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Broken Arrow Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
33 Episodes 1956 - 1957
Episode 1
The Mail Riders
Tue, Sep 25, 195630 mins
Federal agent Tom Jeffords makes a deal with Apache chief Cochise to permit the mail riders to pass safely through Apache territory despite the mutual animosity of Apache and white.
Episode 2
Battle at Apache Pass
Tue, Oct 2, 195630 mins
Jeffords has a group of settlers after him because they think he has given the Apaches information.
Episode 3
Indian Agent
Tue, Oct 9, 195630 mins
Jeffords asks Cochise for help against Geronimo, and falls in love with an Apache priestess.
Episode 4
The Captive
Tue, Oct 23, 195630 mins
Cochise threatens to go on the warpath if a white boy raised by the Apaches is not returned to the tribe.
Episode 5
Passage Deferred
Tue, Oct 30, 195630 mins
Cochise catches a poor Irishman mining gold on Apache land. Jeffords steps in and tries to keep the Apaches from killing him.
Episode 6
Medicine Men
Tue, Nov 13, 195630 mins
A conflict over the whether treatment by the medicine man or the army doctor is most effective ensues when smallpox develops in Cochise's camp.
Episode 7
Hermano
Tue, Nov 20, 195630 mins
A young Indian working as a scout for the Army is struggling between his loyalty to the Army and his loyalty to his brother, a member of Geronimo's renegade Indians.
Episode 8
Caged
Tue, Nov 27, 195630 mins
An Indian friend of Jeffords goes to San Francisco after being convinced he is to represent the Apaches at an Indian conference. But it is all a scheme to get him to San Francisco to be used as the star in a circus side show.
Episode 9
Return from the Shadows
Tue, Dec 4, 195630 mins
An Army lieutenant who lured five Indians into a trap using a flag of truce and then disappeared returns afters several years. He now has to face the only Indian who survived the trap---Cochise.
Episode 10
Cry Wolf
Tue, Dec 11, 195630 mins
The town derelict's imaginative son tries to convince the town that he saw two strange looking animals, one that looked like a dinosaur and the other like a camel. At the same time he is also saying he witnessed a murder.
Episode 11
The Conspirators
Tue, Dec 18, 195630 mins
Jeffords goes to San Francisco to investigate an overdue shipment of denim pants meant for Cochise's tribe and finds larcenous corruption and an old love.
Episode 12
The Raiders
Tue, Dec 25, 195630 mins
Area commodity providers conduct raids which turn deadly disguised as Aravaipa Apaches to foment conflict and draw military into the area and so gain profit from the increased presence of troops.
Episode 13
Apache Massacre
Tue, Jan 1, 195730 mins
When Geronimo's braves raid into Cochise's Chiricahua land, some settlement folks who blame the Chiricahua retaliate on a group of Cochise's innocents and nearly precipitate a war with the Apache tribes.
Episode 14
The Rescue
Tue, Jan 8, 195730 mins
On a mission to a Mexican general for a plan to trap warring Apaches between Mexico and Arizona Jeffords learns that the foe is headed to New Mexico to where he must now go and on the way gains the company of a naive young woman survivor.
Episode 15
Apache Dowry
Tue, Jan 15, 195730 mins
A theft of horses as a wedding gift for a tribeswoman by one of Cochise's braves imperils peace with the Chiricahua and the relationship of Jeffords and Cochise.
Episode 16
The Trial
Tue, Jan 22, 195730 mins
A man stirs near vigilante justice by falsely accusing the son of one Cochise's elders of murders to divert attention away from the responsible renegade Apache and the man's illegal dealing with that renegade.
Episode 17
The Missionaries
Tue, Jan 29, 195730 mins
Against Jeffords' advice, a brother and sister wish to take an Apache boy back east to be given a white man's education.
Episode 18
The Challenge
Tue, Feb 5, 195730 mins
Renegade Apache leader Chato has Jeffords arrange with Cochise a peace meeting which is a ruse to persuade Cochise's braves to the warpath.
Episode 19
The Doctor
Tue, Feb 12, 195730 mins
A Chiricahua man who has just completed medical school finds himself lacking acceptance of both Apache and white populations while the injury of Chiricahua and white playmates exacerbates the predicament.
Episode 20
Powder Keg
Tue, Feb 19, 195730 mins
When a retired Apache hating general visits the territory as a now Washington official and is shot by an unrequited love, an Apache brave is blamed by the biased settlers.
Episode 21
Legacy of a Hero
Tue, Feb 26, 195730 mins
The son of a storekeeper who was killed by white reservation poachers when defending an Apache brave is captured and held for ransom when he pursues the poachers.
Episode 22
Rebellion
Tue, Mar 5, 195730 mins
While Jeffords tries to persuade a novice and misguided agent for the Pinal Apache to allow the tribe ailing from conditions in low wetlands to move to high ground, braves kidnap the agent's daughter as ransom for agreement to the move.
Episode 23
Ghostface
Tue, Mar 12, 195730 mins
During a harsh winter, Jeffords is compelled to use his own means to provide food for the reservation and keep the peace while an army officer and government agencies delay the delivery of promised provisions .
Episode 24
Johnny Flagstaff
Tue, Mar 19, 195730 mins
To validate the annexation of Cochise's land a western folk hero of exaggerated fame is sent for a phony review of the peace but the hero is targeted for assassination when he delivers a review opposite of that for which he was tasked.
Episode 25
The Desperado
Tue, Mar 26, 195730 mins
Jeffords is placed between Cochise and the army when Cochise harbors due to a debt of honor a ruthless outlaw wanted by the army for the murder of an army doctor responsible for the man's dishonorable discharge.
Episode 26
Fathers and Sons
Tue, Apr 2, 195730 mins
Coxhise's son and young braves kidnap an influential white man whom Jeffords has brought to negotiate the man's plan to clear the reservation for settlement which act creates a life and death confrontation of Chiricahua fathers and sons.
Episode 27
Quarantine
Tue, Apr 9, 195730 mins
The Chiricahua have a hard time understanding why their cattle herd must be destroyed when hoof and mouth disease strikes so braves try to spirit the herd to Mexico while a small boy hides his bull.
Episode 28
Ordeal
Tue, Apr 16, 195730 mins
Cochise and Jeffords capture a man who must be taken to Tucson to save a Chiricahua brave who the man has falsely accused of murder but in the process all the horses are lost , Cochise is wounded and there is minimal water for the three.
Episode 29
The Assassin
Tue, Apr 23, 195730 mins
Jeffords investigation of tip that a man hired by an outlaw gang to assassinate Cochise is on the most recent stage arrival perplexes him because none of the passengers seem to have an assassin profile.
Episode 30
The Archeologist
Tue, Apr 30, 195730 mins
An archaeologist sent by Washington to produce a report on Apache culture disregards Chiricahua protocol and beliefs and so puts Cochise in awkward position between Jeffords and the medicine man.
Episode 31
Apache Girl
Tue, May 7, 195730 mins
Cochise's niece wants to live among white people to learn their ways, though Cochise disagrees. This leads to conflict between settlement ruffians and a Chiricahua suitor.
Episode 32
The Broken Wire
Tue, May 14, 195730 mins
Jeffords persuades Cochise to convince the Coyotero chief to permit telegraph lines through Coyotero land. But war threatens after two lineman who accidentally start a destructive fire blame the Coyotero chief's pacifistic son.
Episode 33
Attack on Fort Grant
Tue, May 21, 195730 mins
Jeffords and Cochise try to warn the colonel at Fort Grant that Geronimo plans an attack on the fort. But, encouraged by his wife, the colonel decides to go after Geronimo himself, despite Cochise's warning that this is probably just what the renegade is hoping for, as it will leave the fort vulnerable to attack.
