
Best of the West
Season 1
198122 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Pilot
1981-09-10 · 30m
Sam arrives in town intending to run the general store, then runs into all kinds of trouble after turning down the protection racket.
- E2
The Prisoner
1981-09-17 · 30m
Sam must face a prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes ill on his way through town.
- E3
The Calico Kid Returns
1981-10-01 · 30m
The Square Deal Saloon's new cook is the Calico Kid; he has sworn to never again kill anything he can't eat.
- E4
They're Hanging Parker Tillman (1)
1981-10-15 · 30m
Sam goes out on a limb and manages to save Tillman from a lynch mob, but at the trial, his mixed-up testimony has him back at the end of a rope.
- E5
They're Hanging Parker Tillman (2)
1981-10-22 · 30m
Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling.
- E6
The New Marshal
1981-10-29 · 30m
Sam loses his badge in a special election to Tillman's squeaky-clean candidate.
- E7
Daniel's First Love
1981-11-05 · 30m
Daniel is as surprised as anyone when a few innocent kisses lead to a shotgun wedding.
- E8
Laney in Love
1981-11-12 · 30m
Laney is smitten with a smoothie who bids high for her at a social—but he turns out to be a low-down heel.
- E9
The Reunion
1981-10-08 · 30m
Elvira's die-hard Confederate father (Andy Griffith) stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town. His wife is trying to patch things up with their daughter; she married a Yankee!
- E10
The Railroad
1981-11-19 · 30m
Sam and Tillman try hard to convince the railroad to come to Copper Creek.
- E11
The New Jail
1981-11-26 · 30m
Sam's image as a lawman quickly loses its edge after he manages to shoot himself in the leg; the jail collapsing around him doesn't help.
- E12
A Man, a Woman, and a Horse
1981-12-17 · 30m
Sam doesn't pay attention to signs of discontent from Elvira until the day he comes home to finds her packed to leave.
- E13
Frog's First Gunfight
1982-01-07 · 30m
Frog meets a woman who was recently jilted by her beau, but neither realizes he wants her back.
- E14
The Calico Kid Goes to School
1982-01-14 · 30m
The reformed Calico Kid decides he wants to be a United States Marshal. But he lacks one qualification: a third-grade education.
- E15
Tillman Held for Ransom
1982-01-21 · 30m
Tillman has been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom, but the Copper Creek citizens have no intention of paying up.
- E16
Mail Order Bride
1982-01-28 · 30m
Doc's mail-order bride has a vivid personality with a past to match it.
- E17
The Cave-In
1982-02-12 · 30m
Elvira and her stepson explore an abandoned outlaw cave, unaware that it is booby-trapped to collapse.
- E18
Daniel Fights a Bully
1982-02-19 · 30m
Daniel's refusal to fight a relentless bully leads to Sam having to fight the bully's father.
- E19
The Pretty Prisoner
1982-02-26 · 30m
Sam is handcuffed to his prisoner—a flirtatious female outlaw—for an overnight journey.
- E20
Elvira's Old Beau
1982-06-07 · 30m
Elvira's former fiance' comes to town, intent on taking her away with him.
- E21
Sam's Life Is Threatened
1982-06-14 · 30m
Sam receives an anonymous threatening note.
- E22
The Funeral
1982-06-21 · 30m
Sam and Tillman try to foil a holdup by holding a funeral for Frog; the coffin contains the $20,000 the thieves are after.
