- 5.7/1085 votesLoading...
#1 - Hoss Tamer
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/20/1958
A young man stranded in a remote town is looking for a job working with horses. Jim Hardie befriends him along with a cranky softy and he returns the favor by helping Hardie solve the murder of a Wells Fargo agent.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1032 votesLoading...
#2 - 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
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1036 votesLoading...
#3 - 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
- 7.0/1032 votesLoading...
#4 - The Angry Sky
Season 6 Episode 29 - Aired 4/21/1962
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1032 votesLoading...
#5 - 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
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1058 votesLoading...
#6 - The Happy Tree
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1958
Jack Kramer soon to be executed asks Hardie to help his son change his evil tendency in exchange for stolen Wells Fargo gold so Hardie takes the son from an orphanage placing him with a family but Kramer's murderous partner follows.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1043 votesLoading...
#7 - The Wade Place
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1960
Jim Hardie is given information about a future robbery by a saloon woman wanting revenge. However, the Wells Fargo station to be held up is in disarray and being straightened out by another employee who doesn't see eye to eye with Jim.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1046 votesLoading...
#8 - A Show from Silver Lode
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1961
Jim Hardie is summoned to Silver Lode when a dog insured with Wells Fargo for $20,000 is lost. Actress Pearl Harvey won't perform without him as she claims he is part of her act. Hardie finds the dog but learns the dog didn't escape.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1071 votesLoading...
#9 - The General
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/16/1957
Hardie is ordered by Wells Fargo to escort General Sheridan who hates Indians by stagecoach to Fort Laramie for a meeting with the Sioux tribe to create peace in the area. Attacking outlaws may ensure that the powwow never comes to pass.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1049 votesLoading...
#10 - 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
- 7.4/1040 votesLoading...
#11 - Ride with the Killer
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1957
When a train carrying a Wells Fargo express car is robbed, Hardie is assigned to recover the stolen money. His efforts are handicapped by a new trigger-happy detective he is training who disapproves of Jim's methods as being too soft.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1046 votesLoading...
#12 - Clay Allison
Season 3 Episode 39 - Aired 6/15/1959
Jim Hardie is sent to investigate the theft of a shipment of saloon equipment to Clay Allison, gunfighter, who has a hot temper. Hardie suspects that his competitor, Taggert, stole the shipment and the sheriff might be working for Taggert.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1048 votesLoading...
#13 - Rifles for Red Hand
Season 5 Episode 33 - Aired 5/15/1961
Captain Rawlings, of the U.S. Calvary, asks Jim Hardie sent by Wells Fargo to find out if a woman operating a gambling casino and ranch, Leah Harper, is shipping illegal guns to the Cheyenne Indians via Wells Fargo as farm tools.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1078 votesLoading...
#14 - The Auction
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1957
At the annual auction of Wells Fargo's unclaimed luggage a man and a woman Hardie is following bid vigorously on a battered suitcase. Hardie wins the auction. He is pistol whipped and the suitcase is stolen which may contain stolen money.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1066 votesLoading...
#15 - Laredo
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/23/1957
Rather than spend Christmas with friends as he planned, Hardie is sent to track gunrunners who are transporting weapons illegally across the Mexican border at Laredo to gangs who say they are insurrectionists.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1057 votesLoading...
#16 - The Gun
Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 4/14/1958
During an attempted hold-up, Hardie guns down a man who the outlaw leader claims was not a member of their gang. Hardie learns the man was an ex-convict who had gone straight after being released from prison and investigates him.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Steve Fisher
- 7.5/1053 votesLoading...
#17 - The Dealer
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1958
Jim is going to Dodge to look for two men who robbed Wells Fargo in Yuba City. On the way he helps the Peel family with a broken wheel. In Dodge City Peel's gambling addiction has him losing all his money but it helps Jim solve his case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1051 votesLoading...
#18 - The Bounty Hunter
Season 3 Episode 38 - Aired 6/1/1959
Hardie is sent in to investigate a railroad holdup with cash stolen and two railroad men wounded. With a big reward for the remaining outlaw, a bounty hunter named Briscoe is on the trail and he will do anything to eliminate competition.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1046 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 7.5/1043 votesLoading...
#20 - 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
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1037 votesLoading...
#21 - 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
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1032 votesLoading...
#22 - To Kill a Town
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 3/31/1962
Jim Hardie is taking Lou Reese in for robbery. However, not all goes as planned. Normalie Hall once was nearly hanged because of betrayal by Reese, and Hall wants to take Reese away from Jim and hang him in revenge. Jim can't give his prisoner up, so he and Reese move into the mountains to a town where Reese is known and revered for heroism in an Indian attack. Jim keeps a low profile, not revealing his identity as a Wells Fargo agent in a town favorable to Reese. Hall and his men block the pass and pin Jim down. Hall comes to Reese by night with a deal to let him go ...
Director: N/A
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- 7.5/1040 votesLoading...
#23 - Don't Wake a Tiger
Season 6 Episode 32 - Aired 5/12/1962
Two vengeful brothers hold their former jailer captive in a barb-wire enclosure.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1087 votesLoading...
#24 - Rio Grande
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/3/1957
Hardie picks up a valuable shipment in Matamoras, Mexico and isn't pleased when a dude and beautiful woman insist on becoming passengers with him on the route he will use to deliver the money to Laredo fighting Mexican bandits all the way.
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1076 votesLoading...
#25 - The Hijackers
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/17/1957
Hardie's vacation is cut short when a stage disappears crossing the Rocking Horse Hills badlands. He backtracks its route and finds it left with a wealthy man's son and the young man's fiancee who are missing but no money was on the stage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo
Every episode of Tales of Wells Fargo ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo!
Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Hoss Tamer" is the worst rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo". It scored 5.7/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/20/1958. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Return to Yesterday".