Hits: 119
Episode 1: THE TWISTED ROPE
Airdate: 19 Sept 1963
Executive producer: Jack Webb
Directed by Abner Biberman
Starring:
Jeffrey Hunter as Temple Houston
Jack Elam as George Taggart
Guest Cast:
Victor Jory as Claude Boley
Collin Wilcox as Dorrie Chevenix
Richard Evans and Anthony Coll as
the Chevenix Brothers
Episode 1 synopsis: A lonely girl hires Temple Houston to defend her two brothers who are accused of murder.
Photo: With Collin Wilcox
Episode 2: FIND ANGEL CHAVEZ
Airdate: 26 Sept 1963
Executive producer: Jack Webb
Directed by Herman Hoffman
Guest Cast:
Herbert Rudley as Paul Lennox
Rafael Campos as Angel Chavez
Gene Evans as Sam Clanton
Linda Dangcil as Maria
Anna Navarro as Donna Lennox
Woodrow Parfrey as Fred Bell
Episode 2 synopsis: Houston’s client is his sidekick Marshal Taggart, who killed a man in a shootout but can’t prove it was self-defense because someone stole his adversary’s gun after the duel was over.Episode 3: LETTER OF THE LAW
Airdate: 03 Oct 1963
Directed by Robert Totten
Guest Cast:
Brenda Scott as Ruth
Victor French as Willie Hatrod
James Anderson as Vint Harrod
Jan Stine as Prue Harrod
Crahan Denton as Judge Brandon
Hayden Rorke as Pinkley
H.M. Wynant as Jered Mallory
Episode 3 synopsis: The Harrod brothers have been brought up on criminal charges and Houston has decided to represent them, though he suspects one of them may be guilty.Episode 4: TOLL THE BELL SLOWLY
Airdate: 17 Oct 1963
Executive producer: Jack Webb
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Guest Cast:
Susan Kohner as Ellena Romolo
Noah Beery as Bailey
Everett Sloane as Daniel Forbes
Leo Gordon as Charles Grimm
Royal Dano as Sheriff Smiley
Walter Burke as Potts
Robert Foulk as O’Garrick
Rusty Lane as Poag
James Bell as Dr. Davis Carter
Episode 4 synopsis: Houston finds that he can’t clear his client without first clearing the key witness, who has himself been sentenced to hang for murder.Episode 5: THE THIRD BULLET
Airdate: 24 Oct 1963
Directed by Alvin Ganzer
Guest Cast:
Frank Sutton as Logan Stocker
Anne Helm as Francie
Hampton Fancher as Jim Stocker
Parley Baer as Sheriff Beckman
Don Beddoe as Simpson
George Petrie as Newton Fountain
Episode 5 synopsis: Taggart has his sights on the girlfriend of a convicted killer.Episode 6: GALLOWS IN GALILEE
Airdate: 31 Oct 1963
Directed by Robert Totten
Guest Cast:
Robert Lansing as Judge Galen Stanke
Ralph Reed as Roy Julian
Jacqueline Scott as Kate Hagadorn
Dabbs Greer as Marshal Cloud
Elisha Cook, Jr. as John Alvorsen
Tol Avery as Ed Bascombe
Bob Steele as Yeager
Richard Grant as Ainslee Priest
Episode 6 synopsis: Houston appears before a notorious hanging judge to defend a man charged with murder for a death that in fact was accidental.Episode 7: THE SIEGE AT THAYER’S BLUFF
Airdate: 07 Nov 1963
Directed by Alvin Ganzer
Guest Cast:
William Reynolds as Paul Bannerman
E.J. Andre as Judge Diversey
Robert Bray as Hal Kester
Russell Thorson as Red Gilman
Nina Shipman as Mary Bannerman
John Cliff as Joe Joyce
Shug Fisher as Augie Wren
Episode 7 synopsis: Squatter’s rights are the issue with miner Paul Bannerman and he’s determined not to move, even when staring down the barrel of a hired gun.Episode 8: JUBILEE
Airdate: 14 Nov 1963
Directed by Robert Totten
Guest Cast:
Peter Whitney as Cletus Emory
Virginia Gregg as Elizabeth Clendennon
Morgan Woodward as Sheriff Ivers
Eddie Firestone as Tobe Gillard
William Bramley as Ford Conley
Dub Taylor as Cliff Willard
Paul Birch as Matt Clendennon
Ian Wolfe as Judge Farnley
Episode 8 synopsis: It’s only after Houston keeps Tobe Gillard from getting hanged that he finds out the man is accused of murdering Temple’s friend.Episode 9: THUNDER GAP
Airdate: 21 Nov 1963
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Cast:
Diana Millay as Marcey Bannister
Robert Colbert as Tom Bannister
Richard Garland as Jess Newmark
Brad Weston as Lew Sykes
Harry Lauter as Sheriff Macon
Episode 9 synopsis: Marcey Bannister is a loving and faithful wife. So she can’t believe it when she’s told her husband is an outlaw, even though he’s now trying to hijack the stagecoach she’s currently riding in.Episode 10: BILLY HART
Airdate: 28 Nov 1963
Executive producer: Jack Webb
Directed by William Conrad
Guest Cast:
Philip Ober as Bert Clarke
Russ Conway as Henry Hart
Audrey Dalton as Amy Hart
Ron Hayes as Lambert
Pat Cardi as Billy Hart
Jon Lormer as Matt Turner
Rhys Williams as Judge Curry
Len Lesser as Orley Baldwin
Jim Nusser as Flytrap
Episode 10 synopsis: No one is more surprised then Amy Hart when her husband’s will is read, leaving all family properties, and custody of their young child, to a ranch hand.Episode 11: SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN
Airdate: 05 Dec 1963
Directed by Robert Totten
Guest Cast:
Susanne Cramer as Helmi Bergen
Steve Ihnat as Ben Wade
Karl Swenson as Sam Wade
Charles Radilac as Gustav Bergen
Simon Scott as Sheriff Hab Martin
Dan Stafford as Fritz Bergen
Sam Edwards as Bartender
Tom Holland as Lee Bates
James Almanzar as Nate Hollister
Robert Rothwell as Joe Shivers
Walter Mathews as Prosecutor
Marshall Bradford as Judge
Episode 11 synopsis: A family of pacifists refuses to defend themselves against a notorious gang.Episode 12: FRACAS AT KIOWA FLATS
Airdate: 12 Dec 1963
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Cast:
Kathie Browne as Meredith Nothing
Barry Kelley as Col. Jim Shepard
Dayton Lummis as Col. Bob Grainger
J. Pat O’Malley as Joshua C. Merry
Jean Willes as Doll Lucas
Jonathan Hole as T.T. Teague
Ralph Neff as Two Finger Bill
Robert Phillips as Shotgun Guard
Episode 12 synopsis: Two ranchers who are also Civil-War veterans are still fighting that war 20 years after its end.Episode 13: ENOUGH ROPE
Airdate: 19 Dec 1963
Directed by Irving J. Moore
Guest Cast:
John Dehner as Benedict Williams
John Harmon as Crane
Ruta Lee as Lucy Tolliver
Ron Soble as Fowler
Walter Sande as McGee
Tim Graham as Fred Jackson
Steve Condir as Sammy
Ed Prentiss as Burton
Kenneth MacDonald as Official
Episode 13 synopsis: A saloon girl is assigned to spy on Houston, who is running for mayor.Episode 14: THE DARK MADONNA
Airdate: 26 Dec 1963
Directed by John Floria
Guest Cast:
Constance Ford as Lily Lamont
Don Collier as Seth Warrener
Johnny Seven as Rio
Stacy Harris as Cliff Carteret
Penny Santon as Senora Ortega
Nick Alexander as Juan Ortega
Episode 14 synopsis: A group headed by Lily Lamont strongly advocates for the hanging of a man charged with murder; Houston is the man’s defense lawyer.Episode 15: THE GUARDIAN
Airdate: 02 Jan 1964
Directed by NOT KNOWN (possibly Robert D. Webb)
Guest Cast:
Robert Emhardt as Owen Judd
Julie Parrish as Maggie Ballard
Greg Irvin as Robert Ballard
Sammy Jackson as Sodbuster
John Archer as Adam Ballard
Episode 15 synopsis: Houston takes on the care of a 19-year-old girl at the request of her dying father. While Houston tries to bring the rancher responsible for the father’s death to justice, the daughter makes plans to shoot the rancher to avenge her father’s death.Episode 16: THY NAME IS WOMAN
Airdate: 09 Jan 1964
Directed by NOT KNOWN (possibly Robert D. Webb)
Guest Cast:
Charles Lane as Amos Riggs
Patricia Blair as Leslie Hale
Georgia Goode as Billie Jean James
Episode 16 synopsis: Houston enlists a woman lawyer to help him defend a saloon hostess charged with a murder she insists was self-defense.Episode 17: THE LAW AND BIG ANNIE
Airdate: 16 Jan 1964
Directed by Charles R. Rondeau
Guest Cast:
Norman Alden as Carlton Owens
Carol Byron as Marian Carter
Episode 17 synopsis: Marshal Taggart inherits a four ton elephant; complications ensue.Episode 18: SAM’S BOY
Airdate: 23 Jan 1964
Directed by Irving J. Moore
Guest Cast:
Douglas Fowley as Doc Webb
Kenneth Tobey as Dan Powers
William Fawcett as Billy Rogers
Charles Seel as Henry Hicks
Herb Vigran as Wak
William Bryant as Cy Morgan
Richard Tretter as Jake Harvey
Don Kennedy as Ike Hobbs
Kenneth MacDonald as Jury Foreman
Episode 18 synopsis: A neighbor tries to instigate the hanging of some older town residents by accusing them of treason, in an effort to claim their land.Episode 19: TEN ROUNDS FOR BABY
Airdate: 30 Jan 1964
Executive producer: Jack Webb
Directed by Irving J. Moore
Guest Cast:
Anne Francis as Kate Fitzpatrick
Van Williams as Joey Baker
Zeme North as Baby Dale
Dave Willock as Speedy Jackson
William Phipps as Sandy Dale
Hal Baylor as Con Morgan
Episode 19 synopsis: Joey Baker is a good man with his fists in a barroom, and Kate Fitzpatrick wants him to take on a professional boxer.Episode 20: THE CASE FOR WILLIAM GOTCH
Airdate: 06 Feb 1964
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Cast:
Ray Danton as Martin Royale
Richard Jaeckel as Coley
Denver Pyle as Phineas Fallon
Gordon Wescourt as Bryce
Erin O’Donnell as Laura Jean
Episode 20 synopsis: Houston, Marshal Taggart, and a bungling horse thief use guile to outwit a crooked gambler.Episode 21: A SLIGHT CASE OF LARCENY
Airdate: 13 Feb 1964
Executive producer: Jack Webb
Directed by William Conrad
Guest Cast:
Vim Scotti as Pancho Blanca
Charles Watts as Paul Hillings
Carol Byron as Marian Carter
Episode 21 synopsis: After a run on the town bank caused by a con man’s activities, Houston and Taggart try to prevent the bank’s failure by staging a fake robbery to conceal the bank’s dwindled assets.Episode 22: THE LAST FULL MOON
Airdate: 27 Feb 1964
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Cast:
Abraham Sofaer as Chief Last Full Moon
Larry Ward as Harry Cobb
Vaughn Taylor as Colonel Grove
Pilar Seurat as Bluebird
John Alonzo as Long Maned Pony
Charles Lane as Amos Riggs
Edward Colmans as Two Suns
Charles Bateman as Bowman
Karen Noel as Dorisse
Episode 22 synopsis: An Indian chief whose son has been accused of horse theft decides to retain Houston as defense counsel rather than follow the usual routine and bribe the local Indian agent to set the youth free.Episode 23: THE GUN THAT SWEPT THE WEST
Airdate: 05 Mar 1964
Directed by William Conrad
Guest Cast:
Michael Pate as Nat Cramer
John Dehner as Jed Dobbs
Sherwood Price as Dan Sheldon
Episode 23 synopsis: Thieves steal an inventor’s two-barreled cannon with plans to sell it to the Indians.Episode 24: DO UNTO OTHERS, THEN GALLOP
Airdate: 19 Mar 1964
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Cast:
Adam Williams as Harmony Brown
Grace Lee Whitney as Tangerine O’Shea
Robert McQueeney as Robert Sangster
Paul Smith as Grover Clippett
Ken Mayer as Sam
Claude Stroud as Murdock
William Bramley as Gus Finney
Episode 24 synopsis: Houston is framed for the murder of an unarmed man.Episode 25: THE TOWN THAT TRESPASSED
Airdate: 26 Mar 1964
Directed by William Conrad
Guest Cast:
Robert Conrad as Martin Purcell
Parley Baer as Claude Spanker
Connie Stevens as Charity Simpson
Walter Sande as Mayor
Dave Willock as Seedy Jackson
Claude Stroud as Murdock
Sheldon Allman as Cutter
Martin West as Lawson
Dal Jenkins as Wade
Richard Collier as Mr. Huckabee
Robert Adler as Townsman
Episode 25 synopsis: With a land deed in hand, a woman and her attorney try to take ownership of the town.
Photo: On the set with actress Bea Ballance. Jeff holds a Colt .45 belonging to Miss Ballance; her grandfather, captain in charge of the Texas Rangers, received the gun as a gift from the real-life Temple Houston in Austin, Texas in 1884.
Episode 26: MISS KATHERINA (final episode)
Airdate: 02 Apr 1964
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Cast:
Paula Raymond as Miss Katherina
John Baer as Frank McGuire
Richard X. Slattery as Sergeant Smathers
Anthony Costello as Lieutenant Greeley
Simon Scott as Henry Rivers
John Lupton as Sinclair
Sammy Jackson as Wick
Donald Losby as Tommy Rivers
Robert Phillips as Private Keller
David McMahon as Doc Burgess
Episode 26 synopsis: A spinster refuses to tell Houston details of the robbery plans of a new man in town, whom she is attracted to.