NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Ransom Cross
Season 4 Episode 96 - Aired 10/6/1953
Archaeologists, Bonnie West and Jonathan Diggers, uncover ""The Cross of Wealth"", the last of a series of ancient Spanish pieces that represent the Ten Commandments. Multiple job keeper, Pat, is now in charge of a putting the cross in a safe until she and Jonathan can get onto a train heading west. One of the Commandments:""Thou Shalt Not Steal"" is broken when a gang of outlaws steal the cross. Gene rides after the outlaws, and captures one of the outlaws because they know where the cross is hidden. Ron Corness, the ringleader hold the cross for ransom, but Gene has a plan to get it back that won't cost Bonnie a penny. Gene lets the outlaw he captured escape, and he secretly follows him to Ron's hideout, where they're all captured, and the cross is returned to Bonnie and Jonathan.
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#2 - The Steel Ribbon
Season 4 Episode 97 - Aired 9/22/1953
Gene and Pat attempt to put an end to a series of train robberies. While riding along the way, Gene and Paspot two outlaws blocking a railroad track with wooden beams. Pat chases after the outlaws, Gene unblocks the railroad, and save the payroll train. Gene visits telegraph operator, Dan Parker, who believes Billie and Jeff Carter are behind the whole situation, because if the railroad is ruined, they'll gain possesion of the contract. Gene and Pat visit the Carters, and their foreman Blake Jessop, who treat the two like strangers. When Gene saves Billie from falling watertower beams, they sibs decide to cooperate with the two. Dan is the one who is really behind the robberies, and plans to continue the robberies, and put the blame on the Carters. Gene and Pat trail them to the boxcars, meanwhile Billie is handed a telegram, only to find the telegram was dated the same time Dan was tied up. He sends his henchmen after Billie, who get the telegram. Gene and Pat ride after them, and bri
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#3 - Dry Gulch At Devil's Elbow
Season 4 Episode 99 - Aired 9/8/1953
Sheriff Higgins of Dry Gulch, calls Gene and PAt in for help, due to the fact that he might lose his badge, having to eal with a gang of outlaws and a gambler. While Gene listens to Higgins, Pat tells his tall tales to two boys outside. After hearing Pat's story, two outlaws kidnap Pat, with Gene on their trail. Gene is captured too, and the two are taken to Snap Larkin, who believes Pat knows where an outlaw buried money he stole in bank robberies. Gene tells him one of his men hit Pat in the head with the butt-end of a pistol, and now Pat fakes amnesia. Snap offers the two to stay with them until Pat ""recovers"". While alone, Gene and Pat continue to plan an escape. Eventually, when the outlaws are unsuspecting, Gene rounds them up and bring them in, destroying the gambler's scheme of taking over Cartersville.
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#4 - Rio Renegades
Season 4 Episode 100 - Aired 9/29/1953
While trailing through the west, Gene and Pat are shot by prospector, Thad Trigg, who thinks the two are outlaws who are wanting his newly discovered gold mine. Amelia, Thad's wife invites the two in. Thad then recognises his old friend, Gene, and explains that burgalars have been terrorizing the town, and is afraid one of them will come after his gold mine. Gene ad Pat ride into town to speak with the sheriff, though Pat is once again preoccupied with a cute hair salon owner. Little does Pat know, the salon owner, Corinne is behind all of the robberies. When Amelia comes in to have her hair and nails done, Corinne insists on making a house call, when Amelia shows her a gold nugget. Pat hears this, and tell Gene, who has been tipped about Corinne's mysterious pop-ups during robberies. Gene and Pat ride to the Triggs place, to find Thad unconscious, and the map to his mine stolen. After a chase, Gene and Pat capture the outlaws, while Amelia captures Corinne.
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#5 - The Golden Chariot
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1955
Gene and Pat reminise about the time they helped an old Indian friend, White Cloud. White Cloud had a dispute with the town because a painter who had painted a portrait of him, and accused his son, Running Deer of robbery. Gene knows this isn't true, so he and Pat bail him out. Running Deer returns to the tribe, and Pat misses the fishing season.
Director: Ray Nazarro
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#6 - The Outlaw Of Blue Mesa
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 9/7/1954
Gene and Pat attempt to put an end to a series of train robberies. While riding along the way, Gene and Paspot two outlaws blocking a railroad track with wooden beams. Pat chases after the outlaws, Gene unblocks the railroad, and save the payroll train. Gene visits telegraph operator, Dan Parker, who believes Billie and Jeff Carter are behind the whole situation, because if the railroad is ruined, they'll gain possesion of the contract. Gene and Pat visit the Carters, and their foreman Blake Jessop, who treat the two like strangers. When Gene saves Billie from falling watertower beams, they sibs decide to cooperate with the two. Dan is the one who is really behind the robberies, and plans to continue the robberies, and put the blame on the Carters. Gene and Pat trail them to the boxcars, meanwhile Billie is handed a telegram, only to find the telegram was dated the same time Dan was tied up. He sends his henchmen after Billie, who get the telegram. Gene and Pat ride after them, and bri
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#7 - Bullets and Bows
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/1952
Gene's boss is killed, and has no idea who it was. Maud, his spunky niece arrive to take over his ranch. She wants to sell the ranch, but Gene believes that the killer wants something with the ranch. Gene, and now=magician Pat track down a gunman named Chad Matthews. It turns out that Chad wanted Gene's boss's ranch for rustling purposes.
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#8 - Trouble At Silver Creek
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/9/1952
This time around, Gene is a Sheriff and he happens on Chaulky White killing Kelly the Knifeman who is practicing his act on Pat. Chaulky is put in jail but escapes with help from Higgins and his associates. Higgins wants to marry Alice Caldwell and has some dirt on her father. Mr. Caldwell goes to see Higgins but instead sees Chaulky kill Higgins. Gene thinks Mr. Caldwell killed Higgins but Pat tells Gene otherwise. Chaulky is captured by Gene roping him. No song in this episode.
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#9 - Guns Below the Border
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1955
Pat sends out letters claiming Gene is looking for a new spouse. Two women ride into town wanting Gene as their husbands. The problem is, they're both already married. One is a lady who comes from the east Mary Gridley, who's out inspecting the west, while the other is an Indian, Little Mountain, who decides she'd rather have Pat than Gene. Gene orders Pat to straighten this situation out, or else.
Director: George Archainbaud
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#10 - Feuding Friends
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1955
Gene and Pat are on their way home from Mexico, when they find a preacher giving his sermon from the back of a wagon. He was driven out of the lawless town of Scorpion, while he is trying to raise enough money for a new church building. Gene and Pat help out with a hatful of silver pesos, and camp out for the night. Chief gambler, Jaycee Cady sends out his henchmen to beat up the parson and Gene. With parson's daughter, Esther, to identify the outlaws, Gene and Pat rude into Scorpion to recover the stolen money. When the money is recovered, Gene and Jaycee are sent to jail. During a fake trial, Jayccee makes a jailbreak. Pat frees Gene, and they find the outlaws hiding in a shack outside of town. Gene brings them in, and brings law to Scorpion.
Director: George Archainbaud
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#11 - Saddle Up (1)
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1955
A young master violinist named Reginald Redaldo tours the west with his father. Reginald is here to perform, but would have some fun for a change. So Gene takes him to the Flying A Ranch, where crooks get interest in his stardivarius. Luckily, they end up with Pat's cheap look-alike. Reginald's father is disapointed in him, but is thankful he's safe.
Director: George Archainbaud
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#12 - The Peacemaker
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/17/1950
Gene is on the trail on an outlaw known as the Gray Dude, who has just killed his friend. Gene is helped by the town's new sheriff, Chill Wills. Gene and Chill ride into Cactus County, where Dude Devlin is hiding. Sheriff Davis unwillingly helps. This leads Gene to believe that the sheriff is in cahoots.
Director: Frank McDonald
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#13 - Boots And Ballots
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 9/25/1954
Gene is the sheriff of a frontier town during a local election for the town's new mayor. Gene helps out candidate, Mary Sanders, who he thinks would be perfect for the town's new mayor. The other candidate is Thatcher Bowden, who decides to play dirty just to be the town's new mayor. Gene, Pat, and Mary's adopted harmonica playing son, Eddie are supporting her, but Thatcher's men are convincing the town a woman isn't cut out to be a mayor. Thatcher's men then kidnap Eddie, and claim that if Mary wants to see him again, she should drop out of the election. Gene and Pat ride out to Thatcher's place, who won't tell where Eddie is. When Gene hears a harmonica from a back room, he has all the information he needs. After a fight, Gene takes the outlaws in, and Mary is the new mayor.
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#14 - The Million Dollar Fiddle
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1955
In the season 5 premiere, and part 1 of a trilogy, Gene and Pat ride over to the Flying W ranch. Gene is to turn the rnach into a home for wayward boys. Gene is fully in charge, but if one little thing goes wrong, the ranch goes to Big Jim, who the leader of the Weston Gang. Miss Abby Pickett is the new teacher for the school, and Gene, Pat, and the Cass County Boys transfer the boys to the new Flying-A-Ranch Home of Gene Autry's Rangers. Gene finds himself having trouble dealing with a tough city kids named Legan, who goes by ""Lefty"". Gene lets Lefty ride Little Champ, only to find one of the ranchhands had put a cactus pad under Little Champ's saddle. Gene sees a brand initials ""SR"" on Lefty's baseball bat, and figures out that its Stan Richter (one of the ranchhands) is behind the whole situation. With Lefty's help, Gene brings Stan and his gang in, and the Flying-A-Ranch is off the a great start,
Director: Ray Nazarro
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#15 - Doublecross Valley
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/10/1950
The T-C (a ranch) has a new cook, Jody Bowers. Gene breaks it to him that the T-C can't use the road that's on route to the Flying M. The people of T-C are displeased and refuse to use the other route, which takes two days to ride. A crook tries to kill the owner of T-C, and puts to blame of Gene's boss.
Director: George Archainbaud
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#16 - The Black Rider
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/22/1950
When Gene and Pat go to take a drink at a waterhole, they find an empty bottle of poision along the banks. Gene then runs into his old Indian friend, Chief Tejon, who explains that the Central Valley Railroad are refusing to comply with their contract. Gene and Chief Tejon ride to the railroad camp to investigate. Gene has no luck, and rides to Willow Gap, where he finds the contract hidden in the office of the chief engineer, Craig. Pat discovers a connection between Craig's sister, and an assayer, who has bottles of poison in his office.
Director: Frank McDonald
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#17 - Battle Axe
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 8/31/1954
Gene and Pat are called into Jimtown to help Sheriff Dan Carter with the increasing number of crimes. When Gene and Pat arrive, they find an old ""Battle Axe"", Belle Anderson is the new acclaimed sheriff. With smooth-talking, a gang of outlaws, lead by Vasco are named the new deputies. Gene, Pat, and Dan try to convince her otherwise, but she is reluctant. Dan rounds up his old deputies to capture the outlaws. During a fight, Dan captures the outlaws, and brings them in, and regains his job as sheriff.
Director: George Archainbaud
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#18 - The Stage to San Dimas
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1955
Gene's new Flying-A-Ranch for wayward boys is off to a great start. Gene decides to give Big Jim Weston, a jailed convict and son of former rancher Mamie Weston, a second chance as a hand on tat the Flying-A. On the way to the ranch, Big Jim bumps into one of the boys, Pedro Gonzales, who immediately recognizes the outlaws as the one who killed his parents. Big Jim of course denies, when all of the sudden, a stage is held up by Stan Richter and the Weston Gang. Stan's plan to to sabotage the Flying A so it will go to Big Jim. Pedro tells Gene about the hold up, and Gene rides after Big Jim, who has been hit over the head by Stan Richter to create suspicion. Meanwhile, things are going smoothly at the Flying A with Gene training Champion and Little Champ for the boys. Gene also teaches a lesson about how to be an American, after Lefty bullies Pedro. Afterwards, the school goes on a field trip. Big Jim tries to destroy the outing by rolling boulders down a hill onto the campsite, one of
Director: George Archainbaud
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#19 - Go West, Young Lady
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1955
Counterfeiting is going on in Red Canyon, and deposits the fphony bills in the local bank. Whenever customers make a withdrawl, they are handed phony bills. The hotel owner, George Elhart is the ringleader, and convinces people who have been robbed on a stage that the bank is the best place to hide the bills. To break up this counterfeiting ring, Gene and Pat pretend to break up their friendship, and become enemies. George tries to get rid of Gene, but fails. Finally, he hired Pat to dispose of Gene. Faking a murder, Pat and Gene make plans to capture George. George has unwittingly exposed himself, and goes to hide him and his men in the hills, where Gene and Pat are ready to bring them in.
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#20 - The Sheriff Is A Lady
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/23/1952
On their way back from a trip, Gene and Pat chase after gunsmugglers, Jack Wells and Gimme Porter. When Gene and Pat bring them in, a lady sheriff rides up, mistaking Gene and Pat for the outlaws, and takes them in. Afterwards, Sheriff Kathy and her brother, Horace ride off the inform the authorities of the arrest, meanwhile, Gene suspects a smart aleck, Dodge Hartman of being in cahoots with the outlaws. Kathy leanrs of Gene and Pat being marshals, and lets them go to find the real outlaws. Gene goes undecover as an entertainer for a saloon, when Pat recognizes the outlaws' horses, and leaves to get Kathy. The outlaws find Gene in the saloon, and after they get into a fight, Gene is captured, but Pat and Kathy ride to the rescue, and the real outlaws are behind bars.
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#21 - Rio Renegades
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 9/29/1953
Gene and his friends Pat and John Morgan transport a wagonload of freight to San Dimas. On the way, John is killed by attacking outlaws. Gene finds empty 49-90 bullet shells, and goes into investigation. Afterwards, John's son Tim sells the freight line to Paul Nash, the local banker. He was talked into it by Laura Bryan, who works for Tim, but also secretly works for Paul. To stop the sale, Gene puts to line into bankruptcy, and continures to investigate, only to find himself taken prisoner by the outlaws. Gene escapes, and returns to town, where he is accused of robbing a safe. Laura confesses she gave the combination to Paul to keep Tim from getting hurt. Gene is released, and goes after Paul, who is taken in.
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#22 - The Portrait Of White Cloud
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1955
Big Jim Weston is now in jail, after causing trouble for Gene's Flying-A-Ranch Home of Gene Autry's Rangers. Big Jim has a letter sent to his only daughter Gerry Wentworth. She becomes a new tenant at Flying A, and Gene promises to start a Rangerette troop. Gene, Pat, and the sheriff are attacked to keep them preoccupied during a prisonbreak. Stan Richter and his lawyer Martin Pickett plan another sabotage on Gene's ranch. This time, they set the barn on fire by a bow and arrow, and place the blame on Pat, when they bury his corncob pipe as evidence. Gene and Champion save the animals from the barn, while Gerry sees a man sneeking into the school, and takes him down. The man tells Gene about Stan and Martin's plan, and Gene goes out to put a stop to it. Gene hides Gerry in the jailhouse for safety, where she meets her father, Big Jim, and unwittingly frees him. After a gunfight, Gene and Pat round up the outlaws, and send them away for good. Big Jim is satsified with the though that hi
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#23 - Ride, Ranchero! (2)
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1955
Gene and Pat save a runaway wagon only to find it empty. Gene finds the driver, who says his only passenger, Driscoll is missing. Gene finds him at the sheriff's office, when Gene learns Driscoll is working undercover for a Colorado mining company. Pat follows him and his men to a mine, where he is trapped inside a cave. Gene finds Pat's horse, and follows it to the mine. The owner of the general store admits to being the missing mining engineer, and lights a stick of dynamite to free Pat. Pat is saved by the cave being blown open, and the store owner is proven innocent. Gene and Pat track down Driscoll and his men, and bring them in.
Director: George Archainbaud
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#24 - The Posse
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/17/1950
An out of jail convict, ""Idaho"", returns to town. His mission: to kill Gene for jailing him. He fails, thanks to a naturalist named Kent, who is really a part of a raider gang who are trying to gain possession of a ranch which belongs to Gene's friend, Jim Watson, and his niece, Susan. Pat discovers that the ranch is the hiding place for gold. Gene brings in the raiders, and Susan is back on friendly terms with him.
Director: George Archainbaud
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#25 - Trouble at Melody Mesa
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1952
Gene and Pat catch a gunslinger, who was on his way to a secret rendezvous. Gene goes to investigate, leaving Pat to take Jackson to jail. Gene goes to the cabin where Jackson was supposed to rendezvous, and finds himself knocked unconscious. The sheriff, and Sam Taggert have Gene arrestes for killing a man, but Sam is behind the whole thing, who wanted his boss killed, so he could have Jackson hired. Gene breaks out of jail, and he and Pat ride off to find the real criminals. On their way, Sam's men ambushed them. Sam rides back to town, when Gene closely behind him, bringing him in.
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The Worst Episodes of The Gene Autry Show
Every episode of The Gene Autry Show ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Gene Autry Show!
The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956,...
Genres:WesternComedy
Network:CBS
Worst Episodes Summary
"Ransom Cross" is the worst rated episode of "The Gene Autry Show". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/6/1953. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Steel Ribbon".