Hopalong Cassidy

- Season 2

(1953)

Hoppy and Reverend Adams hope to reform young Johnny Bolton from his criminal ways but his propensity for meanness and his admiration for an outlaw of thirty years ago work against them.

Hoppy and Red in Clarksville to visit Hoppy's friend Titus Clark the sole town resident find him shot to death and discover papers that suggest a connection with railroad's plan for the land to which the attorney niece is heir.

A sheriff summons Hoppy to Stone Valley where a cattlemen's association which has padded interest and fees is about to foreclose on ranchers who can not pay because bandits rob supply shipments before they reach the ranchers.

Frank Walton hopes to break the bank in drought stricken Little Rock Basin before the drought breaks to acquire its assets and interferes with Hoppy's moving the cattle to Twin Rivers and getting funds to stop a run on the bank.

Hoppy pretends to be John Smith in a town in which Red has been made sheriff to investigate the uncannily efficient robbery of gold shipped from the area smelter while all must endure comedy records played in the Mayor's barber shop.

Clemons traveling to see his son buys a wagon said by the locals to bring harm to its owners in which bank robbers have hidden their take while it was in the livery but, when they trail, the robbers find the stash missing from the wagon.

Hoppy is asked by immigration to investigate Chinese illegal aliens crossed from Mexico and left in the desert to die and finds a message in the sand beside a deceased implicating a Chinese speaking white man with a limp.

A Gypsy woman seeks Hoppy's help to clear her husband of a Wells Fargo robbery shortly after which the husband was murdered.

The Army sends Hoppy to Arizona Territory to investigate raids on a telegraphic construction project and, after the project leader is killed, uncovers a conspiracy led by the holder of the area trading post enterprise to stop the telegraph.

Jim Adams convicted convincingly of Ben Samuels' murder has escaped from prison and, while Hoppy protects Adams from vigilantism, Hoppy is troubled by an Adams' trial physical description and huge doctor fees paid by Samuels' brother.

Hoppy's mission from a law & order committee to prevent a town boss from blocking a territorial charter vote is imperiled when Hoppy's recently arrived lawyer nephew agrees to defend a boss' henchman and a victim changes his story.

An exhausted boy arrives at the Bar 20 with a tale of his father's disappearance and, although Hoppy presumes the father is dead, goes to the boy's home where evidence of the father's presence unnerves a stepmother and a housekeeper.

Hoppy stages the death of Red to keep a ring of pesos counterfeiters operating north of border and smuggling them into Mexico so he can enlist the help of a blacksmith to replace a broken horseshoe of one of the ring so they can be tracked.

When Ted Gray is attacked by Martinez for lying about receipt of mortgage money, his uncle Ollie states he will foreclose and then Ollie is found murdered with several pieces of clear evidence against Martinez but Hoppy is skeptical of it.

Drunk Picture Pete has photographed a on reservation hill has rich in copper ore of which speculator Rush has learned and has, to get the ore land, made it appear by killing and property destruction that the Apache and Maricopa are at war.

Thieves steal gold coins meant for a relief fund and make them into gold nuggets that they use an old prospector to launder which throws suspicion on the prospector's granddaughter's assayer husband.

An outlaw using an adopted surname forces his doctor brother to issue a fake death certificate so his gang can collect the substantial reward but Hoppy is suspicious of the burial details.

As Twin Rivers becomes no longer a quiet cattle town due to a gold strike, two partners of Bummer Lowe, who Red and others have grub-staked to look for gold, have been killed and then Bummer continues to ail unresponsive to medication.

Bricker, Jim Taggart's rep, reports that Taggart's nephew has been killed by robbers that stole a railroad survey but actually Bricker has killed the nephew to deliver the plans for a fee to Taggart' s rival so Taggart loses the contract.

Jason Rand who acquires area homesteads by shady means marries Trixie Brown who blackmails him about proof she has on murder so she can not testify against him but Trixie has written down facts and secreted the document.

Soon after Hoppy and Red arrive where the murderous outlaws operate with impunity and precision in lawless Canyon City to help sheriff Barnett the mark of the vigilante, 3-7-77, starts to appear at the locations of those Hoppy suspects.

Outlaws telegram Samuel Harron's sister Matilda that he is ill and needs her so the outlaws can kidnap her to ransom Harron's testimony and when the sheriff will not help after Hoppy rescues Matilda, Red masquerades as her to set a trap.

An indebted lawyer fakes a stage holdup with the murder of the driver and a client to gain the client's fortune and blame the cavalry nephew in a clothing switch with an accomplice and nephew who left for dead survives but loses memory.

Hoppy is assigned to perform the extradition of Marco Rodriquez who appears framed for murder while on the way to investigate the smuggling of cattle from a diseased border area of Mexico and discovers the tasks are related.

Hoppy finds a wanted man he chases into Mexico living under an alias and revered for his medical prowess and kindness by the locals until the man steals a beloved emerald encrusted religious relic.

Hoppy is obsessed with finding bank robbers working in nearby counties who killed a sheriff friend and begins to suspect a kind young area woman when he receive a wanted poster despite that the jobs involve an elderly woman.