Season 5 - Episode Guide

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1960 (30 min)

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1960 (30 min)

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1960 (30 min)

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1960 (30 min)

While tracking down a man wanted for robbery and murder, Hardie worries that the man's ties to a sheriff might make it difficult to serve justice.

 

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1960 (30 min)

When a young woman becomes infatuated with Hardie, a seemingly simple Wells Fargo job gets complicated. A jewel shipment must be delivered, and the owner's daughter wants to do it personally.

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1960 (30 min)

When a stagecoach arrives in Denver with $50,000 worth of gold missing, Hardie investigates the town. When $50,000 goes missing from a stagecoach, and with few leads to go on, Jim suspects a safe-cracking marshal of the theft.

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1960 (30 min)

When Hardie stops in a small town while transporting a prisoner to stand trial in Santa Fe, N.M., he discovers that there's a price on the prisoner's head and that the mayor and sheriff may not let him leave the town alive.

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1960 (30 min)

The search for a missing stage leads Hardie (Dale Robertson) to a lawless border town and a gunfight with the town's "leading citizen."

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1960 (30 min)

Case: the murder of a casino manager.

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1960 (30 min)

Hearing about a holdup being staged at the Wade place, Hardie (Dale Robertson) goes into action.

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1960 (30 min)

An ex-convict seeks his partner, who escaped with a fortune in gold.

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1960 (30 min)

Jan Clayton appears as a mail-order bride who was the only witness to a holdup.

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1960 (30 min)

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Dec 26, 1960 (30 min)

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1961 (30 min)

Hardie's quick action prevents an innocent man who has suffered a serious injury from being convicted of murder.

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1961 (30 min)

Hardie becomes suspicious when he is notified that a friend of his has "accidentally" drowned. 

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: Mar 6, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1961 (30 min)

Spencer, Blazing Rock's Fargo agent, is found dead, with a gun in his hand. Marshal Williams says it is suicide, but Hardie believes otherwise. 

Episode: 5x25 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x26 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x27 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x28 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x29 | Airdate: Apr 17, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x30 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x31 | Airdate: May 1, 1961 (30 min)

Agent Hardie rides to Calico where a competitor of Wells Fargo is forcing passengers to transfer to his stage line at gunpoint.

Episode: 5x32 | Airdate: May 8, 1961 (30 min)

A fellow Wells Fargo agent offers Hardie a large reward for the capture of an outlaw—dead or alive.

Episode: 5x33 | Airdate: May 15, 1961 (30 min)

Hardie suspects a casino owner is selling illegal guns to insurgent Indians.

Episode: 5x34 | Airdate: May 22, 1961 (30 min)

An outlaw released early from prison has a hit-list of those responsible for his capture, including Hardie.

Episode: 5x35 | Airdate: May 29, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x36 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x37 | Airdate: Jun 12, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x38 | Airdate: Jun 26, 1961 (30 min)

Episode: 5x39 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1961 (30 min)

Bertram La Tour has requested Wells Fargo send Jim Hardie personally to escort his dowry of $200,000 and his granddaughter Michelle Bovarde to Baton Rouge where she is to be married. However, Jim is unaware why this is being done.