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26 Men Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1957 - 1958

Episode 1

The Recruit

Tue, Oct 15, 195726 mins

In answer to a desperate request from its newspaper editor, Captain Rynning heads to Wilcox with a new recruit and finds the man dangling from a noose outside of town. Rynning finds the townspeople cowering in fear of the town boss, Big Red Monahan and must find a way to bring the find the murderers and put Monahan out of business.

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Episode 2

Trouble at Pinnacle Peak

Tue, Oct 22, 195726 mins

A gang of desperadoes cuts a swath of murder and robbery across the whole Arizona Territory, laughing at the Rangers attempts to bring them to heel. Since the gang uses every trick in the book to cover their tracks, Rynning hires an Apache tracker to find the outlaws.

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Episode 3

The Wild Bunch

Tue, Oct 29, 195726 mins

The outlaw gang known as The Wild Bunch or Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, are planning their next train robbery. The Arizona Rangers have traced the criminals to Nogales and have captured one of the women believed to be traveling with the Bunch. Rynning hopes to use the pretty blonde as bait to smoke out the other gang members, but when she escapes from Travis, his angry captain fires the ranger. Furious with himself for allowing himself to be outfoxed, Travis sets out to capture the outlaws single-handed.

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Episode 4

Border Incident

Tue, Nov 5, 195727 mins

To interdict the guns flowing from the American side of the Mexican border, the Mexican government requests the assistance of the Arizona Rangers. Captain Rynning believes that the operation is based in Douglas, Arizona and may be funneled through the ranch of Juan Morales, a notorious bandit. Travis goes undercover in attempt to smoke out the Mexican's American confederates.

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Episode 5

Destination Nowhere

Tue, Nov 12, 195726 mins

The territorial governor orders Captain Rynning to put a stop to the smuggling of Chinese coolies into Arizona and round up the ringleaders. The ruthless gang of human traffickers transport their unsuspecting customers across the Colorado Rivers and abandon them in the desert where many become buzzard bait.

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Episode 6

Incident at Yuma

Tue, Nov 19, 195726 mins

A group of prisoners held at the Yuma Penitentiary escape, stealing a deadly Gatling gun in the process. They head to town, planning to steal enough clothes, money, guns and ammunition to start an army of convicts. Rynning's rangers are spread throughout the territory fighting crime and labor unrest, so in desperation he asks Apaches warriors to join his posse and bring the escapees to bay.

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Episode 7

The Slater Brothers

Tue, Nov 26, 195727 mins

Rynning and his rangers investigate a gang of clever cattle rustlers who steal only a few head at a time in order to better conceal their movements. They get a lead when a dying cowhand identifies one of the murderous crooks as the brother of a wealthy rancher. When Travis is forced to kill the accused man when he resists arrest tempers flare in town and Rynning orders his young protégé to head for the hills to find the herd of stolen stock and the rustlers who are behind the thefts.

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Episode 8

Dead Man in Tucson

Tue, Dec 3, 195726 mins

Travis goes after escaped con Cain Devers, a bank robber and counterfeiter who is using his counterfeit plates as part of a plot to destroy his father and younger brother.

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Episode 9

Man on the Run

Tue, Dec 10, 195726 mins

A Ranger suddenly resigns without explanation. Rynning tries to discover what's behind it and finds that the man is hiding a secret that he won't take a chance on anyone finding out about.

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Episode 10

The Big Rope

Tue, Dec 17, 195726 mins

The wife of a preacher who recently established a mission for Apaches living near Galeyville receives a suspicious telegram and fears her husband has been murdered. Travis learns that a lynch mob hung two Indians accused of being horse thieves and the minister who tried to prevent the hanging. He also discovers that, in a moment of cowardice, the town sheriff failed to prevent the hangings.

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Episode 11

Valley of Fear

Tue, Dec 24, 195726 mins

Travis poses as an outlaw in what seems to be a very peaceful valley to try to find the reason behind the disappearance of a U.S. Marshal.

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Episode 12

Indian Gunslinger

Tue, Dec 31, 195727 mins

An Apache inherits a small ranch and his white neighbors don't care for the idea of having an Indian for a neighbor.

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Episode 13

Trail of Darkness

Tue, Jan 7, 195830 mins

Rynning and Travis investigate when a number of women are murdered in a small Arizona town. Since the circumstances surrounding each murder are identical, the rangers fear that they are trying to capture a psychopathic misogynist. When Travis finds a footprint with a distinctive heel mark near the body, the lawmen search the surrounding area for the owner of such a boot.

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Episode 14

Trade Me Deadly

Tue, Jan 14, 195826 mins

In order to prevent the hanging of their gang members a family of outlaws kidnaps the daughter of the commander of an army post instructing him to release his prisoner or the young woman will meet the same fate. When the army carries out the execution anyway, Rynning, Travis and two undercover Army officers must free the girl before word of the gang members death leaks out.

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Episode 15

Violent Land

Tue, Jan 21, 195830 mins

Ranger Joe Pierce captures a pair of outlaws and turns them over to a sheriff for safe keeping. Sheriff Brennan recognizes that one of the outlaws is a dead ringer for the son of a wealthy rancher who went missing in action while serving in the military and uses the chance for to earn some quick cash so he can woo a pretty saloon girl.

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Episode 16

Panic at Bisbee

Tue, Feb 4, 195826 mins

Unemployed miners threaten to burn down the Bisbee bank unless they can withdraw money from their accounts. Unfortunately, the local office doesn't have enough money to meet their demands, so they must pull cash from other locations to survive. Travis is ordered to guard the shipment and must deal with corrupt businessmen and crooks with itchy trigger fingers to get the money through on time.

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Episode 17

Insurrection

Tue, Feb 11, 1958

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Episode 18

Slaughter Trail

Tue, Feb 18, 1958

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Episode 19

Gun Hand

Tue, Feb 25, 195830 mins

An Arizona Ranger is shot in the arm while attempting to thwart a hold-up. He convinces the doctor not to inform Captain Rynning of the seriousness of his injury until he can at least try to regain his shooting form. His fiancée fears that he will be no match for the outlaws who are hijacking gold shipments near his station.

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Episode 20

Cattle Embargo

Tue, Mar 4, 195826 mins

While trying to enforce the embargo placed on Mexican cattle, an Arizona ranger is shot and left for dead by a trio of cowboys. One of the cowmen takes pity on the wounded lawman and takes him to a nearby ranch for medical assistance. Rynning is determined to bring the shooter to justice and break up the cross-border cattle trade to an end.

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Episode 21

Badge to Kill

Tue, Mar 11, 195826 mins

After a shipment of gold guarded by the Arizona Rangers is stolen, the U.S. Marshals assigned to the region accuse Ranger Ben Thorpe of complicity in the theft.

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Episode 22

Montezuma's Cave

Tue, Mar 18, 1958

Rynning and Travis assist the Mexican Rurales hunt down the remnants of an army of bandits who sought to overthrow the government. During the chase, one of the outlaws is killed by the border patrol and incorrectly identified as the movement's commander, Romero. Meanwhile, the erstwhile leader assumes the identity of a poor peon and goes in search of the loot from a train robbery hidden nearly ten years earlier.

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Episode 23

Sundown Decision

Tue, Mar 25, 1958

Kevin Hardy, a rancher who is about to be released from prison gets a visit from his crippled brother, Arron, who goads him into taking revenge against the former sheriff who arrested him for manslaughter. Meanwhile Arron has hired an outlaw to kill his brother and frame the ex-lawman for the crime.

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Episode 24

The Parrish Gang

Tue, Apr 1, 1958

Clint Travis works his way into the heart of a gang of bank robbers.

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Episode 25

Hoax at Globe

Tue, Apr 8, 195826 mins

During an election campaign for the office of Sheriff of Globe, Arizona, a crooked drifter plots to embarrass the incumbent by bringing in an "escaped" prisoner he took from Ranger Clint Travis' custody the day before the election. To make his election more likely, his gang robs the town's express office and shooting the Sheriff's leading advocate while Harding is out of town helping the Rangers locate their escaped prisoner.

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Episode 26

The Bounty Hunter

Tue, Apr 15, 195826 mins

After a rancher is convicted of robbery based upon flimsy circumstantial evidence, his young brother in law appeals to Captain Rynning to find the real criminals.

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Episode 27

Apache Water

Tue, Apr 22, 1958

The Rangers try to convince a group of settlers illegally homesteading on the Apache reservation to leave before violence occurs.

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Episode 28

Legacy of Death

Tue, Apr 29, 195826 mins

Tom Rynning learns that Bart Evans' will includes a clause that requires Betty Evans to give $10,000 to the man the rancher hired to killer the Ranger captain - and his daughter is willing to pay the bounty.

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Episode 29

Chain Gang

Tue, May 6, 1958

Arizona's territorial governor orders Rynning to investigate reports of abuses by prison guards of convicts working on chain gangs.

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Episode 30

The Bells of St. Thomas

Tue, May 13, 195826 mins

Captain Rynning and several of his Rangers join a posse to smoke out the remnants of Luke Baxter's gang. The outlaws momentarily give the posse the slip and double back to take refuge in a mission school run for the reservation's Indian children and hold the priests and the youngsters as hostages.

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Episode 31

Hondo Man

Tue, May 20, 1958

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Episode 32

The Vanquisher

Tue, May 27, 195826 mins

Ranger Andrew Shoreham requests a leave of absence after receiving a plea from his wife to return to his home and help her move. When his request is denied, Shoreham resigns, but Rynning has a change of heart and orders the ranger to Kelso to drive out the outlaws who have taken over the town.

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Episode 33

The Ranger and the Lady

Tue, Jun 3, 195830 mins

Rynning and Travis are urged to come to Bisbee when trouble arises when women demand the right to vote.

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Episode 34

Idol in the Dust

Tue, Jun 10, 195830 mins

Captain Rynning sends Travis to Duncan, Arizona to investigate reports that legendary lawman Ben Salem has thrown in with the crooked town boss to keep the residents under his thrall. Travis can't believe the reports since he lived with Salem in his salad days, but soon learns that the his former idol was crippled by a gunshot and was forced to find work as a hired gun.

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Episode 35

Runaway Stage

Tue, Jun 17, 195826 mins

The attorney general and the local businessman ask that Andy Shoreham be forced to resign from Rangers because of the wild days in his youth. Rynning backs the young ranger, but when he's knocked off the stagecoach he's supposed to be guarding and the stage disappears along with the silver shipment it contained, calls for his dismissal are renewed.

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Episode 36

Wayward Gun

Tue, Jun 24, 195830 mins

Bud Larch, a short man constantly being teased about his height, turns robber and killer to prove he's as tough as anyone in Arizona.

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Episode 37

Hole Up

Tue, Jul 1, 195826 mins

While escorting an Apache Indian to prison, Travis stops by a remote railroad station for food and water and learns that Bert Alvord and his partner have just held up the train. While awaiting reinforcement, Alvord returns to the station and abducts the station master's granddaughter in order to obtain food and water.

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Episode 38

Unholy Partners

Tue, Jul 8, 195826 mins

Rynning and Travis investigate the hijacking of a valuable freight wagon and are aided by the youngest member of the outlaw gang who has second thoughts about a criminal career.

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Episode 39

Killers Trail

Tue, Jul 15, 195826 mins

When four murderers break out of Yuma Prison, Rynning mobilizes his entire force to capture the escapees.

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