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Starring: Pat Conway (as Sheriff Clay Hollister), Richard Eastham (as Harris Claibourne)
Season 3 (Syndicated) (1959-60)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Tom Dischley, Rina Fox, Tom Alger, KJK, Heikocleef
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)

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First-Run Syndication

3.01 [--] Tombstone Territory: RED TERROR OF TOMBSTONE [verified -KJK]
09-Oct-1959 syndicated episode
Starring: Pat Conway (as Sheriff Clay Hollister)
Guest Cast:
Harvey Stephens
John Vivyan
Allison Hayes
Also in the cast:
Robert Brubaker, Billy Dix
Synopsis:
July 8, 1882 - R.C. (Pop) Tuttle married Grace, a much younger woman, in
Tombstone but encouraged everyone to move to Benson. Pop Tuttle wants
Benson to be the county seat because, unlike Tombstone, they have plenty
of water. Meanwhile, some of the citizens of Tombstone realize they
must raise money to purchase a steam pump because a year earlier, in 1881,
a fire almost wiped out all of Tombstone. Then in July, 1882, Tombstone
does suffer its second worst fire. [KJK]

3.02 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE GUNFIGHTER [TD][verified -KJK]
16-Oct-1959 syndicated episode
Starring: Pat Conway (as Sheriff Clay Hollister)
Guest Cast:
James Coburn .................. Gunfighter
Ron Hagerthy .................. Jeff Harper
Also in the cast:
Jean Paul King, Ken Christy, Ted Jacques, Carter de Haven, Edmund Cobb
Synopsis:
October 27, 1886 - Jeff Harper returns to Tombstone after spending five years
in prison. Caswell is worried that Harper will be gunning for him, so he
hires a gunfighter, Ashley, to protect him. However, Jeff has only returned
to Tombstone to sell his land and move to California, not to gun down Caswell. [KJK]

3.03 [--] Tombstone Territory: STOLEN LOOT [TD] (verified -KJK)
23-Oct-1959 syndicated episode
*Filmed at Iverson Ranch
Guest Cast:
Leo Gordon .................... Ben Jensen,
Patrick Waltz ................. Dan Jensen
Jean Allison .................. Hope Jensen
Page Slattery
Tony Young,
Quentin Sondergaard
Synopsis:
May 19, 1882 - The Tombstone bank is robbed and a handyman is killed.
The three thieves give the money to Dan Jensen for safekeeping. Dan's
brother, Ben, is the leader of the gang. Hope (Mrs. Dan) Jensen returns
the money to Clay, who is then held hostage for the stolen bank money. [KJK]

3.04 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE WRITER [TD][verified -KJK]
30-Oct-59 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Allison Hayes .......... Elizabeth Blythe
Don Kennedy ............ Ed Chandler
Donald Woods
Wayne Mallory
Terry Frost
Larry Darr
Charles Buck,
Quentin Sondergaard
Synopsis:
October 16, 1882 - President Chester Arthur has sent Ferguson from Washington,
D.C. to investigate crime in Tombstone. Elizabeth Blythe, a newspaper
reporter from New York, has come with him. Ed Chandler and his gang kidnap
both of them to try to force Clay to release Ed's brother, Joe, from jail.
Ferguson and Blythe learn that "wherever there's sudden wealth, there's sudden
death". "There's always crime and lawlessness in a boom town." [KJK]

3.05 [--] Tombstone Territory: PAYROLL ROBBERY [TD][verified -KJK]
06-Nov59 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Morris Ankrum ................. Mine Owner
Lee Van Cleef
John Milford
Joe Crehan
Synopsis:
May 31, 1885 - Jake Conroy arrives in Tombstone after having learned to become
an expert wheelwright in Yuma Prison. Jake's partner, Red River Tom aka Hobey
Jones, guns down the town wheelwright so Jake can take the job. Then together
they plan a payroll robbery. [KJK]

3.06 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE HORSE THIEF [TD][verified -KJK]
13-Nov-59 syndicated episode
Filmed in Bronson Canyon
Guest Cast:
Leonard Nimoy ........ Little Hawk
Jack LaRue ........... Padre Miguel
Kem Dibbs
Tom Brown Henry
Allen Jaffe
Quentin Sondergaard
Synopsis:
April 27, 1880 - Lawyer Fred Griffin wants to take over the Indian land so
he can then sell it to the railroad, so he hires Jess Buckhorn to stir up
Indian trouble. When Buckhorn fails to kill Little Hawk, a horse thief, before
he rides into Tombstone, Griffin then tries to stir up lynch talk. To save Little
Hawk from a lynch mob, Clay and his two deputies take him to Father Miguel at
the mission. Little Hawk asks Father Miguel for sanctuary and claims he was only
moving the six horses to better pasture. However, to make his escape, Little
Hawk shoots Dexter, one of Clay's deputies, and knocks out Father Miguel. [KJK]

3.07 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE LEGEND [TD] [verified -KJK]
20-Nov-59 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Britt Lomond ........... Jay Pelf
Michael Morgan ......... Sam Crane
Ralph Taeger
Henry Wills
Bill Catching
Quentin Sondergaard
Synopsis:
April 12, 1882 - Ambitious writer, Jay Pelf, is the leader of an outlaw gang
including Sam Crane and his younger brother, Kirby. Jay Pelf wants to make
Clay the next national hero - a legend. [KJK]

3.08 [--] Tombstone Territory: PREMATURE OBITUARY [TD][verified -KJK]
27-Nov-59 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Phillip Baird ......... Ron Browning
James Anderson ........ Ike Cobb
Beverly Allyson
Harold Fong
Quentin Sondergaard
Synopsis:
May 12, 1882 - Ron Browning tries to pay Harris to print his obituary before
he has died. Then he tries to commit suicide because he doesn't want to
meet his fiance who's coming in on the stage the next day. He is ashamed
that he's not been a financial success. Harris stops Ron from committing
suicide, and Clay puts Ron in jail overnight for his own protection. However,
Ike Cobb breaks jail and forces Ron to go with him. [KJK]

3.09 [--] Tombstone Territory: DANGEROUS ROMANCE [TD][verified -KJK]
04-Dec-59 syndicated episode
Filmed at Iverson Ranch
Guest Cast:
Page Slattery .......... Paul Hayden
Joan Connors ........... Karen Thomas
Paul Comi
Steve Warren
John Bowler
Quentin Sondergaard
Synopsis:
September 10, 1882 - The three Thomas brothers are upset when drifter Paul Hayden,
who's on probation and working for Harris, starts dating their older sister, Karen. [KJK]

3.10 [--] Tombstone Territory: SELF-DEFENSE [TD][verified -KJK]
11-Dec-59 syndicated episode
Guest cast:
Roy Barcroft ......... Flint Anson
Harry Lauter
Howard Dayton
Edmund Johnston
Charles Reade
Tony Miller
Synopsis:
April 12, 1884 - Clay killed Wally Anson in self-defense, so Wally's father, Flint Anson,
has offered $10,000 to the first person or persons bringing him proof of Clay's death. [KJK]
 
3.11 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE MARKED HORSESHOE [TD]
(1959.12.18) syndicated episode
Robert J. Wilke ............... Todd Gantry
Gene Roth ..................... Asa Sibley

3.12 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE NOOSE THAT BROKE [TD]
(1959.12.25) syndicated episode
Paul Richards ................. Reed Barker
Don Devlin .................... Seth

3.13 [--] Tombstone Territory: MINE DISASTERS [TD]
(1960.01.01) syndicated episode
Donald Murphy ................. Anson Gurney

3.14 [--] Tombstone Territory: EYEWITNESS [TD][verified -KJK]
08-Jan-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Elisha Cook, Jr. ........ Adam Kirby
King Moody
Len Lesser
Quentin Sondergaard
Lee Sands
Robert Swan,
Murray Kamelmar
Michael Backus
Jerry Todd
Synopsis:
August 3, 1882 - Adam Kirby witnesses the murder of Baines in the livery stable,
and the Wallach gang try to frighten him from testifying. [KJK]

3.15 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE CAPTURE (1960) (verified -SC)
15Jan60 syndicated episode
DIRECTED BY EDDIE DAVIS.
WRITTEN BY BARNEY SLATER.
Starring: Pat Conway (as Sheriff Clay Hollister)
GUEST CAST:
William Phipps ................ Kyle Dodge
PENNY EDWARDS,
WILLIAM TANNEN,
LEE WARREN,
ART STEWART,
Chuck Couch ................... Marshal
SYNOPSIS:
A WOUNDED MARSHAL RIDES INTO TOMBSTONE WITH HIS PRISONER, WHO IS ALSO
WOUNDED, AND IS PLACED IN JAIL. CLAY HOLLISTER IS SUSPICIOUS OF A MAN
WHO CLAIMS TO BE A DOCTOR AND WANTS TO GIVE AID THE PRISONER. [SC]

 3.16 [--] Tombstone Territory: STATE'S WITNESS (aka "In Cold Blooded Murder") (verified -SC)
22Jan60 syndicated airdate
Directed By Lew Landers
Written By Teddi Sherman
Starring: Pat Conway (as Sheriff Clay Hollister)
Guest Cast:
John Sutton............as The Outlaw Leader
Jan Shepard............as Cheri Deger
Larry Hudson............as The Gang Henchman
Mark Tobin............as Chalky Deger
Harry Woods............as Doc Cunningham
Quintin Sondergaard............as Quint
Robert Darin............as Barney
Troy Melton............as The Saloon Owner(uncredited)
Synopsis:
Two brothers that are members of a band of outlaws are killed by the gangs
leader during a holdup in Tombstone. Sheriff Clay Hollister and Harris
Clairbourne device a scheme, using a newspaper article to make the gang's
leader believe that one of the men is still alive and is going to testify againts them. [SC]

3.17 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE TARGET [TD]
(1960.01.29) syndicated episode
Warren Oates .................. Vic Reel
Liam Sullivan ................. Jason Douglas

3.18 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE BRIDE [TD][verified -KJK]
05-Jan-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Byron Morrow ............ Bert Magraw
Edson Stroll ............ Vince Sanders
Linda Lawson ............ Jeannie
Ken Christy
Synopsis:
June 3, 1882 - Bert Magraw and his new wife, Jeannie, arrive in Tombstone on
the stage from Tucson. In reality, Bert is her third husband, and she is
still married to Vince Sanders, who tries to kill both Bert and Clay. [KJK]

3.19 [--] Tombstone Territory: FEMALE KILLER [TD][verified -KJK]
12-Feb-60 syndicated episode
Written by Leo Gordon
Guest Cast:
Mala Powers ........... Renee Carter
Donald Harvey ......... Frank Fallon
Ken Drake
Paul Sorenson
Synopsis:
July 8, 1889 - Clay is taking Renee Carter to serve a term of 18 months in
Yuma Prison, but he suspects her boyfriend, Frank Fallon, is really guilty. [KJK]

3.20 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE LADY LAWYER (aka "Ice House Mystery") (verified -SC)
19Feb60 syndicated airdate
Directed By Jack Herzberg
Written By Teddi Sherman
Starring: Pat Conway (as Sheriff Clay Hollister)
Guest Cast:
Kathie Browne............as Gaye Monahan
James Westerfield............as Big Jim Getson
Regis Toomey............as Feeny Spindier
Robert Swain............as Dusty
Coleman Francis............as Burt
Alan Jaffe............as Charlie
Quintin Sondergaard............as Quint
Synopsis:
Sheriff Clay
Hollister sends for a woman lawyer to settle a dispute between a mine owner
and a local businessman. Clay is unaware that one of the men has been
stealing gold and hording it in blocks of ice. [SC]

3.21 [--] Tombstone Territory: SILVER KILLERS [TD][verified -KJK]
26-Feb-60 syndicated episode
Directed by William Conrad
Guest Cast:
Constance Ford ........ Lily Murdock
James Seay
Paul Sorenson
Hank Patterson
John Mitchum
Synopsis:
June 3, 1884 - Clay gets Tulsa Jack to help him prove that popular, generous
Lily Murdock is behind the deaths of the miners she grubstaked. [KJK]

3.22 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE HOLCOMB BROTHERS [TD][verified -KJK]
04-Mar-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Harry Carey, Jr. ........ Vern Fawcett
Howard Petrie
Bob Anderson
Robin Riley
Tipp McClure
Jerry Vance
Gary Spencer
Synopsis:
November 9, 1883 - Marshal Vern Fawcett resigns after killing one of the Holcomb
Brothers and returns to Tombstone to be with his family and to marry his girlfriend. [KJK]

3.23 [--] Tombstone Territory: YOUNG KILLER [TD][verified -KJK]
11-Mar-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Robert Ivers ........... Eddie Casper
Kay Elhardt ............ Craig Rice ?
Bern Hoffman
John Zaccaro
Harry Woods
Frank Warren
Synopsis:
December 9, 1884 - Nurse Mary Rice takes care of Eddie Casper, a young gunman
who attacked Clay and was sorely wounded by him. [KJK]

3.24 [--] Tombstone Territory: CODED NEWSPAPER [TD][verified -KJK]
18-Mar-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Kent Taylor
Chuck Hayward
Nick Pawl
Quentin Sondergaard
Barney Barnett
Synopsis:
John Whittaker places ads with hidden codes in the Epitaph, telling his gang
members where and when to rob the Argus mine shipments. [KJK]

3.25 [--] Tombstone Territory: MEMORY [TD] [verified -KJK]
25-Mar-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Allison Hayes ........ Liz Dolthan
Charles Maxwell
Walter Burke
Robert B. Williams
Quentin Sondergaard
Bill Hickman
Synopsis:
October 9, 1882 - A former carnival act, Liz Dolthan with a phenomenal memory
and her partner, Packard, turn to safecracking. They both ask the Wells Fargo
agent to put their valuables in his safe overnight - her jewels and his $1,000.
She memorizes the combination to the safe as the agent turns the tumbler. That
night, she robs the safe. Clay becomes suspicious of her when she describes her
stolen jewelry is such incredible detail, including the number of pearls and
the serial number on the clasp. [KJK]

3.26 [--] Tombstone Territory: REVENGE [TD]
(1960.04.01) syndicated episode

3.27 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE HOSTAGE [TD][verified -KJK]
08-Apr-60 syndicated episode
Filmed in Bronson Canyon
Guest Cast:
Anthony Ray ............. Sam Edwards
Keith Larsen ............ John Edwards
Quentin Sondergaard
Synopsis:
November 7, 1881 - Murderer Sam Edwards has been sentenced to hang, but his
brother, John, kidnaps Harris and takes him hostage in order to save Sam
from the gallows. [KJK]

[--] 15Apr60 rerun of #3.3 "Stolen Loot"


3.28 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE KIDNAPPING [TD]
(1960.04.22) syndicated episode

3.29 [--] Tombstone Territory: GIRL FROM PHILADELPHIA [verified -KJK]
29-Apr-60 syndicated episode
Filmed in Bronson Canyon
Guest Cast:
Erin O'Brien .................. Isabelle/Gwen Rand
Don O'Kelly
Fred Essler
Charity Grace
Buff Brady
Synopsis:
January 20, 1881 - Belle Reed, Clay's former girlfriend, is now running away
from her more recent boyfriend, Ben Quaid. She wants to return east with her
sister, Gwen. However, before Gwen arrives, Ben kills Belle and flees to Mexico.
Gwen impersonates Belle and follows Ben to Mexico to avenge the murder of her sister. [KJK]

3.30 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE FORTUNE [TD]
(1960.05.06) syndicated episode

3.31 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE INNOCENT MAN [TD] [verified -KJK]
13-May-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
John Doucette ................. Parsons
Ron Hayes
Guy Stockwell
Ken Mayer
Anne Dore
Barney Elmore
Synopsis:
October 17, 1884 - Clay and Harris join Sheriff Eli Parsons and Deputy McQueen
in the pursuit of three escaped convicts. Deputy McQueen actually wants to
gun down all three of them because one of them, Tom Holden, is innocent.
Deputy McQueen had framed him for the Wells Fargo job. [KJK]

3.32 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE SIESTA KILLER [TD][verified -KJK]
20-May-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Harold Peary .................. Metcalf
Carol Ohmart
Mickey Finn
Paul Fierro
Page Slattery,
Quentin Sondergaard
Wayne Treadway
John Maloney
Charlie Crafts
Synopsis:
August 16, 1881 - Tombstone is suffering from a terrible heat wave for the
tenth straight day. In hotel lobbies, Mrs. Curtis pretends to faint and
drops her purse and/or handkerchief. When the hotel clerks bend down to
retrieve her possessions, she murders them and robs the hotel cash drawer.
In Tombstone, she has killed both Mark Jenkins in the American Hotel and Bates
in the Occidental Hotel. Clay assumes he is looking for a man at least six
feet tall since the bullets entered each man at a downward slant. However,
he does notice a heavy scent near each victim. Meanwhile, Curtis' partner,
Douglas Metcalf, an insurance investigator, has arrived in Tombstone. Clay
notices the same lavender scent on him as well as on Mrs. Curtis. [KJK]

3.33 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE RETURN OF KANSAS JOE [TD] [verified -KJK]
27-May-60 syndicated episode
Guest Cast:
Warren Stevens
Robert F. Simon
Ed Nelson
Dave Cameron
Leon Alton,
Edmund Cobb
Quentin Sondergaard
Synopsis:
October 20, 1883 - Territorial Governor Armstrong arrives in Tombstone just
ahead of Kansas Joe Barton, who has been released from Yuma Prison and has
sworn to kill him. However, Lt. Governor Owens is actually the man who's
trying to assassinate the Governor. Clay realizes that Kansas Joe Barton
could not have written the threatening note to the Governor because he knows
that Kansas Joe Barton cannot read or write. [KJK]

3.34 [--] Tombstone Territory: BETRAYAL [TD]
(1960.06.03) syndicated episode

3.35 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE TREATY [TD]
(1960.06.10) syndicated episode

3.36 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE OUTLAW [TD]
(1960.06.17) syndicated episode

3.37 [--] Tombstone Territory: THE INJURY [TD]
(1960.06.24) syndicated episode

3.38 [--] Tombstone Territory: CRIME EPIDEMIC [TD][verified -KJK]
01-Jul-60 syndicated episode
Filmed in Bronson Canyon
Guest Cast:
Ralph Taeger .................. Horn
Denver Pyle
Janet Lake
Alan Wells
Synopsis:
June 8, 1883 - Horn and Hugh Burnett have stolen $8,000 from the Tombstone bank.
They give $3,000 to Will Gunther in exchange for food and hiding them in the
lower level of his barn. Will fears that his wife, Viola, will leave him for Hugh Burnett,
so he kills Hugh. However, Viola leaves her husband, Will, to join Horn Burnett. [KJK]

3.39 [--] Tombstone Territory: JUAN DIEGA (aka "Dynamite") (final episode) (verified -SC)
 08Jul60 syndicated airdate
Directed By Franklin Adreon
Written By Leo Gordon
Starring: Pat Conway (as Sheriff Clay Hollister)
Guest Cast:
Gregory Walcott............as Burt Taggert
Alex Montoya............as Juan Diega
Robert Contreras............as Vincente
John Thye............as The Telegraph Operator
Quintin Sondergaard............as Quint
Charles Reade............as The Townsman
Lenny Geer............as The Bank Guard (uncredited)

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