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37 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
Wed, Oct 8, 195830 mins
On June 20, 1883 Bat comes to Arizona to help his friend Shorty. When Bat was down on his luck, Shorty was there to help him. Big Keel Roberts owns the Oriental Saloon while Shorty owns the Alhambra Saloon. Roberts sends his men Chuck and Nelson to take Bat off the stage but he out smarts them by going on horse and catching them stopping the stage. In town he spots his old friend Lucy from Dodge City who is now Roberts's woman. Bat is able to control problems at the Alhambra so Roberts threatens a woman with death that Bat took to dinner. Bat buys an interest in the Alhambra to prove his resolve so Roberts has his men bust up the saloon ending in a couple of his men shot. The irate Sheriff closes down both saloons for the town's safety. Roberts suggests a one hand poker game showdown with the winner taking both saloons. After some thought Bat agrees. The show provides two possible endings with an introduction of Bat Masterson's history between them.
Episode 2
Wed, Oct 15, 195830 mins
On August 11, 1883 Bat Masterson arrives in the isolated town of Swan Valley, Wyoming Territory where he stops for a rest. He enters the local saloon where he finds the beautiful Molly Doyle and the Scottish owner Angus McLarnin. Angus provides him and Molly good liquor in real glasses from Scotland. As he enjoys his drink and company, a group of renegade bandits led by Sgt. Foley enter fresh from their night of robbery and murder. Bat knows of Foley who was kicked out of the Army. Foley upon seeing Bat with Molly draws his gun and tells Bat to leave town and never return. Bat is forced to leave but tells himself he will not be forced to leave against his will. His hotel room is shot up but the next day decked out in his finest he applies for a gambling license to start a poker game. Upon returning after another night raid, Foley finds Bat still in Swan Valley. He is able to wound Bat but Bat seriously wounds Foley just as Foley kills Molly with a shot setting up a showdown between Bat, Foley, and the Lance brothers who are with him.
Episode 3
Wed, Oct 22, 195830 mins
On August 21, 1880 in Laramie, Wyoming Territory Bat becomes involved in a high stakes poker involving local rancher Jim Thompson. Thompson is short cash but says he will bet 1000 head of cattle based on the price of $5 per head. Bat feels there is a catch due to the low price but others vouch for the quality of Thompson's herd. Bat wins but when he decides to take the herd to Cheyenne to make a bigger profit, he learns that no one but Raoul Cummings has been able to move cattle to Cheyenne from Cummings himself. Cummings will buy the herd from Bat for $10 a head but Bat rejects the offer as they worth $25 in Cheyenne. He soon learns that Thompson still has other cattle he wants to sell in Cheyenne along with other local ranchers. With Bat leading the group they agree to make the short drive plus the attractive rancher Valorie Mitchell who joins them with her 400 head. She is attracted to Bat as all the ranchers can tell but in reality she is Cummings girl who he sent along to determine the route Bat plans to use. He plans a "dynamite" surprise for the drive but he also suspects Valorie will betray him.
Episode 4
Wed, Oct 29, 195830 mins
On September 5, 1886 Bat Masterson arrives at a tent city in Nevada where he was summoned by an old flame Laura Hopkins. As Bat arrives a group of wranglers led by the husky Clark Benson bring in a herd of wild horse to break and sell. However, Bat confronts them about the fact some of the horses are shod indicating they were stolen. Bat rides off spotting and talking to Joe Best chained to a jail tree. Laura has asked Bat there to save her fiancé Joe from a lynching. He is accused of murdering Clark Benson's brother after an argument with him. A circuit judge has been summoned but Bat doesn't believe Benson and the others will wait. He tries to stop them from an impromptu trial and hanging but a rock thrown at his head stops him cold. He must then find a way to save Joe Best from the lynching but Bat has an unpleasant surprise for Joe and Laura.
Episode 5
Wed, Nov 5, 195830 mins
On May 20, 1886 Bat arrives in Silverton, Colorado where he finds a fight in progress but when the manager of the fight ties the right arm of the younger fighter down, Bat soon intervenes as the young man takes a beating. Sensing a mob reaction, Bat takes the female spectator Polly Landers away. She owns the saloon and the fight manager Bull Kirby is her silent partner. She proposes Bat take Kirby's place but Bat wishes to stay free to do as he wishes. Bat is there to play poker but he takes an interest in the young fighter. He tries to buy his contract from Kirby but he refuses to sell. Bat resorts to winning the contract in a poker game. Bat tries to return the contract to the fighter Jim Bemis but finds the young man wants an honest fight but cannot read or write. Bat agrees to one fight against a man put up by Kirby betting his poker winnings with Polly. As they leave her place one of her and Kirby's henchmen Brock holds Bat hostage. Bat has to free himself plus save Bemis from the rigged fight.
Episode 6
Wed, Nov 12, 195830 mins
On October 12, 1885 in the Montana Rockies Bat meets a party of three: a brother and sister plus their friend Roger. The three had earlier killed a U.S. Marshal who had recognized them. They are wanted for a bank robbery and murder in the east. The sheriff of the town they are in suggests Bat to them as a guide to hunt bear in Canada. Bat has just arrived from hunting and trapping so he wants to relax so he can play cards and the women. The sheriff suspects who they are but has no proof so he asks Bat to guide them but delay them until proof arrives. Bat agrees given the reward but he is off to a rocky start with Roger. Bat looses their food so they must stop to fish. The trio spot the sheriff trailing them so they ambush him. The boss of the group decides to tie Bat to a tree beside a sack of fish heads for bear bait. Bat tricks them into leaving a canteen of water. They leave and a bear arrives. However, in Canada Bat provides the trio with bear steaks.
Episode 7
Wed, Nov 19, 195830 mins
On July 26, 1884 in a Nebraska cow town Bat is helped by Ben Thompson when crooked gamblers try to cheat him. Ben's gun arm is wounded and he is headed to Osceola, Nebraska where his brother Billy is being held for a murder and is to be hanged. Since Ben saved Bat's life, Bat leaves for Osceola to investigate the situation. A circus is in the town and the female acrobat tells Bat that Billy was framed by Big Ed Bacon and the sheriff. Bat has to take out a man who tries to kill him but he finds Billy is in jail with a broken leg so he can't escape. Not realizing Billy's situation because no one could visit him, Bat is captured but not before he is able to hide a gun in Billy's bandages. Now Bat now only has to free Billy he must free himself which requires some unusual tricks and a little circus magic.
Episode 8
Wed, Nov 26, 195830 mins
On November 25, 1882 in Fortune City, Nevada Jan and Woody Larkin arrive on the stage to an unwanted welcome. Packy Morrow shoots at Woody's feet to make him dance in his "dude" clothes. Woody's sister Jan yells for help and Bat responds when Jan takes his cane to help Woody. Packy works for Joe Quince who owns the mine in which the Larkin kids' father was killed. They have arrived to take over their father's hardware and feed store. Quince offers to buy the store telling the kids they will never fit in. Jan asks Bat to teach Woody to use a gun to protect themselves and the store. Packy attacks the store but Bat stops him but Quince kills Packy before he can talk. After some investigation, Bat learns their property abuts Quince's mine which has run out of ore. Woody who has always been a quitter decides to fight once he learns about the gold. As Bat teaches him he improves and Quince tries to scare him with his prowess with a gun. Woody learns - too well and Bat is forced to confront him.
Episode 9
Wed, Dec 3, 195830 mins
In 1882 at Tonopah, Nevada Bat is approached by three cousins who don't trust each other. Their Uncle Felix Feather has left each of them a third of a map that will lead them to $100,000 he hid at a place called "Worry Hill". They will give Bat $10,000 to lead them there. Bat makes a trip out to see Isaac Parker to verify the story. Parker a recluse who likes to play a pipe organ confirms the story. On the way back Bat notices he is being followed and that night he briefly catches the man trying to knife him in bed. The three maps which must be overlaid to show the location are a target so Bat burns them as he has the location memorized. The next day he leads the trio toward the location when they hear a shot. After a brief conversation with Parker who came to them, Bat goes back to investigate the shot. He learns most of the truth from the man who tried to kill Bat before he dies. There is surprise for all but the cousins learn they can trust each other.
Episode 10
Wed, Dec 17, 195830 mins
In August 1881 Bat is hired to come to Cheyenne, Wyoming by John Conant. Before entering the luxurious Cheyenne club, Bat stops Jim Pate from whipping a drunk homesteader and his men from shooting the man who has stopped Pate's rig. Conant meets Bat to tell him his daughter Sarah Lou is engaged to Steven Haley who is a relative newcomer. Rumors are afloat that Haley cheats at poker. If Bat verifies the story, Conant wants to get rid of Haley. When the couple enters the room, Bat says nothing. Afterwards when the two are alone Haley thanks Bat for not saying who he was but Bat only remembers him by the name Slick from two or three years earlier. Some of Pate's men attack Bat again in a saloon adding to the tension. That afternoon at the two o'clock card game Bat plays with Haley, Pate and others. Haley bets his homestead with Pate in a hand Pate wants to win but he "misreads" his cards. Later, Bat informs Conant the game is crooked but it is Pate not Haley who is crooked. Bat confronts Pate about why he lost his hand (Bat's intervention) and his requirements for not making it public Pate cheats. Pate responds with a threat to Bat that has everyone expecting Bat to be ambushed and killed.
Episode 11
Wed, Dec 24, 195830 mins
In 1880 while Bat is in Dodge City, Kansas General William T. Sherman, he of "Sherman's March to the Sea", appears to promote President Hayes's bid for re-election. The town is full of Texas cowboys just up from a trail drive and, while they're happy to rub elbows with the President, they'd be even more pleased to assassinate General Sherman. The town marshal, expecting trouble, deputizes Bat to be General Sherman's personal bodyguard. Bat makes the rounds of the city looking for people who may make trouble. He takes a derringer from Cherry a dancer who inadvertently gives Bat a hint where a cowboy named Luke is at. Luke along with his relatives are very anti-Sherman with one of them throwing eggs at the General. Bat tells them to leave town hoping that will end the threat. Sherman decides he wants to visit the hot spots of Dodge City that night. Bat escorts Sherman preventing some incidents on the tour. However, when he spots Luke's cousin still in town, his problems start.
Episode 12
Wed, Dec 31, 195830 mins
On July 27, 1879 in Good Springs, Nevada when one of Bat's friends is brought in dead with two bullets in him Bat decides to join the next wagon train in order to locate the bandits who have been preying on wagon trains. They change trail markers to divert unwary travelers from water holes. The cutthroats loot the wagon trains after the occupants die of dehydration. He offers his services to the next wagon train whose leader is a beautiful woman Ellen Parish whose brother was killed, but Parish refuses to believe that a gambler and gunslinger can lead her friends to California and safety. Instead she picks a man named Egan. Bat killed his partner in front of Parish which influenced her decision. Bat decides to leave ahead of the wagon train to see where things go wrong. However, a sandstorm blinds him after he loses his spooked horse. He stumbles blind into the wagon train stalled by the sand storm. Parish prevents Egan from killing Bat but believes Egan when he goes the wrong way. Bat chained to a wagon is left with few choices.
Episode 13
Wed, Jan 7, 195930 mins
In May 1883 at Silver City, Nevada Bat is playing cards when he stops the drunk bully Keely picking on a drummer. When Bat is introduced to the drummer, the drummer says he met a different Bat Masterson who is the sheriff at Trinidad, Colorado. Wanting to protect his reputation, Bat rides there and registers under the name Mr. Roberson. He sees an old friend Jessie Simmons in the hotel who tells him who the sheriff really is and that he has two deputies. Bat decides to go to the sheriff's office but is stopped at the door by one of the deputies who he quickly controls. He asks the sheriff for a deputy job saying he had experience at Dodge City. The sheriff knows something is up but he doesn't want to spoil his plan by killing Bat. Bat is left to determine what the sheriff is after but more importantly a way to stop him.
Episode 14
Wed, Jan 14, 195930 mins
In 1878 at Protection, Kansas southeast of Dodge City Bat stops with a herd of cattle he is driving just as the town prepares for an election. He finds himself confronted by Teddy Wright and his two henchmen wanting $2 per head to pass through town which he refuses to pay. Bat visits the sheriff who recommends he pay to avoid trouble nor does he have the power to stop the gang. While there, Kitty Meadows who has met Bat before enters the office. She has a dance troupe but Wright wants a payoff from her as well. When Bat goes to play cards at the saloon, Wright wants an entertainment tax. Before things go too far, the sheriff arrives to take Bat to see the mayor. Bat, unimpressed with the mayor and his gang decides the mayor running unopposed needs competition. He pushes Joe Rankin, an honest man with several friends, to run but Joe has little education or skill to take on the mayor's men who decide to teach Bat a lesson.
Episode 15
Wed, Jan 21, 195930 mins
In 1876 at Broken Bow, Kansas Bat is resting after a successfully completing a peace mission for the U.S. Army. Pawnee renegade Stone Calf and his braves raid a ranch killing everyone but two sisters who they take captive. Bat is interrupted with his lady friend Dolores Clark by an Army Captain. General Sheridan wishes to see him immediately in the saloon. Bat and Dolores listen as Sheridan tells Bat about the sisters being taken. Most of his forces are being deployed north the next morning to back up Custer. Also, Sheridan believes a single man will have better luck since Stone Calf is likely to torture the girls if the Army approaches. The pressure of Dolores worrying about the girls forces Bat's hand. He asks Sheridan for one favor the next morning. He asks the Army to leave the fort and head south for a few miles before turning north. The idea is to fake out his sentries who watch the Army. Bat rides into the renegade camp where he tells Stone Calf he has no choice as the Army is coming after him. Stone Calf falls for Bat's trick but Bat and the two girls are trapped when Stone Calf learns of the trick forcing Bat to use his sharpshooting skills to summon help.
Episode 16
Wed, Jan 28, 195930 mins
In early summer 1881 in the New Mexico Territory Bat is on his way to Phoenix for a big game when he spots a riderless horse which is lame. He stops to check things when he is roped by outlaw Bailey Harper who steals Bat's horse, gun and money. Bailey laughs when Bat tells him he'll get all of his property back, telling the gambler that he'll not receive any help. Bat walks with the horse to a nearby town where he is able to get a horse, saddle, and gun. Everyone is afraid of Bailey and his men. After he leaves town, three men part of the Bailey gang attempt to hold up Bat again but he takes them for $11 dollars instead as a "loan" until he recovers his $1000. At the next town he overhears Bailey's girlfriend getting on the stage so he grabs a ride on it as shotgun. Bailey's men take her off the stage when they stop it so Bat follows her to find Bailey. He decides to use her as bait to draw out Bailey and recover his stolen items.
Episode 17
Wed, Feb 4, 195930 mins
In October, 1879 at Mason City, Kansas Bat stops on his way to Dodge City at the Carson Saloon. He runs into an old friend Ellie Winters and watches a player Ken Wills arrested for claiming a dealer in a poker game was crooked. Bat learns from Ellie and the bartender that all the games in town are crooked. The dealers are all members of a protection racket where they pay Sheriff Jeb Crater. Bat buys a dealers' license to start an honest game but when he refuses to pay up, Bat is accused of cheating himself and thrown in jail. While incarcerated he teaches Willis how to beat the dealers at their own game. Bat is banned from playing cards but he makes an agreement with Willis to watch and help him for a fifty-fifty split. Bat taps his cane on the floor when he sees cheating. Willis is so successful that the sheriff hires a man to replace Bat's real cane with one filled with blasting powder.
Episode 18
Wed, Feb 11, 195930 mins
On May 18, 1883 in Dodge City, Kansas Bat watches the sharpshooter Danny Dowling at the Palace Saloon with owner Harry Varden. Danny works with his wife as the target and finishes by shooting a cigar out of the mouth of an audience member who wins free drinks. After the show Varden asks to talk to Dowling in private. Dowling owes Varden money plus his wife is expecting their first baby. He offers Dowling $500 now and $500 more when Dowling draws Bat into a gunfight and kills him. Varden owes Bat an amount equal to half the value of the Palace which Varden hates. A nervous Dowling lets slip the truth to his wife who warns Bat at the Alhambra. Not realizing the situation, Bat asks Varden to talk to Dowling and to find out who is behind the hit. Later, Varden says he can do nothing about it so Bat confronts Dowling on stage letting Dowling use him for the cigar target. He then asks to shoot a cigar out of Dowling's hand but uses a quick draw unlike Dowling. Dowling tries to back out of his deal but Varden brings in two toughs to force Dowling to complete the job putting Bat at risk again.
Episode 19
Wed, Feb 18, 195930 mins
During the summer of 1883 in the Dakota Territory Bat goes on the steamboat Dakota Queen on his way to Deadwood. As the passengers go on board they are told there is a new policy requiring everyone to check their guns for their safety. Bat has no problem with it but he decides to go to the Captain to have the $10,000 he is carrying put in the ship's safe. Once there he finds the steamboat has been taken over by a group of pirates led by King Henry a large man who enjoys eating. Bat is relieved of his $10,000 and the other passengers are relieved of their money, jewels, and furs. When Kyle Henderson tries to lead a charge to take back the steamboat, Bat stops him and learns the attractive woman Nora with him is his sister, not his wife. Bat overhears they are stopping the steamboat at Trader's Dock a ghost town. Another passenger secretly tells Bat he has a barrel of cheeses on board. Although not expensive, they are rare. With Kyle's help Bat decides to use the barrel to recover the stolen items and capture the pirates when they leave the boat.
Episode 20
Wed, Feb 25, 195930 mins
In 1886 at Omaha, Nebraska in the Pullman Club Bat is asked by railroad builder Mace Pomeroy to work for him again. He wants Bat to win a race with a rival company and ramrod his building operations through a tricky canyon before a process server can deliver a "cease and desist" order favoring his opponent's rights. When Bat asks Pomeroy to pay a three year old debt of $261.50 before he starts work, Pomeroy refuses and Bat opts to work for his rival. The competition led by Gen. Zachary Moran is eight miles behind Pomeroy in reaching the canyon. Bat devises a plan using his friend Billy Willow as a scout to go to the canyon by horse and wagon to start building the railroad backwards to the existing track. Billy takes them there via a dry river bed he accidentally diverted the water from years ago. However, Pomeroy shows up with fifty men to stop Bat's ten man crew. Over the complaints of his men, Bat sells Pomeroy the rights to the canyon for $5000 plus his $261.50 leaving everyone baffled.
Episode 21
Wed, Mar 11, 195930 mins
In 1881 while playing poker at Morganville, Wyoming Territory Bat catches a gambler pulling a king from his sleeve to win the hand. When he confronts the men and proves his charge, he finds the sheriff is backing the crooks and Morgan who was in the game. Bat down $500, lets the group know he wants his money. Later, he hears a young couple request a meeting with the sheriff about a problem with Morgan. The Roberts, brother and sister, from the east have purchased a farm from Morgan only to find the farm they really bought is an old mining property not fit for farming. Morgan has the sheriff arrest Bat but when the Roberts start spending money along with referring to Bat, Morgan is forced to have Bat released before Bat will talk to him. Once out, Bat finally meets with Morgan telling him he bought part of the mine property at a very high price referring to the silver found at Virginia City after the gold played out. Morgan decides it is time to deal and Bat has a deal for him.
Episode 22
Wed, Mar 18, 195930 mins
In April, 1879 in Leadville, Colorado Bat spots a man on horseback bullying a newspaper boy which he stops. He visits a friend Jennie who owns a dress shop. She is not surprised to see Bat after the local newspaper editor wrote a derogatory story about Bat comparing him to King Fisher a noted gunfighter. Bat goes to the newspaper to meet the editor, Jo Hart, to discuss the article about him. Bat is met with a pistol and a request to raise his hands by a woman, Jo Hart. He tries to tell her that her facts are wrong but she brings up the killing of Jack Wagner who murdered Bat's brother Ed in Dodge City. At Roy Evens' hotel, Evens asks Bat to have a drink proposing they both have a common enemy, the newspaper. Bat turns down his offer while again having to whip Jess Santala the bully who is a Evens henchman. Later, in the bar Evens and Bat are both confronted by Jo Hart with a new paper criticizing both men. Evens tries to make fun of her but Bat supports her by buying her papers and giving them away. Afterwards Evens tells Jess to get some dynamite but is overheard by Jennie who tells Bat. Bat trails Jess but runs into a trap. When the dust settles, Bat writes his first newspaper article.
Episode 23
Wed, Mar 25, 195930 mins
In the summer of 1881 Bat arrives in Concho to pick up Luke Steiger to transport him in the "Tumbleweed Wagon" to Fort Smith to stand trial. He is alleged to have killed Bat's friend Sam Burrows. The sheriff is selling passes to see the renown Steiger plus a wedding is planned between Steiger and Julie Poe. As the ceremony starts Bat sees Steiger take a sleeve gun from the back of Julie's dress. He knocks it to the ground ending the ceremony and putting Julie in jail. Later she gives Steiger a special bullet to put in the cell lock. He fakes a suicide by hanging allowing her to call the Sheriff. The bullet blows up freeing Steiger but he is forced to leave Julie. He tells her to expect him at Ripple Creek. Bat is left with taking Julie to Fort Smith. On the way he decides to let her ride with him instead of inside the prison wagon. He learns more about her history and that she is a teacher. At Ripple Creek she asks Bat to let her take a bath to which he agrees. Steiger arrives to save Julie but against her wishes he shoots Bat who falls into Ripple Creek. When his horse bolts due to the gunfire, Steiger and Julie leave with the prison wagon. However, their carelessness catches up with them.
Episode 24
Wed, Apr 1, 195930 mins
Bat arrives in Denver, Colorado to open a boxing club in a building he bought for $900 only to find the building condemned and the police preparing it for demolition. He is told it is to be torn down to make room for a new casino. He quickly learns the "boss" in town is the Mayor's sister Isabel Fowler. The Mayor is in the dark about the fact his administration is full of graft led by Isabel. Bat opens the club but is arrested and jailed. The Police Commissioner visits him in jail to tell him his fine is $900 which the Commissioner will pay him for signing over the property. Bat signs the document to gain his freedom following up with a visit to the Commissioner's office. He just misses Isabel but notices her perfume there. He knocks out the Commissioner to retrieve the deed to his property. The commissioner blackmails Bat's trainer Marty to plant dynamite in a punching bag. As Marty finishes planting the dynamite, Bat enters by accident catching him. Bat then arranges a meeting of the Mayor and his staff at his club the next day at noon but one person is reluctant to attend.
Episode 25
Wed, Apr 8, 195930 mins
In 1887 Bat is leaving Webster, Texas for Austin on the stage with passenger Lorna Adams. She is quiet and rather detached not wanting to converse with Bat. Along the way the stage picks up Jay Simms who said he had to shoot his horse but Bat notices his boots are quite clean for having walked quite a distance. Bat mentions the danger from attacking Indians but the danger comes when the driver is shot and killed. Simms stops Bat at gunpoint from doing anything. Simms and the shooter Tim Minto steal the horses leaving Bat and Lorna stranded while leaving Bat's $2000 untouched. Lorna tells Bat she must reach Austin by noon the next day to tell the Governor a man to be hanged is innocent as she is his alibi. Bat buries the driver and signals Indians with smoke signals for help. He is forced to trade with the Indians his cane for one horse. On the trail they are stopped again by Minto and Simms. Bat tricks Simms into revealing that Minto is the true guilty party in the robbery and killing. Bat uses his money to turn Simms on Minto as a distraction to gain their freedom.
Episode 26
Wed, Apr 22, 195930 mins
In the Spring of 1881 Bat rides from Denver, Colorado to Junction in the New Mexico Territory following Oliver Jenkins a tailor. Bat has received new cloth from Europe he wants Jenkins to craft into a suit. Jenkins tells Bat he will have to wait until tomorrow as Jenkins is organizing a local government to bring law and order to Junction. As Jenkins walks to the meeting he is kidnapped. Bat after leaving the tailor shop stumbles into a meeting at the blacksmith shop of people discussing the missing Jenkins. He finds that Jenkins handles all the paperwork for people in town but Jess Hobart who owns the saloon is in control. Bat visits Hobart at his saloon turning down Hobart's offer while sizing up his henchman Tip-toe. That night Jenkins's daughter asks Bat at gunpoint to leave town followed by a similar offer by Tip-toe. The next morning Bat rides out of town but Tip-toe finds an unwanted passenger in his wagon taking supplies to Jenkins and his captors. There Bat attempts a rescue but Jenkins refusal to use weapons puts the odds against Bat.
Episode 27
Wed, Apr 29, 195930 mins
In July 1885 Bat on his way to Telegraph Pass stops at Apache Springs. A big strike at Telegraph Pass has Bat planning to build a big casino there. At Apache Springs he encounters Chip Grimes who Bat has caught involved with crooked gambling in the past. Grimes is hosting a big but private game that requires $1000 to buy in. Watching is the broke Count from Austria Anton von Landi. When he is evicted, he returns later masked to make an inept attempt at robbing Bat. During the robbery he tells them the roulette wheel is crooked. Bat is able to outdraw and slightly wound the Count. Bat soon learns saloon girl Millie Wilkins and the Count have a flowering relationship. Realizing the Count is mostly a victim of the crooked Grimes, Bat has Judge Dorset try the Count before Grimes gets to the sheriff. The Count is sentenced to four months on a road gang and Millie promises to join Bat at Telegraph Pass. Bat is deputized to take the Count to the road gang. The Count on learning Millie was jailed, escapes forcing Bat to keep his promise to return him preventing the building of his new casino but there may be a pay off in the end.
Episode 28
Wed, May 13, 195930 mins
Bat is in Tucson, Arizona during the annual National Cattlemen's Association playing poker at the Arizona Palace Hotel. The high stakes game is a four man game with an English Texas cattleman, a promoter, and a feed grain operator plus Bat. The feed grain operator Sonny Parsons out of money offers an IOU to Bat which he reluctantly accepts. After Sonny loses, he admits he is broke but offers Bat half of a lottery ticket he for which paid $100. It pays $100,000 if it wins. Bat takes half the ticket along with half of any potential winnings in payment for the IOU. After the game a woman bursts into Bat's room looking for Sonny. His sister has little use for gamblers who live off her brother. Later, as Bat puts his winnings in the hotel safe he learns the winning number 1313 is the ticket he and Sonny own. He looks for the drunk Sonny asking his sister for help. When Sonny is found dead after apparently falling out of a loft in a stable but without the half of the lottery ticket, Bat suspects murder. He assumes it must be one of the other players. Not knowing which one did it, Bat sets a trap which works too well.
Episode 29
Wed, May 20, 195930 mins
In 1882 Bat returns to the once prosperous silver mining town of Bonanza, Colorado to close out his bank account. He deposited $20,000 there a year ago after completing a cattle drive. At the bank he is told the account is closed as the money was given to his widow by the probate court after his death. A grave in the cemetery has his name and the mortician verifies he buried Bat Masterson with his derby, cane and a wound watch. His next visit is to the Judge at the Sheriff's office. The Sheriff cheats at solitaire and the Judge is a drunk who tells him to get lost. Bat leaves but trails the Judge to the telegraph office where Bat intercepts the telegram he is sending. The Sheriff enters to help the Judge knock out and jail Bat. By giving the Sheriff card lessons, Bat frees himself to track down Jack Fontana and his wife Nellie along with his money.
Episode 30
Wed, May 27, 195930 mins
Bat agrees to work undercover for the Wyoming territorial administrator to try to infiltrate a gang of ruthless Cheyenne businessmen who mastermind a crime wave behind their veneer of respectability. Bat works his way into their gang by joining a poker game with them at the Cheyenne Club, losing over $10,000, and then not being able to pay. To make good on his debt they force him to help organize the robbery of a bank one of them manages. Bat puts together two plans. One is how to rob the bank and the other is a frame up of the bank owner. He enlists the aid of a female blackjack dealer Ellie Winters he asked to join him in Cheyenne. They discover that federal agents are there who suspect him of complicity in the crimes as they know nothing of his assignment. Ellie sees an article in the paper that his alibi, the territorial representative, died of a massive heart attack, leaving him trapped between two fires.
Episode 31
Wed, Jun 10, 195930 mins
In 1880 in western Wyoming Territory Bat finds himself kidnapped and being transported in a hearse. After being knocked out, Bat awakes to find himself accompanied by two men who tell him he is not to be killed but is being taken to the Promised Land. It is a small town in outlaw territory led by Courtney Shepherd who Bat has previously put in jail. Initially, Bat feels threaten and wants to escape but Shepard tells him he is safe and they have a business proposition for him. They want to open a bank but the missing link is an honest man to keep the money safe. No withdrawals without a deposit first. A beautiful blonde Linda Beaudine will handle the actual finances of the bank. Bat makes an attempt to leave but a bullet through his derby changes his mind. Only Bat and Linda have the combination to the safe and when the bank opens large deposits roll in. Linda says she was not a criminal but her dead husband was. However, Bat notices her actions with Shepard suspicious nor is he enamored with his new job which he wants to quit.
Episode 32
Wed, Jun 17, 195930 mins
Bat is asked to meet a woman at a cemetery near Timberline, Wyoming. The woman tells him the Clarion newspaper in Cheyenne is going to print a story Sunday written by John Surratt who was a conspirator with John Wilkes Booth but never convicted. The story will open many wounds but also he was her uncle who died six months earlier. She shows him the grave but the grave marker is gone. At gunpoint she takes him to the stone carver who verifies he made and installed the headstone. Bat agrees to go Cheyenne as the owners of the paper are his friends. Ned Ruggles has taken over from his father Dana who is now retired. Ned refuses to stop the story telling Bat Surratt goes by the name John Watson and can be contacted in a bar. Bat tries to make contact but an incident where he is almost killed tells him Ned is trying to stop him. His father offers to help Bat as he doesn't want the paper ruined by putting up $10,000 for John Watson. The ruse works but not before Bat can get Watson to talk.
Episode 33
Wed, Jun 24, 195930 mins
In Cheyenne, Wyoming at the Crowbait Saloon Bat finds the man John Watson dead after hearing shots inside the saloon. He was the bartender and posing as John Surratt to sell a fake story to the young Ned Ruggles. Ned and two of his henchmen enter saying they witnessed Bat kill Watson even though Lynn Surratt denies he was involved. They send for the Sheriff who intends to arrest Bat but by saying he is reenacting the action, Bat escapes out a side door. Bat then pays a visit to Dana Ruggles to return his $10,000 and leave town but Dana convinces Bat to keep searching for the truth. Upon visiting Lynn at her home, Bat is told that John Surratt is still alive. Bat returns to Dana to finally return his money and tell him the truth. Bat surmises the stonecutter is Surratt. While Bat goes to get the stonecutter, Dana leaves to confront his son Ned at the paper. He realizes Ned killed Watson and Ned leads Dana to believe he will confess but instead knocks out Dana. A showdown involving Bat, Ned, Surratt and his niece is in the cards.
Episode 34
Wed, Jul 1, 195930 mins
Bat is in Pine Junction, California in the employ of Gen. Zachary Moran who is paying Bat $5000. Bat has finished a sumptuous meal provided by Moran's private chef when the Sheriff enters. He is arrested for cheating at cards and thrown into a jail cell with notorious train robber Polk Otis. This is a ruse to give Poke Otis the idea that Bat is a criminal. Bat helps Polk free himself from his shackles with a hidden file and kills the sheriff in order to escape - but it's all part of a plan he's worked out with the lawman to recover a priceless necklace of black pearls Polk and his gang have stolen from a train's express box. Moran was taking the pearls to San Francisco for his friend Lotta Crabtree to wear at the opera opening. In freeing himself, Polk reopens a gunshot wound. They make it out of town but they have to stop. Bat leaves for supplies and a wagon meeting a woman looking for a guide but he refuses. When he returns to Polk, she follows as she is Polk's sister but not involved in the robbery. She puts them in danger when they meet the gang members.
Episode 35
Wed, Jul 15, 195930 mins
In October, 1878 at Little Pass in the Arizona Territory Bat is in a high stakes game. His opponent has lost everything but an old large pocket watch. The man Colonel Anders Dorn believes that Bat has cheated him with Bat taking umbrage at the accusation. He offers to draw high card with Dorn for the watch and apology against his winnings. He lets Dorn not only deal but cut both cards to prove he is honest. Bat wins and grudgingly obtains his apology. After the game Dorn's niece Elsa Dorn asks him if he will sell back the watch. She eventually tells Bat it has the location of a treasure ship lost in the desert in a sand storm. While talking with her, Dorn returns with his two companions who knock out Bat wanting to kill him but Dorn forces them to take him to a doctor. Bat trails them into the desert finding Elsa during a sand storm alone saying her uncle was wounded but the two men. Bat and Elsa stumble onto the lost ship uncovered by the storm. Inside they find the treasure but the two men appear followed by the wounded Dorn putting the Dorns and Bat in danger.
Episode 36
Wed, Jul 22, 195930 mins
In Dodge City, Kansas Bat saves an elderly leader Grasia of a nearby gypsy troop. He returns with Grasia to his camp where Grasia offers different gifts for saving his life including a white horse and gems. He notices Bat's interest in the gypsy girl Leda who he offers against not only her objections but those of Tonio who has been cool toward Bat. Bat at first objects but when Grasia informs him Leda is not a gypsy but was found as a ten year old near a wagon train massacred by Indians, Bat changes his mind. Although Tonio puts up a fight, Grasia lets Bat leave with her. After they leave Tonio tells Grasia that he found Leda with papers saying at twenty-one she inherits $50,000. Grasia then allows Tonio and Mitgar to go after her. Bat sends a telegram based on what Leda tells him to her relatives in San Francisco. They reply with the story about her inheritance. Tonio and Mitgar try to take Bat but he tricks Tonio into exposing the truth about his love - for money. They take Bat and Leda back to camp by force to marry her. Bat has to use his ingenuity to not only get away but allow Leda to leave for San Francisco.
Episode 37
Wed, Jul 29, 195930 mins
On June 28, 1887 in the Dakota Territory Bat stumbles into a bully Luke Simes and his friend Willie trying to give a man dressed in city clothes a bath in a saloon. He stops them knocking Simes out when he tries to hit Bat. J.J. Carver enters to check on Simes who is to lead a group of buffalo hunters the next morning. Bat tells him Simes will be out for a couple of days. To Carver's surprise Bat tells him Bat will lead the group and gives his name. Carver stunned is glad to be rid of Simes. Bat leads the group of hunters the next day along with Carver's man Charlie. Bat finds the buffalo, deploys the men and they start firing as two peaceful Sioux watch. Simes along with Willie following the hunters spot the Sioux. Simes kills one at long range with a buffalo gun. Bat and Charlie see the Indian and finding him dead know they are facing trouble. Bat sends Charlie to clear the men out while he goes after Simes and Willie who he spots. Simes uses Carver's daughter Susan to draw in Bat to kill him but the Sioux intervene. The Chief's son is dead and he wants revenge. Bat sees only one option to which the Chief agrees.