ABC. 30 min. Broadcast history: Sunday, 9:00-9:30, Oct. 1959-Sept. 1961.

Regular Cast: Nick Adams (Johnny Yuma).

Premise: The series depicted the adventures of Johnny Yuma, a former Confederate soldier, who travels the West after the Civil War. Great writing, production and directing along with cool guest stars makes this an essential show.

The Episodes

1. Johnny Yuma. Oct. 4,1959. GS: John Carradine, Dan Blocker, Strother Martin, Jeanette Nolan. Johnny Yuma returns home after the truce at Appomattox and finds his father dead and the town in the hands of outlaws. Johnny vows to avenge his father's death.

2. Judgment. Oct. 11, 1959. GS: Sue Randall, Bob Steele, J. Pat O'Malley. In his attempt to flee from a posse, Will Randall tries to take Johnny Yuma's horse, but Yuma captures him and turns him over to the posse. Randall's daughter later tells Johnny that her father is being framed.

3. Yellow Hair. Oct. 18,1959. GS: Royal Dano, Rodolfo Acosta, Perry Lopez, Carol Nugent. At an abandoned Army post, Johnny Yuma finds a strange man babbling insanely. He tells Johnny he is just acting like a madman to keep the Indians from killing him. Suddenly, the Indians reappear.

4. Vicious Circle. Oct. 25, 1959. GS: George Macready, Eddie Ryder, Ed Nelson, William Foster. Johnny Yuma is beaten up by two ex-Union soldiers who want to know the whereabouts of a two-million dollar cache of gold. But Johnny knows nothing at all about it.

5. Panic. Nov. 1, 1959. GS: Karl Swenson, J. Pat O'Malley, Allen Kramer, Edith Claire, Laurie Perreau. Johnny Yuma comes upon a squatter family in need of help. The townspeople fear that the squatters have diphtheria.

6. The Scavengers. Nov. 8, 1959. GS: James Westerfield, Olive Sturgess. A band of murderous pillagers besiege a homesteader family intent on taking over their home for the winter. The scavengers run out of ammunition and try to trick the family into giving them some.

7. School Days. Nov. 15, 1959. GS: Fintan Meyler, Warren Oates, Dick Rush, Olan Soule. Johnny Yuma agrees to act temporarily as schoolmaster. But he runs into difficulty with one of his students, who is sore because his sweetheart has a crush on Johnny.

8. Dark Secret. Nov. 22,1959. GS: Tyler McVey, N.J. Davis, Edith Claire, Johnny Eimen, Bobby Beekman. Embittered Sime Trask goads Johnny Yuma into a gunfight. Trask is killed, and Yuma and the Sheriff go to explain his death to the widow.

9. Misfits. Nov. 29,1959. GS: Hampton Fancher, Hal Stalmaster. Three young boys ambush Johnny Yuma. The youths then tell Yuma of their bold plan to rob a bank.

10. In Memoriam. Dec. 6, 1959. GS: Agnes Moorehead, Madlyn Rhue. Johnny Yuma fulfills a promise made to a dying Union soldier. He rides into Lassiter City to return a
keepsake medal to the boy's family. The mother proudly receives the medal and then asks Yuma to stay on as a cowhand.

11. The Vagrants. Dec. 20,1959. GS: Robert Foulk, Wright King, K.L. Smith, Kelton Garwood. Johnny is arrested by a corrupt sheriff on a trumped-up charge of vagrancy, and
forced to join a gang of slave laborers.

12. Gun City. Dec. 27,1959. GS: Otto Kruger, Dan Sheridan. Yuma goes to see the newspaper editor in a frontier town. The editor tells Yuma that the city is trying a new
approach to law and order by assuring that everyone is disarmed.

13. The Death of Gray. Jan. 3,1960. GS: Harry Townes, Johnny Cash, Steven Marlo. Two men in Confederate uniforms attack Johnny Yuma and force him to come to their
hideout. Yuma learns that the men are members of a group who refuse to acknowledge the end of the Civil War. One of the bestJohnny Cash is great

14. Angry Town. Jan. 10, 1960. GS: Perry Cook, Jose Sanchez, Jose Gonzales Gonzales, Ian MacDonald, Jim Giles. Johnny Yuma comes to town for supplies and discovers that he is the victim of a conspiracy. No one will sell to him and he will starve unless he can break the boycott.

15. Gold Seeker. Jan. 17,1960. GS: John Sutton, Eddie Little Sky, Henry Brandon. Johnny Yuma tangles with a man who intends to mine gold in Indian territory, despite laws prohibiting it. Yuma pursues the man into the territory.

16. Glory. Jan. 24,1960. GS: Marie Windsor, Jenifer Lea, William Bryant. In the desert, Johnny Yuma encounters a girl who has been stranded and left to die. Yuma learns that the girl's romance was broken up the hate of her fiance's sister. Top 5 e/p dreamgirl Marie Windsor is ultracool in this....

17. The Unwanted. Jan. 31,1960. GS: Trevor Bardette, Carleton Young, Henry Rowland, Buck Young. Johnny Yuma tries to befriend old man Amister. But townspeople warn that the man has been behaving strangely.

18. The Crime. Feb. 7,1960. GS: Walter Sande, Paul Clarke, Richard Devon. Townspeople hurl charges of robbery at Johnny Yuma, but the rebel proves his innocence. The anxious citizens then turn their accusations on an equally innocent Mexican.

19. Noblesse Oblige. Feb. 14,1960. GS: Robert Vaughn, Gail Russell. On a visit to his old commanding officer, Johnny Yuma discovers that the major is planning to hang an apparently innocent man.

20. Land. Feb. 21,1960. GS: Rudolph Anders, Ralph Moody, Rick Rich, Ross Elliott. Johnny Yuma is called on to testify in a trial involving some prairie land. But after his
appearance, Johnny learns that he has unwittingly helped pull off a big land swindle.

21. He's Only a Boy. Feb. 28,1960. GS: Robert Blake, Michael Vandever, Donald Woods, George Becwar. His father has been called a coward, and young Virgil Morse intends to defend the family honor. Johnny Yuma has a letter that would disprove the accusation, but Virgil, unaware of this, tries to shoot him.

22. Take Dead Aim. March 6,1960. GS: Edgar Barrier, Mala Powers. Bianco and Cassie are a husband-and-wife shooting team. Yuma finds himself right in their line of fire.

23. The Rattler. March 13,1960. GS: Martha Vickers, Tommy Haig, Keith Richards. When a rattler bites Johnny Yuma, Tom Weed comes to his aid. But Weed is another kind of snake in the grass and plans to use Johnny in a scheme to take over the town.

24. You Steal My Eyes. March 20, 1960. GS: Cathy O'Donnell, William Bryant, Russ Sturlin, George Graham. Johnny Yuma rescues a trapper who was caught in his own snare. But Hump, the trapped trapper, has enemies who would just as soon he was left in the trap.

25. Fair Game. March 27,1960. GS: James Drury, Patricia Medina, Jim Chandler, Stacy Harris, Mickey Finn. A bounty hunter is murdered while escorting outlaw Belle Kenyon to justice. Johnny Yuma takes charge of Belle and stalks the killer.

26. Unsurrendered Sword. April 3, 1960. GS: Jay Novello, Paul Picerni, Peggy Webber, Mary Gregory. Johnny Yuma goes to Mexico to retrieve a sword. He has promised to bring it back to Juanita, the widow of a Confederate general.

27. The Captive of Tremblor. April 10, 1960. GS: Robert Brubaker, John Pickard, James Seay, Mimi Gibson, Lillian Adams. A doctor who saved Johnny's life is in jail, but he has never been convicted of a crime.

28. Blind Marriage. April 17,1960. GS: Lisa Lu, Philip Ahn, Victor Buono, Wyatt Cooper. Four larcenous characters are about to bamboozle a wealthy Chinese family. Though the odds are against him, Yuma tries to smash the scheme.

29. Absolution. April 24, 1960. GS: Gloria Talbott, Barry Atwater, John Maxwell, Natalie Masters, Laura Wood. Johnny hurries to the bedside of a dying young woman. His mission evokes the memory of an earlier time during the Civil War, when he and the girl were in love.

30. A Grave for Johnny Yuma. May 1, 1960. GS: Fred Beir, John Brinkley, Bruno Ve Sota, Mike Mikler, Ross Sterling, Olan Soule. Concealing his true identity, Johnny Yuma joins forces with a stranger who's trailing a man he intends to kill - Johnny Yuma.

31. In Memory of a Son. May 8,1960. GS: Harry Bartell, Jack Hogan, Richard Evans, Marjorie Stapp, James Giles. Charlie Burton, in memory of a son lost during the Civil War, wills his valuable property to four of his son's wartime buddies.

32. Paint a House with Searlet. May 15, 1960. GS: Clu Gulager, Maggie Mahoney, John Anderson. Johnny Yuma makes a brief stop at the farmhouse of a young widow, a former dance hall girl. He learns that she is being maliciously persecuted by a self-righteous neighbor.

33. Grant of Land. May 22,1960. GS: Paul Richards, Ruta Lee, Ed Nelson, Jimmy Lee Cook, Ben Wright. A former Northern soldier has settled on a small piece of land in the South, and townspeople make it known that he is not welcome.

34. Night on a Rainbow. May 29,1960. GS: James Best, Gail Kobe, Perry Cook, Jon Lormer. Johnny learns that an old friend from his Army days has become a drug addict.

35. Lady of Quality. June 5, 1960. GS: Joanna Moore, Edward Kernmer, Bart Burns. Johnny comes upon the burned-out remains of a fine old home. In the midst of the wreckage he finds a deranged young woman, oblivious to her surroundings and playing a pump organ.

36. The Earl of Durango. June 12, 1960. GS: Patricia Medina, John Sutton, George Tobias, L.Q. Jones, Jody Lawrence, Nick Dennis, Victor Buono, Bruno Ve Sota. Johnny is hired as bodyguard for the head of an investment company. He reports for duty just seconds too late and his employer has been shot.

37. Johnny Yuma at Appomattox. Sept. 18,1960. GS: George Macready, Ed Nelson, William Bryant, J. Pat O'Malley, Andrew J. Fenady, Teddy Rooney. General Grant pays a postwar visit to the South and Johnny tells young Jimmy the story of Lee's surrender.

38. The Bequest. Sept. 25, 1960. GS: Elisha Cook, Jr., John Carradine, Natalie Masters, John Pickard, Russ Sturlin Robert Swan. Johnny Yuma, after the reward money on killer Jeremy Hake, returns to his home town. But Johnny's old buddies turn their backs on him for becoming just another bounty hunter.

39. The Champ. Oct. 2, 1960. GS: Michael Ansara, Edward Kernmer, Chuck Hicks, William Harlow, Eric Alden. Yuma runs into Docker Mason, an old Army buddy who is now a broken-down prizefighter. It seems that Docker is taking the punches but Jake Wiley, his manager, is taking most of the purse for himself.

40. The Waiting. Oct. 9,1960. GS: Claude Akins, Joan Evans, Harry Whisner, Russ Sturlin, William Bryant. Yuma enters a saloon and finds three people inside: Mike the bartender, a bounty hunter named Tom Hall, and Cassie, a barmaid whose fugitive husband is the man Hall is looking for.

41. To See the Elephant. Oct. 16,1960. GS: Mark Goddard, Ron Soble, Ken Mayer, Judith Rawlings, Ellen Corby. Rancher Bull Hollingsworth commissions Yuma to make a man out of his sheltered son, Seldon. Among other things, Seldon gets lessons in gunplay.

42. Deathwatch. Oct. 23, 1960. GS: James Best, Frank Silvera, Don Carlos. Looking for water, Johnny stumbles into the desert camp of sheepman Abel Waares. The the two of them are joined by three Mexicans who tell Waares they want his sheep off the range by dawn.

43. Run, Killer, Run. Oct. 30,1960. GS: Richard Jaeckel, Ed Nelson, John Pickard, William Harlow. Riding through brush country, Yuma is confronted by a fugitive named Traskel, who pulls his gun and makes Johnny trade horses.

44. The Hunted. Nov. 6,1960. GS: Leonard Nimoy, Arline Sax, Yale Wexler, Dorothy Adams, Nick Dennis, Morgan Shdan, Joe Dominguez, Len Weinrib, Tina Menard. Jim Colburn, sentenced to hang for murder, escapes from jail and a posse sets out to get him. Meanwhile, a telegram arrives, proving him innocent.

45. The Legacy. Nov. 13,1960. GS: Jon Lormer, James Chandler, Paul Picerni, Robert Hutton. Yuma gets framed on a murder charge, but that is not the half of it. The man who set up the frame is the trial judge, the prosecutor and sheriff are his sons, and so is the defense lawyer.

46. Don Gringo. Nov. 20, 1960. GS: Gigi Perreau, Rosa Turich, Eugene Iglesias, Edgar Barrier, Ed Coch. Senorita Demetria is being escorted to meet her prospective bridegroom, Don Rolando, but Indians ambush the party and Demetris is the sole survivor. Yuma comes along and offers to escort her to Yuma.

47. Explosion. Nov. 27,1960. GS: L.Q. Jones, Denny Niles, Douglas Spencer, Ross Elliott. A bandit named Roy shoots a man down while looting a stagecoach. But Roy doesn't get away, Yuma catches him in the act.

48. Vindication. Dec. 4, 1960. GS: James Drury, Martha Vickers, William Bryant, Dan Sheridan. Yuma loses his horse and gear in an Indian attack, but is picked up by a passing stage and taken to a relay station. There Capt. Paul Travers, a blind man, tells Johnny he was attacked at the same spot.

49. The Scalp Hunter. Dec. 11, 1960. GS: John Dehner, Earl Parker, Hal Needham, Ross Sturlin. Uncle John Sims arrives in time to save Johnny from a couple of Apache bandits. Then Sims asks Johnny's help. He believes a renegade Indian named Masi slew his wife, and he is out to track him down.

50. Berserk. Dec. 18, 1960. GS: Tom Drake, Dan Barton, Arthur Peterson, Jr., K.T. Stevens, George Becwar. Yuma is passing through a frontier town and decides to pay a visit to Sheriff Matt Dunsen, his old Army C.O. Matt shows up with two bodies - one of them his son Garth.

51. The Hope Chest. Dec. 25,1960. GS: William Demarest, Soupy Sales, Cathy O'Donnell, William Harlow. Ulysses Bowman is rescued from an ambush by Yuma's timely arrival. He is so grateful, he even says that Johnny can marry his daughter. Soupy plays a great part as a deranged dimwitted hillbilly.

52. The Liberators. Jan. 1, 1961. GS: Nico Minardos, Joan Vohs, Jody Warner, Nick Dennis. Yuma comes into a small town and finds it deserted. It looks like a hasty evacuation. The saloon is empty and half-consumed drinks are still on the bar.

53. The Guard. Jan. 8, 1961. GS: Ed Nelson, Dee Pollock, William Phipps, Allen Kramer. Clint Mowbree is all shook up when he learns that Yuma~s coming to town. When Yuma was a prisoner of war, Clint had tortured him.

54. The Promise. Jan. 15, 1961. GS: Gigi Perreau, Peter Whitney, Richard Hartunian, John Gentry, Victor Izay. Yuma has some belongings to give to Laurie, the daughter of a deceased war buddy. Yuma finds her, but she is now a bonded servant, scheduled to marry gunslinger Billy Joe Kincaid against her wishes.

55. Jerkwater. Jan. 22, 1961. GS: John Dehner, John Marley, George Becwar, Charles Cason. In a small town, Yuma gets into an argument about the Civil War. The next thing he knows, he is shooting in self-defense. When the smoke clears, George Campbell, son of the town's leading citizen, lies dead, and Johnny is badly wounded.

56. Paperback Hero. Jan. 29, 1961. GS: Virginia Gregg, Robert Palmer, Daniel White, Robert Diamond. Newspaperwoman Emily Stevens becomes impressed when Johnny Yuma turns the tables on a bully named Jack Slater. Virginia Gregg is totally Top 5...

57. The Actress. Feb. 5, 1961. GS: Virginia Field, Sandra Knight, Vic Perrin, Robert L. Hickman. Johnny Yuma moseys into town one day and meets actress Lotta Langley. Lotta offers Johnny a part in her play.

58. The Threat. Feb. 12, 1961. GS: Aladdin Pallante, Trevor Bardette, Richard Bakalyan, Red Morgan, Charles Heart, Ben Wright. Yuma visits the cattle town of Rescue, New Mexico, and finds the townsfolk paralyzed by fear. They've been told by Bart Vogan and his henchmen that Indians will shortly attack.

59. The Road to Jericho. Feb. 19, 1961. GS: Robert Middleton, Warren Stevens. Yuma finds a man named Sutro staked to an ant hill in the desert. After he frees the poor wretch, Johnny discovers Sutro's personal code calls from his to serve Yuma until he has repaid the debt.

60. The Last Drink. Feb. 26,1961. GS: Tom Drake, Jack Chaplain. Yuma's teenage cousin Eddie years to be a gunslinger. Seeking vocational guidance, he starts hanging around with a professional gunman named Dawes.

61. The Burying of Sammy Hart. March 5,1961. GS: Iron Eyes Cody, George D. Wallace, Eugene Martin, Peggy Stewart. Aaron Wallace's son Billy has disappeared into the hills with and old Redskin named Sammy Hart. Aaron is heading for town to report the kidnaping when he meets Johnny Yuma.

62. The Pit. March 12,1961. GS: Olive Sturgess, Myron Healey, Sheldon Allman, Ralph Reed. A Woman named Charity engages Yuma to escort her and her infant son to a village where she hopes to find her missing husband. When Johnny inquires among the townspeople about the man, he is greeted with complete silence.

63. Shriek of Silence. March 19, 1961. GS: Tommy Noonan, Yvette Vickers, Jack Lester, Anna Karen, Frank de Kova. Yuma tries to care for the mute son of a man he killed in a fair fight. But the boy retains a natural hostility toward his father's slayer.

64. Two Weeks. March 26,1961. GS: Frank Overton, Jaime Farr, Shirley Ballard. Yuma plays poker for curious stakes. If he loses, he becomes John Galt's prisoner for two weeks.

65. Miz Purdy. April 2,1961. GS: Patricia Breslin, Jason Evers, Ken Mayer, Red Morgan, Russ Sturlin. Liz Purdy levels a shotgun at Johnny when he rides up to request a drink of water. It seems there have been some raids by outlaws in the area, and she thinks that he is one of the gang.

66. The Ballad of Danny Brown. April 9,1961. GS: Tex Ritter, Gail Kobe, Stephen Joyce, William Bryant. Johnny Yuma arrives in Shady Grove to find the citizens preparing a hostile welcome home for ex-convict Danny Brown. Figuring that Brown has paid his debt to society, Johnny decides to join Danny's girl Emily in a friendlier greeting.

67. The Proxy. April 16,1961. GS: Vic Damone, Royal Dano. Yuma and two volunteers named Wilkers and Crowe are hot after a banker who went south of the border with his depositors' savings. Johnny seems to be. the only one interested in justice as Wilkers wants to kill the man and Crowe is after the money.

68. Decision at Sweetwater. April 23, 1961. GS: Yvette Vickers, William Phipps, Sally Bliss, Donald Losby, Donald Buka, Herman Rudin, Bruno Ve Sota. Out to waylay a gold shipment, Jess Gait and his henchmen hold up a stage on which Yuma is a passenger. Finding no gold, the frustrated outlaws don't want to leave empty handed, so they decide to kidnap a passenger.

69. Helping Hand. April 30, 1961. GS: Leif Erickson, Jack Elam, Eddie Ryder. Yuma and his mount are looking forward to a cool drink at the water hole. But two gents named Dave and Uncle Luce are having a knock-down, drag-out battle.

70. The Uncourageous. May 7,1961. GS: George Dolenz, Eugene Iglesias, Penata Vanni, Maria Val. Yuma is on a round up in Mexico when he accidentally shoots young Felipe Amontillo. As he tends the boy~s wound, Johnny learns he is the son of a famous matador, Juan Arnontillo, and the Felipe is in disfavor at home because he can't match his father's bravery.

71. Mission - Varina. May 14,1961. GS: Frieda Inescort, William Schallert. After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis is released from prison, and his wife Varina asks Yuma and three other ex-Rebel soldiers to escort him to Richmond. At the rendezvous point, Yuma finds that two of the men haven't shown up and the third intends to assassinate Davis.

72. The Calley Kid. May 21,1961. GS: Richard Bakalyan, Michael Vanderver. Bushwacked on the trail, Yuma awakens to discover his attacker has stripped him of his horse, guns and personal belongings. Tracking the mysterious assailant, Yuma runs across a dying lawman who says he was shot by the notorious Calley Kid.

73. Ben White. May 28,1961. GS: Mary Murphy, Charles Aidman, Bruno Ve Sota, William Henry. U.S. Marshal Ab Jason deputizes Yuma to take one member of an outlaw gang to jail while he goes after the others. Yuma's prisoner is a girl known only as T, and she doesn't intend to go to jail.

74. The Found. June 4,1961. GS: Peggy Campbell, Karl Held, George Sawaya. Yuma comes upon a girl named Sally who is alone and about to give birth to a child. Yuma helps deliver the baby, and then finds himself held at gunpoint by Danny, the child's father.

75. The Hostage. June 11, 1961. GS: Lon McCallister, Jean Innes, Corey Allen, Stephen Joyce, Edward Kernmer. Frank Dagget is in jail and sentenced to hang, but his brother Yancey has a plan to free him. Yancey kidnaps Jess Wilks, the sheriff's brother, and proposes and exchange of prisoners.

76. The Executioner. June 18, 1961. GS: Terry Moore, Barry Atwater, Ken Mayer, Charles Aidman, Arthur Peterson. Two of Chief Leblanc's braves have been killed and the chief has three hostages he plans to kill in reprisal. Yuma points out that three for two is not a fair exchange, and the chief readily agrees. He tells Yuma to select the two who are to die.