Con esta serie comenzó todo, fue el inicio y trampolín a la fama para el gran Clint Eastwood, un western americano de 217 episodios en el cual Eastwood compartía protagonismo con Eric Fleming, donde grandes actores y actrices como Claude Akins, Charles Bronson, Lon Chaney Jr, Broderick Crawford, Linda Cristal, Buddy Ebsen, Beverly Garland, Martin Landau, Leslie Nielsen, Susan Oliver, Debra Paget, Barbara Stanwyck, Woody Strode y Lee Van Cleef también participaron.
Drama, acción y romance en una aventura a través de las grandes llanuras, desde Texas a Kansas donde dos vaqueros Clint Eastwood, Eric Fleming tendrán que afrontar toda clase de peligros y amenazas, en ocasiones provocadas por la Naturaleza, que se convierte en una protagonista más de la historia.
Rio Salado (Episodio 1)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-09-29
Duración: 48 min
Sinopsis: Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos. He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant. Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran out on him and his Ma.
The Sendoff (Episodio 2)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-10-02
Duración: 48 min
Sinopsis: The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.
The Long Shakedown (Episodio 3)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-10-13
Sinopsis: An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.
Judgment at Hondo Seco (Episodio 4)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-10-20
Sinopsis: Quince gets a letter. He needs a couple of days off. Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco. Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out they rode in with Jim. Jim asks Judge Matt Quince how's his niece Joanna. She wants help running away. She's in love with Brad Lyons. He has a murder warrant on his head.
The Lost Tribe (Episodio 5)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-10-27
Sinopsis: Indians stampede the herd. The sheriff says it's a 100 Cheyenne headed for Mexico. Pete picks up their trail. Pete asks Rowdy not to tell Favor right away. Little Hawk, the Chief, is the father of Pete's dead wife.
The Inside Man (Episodio 6)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-11-03
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.
The Black Sheep (Episodio 7)
Guionista: Charles Larson
Fecha de emisión: 1961-11-10
Sinopsis: Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.
The Prairie Elephant (Episodio 8)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-11-17
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.
The Little Fishes (Episodio 9)
Guionista: Charles Larson
Fecha de emisión: 1961-11-24
Sinopsis: Gilmore tells Favor there's a panic brewing back east. He needs to cut ten days off the drive. Gilmore says don't tell the drovers about the panic. Tom Gwynn ,a fishbreeder, is sick with fever. He's taking shad to California to claim a $10,000 prize.
The Blue Spy (Episodio 10)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-12-08
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A woman wanders into camp needing help. She is an actress who one of the men recognizes later. She worked as a Union spy during the war. Although most of the men hate her, one even more so as he was court-martialed due to her.
The Gentleman's Gentleman (Episodio 11)
Fecha de emisión: 1961-12-15
Sinopsis: Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.
Twenty-Five Santa Clauses (Episodio 12)
Guionista: Charles Larson
Fecha de emisión: 1961-12-22
Sinopsis: Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus - Mr. Bateman - in Texas in the middle of August. Bateman is lost. He keels over. He, his wife Mag, and their nine-year-old boy, Danny, are on their way to New York. Danny won't last until Christmas.
The Long Count (Episodio 13)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-01-05
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.
The Captain's Wife (Episodio 14)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-01-12
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.
The Peddler (Episodio 15)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-01-19
Sinopsis: The drovers discover peddler Mendel J. Sorkin trying to drive a small herd of cattle all by himself. Mendel wants to sell the herd in a nearby town and use the money to return to his native country.
The Woman Trap (Episodio 16)
Guionista: Buckley Angell
Fecha de emisión: 1962-01-26
Sinopsis: Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.
The Boss's Daughters (Episodio 17)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-02-02
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The drover are stopped by fence at Vance Caldwell's ranch and are told they will have to wait until he returns to get permission to pass. But the fence isn't Favor's only problem, his daughters are about to join him on the trail.
The Deserters' Patrol (Episodio 18)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-02-09
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The indians want to trade six soldiers they hold for thier Chief. Favor is commissioned as a captain to make the exchange.
The Greedy Town (Episodio 19)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-02-16
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Ada Randolph offers the town $300,000 if they find her dead son, a convicted murderer innocent, and run the sheriff out of town.
Grandma's Money (Episodio 20)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-02-23
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: On a trip to collect a debt, Rowdy sees an elderly woman apparently hounded by thieves. After rescuing her they go to a nearby town where Rowdy is to collect the debt and she awaits a stage. However, she frames Rowdy for multiple thefts.
The Pitchwagon (Episodio 21)
Guionista: Lou Morheim
Fecha de emisión: 1962-03-02
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.
Hostage Child (Episodio 22)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-03-09
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A thirteen year old indian is going to Fort Lacey to see his sister. The commandant hates all indians. He and his wife Azuela have a son.
The Immigrants (Episodio 23)
Guionista: Elliott Arnold
Fecha de emisión: 1962-03-16
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.
The Child-Woman (Episodio 24)
Guionista: Elliott Arnold
Fecha de emisión: 1962-03-23
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.
A Woman's Place (Episodio 25)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-03-30
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A wagon falls on Harve. Rowdy and Favor go for a doctor. Dr. Daniel Pearson, a quack, says he's the only doctor in town. Mrs. James directs them to Dr. Louise Amadon.
Reunion (Episodio 26)
Guionista: Elliott Arnold
Fecha de emisión: 1962-04-06
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Pete's friend Grey Hawk's son, Wild Horse has escaped and is raiding. General Perry is bringing 500 head of cattle for the indians. Pete is leading Lieutenant Matthew Perry to his father.
House of the Hunter (Episodio 27)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-04-20
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A deaf mute delivers a letter for Rowdy at the camp. Rowdy picks up a guy, Kilo, whose wagon was stolen. They make camp. In the morning, Kilo and the horses are gone. Rowdy walks to a house and enters. The door shuts behind him. Mackie and five others lock Rowdy in a room. Someone shoots at Rowdy from outside. The six are being held prisoner.
Gold Fever (Episodio 28)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-05-04
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Hosea Brewer has been prospecting Lost Mine ten years after everyone has left. The thought of gold and his three daughters attract the drovers.
The Devil and the Deep Blue (Episodio 29)
Fecha de emisión: 1962-05-11
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Favor wants to fatten the herd for a week. Another herd is three to five days behind. The trail boss is Ben Wade and all the drovers are old. Charlie Holt , owners representative, comes onto Helen Wade, and vice versa. Two of Wade's cattle have Texas Tick.
Abilene (Episodio 30)
Guionista: Charles Larson
Fecha de emisión: 1962-05-18
Sinopsis: The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going to buy some land and get out of the cattle business. Don Grenfell also has been told to quit due to a bad back. The drovers are all quarantined at Oddity House due to small pox.
