Name: The Texan
Uploaded: 2022-10-01T23:00:44.000Z
Description: The Texan, a Civil War Veteran whose reputation of being the fastest gun in the west precedes him, roams across Texas from town to town, not looking for trouble, but trouble finds him.

The Texan, a Civil War Veteran whose reputation of being the fastest gun in the west precedes him, roams across Texas from town to town, not looking for trouble, but trouble finds him.

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Bill Longley arrives in a small Texas town with the intention of helping Les Torbit, an old army buddy, in his range war with Kyle Richards' outfit.

The Texan: S1 E1 - Law Of The Gun

Professional gambler Jake Romer wins big in a poker game, taking thousands of dollars in IOUs from Jim Caldwell, an ex-lawman.

The Texan: S1 E2 - The Man With The Solid Gold Star

Hot-headed Johnny Kaler, embarrassed that he's been caught cheating at cards, provokes Bill Longley into a barroom brawl and is quickly thrashed.

The Texan: S1 E3 - The Troubled Town

Bill Longley meets an old, but beautiful, friend who currently owns the local saloon and is happy to renew her acquaintance.

The Texan: S1 E4 - The First Notch

Orin and Ruth McKnight's May/December romance hits a rough spot when Bill Longley returns from a cattle drive.

The Texan: S1 E5 - The Edge Of The Cliff

While sleeping by his campsite, Bill is startled by sounds of movement in the underbrush; he investigates and finds a young boy who is so frightened that he can't talk.

The Texan: S1 E6 - Jail For The Innocents

Bill Longley comes to the aid of Ramirez, a farmer who wants to plant peach trees when the local cattlemen object. The town's sheriff, one of Longley's non-commissioned officers during the Civil War, doesn't want any trouble, but is forced to take sides when a lynch mob threatens to hang the farmer.

The Texan: S1 E7 - A Tree For Planting

Two gunmen rob Bill Longley, taking his $8,300 he earned for taking a herd of cattle to Mesa.

The Texan: S1 E8 - The Hemp Tree

After Longley is forced to kill a barfly that tried to shoot him in the back, he learns a quirk in the Montana law code.

The Texan: S1 E9 - The Widow Of Paradise

While escorting to prison the leader of a notorious gang, a sheriff and a deputy are attacked by the gang.

The Texan: S1 E10 - Desert Passage

While riding down a trail, Bill is accosted by a boy who demands he help his father, who has been shot in the stomach.

The Texan: S1 E11 - No Tears For The Dead

Bill has been hired to guide two Easterners who want to capture wild stallions to use as studs for breeding.

The Texan: S1 E12 - The Easterner

A woman dies helping to fight off bandits who try to rob her stagecoach; the unsuccessful bandits try to abduct the town's only doctor to operate on their seriously wounded companion.

The Texan: S1 E13 - A Time Of The Year

After Longley rescues the wounded Reverend Kilgore from two would-be bushwhackers, he learns that the parson was heading for Phillipsburg.

The Texan: S1 E14 - The Lord Will Provide

Longley is hired to drive the first herd of cattle directly from the Texas Panhandle to Denver.

The Texan: S1 E15 - The Duchess Of Denver

A crooked sheriff and his henchmen are attempting to continue their reign of terror by running a crooked election; Longley persuades an alcoholic former Harvard law professor to stand-up to the old sheriff.

The Texan: S1 E16 - A Quart Of Law

Longley rescues the lone survivor of a murderous stagecoach robbery, but the man refuses to help him identify the three killers.

The Texan: S1 E17 - Outpost

Longley and the town's newspaper editor come to the assistance of a Hungarian peddler when he is attacked by local toughs. When the editor is murdered by the same gunsels, the peddler must choose between helping the Texan bring the killers to justice or fleeing with his pregnant wife.

The Texan: S1 E18 - The Peddler

Longley attempts to escort Yancey Lewis, a bank robber sentenced to spend five years in prison in a distant town.

The Texan: S1 E19 - Return To Friendly

Longley's old friend, pretty ranch owner Martha Driscoll, negotiates a highly successful sale at the end of a cattle drive.

The Texan: S1 E20 - The Man Behind The Star

Bill Longley returns from a cattle drive and discovers an impostor has stolen his mail, destroyed a saloon and dallied with a pretty girl, causing his father to demand a shotgun wedding.

The Texan: S1 E21 - The Ringer

Longley has just ridden into the town of Yellow Jacket, when he sees a gunman unhitching a team of horses over the loud objections of a pretty woman.

The Texan: S1 E23 - The Marshal Of Yellow Jacket

Wylie Ames, a big gruff widower, has been corresponding with a lonely woman whose personal ad he saw in an out-of town paper.

The Texan: S1 E24 - No Love Wasted

A crooked gambler with a Kentucky-born thoroughbred prods a drunken rancher into betting his entire spread and all the money he has in the bank on a horse race.

The Texan: S1 E25 - A Race For Life

Longley rides to the rescue when four gunmen ambush a man riding in a buggy; Longley brings the wounded man to a nearby house, but nobody wants to help him because he's a judge scheduled to preside over the trial of a local land baron.

The Texan: S1 E26 - Letter Of The Law

Longley, trapped by a landslide, is rescued by Johnny Hinshaw who the Texan soon discovers is on the run from the law. Johnny's accused of shooting a man after a quarrel and since he's already served a jail term and has two brothers on the run from the law he seems like a reasonable suspect to the sheriff - the more so since Johnny's sweet on the lawman's beautiful sister.

The Texan: S1 E27 - Private Account

Longley and Captain Acosta of the Mexican Rurales travel to San Thomas to bid on a shipment of rifles and ammunition being sold at auction. There efforts are in vain - to their surprise, they are outbid by a beautiful blonde woman. They learn that she's merely the front for a notorious gun runner who plans to sell the guns along the border where they'll soon fall into the hands of the Apaches. Longley and Acosta throw into together to prevent the gunrunners plans from coming to fruition.

The Texan: S1 E28 - Caballero

Stopping by a remote cabin to water his horse, Longley stumbles across its dead owner, the recipient of two bullets in the back. The dead man's brothers don't believe Longley's story that he just killed a rattlesnake and are preparing to string him up when he's rescued by a stranger with a dislike for lynchings.

The Texan: S1 E29 - Blood Money

Longley must help a parolee and his daughter battle a family of outlaws who are trying to drive him off his ranch; they receive help from a pair of unlikely allies.

The Texan: S1 E30 - No Place To Stop

After the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, Longley and two his junior officers agree to reunion five years later. The trio rendezvous in Laramie, Wyoming where the sheriff suspects one of the ex-Confederates of stealing an army-payroll.

The Texan: S1 E31 - Reunion

Longley chases after Clay Thompson, a ruthless bounty hunter who is pursuit of a man falsely accused of bank robbery; Thompson doesn't believe The Texan when he explains the wanted posters are being retracted and continues his pursuit.

The Texan: S1 E32 - Badlands

When an outlaw gang robs the bank, Bill joins a posse to track them down; when the outlaws cross into Mexico, the sheriff and his men return home, but Bill crosses the border to avenge the deaths of a mother and daughter.

The Texan: S1 E33 - South Of The Border

An actor/cardsharp who cleaned out two men at poker is set up as the fall guy by a crooked express agent and his cohorts when Longley is ambushed and the payroll he is delivering stolen.

The Texan: S1 E34 - The Smiling Loser

Though reluctant at first, Bill accepts the job to become his old friend Sheriff Ben Tildy's deputy; several deputies before him had been killed by two ruthless men taking over the town, and the residents blame Tildy for their deaths.

The Texan: S1 E35 - The Sheriff Of Boot Hill

Bill stops a trail boss from harassing a saloon girl. The humiliated trail boss then decides to use a young man, too eager to prove his manhood and join up with the group, to get his revenge on Bill.

The Texan: S1 E36 - The Gunfighter

Bill tries to help a young woman being pursued by two men; the men tell Bill that she's a thief, and they are bringing her back to the gunfighter she is fleeing from; unfortunately, her experience with the man has made her bitter towards all men.

The Texan: S1 E37 - The Man Hater

Bill stops at an inn, where he meets an old lawman friend, who is holding two convicted killers. The lawman knows that friends of his two prisoners are in the area and planning to free them. When the lawman is wounded, Bill must take the responsibility of keeping the prisoners in custody himself, helped only by the meek owner of the inn, his domineering wife, and a gambler unwilling to take unnecessary risks.

The Texan: S2 E1 - No Way Out

The local bank is robbed while Bill is participating in a shooting contest; a photographer friend of Bill's is killed, but he happened to catch a picture of the robbers just before they shot him.

The Texan: S2 E2 - Image Of Guilt

Riding with a posse, Bill captures the bank robber they were after, as well as the money he had stolen. But the others in the posse decide to split the loot among themselves. When Bill is the only one who refuses to go along with the idea, they decide they'll have to kill him as well as the robber. But a band of Comancheros interrupts their plans.

The Texan: S2 E4 - The Dishonest Posse

Bill is ambushed and his horse is stolen; he's forced to travel by stagecoach, one he shares with wanted outlaw Pony Sloan; after stopping at a way station, a man there tells Bill the other side to Sloan's story.

The Texan: S2 E5 - Blue Norther

The town of Calico kills one of the Kiley brothers then makes a display of his burial on main street; Bill goes there to warn them that the Kiley gang is planning revenge.

The Texan: S2 E6 - Traildust

Bill is working with a telegraph company installing lines, but an outlaw gang camped in the area wants to get the crew to leave.

The Texan: S2 E7 - The Telegraph Story

Bill is hired to drive a cattle herd to Abilene, but he must contend with two big problems: a hostile trail hand and a rival drive whose leader will stop at nothing to ensure that his herd gets to Abilene first.

The Texan: S2 E8 - Stampede

After failing in an attempt to ambush Bill, Bishop pays a band of Indians to attack the Akins herd, hoping to scatter the cattle and thus prevent them from reaching Abilene first. Conclusion of a two-part story, the first part being "Stampede".

The Texan: S2 E9 - Showdown At Abilene

Still leading the cattle drive, Bill is allowed to take his herd across a powerful rancher's land. On the way across, he finds a woman who claims she is fleeing from the rancher's advances. But he soon learns that she has not told the whole truth.

The Texan: S2 E11 - Trouble On The Trail

A former lawman, now a storekeeper, has lost his nerve after a shooting incident, and is now being harassed by a gang of outlaws led by the brother of a man he once killed. The ex-lawman's daughter refuses to let him put on a gun again or try to fight back.

The Texan: S2 E12 - Cowards Don't Die

Bill travels to Ciudad Juarez to accept a job working for a cattleman and his fiancée, only to soon find out he has been set up as the scapegoat in a counterfeiting scheme.

The Texan: S2 E13 - Border Incident

A rancher warns Bill and the railroad workers not to put track down through the land his cattle graze on, even though it is government land. Later he shoots and seriously wounds one of the workers as they are riding in a wagon. But Bill picks up the rancher's son instead, and the workers are in lynching mood.

The Texan: S2 E14 - Dangerous Ground

Bill tries to find out who's supplying whiskey to railroad workers during their working hours in order to halt railroad progress; he first suspects a saloon owner, but it becomes clear she's not the guilty party.

The Texan: S2 E15 - End Of The Track

Bill agrees to take his former Civil War commander's oldest son with him to make a man out of him; Bill quickly detects the son has an intense bitterness towards his father.

The Texan: S2 E17 - Friend Of The Family

Bill is serving as Marshall of Rio Nada, an area plagued by Mexican bandits who cross the border to raid the countryside; he captures one of the bandits and threatens him with hanging to get the identity of the bandit leader.

The Texan: S2 E18 - The Taming Of Rio Nada

After acting marshal Bill orders no guns to be worn on the streets of Rio Nada, a local casino owner sends for two notorious gunmen to kill him.

The Texan: S2 E19 - Sixgun Street

Bill is brought to the Governor by two bounty hunters, and he's hired to become Marshal of border-town being controlled by an outlaw called El Sombro; Bill learns his old mentor is the current sheriff and he's become an ineffective drunk.

The Texan: S2 E20 - The Terrified Town

Bill is forced to kill one of the Dawson brothers after a fight when the man draws on him, and then he must contend with three other brothers who vow to kill him.

The Texan: S2 E21 - Thirty Hours To Kill

After Bill, again working with the railroad, turns down a bribe from a landowner to detour the track through his town, the man then forces a doctor to quarantine the railroad workers, falsely claiming a case of cholera.

The Texan: S2 E22 - Quarantine

Bill finds an old prospector almost dead from thirst, and brings him in to the railroad workers camp. But men from a rival outfit talk the old man into spreading a story about finding gold, hoping to lure the workers away from their job.

The Texan: S2 E23 - Buried Treasure

A group of convicts take over the work train, killing their guards, and hold the entire crew at the construction site hostage. Bill, who they think they also killed on the train, makes it back to the site and must figure out a way to stop them.

The Texan: S2 E24 - Captive Crew

Bill is planning to leave the railroad worker camp and move on, but a former crewman shows up to make trouble; Bill learns the man is working as field agent for the company that the workers hoped to get a new contract from.

The Texan: S2 E25 - Showdown

Bill saves a government agent from ambush. The agent is carrying a list of landowners who are refusing to pay their taxes, and the daughter of one of those landowners---the one who the attempted killers are working for---is engaged to the governor.

The Texan: S2 E27 - The Governor's Lady

Bill finds a town engulfed in a feud between two ranchers; he also learns that his former commanding officer is now a doctor who's turned to drinking, and a young man blames him for crippling his arm.

The Texan: S2 E28 - Town Divided

A lynch mob wants to hang a young man convicted of killing a family of homesteaders. Bill rides in with a stay of execution from the governor just as the mob is about to break into the jail and the desperate prisoner escapes.

The Texan: S2 E29 - The Guilty And The Innocent

Bill stops to visit his friend, a well-respected sheriff, only to find that the whole town has turned against him and he's been jailed for killing an unarmed kid; Bill seeks to discover the real truth.

The Texan: S2 E30 - Presentation Gun

Bill comes to the defense of an unassuming man who is being bullied and tries to encourage him to stand up for himself. Soon the man asks Bill to teach him how to use a gun.

The Texan: S2 E32 - The Nomad

Bill takes the job of escorting a convicted killer to his hanging, knowing that the man's sons and gang members are in the area planning to free him.

The Texan: S2 E33 - Killer's Road

An Easterner and his daughter hire Bill to guide them in the search for a wild stallion whom they hope to breed. But an old enemy plans to follow them on the search and rob the horse breeder and get revenge on Bill.

The Texan: S2 E34 - Lady Tenderfoot

Bill goes after the three men who had forced him to accompany them on a bank robbery then framed him for it after.

The Texan: S2 E35 - The Invisible Noose

Bill befriends an overeager young man named Johnny Tuvo who plans to challenge him in the upcoming horse race. But two other men at the event have more sinister plans for how to take advantage of it.

The Texan: S2 E37 - Johnny Tuvo

Bill is captured by a posse and accused of being one of the men who robbed a bank and shot the banker; only the sheriff, whom the banker hates for being in love with his daughter, is inclined to believe Bill.

The Texan: S2 E38 - The Accuser

Bill is sent into Mexico to investigate and put an end to a counterfeiting ring that's been operating there making phony American currency; the lawman he was to contact is ambushed and killed, leaving Bill to handle the situation alone.

The Texan: S2 E39 - Mission To Monterrey

Bill escorts a prisoner to Pueblo for trial; he is also to deliver money to the prisoner's mother for his daughter, whom she has custody of; the two men encounter a dust storm, which forces them to take refuge in a ghost town.

The Texan: S2 E40 - Badman

Bill hopes to prove that his friend Steve Murrow is innocent of killing the man who married the girl he was hoping to marry, but he only has 24 hours to do it before Steve is hung; the town sheriff has threatened to kill Bill if he frees Steve.

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