Buckskin

- Season 1

(1958)

The local schoolmaster has sent away for a mail-order bride, but when she arrives in town she has a surprise in store for him--she refuses to marry him.

While riding out on the prairie, Jody finds a wounded man. He brings him back home and they try to nurse him back to health, and soon a friendship grows between Jody and the mysterious stranger.

A notorious outlaws's son enters the spelling bee at Jody's school. All the other children withdraw from the contest, except Jody.

Dan Pruitt returns to town for his father's funeral, but he's surprised--and angry--to discover that his mother has already remarried.

Chrissy Miller, Jody's best friend, causes an injury to her father's best mare, and she makes Jody promise not to tell anyone. When she arrives home four hours late her friends and family jump to conclusions about the reasons for her lateness, and when she won't tell them where she's been or what she's been doing, speculation runs rampant and results in charges being leveled against an innocent man, amidst talk of a "necktie party".

Jody wants to sell his prize lamb to sheep trader Cash Robertson in order to buy a rifle, but Robertson doesn't want to buy it.

The sheriff is forced to shoot and kill an outlaw, and the man's brother comes to town for revenge. However, the townspeople won't help the sheriff because they think he didn't give the outlaw a chance before he shot him.

The Taliaferros arrive in town withe seemingly no past. But Annie O'Connell recognizes the man from years before as someone who caused great harm practicing quack medicine.

Jody "borrows" a gold watch that had belonged to his father and accidentally breaks it. When his mother discovers it missing, she assumes it was stolen, thinks she knows who did it and accuses them of the "theft".

A veteran of the Crimean War is entertaining the town folk with his tales of war heroics. Jody asks him for help in preparing a school paper but the facts given may or may not be true.

Detective Kirby arrives in town on the trail of a man who performs surgery without a doctor's license. The O'Connells like the man and try to keep the officer from doing his job.

A Chinese man moves to town and opens a laundry with low prices. A competitor, used to a monopoly, encourages the town folk to act against the newcomer. Jody sees racial injustice at it's worse.

When his good buddy's father is accused of murder Jody seeks help from the town's fortune teller.

Heading to the town of Buckskin, a photographer gets more than he was expecting when the stage is held up by outlaws.

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The O'Connells meet a man who feels he has been cheated of his wages by the mining company he had worked for. He decides to turn to robbery to get the money owed him despite Tommy trying to help.

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Newspaper editor Ben Newcomb hears a deathbed confession that appears to implicate the mayor in a shooting. Not wanting to make the confession public, Ben goes to the mayor and tries to convince him to clear the air one way or the other.

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