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The Best Episodes of The Roy Rogers Show Season 1

Every episode of The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Roy Rogers Show Season 1!

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Roy Rogers is the owner of the RR Ranch in the Mineral City area, which he runs with the help of the German shepherd dog Bullet and his horse Trigger. Roy, supported by his friend

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 1 - Jailbreak
    6.6/10(42 votes)

    #1 - Jailbreak

    S1:E1

    Dale helps a young man to escape from jail after he has been falsely accused of the murder of his intended bride's father.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 2 - Doc Stevens' Traveling Store
    6.8/10(29 votes)

    #2 - Doc Stevens' Traveling Store

    S1:E2

    Crafty old Doc Stevens drives around with a ""traveling store,"" actually a bilnd for a transmitter used to send information to a gang of dangerous criminals.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 3 - The Set-Up
    6.8/10(35 votes)

    #3 - The Set-Up

    S1:E3

    Roy blocks a gang's attempts to murder trapper Granny Hobbs when she refuses to sell her land. When the outlaws threaten to have Granny declared insane in order to take over her property, the clever old lady helps Roy and Dale to set a trap for them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 4 - The Treasure of Howling Dog Canyon
    6.9/10(37 votes)

    #4 - The Treasure of Howling Dog Canyon

    S1:E4

    A scheming saloon hostess who married a miner and then had him murdered after gaining control of his treasure map, menaces her stepson in order to take possession of the third of the map which he holds.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 5 - The Train Robbery
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #5 - The Train Robbery

    S1:E5

    The local postmaster, who also runs the general store, hires two crooks to blow up and rob a train carrying a valuable bank shipment.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 6 - Badman's Brother
    6.4/10(40 votes)

    #6 - Badman's Brother

    S1:E6

    Eleven-year-old Larry Trumball is loyal to his brother Stu, and thus keeps Roy and Dale from catching Stu after he has killed a man and committed a robbery. Although Larry appears incorrigible, Dale believes that ""fundamentally, he's a fine boy,"" so she and Roy set out to teach him about misplaced loyalty.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 7 - Outlaw's Girl
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #7 - Outlaw's Girl

    S1:E7

    Thelma Young, a waitress in Dale's cafe, is interrogated by an FBI agent because she is romantically involved with Chick Dillon, a cheap thug who subsequently returns to Mineral City and kidnaps Dale and the foolish Thelma.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 8 - The Desert Fugitive
    7.2/10(26 votes)

    #8 - The Desert Fugitive

    S1:E8

    Bill Harris is mistaken for his twin brother Jim, who was convicted for stealing important government documents.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 9 - Outlaws' Town
    6.8/10(23 votes)

    #9 - Outlaws' Town

    S1:E9

    A town in the desert, not surveyed and thus under no township or county's jurisdiction, is a haven for criminals who are safe from the law in their community. Roy and Pat pose as outlaws in order to invade ""No Man's Land"" and lead the criminals away from their protected area.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 10 - The Unwilling Outlaw
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #10 - The Unwilling Outlaw

    S1:E10

    Bank Employee Jed Collins is framed for embezzlement by the bank's head bookkeeper, who is in cahoots with the notorious Lawson gang. Jed is forced to join the gang until Roy can help prove his innocence, to the delight of Jed's trusting little daughter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 11 - Dead Men's Hills
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #11 - Dead Men's Hills

    S1:E11

    Roy, Dale and Pat help a wounded sheriff to hold the Hannon gang at bay in a desert oasis town near Dead Man's Hills.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 12 - The Minister's Son
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    #12 - The Minister's Son

    S1:E12

    A government agent poses as a minister's son in order to capture a gang of counterfeiters.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 13 - Ghost Gulch
    6.8/10(30 votes)

    #13 - Ghost Gulch

    S1:E13

    Jim Barton finds himself in considerable trouble, much to the distress of his wife and housekeeper. He is captured by an unscrupulous rancher who wants to buy his ranch, on which a gold mine has been discovered.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 14 - Ride in the Death Wagon
    6.9/10(24 votes)

    #14 - Ride in the Death Wagon

    S1:E14

    An elderly invalid donates a large sum of money in cash for the construction of a clinic. When her cash is inadvertently turned over to a crook posing as an armed guard, Roy and Dale must track down the imposter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 15 - Peril from the Past
    6.6/10(22 votes)

    #15 - Peril from the Past

    S1:E15

    Dude Dalhart and Cherokee Tim arrive in Mineral City and blackmail a bank teller who once killed a man and served a prison term. They threaten to reveal his past unless he helps them stage a bank robbery.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 16 - The Ride of the Ranchers
    7.0/10(20 votes)

    #16 - The Ride of the Ranchers

    S1:E16

    Don Jose traditionally leads the annual Ride of the Ranchers in Paradise Valley. This year, during his absence, a gang of outlaws attack his hacienda where Dale and the other women are gathered. Roy returns in time to prevent Don Jose's strongbox from being taken.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 17 - Shoot to Kill [aka Pat Brady, Outlaw]
    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #17 - Shoot to Kill [aka Pat Brady, Outlaw]

    S1:E17

    Dale is on a stagecoach carrying her father's cattle money, as is a picture-taking dude named Elmer Kirby. Elmer asks Pat Brady to pose as a desperado for a photograph. He later tells everyone that the picture depicts vicious outlaw Mark Opal.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 18 - The Hermit's Secret
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    #18 - The Hermit's Secret

    S1:E18

    Indian Ruby Barton's husband has been murdered by a former racketeer, now posing as a harmless old invalid. When guilt seems to point to Ruby's uncle, Roy and Dale investigate the case and clear the Indian of all charges.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 19 - Haunted Mine of Paradise Valley
    6.9/10(21 votes)

    #19 - Haunted Mine of Paradise Valley

    S1:E19

    A dying prospector tells Roy the map of his gold mine is hidden in the lower end of a shaft in the old Bedford Mine. When his widow arrives in Mineral City, Roy and Dale help her to find the map.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 20 - Ghost Town Gold
    6.4/10(30 votes)

    #20 - Ghost Town Gold

    S1:E20

    Pat Brady buys a disreputable old ghost town called Lucky Springs, inhabited by an old desert rat named Webb Jenkins who has found a cache of counterfeit gold pieces.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 21 - The Doublecrosser
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    #21 - The Doublecrosser

    S1:E21

    Dale pretends to have funds she wants Mayor Ralph Colton to help her invest-actually a pretext for her visit to the town where Colton is suspected of being dishonest. Coincidentally, the mayor's mother arrives in town along with Roy and Dale, unaware that her son is being blackmailed into shielding an outlaw gang.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 22 - Carnival Killer
    6.6/10(27 votes)

    #22 - Carnival Killer

    S1:E22

    A young whip artist in a carnival is framed in the murder of his boss, who has opposed the young man's courtship of his daughter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Roy Rogers Show Season 1 Episode 23 - Flying Bullets
    6.6/10(29 votes)

    #23 - Flying Bullets

    S1:E23

    Pat Brady is elected sheriff of Martin County just in time to apprehend the man who shot Appalachian mountaineer Cliff Miller.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Jailbreak" is the best rated episode of "The Roy Rogers Show" season 1. It scored 6.6/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by John English and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/30/1951. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Doc Stevens' Traveling Store".