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Episodes
HOMETOWN
- 1
- Season 1
- 24 min
Tate returns to his hometown after a decade of absence. He has returned to help the sheriff, Royal Dano, with a convicted hangman. James Coburn is the man who has a date with death for having murdered the family of a girl who rejected his requirements. The problem with Dano is that Coburn has a lot of family that does not agree with the verdict and intend to release him. The villagers are afraid of Coburn's family and the sheriff's deputy has decided to leave his post. McLean owes the sheriff a big favor and decides to help him.
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STOPOVER
- 2
- Season 1
- 30 min
Tate rides into town looking for a wanted outlaw, Ben Tracy. Ben defies Tate and he results killed. Then, Tate visits the sheriff to collect the bounty. The sheriff sends Tate to the saloon to wait while he fills out the paperwork--and, since he doesn't like bounty hunters, decides to take his time about it. Meanwhile, at the saloon Tate runs into a young hothead who's itching to put a notch on his gun and decides that Tate's going to be it.
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BOUNTY HUNTER
- 3
- Season 1
- 24 min
Robert Culp plays a bounty hunter who is seeking Tate for a murder that he didn't commit.
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MARY HARDIN STORY
- 4
- Season 1
- 24 min
A widow engages Tate's services to protect her and her son from a pair of greedy land grabbers.
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VOICES OF THE TOWN
- 5
- Season 1
- 24 min
Tate is riding along when he is shot at by someone running along a ridge with a rifle. Tate jumps of horse seeking cover and shooting back. The ambusher is hit, tumbles down the hill dead and is found to be a woman by Tate. He puts her over her horse and rides to town. Townfolk trickle out to see that it is Ginny (Patty Desautels). They threaten that Frank Turner. Ginny's husband, will come to see to Ginny's burial and imply that he will kill Tate. Tate gets room #3 at the hotel and is warned by clerk (Bill Mims) to clear out. Turns out Tate has been after Frank Turner for a long time. Tate goes to his room, pulls a ragged doll out of his saddle bag and sets it on the chest of drawers. Someone throws a rock through his window, he looks out but only sees the crowd of townfolk. The clerk comes to the room with towel and advises where to eat and who might be lurking for him. Tate goes to the saloon full of people staring at him. Ragan (Paul Richards) comes to Tate's table figuring out he is Tate looking for Frank Turner and makes a plea to leave Frank alone. Tate orders food but is served "dish water" and is threatened by someone who Tate punches up a bit. As Tate is leaving he asks if anyone wants to know why he is searching for Turner but they are all pretty loyal to Frank and don't care. Tate gets food back at hotel from hotel clerk and finds his way to the church to see the minister. He opens the church door to find Melany (Wendy Winkelman) playing the organ. He shows her how to overcome some rough spots in her organ playing and corrects her grammar and they seem to quickly bond. He finds out that Melany is Ginny's sister and he leaves. He finds out that Frank is now back and at the hotel. He enters the hotel and Ragan follows him in trying to convince Tate to leave town. We find that Frank, while on the Confederate side during the war 6 years ago, set fire to a house where a little girl died and her paralyzed father is paying for Tate to get Frank. Ragan has a showdown with Tate and winds up dead. Tates goes up the stairs to his own room where Frank is waiting for him. The previously mentioned doll is bandied about a bit and one can see that Frank is feeling guilty. Next scene Tate and Frank are saddling up to head out when the hotel clerk advises someone is inside hotel to see him. It is Melany and she seems to be taking the fact that Tate killed her sister pretty well. She forgives him, they say their goodbyes, and Tate goes outside to saddle up and slowly ride out of town with Frank.
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A LETHAL PRIDE
- 6
- Season 1
- 24 min
Clay Barton (Ronald Nicholas) is riding along, stops his horse when he sees Carmela (Marianna Hill) swishing her feet around in a large puddle in the road. He tries to flirt with her but her father Arriaga (Gregory Morton) appears and starts beating him with a large stick which Clay then gains control over and beats Arriaga into unconsciousness. Clay then grabs Carmela giving her a forceful kiss and then, it appears through innuendo later, that he raped her, but she is Mexican and not too many people are interested in justice for her. The scene shifts to Arriaga chasing Clay's father John (Ted de Corsia) out of a saloon and threatening him with a rifle. Tate appears and steps in between them. He disarms Arriaga with a kick and we find out Arriaga has hired Tate to avenge his pride. But Arriaga is irritated when he finds out that Tate won't just kill Clay. Tate wants to give Arriaga what he paid for and the next day rides into town. The town Marshall (Jack Orrison) tells him to leave and six other men threaten him to do the same. Tate is determined to bring Clay to the County Seat and justice. Clay is holed up in the saloon with father and a number of men protecting him. An oddly played preacher (Kelton Garwood) shows up in the saloon for a bit of banter. In a ruse, Tate forces a man at the saloon's entryway to call for Clay to come outside. Clay does and Tate forces him into a nearby barn while Clay's protectors wait outside. Soon, the barn door opens and a horse-drawn wagon with Clay holding the reins and Tate standing with a rifle to Clay's head comes rolling out. Not wanting to risk Clay's life the townsmen let the wagon pass. The trip to the County Seat is 2 days and the townsmen follow. Tate decides to head to Arriaga's place instead as it is closer and more manageable for him. Tate tells a happily waiting Arriaga that Tate is still going to take him to the County Seat but will do so at night with horses from Arriaga. Arriaga argues at first but then agrees. Clay now sees Carmela again and she verbally chastises him. Meanwhile the townsmen have followed and they are outside. Clay with Tate goes outside and tells his father that he is going with Tate to face his fate. Arriaga thinks that instead Tate is giving Clay back to the townsmen. Arriaga grabs a rifle and runs out on the porch yelling, "I am Manuel Arriaga, a man" firing his rifle but Arriaga is shot and killed. The show finishes with a small funeral for Arriaga. The preacher shows up again and says a few words for a bit of money but says he will give the deluxe eulogy for more money. Tate declines and says that the only thing left to say is what Arriaga said earlier, "Manuel Arriaga, a man." Tate and Clay ride off to meet Clay's fate
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TIGRERO
- 7
- Season 1
- 24 min
Tate (David McLean) is looking for John Chess (Martin Landau). Tate is on horseback talking to a young boy Juan (Fosforito). Tate asks if Juan has seen John Chess, Juan says he has not and Tate says he will wait. John Chess comes out of the brush wielding a rifle. At first John appears friendly, approaches Tate and asks if Tate is looking for him. Once Tate replies with the question are you John Chess, John gets a more serious look on his face and he and Juan back away from Tate. John mutters "12 years" and admits that he is John Chess. As the story unfolds, we find out more about John being wanted, he killed a number of cowboys and their women after his wife was killed . They ride through a town and John convinces Tate to stop at a cantina. The both go into the bar. John's wrists are tied so the bar's denizens know something's going on. At the bar, John orders a beer and Tate orders a cider. Jim Potter (Ron Starr) gets up from a table where he is sitting with others, sniffs and says, "Whew, its this one," pointing to John Chess. Bill Towey (Ted Markland) from the table tells Jimmy to come and sit down. Jimmy keeps saying John stinks of sheep. Finally Jimmy asks John what he's done. John turns ans say that he shot a nosey cowboy. Now Bill tells John and Tate to get out. Tate warns Bill off but Bill draws his gun and dies from Tates faster draw but Tate got it in the leg. The bartender ties a bandana around Tates leg and let's them know where the closest doctor is. They go to the doctor's (Ben Wright) house and Tate gets treated. Tate gets fixed up and he and John move on. Abel Towey (Robert Brubaker) and gang come the Dr.'s house. The Dr. says he treats all who come to his house. The gang doesn't kill the Dr. but sets fire to his house. A ways away, Tate and John see the fire at the Dr.'s house. They ride on. The meet up with a shepherd (Lalo Rios) and find a bit of refuge. Tate now wants to go and erase the signs that they came this way to protect the shepherd. Next scene we see Mannen Towey (Warren Vanders) aiming a gun at the shepherd's dog. The dog is shot. The shepherd grabs his rifle to avenge the dog but Frank knocks it to the ground. Abel tells Frank to let the Shepherd have his gun and once he gets it again he is shot dead by Mannen. Tate and John have been watching the killing from some bushes. John wants to be allowed to go get his rifle and Tate says, "In Mexico they have a saying, always look behind you when you are hunting a Tigrero." They bury the shepherd's body. Tate wants to move on but John causes some temporary interference that Tate takes care of. They move on. The Toweys are following. The final clash is inevitable.
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COMANCHE SCALPS
- 8
- Season 1
- 24 min
Amos Dundee (Frank Overton) has been searching for the killer, William Essey (Bradford Lane), of his then 18 year old brother for the past two years. The 18 year old brother had called Essey a cheat during a card game and Essey "belly-shot" him causing a long drawn out death. Tate found Essey and has apparently contacted Amos to meet him in the town where Essey is at a saloon. They go to the saloon and, in a gun draw, Amos shoots and kills Essey. Now Amos can go back to his ranch where his other younger brother Tad (Robert Redford) has been. Before he goes though, Amos picks up a general delivery letter from the girl he wants to marry, Lucy (Anne Whitfield), and finds out Lucy now wants to marry Tad. So now Amos wants to kill Tad for stealing his girl. Tate tags along back to the ranch and on the way they run into some renegade-killed-a-bunch-of-farmers Comanches (Leonard Nimoy is the chief ) who try and shake them down for their guns. Tate gives them some tobacco but that is all and the foiled Chief threatens to kill them when he can sometime in the future. Tate splits off to report the massacred farmers but still beats Amos to Amos' Ranch. Tad and Lucy have already married but Amos is still out for blood. Tate and Lucy try to convince Amos otherwise but Amos calls Tad out. Tad won't fight but doesn't back down either. While Amos is horsewhipping Tad the Comanches show up again and shoot some arrows into Amos and Tate just as Tate had redirected Amos' anger toward himself. Amos now lays dead, Tate wounded and Tad has picked up a gun to kill an Indian while the Chief rides away with Lucy. Tad goes after and next scene he is back with Lucy asking Tate where Tate buried Amos. Tad goes to the gravesite, opens his saddlebag and pulls out a Comanche scalp to put on a stick by the grave. He explains to an onlooking Tate, "They took his life away from me, I took their lives away from them." Tate gives a few slight nods in apparent understanding and approval and the show ends with both walking away from grave.
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BEFORE THE SUN UP
- 9
- Season 1
- 24 min
While trying to protect a man, Tate finds himself involved in a blazing gunfight.
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THE RECKONING
- 10
- Season 1
- 24 min
Hired to serve justice on a killer, Tate finds a rejected suitor has set off a chain reaction of death and bitterness.
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THE GUNFIGHTERS
- 11
- Season 1
- 24 min
Tate is hired by farmers to be able to collect payment in kind (cattle) that Keefer, a petty landowner, owed them. To achieve his goal, Tate will have to face some hired gunmen to kill him.
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QUIET AFTER THE STORM
- 12
- Season 1
- 24 min
Tate pursues an assassin who killed in cold blood a saloon girl. Once captured, Tate will have to face both the girl's brothers and an Indian tracker claiming revenge. Tate takes refuge in the former house of the murderer, where his wife and his father (a blind old man) live. Will Tate be able to defend the home of the three gunmen who await him outside?
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THE RETURN OF JESSICA JACKSON
- 13
- Season 1
- 24 min
Paiute Indians make a raid on a white trading post, setting fire to it and leaving the proprietor for dead, while kidnapping and taking his wife. We then rejoin the story eight years later to find the proprietor, Milo Jackson, alive and well and still holding out hope that his wife is alive. He hires Tate to accompany him to the camp of the Indians to trade goods they desperately need after a harsh winter, for his wife. Upon reuniting with Jessica, his wife, she presents a young boy, Wovoka, but with a nod indicates that he is not the son of Milo Jackson. Because of his heritage, the lad faces discrimination from some folks, including Milo. One night shortly after the rescue, an Indian bursts in and attempts to take the boy. It is Tavibo, the Indian that kidnapped Jessica and made her his wife, and the young man's true father. He agrees to leave and return for the boy in 24 hours.
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