The worst episodes of Alias Smith and Jones
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson
Heyes and Curry meet up with an offbeat crook when they fall once gain for the old lady-in-distress gambit.
- 02
The Reformation of Harry Briscoe
After helping a pair of nuns whose wagon has broken down, Smith and Jones run into Harry Briscoe who claims one of the nuns is a fake who stole $30,000 from a bank she worked at.
- 03
A black bounty hunter catches Heyes and Curry and hangs onto them even after they twice save his life from bigots determined to turn them in themselves.
- 04
The McCreedy Bust: Going, Going, Gone!
""Big Mac"" MacCreedy tries to get the boys to steal the Roman bust from Armendariz - again, but this time the boys refuse. But when Big Mac threatens to reveal their secret identities they agree to transport the bust to an auction after it has been stolen. While they wait for the bust to be delivered to the drop spot, Heyes and the Kid meet a bullying foreman, who makes the Kid do a little jig every time he finds the Kid still wearing his gun. Heyes can't understand why the Kid doesn't comply for the sake of peace and quiet - but a former priest, turned town drunk has an interesting idea: that the Kid is a saint who always turns the other cheek.
- 05
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Red Gap
The guys are framed for bank robbery by an embezzling banker, but they turn the tables on him by arranging for a second bank robbery to clear their names.
- 06
A farmer spots the two boys and alerts the sheriff, but Heyes and the Kid jumps on a train and manage to get away. On the train they meet Harry Briscoe, who's now fired from Bannerman Detectives Inc. But when the posse telegraphs ahead, Heyes quickly reinstates Harry - and the boys become his prisoners. The sheriff doesn't buy it though, and sends a deputy along with them to make sure they get to Wyoming. Harry manages to fool the deputy into believing that the Devil's hole gang is after them, and makes the deputy the decoy, while he and his two prisoners take another route. Soon, the Kid's newly requisitioned horse is hurt, and they have to board a train again. Unfortunally the train heads back to the town they came from, so Heyes and the Kid decide to jump off the train to wait for Harry, who thinks that the sheriff might be fooled by the same trick twice... But is Harry wrong, and will Heyes and the Kid survive until Harry can save them?
- 07
Heyes seems to be reverting to his old thieving ways when he sets up a pretty young woman to lose $10,000 in a phony horse betting operation.
- 08
Curry and Heyes try to avoid a sheriff who is sure to recognize them.
- 09
The guys join a cattle drive and Kid Curry finds himself accused of murder again.
- 10
Kid Curry is again falsely accused of murder and it's up to Heyes to save the day.
- 11
The Men That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The capture of Heyes and Curry represents pay dirt for a poor prospector and his family.
- 12
Heyes and the Kid tracks friend Georgette to borrow some money for a high stakes poker game, but finds that George has plans of her own. She intends to get the loot from a insurance fraud, that will soon be statute-barred - a diamond, hidden somewhere in the hotel where the thief was captured. Present is also a professional bounty hunter, who also wants the diamond, and the sheriff who caught the original thief. Who will find the diamond first? George, the sheriff, the bounty hunter, or the diamond-seeking animal that Heyes brings?
- 13
Curry gets involved with a runaway girl riding the rails as he tries to deliver $50,000 to a town 400 miles away.
- 14
After being chased for weeks by a posse, Heyes and the Kid hide out on a ranch where a nice but poor family lives. They become idols of sorts for the two daughters, and quickly learn to like all of them. Then, when the posse finally shows up and demand that Heyes and the Kid come out, Heyes suggests that the family collects the bounty rather than the posse. The posse reluctantly gives them up, and the leader of the posse will not leave their side. On the way to the nearest sheriff office, however, the remaining posse are attacked - by the daughters. Heyes and the Kid get away, but changes their mind when they realize that the family could get in trouble for their sake. They return, but how can they stay out of jail if they have to give their identities away to the judge?
- 15
The fellows get involved in a $50,000 swindle.
- 16
Tired and weary, Heyes and the Kid discover that they are accused of burgling a bank. They decide to go there and investigate, since their amnesty is at stake. Also present is Blackjack Jenny, whose son Billy disappeared after telegraphing her about a job there. She is convinced that Billy and his friend Caleb are dead. Heyes and the Kid confront the bank manager, and manage to convince him that they are bounty hunters, and that they were on Heyes and the Kid's track far away when the burglary took place. That way he gives them the name of the woman who said that it was Heyes and the Kid who stole the money. But is there someone else involved?
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