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Laredo : Season 1
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Air date: 16 Sep '65 - 31 episodesLaredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo, Texas. The program was produced by Universal Television. The pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBC's The Virginian under the title, "We've Lost a Train". It was released theatrically in 1969 under the title Backtrack. Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas.
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List of Episodes (31)
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0. We've Lost A Train [An Episode Of The Virginian]
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1. Lazyfoot, Where Are You?
16 Sep '65Parmalee sends Reese, Chad and Joe undercover, disguised as prospectors, to find Lazyfoot and his gang. In Aggie's Saloon they meet Grubby Sully who says he needs partners to get to his goldmine because it's in territory controlled by Lazyfoot. Chad and Joe lead the local sheriff to believe Reese is a wanted sheep rustler, giving them time to ride off with Grubby while Reese is locked up. The three are captured by Lazyfoot and Reese tracks them down. He frees only Grubby who he hopes will le
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2. I See By Your Outfit
23 Sep '65Parmalee sends Reese, Chad and Joe to Porfirio to investigate Mexican bandits but find elderly Alvar de Aveles flying a Mexican flag over the jail on Alamo Day. Reese breaks into the jail, through the roof, and talks to de Aveles. As this happens de Aveles companions, unknown to or approved by him, rob the entire town, including Chad and Joe. When they emerge from the jail Reese is knocked out and taken prisoner. Chad and Joe must stop the Mexican Bandits before they cross the border with Re
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3. Yahoo
30 Sep '65A New Hampshire deputy constable named Clendon Macmillan comes to Laredo with 9 years of experience, intending to improve the quality of the average Ranger. He would like to apply his modern law enforcement techniques to what he refers to as "" the most primitive law enforcement organization in the country - the Texas Rangers."" He is sent out with Reese, Chad, and Joe to track Running Antelope and Linda Little Trees. Chad and Joe take a fiendish delight enjoying the fact that no man has ever
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4. Rendezvous at Arillo
07 Oct '65Reese, Chad and Joe chase Durkee, a wanted man, into Captain Parmalee's office only to find out he is seeking amnesty in return for information about the Jamison Gang. The three of them are assigned to work with him and sent to Arillo. Meanwhile, Sam Burns is trying to force Annamay, a widow with two children, off her ranch so he and Jamison can get the silver bars the Gang buried in her barn's floor. The Rangers help Annamay and the children repair her wagon wheel and she takes a liking to R
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5. Three's Company
14 Oct '65Emily, an old girlfriend of Chad's, appears in Laredo with her father, a railroad tycoon. He offers Chad a $400 a month job, whether the romance between he and Emily works out or not. Reese and Joe try different schemes to bust up the romance but they backfire and Chad proposes to Emily and resigns from the Rangers. Reese and Joe are sent out to protect a wagon train from a possible Indian attack and they use it as one last ploy to keep Chad in Laredo. Reese rides back reporting that the tra
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6. Anybody Here Seen Billy?
21 Oct '65Chad sneaks into the barracks at night wearing only his underwear. Reese and Joe catch him and he explains he lost Billy Harker, the prisoner he was escorting. He gets a change of clothes, Reese's spare gun and a horse and heads back out. The next day Reese and Joe are sent out to catch the thief who stole the ranger horse, the only clue being Chad's muddy socks. They find Chad as he is wrestling with Laurie Martin, Harker's girl, a very convincing but deceptive young woman. She convinces R
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7. A Question of Discipline
28 Oct '65Reese, Chad and Joe get into a saloon fight defending the honor of the Rangers. Parmalee disciplines them by assigning them to escort Jerky Collins' wagon of smelly buffalo hides. Chad tries to dissuade unwanted, married admirer Marianne Montaigne but she wants to leave her husband Louis and Chad hides her out in the wagon load of hides until they're out of town. Because of the fight two saloon girls were fired by the owner, Fatty Brown. Reese helps them by loading Fatty's pi-annie into a bu
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8. The Golden Trail
04 Nov '65Captain Parmalee sends Reese on a mission to pickup a special shipment and bring it back to Laredo. Reese brags about the mission before he leaves leading several people to believe it's the $100,000 in gold shipment that everyone's heard rumors about. After he picks up the shipment in a wagon Reese is challenged for it by the Baker Gang, Sheriff Wes Cottrell and his deputies, Ma Burns and her daughter Flame and an Old Timer, who just wants to see what $100,000 in gold looks like. Reese outwit
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9. A Matter of Policy
11 Nov '65The stage carrying State Senator Sparks and Captain Parmalee is held up by the Davis Gang, who takes the stagecoach horses forcing the Senator and Parmalee to walk to Laredo. Meanwhile, the Brannigan Brothers lose heavily in a card game and accuse Chad of cheating, which starts a fight in the saloon. The fight spills out onto the street just as the Captain and Senator Sparks arrive, giving the Senator a bad first impression of the Rangers. Reese, Chad and Joe set up a Texas style breakfast fo
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10. Which Way Did They Go?
18 Nov '65Reese, Chad and Joe capture the Slaughter Gang and take them to the nearest jail in San Sabo. They take the stolen money to the bank and meet Miss Emma there, who is a cultural lecturer selling tickets for her lectures on Greece with little luck. Chad and Joe trick Reese into helping her. He does so by employing saloon dancer Carlotta to warm up the crowd for Miss Emma's lecture. While Miss Emma is speaking a gang robs the bank and releases the Slaughters at the same time to throw suspicion
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11. Jinx
02 Dec '65Reese's friend Cletus Grogan comes to town and Reese gets him to join the Rangers to convince him he isn't a jinx. Cletus is sent along with Reese, Chad and Joe to track down Linda Little Trees and her gang. Cletus ends up dislocating Chad's shoulder. The first town they arrive in has just had it's bank robbed by the Little Trees Gang. Chad sees a doctor for his shoulder while Joe immediately follows the outlaws trail before a rainstorm can wipe out the tracks. After the rain stops Joe take
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12. The Land Grabbers
09 Dec '65Parmalee has only 3 rangers, Reese, Chad and Joe to keep order at a land rush. He reminds them that any rangers found showing any favoritism will face prison. While patrolling the area Chad meets lovely widow Alice Coverly and walks her back to her wagon. Reese gets into a discussion with her young brother Robert concerning western Indians versus real Indians that his British grandfather fought against. Reese goes to meet Robert's grandfather, Major Donaldson, and he and Chad have tea with th
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13. Pride of the Rangers
16 Dec '65Chad and Joe set Ranger Jess Moran up for a 4th of July boxing match with Calvary champion Percy Flower, the bet being a month's pay. The Pryor Gang is in the territory and Captain Parmalee is worried about them hitting the next silver mine shipment so he cancels the holiday for the rangers and assigns six of them to be on duty in town while he waits at the mine with the rest of the rangers. Chad, Joe and Jess are three of the six left in town. The Captain has agreed that one of them may leav
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14. The Heroes of San Gill
23 Dec '65Chad and Joe are planning to spend the weekend at the festival in San Gill but Captain Parmalee is leaving down to make a speech and puts them in charge of the office. Reese returns from a mission so Chad and Joe con him into being acting Captain but he immediately assigns them as stand-by for the weekend. Chad then alters a telegram to say a prison escapee is headed to San Gill so Reese sends them out to track him down. Once they arrive they discover that San Gill is where Parmalee is giving
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15. A Medal for Reese
30 Dec '65Reese is tricked into volunteering for stable duty by Chad and Joe, who are then sent out to escort a payroll wagon. They are distracted from the wagon by a runaway team and the payroll wagon is taken by a group of renegade French soldiers who want to return to the power and status they enjoyed under Maximilian. Reese is sent to the French camp as a spy by Parmalee. He does all right but is suspected and when he leads the French out after another payroll wagon Chad and Joe are caught sneaking
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16. The Calico Kid
06 Jan '66Chad and Joe are sent to Guarded Wells to dispose of the Ramirez Gang. They do and a grateful town rewards them with food, drink and hotel rooms for free. Chad devises a way he and Joe can take advantage of this and wires the Captain that the Calico Kid is headed for town. Afterwords they learn that the real Calico Kid, a road agent 30 years earlier, is now Sam Lowell, an older man who has since become a model citizen. Not wanting to cause trouble for Sam, Chad and Joe work out a plan to put
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17. Above the Law
13 Jan '66Hired gun Jab Harlan orchestrates an escape for outlaw Brad Scanlon so he can trail him and clear an innocent man of Scanlon's crime. In the process he tangles with Reese, foiling a capture attempt which brings him to Parmalee's attention. Scanlon, helped by his wife Lilah, pretends to be dead and soon is as he is ambushed by his partners to keep him quiet. Reese and Jab indulge in a little cat and mouse with each other after Scanlon's death. Reese, not knowing Scanlon's dead, locks Jab up u
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18. That's Noway, Thataway
20 Jan '66Two actors, Dudley and Newton, are being threatened with jail in Three Forks for their outstanding bills as their manager ran off with their receipts. Chad and Joe walk in and Chad rescues his old friend Dudley by telling the Sheriff the actors are wanted by the state, a higher priority, for the crime of framus. Chad and Joe are searching for the Pecos Kid, a notorious outlaw who has murdered 14 people. Dudley and Newton head for Whiskey Flats where Dudley passes Newton off as a minister to m
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19. Limit of the Law Larkin
27 Jan '66New ranger Cotton Buckmeister is assigned by Judge Larkin to return a strongbox of official documents to Uvalde. Chad and Joe are to accompany him. Judge Ike Macallum ruthlessly rules Uvalde and has illegally brought charges against many people in order to blackmail them. So both Macallum victims and his henchmen are after the strongbox. During the journey Chad and Joe discover that Cotton also has an interest in the strongbox as he is ""wanted"" for breech of promise when he refused to marr
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20. Meanwhile, Back at the Reservation
10 Feb '66When Reese, Chad and Joe capture the Morgan gang it includes 14-year-old Grey Smoke. Joe helps him out and gets him hired as a runner for the Rangers. Reese is assigned to trackdown cattle rustlers, leaving only Chad, Joe and Parmalee left in Laredo. They notice that gunslingers are drifting into down, nine in all. They discover cattleman Stan Greevy is responsible for hiring them as he is upset about the cattle rustling. Parmalee is more concerned about the gunslingers starting a range war
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21. The Treasure of San Diablo
17 Feb '66Reese and Cotton run off two outlaws intent on forcing the inhabitants of San Diablo to divulge where the fabled treasure is hidden. Dandy Davis is wanted and Cotton heads back to Laredo with him but Dandy fills Cotton's head with stories of the treasure and how Reese will beat him to it. Reese has stayed behind as he knows the other outlaw Ben Slick will be back to raid the town and the San Diablo citizenry has asked him to teach them to defend themselves. Reese becomes general of their ""ar
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22. No Bugles, One Drum
24 Feb '66Reese comes up with the perfect plan to catch Linda Littletrees, use Joe, who she is in love with, as bait. Parmalee says they might use the plan but then orders Reese, Chad and Joe to stay off the ""streets"". Reese and Joe are walking down an ""alley"" when they run into three escaping prisoners, two of Littletrees gang and William Tinney, a Ranger from Company A posing as an outlaw to gain the confidence of Littletree's gang. Reese captures Tinney and Joe tracks the two escaped outlaws Max
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23. Miracle at Massacre Mission
03 Mar '66Reese is sent out to escort the Bordeaux sisters and gets his face slapped before finding out the sisters he's looking for are nuns. He escorts them to a settlement and makes them promise not to continue to Massacre Mission where priests were slaughtered some years earlier by hostile Comanches who are still on the warpath. The sisters telegraph Parmalee they have left for the mission anyway and the Captain sends Chad and Joe to protect them. They arrive to find the sisters smoking a peace pip
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24. It's the End of the Road, Stanley
10 Mar '66Reese pretends to be a cattle buyer at Martha Tuforth's way station where outlaws Jack Hanks, Paco and Crazy John Holden are awaiting the arrival of Benny Murphy, who has their money to travel to Mexico with. Crazy John recognizes Reese as a ranger and they take him prisoner. Councilman Willburn and his wife Letty arrive shortly after and also find themselves hostages. Paco spends his time romancing Letty Willburn and Maryanne, Martha Tuforth's niece. Joe shows up disguised as a traveling sa
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