• Air date: 04 Oct '60 38 episodes
      Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series which ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry and Simon Kane operate the Timberland Stage Line from fictitious Outpost, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Simon's 15-year-old son, David "Davey" Kane, joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and human interest stories. Perry and Kane, who are both deputy U.S. marshals, had been on opposite sides of the American Civil War; Kane, a captain in the Union Army, while Perry had fought for the Confederate States of America. The one-hour black-and-white program was offered at 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesdays opposite NBC's Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, and CBS's The Red Skelton Show. Rogers became well-known a dozen years later on M*A*S*H, and Bray later portrayed the forest ranger Corey Stuart on Lassie from 1964–1969, both on CBS. Child actor Richard Eyer had starred in a...
  • List of Episodes (38)
    • 1. High Lonesome

      04 Oct '60
      Simon meets a man at a way station who has been hired to kill him.
    • 2. The Land Beyond

      11 Oct '60
    • 3. Dark Return

      18 Oct '60
    • 4. The Unwanted

      25 Oct '60
      Luke makes an unscheduled stop to take a lame horse out of the lead spot. But Johnny Kelly accuses Luke of making the passengers sitting ducks for road agents. He pulls a gun and doesn't live to regret it.
    • 5. A Fork in the Road

      01 Nov '60
    • 6. A Time to Run

      15 Nov '60
      Luke picks up a wounded fugitive and plans to turn him over to the Mexican Government, but he is soon overtaken by a group of bounty hunters who also want the man.
    • 7. Red Sand

      22 Nov '60
      Simon picks up two lost travelers in a sand storm and then learns they just robbed a bank.
    • 8. The Saga of Jeremy Boone

      29 Nov '60
    • 9. Life Sentence

      06 Dec '60
    • 10. The Storm

      13 Dec '60
    • 11. Three Wise Men

      20 Dec '60
      Webb Crawford, a fugitive wanted for robbery, is dying of leukemia and has one last wish, to be with his wife and children on Christmas Eve.
    • 12. By the Deep Six

      27 Dec '60
      The stagecoach gets ambushed and it don't look good for the passengers aboard.
    • 13. Object: Patrimony

      03 Jan '61
      Susan McLord and her fiance Lionel Chambers try to elope on Luke's stage. But a band of renegades intercept the coach, killing Chambers and kidnapping Susan.
    • 14. Come Home Again

      10 Jan '61
    • 15. The Brass Lily

      17 Jan '60
      Singer Lily de Milo comes to Outpost to fill a singing engagement. But before this canary gets a chance to warble, a couple of birds shoot her.
    • 16. Finn McColl

      24 Jan '61
      Finn McCool is making overtures to Mrs. Robert Allison on Simon Kane's stage. Kane doesn't like this sort of carrying on, so he challenges McCool to a fist fight.
    • 17. Image of a Man

      31 Jan '61
      An alcoholic lawyer is forced to prosecute a man for murder and has been told he better not lose the case.
    • 18. Not in Our Stars

      07 Feb '61
      Simon offers shelter to Ben Wait, a man who's trying to dodge a vengeful blow from Aaron Sutter. Sutter insists that Wait murdered his daughter.
    • 19. The Arsonist

      14 Feb '61
    • 20. Songs My Mother Told Me

      21 Feb '61
      Luke and Simon are suspicious when Davey begins to slip out with food and clothes. They find out that he befriended a murder witness.
    • 21. The Root of Evil

      28 Feb '61
    • 22. The Outcasts

      07 Mar '61
      Deputy Ken Rawlins fires after a fleeing holdup gang. One of the men he kills is his own brother.
    • 23. The Remounts

      14 Mar '61
      Davey is taken hostage by two men who plan to steal a herd of wild horses. Simon and Luke see only one way to get Davey back, assist the horse thieves.
    • 24. House of Violence

      21 Mar '61
    • 25. The Butcher

      28 Mar '61
      A butcher of sorts comes in hot pursuit of Simon's stagecoach.