Cimarron Strip Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Journey to a Hanging

First aired: Sep/07/1967
Writer: Jack Curtis
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest star: Michael Strong (Latch), Richard Hudkins (Red Bates), Jason Johnson (Storekeeper), Thomas A. Sweet (Max Stuhldreyer), Bill Hart (Kid Slaughter), Robert Sorrells (Bill Vincent), Nacho Galindo (Bartender), Roy Barcroft (Salesman), Rex Holman (Van Winger), Shug Fisher (Smitty), Henry Silva (Ace Coffin), Gregg Palmer (Rocky), Margarita Cordova (Saloon Girl), Ed McCready (Drummer), George Keymas (David Penny), Walt La Rue (Pike Landusky), Richard Farnsworth (Dusty Rhodes), William Bramley (Whiskey Jack), John Saxon (The Screamer)

Crown reluctantly lets a hot-tempered and unpredictable cowboy nicknamed "the Screamer" join his posse in pursuit of outlaw Ace Coffin and his gang.

2 :01x02 - The Legend of Jud Starr

First aired: Sep/14/1967
Writer: Richard Fielder
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest star: Warren Vanders (Ham Kaylor), Ford Rainey (Marshal Tillman), Regis Parton (Deputy #3), Ken Renard (Henry Youngblood), Barbara Luna (Roseanne Todd), Darren McGavin (Jud Starr), Richard Anderson (Captain Bragg), Jack Braddock (Sheriff), Ken Del Conte (Bart Green), Beau Bridges (Billy Joe Shaw), Lew Brown (Deputy #1), Scott Hale (Sam), Percy Helton (Ezra Jones), Roy Jenson (Bob Agnew), Roy Barcroft (Lawman), Kelly Thordsen (Moose O'Hara), Tom McDonough (Deputy #2), Al Wyatt (Cal Dunaway)

Right before he's scheduled to hang, outlaw Jud Starr's gang busts him out of jail. Crown vows to track Starr down and trails him to a place known as the Cherokee Outlet.

3 :01x03 - Broken Wing

First aired: Sep/21/1967
Writer: Harold Swanton
Director: Sam Wanamaker
Guest star: Warren Vanders (Thatch), Harry Harvey (Railroad Agent), Royal Dano (Matthew Mark Lukenjohn), Al Wyatt (Case), Karl Swenson (Dr. Kihlgren), Arch Johnson (Parson Endicott), Joel Fluellen (Porter), Tim O'Kelly (Jing McQueen), Larry Gates (Kilgallen), Steve Forrest (Wiley Harper), Pat Hingle (Mike McQueen)

The son of a wealthy cattle baron goes on a drunken spree in Cimarron City when he shoots a preacher and burns down a livery stable but when the preacher recovers from his wound he refuses to press charges against the young man.

4 :01x04 - The Battleground

First aired: Sep/28/1967
Writer: Christopher Knopf
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: John Milford (Wooley), R. G. Armstrong (William Payne), Seymour Cassel (Spock), Richard Farnsworth (Benefiel), Carol Henry (Second Man), Andrew Duggan (Major Ben Covington), Telly Savalas (Bear), Warren Oates (Mobeetie), Buff Brady (Wallant), Arthur Bernard (Conductor), Robert J. Wilke (Hardy Miller), Ross Dollarhyde (Second Farmer), Bob Folkerson (Second Settler), Hal Needham (Yewcic), L. Q. Jones (Barnes), John Hudkins (Chalk), Zack Banks (First Settler), Link Wyler (Orderly), Joe Ferrante (First Man), David Cross (First Farmer), Natividad Vacio (Clego)

The government sends Marshal Jim Crown into the region of the Oklahoma territory known as the Cimarron Strip in order to quell a growing dispute between settlers and cattlemen.

5 :01x05 - The Hunted

First aired: Oct/05/1967
Writer: Richard Fielder
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guest star: Bill Fletcher (Harline), Steve Ihnat (Felix Gauge), Vic Tayback (Joe Mulady), James Gregory (Buckman), Charles Wagenheim (Prospector), David Carradine (Gene Gauge), Richard Angarola (Padre), Joel Fluellen (Bartender), Arthur Batanides (Woods), Ton Palmer (Booth), Dennis Cross (Aaron)

When two brothers, wanted for a killing, turn themselves into Marshal Crown, they become the targets of bounty hunters because of the $15,000 price on their heads.

6 :01x06 - The Battle of Bloody Stones

First aired: Oct/12/1967
Writer: Jack Curtis
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Guest star: Richard X. Slattery (Max), Gene Evans (Wildcat Gallagher), Karl Swenson (Dr. Kihlgren), George Cisar (Storekeeper), James Hampton (Sam), Roy Glenn (Foreman), Henry Wilcoxon (Ghost Wolf), Richard Lapp (Little Crow), Hank Patterson (Old Will), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Spud), Michael J. Pollard (Bert), Tom Nardini (John Wolf), Robert Viharo (Tom Viharo)

A Wild West show hits Cimarron City and their main attraction features a re-enactment of the Battle of Bloody Stones. This re-enactment and the way they are portrayed angers the Native Americans in the area.

7 :01x07 - Whitey

First aired: Oct/19/1967
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest star: Glen Vernon (Carpenter), Zack Banks (Gus), Robert J. Folkerson (Posse Member), Jack Braddock (Bartender), James Almanzar (Rosario), Fred Coby (Ramey), Peter Kastner (Whitey), Bobby Clark (Messenger), Robert Williams (Sheriff Macklin), Russ Bender (Mort), Meg Wyllie (Miss Becker), John Anderson (Arn Tinker), Paul Sorenson (Freight Agent), Michael T. Mikler (Beau Tinker)

A young outlaw escapes from Crown's custody and takes Dulcey hostage.

8 :01x08 - The Roarer

First aired: Nov/02/1967
Writer: William Wood
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Mike Howden (Third Cavalryman), John McKee (Second Cavalryman), Ed Flanders (Arliss Blynn), Rayford Barnes (First Trooper), Ed McCready (Second Trooper), Med Flory (Newton), Robert Duvall (Joe Wyman), Ollie O'Toole (Congressman Burnett), Peter Brooks (Spencer), Richard Boone (Sgt. Bill Disher), Erwin Neal (First Cavalryman), Jack Braddock (Bartender), Morgan Woodward (Walter Forcey), Stuart Anderson (Trooper Eldredge)

A soon to be retired cavalry sergeant finds himself an anachronism in the rapidly changing West.

9 :01x09 - The Search

First aired: Nov/09/1967
Writer: William Wood
Director: Bernard McEveety
Guest star: L. Q. Jones (Lummy), Martha Scott (Mrs. Kihlgren), Zalman King (Strawdy Vardeman), Bud George (Dickie Vardeman), Joseph Cotten (Nathan Tio), Charles Seel (Ruckles), Harry Lauter (Wisler), James Gavin (Herald), Richard O'Brien (Ben Lorton), Jonathan Lippe (Kerwin Vardeman), Jerry Summers (Lou Vardeman), Amzie Strickland (Mrs. Andrews), Arthur Hanson (Andrews)

Crown tries to keep a killer's outlaw family from rescuing him before he goes to trial.

10 :01x10 - Till the End of Night

First aired: Nov/16/1967
Writer: Richard Fielder
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guest star: James Beck (Jake), Karen Arthur (Ruby), Suzanne Pleshette (Sara Lou Burke), James Nusser (Judge Padgett), Mary Gregory (Farm Damsel), Eddie Quillan (Guard), Clifton James (Sheriff Jack Hawkes), Forrest Burns (Wagon Driver), Harry Dean Stanton (Luther Happ), D'Urville Martin (Messenger), Jack Braddock (Bartender), Charles P. Thompson (Bullwhacker), Morgan Jones (Deputy), Victor French (Rafe Coleman)

Acting Deputy Marshal McGregor trails a fugitive gunman to Texas where he ends up sentenced to hang for murder. His only hope of escape lies with a female prisoner.

11 :01x11 - The Beast That Walks Like a Man

First aired: Nov/30/1967
Writer: Richard Fielder, Stephen Kandel
Director: Charles Rondeau
Guest star: Woody Chambliss (Oliver Wheelwright), Athena Lorde (Charity Wheelwright), Karl Swenson (Dr. Kihlgren), Christopher Held (Cox Houston), Gail Kobe (Johanna Houston), Royal Dano (Walking Man), Kerry MacLane (Davey Houston), Larry Larsen (Bart Houston), Jim Cook (Storekeeper), Paul Carr (Morgan Houston), Leslie Nielsen (Rowan Houston), Lola Albright (Stacy Houston), Fletcher Bryant (Jacob Shields), Simon Oakland (Joshua Broom)

After a wagon train is destroyed, Crown enters a valley that's reputedly haunted by a malevolent beast.

12 :01x12 - Nobody

First aired: Dec/07/1967
Writer: Ellis Marcus
Director: Boris Sagal
Guest star: Bill Zuckert (Josiah Cooke), Ted Gehring (Sutter), Joe Haworth (Seth), Clyde Howdy (Cooper), Ken Swofford (Christie), Tony Epper (Dave Kerny), Jack Perkins (Tucker), Al Wyatt (Archie Foss), William Watson (Burke Stegman), Tommy Lee (Chinese Servant), Vince Barnett (Willy), Johnny Jensen (Rusty), Robert Karnes (Bart Hazlett), Karl Swenson (Dr. Kihlgren), Anne Barton (Sarah), Richard Bakalyan (Colly Sims), Jerry Brown (Hutchins), Warren Oates (Mobeetie), Hal Smith (Harvey), Davis Roberts (Hanson)

Two thieves trick a slow-witted cowboy named Mobeetie into trying to kill Marshal Crown while he's hauling a wagon load of dynamite out of town.

13 :01x13 - The Last Wolf

First aired: Dec/14/1967
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: Bernard McEveety
Guest star: John Pickard (Carl Kersey), Robert J. Wilke (Hardy Miller), Denver Pyle (Charley Austin), Morgan Woodward (Bill Henderson), Lane Bradford (Brom), Albert Salmi (Sam Gallatin), Stanley Clements (The Kiowa Kid), Read Morgan (Jess Daley)

A band of hunters, no longer able to find enough wild game to earn a living, begin taking out their frustrations on cattlemen and homesteaders alike.

14 :01x14 - The Deputy

First aired: Dec/21/1967
Writer: Hal Sitowitz
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guest star: Burt Mustin (Ruckles), Marj Dusay (Zena), Tom Brown (Sheriff Phillips), William Tannen (Sergeant), Lyle Bettger (Tate), J. D. Cannon (Bo Woodward), Gregg Palmer (Buford), Larry Pennell (Rapp)

Bo Woodward plots revenge on the members of his former gang who left him for dead after a payroll robbery. His plan begins when he convinces Marshal Crown, who's unaware of Woodward's past, to give him a job as a deputy.

15 :01x15 - The Judgement

First aired: Jan/04/1968
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
Director: Robert Butler
Guest star: David Bailey (Arthur), James Stacy (Joe Bravo), Solomon Sturges (Sandy), Burr deBenning (Emmett Lloyd), I. Stanford Jolley (Bellow), Charles Dierkop (Smitty), Leonard Stone (Judge Gilroy), G. D. Spradlin (Kermit), Kipp Whitman (Jerry), Don Keefer (Bolt)

Crown appoints an unemployed cowboy as deputy marshal of a nearby town. The new deputy is then put to the test by some of his former cronies.

16 :01x16 - Fool's Gold

First aired: Jan/11/1968
Writer: Palmer Thompson, David Jones
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest star: Robert Random (The Kid), Fred Coby (Prison Guard), Harry Harvey (Railroad Agent), William Bramley (Fargo James), Joshua Bryant (Lieutenant), Slim Pickens (Malachi Grimes), Karl Swenson (Dr. Kihlgren), Robert Lansing (Darcy)

When thieves rob the Cimarron City bank of an Army payroll in the amount of $56,000, a horse trader gets in the way of their escape.

17 :01x17 - Heller

First aired: Jan/18/1968
Writer: Austin Kalish
Director: Gunner Hellström
Guest star: Tuesday Weld (Heller), Robert Phillips (Matt Sherman), Jason Wingreen (Mr. Glass), Bobby Clark (Ab Colburn), Randy Lane (Randy), Morgan Woodward (Logan Purcell)

Marshal Crown is nursed back to health by a young orphan girl after being wounded by an outlaw gang.

18 :01x18 - Knife in the Darkness

First aired: Jan/25/1968
Writer: Harlan Ellison
Director: Charles Rondeau
Guest star: George Murdock (Bladgey), Philip Carey (Kallman), Tom Skerritt (Enoch Shelton), Karl Swenson (Dr. Kihlgren), Ron Soble (Shadow Feller), Grace Lee Whitney (guest star), David Canary (Tal St. James), Jennifer Billingsley (Josie), Jeanne Cooper (Pony James)

After two women are brutally stabbed to death, Marshal Crown is faced with the very real possibility that notorious British serial killer Jack the Ripper is now plying his trade in Cimarron City.

19 :01x19 - Sound of a Drum

First aired: Feb/01/1968
Writer: Sy Salkowitz
Director: Gerald Mayer
Guest star: Lloyd Gough (Captain Bragg), John Milford (Corporal Watkins), Harry Carey, Jr. (Riley), Rayford Barnes (Bains), Steve Forrest (Sgt. Clayton Tyce), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Sgt. Major Chambers)

Two Army sergeants clash which leads to a court-martial for one of them.

20 :01x20 - Big Jessie

First aired: Feb/08/1968
Writer: Dan Mainwaring
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest star: Mariette Hartley (Jessica Cabot), Burt Mustin (Peters), Eddie Hodges (Bud Baylor), Richard O'Brien (Chandler), Donnelly Rhodes (Bill Baylor), Timothy Carey (Lobo), Jack Elam (Moon)

On the trail of an outlaw, Marshal Crown is ambushed and has his badge taken from him. He's later mistaken for the outlaw and has to fight off a bounty hunter and a lynch mob.

21 :01x21 - The Blue Moon Train

First aired: Feb/15/1968
Writer: Jack Curtis
Director: Gerald Mayer
Guest star: Kevin Hagen (Dum Dum), Broderick Crawford (Joe Lehigh), Don 'Red' Barry (Elza Kedge), Robert Foulk (Ragan), Norman Leavitt (Hobo)

A wily ex-con, out to free a trainload of his old prison buddies, tricks Marshal Crown into stopping the train in a ghost town.

22 :01x22 - Without Honor

First aired: Feb/29/1968
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
Director: Robert Butler
Guest star: Andrew Duggan (Major Ben Covington), James Davidson (Jack Smith), Don Pedro Colley (Cully), Paul Mantee (Bardeen), Jon Voight (Bill Mason), Chester Morris (George Deeker)

Crown and an Army major set out to apprehend the major's son who deserted his Army unit and joined an outlaw gang.

23 :01x23 - The Greeners

First aired: Mar/07/1968
Writer: Hal Sitowitz
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest star: Shug Fisher (Pinky), Mark Lenard (Jared Arlyn), Robert Sorrells (Whit), Dub Taylor (Owley), Tom Brown (Charlie Ives), Gregg Palmer (Webber), Harry Lauter (Youngston), Olan Soule (Hendricks), David Brian (Turner), Peter Jason (David Arlyn)

A wealthy cattleman commits a murder and the testimony of fearful sodbusters is needed to convict him.