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The Magnificent Seven Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 1998 - 1998
Episode 0
Ghosts of the Confederacy
Sat, Jan 3, 199890 mins
Chris Larabee forms a motley group of men to protect an Indian village from an outlaw gang of ex-Confederate soldiers bent on continuing the Civil War. Their fee: the princely sum of five dollars apiece. Larabee's wife and son died in a fire and doesn't much care if he lives or dies; his men include Vin Tanner, a former bounty hunter and current fugitive; J.D. Dunne, a youthful, wannabe gunfighter; Buck Wilmington, a gunslinger and ladies man - not necessarily in that order; Josiah Sanchez, an ex-preacher battling his own personal demons; Ezra Standish, a Southern con artist and gambler and Nathan Jackson, an ex-slave with medical knowledge based on his years in the Union army.
Episode 1
One Day Out West
Sat, Jan 10, 199844 mins
Chris and mates must step in to prevent traveling federal judge Oren Travis, uncle of obnoxious local newspaper 'editor' Mary Travis, being lynched while he attempts to stop the local grocer being forced to sell his shop under value to the almighty cattle baron Stuart James. His son Lucas murders him and is ordered jailed by J.D.' Dunne as naive only candidate for the lethal job of sheriff, who also follows the judge's instruction to arrest buddy hustler Ezra Standish, being wanted for years. The shivering townsfolk demand the sheriff releases Lucas, fearing the baron's wrath above the so far powerless law. The seven postpone their plans elsewhere to stand up to the henchmen army riding to stop the murder trial, where Oren is shot but survives.
Episode 2
Working Girls
Sat, Jan 17, 199844 mins
Buck, J.D. and Chris are in Wickestown, a tent town whose main resources are whiskey and women. When Buck sees one of the women being beaten by a man he steps in and Chris and J.D. must intervene as well. They ride off with Nora and it isn't long before the rest of the 'working girls' follow suit and leave Wickestown for the protection of the seven. This infuriates Wickes, the brutal man who runs Wickestown with an iron fist, and he will stop at nothing to get the women back.
Episode 3
Safecracker
Sat, Jan 24, 199844 mins
Buck and Nathan have the job of escorting a recently paroled prisoner to town. When they meet the prison wagon they are surprised to find their charge is a woman and her daughter. Mary has arranged her release and Terry Greer is hoping to settle down and raise her daughter, Olivia. Buck is quite taken with Terry who happens to be an expert safe cracker. Her plans to go straight are jeopardized by Morgan Coltrane who wants her to help him pull off a bank job. The Seven will have to prevent this while keeping Terry and Olivia safe.
Episode 4
Witness
Sat, Jan 31, 199844 mins
Ezra Standish's mother, Maude comes to visit at the same time Mary's little boy, Billy Travis,comes to visit his mother. Billy was a witness to the murder of his father, Stephen. Billy runs away to protect his mother, after the killer confronts him and threatens to kill Mary. The Seven form a search party to find Billy, Chris and Vin quickly discover that Stephen Travis's killer, is now trying to kill Billy. Chris devises a plan to expose the killer, and find out the real reason for the murder of Stephen Travis.
Episode 5
Nemesis
Sat, Feb 28, 199845 mins
After three years, Chris gets a lead on the men who killed his family from a man scheduled to be hung who wants to trade information for his life. Chris and the others track down the killer, Cletus Fowler, and Chris tries to learn who hired Chris to come after him.
Episode 6
The Collector
Sat, Mar 7, 199844 mins
An elderly woman and her pretty niece ask the Seven for help when a cattle baron tries to force them off their land. Chris learns that the land grabber has run off or killed the small ranchers along a stretch of land that could become a railroad right-of-way and who uses any means at his disposal to obtain the land, including hiring a murderous one-eyed marshal who holds a long-standing grudge against Chris.
Episode 7
Manhunt
Sat, Mar 14, 199844 mins
Chanu, an Indian brave, abducts a missionary's daughter. Vin and Buck capture him and recover the daughter, Claire, but Chanu escapes and abducts her. She end up strangled, and Claire's father Owen seeks justice and turns the townspeople into a a mob to burn down the local reservation Chanu hails from.
Episode 8
Inmate 78
Sat, Mar 21, 199844 mins
Sheriff Quince and the local warden in Jericho make money "arresting" innocent men and ransoming them back to their families. But they make a mistake when Quince arrests Chris, who is just passing through. While the other members of the Seven come searching for their missing friend, Chris refuses to yield to the sadistic warden.
