Two episodes from season one have fallen into the public domain. They are: "Bat Masterson" (1958) {Stampede at Tent City (#1.4)} and "Bat Masterson" (1958) {The Fighter (#1.5)}.
William Conrad made his first dramatic television appearance in the episode "Stampede at Tent City", broadcast on 29 October 1958.
This show from season one has fallen into the public domain.
William Conrad and James Best are both natives of Kentucky.
This show from season one has fallen into the public domain.
The title alludes to Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" after he captured Altanta Georgia during the American Civil War and then ravaged the countryside between Atlanta and Savannah causing bitter resentment from Southerners.
The title alludes to the biblical promised land where the Israelites were headed after their exodus from Egypt.
The title is based on the instructions from a reward poster "Wanted: Dead or Alive" and the name of another TV western starring Steve McQueen.
Dyan Cannon made her first prime-time television appearance in the episode "Lady Luck", broadcast on 5 November 1959.
Gene Barry's fans frequently cite him as a latter-day counterpart to the debonair image established by Cary Grant; in this episode Dyan Cannon is paired opposite him, while several years later she actually married the real thing.
The title is based on the proverb "Dead men tell no tales" as a warning not to betray any secrets.
Star Gene Barry, pacing the Denver train station platform, passes behind a stack of crates. The camera pans and his uncredited stuntman emerges and is attacked.
The title refers to the quote by founding father Benjamin Franklin: "The only things certain in life are death and taxes".
Per the title, the dead man's hand is a two-pair poker hand, namely "aces and eights" from the legend of it having been the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickock at the time of his murder on August 2, 1876. Many films have used this allusion just prior to the death of a man engaged in a poker game.
The title refers to the German legend of the Pied Piper of Hamlin that rid the town of rats merely by playing his flute.
The title is based on the instructions from a reward poster "Wanted: Dead or Alive" and also the name of a popular TV western of the time (Wanted: Dead or Alive) starring Steve McQueen.
The title refers to a legal term (Latin: legem terrae) and which means all of the laws in force within a country or geopolitical division.
Co-star Elaine Stewart had relatively few Hollywood roles after this one, but Gene Barry evidently remembered her as she popped up again on a 1963 segment of his series "Burke's Law".