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Season 1
8.6/10119 votesLoading...The Deputy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1958
In this pilot episode, Dan Troop takes over in Laramie after the previous marshal is killed. His first job is to bring in the marshal's killer, and in the process he gains a fine deputy in Johnny McKay. (This is also the first of several episodes where veteran actors Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef appeared.)
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 8.4/1074 votesLoading...
The Prisoner
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1958
In a tribute to High Noon, a man comes into town, looking for a fight. When he kills a man, he is arrested. Johnny gets lessons from Dan on how to handle a prisoner
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1070 votesLoading...
The Joker
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1958
Dan and Johnny try to capture a prisoner, who tells Johnny that he is his father. Dan is shocked when Johnny turns in his badge, saying he has bad blood and won't make a good lawman. At the end, Dan and Johnny have a gunfight with the prisoner, and Johnny takes back his job.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1077 votesLoading...
The Oath
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1958
While Dan and Johnny are taking a killer to be hanged and a doctor to prison to serve a term, they come upon a stranded stagecoach with various passengers who need help. While helping the passengers, a conflict ensues, which ends with new light being brought out in the Doctor's case.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1065 votesLoading...
The Outcast
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1958
Bob Ford, who shot Jesse James in the back, comes to Laramie, where Dan and Johnny must protect him from mob mentality in some who feel Jesse James was a hero (although Dan seems to think he was a 'two-bit' killer). The citizens of Laramie join in until Dan talks them out of it.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1062 votesLoading...
The Jury
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1958
A new saloon is opened in Laramie by Kate Wilson, who has had several scrapes with the law, but is always acquitted by the all-male jurors due to serious flirting on her part. When the same thing happens in Laramie, Dan pulls out all the stops, bringing in an ex-beau of hers doing time for one of her former crimes, and an all-woman jury to de-rail her.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1060 votesLoading...
Wanted
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1958
Fallon, a ruthless bounty hunter, brings in a body of a wanted man and collects the reward from Dan, who knew him elsewhere and doesn't like him. After being told to leave town, Fallon shows Dan and Johnny a picture of the next man on his 'hit list'. Johnny knows him and tries to protect him from the killer, but is injured in the process. Finally, Dan must step in to stop another killing by Fallon.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1061 votesLoading...
The Badge
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1958
Johnny puts his badge on the line when he bets Dan that his life long friend, Bill Anderson, is a good guy - and the only one in his family. Bill has trouble through some misunderstandings, and his brother gets out of prison at just the right time to really stir things up, but Johnny remains loyal to him throughout.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1057 votesLoading...
Bloodline
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1958
Luke Saint is a old codger who has a fast draw for a son named Matt. Matt has a reputation, which Luke likes to feed. On the way into Laramie, Matt is ambushed, shot and told he will never shoot again. His pa continues to cause trouble, thinking Matt will avenge him. When he realizes he can't, he goes off and gets Matt's son, Mark, also a crack shot, to get retribution. But Mark is only after Matt.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1056 votesLoading...
The Intruders
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1958
A Chinese girl is the only one willing to testify after her husband is killed by a couple of men extorting money from the Chinese mine workers outside of town. Although the two men and their boss try to foment hatred and prejudice toward the Chinese who work so hard there, in the end, justice prevails.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1058 votesLoading...
Short Straw
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1958
Upset that Dan refuses to recind a 10 p.m. curfew he's put on all the saloons in town, the three saloon owners draw straws to see who gets the 'short straw'. That man is the one who is supposed to kill Marshall Troop. Instead, he hires a killer whom Dan knows and recognizes in the cafe. The rest of the show is spent trying to figure out who he's there to kill - and who paid him to do it.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Clair Huffaker
- 7.5/1057 votesLoading...
Lady in Question
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1958
When Johnny McKay's old sweetheart comes to town, she is followed by her lover who goads Johnny into a gunfight. Johnny kills him, but the man's gun is missing when Johnny returns with Dan Troop. Troop must place Johnny under arrest for murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1058 votesLoading...
The Master
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1958
Dan's pleased to hear his old mentor is in town, but he and Johnny are disappointed to find out he's there to help the Cattleman's Association to run off homesteaders, a problem Dan had just been dealing with. Events lead to a show-down between the two old friends, with a predictable outcome.
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1059 votesLoading...
The Outsider
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1959
Rene LeBeau is a half-breed Indian woman who lives on a ranch with her Sioux mother after her father dies, and the cattlemen in the area are trying to run her off. Intolerance causes a host of problems for the woman, but especially a group who keep running off her help. One of the cattlemen's employees, however, disagrees with the treatment, and is shot for it. Dan must fight the small group of hate mongerers as well as one who secretly lusts after Rene.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1057 votesLoading...
The Captives
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1959
Jack McCall, who murdered Wild Bill Hickok, ends up in Laramie, holed up in Johnny's ailing 'Uncle' Jess' cabin. When Johnny shows up with the doctor, they are held captive. Then Johnny is sent to town for provisions so the killer can make his escape, and a suspicious Dan Troop follows at a distance. In the end, everything is resolved.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1068 votesLoading...
The Encounter
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1959
While going to arrest two men for murder, Dan is mauled by a bear. A woman saves him and takes him to her cabin, but he doesn't know she's the sister of one of the wanted men. She nurses him, even though she knows he's a lawman because of his badge, which she saw and threw away. Then her brother and his partner come back, and emotions run high. In the end, the situation is resolved, though not as Dan would have liked.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Clair Huffaker
- 8.0/1054 votesLoading...
The Brand Release
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1959
A wounded Ben Greene is accused of stealing cattle. He insists that he bought them legally, and his brand release is at his cabin. The men who accuse him are unsavory characters that both Johnny and Dan seem to distrust. Several of the players in this episode begin journeys in search of witnesses and proof, ending up, of course, with justice prevailing.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Oliver Crawford
- 7.6/1058 votesLoading...
The Runaway
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1959
Ben Steed is a soldier who wants to be a writer. His father, an army colonel, wants him to stay in the army. The son leaves, but not with the intent to desert as much as to get away from the situation. Complicating matters is the fact that he and his girlfriend, whom his father dislikes, have secretly gotten married, and also a troublemaker trying to get revenge on the Colonel.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1053 votesLoading...
Warpath
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1959
The buffalo hunters, led by Tom Cardigan, are persecuting little Billy Bright in the saloon because he used to be married to a Shoshone Indian. The Shoshone are on the warpath because Cardigan killed the chief's brother. Troop stops them and then lets Bright go, but then he learns that the buffalo men hung Bright outside of town. He goes to try to stop a war, and the Indians attack him and the buffalo hunters.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 8.2/1058 votesLoading...
The Gunman
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1959
Reformed gunfighter Kurt Monroe comes into Laramie to meet his fiancee, Lucy, on the stage. But when the stage comes in without her, his resolve to stay on the straight and narrow is put to the test.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Clair Huffaker
- 8.0/1057 votesLoading...
The Big Hat
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1959
Big Hat Anderson and Lily Keats are married, and Frank Tate, the newspaper editor, is given the grooms 'big hat' to wear. As he leaves the saloon, he is shot and killed. Dan must find the killer, and starts with former loves of the bride. Frank Tate was a regular in the cast, as the editor who respected and worked with Dan and Johnny. His niece, Julie, comes in this episode to take over his job at the paper.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1061 votesLoading...
The Chef
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1959
Hans is a chef wanting to open up his own restaurant, but the Youngs keep him bound to a contract they have with him. Dan helps him get out of it in an unusual (but legal) way, in a show played for laughs, one of the lighter episodes.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1061 votesLoading...
The Posse
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1959
A posse is formed to find a suspected murderer, and a gunslinger is included in the posse. The other citizens object, but he turns out to be the only one willing to help Dan protect the suspect once they find him. The suspect's wife, meanwhile, makes a confession to Johnny that he must tell Dan Troop before it's too late.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1059 votesLoading...
The Visitor
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1959
Jamie was left with the Welches to raise after his father, Jack Rollins, went to prison. Jack is out, and back to reclaim his son.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1063 votesLoading...
Battle Scar
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1959
A military man has a breakdown and finally reveals the truth about a war battle: he let people believe he had been a hero, when instead he was court-martialed for deserting his men.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1074 votesLoading...
The Gang
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1959
The Hayes gang is riding into Laramie, and one of the riders, Clay, is coming in to warn Dan. In a rare show of Dan's background, we learn Clay is his brother, that they both loved the same girl who went off with Clay and then died, and that Clay is not exactly a law-abiding citizen. But he still wants his brother and Johnny to win this fight against the gang, so he gets out of a sickbed to help when no one in the town will.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Clair Huffaker
- 8.6/1059 votesLoading...
The Souvenir
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/5/1959
When Dan and Johnny both draw and fire on an escaped convicted killer's brother, Dan takes the credit for it in order to protect Johnny and draw out the other 2 brothers. But when Johnny learns that he was, in fact, the one who killed Davey, he turns in his badge.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1058 votesLoading...
The Young Toughs
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/12/1959
Three young toughs cause trouble for Johnny while he's left in charge while Dan goes out of town. Finally, he's forced into a shoot out with all three of them, just as Dan gets back.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Clair Huffaker
- 8.4/1055 votesLoading...
Riding Shotgun
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/19/1959
Larry DeLong is a reformed criminal who is now employed as a shotgun rider on the stageline. When his former gang robs the stage on which he's riding, and the driver is killed, the towns people of Laramie feel Larry is about ready to rejoin the gang. Once again, Dan's faith in him turns the tide.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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The Journey
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/26/1959
Dan starts on a journey in response to a telegram asking for his help in another town. When he gets there, no one seems to know anything about why he was summoned. Dan must solve this mystery.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1059 votesLoading...
The Huntress
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/3/1959
When stage robbers kill Loma Williams' brother, she becomes a one-woman vigilante force. After one of the men tells her where she can find the other one, she kills him. Then she heads for Laramie, the place where she was told she could find the other one. Dan tries to head off a bloodbath.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Clair Huffaker
- 8.1/1047 votesLoading...
The Return
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/10/1959
Dan helps a man released from prison to make the right decision between the girl that he loves and going back to his old gang.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: James Barnett
- 8.2/1056 votesLoading...
The Senator
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/17/1959
Dan and Johnny must stop an assassination attempt on the Senator, who is supposed to stop in Laramie on the midnight train.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Clair Huffaker
- 8.0/1053 votesLoading...
The Ring
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/24/1959
Dan sets a trap for a murderer after a young woman is found killed in Laramie.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1057 votesLoading...
The Bandits
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/31/1959
After Ches Ryan's pay is docked, he retaliates by robbing the payroll. As he escapes, he passes through a town plagued with an illness. He comes across a young woman and her little brother who are both ill and have no one to look after them, so he stays to help. Dan catches up to him while there, and consequently gets the fever himself. Ryan then tends to Dan, also.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: Oliver Crawford
- 8.5/1063 votesLoading...
The Wayfarer
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/7/1959
Doc Holliday is in Laramie, and Dan would like to see him go. He is hanging around, however, for a woman due on the stagecoach, and he won't go until she gets there.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1054 votesLoading...
The Conclave
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/14/1959
One member of a gang planning to rob a stage gets drunk while in Laramie and subsequently is jailed. He offers to tell Dan the scheme for some whiskey. Then, Dan has to try to foil the plot.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1050 votesLoading...
Red Ransom
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/21/1959
After Sioux Chief Red Horse's son is murdered, he holds Johnny hostage and tells Dan he will kill Johnny in the morning unless Dan can find the killer.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1064 votesLoading...
The Friend
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/28/1959
While Dan is gone (again), Johnny runs across an old friend in town, not knowing he has joined a gang planning on robbing the bank of Laramie. When his friend, Buck Harmon, finds out he's the deputy in town, he first tries to talk him into going out of town with him for the evening, then ends up joining him in the fight against his gang.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A