The Dakotas Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Return To Drydock

First aired: Jan/07/1963
Writer: Cy Chermak
Director: Stuart Heisler
Guest star: Edward Binns (Arlie Gibbs), Richard Hale (Reverend Smith), Robert Ellenstein (Judge), Walter Baldwin (Arnold Foster), Henry Hunter (Sam Cleaver), Rex Holman (Gunman), Natalie Trundy (Betty Lou), Howard Smith (Ed Turner), Martin West (Luke Henry)

Deputy Smith returns to his hometown without Ragan's permission to avenge the death of an old friend.

2 :01x02 - Red Sky Over Bismarck

First aired: Jan/14/1963
Director: Stuart Heisler
Guest star: Chris Robinson (Chino), Andrew Duggan (Colonel Withers), Constance Ford (Deborah James)

Marshal Ragan arrives in Bismarck at the request of a woman who fears her half-breed son might receive harsh justice at the hands of the local Justice of the Peace.

3 :01x03 - Mutiny At Fort Mercy

First aired: Jan/21/1963
Writer: E. M. Parsons
Director: Stuart Heisler
Guest star: Russell Johnson (Lt. Clyde Marriott), George MacReady (Captain Ridgeway), William Bramley (Jellicoe), Anthony Bart (Davids), Hal Baylor (Bone), Jeanne Cooper (Rebecca Ridgeway), Stewart Bradley (Taylor), Lew Gallo (Sgt. Smythe)

Deputies Stark and Porter return an Army deserter to his base and then must deal with an uprising by troopers against the base's harsh commanding officer.

4 :01x04 - Trouble At French Creek

First aired: Jan/28/1963
Writer: E. M. Parsons
Director: Stuart Heisler
Guest star: Mercedes McCambridge (Jay French), Stephen Joyce (Billy Dancer), Jered Barclay (Weems), Allen Jaffe (Foster), John Kellogg (Kirk), Joan Freeman (Gilla Marshak), Michael Constantine (Marshak)

Ragan is called in to preserve order when mine workers go out on strike.

5 :01x05 - Thunder In Pleasant Valley

First aired: Feb/04/1963
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Lane Allan (Sheriff Cole), Patricia Huston (Kate McNeill), Lee Van Cleef (Slade Tucker), Cliff Osmond (Telford), Karl Swenson (Harry McNeill), Chris Alcaide (Metric), Gregory Walcott (Tom Davis)

Outlaws abduct a rancher's daughter and demand a ransom.

6 :01x06 - Crisis At High Banjo

First aired: Feb/11/1963
Writer: Cy Chermak
Director: Stuart Heisler
Guest star: David Lewis (Logan Ames), Percy Helton (Doctor), Robert J. Wilke (Judge Markham), Ed Peck (Johnny Fox), Michael Pate (Hal Regis), Warren Stevens (Cain Manning), Ed Prentiss (Governor), Karen Sharpe Kramer (Angela Manning)

Ragan recognizes a convict as one of the men who murdered his wife five years before.

7 :01x07 - Requiem At Dancer's Hill

First aired: Feb/18/1963
Writer: Peter Germano
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Anne Whitfield (Virginia Kendrick), Dennis Hopper (Ross Kendrick), Milton Frome (Sam Johnson), Gail Bonney (Amy Jackson), Milton Parsons (Cal Jackson), Herb Vigran (Olin Bates), Alan Reed, Jr. (Morgan Jackson), Dick Foran (Matt Kendrick)

Ragan investigates the leader of a posse which captured and executed a wanted man.

8 :01x08 - Fargo

First aired: Feb/25/1963
Director: Stuart Heisler
Guest star: Tim Graham (Johnny), Victor French (Larrimore), Don Kelly (Paul Young), Diane Brewster (Jody), David Brian (Sheriff Fargo), Richard Jaeckel (Cal Storm), Ted de Corsia (Winters)

Smith clashes with a sheriff who's sent up his own personal fiefdom by exacting tribute from the businesses in his town.

9 :01x09 - Incident At Rapid City

First aired: Mar/04/1963
Writer: Nicholas E. Baehr
Director: Allan A. Buckhantz
Guest star: Maggie Pierce (Catherine Mitchell), Willis Bouchey (Colonel Fitch), Russ Conway (Sheriff Landauer), William Hellinger (Henshaw), Dennis Patrick (Sgt. Bonnett), Craig Duncan (Trooper), William Fawcett (Prospector), Bert Freed (Lloyd Mitchell)

Deputy Stark is confronted by an angry group of cavalrymen who demand that his prisoner be turned over to them.

10 :01x10 - Justice At Eagle's Nest

First aired: Mar/11/1963
Writer: S. S. Schweitzer
Director: Robert Totten
Guest star: Everett Sloane (Judge Daniel Harvey), Karl Held (Emil Lang), Larry D. Mann (Ed Jarvis), Joanna Moore (Doll Harvey), Gregory Gaye (Anton Lang), Gene Roth (Peterson), Del Monroe (Bailiff), Harry Shannon (Jim Painter), Ken Mayer (Crawford)

Ragan investigates the methods of a judge in a dispute between farmers and cattlemen.

11 :01x11 - A Walk Through the Badlands

First aired: Mar/18/1963
Writer: William Mourne
Director: Richard L. Bare
Guest star: James Waters (Soldiers), Lou Robb (Nesbitt), Michael Vandever (Private Tentrees), Steve Brodie (Captain Casey), Lane Bradford (Sgt. Round), Ed Nelson (Lt. John Schwimmer), Strother Martin (Private Copang), Tom Drake (Corporal Agard)

Ragan and his deputies must fight a group of cavalry troopers over the rewards for a band of outlaws.

12 :01x12 - Trial At Grand Forks

First aired: Mar/25/1963
Director: Stuart Heisler
Guest star: Robert F. Simon (Charles Kimberly), Bartlett Robinson (Judge Stone), Werner Klemperer (Colonel von Bleist), Susanne Cramer (Maria Hoenig), Barbara Woodell (Mary Kimberly), Pat Rosson (Victor Hoenig), Ross Elliott (Roger Carlson), Anthony D. Call (Lou Warren)

A German countess receives a death sentence in the murder of her husband but Ragan has some doubts about the verdict.

13 :01x13 - Reformation At Big Nose Butte

First aired: Apr/01/1963
Writer: Cy Chermak
Director: Robert Totten
Guest star: Hayden Rorke (Glen Masters), Richard H. Cutting (Cavalry Officer), DeForest Kelley (Martin Volet), Sue Randall (Hardi Masters), Telly Savalas (Jake Volet), Roy Lennert (Paymaster), Mickey Simpson (Lester Banks)

Deputy Smith, once an outlaw, is faced with a test when his former gang leader is released from prison and sends out a call for his old group to join him.

14 :01x14 - One Day In Vermillion

First aired: Apr/08/1963
Writer: Dean Riesner
Director: Allan A. Buckhantz
Guest star: Med Flory (Captain Driscoll), Whit Bissell (Owen Teed), Eugene Iglesias (Kicking Horse), Alan Baxter (guest star), Carlos Rivas (Takanta), David White (Jonah Snowden)

Ragan runs into trouble when he escorts a Sioux chief and his son to a conference for the signing of a peace treaty.

15 :01x15 - Terror At Heart River

First aired: Apr/05/1963
Writer: William Mourne
Director: Stuart Heisler
Guest star: Royal Dano (Walter Wyman), Sean McClory (Fallain), Coleen Gray (Mrs. Wyman), Gene Lyons (John Volk)

A gang of starving railroad workers threaten to pillage the town of Heart River.

16 :01x16 - The Chooser Of The Slain

First aired: Apr/22/1963
Writer: Dean Riesner
Director: Charles Rondeau
Guest star: Richard Loo (George Yang), Bill Walker (William), E. J. Andre (Judge Langford), Don Kennedy (McNally), Dayton Lummis (Clayton Emory), Corey Allen (Clem Biglow), Justin Smith (Joe Moran), Bill Zuckert (Jim Clark), Claude Akins (Tom Doucette), Beverly Garland (Katherine Channing)

When deputies Stark and Vance kill a man in self-defense Ragan must find a missing female witness to the shooting or the deputies will be hanged.

17 :01x17 - Feud At Snake River

First aired: Apr/29/1963
Writer: Richard Landau
Director: Charles Rondeau
Guest star: Brendan Dillon (Alf Hinds), Joseph Ruskin (Rider), Harry Townes (George Deus), James Westerfield (Simon Deus), Roger Mobley (Christopher), Barry Kelley (Amish), Don Keefer (Minister), Harlan Warde (Claude Deus)

Ragan tries to convince a man to oppose his brother, an empire building cattle baron.

18 :01x18 - Sanctuary At Crystal Springs

First aired: May/06/1963
Writer: Cy Chermak
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Guest star: James Anderson (Stan Barton), Les Tremayne (Barton), John Hoyt (Governor), Myron Healey (Sheriff), Bill Erwin (Doctor), Joe Di Reda (Clarence Barton), Woodrow Parfrey (guest star), Norman Alden (Jim Barton), Charles Irving (Reverend Spencer)

Townspeople are outraged when Deputies Stark and Smith gun down two desperado brothers inside a church.

19 :01x19 - A Nice Girl From Goliath

First aired: May/13/1963
Writer: E. M. Parsons
Director: Charles Rondeau
Guest star: Diane Sayer (Esther), Audrey Dalton (Ronnie Kane), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Brinkman), Sheldon Allman (Velie), Frank DeKova (Matt Kellogg), John Carlyle (Beau Kellogg), Vinton Hayworth (Doc Holderman)

A woman's perjured testimony sends a gunslinger to the gallows and Stark must protect her from the man's revenge minded brother.