Stagecoach West
Season 1
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Network: ABC
Season aired: 1960-10-04
Overview
Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series which ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry and Simon Kane operate the Timberland Stage Line from fictitious Outpost, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Simon's 15-year-old son, David "Davey" Kane, joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and human interest stories. Perry and Kane, who are both deputy U.S. marshals, had been on opposite sides of the American Civil War; Kane, a captain in the Union Army, while Perry had fought for the Confederate States of America. The one-hour black-and-white program was offered at 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesdays opposite NBC's Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, and CBS's The Red Skelton Show. Rogers became well-known a dozen years later on M*A*S*H, and Bray later portrayed the forest ranger Corey Stuart on Lassie from 1964–1969, both on CBS. Child actor Richard Eyer had starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Friendly Persuasion and Desperate Hours. Stagecoach West was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television. It is believed that the series was cancelled despite the high quality of its production because of the glut of westerns on television at the time that it aired. The same fate had fallen on CBS's Johnny Ringo, a 1959 one-season spin-off of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Episodes · 38
High Lonesome
Simon meets a man at a way station who has been hired to kill him.
The Land Beyond
Dark Return
The Unwanted
Luke makes an unscheduled stop to take a lame horse out of the lead spot. But Johnny Kelly accuses Luke of making the passengers sitting ducks for road agents. He pulls a gun and doesn't live to regret it.
A Fork in the Road
Simon and Davey, driving West with a coffin, are held up by a stranger---who demands the corpse. Simon: Robert Bray. Davey: Richard Eyer. Gibbs: Jack Warden. Ohio: Richard Devon. Ciell: Jack Elam. Somerset: Joe Perry.
A Time to Run
Luke picks up a wounded fugitive and plans to turn him over to the Mexican Government, but he is soon overtaken by a group of bounty hunters who also want the man.
Red Sand
Simon picks up two lost travelers in a sand storm and then learns they just robbed a bank.
The Saga of Jeremy Boone
Life Sentence
The Storm
Three Wise Men
Webb Crawford, a fugitive wanted for robbery, is dying of leukemia and has one last wish, to be with his wife and children on Christmas Eve.
By the Deep Six
The stagecoach gets ambushed and it don't look good for the passengers aboard.
Object: Patrimony
Susan McLord and her fiance Lionel Chambers try to elope on Luke's stage. But a band of renegades intercept the coach, killing Chambers and kidnapping Susan.
Come Home Again
The Brass Lily
Singer Lily de Milo comes to Outpost to fill a singing engagement. But before this canary gets a chance to warble, a couple of birds shoot her.
Finn McColl
Finn McCool is making overtures to Mrs. Robert Allison on Simon Kane's stage. Kane doesn't like this sort of carrying on, so he challenges McCool to a fist fight.
Image of a Man
An alcoholic lawyer is forced to prosecute a man for murder and has been told he better not lose the case.
Not in Our Stars
Simon offers shelter to Ben Wait, a man who's trying to dodge a vengeful blow from Aaron Sutter. Sutter insists that Wait murdered his daughter.
The Arsonist
Songs My Mother Told Me
Luke and Simon are suspicious when Davey begins to slip out with food and clothes. They find out that he befriended a murder witness.
The Root of Evil
The Outcasts
Deputy Ken Rawlins fires after a fleeing holdup gang. One of the men he kills is his own brother.
The Remounts
Davey is taken hostage by two men who plan to steal a herd of wild horses. Simon and Luke see only one way to get Davey back, assist the horse thieves.
House of Violence
The Butcher
A butcher of sorts comes in hot pursuit of Simon's stagecoach.
Fort Wyatt Crossing
Luke finds a badly wounded soldier sprawled across the road.
A Place of Still Waters
Never Walk Alone
Train robber Cole Eldridge is pardoned by the governor and released from prison. He gets on a train and discovers that a member of his old gang is aboard and is planning to rob the train.
The Big Gun
Luke is carrying a Gatling gun in his stage for delivry to an army post. He is intercepted by Mexican revolutionary Francisco Martinez and his band, followers of Juarez in the war against Maximillian.
