The Episodes:
1. Marple Brothers. Oct. 4,1957. GS: James Best, Don House, James Griffith, Jan Merlin, Gail Kobe, Tom Pittman. Hoby Gilman follows the trail of the notorious Marple Brothers to Stockton. He finds that the gang is holding women and children as hostages and is barricaded in the local church. He must take the Marple Brothers without endangering the townspeople's lives.
2. Law in Lampasas. Oct. 11, 1957. GS: Frank Ferguson, James Lydon, Vaughn Taylor, John Cliff, Fintan Mey) A man accused of killing the newspaper publisher in a small town faces an angry mob determined to lynch him. Ranger Hoby Gilman tries to see that justice is done.
3. The San Saba Incident. Oct. 18,1957. GS: Rex Reason, Margaret Hayes, Mort Mills, Guy Wilkerson. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman sets out for the state penitentiary at Sat Saba with a wagonload of prisoners, one of them a beautiful woman who has been convicted of manslaughter. The Ranger suddenly finds that the wagon is being followed, and he prepares to defend his captives.
4. Easton, Texas. Oct. 25, 1957. GS: Dabbs Greer, Larry Kelly, Gale Robbins, Dee Carroll, Robert Foulk, Ned Glass. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman goes to Easton, to solve a robbery. He finds two dead men, a wounded station agent & a dynamited safe.
5. Like Father. Nov. 1, 1957. GS: William Talmar, Malcolm Brodrick, James Seay, James Nolan, Don Diamond. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman captures a vicious criminal and then must deal with the man's rebellious teenage son.
6. Sweetwater, Texas. Nov. 8,1957. GS: Valerie French, Ray Danton, Paul Richards, Paul Birch, Arthur Spa. Gilman comes upon a stagecoach that has been robbed, with all the passengers dead except for a baby. His only clue is the phonograph of a woman which he finds on the scene.
7. Alpine, Texas. Nov. 15,1957. GS: Ian MacDonald, Virginia Christine, Robin Raymond, Robert Griffin, Dick Wessel, Paul Engle. Hoby Gilman is assigned to investigate the death of a fellow Texas Ranger. He enters a lawless town that despises the Rangers.
8. Self Defense. Nov. 22,1957. GS: Constance Ford, Stacy Harris, Eve Miller, Richard Webb, Helen Jay. Sharpshooting Polly Webster arranges a showdown when the man who shot her husband is acquitted. She swears she will shoot it out with Duke Kinkaid the moment he steps out of jail. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman attempts to prevent any more bloodshed.
9. End of an Outlaw. Nov. 29,1957. GS: John Anderson, Willard Sage, John Baer, DeForest Kelley, James Gavin, Mario Siletti. Jim Murphy, member of an outlaw gang headed by Sam Bass, informs Hoby Gilman and Dick Wade that Bass plans to rob a bank in Round Rock. Gilman and Wade set up an ambush, but a self-important deputy tips off Bass.
10. Look for the Woman. Dec. 6,1957. GS: William Phipps, Phyllis Avery, Larry Dobkin, Ross Elliot, Ray Teal. During a gun battle, Hoby Gilman fatally wounds the criminal Bud Crome. Just before Crome dies, he asks Gilman to find his sister Charlotte, the only other person who knows the identity of his accomplices.
11. The Town. Dec. 13,1957. GS: Lee Van Cleef, Stuart Whitman, Gloria Saunders, Richard Reeves, Roy Barcroft, Ric Roman, Richard Hale. Hoby Gilman trails a killer to a small mining town. There Gilman is captured by outlaws.
12. Man and Money. Dec. 27,1957. GS: Vic Morrow, Victor Millan, Anna Navarro, Don Diamond. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman sets out to apprehend a bank robber who has stolen $50,000. He finds the fugitive near death from a bullet wound, and conceals his identity in an effort to find out the location of the money.
13. The Reward. Jan. 3, 1958. GS: Virginia Christine, Pernell Roberts, Jay Novello, Russ Bender, John Doucette, Robin Raymond, Val Dufour. A man who can identify the persons who committed a robbery goes into hiding, Ranger Hoby Gilman sets out to find him.
14. The Farrand Story. Jan. 10, 1958. GS: Carole Mathews, Judith Ames, Grant Richards, Richard Webb, Richard Crane. Hoby Gilman sets out to trace a missing person. He uncovers a murder motivated by jealousy.
15. Right of Way. Jan. 17,1958. GS: Dan Barton, Robert Cornthwaite, Edward Platt, Harry Harvey, Jr., Barbara Wilson. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman tries to help a young man about to be executed for murder. The Ranger has only a slim clue with which to establish the man's innocence.
16. The Witness. Jan. 24,1958. GS: Jacques Aubuchon, Harold J. Stone, Sam Edwards, Joe Perry, Malcolm Atterbury, Dabbs Greer. Hoby Gilman, investigating the murder of a small-town storekeeper, follows a suspicious looking fur trapper into the wilderness. He comes upon a blind man, the only witness to the murder, who is half-crazed in his fear of being followed by the killer.
17. The Toll Road. Jan. 31,1958. GS: Will Wright, Trevor Bardette, Bill Erwin, Parley Baer, John Cliff. Hoby Gilman views all the townspeople of Garrison Flats as suspecrs in a murder case. The dead man was hated by everyone.
18.The Young Gun. Feb. 7,1958. GS: Corey Allen, Karen Sharpe, Bill Henry, Christopher Dark, Robert Anderson, Norman Leavitt. A young man who needs money to get married, teams up with two notorious outlaws to stage a bank robbery. The outlaws make their escape after the holdup, but the young man is captured. Ranger Hoby Gilman decides on a daring plan to learn the whereabouts of the escapees.
19. The Wedding. Feb. 14,1958. GS: Virginia Gregg, June Vincent, Robert Burton, John Harmon, Frank Cady, Kern Dibbs. Ranger Hoby Gilman is sent to a town in Texas to investigate a strange death. The man, who was about to be married, is found dead just before the wedding.
20. The Trail. Feb. 28, 1958. GS: Harry Bellaver, Elisha Cook, Jr., Didi Ramati, Ted de Corsia, Thomas B. Henry, Rodolfo Hoyos. After capturing a train robber in Mexico, Hoby Gilman sets out to escort his prisoner back to Texas. But on the way Hoby is bitten by a rattlesnake and his prisoner leaves him to die on the trail.
21. The Bounty Hunter. March 7,1958. GS: Steve McQueen, jean Willes, Barbara Fuller, Kenneth McDonald, George Neise. Ranger Hoby Gilman decides to investigate a man with a reputation for capturing wanted criminals and collecting the rewards offered for them.
22. The Judge. March 14,1958. GS: Steve Terrell, John Litel, James Griffith, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Kasey Rogers. Ranger Hoby Gilman arrests a young man who has killed another in an argument. Then Gilman learns that the prisoner's father is the judge and insists that the judge must preside at the trail and determine the fate of his son.
23. The House. March 21,1958. GS: Jacques Aubucbon, Judith Ames, Gail Kobe, James Griffith, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt. Ranger Hoby Gilman helps a blind girl search for her mother, who has disappeared from her home. Gilman traces the woman to a lonely farmhouse.
24. The Boy. March 28, 1958. GS: John Crawford, Gail Kobe, James Griffith, King Donovan, Larry Dobkin, Norman Leavitt. A young boy witnesses a murder and goes to Ranger Hoby Gilman for help. Gilman starts hunting for the murderer and uncovers a peculiar motive for the crime.
25. The Pueblo Kid. April 4,1958. GS: Michael Landon, George Brenlin, James Griffith, Ellen Corby, Gail Kobe, Sally Fraser. A young man returns to his home town with a reputation as one of the fastest guns in the territory. He has the whole town terrified, and Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman tries to avert a gun battle.
26. The Winter Boys. April 11, 1958. GS: Tom Pittman, James Griffith, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Nick Adams, Doris Singleton. An outlaw turns over the wanted Winter brothers to ranger Hoby Gilman. Afraid that his key witness will be killed before the Winter brothers are brought to trial, Hoby Gilman hides the outlaw in a hotel in a small Western town.
27. The Mistake. April 18, 1958. GS: James Best, James Griffith, Bruce Gordon, Joseph Mell, Rusty Wescoatt, Roy Engel. When Hoby Gilman helps to get a man acquitted of murder, the local townspeople turn against him. Later, Hoby learns that the man is really guilty of the murder and his mistake troubles his conscience.
28. The Deal. April 25, 1958. GS: James Westerfield, Johnny Crawford, James Griffith, Norman Leavitt, Bert Stevens. A cowboy threatens to kill a small boy unless Ranger Hoby Gilman gives him the money from the town's bank. Knowing that the cowboy would carry out his threat, Gilman devises a plan which he hopes will save the boy's life and the money.
29. TheJailbreak. May 2,1958. GS: DeForest Kelley, John Litel, James Griffith, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Stanford Jolley, Nolan Leary, Ned Glass. A prisoner facing execution overpowers his jailer and holds three men at his mercy. He tells Ranger Hoby Gilman that unless he is allowed to escape, he will kill the three men.
30. The End of the World. May 9,1958. GS: Larry Dobkin, Richard Hale, Claudia Barrett, Dabbs Greer, Neyle Morrow. Walter Trump, a confidence man, puts on a long robe and holds a tent meeting in the town of Talpa. He tells the townspeople that a cosmic explosion will rain fire on the town and that he is the only one that can save them from death. Ranger Hoby Gilman attempts to prove Trump is a fraud.
31. The Brothers. May 16,1958. GS: Steve McQueen, Rebecca Welles, Richard Devon, Ian MacDonald, Tim Graham. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman is assigned to take a murderer into custody. While traveling to pick up the wanted man, Gilman is ambushed and his gun and identification papers are taken from him. Reaching his destination, he finds identical twins who answer the wanted man's description.
32. The Governor. May 23,1958. GS: Frank Wilcox, Robert E. Griffith, Amzie Strickland, B.G. Norman, Terry Frost, Robert Gothie, Wilbur Mack. Ranger Hoby Gilman learns of a plot to assassinate the governor of Texas at a civic celebration. He tries to warn the governor, who refuses to cancel his appearance at the event. Gilman makes plans to try to avert the murder.
33. Killer Take All. Sept. 5, 1958. GS: Nancy Gates, Ellen Corby, Whit Bissell, Don Durant, Forrest Lewis. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman conducts an investigation when a professional gambler is killed. He learns that the dead man had made an unusual wager and lost.
34. Outlaw's Wife. Sept. 12,1958. GS: Diane Brewster, Richard Crane, Ellen Corby, James Griffith, Lurene Tuttle, Norman Leavitt, Marjorie Bennett, Kathryn Card, Dorothy Adams. Abigail Duke comes back to her home town which she left some time before to elope with a wanted outlaw. The women of the town demand that Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman tell Abigail to get out of town, but Gilman refuses.
35. Chinese Cowboy. Sept. 19,1958. GS: Keye Luke, Don Megowan, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Don Gordon, Fred Sherman, Rusty Wescoatt. A kindly Chinese man arrives in the town of Porter and opens a laundry. He is ignored by all the townspeople except the town bully, Les Morgan. Morgan and his friends harass the laundryman and finally Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman offers his protection. But the protection is refused.
36. The Set Up. Sept. 26,1958. GS: James Griffith, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Douglas Fowley, King Donovan, Jan Arvan. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman begins an investigation of a bank robbery. The man he suspects of the crime has a convincing alibi.
37. A Stone for Benny French. Oct. 3, 1958. GS: Wallace Ford, Strother Martin, Richard Devon, Gordon Polk, James Goodwin. While bringing in a wanted man, Hoby Gilman is held up by a backwoodsman and his two sons. They try to force Gilman to give up his prisoner.
38. Trapped. Oct. 10, 1958. GS: Virginia Grey, Ross Elliot. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, seeking shelter from a blinding snowstorm, stumbles into an abandoned stagecoach station. There he finds a woman wanted for murder, and her wounded companion, hiding from the law.
39. Matter of Justice. Oct. 17,1958. GS: Steve Brodie, Regis Toomey, Bob Nichols, Larry White, Virginia Christine, Ellen Wells, Kasey Rogers. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman brings in a wanted man who is placed in the town's prison. The townspeople, afraid of reprisals from the prisoner's gang, want Gilman to release the outlaw.
40. Tenner Smith. Oct. 24,1958. GS: Phil Leeds, George Brenlin, Walter Sande, Bob Tetrick, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt. A professional gambler is accused of cheating a young cowboy in a card game. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman tries to protect the gambler and give him a fair trial, but the townspeople order Gilman to turn the gambler over to them.
41. The Avenger. Oct. 31,1958. GS: George Neise, Barbara Lawrence, Marjorie Owens, Dennis Moore, Orville Sherman. After a payroll robbery Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman begins an investigation. Then the man he suspects of the robbery is murdered.
42. The Schoolteacher. Nov. 7,1958. GS: Robert Cornthwaite, Harold J. Stone, Jean Howell, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt. A schoolteacher attempts to give the children of a Texas town a good education, but his efforts are balked by a gunslinger who believes schools are unnecessary. The schoolteacher is determined to run the gunman out of town even if it means losing his life.
43. Deadly Decoy. Nov. 14,1958. GS: Ed Kernmer, Chris Alcaide, Than Wyenn, Tom Fadden, Tom McKee. Afraid that Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman will prevent them from committing a crime, a band of outlaws use the body of a man as a decoy. Gilman believes that the dead man is the leader of the gang.
44. Sunday's Child. Nov. 21,1958. GS: James Best, Gail Kobe, Peter Leeds, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, William Fawcett. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman is forced to comply with a court order and help a gunslinger take custody of his small child. But the child's mother refuses to surrender the infant.
45. Day of Vengeance. Nov. 28,1958. GS: Michael Landon, Jean Allison, Francis J. McDonald, Peter Leeds, Ellen Corby, George Keymas. After his release from prison, a young man goes home intent on avenging his brother's death. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman tries to reach the killer of the dead youth before the ex-convict does.
46. Three Legged Fox. Dec. 5, 1958. GS: Henry Hull, Ray Teal, Hank Patterson, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Robert Armstrong, Peter Brocco, Sam Flint, Jason Johnson. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman learns that there is a band of gunmen in his territory. He investigates and is surprised that the band consists of six once famous bandits who plan to strike again.
47. The Kid. Dec. 12,1958. GS: Jack Kruschen, Vivi Janiss, Ellen Corby, Addison Richards, Dabbs Greer, Jonathan Hole, Joe Mell. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman shoots a teenager fleeing from the scene of a robbery. The townspeople rise up in anger against Gilman.
48. Guilt. Dec. 19, 1958. GS: Ted de Corsia, Regis Toomey, Don Gordon, Forrest Lewis, David Post. Hoby Gilman tells the townspeople that a convicted killer is returning to town. Three witnesses who testified against the man fear that the killer is returning to seek revenge.
49. Ever Man a Witness. Dec. 26,1958. GS: Edward C. Platt, Kasey Rogers, Walter Coy, Kenneth MacDonald, Dick Ryan, Joan Lora. A prisoner in the local jail refuses to confess to the crime he is accused of. Finally a group of men decide to take matters into their own hands.
50. McCallin's Daugbter. Jan. 2,1959. GS: Anna Marie Nanasi, Russ Conway, Barbara Eiler, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt. Ranger Hoby Gilman learns of a forthcoming robbery from the prospective robber's little daughter.
51. Bad Judgment. Jan. 28,1959. GS: Mort Mills, Warren Oates, Lee Farr, Jean Howell. Texan Ranger Hoby Gilman tries to persuade a witness to testify against a killer even though his testimony will endanger his family.
52. Terror. Feb. 4,1959. GS: Addison Richards, Adrienne Marden, Peter Leeds, Frank Ferguson, Karl Swenson, Jan Shepard. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman sets out to find a typhoid carrier. Gilman's only clue to the whereabouts of the unidentified person is the trail of fear and sickness he leaves behind.
53. The Feud. Feb. 11, 1959. GS: Lillian Bronson, Charles Cooper, James Lydon, Gary Gray, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Trevor Bardette, Helen Wallace. A dying woman returns to her home town, where she wants to be buried after her death. Her arrival in town revives an old feud and Hoby Gilman must try to use reason to combat the townspeople's deep prejudice.
54. The Samaritan. Feb. 18,1959. GS: Rita Moreno, Chill Wills, Charles Aidman. Ranger Hoby Gilman, injured and unarmed, joins two strangers on a wilderness trail. They are menaced by a desperate killer.
55. The Gang. Feb. 25,1959. GS: Nick Adams, George Brenlin, Gordon Polk, Addison Richards, Michael Fox, Peter Leeds. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman must cope with a band of young saddle tramps who have overrun the town and taken a hostage.
56. The Threat. March 4,1959. GS: Lloyd Corrigan, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt, Michael Fox. An odd little man threatens to blow up the town with homemade bombs if he doesn't receive a large sum of money from the bank.
57. HardLines. March 11, 1959. GS: James Coburn, Bevely Garland, DeForest Kelley. A Civil War soldier, accused of deserting during battle, returns to his home town. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman places his own life in danger as he attempts to save the accused man from an angry mob.
58. Fear. March 18, 1959. GS: Harold J. Stone, Gordon Polk, Peter Leeds, Warren Oates. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman tries to stop four trigger-happy brothers from terrorizing the area. He soon learns that the brothers have picked him as their next target.
59. Stranger in Town. March 25, 1959. GS: Peter Leeds, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, John Hackett, James Drury, Paul Carr. From a man he doesn't know, Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman receives a letter predicting his death.
60. The Protector. April 1, 1959. GS: Richard Jaeckel, Grace Raynor, Paul Brinegar, Russell Thorson, John Harmon, Sid Clute, Jason Johnson. Trailing an outlaw, Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman enters a quiet town and soon discovers that it is the ideal place for a criminal to reside.
61. False Witness. April 8, 1959. GS: Peter Leeds, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Bethel Leslie, Addison Richards, Pat Donahue, James Lydon. A girl claims that she witnessed a murder for which a man has already been convicted and sentenced to hang. Because of the girl's statement Ranger Hoby Gilman reopens the murder case.
62. The Trick. April 15, 1959. GS: Edgar Buchanan, Nick Adams, Peter Leeds, Rusty Wescoatt, Norman Leavitt, Ellen Corby. A young man persistently attempts to provoke Tenner Smith, a friend of Ranger Hoby Gilman, into a gunfight. Smith can't understand why the boy wants to fight him until it is discovered that he was hired for that purpose.
63. The Eyes of Jerry Kelson. April 22,1959. GS: Addison Richards, Jonathan Hole, Carleton Carpenter, Norman Leavitt, Judith Braun, Edward C. Platt. Pearl Madson agrees to go away with a traveling salesman, even though her father violently opposes the plan. But the salesman is found dead before Pearl can leave him.
64. Gift Horse. April 29, 1959. GS: Michael Fox, Will Wright, James Burke, Norman Leavitt, James Collier. Two schemers arrive in town claiming to be long-lost relatives of a bank employee who is all alone in the world. They explain that they want to make up for all his lonely years.
65. The Vote. May 6,1959. GS: Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Peter Leeds, James Seay, Barbara Eiler, Gregory Walcott, Rodney Bell, Bruce MacFarland. A couple of smooth operators arrive in Porter, Texas, and start a campaign for women's suffrage. The men of the town don't like the idea of being pushed into it so fast.
66. The Unwanted. May 13,1959. GS: Dorothy Adams, Rhys Williams, Walter Brooke, Paul Engel, Hal K. Dawson, Tom Wilde, Robert La Varre, Roy Barcroft. Ranger Hoby Gilman investigates a series of strange occurrences in a small town. Townspeople charge that members of a religious sect have been practicing witchcraft.
67. Toss Up. May 20,1959. GS: Scott Forbes, Jean Howell, Lee Farr, John Anderson. A woman comes to Hoby Gilman for help after she learns that her feuding husband and brother are plotting to kill each other.
68. Back to Crawford. Sept. 9,1959. GS: Nancy Asch, Peggy Webber, King Calder, Charles Seel, Warren Oates, Donald A. Losby, Jr. After receiving an urgent message from his sister, Hoby Gilman prepares to leave for his home town. His sister is frightened because of recent threats on her life.
69. Blind Alley. Sept. 16,1959. GS: Robert Driscoll, Susan Oliver, Dennis Cross, Richard Devon, Norman Leavitt, Addison Richards, DeForest Kelley. Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman goes on the trail of an escaped convict. Gilman learns that the convict is stalking a blind boy he has sworn to kill.
70. Quiet Night in Porter. Sept. 23,1959. GS: Helen Kleeb, Don Durant, DeForest Kelley. Two sons follow their senile mother on a petty thievery excursion and land in some trouble of their own.