Broken Arrow
Indian Agent Tom Jeffords makes friends with Chief Cochise, becoming a blood brother of the Apache. Together they fight white schemers and renegade Indians.
- 1956-1958
- 2 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure
Indian Agent Tom Jeffords makes friends with Chief Cochise, becoming a blood brother of the Apache. Together they fight white schemers and renegade Indians.
Season 2 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1957 - 1958
Episode 1
White Man's Magic
Tue, Oct 1, 1957 30 mins
An army doctor's bride is held captive to force the man to treat Geronimo's gunshot wound. Cochise and Jeffords are captured and face death when they trail him.
Episode 2
Conquistador
Tue, Oct 8, 1957 30 mins
A Mexican ranch owner is pressured by his foreman to not allow Cochise to move and water his cattle on the ranch property, by threatening to tell the don's daughter that her mother was Apache.
Episode 3
Apache Child
Tue, Oct 15, 1957 30 mins
A brave exiled from Cochise's stronghold takes Jeffords as prisoner, because he falsely believes he is responsible for an ambush on his exile group. He wants to exchange Jeffords for his daughter, who the brave falsely believes was snatched in the ambush.
Episode 4
Ghost Sickness
Tue, Oct 22, 1957 30 mins
Jeffords convinces a reluctant Cochise to re-investigate the case of a father and son held to be traitors to their Apache ways. The son claims the man held to be the hero was the real traitor, costing the lives of ten warriors, and he hopes to avenge and clear his late father's name.
Episode 5
Black Moment
Tue, Oct 29, 1957 30 mins
A man who kills an elderly prospector for a valuable locket alleges it is Cochise who committed the murder. His associates then determine to kill Cochise for the deed.
Episode 6
The Arsenal
Tue, Nov 5, 1957 30 mins
Gun runners intent on supplying arms to the factions in a Mexican power struggle steal and buy all the guns and ammunition in the area and use outlaw Chiricahuas to blame Cochise's group.
Episode 7
Devil's Eye
Tue, Nov 12, 1957 30 mins
Jeffords' pledge of hi s life to protect a photographer accused by the tribe of cursing souls through his photography is complicated by the disappearance of a Chiricahua boy who was photographed.
Episode 8
The Teacher
Tue, Nov 19, 1957 30 mins
Cochise asks for a teacher to instruct in the ways of white culture. To his chagrin, the one he gets is not only a woman, but a woman who holds fast to cultural values that demean Apache customs.
Episode 9
The Bounty Hunters
Tue, Nov 26, 1957 30 mins
After a Chiricahua brave is scalped on the reservation, Cochise and Jeffords go to Mexico to confront a hacienda owner who pays a bounty for Apache scalps and are caught in the middle of a Coyotero raid.
Episode 10
Renegades Return
Tue, Dec 3, 1957 30 mins
When Geronimo's braves conduct a foray into Chiricahua land to steal horses, Jeffords must swear in Cochise and a limited number of Chiricahua braves so that they can be legally off the reservation to pursue the renegades and prevent a defection from Cochise.
Episode 11
Smoke Signal
Tue, Dec 10, 1957 30 mins
A hold out group of confederate soldiers come out of Mexico and raid the Chiricahua reservation, which requires Jeffords to go to Washington to ask for help from President Grant to prevent Cochise from breaking the peace.
Episode 12
Son of Cochise
Tue, Dec 17, 1957 30 mins
Jeffords must arrest Cochise for destroying a cavalry supply wagon. Cochise is silent on the reason: to prevent his son, the war leader of the Membres Apaches, from being involved in an ambush on soldiers.
Episode 13
White Savage
Tue, Dec 24, 1957 30 mins
An army major with a maniacal hatred of Apaches claims to suffer amnesia when captured by the Chiricahua, and thus is considered a protected being by them. But things go awry when his memory returns.
Episode 14
Indian Medicine
Tue, Dec 31, 1957 30 mins
When a rancher becomes deathly ill, his daughter says that to keep the ranch going she can no longer honor her father's word to supply beef to the Chiricahua. Jeffords and Cochise are later suspected of poisoning the rancher.
Episode 15
Water Witch
Tue, Jan 7, 1958 30 mins
During a drought Cochise requests the help of an eccentric alcoholic diviner, despite the skepticism of both settlers and braves, while the settlers attempt to divert a stream from the Chiricahua stronghold.
Episode 16
Kingdom of Terror
Tue, Jan 14, 1958 30 mins
Jeffords and Cochise go to free Chiricahaus imprisoned in land in the middle of Arizona treated as foreign country because of a Mexican War treaty and discover that criminals fraudulently preserve the territory with a fake heir.
Episode 17
Bad Boy
Tue, Jan 21, 1958 30 mins
When a boy from a criminal family is caught stealing, Jeffords takes custody of him to prevent his imprisonment. But he then farms the boy to Cochise to teach him life lessons, to the mortification of his parents and the settlement folk.
Episode 18
Massacre
Tue, Jan 28, 1958 30 mins
A cavalry unit returning from an ambush mistakes an Apache group waiting for peace talks as a war party and slaughters the group. Cochise is persuaded to talk to Chief Nana in an effort to convince Nana that there is still peace.
Episode 19
Shadow of Cochise
Tue, Feb 4, 1958 30 mins
Cochise suspects something is amiss when an outlaw matriarch has Jeffords kidnapped to use as a bargaining chip for the life of her son. The son is being held by a Coyotero chief whose life Jeffords once saved .
Episode 20
Warrant for Arrest
Tue, Feb 11, 1958 30 mins
Jeffords is falsely accused of stealing supplies meant for the Chiricahua reservation, which spurs efforts by Cochise to thwart Jeffords' prosecution, despite Jeffords' insistence on following the judicial process.
Episode 21
Escape
Tue, Feb 18, 1958 30 mins
Cochise's son Tahzay enters into a competition to be village chief, but his opponent Koteeja plans to cheat and murder him. When Jeffords convinces Cochise of the treachery the two try to thwart the plot.
Episode 22
Aztec Treasure
Tue, Feb 25, 1958 30 mins
Mexican emissaries cajole Cochise into returning a valuable golden Aztec idol, taken in an Apache raid, for a Mexican heritage museum. But the idol is stolen by bandits when leaving the Chiricahua stronghold.
Episode 23
Hired Killer
Tue, Mar 4, 1958 30 mins
Two beef purveyors to the military hire a gunman to kill Cochise to precipitate an Indian war and thus draw troops to which they can sell to the area.
Episode 24
Panic
Tue, Mar 11, 1958 30 mins
A Chiricahua brave acting as an army scout is with an officer when the officer dies after being in an area with reported bubonic plague. The brave is quarantined but escapes and flees to Tucson where fear spreads among the citizens.
Episode 25
The Duel
Tue, Mar 18, 1958 30 mins
A shopkeeper's romance with a Chirikawa girl causes trouble and reminds Tom of his courting days.
Episode 26
The Iron Maiden
Tue, Mar 25, 1958 30 mins
A murderous Modoc woman wanders into Cochise's camp and causes a jurisdictional dispute among a Modoc search party, the Apaches and the U.S. Army.
Episode 27
The Sisters
Tue, Apr 1, 1958 30 mins
Two nuns arrive on a stage from Philadelphia to return a gold statute and run a mission now on Chiricahua land. They must contend with the skepticism of Cochise and a with ruthless fortune hunter who arrived on the same stage.
Episode 28
War Trail
Tue, Apr 8, 1958 30 mins
An army major plots war with the Chiricahua for the dual purpose of avenging his damaged career, for which he blames Cochise, and hiding his complicity with a crooked army contractor to make money from the tribe's supplies.
Episode 29
Turncoat
Tue, Apr 15, 1958 30 mins
A brave who deserted the Chiricahuas during war returns to plead for inclusion in the tribe so he can marry. But he is coldly rejected, and draws the murderous hatred of a brave to whom the woman was promised by her father.
Episode 30
Power
Tue, Apr 22, 1958 30 mins
The brave Natan who Cochise appoints as interim chief when Cochise is wounded in a Geronimo raid betrays the trust given him by siding with a renegade faction.
Episode 31
Bear Trap
Tue, Apr 29, 1958 30 mins
A young brave loses his arm while saving Jeffords' life from an attacking bear. He then feels shame for his condition while being shunned by the tribe for cheating the bear of its tribute.
Episode 32
Old Enemy
Tue, May 6, 1958 30 mins
A prospector whom Cochise fought in his youth defends his claim on Chirikawa land.
Episode 33
Blood Brother
Tue, May 13, 1958 30 mins
A US Cavalry general posts troops on the Chirikawa reservation, distrustful of Cochise.
Episode 34
Courage of Ling Tang
Tue, May 20, 1958 30 mins
A Chinese cook, saved from renegades by Cochise and Jeffords, is bound by Chinese culture to protect Cochise in the future. But he is put in a dilemma when his mining crew, working Chiricahua land, plan Cochise's murder.
Episode 35
Backlash
Tue, May 27, 1958 30 mins
An elderly Pinal Apache chief is duped by an ambitious brave to summon Jeffords for peace talks. But it's a ruse by the brave to kill Jeffords and use the murder as a catalyst to inspire a larger portion of the Apache tribes to war.
Episode 36
Manhunt
Tue, Jun 3, 1958 30 mins
Cuchillo, a treacherous Chiricahua, convinces young Miguel that he has killed a white man from whom Cuchillo has stolen dynamite, so that Miguel will flee and Cuchillo can hide from Cochise his plan to deliver the dynamite to Geronimo.
Episode 37
The Outlaw
Tue, Jun 10, 1958 30 mins
Jeffords joins an area posse to pursue a gang leader who sold liquor to Chiricahua braves, hoping to prevent Cochise from rashly pursuing him. But when the posse fails and Jeffords is wounded, Cochise takes over.
Episode 38
Jeopardy
Tue, Jun 17, 1958 30 mins
A Chiricahua girl mistakenly believes that Jeffords has killed her brother, so Jeffords must find the killer to quell the girl's desire for vengeance against him.
Episode 39
The Transfer
Tue, Jun 24, 1958 30 mins
When Jeffords is reassigned as Indian agent to the Utes, his replacement proves to be both without the necessary sensibilities and bureaucratic adaptability, so hostilities ensue as the Chiricahuas threaten to break the peace.
