Pilot
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1983
In the series pilot, Chance signs on as a hand and soon becomes the prime suspect in a drug-smuggling operation.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1983
In the series pilot, Chance signs on as a hand and soon becomes the prime suspect in a drug-smuggling operation.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1983
John Strongheart is accused of killing a deputy and, while Chance, Quisto and Roy fight to save him, a sinister connection with Hollister is revealed.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1983
Roy discovers that an editorial attacking the Rose was written by Jeb's daughter Juliette; Chance gets himself thrown in jail to see Strongheart; Colleen visits Huntsville prison to plumb the mystery surrounding Chance.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1983
Lenny Hollister orders Sanchez to murder the drug dealer Onofrio; Grace lets the barriers down with Whit---but not enough to suit him.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1983
Jeb makes an enemy of Lenny; Chance and Strongheart escape from Sanchez; and the drug cache is discovered on the Rose.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1983
Hollister resorts to bribery, sabotage and a cattle stampede to prevent the Champions from marketing their herd.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1983
Hollister rebuffs a peace offering from Quisto and blows up the cattle pass, unaware that Juliette has joined the drive.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1983
Defying the Air Force, Chance drives the herd across a base; Quisto learns about the Rose Hollister-Wade Champion affair that produced Chance.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1983
Whit searches for Grace, but is sought by police when his truck is found at the scene of a shooting that left Hollister gravely wounded; Juliette resigns.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1983
Juliette makes peace with Jeb, but Caryn emerges as a secret ally of his absent sister Rose; Chance sets out to clear Whit.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1984
Hollister makes a peace offer that may split the Champions; Chance confronts Hollister over a contaminating oil spill and meets an intriguing woman at a bar.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1984
Chance resolves to help in the paroling of a 50-year hard timer who was like a father to him in prison; Whit resents the lawsuit Marlene files against the Champions in his behalf.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1984
Roy and Chance have 24 hours to get Toat Gilmore back to prison, but Toat has a mission to fulfill first; the preliminary hearing on Marlene's suit gets underway.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1984
Colleen aids a pregnant Mexican woman being hounded by two border patrolmen who know she's a witness to their gun-smuggling operation.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1984
While the Champions are in Los Angeles to claim a race horse, L.C. is abducted by procurers for a child-prostitution ring.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1984
Two challenges to the Champions: a spirited wild stallion stealing their mares and a woman determined to protect it.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1984
Rose Hollister returns to take revenge on her brother and set the record straight with her son.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1984
Roy's prodigal brother Trey returns to the Rose deeply in debt to Vegas gamblers---but as a rodeo world champion, he's also a powerful role model to Whit.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1984
Rankled by the slave-labor conditions at a work camp exploiting illegal aliens, Quisto poses as one and signs on.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Apr 21, 1984
Dillard is gravely wounded and left to die by oil rustlers with a long-standing grudge against the Champions.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: May 5, 1984
An old drifter is murdered by two hardcases after Pancho Villa's treasure map, which the drifter had just given to L.C. for safekeeping.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: May 12, 1984
An ex-con with a grudge against Chance intends to get his revenge through Colleen.