Best of the West

Sep 10, 1981

Sam arrives in town intending to run the general store, then runs into all kinds of trouble after turning down the protection racket.

Sep 17, 1981

Sam must face a prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes ill on his way through town.

Oct 1, 1981

The Square Deal Saloon's new cook is the Calico Kid; he has sworn to never again kill anything he can't eat.

Oct 15, 1981

Sam goes out on a limb and manages to save Tillman from a lynch mob, but at the trial, his mixed-up testimony has him back at the end of a rope.

Oct 22, 1981

Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling.

Oct 29, 1981

Sam loses his badge in a special election to Tillman's squeaky-clean candidate.

Nov 5, 1981

Daniel is as surprised as anyone when a few innocent kisses lead to a shotgun wedding.

Nov 12, 1981

Laney is smitten with a smoothie who bids high for her at a social—but he turns out to be a low-down heel.

Oct 8, 1981

Elvira's die-hard Confederate father (Andy Griffith) stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town. His wife is trying to patch things up with their daughter; she married a Yankee!

Nov 19, 1981

Sam and Tillman try hard to convince the railroad to come to Copper Creek.

Nov 26, 1981

Sam's image as a lawman quickly loses its edge after he manages to shoot himself in the leg; the jail collapsing around him doesn't help.

Dec 17, 1981

Sam doesn't pay attention to signs of discontent from Elvira until the day he comes home to finds her packed to leave.

Jan 7, 1982

Frog meets a woman who was recently jilted by her beau, but neither realizes he wants her back.

Jan 14, 1982

The reformed Calico Kid decides he wants to be a United States Marshal. But he lacks one qualification: a third-grade education.

Jan 21, 1982

Tillman has been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom, but the Copper Creek citizens have no intention of paying up.

Jan 28, 1982

Doc's mail-order bride has a vivid personality with a past to match it.

Feb 12, 1982

Elvira and her stepson explore an abandoned outlaw cave, unaware that it is booby-trapped to collapse.

Feb 19, 1982

Daniel's refusal to fight a relentless bully leads to Sam having to fight the bully's father.

Feb 26, 1982

Sam is handcuffed to his prisoner—a flirtatious female outlaw—for an overnight journey.

Jun 7, 1982

Elvira's former fiance' comes to town, intent on taking her away with him.

Jun 14, 1982

Sam receives an anonymous threatening note.

Jun 21, 1982

Sam and Tillman try to foil a holdup by holding a funeral for Frog; the coffin contains the $20,000 the thieves are after.