Episode 1: Shanghai Kelly's Birthday Party
1967-10-07
Shanghai Kelly works a side job filling ships with shanghaied sailors. He counts on long sea voyages to insure his "clients" don't come back after him. His fiancé sets him up to retire early.
Season guide
Death Valley Days Season 16 — Episodes and Where to Watch
26 episodes · first aired 1967-10-07
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Episode 2: Chicken Bill
1967-10-14
Chicken Bill (Dub Taylor) owns a silver mine that isn't paying out. He salts his mine to get his competition to pay off his old debit and fund his future.
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Episode 3: Let My People Go
1967-10-21
The Chumash Indians, enslaved by Spanish soldiers in early day California, rebel against their captors. Their leader Paconio realizes they are trapped in the mission and talks with the Padre to find a solution.
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Episode 4: The Lone Grave
1967-10-28
John Hail honors his wife's dying wish and returns to make a solitary journey to place a headstone on her remote grave.
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Episode 5: The Girl Who Walked the West
1967-11-04
Sacagawea leads the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Episode 6: The Informer Who Cried
1967-11-11
Jim Murphy is about to be sentenced when Texas Ranger Captain Peak offers him a deal in exchange for his freedom. He must help capture bandit Sam Bass dead or alive but fellow gang member Barnes is suspicious of his return.
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Episode 7: Spring Rendezvous
1967-11-18
At a gathering of trappers Kit Carson takes on a belligerent man, who has insulted the Indians, in a series of contests.
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Episode 8: Lost Sheep in Trinidad
1967-12-30
Sister Blandina comes to the aid of a wounded robbery in the rough frontier town of Trinidad when no one else will. As she works to comfort him she learns he is a friend of the notorious Billy the Kid.
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Episode 9: The Saga of Sadie Orchard
1968-01-13
The Orchards get the contract to deliver silver in the isolated town of Hillsboro. After her husband is waylaid and beaten by bandits, Sadie takes over as the stage driver.
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Episode 10: The Indiana Girl
1968-01-20
A tomboy changes her ways when she meets the handsome constable of a mining town.
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Episode 11: Prince of the Oyster Pirates
1968-01-28
Jack agrees to buy French Frank's oyster boat but only if he spares Scratch's life. French, a violent man, vows vengeance when he loses his girl Mamie to Jack. Jack must outwit and diminish French as a hooligan.
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Episode 12: The Friend
1968-02-17
An inexperienced young man hears about a planned ambush on the sheriff and vows to help.
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Episode 13: The Great Diamond Mines
1968-02-23
A prospector and his partner try to con a banker.
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Episode 14: Count Me In, Count Me Out
1968-02-24
Count Peter is a charming rascal in Old California who expects to marry the beautiful heiress of a wealthy Don. But first he must serve a brief stint in a jail he designed and clear up a misunderstanding that might get him killed.
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Episode 15: Dress for a Desert Girl
1968-03-01
While her husband Zeb looks for gold, Cynthia lives in isolation in Death Valley. Although he has promised they will eventually leave, Cynthia begins to give up hope and her health fails. Zeb hopes a new dress will help.
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Episode 16: Britta Goes Home
1968-03-02
Gustaf Olaffson eagerly awaits the arrival of his future bride Britta from Sweden. Heading to Gustaf's sod house, Britta becomes disillusioned about her future. Visiting with Dan and Mary Brown, other Dakota homesteaders, help her overcome her fears.
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Episode 17: Bread on the Desert
1968-03-02
Two Americans on their way to Santa Fe are captured by Mexican troops and held prisoner until an Indian woman comes to their aid.
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Episode 18: Green Is the Color of Gold
1968-03-06
Aaron brings his new bride Rosie to Death Valley where his place is isolated and rundown. Aaron continues a futile look for gold but as Rosie is about to leave him, he discovers another mineral to make them wealthy.
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Episode 19: Out of the Valley of Death
1968-03-07
A wagon train takes the wrong cutoff and end up in Death Valley running short of food and water. Two of the stronger men leave to find supplies but those left behind start to give up hope of their return.
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Episode 20: The Gold Mine on Main Street
1968-03-15
Jesse declares the middle of Main Street is the place to find gold and is seemingly correct after the mine is successful. But his backers in town become increasingly suspicious when their questions go unanswered.
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Episode 21: A Friend Indeed
1968-04-05
Ten years after the events described in "Out of the Valley of Death", Asa Bennett is persuaded to join an expedition to find the Lost Gunsight Mine, a legendary vein of silver in the heart of Death Valley.
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Episode 22: The Thirty-Caliber Town
1968-04-12
The story of how the Winchester repeating rifle helped to bring law and order to a new north Idaho town. An epilogue featuring host Robert Taylor and Lester Shadduck, the mayor of Winchester, Idaho, was shot on location in 1967.
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Episode 23: The Other Side of the Mountain
1968-04-13
Wagonmaster Lassen faces an unruly mob when he tries a new route to California in the 1840s and is overheard saying he may be lost.
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Episode 24: By the Book
1968-05-10
Two young ladies move to Colorado to prove their land claim, but the local land manager intends to own it himself. Two brothers are enlisted to hinder the women, but find their charms irresistible.
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Episode 25: The Pieces of the Puzzle
1968-05-11
"The Baron of Arizona," James Reavis, files a claim against the government.
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Episode 26: Tall Heart, Short Temper
1968-05-17
Pike has a terrible temper and his fiance Angela breaks off the engagement after too many altercations with the townspeople. He heads off with his partner to trap, vowing to stay calm to win her back but an encounter with Indians changes things.
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