The Young Rebels Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Father and I Went Down to Camp

First aired: Sep/20/1970
Writer: Harve Bennett
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: Frank Converse (Robert Larkin), Ivor Francis (guest star), Sheb Wooley (Sergeant), James B. Douglas (guest star), Lawrence Dane (Major Tarleton), Ivor Barry (Coates)

Following the disastrous Battle of Brandywine, General Lafayette recruits three young patriots and a freed slave to retrieve 18 cannons captured by the British in the battle.

2 :01x02 - The Ring of Freedom

First aired: Sep/27/1970
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: Eric Christmas (John Coates), Morgan Jones (Sergeant Boggs), Larry Linville (Reverend Wells)

The British have decided to remove the Liberty Bell and have it melted down but the young rebels devise a plan to save the national symbol of liberty and take it into hiding.

3 :01x03 - The Blood of an Englishman

First aired: Oct/04/1970
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest star: Gary Tigerman (Will), Brad David (Joshua), Tom Troupe (Captain Steele), John Colicos (Colonel Steele)

When Isak is wounded on a mission, the young rebels sneak into a British encampment and abduct a British physician to treat their comrade's wounds.

4 :01x04 - To Hang a Hero

First aired: Oct/11/1970
Writer: Frank Telford
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Kirk Mee (Samuel Hale), Donald Losby (Garvey), Brandon de Wilde (Nathan Hale), Ivor Barry (Sir William Howe)

Jeremy, Henry, and Isak are sent to New York to aid spy Nathan Hale. When Hale is betrayed to the British by his cousin, the trio then devises a plan to rescue him.

5 :01x05 - Fort Hope

First aired: Oct/18/1970
Writer: Guerdon Trueblood
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: William Wintersole (Colonel Bateman), Byron Webster (Fat Jack), Michael Vandever (Prisoner), Willard Sage (Captain Green), Mac McLaughlin (Prisoner), Keith McConnell (Newton), Morgan Jones (Sergeant Boggs), Lew Brown (Oliver), Joseph Bernard (Prisoner), Peter Hale (British Sergeant)

Jeremy and Isak sneak into a British POW camp to obtain confidential information from a Patriot spy being held there. Unfortunately for our heroes, the spy has died and left the info with another prisoner who doesn't trust them.

6 :01x06 - Suicide Squad

First aired: Oct/25/1970
Writer: Jerome Ross, John Wilder
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Myron Healey (George Washington), Frank Marth (Gustav Schmidlapp), Robert Knapp (Patriot Captain), Steve Ihnat (Sergeant Whipple), Anthony Eustrel (British Colonel), Clive Clerk (Jonno Devery), Paul Carr (Corporal Catlin)

While on a mission to deliver sensitive documents to General Washington at Valley Forge, the young rebels discover a plot by the British to assassinate the patriot commander-in-chief.

7 :01x07 - Alias Ben Todd

First aired: Nov/01/1970
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Lee Purcell (Maggie Todd), Richard Gates (Ben Todd), Michael Evans (General Forrester), Patrick Horgan (Hastings)

Jeremy decides to pose as a dead Tory spy in order to get inside a British camp and obtain useful information for the rebel cause. Things then get really tense when the dead man's wife shows up in the camp.

8 :01x08 - The Hostages

First aired: Nov/08/1970
Writer: Richard Carr, Jim Byrnes
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest star: Gordon Jump (Robert Carroll), Morgan Jones (Sergeant Boggs), Eric Christmas (John Coates), Eric Braeden (Major Zanker)

A detachment of Hessian soldiers arrive in Chester and take hostages. Their commander, Major Zanker, demands that the townspeople come forward with the identity of the Continental Army spy code-named "Yankee Doodle." Unknown to Zanker one ot the hostages is the man he's looking for--Jeremy Larkin.

9 :01x09 - Age of Independence

First aired: Nov/15/1970
Writer: John Wilder
Director: Lou Antonio
Guest star: Mitch Vogel (Tad Garrett), David Soul (John Marshall), Donald Moffat (Colonel Scott), Ray Harden (Sgt. Harden), Robert R. Cannon (Gabriel Garrett)

When his brother is killed by the British, young Tad Garrett blames Jeremy and decides to kill him to avenge his sibling.

10 :01x10 - Stalemate

First aired: Nov/22/1970
Writer: Sy Salkowitz
Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Guest star: John Orchard (Sgt. Atkins), Terrence Scammell (Lt. Martin), Laird Stuart (Pvt. MacDonald), Harvey Jason (Corporal Davies), Ray Harden (Sgt. Rogers), Gordon DeVol (Lafayette's aide)

An explosion traps the young rebels inside an abandoned mine with four British soldiers.

11 :01x11 - Valley of the Guns

First aired: Nov/29/1970
Writer: Jerry Ziegman
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: Karl Swenson (Parson), Ron Randell (Lord Paxton), Jacques Aubuchon (Champfort), Monte Markham (William Billings)

Composer William Billings plays a key role in a mission to destroy a battery of British cannon.

12 :01x12 - Dangerous Ally

First aired: Dec/06/1970
Writer: Frank Telford
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Joan Tompkins (Mrs. Meeley), Charles Seel (Minister), John Mitchum (Meeley), Richard Kelton (Edward), Morgan Jones (Sergeant Boggs), Leslie Bradley (Hangman), John Bakos (William), Jerry Ayres (Harry), Michael Allison (Major Southwick), Frank Hotchkiss (Baldwin), Farrah Fawcett (Sarah), Brandon Brady (British Sergeant)

Henry is arrested for acts of sabotage against the British committed by his cousin and is sentenced to hang. This leaves Jeremy, Isak, and Lafayette to organize a rescue.

13 :01x13 - The Infiltrator

First aired: Dec/20/1970
Writer: Frank Telford
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Bernard Fox (General Carlton), Stephen Young (Irish), Todd Susman (guest star), Elizabeth Baur (Rachel)

The young rebels take in three newcomers to their ranks but when a mission goes awry it's obvious that one of the three is a British plant.

14 :01x14 - Unbroken Chains

First aired: Dec/27/1970
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
Director: Marc Daniels
Guest star: Paul Winfield (Pompey), Sasha Harden (Lt. Col. Schieffler), Ken Swofford (Captain Jack)

Isak is reunited with his long lost brother Pompey. Unfortunately for the two siblings, Pompey has been working for the British and is scheduled to be shot as a spy. To save his brother's life, Isak decides to go against his friends.

15 :01x15 - To Kill a Traitor

First aired: Jan/03/1971
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: Gary Lockwood (John Benton)

On a mission into Philadelphia, Jeremy is unaware that the spy he's supposed to protect is actually a double agent.