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The Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo

Every episode of Tales of Wells Fargo ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo!

Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:NBC

Best Episodes Summary

"The Wayfarers" is the best rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo". It scored 8.9/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/19/1962. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Vignette of a Sinner".

  • The Wayfarers
    8.9/1040 votes
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    #1 - The Wayfarers

    Season 6 Episode 33 - Aired 5/19/1962

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Vignette of a Sinner
    8.8/1043 votes
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    #2 - Vignette of a Sinner

    Season 6 Episode 34 - Aired 6/2/1962

    Jim Hardie finds his life's love in the series finale.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jeff Davis' Treasure
    8.6/1049 votes
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    #3 - Jeff Davis' Treasure

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1960

    Jim Hardie is forced to kill the man, Amos Birely, who can lead him to $100,000 in gold stolen by the man and three others years earlier. However, a friend unexpectedly provides Jim with a new lead to the buried gold involving three men.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Repentant Outlaw
    8.5/1045 votes
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    #4 - The Repentant Outlaw

    Season 5 Episode 35 - Aired 5/29/1961

    When Jim Hardie stops in Mesa City with an Army payroll, he finds his friend Doc Dawson is there practicing dentistry and medicine without a license again. A wounded outlaw kidnaps Doc to remove a bullet letting Doc overhear their plans.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bitter Vengeance
    8.5/1049 votes
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    #5 - Bitter Vengeance

    Season 5 Episode 37 - Aired 6/12/1961

    The Martin family is in disarray. Wells Fargo is closing its station there, Ben Martin has taken to drinking, and Sarah is still short $60 needed to pay off their mortgage. Wounded Jim Hardie arrives with neighbor Joe Snyder under arrest.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dowry
    8.5/1052 votes
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    #6 - The Dowry

    Season 5 Episode 39 - Aired 7/10/1961

    Bertram La Tour has requested Wells Fargo send Jim Hardie personally to escort his dowry of $200,000 and his granddaughter Michelle Bovarde to Baton Rouge where she is to be married. However, Jim is unaware why this is being done.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death Raffle
    8.5/1047 votes
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    #7 - Death Raffle

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1961

    Ex-convict Davey Hewitt is thrown off the train in Gloribee. He meets two members of his old outlaw gang who try to convince him to join them in robbing a bank that contains a large gold shipment for Wells Fargo. Meanwhile Jessamie, the handicapped daughter of Hewitt's new employer tries to convince him to go straight.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Butch Cassidy
    8.4/1082 votes
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    #8 - Butch Cassidy

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1958

    When Butch Cassidy is released from prison, Jim Hardie, who sent him to prison, is tasked with asking him to work for Wells Fargo. While on a train, Butch meets an outlaw friend, Idaho, who with others are planning to rob the train.

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: D.D. Beauchamp, Mary M. Beauchamp

  • The Most Dangerous Man Alive
    8.4/1071 votes
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    #9 - The Most Dangerous Man Alive

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1958

    Jim Hardie's task of catching the Manning Brothers is interrupted when his attempt to help a stranded man backfires. The man, John Leslie Nagel, has a $25,000 bounty on him so he trusts no one including Hardie who has no interest in him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All That Glitters
    8.4/1046 votes
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    #10 - All That Glitters

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1960

    Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to investigate the theft of $50,000. The catch is that they do not know when or where the money was stolen. Jim must first determine those answers. He is suspicious as the Marshal is the best safe cracker.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gunfighter
    8.3/1054 votes
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    #11 - The Gunfighter

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1958

    Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to Comanche, Texas to find the Rucker brothers who are hanging around there. Unknown to Hardie, John Wesley Hardin is there, a cousin to the Rucker brothers and still holding a grudge against Hardie.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Train Robbery
    8.3/1048 votes
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    #12 - The Train Robbery

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1959

    Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to oversee and guard a shipment of old paper money from Virginia City to San Francisco to be destroyed when an anonymous tip is received that the Coyle brothers plan to steal the rail shipment.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Man for the Job
    8.3/1049 votes
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    #13 - Man for the Job

    Season 4 Episode 37 - Aired 5/30/1960

    Wells Fargo sends Jim Hardie to Goldfield to help setup a new station that will be shipping silver. Jim is forced to hire an old employee suspected of helping rob Wells Fargo a few years ago in Tonodah when the original hire looks bad.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bride and the Bandit
    8.3/1050 votes
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    #14 - The Bride and the Bandit

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1960

    Jim Hardie is on the trail of an holdup man when he arrives in a town where the agent is awaiting a bride to be. She arrives on the stage which has been held up but her knowledge of the incident goes beyond simply being a witness to it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • That Washburn Girl
    8.3/1077 votes
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    #15 - That Washburn Girl

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1961

    Wells Fargo agent Jim Hardie becomes involved with a woman Wells Fargo agent, Nora Washburn whose brother, Tom Washburn, has become engaged to the daughter, Ruby Coe, of a former outlaw Jonas Coe.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fraud
    8.3/1055 votes
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    #16 - Fraud

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1961

    Jim Hardie is sent to the town of Still River to investigate a $20,000 insurance claim. When he arrives the local agent can't be found. Jim breaks into the office where he finds the agent dead in what looks like an apparent suicide.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gunman's Revenge
    8.3/1049 votes
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    #17 - Gunman's Revenge

    Season 5 Episode 34 - Aired 5/22/1961

    Outlaw Rocky Nelson has been released from prison early and he has four names on a list he aims to eliminate for sending him to prison. The list includes Jim Harde who is on his way to warn and protect the others involved.

    Director: Lewis R. Foster

    Writer: Lewis R. Foster

  • The Thin Rope
    8.2/10120 votes
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    #18 - The Thin Rope

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/18/1957

    Jim Hardie is assigned to ride shotgun on a stagecoach that was held up carrying a valuable cargo of gold, but has to contend with a driver who thinks he can handle any outlaws he meets with all by himself.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Shotgun Messenger
    8.2/10102 votes
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    #19 - Shotgun Messenger

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/7/1957

    A rich gold strike in Pleasant Valley has the Wells Fargo Co. setting up a new stagecoach run linking the boom town with San Francisco. Hardie over the objections of the branch manager selects the son of a disgraced Wells Fargo employee.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Kid
    8.2/1085 votes
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    #20 - The Kid

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1957

    Hardie, sent by Wells Fargo, tries to clear a young man he hired for them charged with murder when he's found standing over a dead man with his gun still smoking. With no time due to a quick trial, Hardie is forced to act as his lawyer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Doc Bell
    8.2/1080 votes
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    #21 - Doc Bell

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/7/1958

    Pretending to be hardened convict, Hardie escapes from prison with a felon who stashed the proceeds from a stagecoach robbery before he was captured. The Wells Fargo detective hopes that his new partner will lead him to the hidden loot.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Pickpocket
    8.2/1070 votes
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    #22 - The Pickpocket

    Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 4/28/1958

    Jim's train is robbed and he is left without funds in a small town whose businessmen refuse to grant him credit. With the help of a friendly old pickpocket, Hardie manages to alleviate his money problems and bring the thieves to justice.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Scapegoat
    8.2/1061 votes
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    #23 - Scapegoat

    Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 5/5/1958

    Jim is sent to investigate the murder of a Wells Fargo agent and finds that the sheriff suspects their new teacher, an ex-convict. Although Jim sent the man to prison, he is convinced that the killer is one of the town's leading citizens.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Luke Frazer
    8.2/1041 votes
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    #24 - Luke Frazer

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/1959

    Jim pursues Luke Frazer for murder right after he guns Bud Scanlon down. Hardie apprehends the gunslinger who's worried his impressionable brother Johnny is following in his footsteps. Hardie decides to help prevent that from happening.

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: Thomas T. Flynn, Dwight Newton

  • Wild Cargo
    8.2/1065 votes
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    #25 - Wild Cargo

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/19/1959

    Jim Hardie makes a trip to Oro Gulch to pick up a shipment finding himself riding with a four woman entertainment troupe. The trip seems to be linked to a series of robberies along the way - especially when Jim recognizes one of the women.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A