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Lancer Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
The High Riders
Tue, Sep 24, 196860 mins
In an effort to save his ranch from land marauders, Murdoch Lancer hires Pinkerton agents to find his two estranged sons, Scott and Johnny, offering each of them one-third share of his vast holdings if they help him fight off the gang. Previously unaware of each other's existence, and having grown up on opposite sides of the country under divergent circumstances, the sons experience personality and culture clashes exacerbated by Johnny's anger and resentment at the belief that he was abandoned by his father. Issues come to a head when it appears that Johnny may be working for Day Pardee, the leader of the marauders.
Episode 2
Blood Rock
Tue, Oct 1, 196860 mins
The Lancers help a 10-year-old orphan who wants to meet his outlaw father.
Episode 3
Chase a Wild Horse
Tue, Oct 8, 196860 mins
Used to blowing in the wind, Johnny rebels against his new circumscribed lifestyle.
Episode 4
Foley
Tue, Oct 15, 196860 mins
Scott is caught up in a family war when a young pregnant woman shoots her abusive husband and escapes in Scott's buckboard, sending the husband's family after both of them in revenge.
Episode 5
The Lawman
Tue, Oct 22, 196860 mins
Trouble brews when a washed-up marshal - to whom Murdoch once promised a share in the Lancer ranch - shows up with a group of deputies and a prisoner who claims to know Johnny.
Episode 6
Julie
Tue, Oct 29, 196860 mins
After meeting a young woman, Scott is waylaid by two unscrupulous bounty hunters who claim he is the girl's outlaw brother whom they have been pursuing. The local sheriff gives Johnny two days to find the girl and prove Scott innocent, but the bounty hunters have no intention of waiting that long.
Episode 7
The Prodigal
Tue, Nov 12, 196860 mins
Murdoch meets an old flame, now widowed, and brings her to the ranch, where they rekindle their romance. But this is all threatened when her son comes to the ranch with another prisoner after their escape from an Army barracks, in which a guard was killed.
Episode 8
Jelly
Tue, Nov 19, 196860 mins
The Lancers take in supposedly injured stranger Jelly Hoskins, unaware that he is hiding money pilfered from bank robbers so that he can care for eight orphan boys.
Episode 9
The Last Train for Charlie Poe
Tue, Nov 26, 196860 mins
When Charlie Poe and his wife are forced off their land by land grabbers claiming an old Spanish grant, Johnny, Scott, and Charlie decide to break jail and stop the train carrying the papers the land grabbers hope to use to make their claim official. But Charlie enlists an old friend who may plan to take more than just the papers.
Episode 10
Glory
Tue, Dec 10, 196860 mins
A pretty young woman and her grandfather try to con the Lancers out of $500 to pay a gambling debt.
Episode 11
The Heart of Pony Alice
Tue, Dec 17, 196860 mins
Johnny gets more than he bargained for when he goes after a horse trader who cheated him and ends up taking care of the trader's feisty 10-year-old niece.
Episode 12
The Escape
Tue, Dec 31, 196860 mins
Three men come to Morro Coyo to kill Scott, who they are convinced is responsible for the deaths of a group of fellow inmates during an escape from a Confederate prison during the Civil War.
Episode 13
The Wedding
Tue, Jan 7, 196960 mins
Scott and his friend Josh, a Lancer ranch hand, try to rescue Josh's fiancée, who was kidnapped by outlaws during the wedding ceremony.
Episode 14
Death Bait
Tue, Jan 14, 196960 mins
A man with a vicious dog and a grudge against Jelly terrorizes Murdoch, Teresa and Jelly at Lancer while Scott and Johnny are away on a cattle drive.
Episode 15
The Black McGloins
Tue, Jan 21, 196960 mins
Scott is duped by the attractive daughter of an Irish con artist whose family is robbing and intimidating the community.
Episode 16
Yesterday's Vendetta
Tue, Jan 28, 196960 mins
When Murdoch goes to the town of Mesa Roja to bury the hatchet with an old enemy, he is shot in the back and then disappears.
Episode 17
Warburton's Edge
Tue, Feb 4, 196960 mins
Trying to avoid violence, Johnny ends up on the wrong side of a range war against Murdoch and the other ranchers of the valley.
Episode 18
The Fix-It Man
Tue, Feb 11, 196960 mins
The Lancers' plan to build a jail in Spanish Wells unintentionally sets an old handyman against his former protégé, a saloon owner who is the puppet of the leader of a gang of toughs.
Episode 19
Angel Day and Her Sunshine Girls
Tue, Feb 25, 196960 mins
Teresa's mother - a ne'er-do-well who ran off when Teresa was born - returns to demand custody of her daughter.
Episode 20
The Great Humbug
Tue, Mar 4, 196960 mins
A grifter comes to town to cheat the locals in a phony land deal, straining the friendship between Murdoch and a neighbor who once saved Murdoch's life.
Episode 21
Juniper's Camp
Tue, Mar 11, 196960 mins
Murdoch sends Scott and Johnny to rescue an old friend's daughter, who is about to marry a charming, manipulative and abusive man.
Episode 22
The Knot
Tue, Mar 18, 196960 mins
After a family of highway robbers shoots Scott and kidnaps Teresa, she begins to sympathize with one of her captors.
Episode 23
The Man Without a Gun
Tue, Mar 25, 196960 mins
When Sheriff Val Crawford is injured, newcomer to Green River, Clay Crisswell takes over temporarily. His civilized ways and the ability to subdue the rougher element of Green River without a gun make him popular with the businessmen, but things may not be what they seem.
Episode 24
Child of Rock and Sunlight
Tue, Apr 1, 196960 mins
After being stranded in the desert, Scott is found and taken in to an abandoned mine by an inquisitive young boy. But the boy's family includes an outlaw uncle who plans to kill Scott and pass the body off as his own.
Episode 25
The Measure of a Man
Tue, Apr 8, 196960 mins
A schoolteacher encounters hostility and harassment when he arrives to start a school in a ranching community that has had no teacher before. When the teacher disappears after being taken out of town by night riders, his wife decides to continue in his place, and Johnny assists her despite continued resistance from children's parents.
Episode 26
Devil's Blessing
Tue, Apr 22, 196960 mins
Murdoch leaves on a stage for Yuma in hope of disproving assumptions that he's getting too old to take care of himself. But on the way, he and the stage driver are held up and left for dead. They walk to the town of Blessing, which they find is run by a crooked town boss who has the stage robbers in his employ.