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The Worst Episodes of The Tall Man

Every episode of The Tall Man ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Tall Man!

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

Worst Episodes Summary

"Petticoat Crusade" is the worst rated episode of "The Tall Man". It scored 4.8/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Richard Donner and written by N/A, it aired on 11/18/1961. This episode scored 0.8 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Three For All".

  • Petticoat Crusade
    4.8/1012 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • Three For All
    5.6/1013 votes
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    #2 - Three For All

    Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 3/10/1962

    Maw Kilgore and her boys, Hyram and Dwig, meander down from the hills for a little fun in town, which consits of smashing up the local saloon.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Billy's Baby
    5.8/1015 votes
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    #3 - Billy's Baby

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1960

    It is the Christmas season and Billy is partying at the local salon with his girlfriend, Maria. A visiting Texan taks offense to Billy and a fight errupts, leaving the Texan shot and left for dead. Billy runs towards Mexico to avoid arrest but runs into trouble with Apaches. Garrett attempts to bring Billy in but ends up fighting Apaches with him. In the end Garret's faith in Billy the kid and Billy's loyalty to his lawman friend are tested.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Frame
    5.8/1013 votes
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    #4 - The Frame

    Season 2 Episode 33 - Aired 4/21/1962

    Isobel Stewart, an old classmate of Pat Garrett's arrives in town with her sickly husband, Henry. Pat and Isobel renew their friendship causing the overly jealous Henry to plot revenge. When Henry turns up dead, Pat and Isobel are the prime suspects.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Runaway Groom
    5.8/1012 votes
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    #5 - The Runaway Groom

    Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 4/28/1962

    Garrett encouonters Burt and Luke Tugwell who are engaged in a grim manhunt. The quarry is their sisters husband who ran off and left her with a baby.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Legend of Billy
    6.2/1014 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • St. Louis Woman
    6.2/1015 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • The Woman In Black
    6.2/1011 votes
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    #8 - The Woman In Black

    Season 2 Episode 36 - Aired 5/12/1962

    There was a time when Don Diego wanted to marry Rosa, but now all he wants is to see her dead.He believes that she put a curse on him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Millionaire McBean
    6.4/1011 votes
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    #9 - Millionaire McBean

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/15/1961

    Tomboys, June and May McBean are up to their old tricks. They figure that if people thought their Pa was rich, they might land a husband, so they plant some gold in the old man's mine.

    Director: William Witney

    Writer: N/A

  • The Leopard's Spots
    6.4/1011 votes
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    #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

  • Apache Daughter
    6.4/1013 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Night of the Hawk
    6.4/1010 votes
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    #12 - Night of the Hawk

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/3/1962

    Pat and BIlly accompany Army Major Judd Randolf on a mission to secure the surrender of the outlaw Apache, Chato, and his band. Billy and Nelson share a mutual dislike for each other until they are trapped in a life and death situation with the Indians. In order to survive, both Billy and Major Nelson must learn to trust and respect each others courage and leadership skills.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cloudbusters
    6.5/109 votes
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    #13 - The Cloudbusters

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 4/29/1961

    Lincoln is in the middle of a drought and Apache Mike Grey Eagle has the only water in town. He has a stranglehold on the town with his high water prices so the town council votes to hire a rainmaker. The rainmaker turns out to be a girl with a determinaton to succceed in finding water or making rain. Pat and Billy get drug into her rainmaking adventure which include capture by the apaches.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Liberty Belle
    6.5/1016 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Substitute Sheriff
    6.5/109 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Rio Doloroso
    6.5/1015 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • The Judas Palm
    6.6/1014 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • The Woman
    6.6/1011 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Phoebe
    6.6/1014 votes
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    #19 - Phoebe

    Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 5/26/1962

    Billy falls in love with a girl whos life he has saved. Phoebe Canfield is running away from her violent and over controlling father. Billy must stand between Phoebe and her father if he is to marry the girl he loves.

    Director: Sydney Pollack

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lonely Star
    6.7/1014 votes
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    #20 - The Lonely Star

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1960

    Sheriff Brady is shot down and deputy Pat Garrett must decide if he will run for sheriff in a corrupt election run by local cattle baron Andy Gorman.The odds against Pat are big until Billy the Kid offers his assistance. Pat must operate within the Law while Billy is willing to break all the rules. Will the people of Lincoln County choose the right nman for the job?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Great Western
    6.7/1012 votes
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    #21 - The Great Western

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/3/1961

    Garrett thinks it would be a good idea to clean up the town before territorial governor Lew Wallace arrives. He plans to runout a saloonkeeper named Big Mamacita. Her plans are to stay right where she is.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Trial by Hanging
    6.7/1013 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • McBean Rides Again
    6.8/1011 votes
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    #23 - McBean Rides Again

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1960

    The teenage troublemakers June and May McBean team up to cause Pat, Billy and their dad headaches over illegal brewing of whiskey. It looks like everyone but the culprits will end up in jail. In the end, however, four men against two teenage girls restores order and justice.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Reluctant Bridegroom
    6.8/1013 votes
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    #24 - The Reluctant Bridegroom

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1961

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Last Resource
    6.8/1015 votes
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    #25 - The Last Resource

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/11/1961

    Marshall Ben Hartley comes to Lincoln to arrest Billy Bonney for the murder of his 12 yeaar old daughter in Prescott., Az. Pat initially helps Hartley arrest Billy but becomes suspicious when Hartley uses unorthodox and vicious methods to deal with Billy. When it becomes obvious that Hartley is out for revenge and not justice, Pat decides to ride along to Billy's trial in Prescott.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A