Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong and his horse Topper catch bad guys with Red Connors for comic relief.
- 1952-1954
- 2 seasons
- NBC
- Action & Adventure
- TV-PG
Hopalong and his horse Topper catch bad guys with Red Connors for comic relief.
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1953 - 1954
Episode 1
The Devil's Idol
Fri, Oct 9, 1953 26 mins
Hoppy and Reverend Adams hope to reform young Johnny Bolton from his criminal ways but his propensity for meanness and his admiration for an outlaw of thirty years ago work against them.
Episode 2
The Sole Survivor
Fri, Oct 16, 1953 26 mins
Hoppy and Red in Clarksville to visit Hoppy's friend Titus Clark the sole town resident find him shot to death and discover papers that suggest a connection with railroad's plan for the land to which the attorney niece is heir.
Episode 3
The Valley Raiders
Fri, Oct 23, 1953 26 mins
A sheriff summons Hoppy to Stone Valley where a cattlemen's association which has padded interest and fees is about to foreclose on ranchers who can not pay because bandits rob supply shipments before they reach the ranchers.
Episode 4
Twisted Trails
Fri, Oct 30, 1953 26 mins
Frank Walton hopes to break the bank in drought stricken Little Rock Basin before the drought breaks to acquire its assets and interferes with Hoppy's moving the cattle to Twin Rivers and getting funds to stop a run on the bank.
Episode 5
The Last Laugh
Fri, Nov 6, 1953 26 mins
Hoppy pretends to be John Smith in a town in which Red has been made sheriff to investigate the uncannily efficient robbery of gold shipped from the area smelter while all must endure comedy records played in the Mayor's barber shop.
Episode 6
The Jinx Wagon
Fri, Nov 13, 1953 30 mins
Clemons traveling to see his son buys a wagon said by the locals to bring harm to its owners in which bank robbers have hidden their take while it was in the livery but, when they trail, the robbers find the stash missing from the wagon.
Episode 7
Illegal Entry
Fri, Nov 20, 1953 26 mins
Hoppy is asked by immigration to investigate Chinese illegal aliens crossed from Mexico and left in the desert to die and finds a message in the sand beside a deceased implicating a Chinese speaking white man with a limp.
Episode 8
Gypsy Destiny
Fri, Nov 27, 1953 26 mins
A Gypsy woman seeks Hoppy's help to clear her husband of a Wells Fargo robbery shortly after which the husband was murdered.
Episode 9
Arizona Troubleshooters
Fri, Dec 4, 1953 26 mins
The Army sends Hoppy to Arizona Territory to investigate raids on a telegraphic construction project and, after the project leader is killed, uncovers a conspiracy led by the holder of the area trading post enterprise to stop the telegraph.
Episode 10
Death by Proxy
Fri, Dec 11, 1953 26 mins
Jim Adams convicted convincingly of Ben Samuels' murder has escaped from prison and, while Hoppy protects Adams from vigilantism, Hoppy is troubled by an Adams' trial physical description and huge doctor fees paid by Samuels' brother.
Episode 11
Frontier Law
Fri, Dec 18, 1953 26 mins
Hoppy's mission from a law & order committee to prevent a town boss from blocking a territorial charter vote is imperiled when Hoppy's recently arrived lawyer nephew agrees to defend a boss' henchman and a victim changes his story.
Episode 12
Don't Believe in Ghosts
Fri, Dec 25, 1953 26 mins
An exhausted boy arrives at the Bar 20 with a tale of his father's disappearance and, although Hoppy presumes the father is dead, goes to the boy's home where evidence of the father's presence unnerves a stepmother and a housekeeper.
Episode 13
The Renegade Press
Fri, Jan 1, 1954 26 mins
Hoppy stages the death of Red to keep a ring of pesos counterfeiters operating north of border and smuggling them into Mexico so he can enlist the help of a blacksmith to replace a broken horseshoe of one of the ring so they can be tracked.
Episode 14
Double Trouble
Fri, Jan 8, 1954 30 mins
When Ted Gray is attacked by Martinez for lying about receipt of mortgage money, his uncle Ollie states he will foreclose and then Ollie is found murdered with several pieces of clear evidence against Martinez but Hoppy is skeptical of it.
Episode 15
Copper Hills
Fri, Jan 15, 1954 26 mins
Drunk Picture Pete has photographed a on reservation hill has rich in copper ore of which speculator Rush has learned and has, to get the ore land, made it appear by killing and property destruction that the Apache and Maricopa are at war.
Episode 16
New Mexico Manhunt
Fri, Jan 22, 1954 30 mins
Thieves steal gold coins meant for a relief fund and make them into gold nuggets that they use an old prospector to launder which throws suspicion on the prospector's granddaughter's assayer husband.
Episode 17
The Outlaw's Reward
Fri, Jan 29, 1954 26 mins
An outlaw using an adopted surname forces his doctor brother to issue a fake death certificate so his gang can collect the substantial reward but Hoppy is suspicious of the burial details.
Episode 18
Grubstake
Fri, Feb 5, 1954 30 mins
As Twin Rivers becomes no longer a quiet cattle town due to a gold strike, two partners of Bummer Lowe, who Red and others have grub-staked to look for gold, have been killed and then Bummer continues to ail unresponsive to medication.
Episode 19
Steel Trails West
Fri, Feb 12, 1954 26 mins
Bricker, Jim Taggart's rep, reports that Taggart's nephew has been killed by robbers that stole a railroad survey but actually Bricker has killed the nephew to deliver the plans for a fee to Taggart' s rival so Taggart loses the contract.
Episode 20
Silent Testimony
Fri, Feb 19, 1954 26 mins
Jason Rand who acquires area homesteads by shady means marries Trixie Brown who blackmails him about proof she has on murder so she can not testify against him but Trixie has written down facts and secreted the document.
Episode 21
3-7-77
Fri, Feb 26, 1954 26 mins
Soon after Hoppy and Red arrive where the murderous outlaws operate with impunity and precision in lawless Canyon City to help sheriff Barnett the mark of the vigilante, 3-7-77, starts to appear at the locations of those Hoppy suspects.
Episode 22
Masquerade for Matilda
Fri, Mar 5, 1954 26 mins
Outlaws telegram Samuel Harron's sister Matilda that he is ill and needs her so the outlaws can kidnap her to ransom Harron's testimony and when the sheriff will not help after Hoppy rescues Matilda, Red masquerades as her to set a trap.
Episode 23
Frameup for Murder
Fri, Mar 12, 1954 30 mins
An indebted lawyer fakes a stage holdup with the murder of the driver and a client to gain the client's fortune and blame the cavalry nephew in a clothing switch with an accomplice and nephew who left for dead survives but loses memory.
Episode 24
The Black Sombrero
Fri, Mar 19, 1954 26 mins
Hoppy is assigned to perform the extradition of Marco Rodriquez who appears framed for murder while on the way to investigate the smuggling of cattle from a diseased border area of Mexico and discovers the tasks are related.
Episode 25
The Emerald Saint
Fri, Mar 26, 1954 26 mins
Hoppy finds a wanted man he chases into Mexico living under an alias and revered for his medical prowess and kindness by the locals until the man steals a beloved emerald encrusted religious relic.
Episode 26
Tricky Fingers
Fri, Apr 2, 1954 26 mins
Hoppy is obsessed with finding bank robbers working in nearby counties who killed a sheriff friend and begins to suspect a kind young area woman when he receive a wanted poster despite that the jobs involve an elderly woman.
