Whiplash

- Season 1

(1961)

Big Tom Ledward rules his settlement with a rod of iron, much to his son Dan's distaste. Big Tom is determined to stop Cobb from opening a new stage route.

The coach driven by Dan and Chis is wrecked when it runs into a heavy chain deliberately placed in the road by a gang of bushrangers. The passenger is killed in the crash and Cobb kills two of the outlaws in self-defense. After Chris returns to Bathurst, he receives an Aboriginal death-stick, marking him to die at the next full moon. Although Dan urges him to remain in town, Chris decides to meet the curse - and the man who wants revenge - and drives three passengers, a convict, his guard and a pretty woman deep into the heart of the outback to confront his would-be ...

Cobb while searching for good grazing land comes across a house and a strange boy living nearby. He intends to purchase the property but first has to untangle the mystery of the former occupants.

Cobb is asked by the governor to go to Melbourne and find his estranged brother who is believed to be dead for 7 years. If located Cobb is to contact the local police and arrange for the man to return to England in chains.

Cobb gets caught in the middle of a land war when he delivers barbed wire to some local farmers. Squatters in the area oppose the introduction of fencing and are prepared to kill to stop it's introduction.

Cobb's stages are halted outside the town of Bathurst until he agrees to pay toll to the Denvers brothers, gunmen from the United States, who have taken over the town. Cobb comes to Bathurst to try and rid the town of the outlaws.

A man is accused of murder and has to travel Brisbane to face charges. Cobb is given the job to deliver the prisoner safely in spite of the various obstacles placed in his path.

Mrs. Culbert summons Cobb to request he search for her missing son 'Teddy Bear' Cobb is not interested till Mrs Culbert agrees to sign new transport contracts to her mines if Cobb finds the man.

Mike Upton waylays Cobb's coach and kidnaps an attractive actress riding as a passenger. Cobb has to rescue her, and when they run into some angry gold miners, she is forced into the performance of her life.

Chris Cobb is contracted by Sir John to join an expedition to map a pass through the mountains. All the members are captured by local bush rangers who then hatch a plan to ransom them.

The Wattling family travel to Australia to meet up with their son, sent to the colonies many years before. Chris Cobb searches for the man and eventually locate their missing son. However what Cobb discovers surprises everyone.

Chris Cobb escorts a group of bonded women on their way to take up servant duties with various land owners in the area. He is concerned about the enterprise and the honesty of the man organizing it.

Chris Cobb is hired to ride to a gold mining area and collect all the gold. A bank assayer is meant to have ridden ahead to organize the load. However the man doing to organizing is not the right person.

Chris Cobb is hijacked along with his coach by a bank robber who is on the run from both the law and his own gang. When the gang catch up with their leader Cobb is not sure who is the greater threat.

Chris Cobb gets word one of his stages has been robbed and the driver probably dead. Puzzling is the actions of the local aboriginal tribes, normally friendly to Cobb and his people. The mystery deepens when it is discovered the tribe is lead by a white man, someone who might have a violent past of their own.

Chris Cobb becomes involved in a land dispute between two squatters. Travelling to Sydney he discovers the truth about the property in dispute. Unfortunately one of the squatters is not interested in reason.

Chris Cobb finds Canoomba empty of men after a gold strike in a nearby town. Chris has gold to transport but can't muster guards to help. Things become stranger when one of his coaches is robbed by what appeared to be a female bushranger.

Cobb discovers one of his employees is resigning from the company so he can devote time to tracking down a character known as "Carpenter" described as one of the calmest and shrewdest killers in the country. Cobb decides to go after Carpenter himself.

Chris Cobb discovers one of his depot managers has gone missing. He was last heard in the area of Fire Ridge. The area is major aboriginal religious site, known for strange happenings. It is also rumored to be the location of exceptionally high quality opals.

A farmer is speared by Aboriginals for interrupting a sacred ceremony. The farmer, although badly wounded escapes. Cobb and a tracker go in search of the wounded man while trying to avoid the Aboriginal tasked with finishing him off

Mowamba flats is the start of a new coach run for Cobb. At stake is a lucrative mail run. Some of the passengers do not appear to be what they claim, and the addition of corpse to be transported for burial adds another level of strangeness to the trip.

Denise de Mornay a successful French painter arrives in Australia and hires one of Cobb's coaches for her exclusive use. Cobb becomes concerned when they arrive at the home of gentleman bushranger Jimmy Quicksilver.

The owner of a feeder company for Cobb has been forced financially to accept new partners, who unknown to him want to put Cobb out of business. Ultimately, a race ensues between Cobb and the new line, but the line's new partners don't plan to play fair.

Cobb finds himself a wanted man after bushrangers take over one of his coaches and use it to commit robberies, with the leader posing as Cobb himself.

Cobb is knocked out during a storm, and awakens in an outback cabin, where he finds his moneybelt has been taken. The cabin is occupied by a father and son, and a girl who wants desperately to get away from them and begs Cobb to take her with him when he leaves.

Cobb and his only passenger, a young woman, seek shelter from a flood in an old deserted house. Soon they are joined by a man who the woman obviously knows. She claims he has escaped from prison where he was serving time for a murder he didn't commit. But Cobb finds holes in her story.

Cobb picks up a young Spanish woman, along with her "husband" and "baby". But he soon fears that he has become involved in a kidnapping scheme.

A local magistrate cancels Cobb's shipping franchise after his niece is apparently kidnapped while riding on the stage. Cobb and Dan search for her, but are surprised to find things are not what they seem.

Aboriginals are attacking workers trying to lay out an overland telegraph line by a deadline. But Cobb learns that it is a white man who has instigated them in the attacks, though he's not sure of the man's identity.

Cobb searches for a man who told him of a secret source of water in the interior desert area. He finds the man, dead, supposedly dragged by his horse. The ranchers in the area have been plagued by raids on their cattle, and Cobb suspects that the raiders have been using a secret trail which will lead to the water. But the ranchers are only blaming each other for the raids.

Cobb agrees to personally purchase and deliver a freight wagon full of merchandise, including a pair of coffins, into the heart of outback. He is captured by escaped convicts and taken to meet the female leader of the gang who gives him the choice of marrying the woman's daughter or being buried in one of the coffins he was to deliver.

Cobb comes across a wounded man on the trail. Before he dies, the man asks Cobb to deliver a map to his wife. But when he brings it to her, he finds out that others are looking for the map as well, and are willing to do anything to get it.

While on his way to testify at the trial of a killer bushranger, Cobb stops at a way station run by a widow with a young son. To prevent him from testifying, a gang arrives and holds Cobb, along with the widow, the boy, and Cobb's passengers, a man and his pregnant wife. Cobb notices a strange familiarity between the widow and the gang leader.

On his way to an auction to bid on three Arabian stallions, Cobb is attacked and his money stolen. Because of this, he is unable to purchase the horses, who thus are bought by a pretty young woman. But later the stallions are stolen from her, and Cobb's wallet is left at the scene.