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S2 E18 The Taming Of Rio Nada

Western

TV-PG

25 minutes

Jan 10, 1960

Longley has been a special marshal to the Texas town of Rio Nada. The area has been plagued by Mexican bandits who have used to the cross the border into the United States and raid the countryside.Featuring: Tom Fadden, Valerie Allen, Reed Hadley, Barbara Stuart, Rory Calhoun

Season 2, 35 Episodes

The Texan - No Way Out

Bill stops at an inn, where he meets an old lawman friend, who is holding two convicted killers. The lawman knows that friends of his two prisoners are in the area and planning to free them.

The Texan - Image Of Guilt

Image Of Guilt,

While Bill is participating in a draw and shoot contest in a town rodeo, the local bank is robbed, and a photographer friend of Bill's is shot and killed.

The Texan - The Dishonest Posse

The Dishonest Posse,

Riding with a posse, Bill captures the bank robber they were after, as well as the money he had stolen. But the others in the posse decide to split the loot among themselves.

The Texan - Blue Norther

Bill is ambushed and his horse is stolen. Having to take a stagecoach, he finds that one of the other passengers is wanted outlaw Pony Sloan. But he meets another man from whom he finds there is another side to Sloan's story.

The Texan - Traildust

After killing one of the outlaw Kiley brothers, the citizens of Calico have buried him as an exhibit in the middle of the main street. The new sheriff objects to this provocative act, causing the citizens to ask for his resignation.

The Texan - The Telegraph Story

The Telegraph Story,

Bill is working with a telegraph company installing lines, but an outlaw gang camped in the area wants to get the crew to leave.

The Texan - Stampede

Bill is hired as trail boss driving a cattle herd to Abilene. But he has to contend with two big problems. One is a hostile trail hand, whose anger over Bill getting the ramrod job over him is aggravated by his jealousy over the ranch owner's daughter.

The Texan - Showdown At Abilene

Showdown At Abilene,

After failing in an attempt to ambush Bill, Bishop pays a band of Indians to attack the Akins herd, hoping to scatter the cattle and thus prevent them from reaching Abilene first. Conclusion of a two-part story, the first part being 'Stampede'.

The Texan - Trouble On The Trail

Trouble On The Trail,

Still leading the cattle drive, Bill is allowed to take his herd across a powerful rancher's land. On the way across, he finds a woman who claims she is fleeing from the rancher's advances. But he soon learns that she has not told the whole truth.

The Texan - Cowards Don't Die

Cowards Don't Die,

A former lawman, now a storekeeper, has lost his nerve after a shooting incident, and is now being harassed by a gang of outlaws led by the brother of a man he once killed. The ex-lawman's daughter refuses to let him put on a gun again.

The Texan - Border Incident

Border Incident,

Bill travels to Ciudad Juarez to accept a job working for a cattleman and his fiancée, only to soon find out he has been set up as the scapegoat in a counterfeiting scheme.

The Texan - Dangerous Ground

Dangerous Ground,

A rancher warns Bill and the railroad workers not to put track down through the land his cattle graze on, even though it is government land. Later he shoots and seriously wounds one of the workers as they are riding in a wagon.

The Texan - End Of The Track

End Of The Track,

Bill tries to find out who's been supplying whiskey to railroad workers during their working hours, thus slowing down their progress. He first suspects a lady saloon owner, but it soon becomes apparent she's not the one.

The Texan - Friend Of The Family

Friend Of The Family,

Bill's former Civil War commander asks him to take his oldest son with him on the trail to make a better man out of him. Bill agrees to this, but he detects that the son has an intense bitterness toward his father.

The Texan - The Taming Of Rio Nada

The Taming Of Rio Nada,

Longley has been a special marshal to the Texas town of Rio Nada. The area has been plagued by Mexican bandits who have used to the cross the border into the United States and raid the countryside.

The Texan - Sixgun Street

After acting marshal Bill orders no guns to be worn on the streets of Rio Nada, a local casino owner sends for two notorious gunmen to kill him.

The Texan - The Terrified Town

The Terrified Town,

Bill is brought by two bounty hunters to the Governor, who hires him as a marshal to clean up a border area which is being run by an outlaw known as El Sombro.

The Texan - Thirty Hours To Kill

Thirty Hours To Kill,

Bill is forced to kill one of the Dawson brothers after a fight when the man draws on him, and then he must contend with three other brothers who vow to kill him.

The Texan - Quarantine

After Bill, again working with the railroad, turns down a bribe from a landowner to detour the track through his town, the man then forces a doctor to quarantine the railroad workers, falsely claiming a case of cholera.

The Texan - Buried Treasure

Buried Treasure,

Bill finds an old prospector almost dead from thirst, and brings him in to the railroad workers camp. But men from a rival outfit talk the old man into spreading a story about finding gold, hoping to lure the workers away from their job.

The Texan - Captive Crew

A group of convicts take over the work train, killing their guards, and hold the entire crew at the construction site hostage. Bill, who they think they also killed on the train, makes it back to the site and must figure out a way to stop them.

The Texan - Showdown

With his job about done, Bill is planning to leave the railroad workers camp and move on, until a former crewman once fired by MacMorris shows up to make trouble.

The Texan - The Governor's Lady

The Governor's Lady,

Bill saves a government agent from ambush. The agent is carrying a list of landowners who are refusing to pay their taxes, and the daughter of one of those landowners---the one who the attempted killers are working for---is engaged to the governor.

The Texan - Town Divided

Bill finds a town engulfed by a feud between two ranchers. He also learns that his former commanding officer, now a doctor, has turned to drinking, and that a young man blames him for crippling his arm. Bill tries to talk the doctor into staying.

The Texan - The Guilty And The Innocent

The Guilty And The Innocent,

A lynch mob wants to hang a young man convicted of killing a family of homesteaders. Bill rides in with a stay of execution from the governor just as the mob is about to break into the jail and the desperate prisoner escapes.

The Texan - Presentation Gun

Presentation Gun,

Bill stops to visit his friend, a well-respected sheriff, only to find that the man has been jailed for killing an unarmed youth, and the whole town has turned against him, including his own son. Bill seeks to find the real truth.

The Texan - The Nomad

Bill comes to the defense of an unassuming man who is being bullied and tries to encourage him to stand up for himself. Soon the man asks Bill to teach him how to use a gun.

The Texan - Killer's Road

Bill takes the job of escorting a convicted killer to his hanging, knowing that the man's sons and gang members are in the area planning to free him.

The Texan - Lady Tenderfoot

Lady Tenderfoot,

An Easterner and his daughter hire Bill to guide them in the search for a wild stallion whom they hope to breed. But an old enemy plans to follow them on the search and rob the horse breeder and get revenge on Bill.

The Texan - The Invisible Noose

The Invisible Noose,

Bill goes after three men who forced him to accompany them on a bank robbery and framed him for it.

The Texan - Johnny Tuvo

Bill befriends an overeager young man named Johnny Tuvo who plans to challenge him in the upcoming horse race. But two other men at the event have more sinister plans for how to take advantage of it.

The Texan - The Accuser

Bill is captured by a posse and accused of being one of the men who robbed the bank and shot the banker. Unfortunately, the victim claims Bill was the robber who shot him. Only the sheriff is inclined to believe Bill.

The Texan - Mission To Monterrey

Mission To Monterrey,

Bill is sent into Mexico to investigate and put an end to a counterfeiting ring that's been operating there making phony American currency. The lawman he was to contact is ambushed and killed, leaving Bill to handle the situation alone.

The Texan - Badman

Bill escorts a prisoner to Pueblo for trial. He is also to deliver money to the prisoner's mother for his daughter, whom she has custody of. On the way the two men encounter a dust storm, which forces them to take refuge in a ghost town.

The Texan - 24 Hours To Live

24 Hours To Live,

Bill hopes to prove that his friend Steve Murrow is innocent of killing the man who married the girl he was hoping to marry. But he only has 24 hours to do it before Steve is hung.

Details

The Texan

Western

TV-PG

2 Seasons

24 minutes

The Texan, a Civil War Veteran whose reputation of being the fastest gun in the west precedes him, roams across Texas from town to town, not looking for trouble, but trouble finds him.

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