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The Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Tales of Wells Fargo Season 6 Episode 33 - The Wayfarers
    8.7/10(47 votes)

    #1 - The Wayfarers

    S6:E33

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 5 Episode 35 - The Repentant Outlaw
    8.5/10(56 votes)

    #2 - The Repentant Outlaw

    S5:E35

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 6 Episode 34 - Vignette of a Sinner
    8.5/10(58 votes)

    #3 - Vignette of a Sinner

    S6:E34

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 4 Episode 37 - Man for the Job
    8.4/10(60 votes)

    #4 - Man for the Job

    S4:E37

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 5 Episode 11 - Jeff Davis' Treasure
    8.4/10(59 votes)

    #5 - Jeff Davis' Treasure

    S5:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 6 - Butch Cassidy
    8.3/10(96 votes)

    #6 - Butch Cassidy

    S3:E6

    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
    Writers:Mary M. Beauchamp, D.D. Beauchamp

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  7. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 9 - The Most Dangerous Man Alive
    8.3/10(81 votes)

    #7 - The Most Dangerous Man Alive

    S3:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 5 Episode 6 - All That Glitters
    8.3/10(54 votes)

    #8 - All That Glitters

    S5:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 5 Episode 21 - That Washburn Girl
    8.3/10(88 votes)

    #9 - That Washburn Girl

    S5:E21

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 5 Episode 37 - Bitter Vengeance
    8.3/10(59 votes)

    #10 - Bitter Vengeance

    S5:E37

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 6 Episode 4 - Death Raffle
    8.3/10(59 votes)

    #11 - Death Raffle

    S6:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 1 Episode 1 - The Thin Rope
    8.2/10(148 votes)

    #12 - The Thin Rope

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 1 Episode 6 - Shotgun Messenger
    8.2/10(116 votes)

    #13 - Shotgun Messenger

    S1:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 1 Episode 8 - Renegade Raiders
    8.2/10(105 votes)

    #14 - Renegade Raiders

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 2 Episode 11 - The Kid
    8.2/10(97 votes)

    #15 - The Kid

    S2:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 2 Episode 34 - The Pickpocket
    8.2/10(83 votes)

    #16 - The Pickpocket

    S2:E34

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 26 - The Legacy
    8.2/10(72 votes)

    #17 - The Legacy

    S3:E26

    Jim Hardie is checking on the estate a man many think was an outlaw passed to a man known to be the son of the outlaw. He has arrived to claim the homestead. Hardie finds a neighbor will do anything to drive the son off the property.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 4 Episode 3 - The Warrior's Return
    8.2/10(64 votes)

    #18 - The Warrior's Return

    S4:E3

    Jim has been sent to recover $15,000 stolen by Soldier O'Malley from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. Soldier is a big man and a prize fighter. In addition the town is accusing him of killing their Marshal by breaking his neck but Jim has doubts.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 4 Episode 31 - Dead Man's Street
    8.2/10(77 votes)

    #19 - Dead Man's Street

    S4:E31

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 5 Episode 12 - The Bride and the Bandit
    8.2/10(66 votes)

    #20 - The Bride and the Bandit

    S5:E12

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 5 Episode 32 - The Lobo
    8.2/10(68 votes)

    #21 - The Lobo

    S5:E32

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 5 Episode 39 - The Dowry
    8.2/10(63 votes)

    #22 - The Dowry

    S5:E39

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 2 Episode 14 - The Inscrutable Man
    8.1/10(43 votes)

    #23 - The Inscrutable Man

    S2:E14

    Hardie is ordered to track down the man who murdered a Wells Fargo messenger. He is helped by the driver who recognized the killer and is willing to testify. The town is wild and Hardie is surprised at the actions of several people.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 2 Episode 18 - Doc Bell
    8.1/10(92 votes)

    #24 - Doc Bell

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 2 Episode 35 - Scapegoat
    8.1/10(71 votes)

    #25 - Scapegoat

    S2:E35

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Wayfarers" is the best rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo". It scored 8.7/10 based on 47 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/19/1962. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Repentant Outlaw".