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Black Saddle Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 1959 - 1959
Episode 1
Client: Travers
Sat, Jan 10, 195930 mins
Ex-gunfighter Clay Culhane plans to represent his clients with law books than as a hired gun. Culhane arrives in Latigo to argue his first case and learns that Pardee, the local land baron, is forcing the town's residents to leave for more friendly places because they wouldn't name the man who killed his drunken son in a fair fight. Clay quickly learns that his fists and pistols are better weapons when fighting Pardee and his henchmen.
Episode 2
Client: Meade
Sat, Jan 17, 195930 mins
When Andy Meade rides into town, Ed Tibbett meets him on the street for a gunfight. Though it didn't appear there were any actual witnesses to the gunfight, Clay Culhane comes on the scene just moments later to save Meade from the two remaining Tibbett brothers and suggests Meade gives himself up for trial. Meade disagrees until Marshall Scott comes in, then willingly gives himself up. Unfortunately, the Tibbett brothers are still in town and want revenge...
Episode 3
Client: McQueen
Sat, Jan 24, 195930 mins
An old friend of Clay's gets in touch with him, and tells him that he's lost his ranch to a crooked foreman. He asks Clay's help in getting it back.
Episode 4
Client: Dawes
Sat, Jan 31, 195930 mins
Wealthy Ben Dawes sent for a mail-order bride, but instead of being married and happy he wound up married and dead. His brother hires Clay to check out Ben's new "wife", who is about to inherit all of Ben's considerable estate.
Episode 5
Client: Starkey
Sat, Feb 7, 195930 mins
Pretty Joan Starkey comes to town looking to hire Clay to find her missing husband.
Episode 6
Client: Tagger
Sat, Feb 14, 195930 mins
Roy Tagger is released from prison after serving many years for a murder he says he didn't commit. He asks Clay for help in clearing his name.
Episode 7
Client: Robinson
Sat, Feb 21, 195930 mins
Young Wayne Robinson and his friends "celebrate" his birthday by going to the saloon for his first glass of whiskey., and winds up in a fight at the saloon because a loudmouth ridicules his religious beliefs. When Wayne's uncle--a fanatically religious man who has forbidden Wayne from drinking or going near the saloon--finds out what happened, he gives Wayne a public whipping in the middle of town. Later the loudmouth who started the brawl is found murdered, and Gib arrests Wayne for it. Clay doesn't believe Wayne did it and sets out to clear him before he's hanged for the murder.
Episode 8
Client: Martinez
Sat, Mar 7, 195930 mins
Culhane is hired to fight the extradition of Juan Martinez whom murderous lawmen in the employ of the current regime turn up in Latigo with papers to arrest and return the Mexican revolutionary to return to his homeland.
Episode 9
Client: Northrup
Sat, Mar 14, 195930 mins
A former lawman who is now a ex-convict comes into town with his sick wife to get treatment for her. Marshal Scott tells them both to leave town and is about to force the issue, but Clay begs him to wait until the woman is better before forcing them out of town.
Episode 10
Client: Steele
Sat, Mar 21, 195930 mins
Clay agrees to take on the case of Bill Steele, one of a trio being held in jail by Marshal Scott on robbery charges. But Steele has his own reason for wanting Clay as his lawyer.
Episode 11
Client: Mowery
Sat, Mar 28, 195930 mins
Grat Mowery, a notorious gunfighter, is dying and asks Clay's help in writing his will, as he has a considerable sum of money to leave to his heirs. Culhana has no idea, however, that Mowery's "estate" consists of money stolen in a bank robbery in Durango.
Episode 12
Client: Braun
Sat, Apr 4, 195930 mins
A crotchety old recluse hires Clay to get an injunction against trespassers coming onto his property. In the process of doing that, Clay is astounded to run into a famous general who was supposed to have died heroically in battle, but is now very much alive.
Episode 13
Client: Banks
Sat, Apr 11, 195930 mins
Young Dick Banks is fascinated by guns, despite his father's opposition to them. Clay, seeing that the boy's growing interest in guns parallels his own start as a professional gunfighter, takes the boy under his wing.
Episode 14
Client: Jessup
Sat, Apr 18, 195930 mins
Lon Jessup has been a trustworthy citizen in Latigo for many years, but now he was being tried for bank robbery and murder. Clay's able to get him off, but is surprised when his wife comes into town claiming Lon lied in court and tried to kill her when she wanted a divorce.
Episode 15
Client: Frome
Sat, Apr 25, 195930 mins
A man who never came home from the Civil War and was declared legally dead suddenly shows up back in town. He finds that his wife has remarried and is in possession of everything he owns. He hires Clay to locate a particular legal document that will restore to him both his possessions and his wife.
Episode 16
Client: Nelson
Sat, May 2, 195930 mins
Clay comes upon two men engaged in a terrific brawl. After he separates them, he learns that each claims he is a lawman and that the other is a notorious outlaw who is his prisoner. Later, in town, he learns that one of the men is Nora's brother-in-law.
Episode 17
Client: Neal Adams
Sat, May 9, 195930 mins
Neal Adams, an old friend of Clay's, shows up injured and pursued by a bounty hunter for a crime Neal says he didn't commit. He asks Clay for help in proving him innocent of the crime before the bounty hunter finds him and kills him.
Episode 18
Client: Brand
Sat, May 16, 195930 mins
Brand rides into town and kills a man he says was trying to kill him. Clay and Nora both say he killed in self-defense, so he's let off but ordered out of town by sundown - six o'clock. Clay proceeds to try to talk Marshal Scott out of having a showdown with him because he knows the Marshal is too slow. But the Marshal is stubborn and orders Clay to stay out of his business. But when Brand stats treating others unkindly.
Episode 19
Client: Reynolds
Sat, May 23, 195930 mins
Trouble erupts between two women and a greedy gambler.
Episode 20
Client: Vardon
Sat, May 30, 195930 mins
Frank Vardon, a disgruntled teller at the Latigo Bank, gets together with his friend Roy Corey and plans a fake hold-up of the bank, in which Roy will be the bank robber and Frank will hand over all the money. At the last minute, however, Frank backs out, and when Roy insists on going through with the plan, Frank pulls out a gun and fires at him. Wounded, Roy stumbles outside where he sees Clay and shoots at him, forcing Clay to fire back. As he lay dying, Roy exposes his and Frank's scheme. Marshal Scott arrests Frank, but Clay decides to defend him.