third season
writer - Ken Pettus
director - Virgil W. Vogel
A newly-hired ranch hand is suspected of being the famous outlaw Joaquin Murietta, supposedly dead in an ambush ten years before.
NickyContent: an amusing scene with Heath mending fence; he looks very nice actually *wearing* a bandanna on his head.
writer - Margaret Armen
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Victoria and a reluctant Simon Carter are the only protection three Yaqui Indian women have from bounty-seeking scalp hunters.
writer - Michael Gleason
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Nick is tricked into winning a flock of sheep in a card game. His first instinct is to get rid of them immediately, but his neighbors' reactions start to rankle, and he finds himself increasingly unable to back down on a matter of principal.
NickyContent:: central; often very funny. Full of physicality. Rating: YY. NickyMoments include his rolling around in the dirt (after a sheep, of course). Some great, funny, dialogue.
writer - Steven W. Carabatsos
director - Charles S. Dubin
Jarrod is blinded by an explosion set by a scoundrel who doesn't want him to face him at trial as Acting District Attorney. The family encourages him to continue with the case, and assists him at the trial.
NickyContent: all family members are involved, so there are good NickyMoments and good interaction. Nicky as attorney's assistant -- !
writer - Don Ingalls
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Tom Wills is Marshall in a small town which he cleaned up and keeps on a very tight leash. Heath is disturbed to find just how much power his old friend has.
NickyContent: single scene at the end, fairly amusing bit.
writer - Jay Simms
director - Norman S. Powell
Nick may become the latest victim of a family who preys upon male customers at their hotel. His pursuit of the young woman of the family gives them pause: should they kill him now, or hope that, wonder of wonders, a Stockton Barkley would marry her?
NickyContent: hard-working Nick is seen at serious play at a crap game, very fun; his single-minded, undeviating pursuit of Belle is something to see. Yumm. Rating: YY. (of course).
writer - Harry Kronman
director - Paul Henreid
Jarrod's client Jeff Bowden was convicted of the murder of a priest; he is convinced of the man's innocence, and sure he can win on appeal. When Bowden escapes during his transfer to prison, Jarrod tries to intervene before he or anyone else gets killed.
NickyContent: I like the way he jumps out of the carriage as soon as he hears Jarrod may be in danger -- and he's a very fast draw. Nice scene with Nick dropping Victoria off at the store. NickyMoment: having a hangover at the breakfast table.
writer - Michael Gleason
story by Lou Morheim
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Audra disappears while she and her mother break their stagecoach journey in a small town. No one will admit to Victoria that her daughter was even traveling with her.
writer - Arthur Browne, jr.
director - Joseph A. Mazzuca
Two men are found hung, and a note left by each of them claims that a third person will die for past crimes: Victoria Barkley.
NickyMoments: he douses his head...and we learn how a bandanna is tied. A nice bit of humor with Jarrod and Audra and "continental manners."
writers - John O'Dea and Arthur Rowe
director - Virgil W. Vogel
The only way to stop a forest fire is to make a firebreak, and the only way to make a firebreak on the scale required is to use nitroglycerin. The first attempt to deliver the nitro kills the men involved. The Barkley boys decide that they are the only ones willing and able to do the deed -- and they hope the famous "Barkley luck" will hold out.As they plan their expedition, each brother finds himself involved in one way or otherwith three very different women.
NickyContent: some great dialogue, humorous scenes. Nicky the romantic (he is, you know). Rating: YY.
writers - John O'Dea and Arthur Rowe
director - Virgil W. Vogel
The brothers start the tricky journey to deliver nitro to the scene of a forest fire.
NickyContent: some great lines; effective use of all three brothers.
writer- Ken Pettus
director - Virgil W. Vogel
A woman prisoner is killed while he is being delivered to a desert prison. To keep from losing $100 bounty, the guards substitute Victoria, whose buggy has broken down on the route to a mine stockholders' meeting.
writer - Mel Goldberg
director - Virgil W. Vogel
A prominent politician is assassinated and the town drunk is accused. Heath sees a known outlaw in the vicinity, riding the drunk's pinto horse. The problem is, the sheriff swears the outlaw was in jail at that very time.
NickyContent: one scene only, at the end, a rather typical bit of comedy.
writer - Arthur Browne, jr.
director -Arnold Laven
Heath is taken captive by a band of "religious" who accuse him of killing one of the number, and condemn him to serve as slave to the dead man's widow.
NickyContent: Some amusing bits early in the episode; then, things get serious.
writer - Margaret Armen
director - Joseph A. Mazzuca
Victoria hires three convicts to help with the peach harvest. The violence of the convict overseer, especially with a black ex-soldier, horrifies her.
writer - Dan Ullman
director - Joseph A. Mazzuca
Nick and Heath cross the state line to bring back two outlaw brothers who shot Jarrod in the course of a robbery. They find a town that thinks of the outlaws as benefactors and will have nothing to do with the Barkleys' search for justice.
writer - Ken Pettus
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Jarrod seeks to avenge the death of his new wife at the hands of a man he once sent to prison.
NickyContent: two important confrontations with Jarrod; an amusing scene with Victoria and Heath in the kitchen.
writer - Ken Pettus
director - Paul Henreid
Miranda, a Mexican revolutionary, tries to trick the Barkleys into giving her a necklace that has been given to them for safe-keeping.
NickyContent:. quite the chemistry between Nick and Miranda! Rating: YY.
writers - Sasha Gilien and Mel Goldberg
director - Norman S. Powell
Nick and Heath join a posse led by famous lawman Seth Campbell. Heath is uneasy, as he feels Campbell is too cavalier with peoples' lives.
NickyContent: a classic trick in the epilogue, very funny.
writer - David Moessinger
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Heath is sure to be acquitted of a crime he can't remember committing, if he trusts the unscrupulous methods of Jarrod's co-counsel. However, Heath would rather honestly work for the truth to come out, even if it means he learns he did commit the crime.
writer - Mel Goldberg
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Walter Masters is out to corner the rice market, but his old friend Victoria refuses to sell him the family rice, choosing instead to sell it to a consortium of Chinese-American businessmen. The weak-willed Masters allows his wife to take drastic measures in response.
NickyContent: he's there to provide some rather typical knee-jerk reactions, and be a strong physical presence.
writer - Margaret Armen
director - Charles S. Dubin
Jarrod is in Rimfire to negotiate the merger of the Barkley and Glover silver mines. Unfortunately, land between the two mines is occupied by Chinese "squatters" who have taken over abandoned real estate. They insist they will not be bought out, and tensions rise.
writers - John O'Dea and Jay Simms
director - Arnold Laven
Nick courts a young woman, unaware of the fact that she has a bounty hunter husband. At first, she doesn't have a chance to tell Nick this; later, she doesn't want to.
NickyContent: Nicky at his most charming. Rating: YY. Some very funny NickyMoments.
writers - Sasha Gilien and Mel Goldberg
director - Paul Henreid
When Jim North's bride-to-be arrives from the East, Heath suspects that something is not quite right about her.
writer - Don Ingalls
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Young Danny Wiggins seems bound for trouble; Nick sets out to try to help him, whether he wants help or not.
NickyContent: some sweet and funny bits; a humorous teaser and a great ending (the best fast-talking in the West). Rating: YY. I like his identification with Danny.
writer - Margaret Armen
director - Virgil W. Vogel
Victoria and her long-time friend Senator Bannard are set up for a "compromising" photograph, by Bannard's political rival.
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