Empire (1962) Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Day the Empire Stood Still

First aired: Sep/25/1962
Writer: Frank Nugent
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Vic Perrin (Matt Webster), Paul Tripp (Thayer Wilson), Oliver McGowan (Harvey Welk), Denver Pyle (Tom Rawlings)

Despite the threat of all hands to quit, Redigo (Richard Egan) defends a worker accused of murder.
In the opener. Charles Bronson, one of the hands, is wrongfully accused of murder and Egan goes to bat for him even though it means a strike by Empire's many cowpokes.

2 :01x02 - Ballard Number One

First aired: Oct/02/1962
Writer: Andy White
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: George Matthews (Bigg), Ed Begley (Sam Ballard), Frederic Downs (Phelps)

Sam Ballard's embezzling killed Redigo's father. Now Sam's back---digging for oil near the Garret ranch. Ballard, an oilman faces opposition when he returns home after serving a 20-year prison term for unsavory business practices.

3 :01x03 - A Place to Put a Life

First aired: Oct/09/1962
Writer: Ken Trevey
Director: Frank R. Pierson
Guest star: Cathy Lewis (Grace Koenig), James Griffith (Pete Stroud), James Anderson (Dusty Rhodes), Chris Robinson (Arnold Koenig), Joan Freeman (Unknown), Lee Krieger (Dobbins)

Redigo becomes dissatisfied with his job as foreman on the Garret Ranch and quits to strike out on his own. Redigo (Richard Egan) returns to the small ranch his father left him and finds that it's being run by a teen-ager.

4 :01x04 - Ride to a Fall

First aired: Oct/16/1962
Writer: Ken Trevey
Director: Abner Biberman
Guest star: Victor Jory (Milo Dahlbeck), Claude Akins (Joe Horvath)

Dahlbeck's guest at a ranch party seems to wield an eerie hold over him. Victor Jory and Claude Akins in a drama about an aging meat-packing tycoon who has trouble keeping up with the times.

5 :01x05 - Long Past, Long Remembered

First aired: Oct/23/1962
Director: Ted Post
Guest star: Tom Tully (Tom Cole), Paul Birch (Sam Fowler), Michael Fox (Chester Arkins), Noah Keen (Dr. Phelps), Vince St. Cyr (Estoban), Richard Jordan (Jay Bee Fowler)

Wealthy Tom Cole (Tom Tully) visits the spread during a severe drought and his untimely friendliness suggests he wants to buy the ranch.

6 :01x06 - Walk Like a King

First aired: Oct/30/1962
Writer: Alvin Sargent
Director: Alex March
Guest star: Joanne Linville (Leona Spence), Ralph Meeker (Barney Swanton)

Ex-employee Barney Swanton (Ralph Meeker) returns to the ranch rich but is still envious of Redigo, whose job he always wanted.

7 :01x07 - The Fire Dancer

First aired: Nov/13/1962
Writer: Alvin Sargent
Director: Fred H. Jackman
Guest star: Frank Gorshin (Billy Roy Fix), James Chandler (Unknown), Susan Silo (MacCormack), Roy Barcroft (Charlie Hooper), Harry Lauter (Starbeck), Jan Arvan (Phil)

There's an oil-well fire, blazing out of control. Jim Redigo's problem is to put out the fire before it destroys the ranch's field of oil and gas wells. Only one kind of man, a human extinguisher, can do the job, but those men are scarce.

8 :01x08 - The Tall Shadow

First aired: Nov/20/1962
Writer: Andy White
Director: John Farrow
Guest star: Leo Gordon (Jake), Bethel Leslie (Charlotte), Mickey Sholdar (Jimmy), Duane Grey (Unknown), Frank Overton (Chuck Pierce), Ray Teal (Unknown)

Confronted with the prospect of a forest blaze during a severe drought, Redigo is looking forward to the assistance of an engineer.

9 :01x09 - The Earth Mover

First aired: Nov/27/1962
Director: Harry Keller
Guest star: Linda Bennett (Fay Saunders), Max Showalter (Hobart Muncey), Dan O'Herlihy (Glenn Kassin), Eddy Waller (Abel Saunders)

Glenn Kassin wants to build a model city near Mesa, but the landowner refuses to sell. This series, sustained by the forceful emoting of star Richard Egan, adds a second powerful performer in guest Dan O'Herlihy, making for some good strong drama. O'Herlihy plays an industrialist who plans a gigantic construction project in Mesa. His aggressive ability convinces almost everyone to go along with his plans, except Redigo, who sees potential totalitarian evils in the man.

10 :01x10 - Pressure Lock

First aired: Dec/04/1962
Director: Abner Biberman
Guest star: Cathleen Nesbitt (Hertie Burton), Harvey Korman (Bunce), Ford Rainey (Josh), Carolyn Kearney (Charlotte), Alejandro Rey (Luis), Baynes Barron (Mike)

In the midst of negotiating for oil rights, Redigo (Richard Egan) is called out of town---leaving Tal to handle the bargaining. Tal must deal with Hettie Burton, a troublesome businesswoman, and a hostile crew. Young Tal garret, directing his first drilling operation, faces trouble from a shrewed businesswoman and a hostile crew. Hettie Burton forces Tal to accept a three-week time limit on the well. When Tal asks for a needed extension, Hettie agrees if he will marry her granddaughter, Charlotte.

11 :01x11 - Echo of a Man

First aired: Dec/11/1962
Writer: Antony Ellis
Director: John Farrow
Guest star: Kelton Garwood (Jennison), Glenn Turnbull (Canaday), Wayne Heffley (Christy), Claire Griswold (Ellen Connors), John Dehner (Dan Tabor)

Worries over his pretty young ward are causing a drop in efficiency for chief engineer Tabor (John Dehner). The show's dual themes are dusting and lusting. Guests are John Dehner who dusts the Garret crops against locusts and Garret Griswold who lusts after Garret foreman Jim Redigo, there's conflict and disaster but a successful operation at the end straightens everyone out.

12 :01x12 - When the Gods Laugh

First aired: Dec/18/1962
Director: Robert Gist
Guest star: Jenny Maxwell (Collin Haskell), Roger Mobley (Kieran Haskell), James Gregory (Theron Haskell)

A sharecropper who objects to education uses abusive tactics to keep his son home from school. An embittered sharecropper uses his 19-year-old son as a pawn in bargaining for ownership of the land.

13 :01x13 - Green, Green Hills

First aired: Dec/25/1962
Director: Allen Reisner
Guest star: Dayton Lummis (Jason Simms), Arthur O'Connell (Clayton Dodd), Joanna Moore (Althea Dodd), Leonard Stone (Lawrence Rowan)

Defensive from an earlier deal, con artist Clayton Dodd (Arthur O'Connell) makes land buying extra tough for Redigo.

14 :01x14 - Stopover on the Way to the Moon

First aired: Jan/01/1963
Director: Richard L. Bare
Guest star: Harold Gould (Judge), Armand Alzamora (Luis), Keir Dullea (Skip Wade), Mark Allen (Carl), Sharon Farrell (Lisa)

After taking young Skip Wade (Keir Dullea) to court for vandalism, Redigo determines to make the youth a useful citizen.

15 :01x15 - The Four Thumbs Story

First aired: Jan/08/1963
Guest star: Stuart Nisbet (Fred), Joseph Vitale (Quicker Than You), Don Diamond (Arturo), Ray Danton (Four Thumbs), Barry Atwater (Dr. Forsythe), George Gaynes (Johnson), Rudy Solari (Rabbit Stockins)

Four Thumbs (Ray Danton), an Indian ex-GI who served with Redigo in Korea, goes berserk and requires hospital care. Danton plays an heroic Navajo Indian who suffers head injuries during the Korean and is confined to an Army mental hospital. During a moment of lucidity Four Thumbs escapes the hospital and return to join his people on the reservation.

16 :01x16 - End of an Image

First aired: Jan/15/1963
Guest star: Oliver McGowan (Harvey Welk), Leonard Stone (Raymond Carlisle), Melora Conway (Ruthie Mathis), Nellie Burt (Margaret Rainey), Richard Jordan (Jay Bee Fowler), Dabbs Greer (Joseph Williams), Gail Kobe (Janet Rainey), Bill Mumy (Freddy), William Bryant (Fred Rainey), Stefan Gierasch (Jack Morgan)

Janet Rainey claims she's just going shopping---but there are those who suspect she's leaving town. Citizens of a decadent small town try to pervert justice to preserve the reputation of the war hero for which the town is named.

17 :01x17 - The Loner

First aired: Jan/22/1963
Writer: Stephen Kandel, John D. F. Black
Guest star: Jeremy Slate (Mike Novak), Clarke Gordon (Andy Owens), Warren Vanders (Unknown), Michael Trekilis (Jody), Allan Melvin (Dr. Benjamin Walls)

Mike Novak wants to work on the Garret spread until he's paid for a mare of his choice, but his choice is Tal's favorite.

18 :01x18 - Where the Hawk Is Wheeling

First aired: Jan/29/1963
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
Director: John Farrow
Guest star: Michael T. Mikler (Ben), Carlos Romero (Max), Lew Brown (Cord), Barry Russo (Leo Heller), Walter Burke (Micah), Robert Culp (Jared Mace), Arthur Marshall (Dr. Paul Karlan)

Balking at the ranch's strict dictates earns Tal (Ryan O'Neal) a lesson from Connie (Terry Moore) on why their mother chose Redigo (Richard Egan) as foreman.
Jared Mace is an unscrupulous business manager. He sees Redigo as the only barrier to his taking over command of the ranch after the owner dies. Related in flashback, Mace does everything to discredit Redigo. Climax comes when Redigo is himself mired in the quicksand, which has trapped Connie (Terry Moore.) Only one man can save them. Guess who?

19 :01x19 - No Small Wars

First aired: Feb/05/1963
Guest star: Robert Vaughn (Capt. Paul Terman), Ronnie Knox (Gary Lindley), Don McKellar (Otis Greene), Walter Brooke (Dr. Sidney Morgan), Stewart Bradley (Norman Dierker), John McLiam (Pat Sullivan)

Adding urgency to his surgery-or-death status, Redigo's sick friend is a very uncooperative patient.

20 :01x20 - The Tiger Inside

First aired: Feb/12/1963
Director: Bernard McEveety
Guest star: Richard Evans (Monte Clifford), Dennis Patrick (Hoot Hinkley), Philip Abbott (Sid Keller), William Woodson (Al Pope), Joyce Bulifant (Betty Wormser), Harold Stone (Gerald Wormser)

Afraid that a volunteer posse may take the law into its own hands, Redigo joins the hunt for a man accused of robbery.

21 :01x21 - Season of Growth

First aired: Feb/19/1963
Director: Bernard McEveety
Guest star: Pat Conway (Dan Bishop), Nick Nicholson (Sig Torvald), Davey Davison (Judy Hollister), Frederic Downs (Denton), James Noah (Ray Hollister), Arch Johnson (Brad Hollister)

Connie\'s former beau is back at the ranch---expressing a new interest in working and a renewed interest in her. Connie garret finds real romance. Terry Moore who portraits Connie, make a final appearance as a co-star of the series with this episode.

22 :01x22 - Seven Days on Rough Street

First aired: Feb/26/1963
Writer: Ken Trevey
Director: Bernard McEveety
Guest star: Clegg Hoyt (Beanie), Suzi Carnell (Twyla), John Davis Chandler (Arlen), Victor French (Bodie), Jackie Searl (Phipps), Jerry Douglas (Le Roy), Paul Sorenson (Policeman), Frank Sutton (Young Floyd)

After claiming he doesn't need the security of the Garret ranch, Tal leaves for Delgado---on the bet he can't stay a week.

23 :01x23 - A House in Order

First aired: Mar/05/1963
Director: Byron Paul
Guest star: Don C. Harvey (Caine), Russell Thorson (Austin), James Doohan (Doctor), Jason Johnson (Ranger), Oliver McGowan (Harvey Welk), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Austin), James T. Callahan (Redford)

News of her fatal illness inspires Lucia (Anne Seymour) to establish a better relationship between son Tal (Ryan O'Neal) and foreman Redigo (Richard Egan).

24 :01x24 - Down There the World

First aired: Mar/12/1963
Director: Leon Benson
Guest star: John Vivyan (Shelly Hanson), Dayton Lummis (Thomas Fenton Giler), Joanna Barnes (Neva Bradford), Paul Fierro (Bob Lopez), Philip Ober (Walter Kenner), Bill Quinn (Lupak), Bern Hoffman (George Neimeyer), Herb Armstrong (Colby), Oliver McGowan (Harvey Welk), Ken Drake (Ludwell)

The mine shuts down when the heady enchantress running a vital processing plant decides to buy out the Garrets.

25 :01x25 - Burnout

First aired: Mar/19/1963
Writer: Ken Kolb
Director: Bernard McEveety
Guest star: Gunner Hellström (Chris Norton), Joseph Gallison (Kelly Haines), Bill Zuckert (Unknown), Burt Douglas (Unknown), John Milford (Tom Barton), Karen Steele (Kate), Byron Morrow (Unknown), Stafford Repp (Unknown), Nancy Hadley (Ruth)

Forest Ranger Tom Barton has problems: the Garret logging operation is violating the timber contract with the Forest Service--and logging foreman Chris Norden is a tough guy to deal with

26 :01x26 - Hidden Asset

First aired: Mar/26/1963
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Barbara Bain (June Bates), Willard Sage (Sheriff Joe Clay), Joseph Hoover (Unknown), Marie Wilson (Unknown), William Windom (Lawrence Rowan), John Matthews (Matt Christopher), Lon Chaney, Jr. (Bart Howe)

Redigo (Richard Egan) must reckon with opposition to cuts in the payroll before he can apply for a bank loan.

27 :01x27 - Arrow in the Sky

First aired: Apr/09/1963
Writer: Frank R. Pierson
Director: Frank R. Pierson
Guest star: Don Diamond (Arturo), Michael Davis (Bobby), Ilka Windish (Eva), Telly Savalas (Tibor), Russell Johnson (Bill Carey)

Tibor, a former Hungarian revolutionary, crosses the US Mexico border illegally and asks Moreno for work, believing that his wife is staying at the Garrett ranch.

28 :01x28 - Nobody Dies on Saturday

First aired: Apr/16/1963
Director: Hal Hudson
Guest star: Don Gordon (Quinn Serrato), William Schallert (Unknown), Jon Lormer (Sam Richmond), Hugh Lawrence (Driver), Willard Sage (Sheriff Joe Clay), Harry Dean Stanton (Nick Crider), Jim Galante (Hank), Jean Inness (Rose Serrato)

Prison escapee Quinn Serrato (Don Gordon) is out to find his old boss---Redigo (Richard Egan), the man who turned him in. A prison escapes but is more interested in getting revenge on Redigo than in his successful dash for freedom. His two accomplices don't know this, thinking they have captured Redigo merely as a hostage. Complicating matters, the henchmen capture Moreno, who has them convinced that he is Redigo.

29 :01x29 - 65 Miles Is a Long, Long Way

First aired: Apr/23/1963
Director: Allen Reisner
Guest star: Robert J. Stevenson (Sam Tate), Hank Patterson (Hughes), Woodrow Parfrey (Gates), Jena Engstrom (Mrs. Sangster), Claude Akins (Joe Horvath), Ann Carroll (Helen)

A woman stands in the way of Redigo\'s cattle drive by asking too much to cross her property. Flamboyant promoter Joe Horvath decides to join Jim Redigo in a cattle drive, scheming to take advantage of him in the process.

30 :01x30 - Duet for Eight Wheels

First aired: Apr/30/1963
Writer: Ron Bishop
Director: Leon Benson
Guest star: Lawrence Dobkin (Dr. Benjamin Karr), Gilman Rankin (Ben), Don Wilbanks (Corley), Lauren Gilbert (Dr. Clymer), Inger Stevens (Ellen Thompson), Noah Keen (Dr. Phelps)

Paralysis overcomes Redigo (Richard Egan) after he is trampled by a wild stallion.

31 :01x31 - Between Friday and Monday

First aired: May/07/1963
Writer: Ken Trevey
Guest star: Peggy Adams (Debbie), Dort Clark (Panhandler), William Mims (Perry Wilmot), Joan Hackett (Dolores Lanza), Harvey Johnson (Desk Clerk), Naomi Stevens (Mrs. Quintero)

Moreno (Charles Bronson) attempts to offset the fears of a young girl in a town full of hot-blooded cowboys.

32 :01x32 - The Convention

First aired: May/14/1963
Director: Abner Biberman
Guest star: Doye O'Dell (Announcer), Rudy Bond (Sam Callison), L. Q. Jones (L.Q.), William Bramley (Marty Albee), Anne Helm (Joanie), Jean Willes (Claire Hagen), Robert Anderson (Mackey), Alan Hale, Jr. (Fletcher), Diane Brewster (Joanie)

Rudy Bond plays Sam Callison, a politician, trying to get Redigo (Richard Egan) to run for office.