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The Guns of Will Sonnett Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Ride the Long Trail

First aired: Sep/08/1967
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Guest star: Paul Fix (Olen Haussen), Brandon Carroll (Bartender), Rex Holman (Mase), Claude Akins (Turnbaugh), Perry Cook (Hotel Clerk), J. Pat O'Malley (Peter Pun)

After seeing a traveling show that claims to have a gun once used by his gunslinger father, Jeff Sonnett persuades his grandfather, Will, to search for the man whom he's never met. Their first stop is a town where they meet up with a man who lost an arm in a gunfight with the long missing James Sonnett and is looking for revenge upon anyone with that surname.



2 :01x02 - A Bell for Jeff Sonnett

First aired: Sep/15/1967
Writer: Cliff Gould
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Paul Wexler (Cal Jessup), Charles Grodin (Bells Pickering), Ford Rainey (Doc Sales), Charles Seel (Merchant), Rayford Barnes (Jack Collins)

A gunslinger who puts a small bell on his belt for each person he's killed wants to add one for Jeff Sonnett.



3 :01x03 - A Grave for James Sonnett

First aired: Sep/22/1967
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Joe Ferrante (Manuel), Mark Miranda (Juan), Jay Novello (Father Felipe), Don Diamond (Drago), Natividad Vacio (Ortiz)

Crossing the border into Mexico, Will and Jeff find a grave marked for James Sonnett in a small Mexican town.



4 :01x04 - The Natural Way

First aired: Sep/29/1967
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Thomas Carr
Guest star: Charla Doherty (Miss Wilson), Bartlett Robinson (Sam Wilson), Wendell Corey (Sheriff Braham), Jack Catron (Cowboy), Hal Baylor (Todd), Myron Healey (Lank)

A wounded sheriff signs on Will and Jeff as his deputies.



5 :01x05 - Of Lasting Summers and Jim Sonnett

First aired: Oct/06/1967
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Guest star: James Anderson (Sheriff), Michael Carr (Deputy), Bill Erwin (Hotel clerk), Peter Whitney (Lasting Summers), Paul Richards (Prisoner (Jack Sloan))

In Wyoming, a man scheduled to hang gives his name as Jim Sonnett. Will and Jeff travel there to determine if he's the real deal.



6 :01x06 - Message at Noon

First aired: Oct/13/1967
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Guest star: Justin Smith (Townsman), Strother Martin (Barkeep), Robert F. Hoy (Macey), Owen Bush (Telegraph operator), Jason Evers (Jim Sonnett), Sam Melville (Kirk), Lonny Chapman (Sheriff Landry), Michael Greene (Deputy)

After learning that Jim Sonnett is only a day's ride away, Will and Jeff send an urgent telegram to convince him to wait for their arrival.



7 :01x07 - A Son for a Son

First aired: Oct/20/1967
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Guest star: Sandy Kevin (Ben Murdock), Royal Dano (Murdock), Jack Nicholson (Tom Murdock), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Murdock), Byron Foulger (Storekeeper), Bing Russell (Bartender), Jack Elam (Sheriff)

A wounded Jeff is taken in by a couple whose son was killed by Jim Sonnett in a gunfight. The father wants to kill Jeff in revenge while the mother has other ideas. She wants to keep Jeff as her own son to replace the one she lost.



8 :01x08 - Meeting at Devil's Fork

First aired: Oct/27/1967
Writer: Clyde Ware
Director: Irving J. Moore
Guest star: Harry Dean Stanton (J. J. Kotes), Tom Reese (Lando), Bill Coontz (Pev Williams), Janice Yarbrough (Marcie), Claudia Bryar (Mrs. Stevens), Arthur Peterson (Stevens), James Best (Rake Hanley), Jason Evers (Jim Sonnett)

In the town of Devil's Fork, a bounty hunter takes Will and Jeff prisoner hoping to lure Jim Sonnett to the town.



9 :01x09 - First Love

First aired: Nov/03/1967
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Harry Harvey (Sheriff), Pitt Herbert (Clerk), Hank Patterson (Stableman), Cherie Latimer (Diantha), James Westmoreland (Lafe)

After landing in jail, Will and Jeff find themselves bailed out by a beautiful woman.



10 :01x10 - The Favor

First aired: Nov/10/1967
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Stephen McNally (Ben Colter), Bruce Glover (Billy), William Smith (Spence), Jonathan Hole (Clerk), Tom Tully (Corky Dobbs)

Passing through a ghost town, Will and Jeff stumble upon a wounded man in an abandoned saloon.



11 :01x11 - Ride the Man Down

First aired: Nov/17/1967
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jud Taylor
Guest star: Don Wilbanks (Morgan), Vaughn Taylor (Evans), Charles Horn (Hawkins), Bud Walls (Jonas), Peter Hale (Wounded man), Charlie Briggs (Peevy), Kevin McCarthy (Sheriff Tom Mills)

A sheriff rounds up a posse that includes Will and Jeff after a dying bank robber wrongfully names Jim Sonnett as an accomplice.



12 :01x12 - The Turkey Shoot

First aired: Nov/24/1967
Writer: Cliff Todd
Director: Thomas Carr
Guest star: David Macklin (Cleve Atwood), R. G. Armstrong (Colin Atwood), Paul Sorenson (Ben Archer), William Mims (Sheriff)

Jeff wins a prize bull in a shooting contest. Now what can he do with it?



13 :01x13 - And a Killing Rode into Town

First aired: Dec/01/1967
Writer: Howard Dimsdale
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Jack Williams (Matt Claymore), Eddie Quillan (Clerk), James Wainwright (Stacey), Cloris Leachman (Vera)

Will and Jeff encounter a woman who claims she's Jeff's mother.



14 :01x14 - Find a Sonnett, Kill a Sonnett

First aired: Dec/08/1967
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: J. D. Cannon (Pat Bridges), Rex Holman (Truitt Reed), Jim Boles (Preacher), Robert Karnes (Sheriff McCall), Dennis Hopper (Vern Reed), James McCallion (Bartender)

When two outlaws take Jeff hostage, Will convinces a man to impersonate Jim Sonnett as part of a plan to free his grandson.



15 :01x15 - Sunday in Paradise

First aired: Dec/15/1967
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Joan Blondell (Miss Lottie), Rosemary Eliot (Gypsy), Ed Bakey (Homer Blessing), Robert Foulk (Luke Landry), Pat Patterson (Matthew), Janice Yarbrough (Nellie), Jonathan Hole (Rob Quayle), Norman Leavitt (Shelby Witty)

Will helps an old friend to convince townspeople to break open their wallets and finance the building of a church.



16 :01x16 - The Secret of Hangtown Mine

First aired: Dec/22/1967
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Sam Gilman (Sheriff), Norman Alden (Clay), Jean Willes (Ellie), Ruben Moreno (Vasquez), Ceil Cabot (Dressmaker)

Will and Jeff uncover a murder when they visit a ranch seeking information about Jim Sonnett.



17 :01x17 - The Hero

First aired: Dec/29/1967
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Thomas Carr
Guest star: Dennis Cross (Milt), Patricia Barry (Alice Butler), Robert J. Wilke (Sheriff Dan Butler)

Jeff and a surprisingly reluctant sheriff pursue two bank robbers who wounded Will into hostile Apache country.



18 :01x18 - What's in a Name?

First aired: Jan/05/1968
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Bo Hopkins (Billy), Edward Andrews (Fake Will Sonnett), Ross Hagen (Doak), Harry Swoger (Bartender)

Will and Jeff meet up with a man who's been impersonating the elder Sonnett.



19 :01x19 - End of the Rope

First aired: Jan/12/1968
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Don Haggerty (Sheriff), Jason Evers (Jim Sonnett), Richard Devon (Crawford), William Smith (Leroy)

Will and Jeff head to Waco where Jim Sonnett is reportedly standing trial for murder.



20 :01x20 - And He Shall Lead the Children

First aired: Jan/19/1968
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Ann Doran (Margaret), Solomon Sturges (Billy), Bert Freed (Frank)

Will and Jeff stumble upon a mountain cabin being used by an outlaw as a hideaway.



21 :01x21 - Look for the Hound Dog

First aired: Jan/26/1968
Writer: James Komack
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Guest star: Laurie Main (Judge), Dub Taylor (Henry Jackson), John Alderson (Sheriff), Robert Donner (Parkin), William Schallert (Lawyer)

Will must save Jeff from a lynch mob after he's accused of killing a storekeeper.



22 :01x22 - Stopover in a Troubled Town

First aired: Feb/02/1968
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Thomas Carr
Guest star: Ahna Capri (Laurie), John Cliff (Mattison), William Bryant (Spangler), Jason Wingreen (Milby), Karl Swenson (Walden), Bill Quinn (Picker)

A saloon girl asks for the Sonnetts' help when her father comes to visit.



23 :01x23 - Alone

First aired: Feb/09/1968
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Guest star: Patrick Horgan (Captain Darby), Noam Pitlik (John Darby), John Alderman (Officer), Jason Evers (Jim Sonnett), Pepper Martin (Ed Collins)

Will gets caught in a blazing gunfight after arranging to meet Jeff in a ghost town saloon.



24 :01x24 - The Sins of the Father

First aired: Feb/23/1968
Writer: Kathleen Hite, William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Annette Andre (Leah), Greg Mullavy (Caleb), Torin Thatcher (Simeon)

Arriving at a farmhouse where Jim Sonnett once stayed Will and Jeff encounter a young woman who claims that Jim is the father of her infant son.



25 :01x25 - The Warriors

First aired: Mar/01/1968
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Denver Pyle (Sam Cochrane), Anthony Caruso (Red Leaf), Gene Shane (Sergeant), Jack Catron (Operator), Jim Davis (Sheriff Hawkins), Richard Webb (Captain Bodeen)

Former Army scout Will is recruited back into the fold to stop a gunrunner from selling rifles that might provoke a Native American uprising.



26 :01x26 - A Fool and His Money

First aired: Mar/08/1968
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Paul Brinegar (Charlie Moss), Hal Baylor (Colter), Nina Shipman (Peg), Mauritz Hugo (Driver), Heather Angel (Miss Barlow), Walter Burke (Loomis)

Will and Jeff help an old pal pretend to be a wealthy rancher in order that he can impress his mail order bride.



27 :02x01 - Reunion

First aired: Sep/27/1968
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Chubby Johnson (Clem), Owen Bush (Waiter), Tim O'Kelly (Bill Delver), Jason Evers (Jim Sonnett), Steve Raines (Stagecoach driver), Norman Leavitt (Stableman), Harry Swoger (Bartender)

Jim Sonnett finally learns that his father and son are searching for him but he learns it from a vengeful young punk who's been posing as Jeff.



28 :02x02 - The Trap

First aired: Oct/04/1968
Writer: Jameson Brewer
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Warren Finnerty (Hughie), Arthur Malet (Pickett), Robert DoQui (Waller), Walter Burke (Gideon Stark), Royal Dano (Alvis Peebles), Robert Foulk (Virgil), Lee De Broux (Alf)

Passing through a town, Will and Jeff are arrested on trumped up charges and forced to bust rocks on a chain gang that's blasting a tunnel through a mountain for the railroad.



29 :02x03 - Chapter and Verse

First aired: Oct/11/1968
Writer: William Witliff, Larry Gordon
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Ellen Corby (Mrs. Cobb), William Benedict (Telegrapher), Don Haggerty (Sheriff), Henry Jones (Preacher), Rex Holman (Wiley), Paul Fix (Buck Cobb), Harry Lauter (Elihu Long), Dennis Cross (Torrey)

Will and Jeff meet up with a preacher and a bounty hunter who are working in tandem to track down and kill wanted men---and Jim Sonnett is at the top of their list.



30 :02x04 - Pariah

First aired: Oct/18/1968
Director: Jean Yarbrough



31 :02x05 - Joby

First aired: Nov/01/1968
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Paul Sorenson (Miller), Strother Martin (Joby), David McLean (Sheriff)

Because of a troublemaker, a once peaceful small twon begins experiencing unusually high amounts of fighting.



32 :02x06 - The Straw Man

First aired: Nov/08/1968
Writer: Ed Adamson
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Walter Burke (Ollie), Madlyn Rhue (Marion Hagger), Mason Curry (Mark), Clancy Cooper (Charlie), Troy Melton (Skinner)

Arriving in a town, Will and Jeff find a straw effigy of Jim Sonnett hanging there. A widow has accused Jim of killing and robbing her husband but when Will does some investigating into the matter, the truth emerges.



33 :02x07 - A Difference of Opinion

First aired: Nov/15/1968
Writer: Richard Carr
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Eddie Quillan (Desk Clerk), Lonny Chapman (O'Brien), James McCallion (Bartender), Tom Fadden (Stableman), Myron Healey (Flagg), James Wainwright (Crews)

Will and Jeff ride into a town where Jim Sonnett was reportedly ridden out of by a couple of lawmen.



34 :02x08 - Home Free

First aired: Nov/22/1968
Writer: William Witliff
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Victoria Thompson (guest star), Richard Evans (Ben Harper), Hal Baylor (guest star), Malcolm Atterbury (Asa Campbell)

Will and Jeff try to help a young man recently paroled from prison get a new start in life.



35 :02x09 - Guilt

First aired: Nov/29/1968
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Robert Donner (Arch Merceen), Robert Karnes (Sheriff Barlow), Bo Hopkins (Ben Merceen), Charlie Briggs (Lyle Merceen)

Will and Jeff get caught up in a senseless blood feud between members of the same family.



36 :02x10 - Meeting in a Small Town

First aired: Dec/06/1968
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Ford Rainey (Sheriff Chaffee), Nora Marlowe (Polly), Robert J. Wilke (Judd)

In a tiny town along the Mexican border, Will and Jeff encounter a bounty hunter who's after Jim Sonnett.



37 :02x11 - The Fearless Man

First aired: Dec/13/1968
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Bing Russell (Chet), Paul Richards (Dave Henry), William Smith (Luther)

Jeff comes to admire a seemingly fearless stranger but the man is harboring a dark secret.



38 :02x12 - Where There's Hope

First aired: Dec/20/1968
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Jean Howell (Maggie), Cindy Eilbacher (Hope)

Will and Jeff try to find a good home for a traumatized little girl whose parents were killed.



39 :02x13 - Join the Army

First aired: Jan/03/1969
Writer: Kathleen Hite
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Jesse Pearson (Lt. Elder), Boyd Stockman (Bartender), Tom Tully (Pachen), Robert Pine (Kit Torrey), Dennis Cross (Charlie), Parley Baer (Gilby)

On their way to Fort Laramie, Will and Jeff encounter the corpses of hundreds of slaughtered bison and are later accused of being the ones responsible.



40 :02x14 - Time Is the Rider

First aired: Jan/10/1969
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Rayford Barnes (Chihuahua), Douglas Fowley (Hi Lowe), James Griffith (Major Cross), Allen Jaffe (Charlie)

In order to ensure the cooperation of Jim Sonnett, three stagecoach robbers kidnap Jeff.



41 :02x15 - Robber's Roost

First aired: Jan/17/1969
Director: Andrew Brennan
Guest star: James Best (Harley Bass), Jess Walton (Abby), Dennis Cross (Ira Tait)

Will and Jeff cross the border into Mexico looking for Jim Sonnett in a notorious outlaw hideout located there.



42 :02x16 - Trail's End

First aired: Jan/31/1969
Writer: Kathleen Hite
Director: Jean Yarbrough, Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Bing Russell (Pete), Jackie Searl (Monk), Morgan Woodward (Wilk), Ruta Lee (Fannie), Ted de Corsia (guest star)

Two people in a cattle down might be able to lead Will and Jeff to Jim Sonnett.



43 :02x17 - A Town in Terror (1)

First aired: Feb/07/1969
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Bill Zuckert (guest star), Sean McClory (Pat Murphy), Mort Mills (Ben Adams), Harry Lauter (Frank Corbett), Don Wilbanks (Fargo), Carlos Romero (Carlos), Charles Horn (Higlin), Jason Evers (Jim Sonnett)

Jeff and Will ride into the middle of a range war between cattlemen and sheepherders. Both sides are waiting for their hired guns to arrive. One of these guns for hire, working for the sheepmen, is Jim Sonnett.



44 :02x18 - A Town in Terror (2)

First aired: Feb/14/1969
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Charles Horn (Higlin), Don Wilbanks (Fargo), Bill Zuckert (guest star), Sean McClory (Pat Murphy), Jason Evers (Jim Sonnett), Harry Lauter (Frank Corbett), Carlos Romero (Carlos), Mort Mills (Ben Adams)

Working for sheepmen in a range war, Jim Sonnett takes the identity of a gunslinger he just killed who was working for the cattle interests. He then has an unexpected reunion with his father and his son.



45 :02x19 - Jim Sonnett's Lady

First aired: Feb/21/1969
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Norma Crane (Angela Drake), Percy Helton (guest star), Peter Leeds (Milhoon), Bruce Glover (Sandy), Mel Gallagher (Duke)

Because of an intercepted telegram, Jeff and Will discover that Jim Sonnett is riding into an ambush during a trip to visit a lady friend.



46 :02x20 - The Trial

First aired: Feb/28/1969
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Eddie Firestone (Roley Flynn), Chubby Johnson (Farmer), Michael Hinn (Sheriff), Jon Lormer (Judge), Guy Wilkerson (Undertaker), Phillip Pine (Granger), Brendon T. Dillon (Quillen)

A man accused claims that the testimony of Jim Sonnett can clear him of the crime.



47 :02x21 - One Angry Juror

First aired: Mar/07/1969
Writer: Peter Germano
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Paul Sorenson (Bailiff), Erik Holland (Anderson), Ben Wright (Doctor), John Milford (Ben Stoll), Susanne Cramer (Christine), William Phipps (Craig), Judson Pratt (Hardwick), Ed Bakey (Jellicoe), Don Keefer (Sawyer), Harry Harvey (Sheriff), Kevin Hagen (Kingman)

Will is roped into serving on a jury in the case of a Swedish immigrant farmer charged with killing the son of a wealthy rancher. To the other jurors, the matter is a slam dunk but Will suspects that things aren't quite so cut and dried.



48 :02x22 - The Sodbuster

First aired: Mar/14/1969
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: Bartlett Robinson (Banker), Don Dubbins (Burt Damon), Jacqueline Scott (Emily Damon), Ted Eccles (Clay Damon)

Will and Jeff get involved in the marital troubles of a family whose father is content to scratch out a living farming and whose mother yearns for more exciting life in the city.



49 :02x23 - The Man Who Killed James Sonnett

First aired: Mar/21/1969
Writer: James Komack
Director: Lewis Allen
Guest star: Joan Van Ark (Laurie), John Crawford (Charlie), Jonathan Hale (Gambler), Jay Novello (Morris), Harry Swoger (Bartender), Robert F. Simon (Sheriff Devon)

A man writes a play recounting how he supposedly killed Jim Sonnett. Will and Jeff then volunteer for roles in the play in order to correct the inaccuracies.



50 :02x24 - Three Stand Together

First aired: Sep/15/1969
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Guest star: James Chandler (Stableman), Bartlett Robinson (Mayor), Jason Evers (Jim Sonnett), Myron Healey (Jack Curson), Rex Holman (Lennie), Charles Horn (Joe), Dub Taylor (Charlie McQueen)

After two long years of searching, Will and Jeff finally catch up to Jim. Will convinces his son that it's time to stop running so the three Sonnetts take jobs as lawmen in a small town where it doesn't take long for trouble to strike.