8.0/1053 votes#1 - Casket 7.3
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1961
Jim and his foreman, Jeb Gaine, are busy moving onto the ranch purchased from Ovie and her two lovely daughters when the Wells Fargo agent is called back to service to retrieve plates used to counterfeit bonds. Hardie learns the plates were stolen by a group of former Confederate soldiers who plan to print enough worthless bonds that the United States economy would fall into shambles.
Director: N/A
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- 7.7/1050 votes
#2 - The Dodger
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1961
A man sentenced to a ten-year prison term has released and is out to avenge himself upon the man who put him there - Jim Hardie.
Director: N/A
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- 8.0/1046 votes
#3 - Treasure Coach
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1961
Acting on a tip that an outlaw gang may attack a gold shipment, Hardie and McCloud try to persuade group of stagecoach passengers to take the next stage so they can better protect the cargo. Each passenger has their own reasons for continuing the dangerous journey, and Hardie fears that the reasons of more than one are highway robbery.
Director: N/A
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- 8.5/1047 votes
#4 - 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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- 7.9/1037 votes
#5 - Tanoa
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1961
Hardie negotiates a new stagecoach route through Indian land with the local chief who is satisfied with the outcome. The tribe's young men, led by the warrior Red Knife, are looking for an excuse to return to the warpath.
Director: N/A
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- 7.8/1042 votes
#6 - Mr. Mute
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1961
Two gunmen rob a Wells Fargo train compartment and then hide the money in the baggage of a fellow passenger, a clown who stage name in Mr. Mute. When the clown unexpectedly decides to disembark from the train in Gloribee to perform at the town fair, the criminals must scramble to retrieve their ill-gotten loot before the money bags are discovered.
Director: N/A
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- 8.2/1039 votes
#7 - Jeremiah
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1961
Jeremiah Logart, a former friend of Hardie's, is prevented from robbing a Wells Fargo office by Jim and his men. After a gun battle, Jim and Beau pursue of the remaining gang members and trail Jeremiah to the remote ranch of a widow and her two young children.
Director: N/A
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- 7.6/1050 votes
#8 - A Fistful of Pride
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1961
The estranged wife of a washed-up boxer returns to Gloribee to obtain custody of the couple's only child. Needing quick cash for legal fees, the boxer challenges the Frisco Kid, an up-and-coming pugilist, to a fight and wins, only to discover that the fight was fixed so that the Kid's crooked manager and his stooge could clean-up on side bets.
Director: N/A
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- 8.0/1041 votes
#9 - Defiant at the Gate
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1961
Hardie and McCloud capture Matt Blackner, an aging outlaw who is suffering from heart disease. He agrees to turn the money he stole from a Wells Fargo stagecoach if he's allowed to visit his wife and daughter before he's thrown in prison. Blackner's last days aren't to be happy ones - his wife is dead, his daughter despises him and his former gang members are trailing him to get their share of the hidden loot.
Director: N/A
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- 7.5/1043 votes
#10 - Man of Another Breed
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1961
A veteran Wells Fargo stationmaster, about to retire, never gets the chance when two thieves stab him in the back and ransack the safe. Hardie suspects the killer is a part-time employee who disappeared after the robbery; Caleb Timmons and his sons want to find the man, too, since he ran off with Caleb's wife.
Director: N/A
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- 7.8/1048 votes
#11 - Kelly's Clover Girls
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1961
Three dance hall girls are being transported to Nevada to serve as witnesses in the murder investigation of a Wells Fargo agent. The subject of the investigation has no desire for the girls to testify and goes to great lengths to see that they don't arrive, including raiding Jim Hardie's ranch where the women are staying pending suitable escort.
Director: N/A
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- 8.2/1040 votes
#12 - A Killing in Calico
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1961
Jamie Coburn, a member of Birch Morgan's notorious outlaw gang, agrees to turn himself in and help capture Wells Fargo capture the outlaw leader. Hardie allows the gunslinger to visit his ailing mother, but when Jamie returns home he learns his mother has died and his wife wants nothing to do with him in spite of the hefty reward Wells Fargo has paid for Jamie's assistance.
Director: N/A
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- 7.8/1040 votes
#13 - New Orleans Trackdown
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1961
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Director: N/A
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- 7.9/1034 votes
#14 - Trackback
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1961
Frank Lambert is furious when his kid brother, Wally, rides into his camp asking that the older man return the money he stole from Wells Fargo. He becomes even angrier when he learns that Jim Hardie followed Wally to arrest him. Meanwhile, Jeb Gaine becomes upset when his friends and neighbors lavish affection on him on his 60th birthday.
Director: N/A
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- 7.0/1036 votes
#15 - Moneyrun
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1962
A former governor of a Mexican province flees to San Francisco with his family's money to buy guns for the revolutionaries. A gang of former Mexican soldiers operating with stolen papers plan to steal the money with the unwitting assistance of Wells-Fargo.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1032 votes
#16 - Return to Yesterday
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1962
An old flame of Jim Hardie's, now a famous concert singer, returns to California on a concert tour. The singer's father knows his daughter still carries a torch for Hardie and wants her to decide once and for all whether she'll be a chanteuse or a rancher's wife. Meanwhile her maid plots to steal her employer's fabulous collection of jewelry.
Director: N/A
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- 8.0/1039 votes
#17 - Reward for Gaine
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1962
Jeb's brother, Sergeant Gaine, discovers that three of his men have been falsely convicted in a drumhead court-martial for desertion to cover up for their commanding officer's illegal attack on a band of Piute Indians that resulted in the deaths of Wells Fargo stagecoach passengers. Hardie and Prentiss, the governor's agent, must act quickly to save the condemned men before Colonel Bledsoe can silence the potential witnesses against him by executing the soldiers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1041 votes
#18 - Assignment in Gloribee
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1962
Katherine Murdock, a writer from New England, is hired by Wells Fargo to write a series of articles about the West and her first research stop is in Gloribee. Hardie discovers that she had already made up her mind that the West is nothing but a violent wasteland and a series of brushes with lawlessness does little to change her attitude. It takes chance meeting with a honorable outlaw for her to consider altering her preconceived notions.
Director: N/A
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- 7.5/1037 votes
#19 - Incident at Crossbow
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1962
An ex-convict burning with the desire to avenge himself upon a judge who he insists falsely convicted him takes over a way-station and hijacks the stagecoach that Jim Hardie and an assortment of passengers are traveling in.
Director: N/A
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- 7.1/1032 votes
#20 - Portrait of Teresa
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1962
Hardie investigates a stagecoach hold-up and discovers only a single letter was stolen. He learns that the letter was sent from a woman who fled an arranged marriage with a brutal land baron to an itinerant painter. The two men race to find the woman first - the painter to marry her and the land baron to disfigure his ex-fiancée.
Director: N/A
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- 8.2/1042 votes
#21 - 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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- 8.1/1037 votes
#22 - 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
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1044 votes
#23 - Winter Storm
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1962
A blizzard forces the stagecoach in which Jim, Jeb and Tina are traveling to seek shelter in a ghost town. Investigating a light shining in the building that formerly served as the town's hotel, the passengers discover the town's last two residents barricaded against the expected onslaught of an escaped prisoner who is out for revenge.
Director: N/A
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- 7.8/1047 votes
#24 - Chauncey
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 3/17/1962
Tina is attracted to a gun thug. Even though everyone else sees his true nature, she is blinded by love until she too sees his violent nature firsthand.
Director: N/A
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- 8.1/1034 votes
#25 - Who Lives by the Gun
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 3/24/1962
In a sudden move to protect his own life, Jim Hardie has to wound -- mortally -- a young hellion of the town who has participated in a Wells Fargo stage holdup. Hellion or no, the youth is well-liked and his mother is influential and wealthy. Jim comes under some odium for the shooting and in the town there's talk of lynching him. When the boy dies, his mother's foreman comes to kill Jim with his bare hands. They struggle, Jim knocks his assailant out, but finds himself 'roped' by the townspeople who have found the courage to hang him then and there.
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The Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 6
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Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:NBC
Season 6 Ratings Summary
"Casket 7.3" is the best rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo" season 6. It scored 8/10 based on 53 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1961. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Dodger".