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The Adventures of Champion Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1955 - 1956
Episode 1
The Saddle Tramp
Fri, Sep 23, 195526 mins
A down-on-luck prospector and spinner of tall tales helps Ricky capture a gang of rustlers.
Episode 2
Crossroad Trail
Fri, Sep 30, 195526 mins
A young ranch hand nearly falls in with bad companions until Ricky is blinded from a fall sustained when fleeing the two men and needs his assistance.
Episode 3
Salted Ground
Fri, Oct 7, 195526 mins
Ricky and Sandy try to prevent a gullible general store owner from being fleeced by a couple of con men trying to sell a salted mine.
Episode 4
The Medicine Man Mystery
Sat, Oct 15, 195526 mins
Sandy investigates Ricky's wild tale of a medicine show operator who he saw stuff a small boy into a box. The Norths learn that Doc Terwilliger, the show's owner, is a ventriloquist who uses his dummy, Wilbur, to draw in crowds. A trio of jewel thieves find Wilbur fascinating as well, since their leader hid the gems from his latest heist in the dummy's stomach.
Episode 5
Lost River
Sat, Oct 22, 195530 mins
The worst drought in 20 years has struck the valley where the Norths have their ranch. While Champion searches for a waterhole for his herd of wild horses, an unscrupulous foreman tries to force an elderly woman to sell her ranch for a pittance.
Episode 6
Renegade Stallion
Sat, Oct 29, 195526 mins
An elderly prospector searching for gold finally strikes paydirt, but before he can file a claim, he is killed by a pair of drifters who stampede a wild horse herd over the man's body to hide evidence of their crime. The sheriff believes that Champion is a wild killer and tries to have him shot. Meanwhile Ricky and Sandy try to find the real killers.
Episode 7
Canyon of Wanted Men
Sat, Nov 5, 195526 mins
A crooked horse trader tries to get Sandy North and the other ranchers to sign a petition to allow him to round up all the wild horses in the valley. When the ranchers prove reluctant, the crooks break down the ranchers fences and accuse the herd of the destruction. While riding the range, Ricky and Lorna stumble onto the truth but are captured and held prisoner by the owlhoots.
Episode 8
Challenge of the West
Tue, Nov 8, 195530 mins
Ricky tries to prove that an outlaw's son wasn't responsible for a robbery at Sandy's ranch.
Episode 9
The Outlaw's Secret
Tue, Nov 15, 195530 mins
When a thief confesses to the robbery of a stage coach, he also implicates someone who worked the job as a partner,a banker. From Uncle Earl's Classic TV Channel.
Episode 10
Hangman's Noose
Tue, Nov 22, 195526 mins
When a crooked ranch foreman discovers oil on a neighboring spread, he plots with a businessman to grab the property by killing one rancher and framing the other for the crime. When Ricky stumbles upon a pair of oil-soaked boots near the murder scene, he becomes the target for the real killers.
Episode 11
King of the Rodeo
Tue, Nov 29, 195530 mins
When the bucking bronco they've been using as a carnival attraction breaks down, Bates and Dickson search for another stallion to replace him. They manage to capture Champion and, billing him as "Dynamite" charge ten dollars for a chance to keep him if a cowboy can stay on his back for ten seconds. Ricky tracks Champ to a rodeo and easily rides him, but the owners renege and try to escape to another town with Champ imprisoned in their horse wagon.
Episode 12
A Bugle for Ricky
Tue, Dec 6, 195526 mins
Ricky soon finds a use for his new musical instrument - signaling for help using a cavalry bugle call when he is trapped in a barn by outlaws.
Episode 13
The Stone Heart
Tue, Dec 13, 195526 mins
Ricky tries to help a wounded prisoner who was forced to participate in a jail break and becomes the target of the rest of the gang of counterfeiters.
Episode 14
The Deer Hunters
Tue, Dec 20, 195526 mins
Ricky tries to rescue a fawn from a snare and incurs the trappers' wrath. The men are trying to provide meat for a railroad construction crew but are wiping out the native game in the process. Ricky, Sandy and an Eastern conservationist try to convince the railroad construction boss to find a new source of meat for his men.
Episode 15
The Golden Hoax
Tue, Dec 27, 195530 mins
When Champion discovers that a gang of stagecoach robbers stash their loot in an abandoned mineshaft, Ricky and Sandy try to apprehend the gang.
Episode 16
Johnny Hands Up
Tue, Jan 3, 195626 mins
Ricky and Sandy come to the assistance of a young lawman who is being held responsible for the mistakes of his predecessor.
Episode 17
Black Kachina
Tue, Jan 10, 195626 mins
An evil medicine man holds the tribe's chief captive while plotting a new Indian war against the territory's ranchers.
Episode 18
Mystery Mountain
Tue, Jan 17, 195630 mins
When a naive Easterner is duped into performing gold assays for a swindler, Ricky and Sandy come to the rescue.
Episode 19
Rails West
Thu, Jan 26, 195626 mins
Ricky and Sandy persuade a railroad line to bypass the range where Champion and his remuda live, but removing prospectors who try to claim the same valley after stumbling onto what they think is gold-bearing rock proves a tougher nut to crack.
Episode 20
The Real Unfriendly Ghost
Tue, Jan 31, 195630 mins
Ricky and Sandy search for a missing politician in a ghost town and encounter one eccentric living resident and, apparently, a lively dead one, too.
Episode 21
Andrew and the Deadly Double
Mon, Feb 13, 195626 mins
Mary Jane, Ricky's young neighbor, is upset when she learns that Uncle Andrew, her newly appointed guardian, plans to sell the ranch she lives on and force her to move East with him. While Ricky and Sandy try to convince the Easterner of the virtues of ranch life, Mary Jane learns that the man is an impostor and is taken captive by a crooked land-grabbing lawyer.
Episode 22
Bad Men of the Valley
Tue, Feb 14, 195626 mins
An ex-convict trying to go straight and his pretty wife buy the ranch next to the North's. He has a chance meeting with his former gang members who threaten his wife if he doesn't cooperate with their bank robbing scheme. Ricky, Champ and Rebel help the young man bring his former confederates to justice.
Episode 23
The Return of Red Cloud
Fri, Feb 24, 195630 mins
When a Indian chief who has just returned to his tribe is framed for murder, Ricky and Sandy try to prove his innocence before this followers go on the warpath.
Episode 24
Brand of the Lawless
Mon, Feb 27, 195626 mins
An outlaw who has escaped from custody joins his old gang and plans his next robbery - a rich bank that's not too far away. With a posse pursuing them, the gang leader decides to pick up a grubstake from his law-abiding sister by blackmailing her.
Episode 25
The Die-Hards
Sat, Mar 3, 195626 mins
Rebel is hurt by a porcupine and Ricky gets help for him from a new southern doctor who just arrived in town. However, persistent prejudices for Southerners that linger long after the civil war engender hatred and turmoil for the doctor and his wife to endure until the prejudiced perpetrator's gunshot wound is treated by the doctor.
Episode 26
Calhoun Rides Again
Sat, Mar 3, 195626 mins
An old cowboy returns to visit Ricky and Sandy and help them round up a gang of desperadoes.
