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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Missing Train

    • October 24, 1959

    Slade is hired to locate a train car with $1 million in coins that disappeared into thin air.

  • S01E02 The Salted Mine

    • October 26, 1959

    A.S. Batson purchased a mine for $40,000. She sent for Slade to help her prove the mine was salted and that she had been defrauded.

  • S01E03 The Lady and the Piano

    • November 2, 1959

    A piano player has problems with a woman and threatenes to kill her. When she is found murdered, he asks for Slade's help.

  • S01E04 Omar the Sign Maker

    • November 3, 1959

    Slade is on his way to a job when he is mistaken as a rustler and receives a beating. A sign maker named Omar finds him, takes him home, patches him up, and helps him on his way so that Slade can get to town and solve the crime.

  • S01E05 The Safe Crackers

    • November 7, 1959

    Slade missed a rendezvous with a man carrying blueprints of bank vaults throughout the territory. He pursues him but finds the man dead. He wants to find the man's killers before they can rob any more banks.

  • S01E06 The Stalkers

    • November 9, 1959

    Slade is hired by the Conger Meat Packing Co. to find an accountant who embezzled 100,000. His only clue is that a woman who left town at the same time left behind some made to order shoes.

  • S01E07 Freight Line

    • November 14, 1959

    A freight-liner needs to renew its contract in order to stay in business. Several accidents have put the renewal in jeopardy. Slade is called in to put a stop to the "accidents."

  • S01E08 Marked Money

    • November 16, 1959

    Slade reports for a job and receives a payment in advance for solving a bank robbery mystery. It turns out to be a set up. The money is marked and Slade is taken to jail.

  • S01E09 Bob Ford

    • December 19, 1959

    Slade has been hired to stop a gang from train holdups. The train he is riding on is held up and he learns that the man sitting next to him is the notorious Bob Ford.

  • S01E10 Gunnar Yensen

    • December 21, 1959

    Slade happens upon Gunnar Jensen being chased by two Indians on the road to Concho. Slade helps him. Gunnar is a carpenter looking for work and Slade has been summoned to Concho because someone has locked up the carpentry trade there.

  • S01E11 A Plate of Death

    • December 26, 1959

    Slade is hired to find money stolen in a creative bank robbery. The local newspaper identifies the gang behind the robbery. As a first step to solving the crime, Slade visits the newspaper to set them straight.

  • S01E12 Mesa of Missing Men

    • December 28, 1959

    Slade is hired to recover $100,000 that was stolen from a bank. The robber is holed up in a mountain fortress filled with criminals. Slade must figure out how to get in and then how to get out.

  • S01E13 The Blue Dog

    • January 2, 1960

    Slade stops by Cottonwood to visit an old friend. The friend is killed when he resists a shakedown. Slade is determined to find the man responsible for his friend's death.

  • S01E14 Major Trouble

    • January 4, 1960

    Slade is summoned to a new town to settle a dispute. As soon as he arrives, he is asked to leave. He soon becomes aware of a dispute between a town founder and the sheriff who has been unable to solve a murder.

  • S01E15 Barbed Wire

    • January 9, 1960

    Slade is on his way to a town where he has been summoned. On his way he comes upon a fence around a dam. He soon realizes this is the problem he has been sent to solve.

  • S01E16 The Marriage Circle

    • January 11, 1960

    Hal Pardee controls Pardee county. Hal, Jr. wants to marry a saloon girl from Dodge City - Ruby Devers. When Ruby goes missing, Junior hires Slade to find what happened to her.

  • S01E17 Treasure Trap

    • January 12, 1960

    Slade is sent by an insurance company to investigate a bank robbery where the details had been sketchy. When he gets to town, he suspects everyone and soon he realizes he is unwelcome there.

  • S01E18 The Deadfall

    • February 2, 1960

    Slade is on his way to the next town when he stops to help a convict and ends up in a deadfall set up by three escaped prisoners who take his horse and gun. When Slade gets loose, he sets out to get his horse and gun back.

  • S01E19 The Pool Shark

    • February 23, 1960

    Slade is waiting for a stage connection when he enters into a game of billiards. When the man he is playing with hits the eight ball, the ball explodes and kills him. Slade is determined to find the murderer.

  • S01E20 Street of Terror

    • February 23, 1960

    Slade is on vacation when a woman hires him to try to find the sniper that killed her father. He starts to ask some questions and soon finds the sniper is after him.

  • S01E21 Too Smart to Live

    • March 1, 1960

    Slade heard about a bank robbery and wants to investigate to see if he can get some reward money. On the way he gets a note with an offer to meet a man to help solve the robbery.

  • S01E22 Shotgun Trial

    • March 1, 1960

  • S01E23 The Deadly Key

    • March 8, 1960

    Slade finds himself in possession of the key that three treasure seekers have long sought and will kill to get back. The key promises to unlock the Treasure of the Seven Emeralds of Quetzalcoatl.

  • S01E24 The Swindle

    • March 8, 1960

    Slade is hired to carry $75000 from Denver to Tucson for the purchase of a ranch and falls victim to a swindle.

  • S01E25 The Smell of Money

    • April 8, 1960

    A bank robbery gone wrong brings Slade to Willow Ridge to rout out the guilty party and his accomplice.

  • S01E26 Donna Juanita

    • April 15, 1960

    Slade travels to New Mexico Territory to split open a land grant syndicate and expose the identity of the swindler behind it.

  • S01E27 The Golden Tunnel

    • April 22, 1960

    Slade's visit to an old friend turns deadly when some people will stop at nothing to steal a last will and testament entrusted to Slade's care.

  • S01E28 A Flower for Jenny

    • April 29, 1960

    Slade serves as bodyguard to primadonna performer Jenny DuPree, who is receiving death threats and a dwindling number of roses from an assassin who bills himself as her "ultimate admirer."

  • S01E29 The Fabulous Fiddle

    • May 6, 1960

    Slade is engaged to ensure the safety of a Stradivarius violin during a vaudeville troupe's tour in Denver.

  • S01E30 Crossed Guns

    • May 13, 1960

    A hook-handed gunslinger nursing a grudge lures Slade to Grover's Bend for a showdown with his fast-drawing young protégé, Billy.

  • S01E31 Sudden Death

    • May 20, 1960

    Slade is summoned to the lumber town of Big Fir to investigate an axe murder at a crooked casino.

  • S01E32 The Spanish Box

    • May 27, 1960

    Slade unwittingly serves as a messenger of death, delivering a booby-trapped Spanish Box to a beloved banker, and must quickly clear himself by finding the real killers before the town's lynch mob musters its courage.

  • S01E33 Backtrack

    • May 28, 1960

    An amateur embezzler who glamorizes a life of crime learns a hard lesson when he falls in with a gang of bandits after they free him from Slade's custody during a train robbery.

  • S01E34 Ring of Death

    • June 3, 1960

    Detective Slade finds evidence a beautiful woman had something to with the murder of the trail boss, she was to marry.

  • S01E35 Killer's Brand

    • June 4, 1960

    Slade comes to the Cody Ranch and goes undercover as a hand to smoke out a murderous band of horse thieves.

  • S01E36 A Flower on Boot Hill

    • June 11, 1960

    Two escaped convicts, a grieving woman, and a widowed doctor who faithfully lays flowers on his wife's grave are among the seemingly incongruous elements factoring into Slade's investigation of a baffling bank robbery.

  • S01E37 Charcoal Bullet

    • July 1, 1960

    The smoking gun in a masked bank robbery comes in the unlikely form of a charcoal pencil held by the drunken sketch artist who witnessed the criminals plotting the robbery and can now capture their faces on paper. Can he complete his drawings before the killers get the drop on him?

  • S01E38 Lost Gold

    • July 5, 1960

    The Gold Run Mining Company engages Slade to uncover a criminal cabal of high graders who have been robbing the firm of its best quality gold ore.

  • S01E39 Murder in Gingham

    • July 8, 1960

    Doc Benson, a harmless old kleptomaniac, is an accepted fact in Central City, until the couple who operate the general store are killed, and all the evidence points to Doc, in "Murder In Gingham."

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