Tristram Coffin
26 Men (1957)
Season 2
26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.
Released Oct. 15, 1957
Episode 30 min
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Country: United States
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English
S2E1 - The Glory Road
A preacher with a past is blackmailed into helping a murderer escape from jail.
Oct. 7, 1958, midnight
S2E2 - Show of a Doubt
A green ranger, accused of cowardice by his fellow lawmen, must lead his compatriots in a desperate attack on an Apache camp to rescue a young captive.
Oct. 14, 1958, midnight
S2E3 - Man in Hiding
A miner (Harry Shannon) informs the Rangers that a wanted killer is in hiding---but he won't say where.
Oct. 21, 1958, midnight
S2E4 - Cross and Doublecross
The wary Rangers allow an outlaw to lead them to a den of thieves.
Oct. 27, 1958, midnight
S2E5 - The Last Rebellion
When an Apache inadvertently kills an elderly chief, the Rangers set out to defend him against his Apache accusers.
Nov. 4, 1958, midnight
S2E6 - Brief Glory
A meek, hen-pecked bank teller is accused of complicity in a bank hold-up when he is the only employee in the bank when an outlaw gang robs the Bisbee bank. The teller is so taken with the attention and publicity his case is garnering that he refuses to admit that he had nothing to do with the crime. Rynning is convinced of the man's innocence and grants the gang's leader a 24-hour immunity to testify at the man's trial.
Nov. 11, 1958, midnight
S2E7 - Dog Eat Dog
The people of Durando are caught in a power duel between their marshal and their sheriff.
Nov. 18, 1958, midnight
S2E8 - Judge Not
A rancher recently released from a mental hospital avenges himself upon the men who committed him.
Nov. 25, 1958, midnight
S2E9 - My Brothers Keeper
When two of his sons return from Cuban POW camps after the Spanish-American War, a rancher decides it's time to reopen a feud between his kin and a rancher who purchased most of his land when he failed to pay his real estate taxes.
Dec. 2, 1958, midnight
S2E10 - Run No More
With only hours left before a hanging, Rynning desperately seeks evidence that might stay the accused's execution. Meanwhile the real murderers threaten the life of the witness whose perjured testimony sent the wrong man to the gallows.
Dec. 9, 1958, midnight
S2E11 - Manhunt
A poker game in Nogales, Arizona turns sour when one of the participants is accused of crooked dealing. After the accused shoots the accuser and makes off with all the cash, the manhunt for the perpetrator quickly leads to an arrest - the real killer's identical twin brother. The rangers desperately search for murderer before a lynch mob hangs an innocent man.
Dec. 16, 1958, midnight
S2E12 - The Avenger
A young man joins the Arizona Rangers and dedicates himself to becoming a quick draw artist. Rynning learns that the new lawman forged his letter of introduction and is only interested in avenging himself upon the man who killed his outlaw father - Clint Travis.
Dec. 23, 1958, midnight
S2E13 - False Witness
When a wealthy land owner accused of murder can't bribe the circuit judge, he turns to witness intimidation to escape conviction. The judge requests Capt. Rynning to protect those called to testify.
Dec. 30, 1958, midnight
S2E14 - The Torch
When teacher after teach is run out of a small gold mining town, Rynning is order to investigate. His first day in the schoolhouse involves some two-fisted lessons.
Jan. 6, 1959, midnight
S2E15 - Trail of Revenge
A murderous escaped prisoner returns to his ranch and finds his wife has departed. He forces one of her old friends to find her while he holds the friend's wife as a hostage.
Jan. 13, 1959, midnight
S2E16 - The Hellion
A young man, recently found not guilty of being a thief, is framed for the murder of his girlfriend by a romantic rival.
Jan. 20, 1959, midnight
S2E17 - Ranger Without a Badge
A card shark agrees to help Rynning and Travis break up a gang of sheep rustlers.
Jan. 27, 1959, midnight
S2E18 - Showdown
Ralph Kincaid, a wealthy rancher, catches his son, Juro, stealing money from his desk so he can pay his gambling debts and brutally beats him. The next day, the father is found murdered and the evidence seems to point to his son as the killer. During the trial, Captain Rynning discovers incontrovertible that the young man was incarcerated in another town at the time of the murder after suffering from a blackout. The ranger thinks the explanation is too pat, though, and searches for Juro's murderous accomplice.
Feb. 3, 1959, midnight
S2E19 - Long Trail Home
A convict breaks out of Yuma prison and offers to help Captain Rynning round up the rest of his outlaw gang.
Feb. 10, 1959, midnight
S2E20 - Death in the Dragoons
Rynning must make a difficult decision when he learns that the woman he rescued is wanted for murder.
Feb. 17, 1959, midnight
S2E21 - Ricochet
Three wild brothers who were driven out of town years ago return to warn the citizens of an impending attack by a gang of outlaws, but their warning isn't believed when one of their bullets ricochet's off a church bell and kills a man.
Feb. 24, 1959, midnight
S2E22 - House Divided
A man whose wife was killed during an Indian raid is incensed when his brother takes an Apache woman to be his wife and encourages other Indians to settle in the town of which he is one of the founders. The man takes his racial prejudice so far as to hire a gang of gunslingers to drive the Indians from the town and his brother's wife along with them.
March 3, 1959, midnight
S2E23 - Profane Masquerade
An outlaw's girlfriend convinces her sister, a nun, to lend her a habit so she can travel to Nogales to be with him.
March 10, 1959, midnight
S2E24 - Dead or Alive
Rynning runs into unexpected trouble while investigating a murder.
March 17, 1959, midnight
S2E25 - The Has-Been
The territorial governor orders Rhynning to clean up prize fighting in Arizona. The Ranger captain focuses his attention on Barker, a promoter who offer $500 to anyone who can stay in the ring for four rounds with his champion. The problem is that, while suckers throw their money away betting on the challenger, there's nothing illegal about the promoter's activities.
March 24, 1959, midnight
S2E26 - The Unwanted
The economic recession afflicting Arizona after the Spanish-American War hits the young veterans returning to civilian life the hardest. A young veteran, his sister and three friends try to make a go of farming by squatting on land claimed by other homesteaders resulting in bloodshed. The sister decides to become a dance hall girl to raise enough money for the group to eat with only to find out that the hall's owner is interested in more than her ability to dance the Can-Can.
March 31, 1959, midnight
S2E27 - Live and Let Die
An ex-convict, declared legally dead by his wife when he went to prison under an assumed name, returns to Yuma to kill her new husband, a former partner-in-crime who has reformed.
April 7, 1959, midnight
S2E28 - Trial at Verde River
A young lawyer returns home to litigate water rights controlled by a crooked businessman and learns his senior partner has been bribing witnesses to aid the company he is representing.
April 14, 1959, midnight
S2E29 - Scorpion
Ben Haddock, a recently hired trail boss, is fired by Red Emerson for dating his daughter. The two men have an argument over the money owed to the foreman resulting in the Ben shooting Red and taking the money he feels he is owed. Travis rides out to arrest Haddock but is stung by a scorpion and cowhand flees leaving the ranger to die.
April 21, 1959, midnight
S2E30 - The Last Kill
While Travis tries to convince a representative from Washington that Arizona no longer subscribes to gun law, Rynning tries to prevent an ex-convict from exacting revenge upon a Yuma businessman whose perjured testimony sent him to prison.
April 28, 1959, midnight
S2E31 - Redskin
A decorated Indian war hero becomes involved with a quack who's selling phony cure-alls after he finds his own tribe will have nothing to do with him.
May 5, 1959, midnight
S2E32 - Cave-In
A crusading editor learns that funds for mine safety equipment have been embezzled.
May 12, 1959, midnight
S2E33 - Terror in Paradise
Two saloon girls witness a prominent business man murder his partner. After giving evidence at the coroner's hearing, an agent for the accused tries to bribe them to leave town. When they refuse, the agent hires a gunman to kidnap the women so they can't testify at the trial.
May 19, 1959, midnight
S2E34 - Fighting Men
Rynning offers Vin Carter, Tucson's tough and honest marshal, a position in the Rangers, but Vin turns him down because of his sour relationship with the town's business community. When Carter's fiancée is seriously injured and desperately needs an operation, Vin begins to reconsider his stance on integrity.
May 26, 1959, midnight
S2E35 - Tumbleweed Ranger
Rynning orders Frank Seldom to meet a stagecoach heading from New Mexico to Wilcox, Arizona to ensure its cargo of six lovely mail-order brides arrive unscathed. Seldom has his hands full fending off marauding Apache Indians, crooked stagecoach drivers and an outlaw gang who intends to kidnap the women and sell them to white slavers in Mexico.
June 2, 1959, midnight
S2E36 - The Tiger
When a gang of American outlaws takes over a Mexican border town, Colonel Kesterlitzky aka 'El Tigre' of the Mexican Rurales requests the assistance of Captain Rynning to recapture the town.
June 9, 1959, midnight
S2E37 - Abandoned
One of Kelton's riders reports that his son has been abducted by a group of Apaches led by Cochise himself. Rynning quickly organizes a posse to pursue the renegades, but their rescue mission is dogged by misfortune and, eventually, murder. The rangers begin to suspect that a member of their posse is in cahoots with the abductors, who may not be Indians after all.
June 16, 1959, midnight
S2E38 - Bandit Queen
Rynning and his rangers try to outwit a beautiful, clever outlaw.
June 23, 1959, midnight
S2E39 - Refuge at Broken Bow
A young boy must choose between respect for the law and loyalty to his two outlaw uncles.
June 30, 1959, midnight
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Oct. 15, 1957
Last Air Date: June 30, 1959, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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