Hec Ramsey is a television Western, a production of Jack Webb's production company, Mark VII Limited, in association with Universal Studios, broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel show during the 1972-73 and 1973-74 seasons.
Hec Ramsey (Season 1)
The Century Turns (Episode 1) 9.0
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom
Air date: 1972-10-08
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: An aging lawman in the turn-of-the century West finds himself out of step with the times and reluctantly accepts a job as a deputy to an inexperienced college-educated Police Chief in Oklahoma. He uses his brain and primitive beginnings of early-day criminal science to solve crimes.
Hangman's Wages (Episode 2)
Air date: 1972-10-29
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: The electric chair is about to make it's Western debut with a captured killer, but someone is attempting to cheat justice. Someone is making annonymous threats that there will be a murder a day until the killer is set free.
The Mystery of the Green Feather (Episode 3)
Air date: 1972-12-17
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: Hec sets out to clear innocent Indians and catch the real killers of three ranchers. Color blindness is a strange key to solving the mystery.
The Mystery of the Yellow Rose (Episode 4)
Air date: 1973-01-28
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: Hec acts as lawyer to a former girlfriend. Savannah is accused of killing the son of the richest man in New Mexico, a powerful man who controls both the Sheriff and Judge.
The Mystery of Chalk Hill (Episode 5)
Air date: 1973-02-18
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: Hec hunts the killers of his fiancee, Norma Muldoon and her son Andy during a stagecoach robbery. His chief suspect is the son of an old friend and fellow lawman.
