Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West

1960 1 Seasons 38 Episodes ⭐ 6.7 Western Crime

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

High Lonesome

Simon meets a man at a way station who has been hired to kill him.

EP 2

The Land Beyond

EP 3

Dark Return

EP 4

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 pa

EP 5

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. Dav

EP 6

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 gro

EP 7

Red Sand

Simon picks up two lost travelers in a sand storm and then learns they just robbed a bank.

EP 8

The Saga of Jeremy Boone

EP 9

Life Sentence

EP 10

The Storm

EP 11

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 childr

EP 12

By the Deep Six

The stagecoach gets ambushed and it don't look good for the passengers aboard.

EP 13

Object: Patrimony

Susan McLord and her fiance Lionel Chambers try to elope on Luke's stage. But a band of renegades intercept the coach, k

EP 14

Come Home Again

EP 15

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 cou

EP 16

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

EP 17

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.

EP 18

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

EP 19

The Arsonist

EP 20

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 mu

EP 21

The Root of Evil

EP 22

The Outcasts

Deputy Ken Rawlins fires after a fleeing holdup gang. One of the men he kills is his own brother.

EP 23

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

EP 24

House of Violence

EP 25

The Butcher

A butcher of sorts comes in hot pursuit of Simon's stagecoach.

EP 26

Fort Wyatt Crossing

Luke finds a badly wounded soldier sprawled across the road.

EP 27

A Place of Still Waters

EP 28

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

EP 29

The Big Gun

Luke is carrying a Gatling gun in his stage for delivry to an army post. He is intercepted by Mexican revolutionary Fran

EP 30

The Dead Don't Cry

EP 31

The Raider

Emily Prince and her homesteader fiance, Gil Soames are to meet at Halfway House. But killer Mel Harney, who was once en

EP 32

Blind Man's Bluff

A couple must run for their lives after a blind gunfighter threatens to kill them.

EP 33

The Bold Whip

EP 34

The Orphans

Two children come from Spain to join their father, but when they arrive, they find him dead.

EP 35

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 h

EP 36

The Swindler

Hollis Collier offers the citizens of Outpost a chance to invest their money in a gold mine. Simon thinks Collier is up

EP 37

The Renegades

A group of renegade soldiers, headed by Ed Bush and Tom Lochlin, are headed for the Canadian border. To be less conspicu

EP 38

The Marker

Luke is helping Jenny Forbes hide from her former boyfriend, a gambler called Mingo. When Mingo learns of this, he sends

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