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The Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo

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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.
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  • The Wayfarers
    8.9/10(41)
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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

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  • Vignette of a Sinner
    8.9/10(47)
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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

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  • The Most Dangerous Man Alive
    8.4/10(73)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Jeff Davis' Treasure
    8.4/10(51)
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    #4 - 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

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  • The Repentant Outlaw
    8.4/10(46)
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    #5 - 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

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  • Bitter Vengeance
    8.4/10(50)
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    #6 - 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

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  • The Dowry
    8.4/10(54)
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    #7 - 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

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  • Man for the Job
    8.3/10(52)
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    #8 - 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

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  • All That Glitters
    8.3/10(48)
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    #9 - 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

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  • Hometown Doctor
    8.3/10(44)
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    #10 - Hometown Doctor

    Season 6 Episode 21

    Aired 2/17/1962

    Cattle drovers waiting to deliver their beef to the railhead at Gloribee are making life miserable for the townspeople, but Jim Hardie won't accept the stock until they're cleared by a veterinarian. The local doctor died under suspicious circumstances and Hardie convinces his son, also a vet, to examine the stock and help solve the older man's death.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Thin Rope
    8.2/10(123)
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    #11 - 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.

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  • The Kid
    8.2/10(86)
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    #12 - 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

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  • Butch Cassidy
    8.2/10(87)
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    #13 - 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

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  • The Journey
    8.2/10(54)
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    #14 - The Journey

    Season 4 Episode 20

    Aired 1/25/1960

    Jim Hardie is sent to accompany Vincent Dodd, a jeweler, who is carrying $30,000 in gems from back east. Attempts have been made to steal the gems but Hardie is unable to stop a last attempt and there is a cast of possible suspects.

    Director: N/A

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  • Dead Man's Street
    8.2/10(66)
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    #15 - Dead Man's Street

    Season 4 Episode 31

    Aired 4/18/1960

    Passing through Paradise, California Jim Hardie finds himself backing up the local Wells Fargo agent and Marshal Murphy who he knows in a fight against the Ferguson brothers who own the area and the town when one brother is jailed.

    Director: N/A

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  • That Washburn Girl
    8.2/10(83)
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    #16 - 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

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  • The Lobo
    8.2/10(58)
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    #17 - The Lobo

    Season 5 Episode 32

    Aired 5/8/1961

    Sam Horne, wanted by Wells Fargo for robbery and murder, is wounded in a gunfight while taking his daughter to his brother to start school. The robbed agent Hi Walker offers Jim Hardie $10,000 out of his own pocket, to bring Horne in dead.

    Director: N/A

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  • Gunman's Revenge
    8.2/10(51)
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    #18 - 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

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  • Death Raffle
    8.2/10(49)
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    #19 - 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

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  • The Traveler
    8.2/10(38)
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    #20 - The Traveler

    Season 6 Episode 22

    Aired 2/24/1962

    Gloribee has a new schoolteacher named Brad Axton - a good man with a dark past that finally catches up to him.

    Director: N/A

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  • Shotgun Messenger
    8.1/10(103)
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    #21 - 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.

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  • Renegade Raiders
    8.1/10(89)
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    #22 - Renegade Raiders

    Season 1 Episode 8

    Aired 5/20/1957

    Jim goes undercover as a trainee for Wells Fargo to try and find out who is supplying renegade Indians with the guns they are using on their murderous raids. Something is strange with the Cheyenne stealing money for which they have no use.

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  • Doc Bell
    8.1/10(82)
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    #23 - 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.

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  • The Pickpocket
    8.1/10(74)
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    #24 - 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.

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  • Scapegoat
    8.1/10(64)
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    #25 - 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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Wayfarers" is the best rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo". It scored 8.9/10 based on 41 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/19/1962. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Vignette of a Sinner".