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17. Judge Not.....Jason McCord hitches a ride on a stage carrying four passengers, including a prisoner who is headed for the gallows and an officer who was present at McCord's court-martial hearing.
First aired: 9/12/65     Writer: Jerome B. Thomas     Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest Stars—Kathleen Crowley (Laura Rock), Tom Drake (Major Tom Rock),
Harry Harvey, Sr. (Potter, Station Master), Warren Oates (Perce/Frank Clampett), Lou Roberson (Shotgun), Willard Sage (Tuttle, Texas Ranger), Clint Sharp (Stage Driver)

18. Now Join the Human Race.....Red Hand, who has illegally left the reservation with his family, is corned by the troops of cold-blooded Major Lynch. McCord, afraid that killing the Apache chief would set off an Indian war, offers to mediate Red Hand's surrender.
First Aired: 9/19/65     Writer: Ken Pettus Director: Harry Harris
Guest Stars:
 James Anderson (Lt. Garrett), Noah Beery Jr. (Major Lynch), Ted Jordan (Sgt. Mayhew), Jon Lormer (Jud Markham), Ann Morell (Snow Child), Burt Reynolds (Red Hand)

19.  Mightier than the Sword.....McCord comes to the aide of newspaper publisher Ann Williams, who refuses to endorse cutthroat boss Paul Mandell for an important political appointment.
First Aired: 9/26/65     Writer: Frank Chase     Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest Stars: Lola Albright (Ann Williams),
Kevin Hagen (Paul Mandell), Michael Lane (Trask), Charles Horvath (Deke), Ed McCready (Anders), Maureen Arthur (Teddi Stafford)

20.  I Killed Jason McCord.....Footloose Tuck Fraser, unexpectedly the center of admiration for killing a man thought to be Jason McCord, gets an unpleasant shock when McCord turns up alive.
First Aired: 10/3/65     Writer: Joseph Hoffman     Director: Larry Peerce
Guest Stars: Bruce Bennett (Archie Fletcher), Larry Pennell (Tuck Fraser), Karen Steele (Lorrie Heller),
Baynes Barron (Sheriff), Billy Beck (Gibbons), Alex Sharp (Matt Hawley), Lee Delano (Carter)

21.  The Bar Sinister.....McCord steps in when the cousins of an old friend' orphaned son attempt to take the boy away from the Indian housekeeper who raised him.
First Aired: 10/10/65     Writer: Jack Paritz     Director: Larry Peerce
Guest Stars: Stephen McNally (Caleb Reymer), Michel Petit (Jimmy Whitlaw), Marian Seldes (Neela), Walter F. O'Malley  (The Doctor), Paulle Clark (Hannah Reymer), Howard Curtis (Huber Mills), William Gwinn (Kern), Rick Johnson (Peter Foley), Ron Johnson (Paul Foley), Deidre Cole (Becky)

22.  Seward's Folly.....Two unsavory characters plot to steal the maps of McCord is making after his survey of the rich, recently purchased territory of Alaska.
First Aired:
10/17/65     Writer: George W. Schenck, William Marks     Director: Larry Peerce
Guest Stars: Coleen Gray (Leslie Gregg), J. Pat O'Malley (Rufus I. Pitkin), Ian Wolfe (William Henry Seward), Charles Maxwell (Sobel), Robert F. Hoy (Grimes), Joel Marston (Hotel Clerk), Lulu Porter (Millie)

23.  Salute the Soldier Briefly.....McCord interrupts a miners' kangaroo court to save Charles Briswell, and accused murderer who claims he witnessed the battle at Bitter Creek and can clear McCord.
First Aired: 10/24/65     Writer: Frederick Louis Fox     Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Stars: Michael Rennie (Charles Briswell), Claude Hall (Sample), Michael Keep (Chief Wateekah), Chuck Hamilton (I) (Daygan), John Pickard (Lt. Shanley), Jim Davis (Wheeler), John Mitchum (Slate),
 Recurring Role: John Pickard (Lt. Shanley)


24.  The Richest Man in Boot Hill.....McCord Reluctantly agrees to help a small-town undertaker haul a coffin into town, unaware that it contains a live safecracker who plans to rob the Wells Fargo office.
First Aired: 10/31/06     Writer: Elon Packard     Director: Larry Peerce
Guest Stars: John Indrisano (Howie), William A. Henry (Sheriff), Richard Bakalyan (Roy Barlow), Jack Lambert (Marty Slater), J. Pat O'Malley (Rufus I. Pitkin),
Lee Van Cleef (Fred Slater), Fred Carson (Scotty)

25.  Fill No Glass for Me—part 1.....In a flashback to the days after he was cashiered from the Army, McCord recalls an encounter with Col. Johnny Macon, the inexperience leader of a Cavalry patrol trapped by the Apaches.
First Aired: 11/7/65     Writer: Frederic Louis Fox     Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest Stars: Harry Lauter (Dart), Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales (Jose), Duncan McLeod (Brackham), Greg Morris (Corporal Johnny Macon), Michael Keep (Chief Wateekah)

26.  Fill No Glass for Me—part 2.....Cpl. Johnny Macon breaks out of jail to rescue McCord, unaware that the Indians are using McCord as bait.
First Aired: 11/14/65     Writer: Frederic Louis Fox     Director: Vincent McEveety     
Guest Stars:
Davis Roberts (Hawkins), Harry Lauter (Dart), Duncan McLeod (Brackham), Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales (Jose), Greg Morris (Corporal Johnny Macon), Michael Keep (Chief Wateekah) 

27.  The Greatest Coward on Earth.....When McCord tried to collect the $50 prize offered for defeating a muscleman, circus owner P.T. Barnum decides to offer him a job, as the star of re-enactments of the Bitter Creek massacre.
First Aired: 11/21/65     Writer: Nathaniel Tanchuck     Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Stars: Dick Clark (A.J. Bailey), Pamela Curran (Princess Salome), James Chandler (Charlie Stark), Victor Izay (Hotel Clerk), I. Stanford Jolley (Enos Scoggins), John Marley (Coutts), Pat O'Brien (P.T. Barnum)

28.  $10,000 for Durango.....While McCord is cashing his employer's draft for $10,000, Frank Ross and his gang stage a holdup.
 
First Aired:
11/28/65
Guest Stars: John Agar (Sheriff), Lloyd Bochner (Frank Ross), Edwin Cook (Tiny Bradford), Martha Hyer (Callie Clay), Gregg Palmer (Doc.), Pete Dunn (Taylor), Montie Plyer (Morgan)

29.  Romany Rounduppart 1.....McCord runs afoul of Aaron Shields when he stops the cattle baron from whipping Kolyan, leader of a band of Gypsies.
First Aired: 12/5/65     Director: Lee H. Katzin     Writer: Lou Shaw
Guest Stars: Ahna Capri (Robin Shields), Don Collier (Jud Foley), Joan Huntington (Lisa), Gary Merrill (Aaron Shields), Nico Minardos (Kolyan), Michael J. Pollard (Digby Popham)

30.  Romany Rounduppart 2.....Cattle baron Aaron Shields learns that his daughter has given the Gypsies the money for McCord's bail bond, and he orders his men to wipe out the Gypsy band.
First Aired: 12/12/65     Director: Lee H. Katzin     Writer: Lou Shaw
Guest Stars: Ahna Capri (Robin Shields), Don Collier (Jud Foley), Joan Huntington (Lisa), Gary Merrill (Aaron Shields), Nico Minardos (Kolyan), Michael J. Pollard (Digby Popham)

31.  A Proud Town.....It's Christmas, but elderly tailor Julius Perrin, who provides a home for a flock of orphans, is being forced out of town.  One of his youngsters has been accused of shooting the son of the community's leading citizen.
First Aired: 12/19/65     Writer: Paul L. Friedman     Director: Larry Peerce
Guest Stars: William A. Henry (Regan), Pat Cardi (Mike), Ludwig Donath (Julius Perrin), Ken Mayer (Martin Stoddard), Carol Brewster (Grace Stoddard), Pamelyn Ferdin (Abigail), Jay Jostyn (Dr. Coats), Robert Cross (Randy Stoddard), William Harlow (Mr. Bolger), Charles Horvath (Shay)

32.  The Golden Fleece.....Arrested by uniform troopers, McCord is placed in a prison can with Randall Kirby, a former Confederate office who is making plans to establish a military empire.
First Aired: 1/2/66    Writer: Jessica Benson, Jay Selby    Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Stars:
William Bryant (Ulysses S. Grant), Bing Russell (Sheriff), William Phipps (Brooks)

33.  The Wolfers.....McCord finds a delirious white girl, wearing an Indian dress, left tied in a clearing by wolf hunters.
First Aired: 1/9/66     Writer: Frank Paris     Director: Larry Pierce
Guest Stars: Bruce Dern (Les), Charles Horvath (Jud), Zeme North (White Fawn), Morgan Woodward (Clyde), Nick Dimitri (Young Hawk), Foster Hood (Indian)

34.  This Stage of Fools.....McCord goes to work as a bodyguard to actor Edwin Booth, whose brother John Wilkes assassinated President Lincoln.
First Aired: 1/16/66     Writer: Ken Trevey     Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Stars:
Martin Landau (Edwin), Rex Ingram (Hannibal)

35.  A Destiny Which Made Us Brothers.....Army couriers awaken McCord at 3 A.M. to deliver a special letter which reminds McCord of an unexpected meeting with General Grant, also at 3 A.M. ten years earlier.
First Aired: 1/23/66     Writer: Andrew J. Fenady Director: Allen Reisner
Guest Stars: Jan Merlin (Jim Darcy), Willard Sage (Joe Darcy), James MacArthur (Lt. Dan Laurence), Buck Taylor (Corporal), Recurring Role:
William Bryant (General Grant)

36.  McCord's Way.....After killing a gunman, McCord is offered the job of sheriff in a town where three lawmen have been shot down within the past year.
First Aired: 1/30/66     Writer: Borden Chase     Director: William Witney
Guest Stars: Mona Freeman (Dora Kendall), Ben Johnson (I) (Bill Latigo), Tom Reese (Jess Muhler), James Beck (Bill Tomlin), Henry Capps (Joe Latigo), Willard Sage (Wes Trent), Robert Swan (Bud Lee), Rocky Young (Tommy Kendall), Chris Hundley (Rob)

37.  Nice Day for a Hanging.....In a town to witness the execution of a man who once saved his life, McCord meets the doomed man's son, who swears to take revenge on the whole townspeople.
First Aired:
2/6/66     Writer: Frank Chase Director: Allen Reisner
Guest Stars: James Anderson (Frank Allison), William Baskin (Tiny), Whitney Blake (Nan Richards), Beau Bridges (Lon Allison), Rusty Lane (Sherf), Dick Miller (Wrangler)

38.  Barbed Wire.....Cattleman Roy Beckwith hires McCord to fence his land, a move which marks the end of the open range and the beginning of the long war between cattlemen and farmers.
First Aired: 2/13/66     Writer: Ken Trevey     Director: Harry Harris
Guest Stars:
Rod Cameron (Holland Thorp), Leif Erickson (Roy Beckwith),
Sherry Jackson (Nell Beckwith)

39.  Yellow for Courage.....McCord, stricken with diphtheria, risks his life to test a serum developed by a foreign lady doctor who is also an outcast.
First Aired: 2/20/66     Writer: Frederic Louise Fox     Director: Harry Harris
Guest Stars:
Michael Forest (Newt Woolery),
Harry Harvey, Sr. (Doc. Shackley), Patricia Medina (Dr. Karen Miller), Stuart Lancaster (Bockett), Dirk Evans (Sheriff), Victor Izay (Banker), Red Morgan (Collins)  

40.  Call to Glory—part 1.....President Grant asks McCord to find out why General Custer has attacked the Grant Administration over recent Indian outbreaks.
First Aired: 2/27/66     Writer: Jerry Zeigman     John Wilder Director: Allen Reisner    
Guest Stars:
Robert Lansing (Gen. George Custer), David Brian (Gregory Hazin), Kathie Browne (Jennie Galvin), Felix Locher (Sitting Bull), Michael Pate (Crazy Horse),
Lee Van Cleef (Charlie Yates), H.M. Wynant (Lionel MacAllister), Recurring Role:
William Bryant (President Grant), John Pickard (General Phil Sheridan)

41.  Call to Glory—part 2.....Soon after McCord prevents a clash between the soldiers and Indians.  Chief Crazy Horse appears at a party for General Sheridan to plead for peace and fair treatment.
First Aired: 3/6/66     Writer: Jerry Zeigman     John Wilder Director: Allen Reisner       
Guest Stars: Robert Lansing (General George Custer), David Brian (Gregory Hazin), Kathie Browne (Jennie Galvin), Felix Locher (Sitting Bull), Michael Pate (Crazy Horse),
Lee Van Cleef  (Charlie Yates), H.M. Wynant (Lionel MacAllister), Recurring Role: William Bryant (President Grant), John Pickard (General Phil Sheridan)

42. Call to Glory—part 3.....Chief Sitting Bull assures McCord that his braves did not kill the Indian agent — information that McCord must get back to General Custer to avert a full-scale battle.
First Aired: 3/13/66     Writer: Jerry Zeigman     John Wilder Director: Allen Reisner       
Guest Stars: Robert Lansing (General George Custer), David Brian (Gregory Hazin), Kathie Browne (Jennie Galvin), Felix Locher (Sitting Bull),
Michael Pate (Crazy Horse),
Lee Van Cleef  (Charlie Yates), H.M. Wynant (Lionel MacAllister), Recurring Role: William Bryant (President Grant), John Pickard (General Phil Sheridan)

43.  The Ghost of Murrieta.....Los Angeles teenager Juan Molinera hopes to emulate the infamous bandit Murrieta by stealing the $50,000 in gold entrusted to McCord.
First Aired: 3/20/66    
Guest Stars: Dolores del Rio (Antonia Molinera), Jose DeVega (Juan Molinera), Rafael Campos (Luis), Linda Dangcil (Rosita), Ben Welden (Vega)

44.  The Assassins—part 1.....President Grant asks McCord to undertake a dirty job,  He is assigned to infiltrate a group of men rumored to be plotting against Grant's life.
First Aired: 3/27/06    
Guest Stars:
Michael Ross (I) (Randall), Kamala Devi (Laurette Ashley), Carlos Rivas (Dr. Felix Cueverra), Peter Graves (Senator Keith Ashley), Margarita Cordova (Socorro Cueverra), Recurring Role: John Carradine (General Josh McCord) 

45.  The Assassins—part 2.....McCord learns that the dagger with which he and President Grant were attacked came from the knife collection of Senator Ashley.
First Aired:
4/3/66      
Guest Stars:
Kamala Devi (Laurette Ashley), Carlos Rivas (Dr. Felix Cueverra), Peter Graves (Senator Keith Ashley), Margarita Cordova (Socorro Cueverra), Recurring Role:
John Carradine (General Josh McCord)

46.  Headed for Doomsday.....Atter saving famed newspaperman Horace Greeley from an assassin.  McCord accepts a job as a armed social secretary.
First Aired: 4/10/66
Guest Stars:
Burgess Meredith (Horace Greeley), Carol Ohmart (Laureen Macklin), Robert Q. Lewis (Satterfield), Bruno Vesota (Laird Sawyer), Russ McCubbin (Fred Turner)

47.  Coward Dies Many Times.....William Benedict, Fright-line owner Tad Evers vows that he'll stop McCord from completing a survey for a railroad that would put him out of business.
First Aired:
4/17/66
Guest Stars: Lola Albright (Ann Williams), John Ireland (Ted Evers), William Benedict (Hogan), Bill Catching (Deke), Luke Saucier (Midge), Alex Sharp (Sergeant)

48.  Kellie.....Kellie the spirited 11 year old daughter of a bank robber, vows to get even with McCord for killing her father.
First Aired: 4/24/66
Guest Stars: Dick Cangey (Grant), Lola Albright (Ann), Recurring Role: John Carradine (General Josh McCord)

*Portions of "Judge Not", along with portions of the "Fill No Glass for Me" and "Call to Glory" episodes, were edited together and sold in video stores under the title "Blade Rider: Revenge of the Indian Nations."

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