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The Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 4

Every episode of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 4!

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

Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Young Jim Hardie" is the best rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo" season 4. It scored 8.2/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/7/1959. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Desert Showdown".

  • Young Jim Hardie
    8.2/1058 votes

    #1 - Young Jim Hardie

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1959

    An eastern reporter wants to do a history Jim Hardie so his boss who hired Hardie reveals early details about Jim telling the story of a young drifter who became one of Wells Fargo best investigators after coming close to being an outlaw.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Desert Showdown
    8.0/1053 votes

    #2 - Desert Showdown

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1959

    Jim Hardie is sent with an Army patrol to Mexico to pick up the prisoner, Yaqui Kid, to hopefully recover stolen Wells Fargo money. As they return north through the Yaqui country, the horses are stolen and the men picked off one by one.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Warrior's Return
    8.1/1052 votes

    #3 - The Warrior's Return

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Jackass
    8.1/1060 votes

    #4 - The Jackass

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1959

    A rash of robberies at Leadville cause Wells Fargo to send Jim Hardie in to straighten out the problems. His ride into Leadville proves embarrassing and maybe fatal when an old lady takes his gun, wallet, and hat as she robs the state.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Stage Line
    8.2/1052 votes

    #5 - The Stage Line

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1959

    Jim Hardie has been sent to inspect and buy the Braddock Stage line as a new feeder line. He arrives to find the line runs on a shoestring, has one old stage, and eight horses plus the base station which is not up to the normal standards.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Train Robbery
    8.3/1048 votes

    #6 - 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

  • Double Reverse
    8.1/1055 votes

    #7 - Double Reverse

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1959

    Responding to a request from a friend who is a Wells Fargo agent, Jim visits Josh Wilkins who is worried. His office clerk is the wife of a bad outlaw who escaped jail and he is worried as he does not want to fire her a she needs the job.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tom Horn
    8.1/1053 votes

    #8 - Tom Horn

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1959

    Seeing a man about to be lynched, Jim Hardie stops the stage and tells a lie saying the man held up a Wells Fargo stage to save him. He promises to take him to Tucson for trial. When he escapes, Jim must go after him in Apache territory.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Quiet Village
    8.0/1055 votes

    #9 - The Quiet Village

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1959

    Jim Hardie arrives in Kimball as a man forces the Wells Fargo agent into the office to rob him. He wounds the agent and kills another man. Several clues come in but one sounds right except the suspect has helped turn the life of a widow.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Home Town
    7.8/1053 votes

    #10 - Home Town

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1959

    When Matthew Land returns to his hometown of Pueblo after three years in prison, he has little support. Jim Hardie is one of the few who helps him by having him return to his old job despite stealing $10,000 from Wells Fargo

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • End of a Legend
    7.8/1055 votes

    #11 - End of a Legend

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1959

    When a Wells Fargo Bank is held up and a man killed, Jim Hardie is sent in to investigate. A local homeless man was arrested when he was caught with a gun owned by a famous outlaw but Jim Hardie knows he is not the real outlaw.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Return of Doc Bell
    8.0/1050 votes

    #12 - Return of Doc Bell

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1959

    Doc Bell who was once a successful criminal is paroled to Jim Hardy but he is having trouble starting his medical practice. When he takes the same train carrying $50,000 which is robbed, Jim is led to believe that Doc Bell is part of it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Woman with a Gun
    8.1/1054 votes

    #13 - Woman with a Gun

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1959

    Wells Fargo agent Jim Hardie investigates the hold-up of a Wells Fargo stage with $50,000 taken and the shotgun guard killed. His initial look at the report on the theft has him suspecting the shipper, a beautiful widow owning a ranch.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Long Odds
    7.8/1048 votes

    #14 - Long Odds

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1959

    Jim Hardie is sent to quiet Prairie Lea where he will riding as a guard for a big shipment. He arrives early to see old friends there including a women he helped. After he arrives he sees the man she left who has been released from prison.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wanted: Jim Hardie
    7.8/1048 votes

    #15 - Wanted: Jim Hardie

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1959

    A successful and egotistical outlaw decides to post his own reward for Jim Hardie - Wanted: Dead. He is offering $1000 hoping some of his gang will take the bait and be eliminated and perhaps Jim will be eliminated as well.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Relay Station
    7.5/1046 votes

    #16 - Relay Station

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1959

    Jim Hardie is sent to check on a relay station where the agent is sick. On the way there he finds a wounded man and at the station the reception is icy due to the man who has taken over when the agent died leaving his daughter alone there.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cole Younger
    7.7/1045 votes

    #17 - Cole Younger

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/1960

    While on vacation Jim Hardie becomes involved with the Cole Younger gang as a hostage with a spunky young girl after the Northfield, Minnesota holdup. His primary goal is the protection of the girl but one of Younger's men has other ideas.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Easterner
    8.0/1053 votes

    #18 - The Easterner

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1960

    After an attempted robbery of $50,000 on a train and two men killed, Jim Hardie is sent to carry the $50,000 on the rest of the trip by stagecoach. He is accompanied by the owner of the money - a lawyer from the east and a pretty woman.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Governor's Visit
    8.1/1050 votes

    #19 - The Governor's Visit

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1960

    Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to help the Wyoming governor who supports expanding the railroads across Wyoming. His opposition is against expansion as he is in the pocket of an outlaw named Clancy who doesn't want to see law spread.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Journey
    8.2/1054 votes

    #20 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Canyon
    7.8/1047 votes

    #21 - The Canyon

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1960

    Jim Hardie decides to ride into an outlaw hangout known as "The Canyon of Wanted Men" to find the one man who can clear Ken Gibbons who is to hang in three days for a murder. The man Fred Kimball has his daughter Jane with him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Red Ransom
    7.3/1049 votes

    #22 - Red Ransom

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1960

    Jim Hardie with help picks up the Apache renegade Joe Black wanted by Wells Fargo. However, when his brother Akana sees him captured, the Apaches capture the daughter of the local Wells Fargo agent hoping to make a trade.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The English Woman
    7.6/1049 votes

    #23 - The English Woman

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1960

    When an English woman is killed by a sniper after she gets off a stage, Jim Hardie decides to provide some help to the Sheriff. After talking to the daughter, they learn the woman was there to identify an embezzler from England.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Forty-Four Forty
    7.9/1055 votes

    #24 - Forty-Four Forty

    Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 2/29/1960

    Jim Hardie runs into an unusual case when the Tucson stage is held up again. The outlaws are right in front of him without him realizing it. The lone clue is the special forty-four forty notched bullets the outlaws are using in the holdup.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Late Mayor Brown
    7.8/1060 votes

    #25 - The Late Mayor Brown

    Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/7/1960

    When the Wells Fargo agent Jess Brown who was elected mayor is killed on election day, Jim Hardie is sent to investigate. Jess was killed with a unique gun that only one man in the area owns but he is found killed before Jess was shot.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A