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1. • Season 1 overview

     Sep 19, 1971-Apr 9, 1972

     24 episodes

     Season 1 episodes
     

     1. Homecoming Sep 19, 1971
     • Cade's wartime buddy accepts a contract to kill him; guest Darren McGavin.
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     2. Company Town Sep 26, 1971
     • After a murder, Cade decides to break a mine owner's hold on a small town.
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     3. Safe Deposit Oct 3, 1971
     • Bank robbers take Cade and Arlo hostage; guests Martin Sheen, James B. Sikking.
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     4. Crisscross Oct 10, 1971
     • A series of murders leads to a border smuggling ring run by an oil magnate.
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     5. Violent Echo Oct 24, 1971
     • A young man is scheduled to be executed in a few days for the murder of his girlfriend eight years earlier, and Sheriff Cade, who has always believed in his innocence, tries to find some evidence to get a stay. The first break is the discovery that the murdered girl was taken to see an abortionist, but then the abortionist is himself murdered.—rbecker28
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     6. Gray Wolf Oct 31, 1971
     • Unarmed Cade tracks convicts into a wolf-ridden wilderness; guests John Savage, Cameron Mitchell.
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     7. The Armageddon Contract Nov 7, 1971
     • Everybody loves Jack Pilgrim, a model citizen of Madrid City. The trouble is that, Sam Cade gradually finds out, this angel is in fact a fiend. Nobody else is aware that this good man is a mole on the payroll of an enemy country who has been assigned a sabotage mission which could have dreadful consequences.
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     8. The Mustanger Nov 14, 1971
     • A mustang wrangler murders a man for taking pictures; guest Gordon Jump.
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     9. Delegate at Large Nov 21, 1971
     • Robbers kidnap J.J. during a convention in Los Angeles.
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     10. A Gun for Billy Nov 28, 1971
     • Sheriff Sam Cade and his deputies track down a convict out on parole who has delusions that he is Billy the Kid. He acts out his fantasy by committing the same types of crimes that the famed outlaw did. He also kidnapped his young son placing him in grave danger.—Roger Campbell
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     11. Requiem for Miss Madrid Dec 12, 1971
     • The murder of a local beauty-queen has political overtones; guest Broderick Crawford.
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     12. The Alien Land Dec 19, 1971
     • The foreman of a major rancher is killed, and his boss insists that the killer is the young Middle Eastern oil heir who's been dating his daughter. But Cade believes the answer lies elsewhere, as he learns the murdered man was involved in selling drugs to local college students.—rbecker28
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     13. Shakedown Jan 9, 1972
     • Cade poses as a blackmailer to expose a gold-smuggling operation in a nearby county.
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     14. One Small Acceptable Death Jan 16, 1972
     • A slain drunk's companion claims he saw a famous tycoon at the murder scene.
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     15. The Brothers Jan 23, 1972
     • Evidence of a kidnap scheme points to Arlo's younger brother.
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     16. Slay Ride Jan 31, 1972
     • A local businessman and the mayor's daughter are found dead after the truck they were in goes over a cliff. The man died from the accident, but the girl was strangled with a bead necklace. A young Indian known to possess such a necklace is arrested, but the arrest inflames the local campus and the Indian community.—rbecker28
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     17. Slay Ride Feb 6, 1972
     • To save the young Indian, Cade must find the real killer; guests John Schuck, Gerald S. O'Loughlin.
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     18. Dead Past Feb 13, 1972
     • The murder of a transient leads Cade to a death plot against a professor.
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     19. Inferno Feb 27, 1972
     • Cade investigates attacks against a department-store magnate.
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     20. Ragged Edge Mar 5, 1972
     • Kidnappers want to exchange a little girl for a jailed narcotics dealer.
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     21. Jessie Mar 12, 1972
     • Cade and his deputies investigate a burglary at the home of a rancher, but nothing is missing and no one seems to know what the burglar was after. Then the rancher is murdered, and his wife, an old flame of Cade's, is the prime suspect.—rbecker28
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     22. Blackout Mar 19, 1972
     • Mobsters plan to assassinate a town resident; guests Edward Asner, Shelly Fabares.
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     23. Fake Mar 26, 1972
     • A former mobster is targeted for death by gangsters who create a power blackout to disable his estate's security system.
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     24. The Witness Apr 9, 1972
     • An Indian chief's beliefs prevent him from giving evidence in a trapper's murder.
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