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The Dakotas is an ABC/Warner Brothers western television series starring Larry Ward and featuring Jack Elam broadcast during 1963. The short-lived program is considered a spin-off of Clint Walker's Cheyenne. The Dakotas is perhaps most notable

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Season 1

  • Return To Drydock
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    Return To Drydock

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1963

    Deputy J.D.Smith was run out of town when he was a gunfighter. He had only one friend stand behind him & now that man has been murdered. J.D. intends to find out who & why.

    Director: Stuart Heisler

    Writer: Unknown

  • Red Sky Over Bismarck
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    Red Sky Over Bismarck

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1963

    Marshal Ragan becomes involved with a woman and her half breed son. The woman asks that he help as she is afraid of the local justive of the peace.

    Director: Stuart Heisler

    Writer: Unknown

  • Mutiny At Fort Mercy
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    Mutiny At Fort Mercy

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/1963

    The deputies return a escapee to Fort Mercy. It is run by a brutal Captain Ridgeway. After inhumane treatment a full scale riot erupts.

    Director: Stuart Heisler

    Writer: Unknown

  • Trouble At French Creek
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    Trouble At French Creek

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1963

    A woman mineowner drives her employees at work beyond their endurance. Things get so bad that the men walk out. The woman hires gunslingers to control the men. Marshal Ragan is called in to put things under control.

    Director: Stuart Heisler

    Writer: Unknown

  • Thunder In Pleasant Valley
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    Thunder In Pleasant Valley

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1963

    A rancher's daughter has been kidnapped & held for ransom. There is a conflict between Marshal Ragan who wants to catch the kidnappers & the rancher who only wants his daughter back.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Crisis At High Banjo
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    Crisis At High Banjo

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1963

    Marshal Ragan's wife had been murdered several years ago. He runs across Johnny Fox who admits he was paid to do it. A conflict arises in the Marshal who wants to kill Fox & a part of him who wants to find why she was murdered.

    Director: Stuart Heisler

    Writer: Unknown

  • Requiem At Dancer's Hill
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    Requiem At Dancer's Hill

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/1963

    Morgan Jackson, the town's bad boy has been killed by a posse. He was accused of murdering Lucy Christian .Hatred of the boy is led by Ross Kendrick.Dark family secrets lead to a astonishing conclusion.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Fargo
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    Fargo

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/1963

    Deputy J.D. Smith has a big problem. Local sheriff has been running his small hometown like a king.Merchants & citizens alike must submit to his ruthless demands & tribute.

    Director: Stuart Heisler

    Writer: Unknown

  • Incident At Rapid City
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    Incident At Rapid City

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/1963

    It appears that lloyd Mitchell has given the calvary spoiled food & poisoned some of them. The calvary demands that deputy Del Stark turn the man over to them. But it appears to Del that the calvary men he sees are renegades or deserters.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Justice At Eagle's Nest
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    Justice At Eagle's Nest

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/1963

    Classic case of farmers vs the cattlemen.Farmers near Eagle's Nest bring in Judge Daniel Harvey to enforce the law,their version. As it looks like war will ensue. Marshal Ragan decided to investigate the old judge.

    Director: Robert Totten

    Writer: Unknown

  • Walk Through The Badlands
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    Walk Through The Badlands

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/1963

    Story of Marshal Ragan & his deputies, a group of outlaws,some calvalry men all meet together in the wilderness. Who's chasing who?

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Unknown

  • Trial At Grand Forks
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    Trial At Grand Forks

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/1963

    A German Countess is sentenced to death for killing her husband in a trial at Grand Forks. Marshal Ragan tries to find out why the woman would not defend herself at the trial. But he has little time before the execution.

    Director: Stuart Heisler

    Writer: Peter B. Germano

  • Reformation At Big Nose Butte
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    Reformation At Big Nose Butte

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/1963

    Deputy J.D.Smith once was a outlaw.His former leader is now free out of prison & wants to start the gang back up. He is summoned to go back to the old ways.

    Director: Robert Totten

    Writer: Unknown

  • One Day In Vermillion
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    One Day In Vermillion

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/8/1963

    A Sioux chief is brought to Vermillion by Marshal Ragan for the signing of a peace treaty. But it is not peace that is coming their way!.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Terror At Heart River
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    Terror At Heart River

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/5/1963

    The railroad is coming thru Heart River. But the railroad has abandoned the workers with no money or food.As the workers come into town it is apparent the people are not going to welcome them & there is going to be real trouble

    Director: Stuart Heisler

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Chooser Of The Slain
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    The Chooser Of The Slain

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/1963

    Del & Vance admit killing a man in self defense but no one believes them. Marshal Ragan must find the only witness to the shooting or the two deputies are to be hanged.

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: Unknown

  • Feud At Snake River
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    Feud At Snake River

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/1963

    Two brothers are aiming to become wealthy enterprizers.But when brother Simon starts running farmers off their land he & his brother George become apposed to one another. Marshal Ragan tries to rally the rest of the farmers against Simon.

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sanctuary At Crystal Springs
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    Sanctuary At Crystal Springs

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/1963

    Del & D.J. kill two Barton brothers as they take over a church & hold the pastor hostage. A third brother says he will kill the pastor if Del & D.J. don't turn themselves into him.

    Director: Richard C. Sarafian

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Nice Girl From Goliath
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    A Nice Girl From Goliath

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/1963

    A girl's lying testimony sends a man to be hanged.Now she has learned the man's brother is coming after her & ask's Del for protection.

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: Unknown