 votesLoading...
#2 - 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
- 7.9/1032 votesLoading...
#3 - A Hard Road to Vengeance
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/25/1973
A dead man shot by a lawman becomes a hero, despite the fact he was really a cold-blooded killer. Hec tries to expose the truth about him, and clear the lawman's name.
Director: Alex March
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1040 votesLoading...
#4 - 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
- 8.0/1029 votesLoading...
#5 - The Detroit Connection
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/30/1973
A crime syndicate comes to town and are victimizing oildrillers who are tricked into accepting loans from the syndicate.
Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1045 votesLoading...
#6 - 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
- 8.1/1025 votesLoading...
#7 - Dead Heat
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/1974
A healthy looking young man dies of heart failure, but Hec is convinced that it happened naturally.
Director: Richard Quine
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1027 votesLoading...
#8 - Only Birds and Fools
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 4/7/1974
The town is buzzing over the impossible dream of man in flight. Two men arrive to test a glider and become suspects in the murder of a rival flyer.
Director: Harry Morgan
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1030 votesLoading...
#9 - Scar Tissue
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/1974
A hotheaded young man comes to town looking for his father, who deserted he and his mother many years before. When the father turns up dead Hec tries to prove that the young man is not guilty.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1039 votesLoading...
#10 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Hec Ramsey
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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Century Turns" is the worst rated episode of "Hec Ramsey". 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 scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Mystery of the Yellow Rose".