The Homecoming
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1965
Varner has two concerns: Clara's indifference to finding a husband and Ben Quick's return to town.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1965
Varner has two concerns: Clara's indifference to finding a husband and Ben Quick's return to town.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1965
Varner learns that Ben Quick needs a bank loan to rebuild his farm, and Varner means to make sure he doesn't get it.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1965
On his way home for his 21st birthday party, Jody stops to pick up a young hitchhiker - a girl who has two men following her.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1965
Willow Sterne comes to Frenchman's Bend looking for former boy friend Ben Quick - whom she hopes to lure back with her sizable divorce settlement.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1965
Willow's continuing pursuit of Ben leads to tragic consequences for someone, and jail for Ben.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1965
Lonnie McBain claims that Varner is trying to force him and his deaf-mute sister off their land.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1965
Varner disapproves of daughter Clara's romance with Charles Pettigrew, a scholarly college student whom he considers a weakling.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1965
Pro-football star Scott Manning returns to Frenchman's Bend and gets a hero's welcome from everyone except Clara, who is deeply disturbed by his homecoming.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1965
A state senator's daughter comes home from school to destroy a letter the headmistress sent her father.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1965
Desperate for harvest hands, Ben hires a couple who once crossed Varner - and whom Varner has told to get out of town.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1965
Clara and Jody are visited by an old family friend who's carrying a large amount of cash.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1965
Ben purchases part ownership of a lumberyard that Varner wanted to buy.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1965
Dan Duryea plays Ben's scheming cousin, who arrives with plans to take over Ben's farm.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1965
Ben's house is burglarized by Joe Hagen, an escaped convict who once had Ben and his dad run out of town.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1966
A tractor uncovers the remains of a man Ben's father was suspected of murdering.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1966
Reclusive Maribelle Kirkpatrick asks Eula to come live with her.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1966
Jody is impressed with a tough-looking motorcycle gang that roars into town.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1966
Varner learns he has a tumor that may be malignant.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1966
John Cassavetes plays an escaped convict who's looking for his former girl friend---Varner's nurse.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1966
Gena Rowlands plays Varner's new romantic interest, the widow of a former employee.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1966
Curley Beeman plans to join a plot to kidnap Jody.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1966
Clara's old friend Katy returns from Europe with her Italian fiance.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1966
Eleanor Davis comes to visit her children---who think she is dead.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1966
Angry because his father passed him over for a promotion at the bank, Jody leaves home and goes to work for Ben Quick.
Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1966
Will's jet-set cousin has some definite changes in mind for the Varner household.
Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1966
Varner's visitor: his former construction foreman, who years before suffered a crippling injury saving Clara's life.