7.2/1011 votes#1 - Full Payment
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1961
Ex-Quantrel raider, Jack Baron, is coming to Lincoln to kill Billy Bonney in revenge for Billy's killing of one of Baron's men. The townspeople of Lincoln are reluctant to fight Baron to protect the chronic trouble-maker Billy Bonney.Pat finds himself standing alone with Billy against Baron. Will Garrett's words and faith in ""the Law"" change the town's mind in time?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1016 votes
#2 - The Liberty Belle
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1961
Elena, Pat's old flame, returns to town to obtain Pat's protection against her ex-boyfriend Joe Durango. Neither Pat nor Billy know that Elena is really hoping to lure one of them into killing Joe who is pursuing Elena to retrieve money that she stole from him. When Joe arrives in town and attempts to kill Elena, the stage is set for a showdown between Pat and Joe.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1014 votes
#3 - Where Is Sylvia?
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1961
Billy and Pat are on a gambling vacation in El Paso when Pat wins $600 in a pocker game. In a short period of time,a con-lady named Sylvia is successful in seperating Pat from his winnings. Billy and Pat chase her to Durango and execute an elaborate plan to retrieve $600. It is a classic case of the battle between a wronged man and the whiles of a pretty woman. Many funny sceenes.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1014 votes
#4 - The Female Artillery
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1961
Billy and Pat are on a gambling vacation in El Paso when Pat wins $600 in a pocker game. In a short period of time,a con-lady named Sylvia is successful in seperating Pat from his winnings. Billy and Pat chase her to Durango and execute an elaborate plan to retrieve $600. It is a classic case of the battle between a wronged man and the whiles of a pretty woman. Many funny sceenes.
Director: Lesley Selander
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1012 votes
#5 - Shadow of the Past
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1961
Ben Wiley and his family have moved to Lincoln and Billy has taken a liking to his daughter. When Billy introduces Pat Garrett to the family, Pat believes he recognizes Ben Wiley as a fellow prisoner from a prison camp in the Civil War. Garrett has sworn revenge on Wiley and Billy feels obligated to defend his new friends. A showdown between the Kid and Garret seems inevitable.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1013 votes
#6 - An Item for Auction
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1961
Buffalo skinner, Sam Nayfack comes to Lincoln to sell his daughter Susan to the highest bidder. Garrett interfers and , for his effort, ends up taking Susan in. It falls upon Pat to rehab the 16 year old and make her presentable as a lady. Harrassment from Billy and opossition from the girl's father make Pat's role less than enviable.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1014 votes
#7 - The Judas Palm
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1961
Drifter , Archie Keogh comes to Lincoln and is immediately arrested for harrassing the local saloon owner. As Garrett is checking Keogh into jail, Billy the Kid recognizes him as an old friend. After Billy goes out of his way to help Keogh find a job , Keogh betrays him by killing Billy's girl, Rita's father and blaming it on BIlly. It is up to Pat to find the truth before Billy hangs.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1011 votes
#8 - The Woman
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1961
Pat Garret shoots down a horse theif only to find out that the theif is a member of a traveling group of religious fanatics. When Pat goes out to tell the group of the killing, he is kidnapped and forced into becoming the husband of the woman who's husband he killed. Pat's only hope to escape is the understanding of his new mate or the determination of his friend, Billy Bonney, to find him.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1013 votes
#9 - Trial by Hanging
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1961
Billy goes to work for a rancher called Jake Newton, unaware that his new employer is wanted for murder. When the lynch mob shows up and finds Newton gone, they turn their menacing attentions on Billy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1011 votes
#10 - The Leopard's Spots
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1961
Billy wants to impress a gentle girl named Charity, so he stops wearing a gun. Then a couple of hired killers show up and they are out to get Billy.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
- 4.8/1012 votes
#11 - Petticoat Crusade
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1961
Suffragette Amy Dodds throws a brick through Pat Garrett's window and demands to be arrested. Garrett refuses, so she goes on down the street to Murphy's saloon and throws some more bricks.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1013 votes
#12 - Time of Foreshadowing
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1961
Billy runs in to an old pal,Skip Farrell, who once saved Billys life. Out of obligation, BIlly helps him escape from the soldiers who are searching for him for desertion. When Billy and Skip arrive at Skips old girlfriends place, Billy learns that Skips reason for desertion was more sinister than he was led to believe. Billy has to choose between his sense of obligation and doing whats right.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1010 votes
#13 - Fool's Play
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1961
Billy has a job riding shotgun on Bert Wilson's stage. It looks like a pretty routine run until they are surprised by a bandit named Pollitt.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1014 votes
#14 - Legend of Billy
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/9/1961
Billy meets a western sensationalist writer named Dean Almond on a stage bound for Lincoln. For fun, Billy conceals his identity when he finds that Almond has come to write about him.He tells Almond ""tall tales"" about ""Billy the Kid' and Almond writes an article based on Billy's lies. When ALmond discovers he has been duped, he takes revenge on Billy. It is up to Pat to save Billy from falling into Almond's trap and getting hanged.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1011 votes
#15 - A tombstone for Billy
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/16/1961
Cyrus Skinner,the town skinflint,has purchased his tombstone. Fate, however, seems to have other plans as the tombstone appears over the grave of Maria Gonzales, whose husband,Juan was too poor to afford one.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/108 votes
#16 - Sidwkick
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/23/1961
Billy saves a mexican boy, Fosfortito, from being whipped by Sledge, the man who he is indentured to. Billy decides to take the boy back to his parents in Mexico. When they get there, Billy finds that the town is controlled and vicimized by an American businessman. Billy shows the town that there is strength in numbers and that there is a time to stand up and fight.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1013 votes
#17 - Apache Daughter
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/30/1961
Pat and Billy accompany their friend, Bartlett, on a trip to recover his long ago captured daughter,Sherry,from a now friendly Apache Indian band. However,after Sherry joins her father,it becomes obvious that her loyalties lie with her adopted Indian tribe. When her Apache husband defies his chief and pursues Sally in an attempt to recapture her, a showdown insues.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: N/A
6.5/109 votes#18 - Substitute Sheriff
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/6/1962
The railroad line is coming through and that means eviction for the McBean family. But May and June McBean get an idea. Pa can stop the process server if he pretends to be Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1011 votes
#19 - The Girl From Paradise
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/13/1962
Billy is framed for murder by Sheriff Tolinger. Tollinger is taking BIlly to Pecos to hang when they pick up another convicted murderer, Annie. Despite being chained together , they manage to escape and head for help in Lincoln. During the journey the two fall in love.When Tollinger closes in,Billy and Annie must choose between their desire to survive and their love for one another.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1015 votes
#20 - St. Louis Woman
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/20/1962
Tom Davis asks his friend Pat Garrett to watch over his fiancee Miss Harper and her son David while Davis is out of town on business. Pat and Miss Harper find their relationship is deepening as they spend time together. Pat finds himself torn between his loyalty to his friend and his love for Miss Harper.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1011 votes
#21 - The Hunt
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 1/27/1962
A shipping tycoon, Edward Van Doren, arrives in town with his mother looking for Billy the Kid. Van Doren is an avid hunter and he convinces Billy to become his guide on a hunt for mountain lion. Once Billy and Van Doren are alone on the hunt, Van Doren reveals that his real prey is not mountain lions.
Director: Lesley Selander
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/109 votes
#22 - The Impatient Bride
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/3/1962
A stage coach carrying four mail-order brides is forced to stop in Lincoln when the Apaches go on the warpath. The housing situation is desperate,so the girls turn to Garrett and demand that he put them up in jail.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1015 votes
#23 - Rio Doloroso
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1962
Pat Garrett is bringing in a prisoner,Curtis, to Lincoln when bad weather forces him to stop in a small Mexican village. The village is very poor and jealousies develop between some of the townspeople and Pat. Sympathy for the prisoner begins to grow and Pat finds the situation becoming more and more hostile. In the end, Pat must rely on the courage of the good people of the town to survive and bring his prisoner to justice.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1012 votes
#24 - An Hour To die
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/17/1962
Also known as ""A Day to Kill"" . Billy sustains a head injury while trying to break a wild horse. When he regains conciousness, he has amnesia. He does not recognize his friends including Pat Garrett so the paranoid Billy holds up in the local saloon with two hostages. Pat must take a chance on killing Billy or being killed in order to capture Billy and return him to the doctors care.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1010 votes
#25 - Property of the Crown
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 2/24/1962
Angelita Sanchez has an old Spanish land grant she thinks is valuable.Garrett agrees that it show Angelita owns half of Lincoln County.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Tall Man Season 2
Every episode of The Tall Man Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Tall Man Season 2!
The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on...
Genre:Western
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Full Payment" is the best rated episode of "The Tall Man" season 2. It scored 7.2/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/9/1961. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Liberty Belle".