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Cimarron City Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
I, the People
Sat, Oct 11, 195860 mins
Laird Garner is given a disproportional share of the credit for routing a gang of hold-up men and, in short order, finds backing for his bank an gets himself elected as the mayor of Cimarron City. Garner has even bigger ideas - aided by a crooked sheriff and villainous bunch of deputies, he soon gains a financial stranglehold on the booming town.
Episode 2
Terror Town
Sat, Oct 18, 195860 mins
While returning from a trail drive, Matthew Rockford becomes the prisoner of four half-brothers who force him to work in a silver mine.
Episode 3
To Become a Man
Sat, Oct 25, 195860 mins
Matt Rockford seeks to adopt two boys whose thief of a father he inadvertently killed.
Episode 4
Twelve Guns
Sat, Nov 1, 195860 mins
A gang of gunslingers recruits their newest member - John Hartman Jr., the son of another notorious shootist who is trying to live up to his father's reputation. The outlaws threaten Cimarron City with destruction and kidnap two of its younger citizens to enforce the point. Will Buckley refuses to help the town prepare to fight the criminals because he recognizes his young son as one of the gang's members.
Episode 5
Medicine Man
Sat, Nov 8, 195860 mins
A bounty hunter tracks down a doctor who, falsely accused of malpractice, has changed his name and sought refuge in Cimarron City.
Episode 6
Hired Hand
Sat, Nov 15, 195860 mins
Matt Rockford goes "undercover" to investigate troubling occurrences at an isolated ranch.
Episode 7
Kid on a Calico Horse
Sat, Nov 22, 195860 mins
The people of the town are angry and crying for blood from Bud Tatum, who is accused of murder.
Episode 8
Beast of the Cimarron
Sat, Nov 29, 195860 mins
Reports of a monster who kills people and mauls livestock outside of Cimarron City panics the local citizenry. Mayor Matt Rockford and Deputy Sheriff Lane Temple organize a search party to capture or kill the legendary beast without success. Meanwhile the killings continue and Beth Purcell mysteriously disappears.
Episode 9
A Respectable Girl
Sat, Dec 6, 195860 mins
Matt Rockford and his men rescue a tinhorn gambler from three cowhands who claim that they had been cheated by the man they were trying to kill. Rockford lets the cardplayer go on his way and the man sets up shop in Cimarron City, much to the disgust of many of its citizens.
Episode 10
The Blood Line
Sat, Dec 13, 195860 mins
A gunfighter who abandoned his son, Webb Martin, many years ago tracks him down in Cimarron City determined to make amends. When the father rescues Webb from a murderous gambler, the youth decides to try to put aside his bitter feelings only to discover that his father isn't the misunderstood man he portrays himself as.
Episode 11
Cimarron Holiday
Sat, Dec 20, 195860 mins
Cimarron City's businessmen hopes of organizing the big Founders' Day celebration without their wives' knowledge are soon dashed. The women determine that a little culture is need for the festivities and assign the men their roles in their version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol'. Just before the big day, the child selected to play Tiny Tim announces that he won't go on stage unless his father can see his performance. Unfortunely the man has been arrested in a neighboring town for stealing chickens.
Episode 12
McGowan's Debt
Sat, Dec 27, 195830 mins
Beth Purcell befriends her newest boardinghouse customer, Drew McGowan, an ex-convict recently released from prison who has returned to Cimarron City determined to find out who framed him for the crime for which he was falsely imprisoned. The guilty parties determine to get rid of McGowan before he can exact his revenge.
Episode 13
The Bitter Lesson
Sat, Jan 3, 195960 mins
Deputy Sheriff Lane Temple falls in love with Cimarron City's pretty new school teacher, Laura Winfield. Beth Purcell becomes suspicious of her newest boarder when she sees Laura meet with a shady character on her first evening in town and suspects that the young woman is trying to distract Lane from guarding a valuable gold shipment.
Episode 14
A Legacy for Ossie Harper
Sat, Jan 10, 195960 mins
Saloon singer and town drunk Ossie Harper shows shyster lawyer Addison a land grant his father earned in 1859 deeding him the land on which Cimarron City was built. Ossie only wants to be respected, but his crooked partner's determined to bleed Cimarron City dry by extorting money from each businessman to allow them to remain on the land they've already developed.
Episode 15
Child of Fear
Sat, Jan 17, 195960 mins
An itinerant printer moves to Cimarron City with his pretty daughter and gets a job at the town's newspaper. The paper's apprentice is attracted to the girl, though her father does his best to prevent the courtship from progressing. Meanwhile Sheriff Simpson and Deputy Sheriff Temple investigate the brutal murders of two women.
Episode 16
Burn the Town Down
Sat, Jan 24, 195960 mins
After Cimarron City's sheriff is murdered, Deputy Sheriff Lane Temple captures the killer and locks him in jail awaiting trial. The killer's gang demands that the outlaw be released immediately or they will burn the town to the ground. Temple develops a plan to capture the gang before they can do any damage, but the frightened town council objects.
Episode 17
Runaway Train
Sat, Jan 31, 195960 mins
While traveling by train to Denver, Matt Rockford meets and falls in love with Lisa Caldwell, a beautiful woman who, unbeknownst to him, has been falsely accused of murder. Lisa is blackmailed into losing five thousand dollars in a poker game to a U.S. Marshal as a bribe to free a notorious outlaw and his gang. When the prisoners escape and the train is snowbound, Matt, Lisa and their fellow passengers find themselves in deadly peril.
Episode 18
The Beauty and the Sorrow
Sat, Feb 7, 195960 mins
A Paris-trained choirmaster of falls in love with the beautiful soprano who sings in Cimarron City's church choir. He decide to eliminate the young woman's fiancé by making it appear that her ex-boyfriend, a hot-headed cowboy with an itchy trigger finger, murdered him so he can marry his talented protégée.
Episode 19
Return of the Dead
Sat, Feb 14, 195960 mins
Steve Purcell, Beth husband, whom she thought had been killed ten years earlier, rides into Cimarron City. In a flashback sequence, Beth recalls how she met Steve in a gambling hall and fell in love with him. Beth's former lover, Sam Masters falsely accused Steve of murder and tried to have him killed, but Steve switched identities with his assailant. Now Masters has followed Steve into town with the intent of finishing the job.
Episode 20
Blind Is the Killer
Sat, Feb 21, 195960 mins
A young would-be gunslinger trying to earn a reputation challenges Matt Rockford to a gunfight. The youngster panics and accidentally shoots a whiskey bottle, splattering glass shards into Matt's eyes, blinding him. While Rockford recovers, he recounts his early days when he was forced to defend his reputation as a fast gun in every town he visited.
Episode 21
The Unaccepted
Sat, Feb 28, 195960 mins
A group of Danish immigrants journeys to Cimarron City in search of free land to homestead, only to discover they had been cheated by a disreputable businessman in St. Louis. Matt Rockford offers to rent them some of his land until they get back on their feet, but conflicts arise when the newcomers start to fence waterholes on the property to prevent Matt's cattle from trampling their crops.
Episode 22
The Ratman
Sat, Mar 7, 195960 mins
When the entire crew of a grounded riverboat are found dead, a German-born doctor investigates and discovers the men died of bubonic plague. He rushes to the boat's last port-of-call, Cimarron City, to warn the town of the danger they face from the rats that traveled on-board the vessel only to meet with derision - until some of its citizen start to exhibit the tell-tale symptoms of the fatal illness.
Episode 23
Have Sword - Will Duel
Sat, Mar 14, 195960 mins
An outlaw gang led by an Irish expatriate takes advantage of a Grand Duke fondness for pretty young ladies and kidnaps the Russian nobleman while he is visiting Cimarron City as part of his grand tour of the United States. Matt Rockford attempts to impersonate the duke to lure the gang into a trap not realizing that the Irishman is an expert swordsman when the outlaw challenges him to a duel.
Episode 24
Chinese Invasion
Sat, Mar 21, 195960 mins
Cimarron City's businessman band together to build a railroad spur to the main track, but have only 90 days to do it or a neighboring town will be awarded the contract. The general contractor hires a cut-rate construction company to lay the track, importing a gang of Chinese coolies to do the heavy labor. Things go well for a time until the coolies revolt against the low pay and poor working conditions, threatening to scuttle the project and ruin the spur line's stockholder and the Cimarron City with them.
Episode 25
The Town Is a Prisoner
Sat, Mar 28, 195960 mins
Cimarron City is cut off when a regiment of Mexican lancers joins forces with a small army of American renegades intent on recapturing Texas and returning it to the Mexican sovereignty. With telegraph service to the U.S. Army cut off, Sheriff Lane Temple attempts to cause the two disparate units to have falling out before they can execute their plans of conquest
Episode 26
The Evil One
Sat, Apr 4, 195960 mins
Professor James King, a charlatan boasting of magical powers arrives in Cimarron City and promptly puts on a séance where he calls the spirit of a dead man to visit from the dead. Matt Rockford isn't too concerned about the gullible citizens who are taken in by the professor's tricks until he detects a sinister motive behind the hypnotist's visit.