All Episodes of The Iron Horse
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Season 1
6.8/1028 votesRail Runs West
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1966
Ben Calhoun sells a herd of horses, uses the proceeds to get into a poker game, and wins the BPS&D railroad. He learns the railroad is broke but is determined to lay tracks to Scalplock while a disgruntled partner tries to stop him.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: Stephen Kandel
- 7.0/1026 votes
The Dynamite Driver
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1966
Calhoun is under contract to deliver a herd of cattle, but a ruthless opponent of his is determined that he not succeed, and dynamites the bridge that was on the main route.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Stephen Kandel
- 7.0/1027 votes
- 6.9/1024 votes
Right of Way Through Paradise
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1966
Calhoun's plans to obtain a right of way through the town of Paradise are jeopardized by four Confederate former comrades-in-arms he has hired. The men's rowdy behavior and total disregard for law has Tarrant advising they be fired, but Calhoun feels too obligated to the leader of the group.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1018 votes
Cougar Man
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1966
Calhoun decides to go into the rugged Apache country hills for a fight to the death against Cougar Man, an Apache who has killed five of Calhoun's men, and who believes himself cursed to kill as many men as possible until he himself is killed.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1014 votes
War Cloud
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1966
Calhoun must transport an Army unit which has captured the renegade Sioux chief War Cloud and is bringing him to stand trial for numerous murders. This comes at a bad time for Calhoun, as he is hoping to impress another passenger, a wealthy banker whom he hopes will agree to a loan for the railroad. The banker's daughter believes War Cloud is being mistreated. But a man who lost his family in one of War Cloud's raids plans to make sure the Indian dies long before he arrives at the fort, and is willing to fight Calhoun to make sure of it.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1020 votes
No Wedding Bells for Tony
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1966
Calhoun arrives in a small town to attend the wedding of an old friend. But he can find no trace of the man, and everyone in town just wants Calhoun to either leave or be killed, including the town boss, the father of the girl who was supposed to marry Calhoun's friend.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1018 votes
- 7.0/1013 votes
Through Ticket to Gunsight
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1966
After a boiler on the train blows, Calhoun offers to refund all the passengers, but a headstrong woman is determined to continue on as planned to the mine her grandfather left to her. Rather than let her go alone, Dave accompanies her, but on the way they learn that others are just as determined to stop her from arriving in time to sign the deed---even though the mine does not have the gold or silver the grandfather thought it had.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1022 votes
A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/1966
Calhoun learns from Dave and Barnabas that all of the railroad's crew has been lured away by the promise of gold from a nearby mine. Actually, it is all part of a plot to lure Calhoun away in the hope of stealing the railroad.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/1018 votes
Hellcat
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1966
After Calhoun rescues a headstrong young Indian woman from two buffalo hunters who were abusing her, he asks her to be his scout through dangerous terrain on his way to meet with a Sioux chief. She agrees, until she learns that he plans to negotiate putting the railroad through Sioux territory.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 5.9/1019 votes
Welcome for the General
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/2/1967
As Calhoun rides on the train with General Sherman on his tour, Dave, Barnabas, and the entire population of one of the train's stops are taken prisoner by a former Confederate officer and his group, who plan to assassinate the General.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1019 votes
The Pembrooke Blood
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/9/1967
Ben Calhoun gets to end of beating line alive, then is invited for a last dinner before being shot. Ben wins his life back in a poker game, but Pembrooke reneges, and Ben runs away for his life and kills his pursuers.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1021 votes
Volcano Wagon
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1967
A cave-in traps Nils, another crewman, and a little boy in a tunnel. While Dave and others work to dig them out, Calhoun and Barnabas rush to retrieve a batch of nitro to free them. But their trip becomes more dangerous than ever when their wagon wheel collapses and they must seek the help of a preacher who believes they are damned, and someone else who is determined that they not make it back alive.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 5.9/1020 votes
The Bridge at Forty-Mile
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/23/1967
A man who sold lumber to Calhoun's railroad has disappeared, and his brother thus refuses to unload the lumber unless and until he is found to prove the sale was made. Suspecting two renegade Indians who quit just after the man left, Dave sets out to find them, along with the seller's brother. The behaviour of the owner of a trading post leads them to suspect the answers are to be found there.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1019 votes
- 6.5/1019 votes
Banner with a Strange Device
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/6/1967
While the train is stopped in the town of Banner, where Calhoun is making a major business deal with town founder Big Jim Banner, Barnabas is attacked by Banner's son, who thinks Barnabas is one of the Claiborne boys with whom the Banners have a major feud. At first it seems to be a mistake, until Barnabas meets Jeff Claiborne, who looks just like him. Soon Barnabas, who was raised as an orphan, starts to believe that he may be a Claiborne as well.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1020 votes
Appointment with an Epitaph
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1967
Six people from a stagecoach board Calhoun's train, all in fear for their lives after being followed for miles by a notorious gunman, who also boards the train. Calhoun puts him off, but he keeps following, and won't reveal which of the people he has been hired to kill, leading each of them to paranoid fear which may be a worse killer than his gun.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.2/1022 votes
The Red Tornado
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/20/1967
Calhoun finds an eight-year-old Arapaho boy alive as the only survivor of a battle with the Shoshone. He wants to bring him back to his people, but the Shoshone want him brought to them, as he is the son and heir to the slain Arapaho chief. Calhoun fears that he will be killed if brought to them, but local townspeople, including a close friend, want to maintain the peace with the Shoshone and thus do as they ask---while others in the town want to use the incident to start a new war.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/1016 votes
Decision at Sundown
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1967
With Calhoun away, the train is taken over by a group of ruthless outlaws who demand that Dave turn over a large fortune in bonds that is being delivered. Dave tells them that they will have to wait for Calhoun to return with them, but that is a delaying tactic as Calhoun will not be back that soon and Dave may have to resort to other plans to save the lives of the crew and passengers.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/1018 votes
The Passenger
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/6/1967
Calhoun is under orders from President Grant himself to safely transport Pierre Le Druc, an associate of Mexico's deposed puppet emperor Maximilian, to a meeting with his French countrymen on the west coast. But Le Druc is a ruthless killer, and a Mexican general is also pursuing the train to capture Le Druc and bring him back for trial.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/1015 votes
The Execution
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/13/1967
When Calhoun's railroad is given the contract to haul for a mining company, it effectively puts the owner of the old coach freight line, who had the contract before, out of business. The freight company owner's inept sons decide to get back at Calhoun by robbing the railroad of the mining company payroll, and they hire a ruthless gunman to help them.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/1020 votes
Death by Triangulation
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/20/1967
Calhoun wins a high stakes poker game against outlaw gambler Dan Patrick. But Patrick says he does not have the money on him, and offers a beautiful young Spanish noblewoman as collateral. Calhoun agrees to leave the young woman with Barnabas as he goes with Patrick to retrieve the money. But Patrick has no intention of keeping his end of the bargain.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/1018 votes
The Golden Web
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 3/27/1967
Ben Calhoun is forced into a business transaction with conman Preston Webb. When he joins fellow grifter Helen Garth into convincing the locals of a machine that finds gold Calhoun and his friends endeavour to expose them.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1019 votes
Sister Death
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/3/1967
Calhoun learns that he is transporting three female prisoners to Kansas City, and that one of them is the only witness against a ruthless mob boss being tried for murder. But the man has no intention of letting her arrive to testify against him, and has put his associates on the trail and on the train to make sure of it.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown