Thomas Carr
Director
Stagecoach West (1960)
Season 1
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.
Released Oct. 4, 1960
Episode 60 min
10+
Keywords: imdb.irish, imdb.bubonic-plague, imdb.plague, imdb.bushwhack, imdb.buffalo-rifle, imdb.englishman, imdb.long-range-rifle + 30 more, imdb.shoulder-holster, imdb.arizona-territory, imdb.cavalry, imdb.cavalry-to-the-rescue, imdb.lawman, imdb.way-station, imdb.u-s-marshal, imdb.confederate-states-of-america, imdb.union-army, imdb.stage-line, imdb.british, imdb.sailor, imdb.doctor, imdb.rifle, imdb.tucson-arizona, imdb.arizona, imdb.travel, imdb.epic-western, imdb.stagecoach, imdb.gambler, imdb.law, imdb.drifter, imdb.robbery, imdb.farmer, imdb.gunfight, imdb.passenger, imdb.deputy, imdb.civil-war, imdb.american-civil-war, imdb.stage
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - High Lonesome
Simon meets a man at a way station who has been hired to kill him.
Oct. 4, 1960, midnight
S1E2 - The Land Beyond
None
Oct. 11, 1960, midnight
S1E3 - Dark Return
None
Oct. 18, 1960, midnight
S1E4 - The Unwanted
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 ducks for road agents. He pulls a gun and doesn't live to regret it.
Oct. 25, 1960, midnight
S1E5 - A Fork in the Road
Simon and Davey, driving West with a coffin, are held up by a stranger---who demands the corpse. Simon: Robert Bray. Davey: Richard Eyer. Gibbs: Jack Warden. Ohio: Richard Devon. Ciell: Jack Elam. Somerset: Joe Perry.
Nov. 1, 1960, midnight
S1E6 - A Time to Run
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 who also want the man.
Nov. 15, 1960, midnight
S1E7 - Red Sand
Simon picks up two lost travelers in a sand storm and then learns they just robbed a bank.
Nov. 22, 1960, midnight
S1E8 - The Saga of Jeremy Boone
None
Nov. 29, 1960, midnight
S1E9 - Life Sentence
None
Dec. 6, 1960, midnight
S1E10 - The Storm
None
Dec. 13, 1960, midnight
S1E11 - Three Wise Men
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.
Dec. 20, 1960, midnight
S1E12 - By the Deep Six
The stagecoach gets ambushed and it don't look good for the passengers aboard.
Dec. 27, 1960, midnight
S1E13 - Object: Patrimony
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 kidnapping Susan.
Jan. 3, 1961, midnight
S1E14 - Come Home Again
None
Jan. 10, 1961, midnight
S1E15 - The Brass Lily
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 her.
Jan. 17, 1960, midnight
S1E16 - Finn McColl
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 McCool to a fist fight.
Jan. 24, 1961, midnight
S1E17 - Image of a Man
An alcoholic lawyer is forced to prosecute a man for murder and has been told he better not lose the case.
Jan. 31, 1961, midnight
S1E18 - Not in Our Stars
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 daughter.
Feb. 7, 1961, midnight
S1E19 - The Arsonist
None
Feb. 14, 1961, midnight
S1E20 - Songs My Mother Told Me
Luke and Simon are suspicious when Davey begins to slip out with food and clothes. They find out that he befriended a murder witness.
Feb. 21, 1961, midnight
S1E21 - The Root of Evil
None
Feb. 28, 1961, midnight
S1E22 - The Outcasts
Deputy Ken Rawlins fires after a fleeing holdup gang. One of the men he kills is his own brother.
March 7, 1961, midnight
S1E23 - The Remounts
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 horse thieves.
March 14, 1961, midnight
S1E24 - House of Violence
None
March 21, 1961, midnight
S1E25 - The Butcher
A butcher of sorts comes in hot pursuit of Simon's stagecoach.
March 28, 1961, midnight
S1E26 - Fort Wyatt Crossing
Luke finds a badly wounded soldier sprawled across the road.
April 4, 1961, midnight
S1E27 - A Place of Still Waters
None
April 11, 1961, midnight
S1E28 - Never Walk Alone
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 gang is aboard and is planning to rob the train.
April 18, 1961, midnight
S1E29 - The Big Gun
Luke is carrying a Gatling gun in his stage for delivry to an army post. He is intercepted by Mexican revolutionary Francisco Martinez and his band, followers of Juarez in the war against Maximillian.
April 25, 1961, midnight
S1E30 - The Dead Don't Cry
None
May 2, 1961, midnight
S1E31 - The Raider
Emily Prince and her homesteader fiance, Gil Soames are to meet at Halfway House. But killer Mel Harney, who was once engaged to Emily, arrives there before either of them.
May 9, 1961, midnight
S1E32 - Blind Man's Bluff
A couple must run for their lives after a blind gunfighter threatens to kill them.
May 16, 1961, midnight
S1E33 - The Bold Whip
None
May 23, 1961, midnight
S1E34 - The Orphans
Two children come from Spain to join their father, but when they arrive, they find him dead.
May 30, 1961, midnight
S1E35 - The Guardian Angels
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 the passengers than with the Indians.
June 6, 1961, midnight
S1E36 - The Swindler
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 David is convinced of the man's honesty.
June 13, 1961, midnight
S1E37 - The Renegades
A group of renegade soldiers, headed by Ed Bush and Tom Lochlin, are headed for the Canadian border. To be less conspicuous, they decide they need a stagecoach.
June 20, 1961, midnight
S1E38 - The Marker
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 tombstone.
June 27, 1961, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 2280 min.
Released: Oct. 4, 1960
Last Air Date: June 27, 1961, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
Rate this show
Add {Movie} to static lists