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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.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01High LonesomeOctober 4, 1960—Simon meets a man at a way station who has been hired to kill him.
- S01E02The Land BeyondOctober 11, 1960—
- S01E03Dark ReturnOctober 18, 1960—
- S01E04The UnwantedOctober 25, 1960—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 duc
- S01E05A Fork in the RoadNovember 1, 1960—Simon and Davey, driving West with a coffin, are held up by a stranger---who demands the corpse. Simon: Robert Bray. Davey: Richard Eyer. Gi
- S01E06A Time to RunNovember 15, 1960—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
- S01E07Red SandNovember 22, 1960—Simon picks up two lost travelers in a sand storm and then learns they just robbed a bank.
- S01E08The Saga of Jeremy BooneNovember 29, 1960—
- S01E09Life SentenceDecember 6, 1960—
- S01E10The StormDecember 13, 1960—
- S01E11Three Wise MenDecember 20, 1960—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.
- S01E12By the Deep SixDecember 27, 1960—The stagecoach gets ambushed and it don't look good for the passengers aboard.
- S01E13Object: PatrimonyJanuary 3, 1961—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
- S01E14Come Home AgainJanuary 10, 1961—
- S01E15The Brass LilyJanuary 17, 1960—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 h
- S01E16Finn McCollJanuary 24, 1961—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 M
- S01E17Image of a ManJanuary 31, 1961—An alcoholic lawyer is forced to prosecute a man for murder and has been told he better not lose the case.
- S01E18Not in Our StarsFebruary 7, 1961—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
- S01E19The ArsonistFebruary 14, 1961—
- S01E20Songs My Mother Told MeFebruary 21, 1961—Luke and Simon are suspicious when Davey begins to slip out with food and clothes. They find out that he befriended a murder witness.
- S01E21The Root of EvilFebruary 28, 1961—
- S01E22The OutcastsMarch 7, 1961—Deputy Ken Rawlins fires after a fleeing holdup gang. One of the men he kills is his own brother.
- S01E23The RemountsMarch 14, 1961—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 hor
- S01E24House of ViolenceMarch 21, 1961—
- S01E25The ButcherMarch 28, 1961—A butcher of sorts comes in hot pursuit of Simon's stagecoach.
- S01E26Fort Wyatt CrossingApril 4, 1961—Luke finds a badly wounded soldier sprawled across the road.
- S01E27A Place of Still WatersApril 11, 1961—
- S01E28Never Walk AloneApril 18, 1961—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 g
- S01E29The Big GunApril 25, 1961—Luke is carrying a Gatling gun in his stage for delivry to an army post. He is intercepted by Mexican revolutionary Francisco Martinez and h
- S01E30The Dead Don't CryMay 2, 1961—
- S01E31The RaiderMay 9, 1961—Emily Prince and her homesteader fiance, Gil Soames are to meet at Halfway House. But killer Mel Harney, who was once engaged to Emily, arri
- S01E32Blind Man's BluffMay 16, 1961—A couple must run for their lives after a blind gunfighter threatens to kill them.
- S01E33The Bold WhipMay 23, 1961—
- S01E34The OrphansMay 30, 1961—Two children come from Spain to join their father, but when they arrive, they find him dead.
- S01E35The Guardian AngelsJune 6, 1961—Among the passengers on Luke's stage are a dude, a preacher and a gambler. When the coach is attacked by Indians, Luke has more trouble with
- S01E36The SwindlerJune 13, 1961—Hollis Collier offers the citizens of Outpost a chance to invest their money in a gold mine. Simon thinks Collier is up to no good, but Davi
- S01E37The RenegadesJune 20, 1961—A group of renegade soldiers, headed by Ed Bush and Tom Lochlin, are headed for the Canadian border. To be less conspicuous, they decide the
- S01E38The MarkerJune 27, 1961—Luke is helping Jenny Forbes hide from her former boyfriend, a gambler called Mingo. When Mingo learns of this, he sends Luke a present - a
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