Best of the West

9/17/1981

Sam must face a prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes ill on his way through town.

10/1/1981

The Square Deal Saloon's new cook is the Calico Kid; he has sworn to never again kill anything he can't eat.

10/15/1981

Sam goes out on a limb and manages to save Tillman from a lynch mob, but at the trial, his mixed-up testimony has him back at the end of a rope.

10/22/1981

Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling.

10/29/1981

Sam loses his badge in a special election to Tillman's squeaky-clean candidate.

11/5/1981

Daniel is as surprised as anyone when a few innocent kisses lead to a shotgun wedding.

11/12/1981

Laney is smitten with a smoothie who bids high for her at a social—but he turns out to be a low-down heel.

10/8/1981

Elvira's die-hard Confederate father (Andy Griffith) stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town. His wife is trying to patch things up with their daughter; she married a Yankee!

11/19/1981

Sam and Tillman try hard to convince the railroad to come to Copper Creek.

11/26/1981

Sam's image as a lawman quickly loses its edge after he manages to shoot himself in the leg; the jail collapsing around him doesn't help.

12/17/1981

Sam doesn't pay attention to signs of discontent from Elvira until the day he comes home to finds her packed to leave.

1/7/1982

Frog meets a woman who was recently jilted by her beau, but neither realizes he wants her back.

1/14/1982

The reformed Calico Kid decides he wants to be a United States Marshal. But he lacks one qualification: a third-grade education.

1/21/1982

Tillman has been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom, but the Copper Creek citizens have no intention of paying up.

1/28/1982

Doc's mail-order bride has a vivid personality with a past to match it.

2/12/1982

Elvira and her stepson explore an abandoned outlaw cave, unaware that it is booby-trapped to collapse.

2/19/1982

Daniel's refusal to fight a relentless bully leads to Sam having to fight the bully's father.

2/26/1982

Sam is handcuffed to his prisoner—a flirtatious female outlaw—for an overnight journey.

6/7/1982

Elvira's former fiance' comes to town, intent on taking her away with him.

6/14/1982

Sam receives an anonymous threatening note.

6/21/1982

Sam and Tillman try to foil a holdup by holding a funeral for Frog; the coffin contains the $20,000 the thieves are after.