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#1 - 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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#2 - The Hasty Gun
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/25/1957
Aging, honest Marshall Ogburn shoots an unarmed suspect in heat of a violent burglary of a Wells Fargo bank and is fired. Jim is sent to investigate the robbery and try to recover the stolen money. It may lead to more than the money.
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#3 - Alder Gulch
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/1957
In Montana the only men getting rich are the outlaws stealing it off Wells Fargo stagecoaches and freight wagons. Hardie goes undercover to the town of Alder Gulch to try to infiltrate the outlaw gang operating in the area and.
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#4 - The Bounty
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/1957
Jim is sent to Moose Creek, Canada to identify the corpse of an outlaw only he has seen but the man was killed with a shotgun blast to the face making him hard to identify. In addition, a woman there claims the body is that of her brother.
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#5 - A Time to Kill
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/1957
A son of a dead man accused of robbing a Wells Fargo stage discovers an empty strong box in the attic of his farmhouse. The boy is still convinced that his father has been falsely accused and hopes Jim Hardie finds the real culprits.
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#6 - 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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#7 - The Lynching
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/13/1957
After meeting a Basque sheepherder new to the U.S. who speaks no English with his brother on a stage, Hardie learns on a return trip he is about to be lynched when a town's hard cases accuse him of abduction of a young girl.
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#8 - 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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#9 - 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
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#10 - Sam Bass
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/10/1957
Sam Bass and his gang have a hideout in Texas so secluded that no lawman has ever located it. From this stronghold they strike repeatedly. Jim is ordered to infiltrate the gang so that he can learn where Bass's gang holes up between raids.
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#11 - 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.
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#12 - Stage to Nowhere
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/24/1957
While transporting Dan Lingle to stand trial for robbery and murder, Hardie's stagecoach is attacked by the outlaw's gang. Among the passengers on the coach are Lingle's estranged wife and son and the outlaw determines to stand with them.
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#13 - Jesse James
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/1/1957
When a Wells Fargo train shipment is robbed in Missouri, Jesse James and his gang are suspected. Jim Hardie disguises himself as a photographer and attempts to locate the money and the outlaws who killed his friend on the train.
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#14 - The Silver Bullets
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/8/1957
In Rainbow's End, a mining town, Wells Fargo agent Roy Fulton was killed and $15,000 disappeared. Jim Hardie goes there to investigate. He goes undercover taking a job as a guard at the roulette table where Fulton was killed.
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#15 - Belle Star
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1957
A gang lead by Belle Starr, commits a train robbery which included robbing Jim Hardie who happened to be there. Hardie tries to lure the pretty outlaw out of hiding by tempting her with a top notch race horse as she has a fancy for them.
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#16 - Two Cartridges
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1957
A rookie outlaw, Al Porter, holds up a stage for $10,000. Jim waiting for the money to arrive decides to go after him alone after learning about the holdup, but requires the outlaw's assistance to drive off an attack by vengeful Indians.
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#17 - Apache Gold
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/1957
Hardie agrees to join a father searching for his son who is seeking a lost gold mine in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. The men must deal with a lack of water and the fact that the map leads him into lands held sacred by the Apaches.
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#18 - John Wesley Hardin
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1957
Hardie is the only witness to a robbery. A young man hoping to get his partner off, wants Jim scared off or killed before his trial. Hardie still hopes to determine who his partner in the robbery was even after John Wesley Hardin arrives.
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#19 - The Target
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1957
While on a stage coach, a Pony Express rider, Stan Blake, who Jim knows stops to help them and is found dead down the route. Jim Hardie takes on the man's route and hopes to lure the murderers out into the open after notifying Stan's wife.
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#20 - The Feud
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1957
Jim is sent to negotiate a right-of-way for Wells Fargo stagecoaches through Sam Brundage's property as a shortcut. His price - convincing Brundage's neighbor, John McCloud, to share his water in a river he dammed up with the Brundages.
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#21 - Billy the Kid
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1957
Hardie investigates a stagecoach holdup where white men posing as Indians kill the driver and guard and left a pretty passenger for dead. Billy the Kid rescues the stranded lady who convinces Hardie Billy didn't rob the stage.
Director: Earl Bellamy
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#22 - 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.
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#23 - Hank Aka Chips
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1957
Jim Hardie is called in when a stagecoach is robbed near the Arizona/New Mexico border. He is told that the only thing taken was a yellow mongrel dog. Investigating further he learns that the dog's collar may provide evidence to a murder.
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#24 - Man in the Box
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1957
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.
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#25 - 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.
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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
"The Thin Rope" is the worst rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/18/1957. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Hasty Gun".