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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok — 1952
79 episodes broadcast in 1952.
Jingles inherits the Lazy J ranch, but the letter announcing his good fortune draws him and Wild Bill into a deadly trap.
The blacksmith of Salt River City hatches a scheme at his forge to gun down Wild Bill once and for all.
When a slick operator named Lucky Leroy Clover steals a chart to a hidden gold strike, Wild Bill is drawn into the secret of the Hard Luck Mine.
The renegade Black Wolf takes over the Pawnee and plots to raid white settlers' cattle, and Wild Bill races to head off an uprising.
A boy hunts for his father, struck down by poisoned water, and Wild Bill helps run the poisoner to ground.
Jingles finds himself running for mayor of Jackpot, where a crooked political gang has rigged the ballot box against a pair of plucky spinster sisters.
Someone is bent on stopping a surveyor from cutting a road into Hidden Valley, in the tale of how 'Jingles Pass' got its name.
When Jim Betton's brother is shot, Jim sets out to take the law into his own hands, and Wild Bill must stop his revenge.
The train-robbing Choya Gang is undone when a telegraph key -- and a Morse message tapped out by Wild Bill himself -- gives away their identity.
A gang uses semaphore signals to coordinate robberies along the Colorado River, and Wild Bill boards a steamer to stop them.
Wild Bill works to head off open war between the cattlemen and the sheepherders.
Trouble follows the entertainer Violet to the Blue Feather Gambling Palace, where gunplay is certain.
In Thunder Springs, Wild Bill shields a crippled boy from a bully named Big Red -- then finds his horse Buckshot stolen just before the big race.
A gang called the Flame Riders tries to burn homesteaders off land a coming railroad would make valuable.
Tad Mawson, a boy growing up too fast, lands in trouble looking for 'fun' in town, and Wild Bill steps in.
Wild Bill and Jingles investigate a gold mine said to be haunted by a phantom.
The army calls on Wild Bill to smash a gang of horse thieves plaguing the plains around Fort Laramie.
Big John robs the bank at Mossy Bend while his partner Little Mike lingers in town making mischief of his own.
A swindler named Big Ben Bogart has fleeced eight victims with a phony land scheme and is closing on a ninth when Wild Bill takes a hand.
Wild Bill rides to New Mexico to find out how Angus Gordon's cattle keep disappearing off the range -- and who is behind it.
A stagecoach robber's stolen fifteen-carat diamond disappears down the gullet of a prize pig, and Wild Bill must recover it.
Cattle rustling and a shot at Wild Bill lead back to a storekeeper with a fondness for practical jokes.
Wild Bill traces a curious tie between a crank inventor's supposed 'gold-making' contraption and a bank vault that keeps coming up short.
Wild Bill uncovers a plot to tear California away from the United States.
A wagon train in distress calls for Wild Bill and Jingles at Salvation Springs, and the reason proves more than it seems.
Jingles's aching tooth leads the pair to a killer wielding a dentist's drill.
Two outlaws who call themselves Thunder and Lightning take a sheriff prisoner, and Wild Bill rides to free him.
Wild Bill and Jingles set out to break up a counterfeiting gang working near the town of Blue Field.
At a Texas ranch called the Geddings spread, a foreman armed with a spyglass makes no end of trouble for the two lawmen.
Two saboteurs try to wreck a train to keep the railroad from laying its final ten miles of track.
Wild Bill carries the deed to a played-out mine that a man named Ace Clark is strangely eager to buy.
Pursued killers Pecos Jack and his sidekick Muley turn the tables and get the drop on Wild Bill and Jingles.
An outlaw named Duke Nuller means to kill Wild Bill and Jingles by any means -- while Jingles discovers a way with the ladies.
Wild Bill, Jingles, and hard-of-hearing Rocky take on the bank-robbing Black Canyon Gang.
A trespass lawsuit between two ranchers turns to gunplay when Wild Bill and Jingles side with old Uncle Jeff.
Schoolteacher Tom Dabney is troubled by a mysterious visitor, Chief Running Bear, in a puzzle that stumps even Jingles.
In Farro Flats, a little man named Farino and his champion jumping frog, 'Winged Victory,' draw Wild Bill into a strange adventure.
A gang of train robbers makes off with a railroad construction payroll, and Wild Bill takes up the chase.
Two swindlers 'salt' a worthless mine by blasting gold dust into the rock with a shotgun, and Wild Bill exposes the fraud.
A band of renegades hijacks the Overland Stage Company's gold shipments, and Wild Bill is called in to stop them.
A crook named Miggs schemes to sell timber cut illegally from a government forest in the Utah woods.
A lawyer representing young Lance Duquesne is secretly plotting to grab the two finest ranches in the valley.
In the season's finale, Wild Bill goes after 'The Baron,' a gun-runner whose castle no visiting lawman leaves alive.
On the trail of the Blue Neckerchief bank-robbing gang, Wild Bill and Jingles reach Angels Fort just as the outlaws move in.
A St. Louis swindler peddles worthless mining claims in Eagle's Nest to every dreamer he can find, until Wild Bill unravels the scheme.
A thunderstorm drives the pair to Osage Springs and its striking lady undertaker, whose past hides far more than the graves she tends.
When Duke Daniels guns down a prospector and beats the kindly old 'Mayor' of Mule Mesa, Ed Martin, Wild Bill rides to set it right.
Brownsville's plan to welcome the Governor with a staged joke hold-up goes badly wrong, and Wild Bill is caught in the middle.
Something is killing Sarah Stevens's sheep on Ghost Mountain, and behind the 'werewolf' scare Wild Bill finds a hidden gold mine.
A man who owns half a salt-rich ranch tries to murder Wild Bill and the owner's son to seize the other half -- on Jingles's birthday.
Headquarters sends Wild Bill and Jingles after the Roman Gaul train-robbing gang, and they won't quit while there's one more to get.
When Colonel Chandler vanishes from his horse ranch and a sinister foreman takes charge, Wild Bill uses plain 'horse sense' to crack the mystery.
Wild Bill and Jingles are served poisoned steaks at the Copperville mine and must find out who wants them dead.
Saved from the stake by a young brave named Little Cloud, Wild Bill promises to find the key to peace on the plains.
Told to rest, Jingles goes fishing with Wild Bill, only to have a bolting buckboard, stolen gold, and a pair of outlaws spoil the holiday.
Trigger-happy Jubilee Jenks won't sell his land to the railroad, and his stubborn stand draws Wild Bill into the fight.
A freight wagon is blown up and its driver killed with nothing taken, pointing Wild Bill to Silk Martin's protection racket.
A gunfight is brewing in Snow Valley between the mountain men and the townsfolk, and Wild Bill rides to keep the peace.
Joining a cattle drive to Willow Springs, Wild Bill uncovers a scheme to jack up beef prices by keeping the herd out of town.
Investigating a stage robbery, Wild Bill discovers an impostor working the case under his own name -- and sets off chasing himself across New Mexico.
When Lucky Morgan finds the Lost Apache Mine, Wild Bill must hold off Ace Benson's gang working out of the Blue Heaven Saloon.
Two cattlemen covet a famous lead steer named Old Red, and when one of them is killed the animal is framed for the murder.
Wild Bill hauls a killer to Hangtown for trial, only to have the local judge hand down sixty days in jail to keep the man out of his reach.
The Sioux prepare for war when their chief's daughter lies near death, and Wild Bill is called in for one last hope of peace.
December 10, 1952
The Trail of the Cougar
This time the outlaw is a four-legged one, as a killer cougar puts Wild Bill and Jingles on a deadly trail.
Two bank robbers on white horses gun down a sheriff and vanish, and Wild Bill traces them to Doc Crowley's traveling medicine show.
Answering an old friend's plea in the Dakotas, Wild Bill sets out to foil a crooked ferryboat owner who refuses to carry cattle across the river.
When rustlers begin picking off his prize herd, rancher Red Tolman calls Wild Bill to the Circle Bar, and a blazing fight follows at Rattlesnake Bend.
Amid the hot springs and geysers of little-known Black Canyon, Wild Bill and Jingles find danger -- and the Black Canyon gang.
A cold-eyed killer who calls himself 'The Stranger' leads Wild Bill and Jingles on a three-day running gunfight.
On a snowbound New Year's Eve in 1875, Wild Bill and Jingles reach Thomson Corner just in time for the big community dance -- and trouble.
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