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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
33 Episodes 1955 - 1956
Episode 1
Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal
Tue, Sep 6, 195530 mins
Wyatt Earp has been buffalo hunting and wants to settle down on a cattle ranch but has been asked by the elderly Sheriff Whitney to take his job as Sheriff of Ellsworth, Kansas. Earp bails young Bat Masterson out of jail, recovers the money he lost in a crooked card game, and runs the crooks out of town but refuses to take the Sheriff job. However, when drunk Bill Thompson kills the sheriff in cold blood Earp tries the job but a crooked judge puts him and Bat in jail. The editor of the local paper forces the judge and new crooked sheriff to resign when he threatens to tell the Governor what they are doing. Earp is then forced to gun down three of the Thompson men and decides to take the sheriff job after all.
Episode 2
Mr. Earp Meets a Lady
Tue, Sep 13, 195530 mins
Earp implements a new no wearing guns policy in Ellsworth. He is able to use it to arrest Ben Thompson and jail him for ten days. Earp hopes his brother Bill will try to break Ben out of jail giving Earp a chance to arrest Bill for murdering the Sheriff. Earp and the new Judge swear in special deputies for the trap. Meanwhile, Bat has a new friend young Abbie Crandall who wants to meet Earp. Wyatt is friendly to her but suspicious. The trap works allowing Earp to arrest Bill who he suspects may be insane. That evening Abbie returns to the jail where Bat lets her in against Earp's orders. She pulls a gun forcing Bat and the deputy to free Ben and Bill Thompson. Ben wants to have it out with Earp but is forced to leave with Bill when Bill refuses to fight Earp in a fair gun duel. Abbie is arrested but later freed by the judge since there is a bias against jailing young naive girls. Young Bat learns another lesson about women and life.
Episode 3
Bill Thompson Gives In
Tue, Sep 20, 195530 mins
The people of Ellsworth are unhappy that Earp has not gone after Bill Thompson for murdering the sheriff. They want Earp to lead a posse after the brothers but Earp is against it as he believes they would kill several members of a posse which is slow and noisy. Rather than joining up with their gang, Earp believes the brothers are hiding in an area called the Bushwacker section. It is rough territory where the rebels once shot up an Union patrol. Instead he has two Indians who owe him a favor to track the men in the Bushwacker area and hang nooses around the brothers to scare them and keep them on the move. It works as the scouts report the brothers' location to Earp. He goes alone to confront Ben who loses a quick draw with Earp. Earp promises him that the law does not hang insane men which he believes Bill to be. Ben agrees to bring Bill in which he does against Bill's wishes proving Earp to right and savvy.
Episode 4
Marshal Earp Meets General Lee
Tue, Sep 27, 195530 mins
A saloon owned by the widow of an ex-Conferadate soldier is nearly destroyed by five cowboys in a fight over where she has a picture of General Robert E. Lee. Earp and his men break up the fight and arrest the men. Mrs. Donagher estimates the damage at $1500 so the Judge sentences the men to jail until they pay the damages. Earp has developed a reputation as a northerner who is able to handle the southerners without gun play or bloodshed. Marsh Murdock has come from Wichita to offer him the job of marshal there. He gets to watch Earp in action as Kirby Ramser with gunmen behind him threatens to burn the town unless Earp is run out of town. Upon learning Ramser's plans from Bat, Earp decides to use Lee's birthday to break the impasse. Ramser and his men ride into town only to find it celebrating Lee's birthday. The men salute Lee's photo and leave with Earp and Ramser left alone. Ramser decides to call the fight off and leaves plus he pays the damages owed by his men. Earp is off to Wichita with Bat who is going to school.
Episode 5
Wyatt Earp Comes to Wichita
Tue, Oct 4, 195530 mins
Earp and Murdock ride into Wichita to the news that Slick Lonagan has been arrested for murder and the "citizen's committee" or vigilantes want to lynch him. Sheriff Todd has held them off but he professes his job is to collect taxes and related functions as he is not a gunman. Until Murdock agrees that the vigilantes must go, Earp considers not taking the job due to his disdain for vigilantes. Murdock agrees he wants to end them as well. Earp sends the group packing although they say the man killed was unarmed. The next day Earp questions Rowdy Kate who confirms the dead man was wearing two 45's and that Dave Bennett, the vigilante leader, is crooked and wanted Lonagan to deal faro for him. Earp then forces Dr. Andrew Fabrique to perform a proper autopsy which shows part of gun belt and bullets embedded in the body from the double barrel shot gun blast. When the vigilantes return, Earp stops them, arrests the leaders, and shows the others the proof. The next day he asks the Judge to disband the vigilantes due to corruption. Rowdy Kate appears at the last minute to provide the needed proof of corruption allowing Earp to get his court order.
Episode 6
The Man Who Lied
Tue, Oct 11, 195530 mins
Murdock takes Earp to a local tailor to have him dressed in a manner more befitting the Wichita Marshal. However, the clothes and especially the long coat have Earp wondering if he is dressed now to die. At the same time Dave Bennett decides to hire the gunman Buff Yancy to kill Earp for $1,000. Bennett wants revenge for the disbanding of the Citizen's Committee and interfering with his crooked operation. Yancy makes it public he has met Earp but Earp has no clue as to who he is. He uses his deputies and the resources of Murdock's newspaper to research Yancy. They suspect he is a man from Arkansas who may have deserted from the Army. With the cowboys getting out of hand due to his absence, Earp decides to put dead cartridges in Yancy's guns which are in his hotel room. Earp confronts Yancy who is too slow but still tries to shoot Earp. Earp explains to Yancy he has proven his bravery going against Earp. Yancy returns Bennett's money and tells everyone to pay respect to Earp after decking Bennett.
Episode 7
The Gambler
Tue, Oct 18, 195530 mins
While Earp is loading his cartridges with copper jacked bullets which do less damage, saloon hostess Melinda Carey confides to Earp that Dick Bennett cheated young southerner Billy Joe Omahadro out of $8500 with his crooked games. Billy Joe is threatening to kill Bennett. Earp gathers some additional funds from southerners who hate Bennett which he marks and gives to Billy Joe to trap Bennett cheating. The plan works such that Earp recovers all of the lost money for the men and Billy Joe. Billy Joe is returning home but he wants to thank Melinda and possibly marry her. Against Earp's suggestion he visits Melinda to say goodbye with a promise to return. Bennett determines Melinda informed on him so he confronts her. He fires her and tells her he will ruin her plans with Billy Joe by telling what she does for a living. She pulls a gun and shots Bennett in the back after he leaves. The doctor digs a copper jacketed bullet out of the wounded Bennett. Earp is forced to give up his badge until his trial is over. He thinks Melinda did it and at the trial she confesses.
Episode 8
The Killer
Tue, Oct 25, 195530 mins
Bennett's bouncer beats up Mr. Hailey who caught Bennett with a crooked Faro game using a screw box to deal. Earp gives Bennett six hours to close up The Palace and leave town which he does. Bennett looks up Manon Clemens who has killed at least 26 men. Clemens is willing to take on Earp but is leery of an ambush or of being in a town. The only person he trusts is his girl friend Laurie Castle who he sends into to town to check things out. Bennett wants Clemens to not only kill Earp but his cowboys to tree the town. Earp hears about the plan so he has Marsh Murdock publish an editorial saying Clemens is a coward plus he has a chat with Laurie acting as if he didn't know who Clemens is or that he had any worries about him. She lets slip that Clemens doesn't like graveyards. Given Laurie's report and the editorial Clemens and his men with Bennett ride to Wichita. Earp meets him at the edge of town on horseback along with 80 deputies. He invites Clemens into the lumberyard where the two of them can settle the fight. Clemens balks when he sees Earp has dug a grave with a tombstone giving Clemens' date of death. Clemens runs but kills Bennett on his way out of town for leading him into the ambush.
Episode 9
John Wesley Hardin
Tue, Nov 1, 195530 mins
John Wesley Hardin and his wife Jane are riding through Wichita ostensively on their way to Nebraska to start a new life with a new name. In reality Hardin wants revenge against Earp for running his friend Manon Clemens out of Wichita without firing a shot. At the saloon Hardin impresses the locals with his stories about Wild Bill Hickock plus the gun tricks he knows including the road agent spin and the border switch which he shows Earp. After Earp leaves a drunk draws on Hardin forcing him to shoot the drunk with a hidden gun. Earp arrests him believing it was murder but the witnesses backup Harden in front of the Judge. The Judge frees Harden but fines him $100 for the hidden gun with a suggestion to leave town. Harden promises his wife Jane they will leave the next morning but he has told Earp he has one trick left Earp hasn't seen. He has built a swivel holster he can hide beneath a long coat. The next morning he goes to the tailor shop for a long coat sending the tailor to bring Earp. Earp enters the back door to face Harden. Harden gets the first shot off but it is wild allowing Earp to knock out Harden and sprain his fingers so his wife can drive him out of town.
Episode 10
The Bank Robbers
Tue, Nov 8, 195530 mins
The wounded bank robber Clem Parker and his girlfriend Bonnie Dawson make a split with stagecoach robber Tarp Anders and his gang. Parker wants to go straight and has a low opinion of Tarp and his men. Parker's leg is attended to by Doc Fabrique in Wichita who reports it to Earp. Parker is not wanted in Kansas but Tarp is. Earp visits Parker and Dawson at the hotel where Parker is recovering. They tell Earp they have no intentions of causing trouble but before Earp leaves a bank teller tells Earp a stranger is hanging around the Union Bank. Earp confronts the man who is Tarp as Bonnie watches. After Earp throws Tarp out of Wichita, Bonnie tells him the truth but Earp doesn't trust them that they are done. Bonnie agrees to find out which bank Tarp plans to rob. Parker wants to let Earp take Tarp out so he will be gone. Bonnie passes a plan to Tarp to rob the Union bank and reports it to Earp but he is concerned Tarp will hit the other bank. Tarp's gang hits the Union Bank as Bonnie takes out a sniper they posted. Earp and the deputies get everyone but Tarp who is picked off by Clem from his hotel window.
Episode 11
King of the Cattle Trails
Tue, Nov 15, 195530 mins
The wealthy Texan, A.H. 'Shanghai' Pierce, who made his fortune in Boston with clipper ships has erected a statue to himself in Texas. Everyone sends him congratulations except Earp who notes that his crew created a lot of trouble in Wichita the previous year. Pierce takes this as a challenge to open Wichita again. He hires the pretty but financially stranded actress Alice Kennedy to come to Wichita and invite Earp to a party thrown by Pierce. Earp accepts but suspects Pierce. She learns that Earp is not a drinker but does like cards which she relays to Pierce. Pierce asks Earp to join a poker game which he does but his luck runs bad. Earp, however, keeps his loses in control so Pierce tries offering him a job at the saloon he has bought but Earp declines. Having no success, the drunk Pierce turns his men loose on Wichita. Earp, however, arrests Pierce which forces the men to stop ending the confrontation as Pierce cooperates.
Episode 12
The Big Baby Contest
Tue, Nov 22, 195530 mins
Two leading women of Wichita want Earp to be chairman of their baby contest. Initially he declines but when he learns about the gambling involved with it, he decides to take on the role. The saloons are forcing all winners to donate ten percent of their winnings to vote for a baby as each vote costs 25 cents and the winner of the contest receives $200. Earp is forced to arrest a man for wearing a gun who wants his 10 percent back as he is broke. However, the man escapes when Earp is distracted by some drunk cowboys. He then finds a hungry woman on the street with a sick baby looking for a doctor. Earp takes them to the doctor. The baby will be okay but the mother is hungry, tired, and broke. The doctor and Earp decide to enter her in the baby contest to win the $200. However, they learn the odds given on the baby winning in one saloon indicate the baby will lose even though she is getting the most votes. An inspection of the rules indicates the father and mother must be present to win. The father is the man who escaped so Earp has to go after him to bring him back to win the contest but the man thinks he is wanted.
Episode 13
Frontier Journalism was Fearless
Tue, Nov 29, 195530 mins
Colonel Josh Clanton is running for mayor of Wichita against Mayor Hope. His campaign promise is to fire Earp to reopen the town. Earp tells the Eagle editor Marsh Murdock that Clanton will win because most of the people don't know the truth about Clanton. Murdock writes a story revealing that Clanton dodged the Army during the war and was dishonorably discharged with his friend Jim Begley for stealing food from the wounded. Earp meets Mrs. Clanton as she tries to reach Doc Fabrique due to a drug overdose. Earp learns she is unlike Clanton and trapped in the marriage with him. Clanton and his men stone the Eagle office but Earp breaks up the fight but not before Clanton vows to kill Murdock if he prints more lies about him. The next editorial focuses on Mrs. Clanton as a drunk unfit for anyone but Clanton. Earp tells her he is not responsible and will get a retraction printed but not before Murdock is shot in the lung. Murdock says Begley shot him but Clanton takes the blame saying he was fighting for his wife's reputation. When Begley shows up asking Mrs. Clanton for money, she tells Earp who arrests and forces him to tell the truth about Clanton.
Episode 14
Trail's End for a Cowboy
Tue, Dec 6, 195530 mins
Brad Cullen drives a herd of 500 cattle to Wichita to sell for his father who expects $20 a head. The buyer says the going price is $10 but offers $15 because he is Cullen's son. Brad takes the $7500 but believes his father will give him a heard time over the low price. After a few drinks he joins a poker game to make up the $2500 but loses everything. Drunk he complains to Earp but Earp refuses to take any action explaining that the game was honest but he was playing against two men who would raise the bets on him between them so he stood no chance. He returns to camp telling the men he was robbed. Six of the men return with him to recover the money. At the casino Brad gets his $7500 in cash but wounds a man as the group leaves. The gamblers go to the Marshal's office where they swear out warrants. Earp agrees to serve them but tells the men they will lose their business when the truth emerges. They try to bushwhack Earp as he rides to serve the warrants but he spots them and tells them to leave town. Brad confesses the truth to his dad and returns to town where Earp finds the gamblers gone and the money back.
Episode 15
Rich Man's Son
Tue, Dec 13, 195530 mins
Earp is tired of runaway boys coming to Wichita hoping to live the life they read in dime novels. He is forced to break up a fight where he catches a boy with a gun he has fired. The boy calls himself Timmy Jones claiming to be an orphan. After a paddling Earp tells Timmy he will teach him to be a cowboy in his "cowboy school". The boy's ideas on riding and roping quickly prove he knows little which he realizes but he tries. Two railroad detectives show up in town looking for the boy who is really Timmy Callahan the son of the railroad tycoon Big Tim Callahan. When the detectives try to take Timmy, Earp wounds one and arrests them. Big Tim Callahan arrives himself looking for the boy as a gunfight breaks out. He tries to drive a team of horses through it causing a porch column to fall on Timmy's arm breaking it. He takes Earp to court over the whole matter of his son but Timmy teaches Big Tim a lesson as he sides with Earp showing a more mature attitude than his dad.
Episode 16
The Buntline Special
Tue, Dec 20, 195530 mins
Most of the prisoners being released by Earp from jail are simply glad to be released but Hal Clements promises to return for revenge against Earp. A townsman enters the office to tell Earp there is a man in a saloon that could be trouble. As Earp arrives Ned Buntline is asking Doc Fabrique questions about Earp. Earp confronts Buntline who is wearing a gun which is against a city ordnance. Near sighted Buntline had been unable to read the posted law. He offers his gun to Earp telling him it is unloaded and to read the inscription on the gun which labels it as Earp's. It is a gift for Earp. Buntline offers Earp a chance to make a fortune in a wild west show but Earp declines. Earp does take and try the new gun which he finds to be accurate at a longer distance due to a long barrel. Hal and his brother Gyp return to Wichita meeting Buntline on the way. Hal challenges Earp to a duel. Earp returns wearing the new gun but at a longer distance than normal. Hal misses but Earp doesn't. Gyp tries to pull a rifle on Earp but Buntline stops him.
Episode 17
Ben Thompson Returns
Tue, Dec 27, 195530 mins
Earp on the advice of the Judge has resorted to using sanitary laws to close crooked saloons. Ben Thompson gets the okay from Earp to open his own saloon. Feeling he owes a debt to Earp for not killing him and his brother Bill, Ben declares Earp to be a friend which does not set well with the other saloon operators and many of the men/patrons in Wichita. A girl, Lolita, working for Ben complains to Earp about another girl. Earp tells Ben to handle it but he forgets. After catching Ben and his men wearing guns, Earp arrests them but asks Ben to not act friendly toward him in court. Ben warns Earp a young cowboy is after him but Earp ignores it but Ben wounds the cowboy saving Earp. Earp arrests Ben again but the Judge lets Ben off for saving Earp. Lolita stabs the other girl so Earp arrests her. She tells the Judge that Ben and Earp are friends. The Judge realizes Earp and Ben's friendship causes problems so he suggests Ben should leave town. Earp tells Ben who in turn tells Earp the other saloon owners have hired two men to ambush Earp on the way to church. Earp ignores the warning but Ben and his men kill the men before they fire saving Earp as Ben leaves town.
Episode 18
Marshal Earp Plays Cupid
Tue, Jan 3, 195630 mins
Earp has taken an interest in Mamie Perkins who he met at church. He has grown very found of her although he has no interest in getting married. Mamie's attitude toward him is mixed and he can tell there is a problem. Murdock suggests Earp forget her while Doc Fabrique hopes they marry. Big George Cannery is chased into Wichita by Fog MacMurray and his gang. Big George has left the gang of cattle rustlers and beat up Fog and wounded some of his men. Fog and his men surround the town waiting for Big George to leave so they can kill him. Big George has heard Earp is courting his girl friend Mamie so he returned to Wichita to challenge Earp. He finds himself too slow in a gun fight so he challenges Earp to a fist fight which he loses. Mamie comes to the rescue of Big George which leaves Earp's feelings hurt. Realizing Big George is wanted by MacMurray, Mamie comes to Earp for help knowing it is asking a lot of him. Earp agrees to try to help so he develops a plan to get Mamie and Big George out of town with MacMurray thinking Big George is dead.
Episode 19
The Assassins
Tue, Jan 10, 195630 mins
Earp kicks Max Wiley out of Wichita for crooked gambling in James Brandywine's saloon. Saloon owner's Brandywine, Plummer, and Collins are all tired of Earp's crackdown on crooked gambling and the impact on their profits. They decide Collins will go to Dodge to hire two outside gunmen to take out Earp for $1500 which is a high price. Murdock hears about the plot from an outlaw friend and warns Earp. Murdock suggests protection for Earp but Earp realizes that will prevent him from being effective in his job. Two men who appear to be rather mean gunmen arrive in Brandywine's saloon looking for him and half the money for taking out Earp. He and Plummer pay the men who say one will shoot Earp from a window. Earp goes into the street to meet the gunman reported by a resident. As they approach each other nothing happens until both burst out laughing. The men are Earp's brothers Virgil and Morgan. They arrest Brandywine and Plummer then await Collins who arrives with two real gunmen who are arrested. They decide to donate Brandywine's $750 to the school for new classrooms as added punishment.
Episode 20
A Wise Calf
Tue, Jan 17, 195630 mins
While riding the range Shorty Beckett spots Bill Slocum with a cow wearing the DUKE brand tied down and Slocum with a fire. The implication is that Slocum is using a running iron to change the brand. Rustling is a major problem in the area. Shorty reports it to Duke Wilson and his foreman. Duke decides they will grab Slocum after a meeting of the Cattlemen's Association in Wichita and take him outside town to lynch him. It also means prime bottom land owned by Slocum will become available. Murdock sees them take Slocum so he warns Earp who interrupts the lynching and takes Slocum into custody. He convinces Slocum to stand trial but has to stand down a lynch mob led by Wilson who has told people Earp will release Slocum. The trial starts with Earp in the unusual position of defense counsel but he is late. He arrives in mid-trial with two unusual witnesses. A cow with Slocum's Bar D brand and her nursing calf. The calf is wearing the DUKE brand which is relatively easy to create from the Bar D brand. Suddenly Wilson and his foreman are on the hot seat instead of Slocum as they appear to be the real rustlers.
Episode 21
Mr. Cousin and Mr. Brother
Tue, Jan 24, 195630 mins
The Army is still fighting with some tribes. The Indians are being supplied with rifles and ammo by a renegade Dagget. He is held up in the Oklahoma Terrirory holding the Indians Mr. Brother and Mr. Cousin who are scouting for the Army. Dagget thinks Mr. Cousin is sick and has sent for a doctor. An Army Captain brings Earp a letter from Mr. Brother and Mr. Cousin asking for his help to rescue them. The Army is willing to name Earp a Deputy US Marshal and pay for all expenses including a posse. The Army itself does not want to enter the area at it would disturb the Indians living there. Earp decides to pose as a doctor taking several cases of Doc Fabrique's patent medicine which is 90% grain alcohol. He makes it to Dagget's hideout who lets him take the two Indians out but with two guards as Earp pretends to hate Indians. The guards fall asleep on the medicine but the horse of one returns to Dagget who knows there is a problem. Earp is able to wound Dagget in a gun battle allowing Earp and the Indians to reach the Army and safety.
Episode 22
The Bribe
Tue, Jan 31, 195630 mins
While Earp was away in the Oklahoma Territory, his deputies gave Keno McGee a license to open a saloon and casino. Murdock is against it as McGee once tried to put Murdock out of business. With Earp returning Murdock wants the license taken away but since there has been no complaints about McGee's place Earp doesn't feel he can. Earp consults with Rowdy Kate who owns a rival saloon about McGee. She confirms that McGee is dirty. Murdock receives an unsigned note that Earp took a bribe which is hidden in his desk. He tells Earp who finds $300 in his desk that one of his deputies planted but which one. He decides to play along with the bribe. He and McGee are brought before the Judge who suspends Earp for seven days during which he must prove his innocence. Earp doesn't contest it making McGee think he won as he claims it was not a bribe. Pete takes over as Marshal as Kate tries to help Earp determine who the dirty deputy is. Pete is killed putting Sam in charge. Sam learns McGee talked to Kate who is friends with Earp so he kills McGee and comes after Kate but Earp is waiting with Kate with his guns.
Episode 23
The Frontier Theatre
Tue, Feb 7, 195630 mins
Earp closes down the all girl show run by Jeff Pruitt because the underpaid women are ripping off the customers. Pruitt challenges Earp to a fist fight but is unwilling to fight him when Earp's deputies are there. A competing troupe consisting of a couple and their daughter are putting on classic plays which are well attended but Pruitt salts the crowd with his own men to interrupt it trying to take the lead Robert Harlow captive to draw Earp into a trap. Due to the interrupted shows, the troupe is nearly broke but Earp takes in "donated" fines by the cowboys to help them fund a new play - A Tale of Two Cities. Earp is very agitated about not being able to protect the troupe. Earp learns about the trap but lets Harlow be taken and follows alone with his deputies coming from a different direction. Pruitt thinks his plan has worked until the deputies spring their own trap. Pruitt gets his wish as the red hot Earp removes his guns and pummels Pruitt with the threat to do the same to Pruitt's men.
Episode 24
Killing at Cowskin Creek
Tue, Feb 14, 195630 mins
Big winners at the Keno House have been murdered and robbed after they leave town. Earp is unsure if it is someone involved with the saloon or outsiders. He traces the latest killing past Cowskin Creek into what appears to be the area of the cowboy camps leading him to believe it is someone the cowboys know and trust. A cowboy Jeff Burns comes forward to volunteer to be a big winner to draw out the killers. Earp had thought of the same plan but had no one to do it so he agrees as does the owner of the Keno House. They give Jeff marked bills when he wins. Jeff is held up by two cowboys Shorty and Simp. Shorty has gambled away their take while Simp likes to shoot the victims. Shorty takes the money while Simp shoots Jeff but only grazes his head. Earp and his men find Jeff and take him to the doctor. The next day they return to arrest Shorty and Simp. However, Jeff wants quicker revenge so he leads a group of cowboys into Wichita to lynch the men but Earp is able to get support from the citizens for an armed group to stop them.
Episode 25
The Englishman
Tue, Feb 21, 195630 mins
George Peschauer was booted out of the Ben Thompson gang due to his ruthlessness and he wants to kill Earp who he despises. He and his men come into Wichita firing their guns but no one witnesses it so Earp can't arrest them. He has come to sell a ranch filled with rustled cattle to the Englishman Rodney Evert. Evert is staying at a hotel run by Cora Gill and her mother. The prim Cora detests Peschauer but takes an interest in Evert. When a drunk starts a fight with Evert, Peschauer saves Evert when the drunk grabs a gun. Earp arrests Peschauer for carrying a concealed derringer. Evert tries to bail him out but Earp refuses and tries to warn Evert about Peschauer but Evert won't listen. Back at the hotel, Cora warns Evert about Peschauer but quickly learns Evert is not the fool he seems and is interested in her. When Peschauer hits Cora for talking about him, Evert is ready to take on Peschauer as is Earp for other reasons. Both men meet Peschauer in the street but Evert in front gets off a shot that severely wounds Peschauer ending the issue.
Episode 26
The Desperate Half-Hour
Tue, Feb 28, 195630 mins
The young Kansas Kid is wanted by the Kingman County Sheriff for a Wells Fargo robbery and murder plus he wounded a member of the Sheriff's posse. They chase him to Wichita where the Kid has returned to his parent's home. They have told him not to return but his mother wants him to stay. The Sheriff tells Earp about the Kid and a saddle on a lose horse leads Earp to the McVey family and Lonnie, the Kid. He arrests Lonnie who contends he has murdered no one and Sheriff Osborn plans to lynch him. Earp sends a telegram to Wells Fargo to verify the facts before he turns Lonnie over to the Sheriff. Osborn and his deputies trick Earp and a deputy by locking them in a cell and taking Lonnie. A second deputy finds and releases Earp and the deputy. They chase and catch Osborn and his men as they prepare to lynch Lonnie. When Earp gets word from Wells Fargo, they learn Lonnie is wanted for robbery but not murder.
Episode 27
The Necktie Party
Tue, Mar 6, 195630 mins
George Irons and Bud Creel gather several ranchers who have had horses stolen to discuss having a "necktie party". They present a bandanna used as a mask that appears to belong to gypsies found when Irons' wrangler Casey was hit. Earp's friend Gus Cassen married into the gypsies and has several staying on his property who they suspect. Earp stops the ranchers so he can talk to Cassen and investigate. Cassen denies any gypsy involvement so Earp asks Irons for two horses to use as bait with Casey helping him. When Earp is called back to town, Casey is killed and the bait horses stolen. One, a roan, is found tethered at the gypsy camp so Earp is forced to arrest Cassen who comes peacefully. During a visit to the jail Earp pleads with Cassen's wife Anna to help learn from the gypsies who is behind the thefts. Later, when a crowd is being whipped up to lynch Cassen, Earp receives word from Anna. Creel is pushing for a lynching but Earp intercedes with the ranchers with proof of who the real thief is. Creel has stolen the roan from Earp and hidden it. He sends the stolen horses out with his stagecoaches.
Episode 28
One of Jesse's Gang
Tue, Mar 13, 195630 mins
Earp is investigating a shooting where it appears the clerk Harry Dolan is a hero for shooting a thief. Not knowing who the thief is, Earp searches the stack of wanted posters for a clue to his identity but instead finds that Harry is wanted under the name Harry Drew in Kansas City for being part of the Jesse James gang. They find the thief's horse leading Earp to a cow camp where he learns the dead man may have been part of the James gang himself. Earp returns to Wichita where he tells Harry he must go to jail. Harry tells Earp his wife Ann arrives on the stage that day. Earp lets him meet the stage and gives him the day to tell her he is going back to jail. He and the man he killed Luke Miller who was trying to blackmail Harry for $5000 both escaped jail. Harry has Ann buy a pistol and smuggle it to him in jail. He plans to meet her outside town. He escapes jail but is bucked off a horse so he hides in a barn. Surrounded, he comes out the front where the deputies mortally wound him. He asks Earp to give Ann his bankbook with his honest savings.
Episode 29
The Pinkertons
Tue, Mar 20, 195630 mins
Mr. Egan reports a man killed in the back room of his Orient Saloon. The unknown man was shot in the face with a shotgun. Earp finds a slip of paper in a pocket with numbers on it that are the combination to the safe in the room. The safe has money in it but Egan denies owning it. He finally tells Earp that he rented the safe to Red Bascomb a member of the Crummy Newton gang. Earp leaves the money as a trap. Allen Pinkerton arrives at Earp's office to tell him and the Judge he is there after the Newton gang but primarily to recover $40,000 that was stolen. The dead man was a Pinkerton man inside the gang. That evening Earp arrests Bascomb returning for the money but later they find the money missing. Against the rules, Earp releases Bascomb to recover the money Pinkerton alleges Earp stole. Bascomb kills Egan to recover the money and holes up in the hotel. The next day when Earp stops Pinkerton from going after Bascomb, the Judge takes his badge but Bascomb gets away with Pinkerton and his men following. Earp and his two deputies go separately. They see Newton set an ambush for the Pinkerton men but are able to rescue the Pinkerton posse and arrest the gang.
Episode 30
The Suffragette
Tue, Mar 27, 195630 mins
Murdock's wife has invited the suffragette Joan Laramie to Wichita to give a speech on women voting at the music hall in the cowboy district. Senator Teague who is against women voting is in Wichita egging on his friends to interrupt the speech and prevent women's suffrage. The women will not move the speech to a quieter location and Earp is unable to convince Teague to call off his men. Earp and his deputies find themselves involved in breaking up fights and arresting people continually over the issue. Earp plans to have several special deputies at the speech to keep order but the Mayor sends an order to prevent it. When a riot breaks out at the speech several men are injured and shot with one man mortally wounded. Earp regains control putting Laramie and Teague both under arrest for inciting a riot. The Judge orders both released for lack of evidence so Earp resigns. When a riot threatens the jail, Teague tells the men to leave while Laramie tells Earp to keep his job which Earp does as the attitudes of both soften - just a bit.
Episode 31
Hunt the Man Down
Tue, Apr 3, 195630 mins
Farrell Gillam has cheated his partner Denver Jones and Turner Ashby out of their winnings in a poker game. Ashby comes into Gillam and Jones office to take his share as Gillam and Jones argue. As Ashby leaves Jones takes advantage of the incident to shoot Gillam in the back killing him but frames Ashby with the murder. Doc Fabrique notices the ragged wound was created by a bullet which entered the body tumbling from a worn gun barrel. Earp is forced to go into the rough Bushwacker area where Ashby lives with the loan of Mr. Cousin from the Army. On the trail he finds Mr. Cousin tied up by Ashby but unharmed. Ashby escapes from a cave later without harming them but steals Mr. Cousin's horse due to his being lame. They track Ashby to his home where he has left Mr. Cousin's horse. Based on Ashby's unwillingness to harm them and new gun, Earp returns to Wichita with Mr. Cousin who broke his leg in an accident thinking Ashby may be innocent as he claims. He finds Jones' gun which has a worn barrel. He arrests Jones and is trying to use the gun to prove his guilt when Ashby returns to help Earp prove his innocence.
Episode 32
The War of the Colonels
Tue, Apr 10, 195630 mins
Col. Prentress and Col. Wade are two ranchers in Kansas with a long simmering feud between them that is turning into a range war. The feud is over a disagreement between the two from a Civil War battle. Now it is spilling into Wichita as members of both ranches come there. Earp and his deputies are busy breaking up fights between hands from the two ranches. In a fight the Wade men are dominating, Mary Ellen Prentress tries to help her grandfather's men but Earp puts her in her place telling her she should act like a lady and is spoiled. Earp has resorted to arresting the men from both ranches along with the two Colonels when they arrive in town armed. Two of their men shoot it out with one dead and the other permanently crippled. Col. Prentress wires the governor who orders everyone released. Against orders, Earp takes Wade and Prentress to a barn where he has the two of them shoot it out inside. Mary Ellen arrives as the shots ring out. When the shooting is over, the doors open with both men wounded but very much alive and ready to put the feud behind them. Mary Ellen still has her eye on Earp.
Episode 33
Bat Masterson Again
Tue, Apr 17, 195630 mins
Bat Masterson has left school and become a scout for the Army near Dodge City. He is spending considerable time at a road house where he meets Amy Pelton. She seems to take an interest in Bat but her real hope is to use Bat to drive the killer Sgt. King who is claiming her away. An Army Captain seeing the problem tells Earp about it asking him to look into it. Earp rides to the road house where he tries to convince Bat to leave. He learns the truth from Amy who wants Bat to leave before King kills him but Bat wants to be a Dodge City deputy and marry Amy. Earp decides his only option is to improve Bat's gunfighting skills through lessons. Bat improves but at the same time Amy decides to leave without Bat's knowledge. Earp leaves followed by King's arrival. He and Bat immediately have it out with Bat wounded in the leg and King dead. Earp returns to take Bat back to Wichita with him to recuperate.