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The Best Episodes of The Tall Man Season 2

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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 NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 1 - Full Payment
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #1 - Full Payment

    S2:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 2 - The Liberty Belle
    6.5/10(16 votes)

    #2 - The Liberty Belle

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 3 - Where Is Sylvia?
    7.1/10(14 votes)

    #3 - Where Is Sylvia?

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 4 - The Female Artillery
    6.9/10(14 votes)

    #4 - The Female Artillery

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 5 - Shadow of the Past
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #5 - Shadow of the Past

    S2:E5

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 6 - An Item for Auction
    6.9/10(13 votes)

    #6 - An Item for Auction

    S2:E6

    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:Unknown

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  7. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 7 - The Judas Palm
    6.7/10(14 votes)

    #7 - The Judas Palm

    S2:E7

    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:Unknown

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  8. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 8 - The Woman
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #8 - The Woman

    S2:E8

    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:Unknown

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  9. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 9 - Trial by Hanging
    6.7/10(13 votes)

    #9 - Trial by Hanging

    S2:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 10 - The Leopard's Spots
    6.4/10(11 votes)

    #10 - The Leopard's Spots

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 11 - Petticoat Crusade
    5.1/10(12 votes)

    #11 - Petticoat Crusade

    S2:E11

    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:Unknown

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  12. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 12 - Time of Foreshadowing
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Time of Foreshadowing

    S2:E12

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 13 - Fool's Play
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Fool's Play

    S2:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 14 - Legend of Billy
    6.4/10(15 votes)

    #14 - Legend of Billy

    S2:E14

    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:Unknown

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  15. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 15 - A tombstone for Billy
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #15 - A tombstone for Billy

    S2:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 16 - Sidwkick
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #16 - Sidwkick

    S2:E16

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 17 - Apache Daughter
    6.7/10(13 votes)

    #17 - Apache Daughter

    S2:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 18 - Substitute Sheriff
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    #18 - Substitute Sheriff

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 19 - The Girl From Paradise
    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #19 - The Girl From Paradise

    S2:E19

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 20 - St. Louis Woman
    6.4/10(16 votes)

    #20 - St. Louis Woman

    S2:E20

    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:Unknown

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  21. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 21 - The Hunt
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #21 - The Hunt

    S2:E21

    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:Unknown

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  22. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 22 - The Impatient Bride
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #22 - The Impatient Bride

    S2:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 23 - Rio Doloroso
    6.8/10(16 votes)

    #23 - Rio Doloroso

    S2:E23

    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:Unknown

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  24. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 24 - An Hour To die
    6.9/10(13 votes)

    #24 - An Hour To die

    S2:E24

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 25 - Property of the Crown
    7.4/10(11 votes)

    #25 - Property of the Crown

    S2:E25

    Angelita Sanchez has an old Spanish land grant she thinks is valuable.Garrett agrees that it show Angelita owns half of Lincoln County.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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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 Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/9/1961. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Liberty Belle".