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S1 E18 The Peddler

Western

TV-PG

25m

Jan 25, 1959

Longley and the town's newspaper editor come to the assistance of a Hungarian peddler when he is attacked by local toughs.

Season 1, 35 Episodes

The Texan - Law Of The Gun

Law Of The Gun,

Bill Longley arrives in a small Texas town with the intension of helping Les Torbit, an old army buddy, in his range war with Kyle Richards' outfit. Longley soon learns that Torbit is held for accidentally shooting Richards' teen-aged daughter.

The Texan - The Man With The Solid Gold Star

The Man With The Solid Gold Star,

Professional gambler Jake Romer wins big in a poker game, taking thousands of dollars in IOUs from Jim Caldwell, an ex-lawman, who had planned to buy cattle for his ranch in Texas.

The Texan - The Troubled Town

The Troubled Town,

Hot-headed Johnny Kaler, embarrassed that he's been caught cheating at cards, provokes Bill Longley into a barroom brawl and is quickly thrashed. Later in the evening Johnny tries to kill Bill, but dies when an unknown assailant shoots him in the back.

The Texan - The First Notch

The First Notch,

Bill Longley meets an old, but beautiful, friend who currently owns the local saloon and is happy to renew her acquaintance. This angers the local land baron, who has a proprietary interest in the young lady.

The Texan - The Edge Of The Cliff

The Edge Of The Cliff,

Orin and Ruth McKnight's May/December romance hits a rough spot when Bill Longley returns from a cattle drive with news that Orin's son from his first marriage died driving off rustlers.

The Texan - Jail For The Innocents

Jail For The Innocents,

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. Bill is confronted by two henchmen who try to force Bill to turn the boy over to them.

The Texan - A Tree For Planting

A Tree For Planting,

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 doesn't want any trouble, but is forced to take sides when a lynch mob threatens to hang the farmer.

The Texan - The Hemp Tree

The $8300 Bill Longley earned for driving a herd of cattle to Mesa isn't in his hands for thirty seconds before two gunmen rob take his money and the bank's assets as well, mortally wounding the bank president in the process.

The Texan - The Widow Of Paradise

The Widow Of Paradise,

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 - any man who slays another in a fair fight is responsible for the care and feeding of the widow and children until she gets married.

The Texan - No Tears For The Dead

No Tears For The Dead,

Bill is accosted by a 'boy' who demands he help 'his' father, who has been shot in the stomach. Before the man dies, he asks Bill to take care of his daughter and Bill discovers that the mud-splattered youth is really a pretty girl.

The Texan - The Easterner

Bill has been hired to guide two Easterners who want to capture wild stallions to use as studs for breeding. Bill and the Dowds get off on the wrong foot when the husband becomes jealous of his old friendship with his wife.

The Texan - A Time Of The Year

A Time Of The Year,

Bill Longley shares a stagecoach compartment with Jody Sammett and his pregnant wife Maria on their journey to meet Jody's father, Big Jim Sammett for Christmas.

The Texan - The Lord Will Provide

The Lord Will Provide,

After Longley rescues the wounded Reverend Kilgore from two would-be bushwhackers, he learns that the parson was heading for Phillipsburg, a town with a reputation for killing men of the cloth. Bill decides to pose as the minister to investigate.

The Texan - The Duchess Of Denver

The Duchess Of Denver,

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

The Texan - A Quart Of Law

A Quart Of Law,

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 - Outpost

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

The Texan - The Peddler

Longley and the town's newspaper editor come to the assistance of a Hungarian peddler when he is attacked by local toughs.

The Texan - Return To Friendly

Return To Friendly,

Longley attempts to escort Yancey Lewis, a bank robber sentenced to spend five years in prison in a distant town. Longley not only has to deal with a howling windstorm and an empty canteen, but the outlaw's gang trying to rescue him.

The Texan - The Man Behind The Star

The Man Behind The Star,

Longley's old friend, pretty ranch owner Martha Driscoll, negotiates a highly successful sale at the end of a cattle drive. Martha refuses to put her money in the bank and ends up being robbed and murdered - but not before naming her killer.

The Texan - The Ringer

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 - The Marshal Of Yellow Jacket

The Marshal Of Yellow Jacket,

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. When Longley intervenes, he discovers the man is only carrying out an obscure town ordinance.

The Texan - No Love Wasted

No Love Wasted,

Wylie Ames, a big gruff widower, has been corresponding with a lonely woman whose personal ad he saw in an out-of town paper. However, she is coming to meet him and this creates a big problem.

The Texan - A Race For Life

A Race For Life,

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 - Letter Of The Law

Letter Of The Law,

Longley rides to the rescue when four gunmen bushwhack a man riding in a buggy. Longley takes the man to a nearby ranch house, but neither the owner or the town doctor wishes to assist the wounded man.

The Texan - Private Account

Private Account,

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.

The Texan - Caballero

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.

The Texan - Blood Money

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.

The Texan - No Place To Stop

No Place To Stop,

Longley must help a parolee and his pretty daughter battle a family of outlaws who are trying to drive him off his ranch. Longley has a pair of unlikely allies - a young gunman dressed all in black and a half-crazed old woman.

The Texan - Reunion

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.

The Texan - Badlands

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

The Texan - South Of The Border

South Of The Border,

When an outlaw gang shoots up a town and robs the bank, Bill joins the posse to track the owlhoots down. When the outlaws cross into Mexico, Bill crosses the border to avenge the deaths of a pretty mother and daughter.

The Texan - The Smiling Loser

The Smiling Loser,

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 - The Sheriff Of Boot Hill

The Sheriff Of Boot Hill,

Though reluctant at first, Bill accepts the offer of his old friend Sheriff Ben Tildy to take the job as his deputy, even though several deputies have been killed over the past few years as two ruthless men have taken over the town.

The Texan - The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter,

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 - The Man Hater

Bill tries to help a young woman who is being pursued by two men. The men tell him that she is a thief and that they are bringing her back to the gunfighter who she is trying to flee from.

Details

The Texan

Western

TV-PG

2 Seasons

24m

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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