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The Guns of Will Sonnett Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1967 - 1968

Episode 1

Ride the Long Trail

Fri, Sep 8, 196730 mins

Jeff and Will encounter a man who lost an arm in a gunfight with Jim Sonnett.

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Episode 2

A Bell for Jeff Sonnett

Fri, Sep 15, 196730 mins

With Will's gun arm injured, Jeff is forced into his first-ever gunfight against a master gunfighter (Charles Grodin, of all people) who uses every psychological trick in the book.

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Episode 3

A Grave for James Sonnett

Fri, Sep 22, 196722 mins

Arriving in a Mexican town, the Sonnetts find Jim's grave and a curiously reticent padre, and tangle with a bandito leader who may -- or may not -- have killed James. Features an exceptionally lively gunfight at the end.

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Episode 4

The Natural Way

Fri, Sep 29, 196730 mins

Will's old comrade Morg is terrified of Lank, who's driving his cattle through Samson. Time's shorn the locks of aged Sheriff Morg Braham, who tells Will & Jeff to clear out of his peace-loving town ASAP, though they stopped in Samson merely to see Morg, as they mosey through Cloud County, Kansas on their quest for Jeff's father. Will's disappointed, but quite prepared to skedaddle, while arrogant cattle baron Lank Turner's determined to humiliate town tamer Morg by tearing up Samson with his saddle-sore drovers.

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Episode 5

Of Lasting Summers and Jim Sonnett

Fri, Oct 6, 196722 mins

Hearing that Jim Sonnett is to be hanged, Will and Jeff hurry to a Western town. The killer of two maintains he's their relative. Grandfather Will doesn't buy his act, grandson Jeff wants to believe and does. The taciturn Sheriff doesn't care who's who, he's wary that the Sonnetts will break his notorious prisoner out, so he limits the pair's access to the jail. The carnival atmosphere surrounding the big execution unhinges the youngest Sonnett.

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Episode 6

Message at Noon

Fri, Oct 13, 196722 mins

Will and Jeff go to talk to a sheriff who knows Jim hoping he knows where he is. The man at first not being sure if they are who they say they are , doesn't tell them Jim is coming. But when he's satisfied, tells them. But Jim stops off at a town and a guy who wants to challenge him shows up. Jim then sends a telegram to,the sheriff telling him he won't come. So Will and Jeff head off hoping to catch him.

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Episode 7

A Son for a Son

Fri, Oct 20, 196722 mins

A farmer provides Jeff, ill with fever, a bed while his wife tends. The Sonnett's don't know the farmer offered because Jim Sonnett killed their son in a shootout in the last year. The wife, sick with grief, thinks Jeff is the dead son.

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Episode 8

Meeting at Devil's Fork

Fri, Oct 27, 196730 mins

While looking for Jim Sonnett in the High Country Jeff and Will are having a meal in a rowdy saloon. Later in their room they are accosted by four gunmen who claim to be friends of Jim's. They say they can take them to where Jim is and the Sonnetts agree to ride with them. Soon they realize it is a ruse and they are being used as bait to draw Jim out of hiding for an ambush at Devil's Fork.

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Episode 9

First Love

Fri, Nov 3, 196722 mins

When Will and Jeff land in jail, a pretty girl puts up the bail and asks them to stay.

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Episode 10

The Favor

Fri, Nov 10, 196730 mins

After accidentally capturing a man wanted for bank robbery, the Sonnetts agree to turn the man over and send the bounty money to his impoverished family -- but the man's former partners, now posing as lawmen, have the same idea minus the altruism -- plus a murderous grudge against Will Sonnett

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Episode 11

Ride the Man Down

Fri, Nov 17, 1967

Will and his grandson join a liquored-up posse to prevent Will's son from lynching, after a dying bank robber names Jim Sonnett as his accomplice. Will Sonnett fears the mob will shoot first and ask no questions, because the bank's offered a $500 reward to whoever kills the surviving bank robber, for murdering a teller. Will has qualms about the sheriff, for refusing to pursue the gunman without a posse backing him.

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Episode 12

The Turkey Shoot

Fri, Nov 24, 1967

Near broke, Will enters Jeff in a shooting contest where a prize bull is at stake put up by a local cattle baron who keeps local breeders dependent. Tensions escalate as the Sonnett's hear of how they treated Jim on an earlier visit.

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Episode 13

And a Killing Rode in Town

Fri, Dec 1, 1967

Will and Jeff are startled to be introduced to Mrs. Jim Sonnett who is being tormented by a local ruffian. Jeff believes her story but Will has doubts. When she appeals for protection their disagreement mushrooms towards a falling out.

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Episode 14

Find a Sonnett, Kill a Sonnett

Fri, Dec 8, 1967

Jeff is being held by the sons of a man that was killed by Jim Sonnett, demanding Will bring him for Jeff's release. The local town is unwilling to help so Will enlists a broken down former gunslinger and Will begins his rehabilitation.

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Episode 15

Sunday in Paradise

Fri, Dec 15, 1967

In the town of Paradise, Will reconnects with an old friend who still owns a brothel. She is looked down upon by the very men of the town who have unpaid accounts. Rather than have them pay up, she just asks them to help build a church.

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Episode 16

The Secret of Hangtown Mine

Fri, Dec 22, 1967

Will and Jeff travel to Hangtown to speak with a doctor that treated Jim but the doctor is out of town. They visit the doctor's wife at their home but she and the hired hand have sinister plans for them and a treacherous secret concealed.

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Episode 17

The Hero

Fri, Dec 29, 1967

When Will is shot in a bank robbery he and Jeff stumble into the middle of, Jeff insists on joining the local sheriff in pursuing the robbers. While Will convalesces, he learns the sheriff's wife knows a shocking truth about the robbery.

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Episode 18

What's in a Name

Fri, Jan 5, 196830 mins

The Sonnett's meet a small-time hustler posing as Will to mooch meals and drinks with trick shooting. When confronted, he admits he began the scam after helping Jim when he was shot. A local gunslinger challenges the poser to a gunfight.

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Episode 19

End of the Rope

Fri, Jan 12, 1968

Through heavily guarded jail bars, Jeff Sonnett gets his first glimpse of his father, who's soon to be hanged. Passing through a new town with the other Sonnetts in pursuit, father Jim was framed by the real killer, for robbing and murdering a rancher. Wily grandfather Will finds wide holes in the prosecution's case, so he digs for evidence to free Jim before he swings.

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Episode 20

And He Shall Lead the Children

Fri, Jan 19, 196830 mins

The Sonnett's travel to the remote area of Will's younger days. They find a mother bedfast with tick fever, an old flame of Will's with troubles married to an outlaw who's away. They set out to nurse the woman well and tend to her children.

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Episode 21

Look for the Hound Dog

Fri, Jan 26, 196830 mins

Accused of a murder he didn't commit, Jeff is arrested and could face hanging. A countrified lawyer uses advanced criminology techniques to prove his innocence. The lawyer is determined to persuade the jury, who are determined to believe Jeff is guilty.

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Episode 22

Stopover in a Troubled Town

Fri, Feb 2, 1968

Will and Jeff befriend a saloon girl who is a single mother unable to both care for her baby and please her cruel taskmaster employer. Her father is to arrive but she's afraid because she married her faithless husband against his wishes.

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Episode 23

Alone

Fri, Feb 9, 1968

Will awaits the arrival of Jeff as they are to reunite in a deserted town. An unidentified gunman starts shooting at Will and Will is knocked senseless when grazed by a bullet. Will then experiences waking dreams of accusers from his past.

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Episode 24

The Sins of the Father

Fri, Feb 23, 1968

Visiting a farmhouse where a wounded James Sonnett had stayed, Jeff is shocked to the core when the illegitimate son of the family daughter appears to be his own half-brother -- ostracized by the girl's father because of her sin and James running off. A plot twist at the end.

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Episode 25

The Warriors

Fri, Mar 1, 1968

South Dakota, 1890: Will meets up with an old friend, a Sioux chief planning to join the doomed Ghost Dance uprising. When Will schemes to foil a crooked arms merchant's sale of rifles to the tribesmen, the peddler and an equally crooked sheriff take Jeff and then Will hostage.

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Episode 26

A Fool and His Money

Fri, Mar 8, 1968

An old friend of Will's is posing as a wealthy man to land a woman and asks for Will's help. However, a couple of disreputable, former business partners aim to demand their share of Charlie's apparent newfound wealth.

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