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Thirty Hours To Kill

Western

25

Jan 31, 1960

Bill is forced to kill one of the Dawson brothers after a fight when the man draws on him, and then he must contend with three other brothers who vow to kill him.

Full Episodes

Season 2, 35 episodes

Bill stops at an inn, where he meets an old lawman friend, who is holding two convicted killers. The lawman knows that friends of his two prisoners are in the area and planning to free them.

25m Sep 13, 1959

Image Of Guilt,

While Bill is participating in a draw and shoot contest in a town rodeo, the local bank is robbed, and a photographer friend of Bill's is shot and killed.

25m Sep 20, 1959

The Dishonest Posse,

Riding with a posse, Bill captures the bank robber they were after, as well as the money he had stolen. But the others in the posse decide to split the loot among themselves.

25m Oct 4, 1959

Bill is ambushed and his horse is stolen. Having to take a stagecoach, he finds that one of the other passengers is wanted outlaw Pony Sloan. But he meets another man from whom he finds there is another side to Sloan's story.

25m Oct 11, 1959

After killing one of the outlaw Kiley brothers, the citizens of Calico have buried him as an exhibit in the middle of the main street. The new sheriff objects to this provocative act, causing the citizens to ask for his resignation.

25m Oct 18, 1959

The Telegraph Story,

Bill is working with a telegraph company installing lines, but an outlaw gang camped in the area wants to get the crew to leave.

25m Oct 25, 1959

Bill is hired as trail boss driving a cattle herd to Abilene. But he has to contend with two big problems. One is a hostile trail hand, whose anger over Bill getting the ramrod job over him is aggravated by his jealousy over the ranch owner's daughter.

25m Nov 1, 1959

Showdown At Abilene,

After failing in an attempt to ambush Bill, Bishop pays a band of Indians to attack the Akins herd, hoping to scatter the cattle and thus prevent them from reaching Abilene first. Conclusion of a two-part story, the first part being 'Stampede'.

25m Nov 8, 1959

Trouble On The Trail,

Still leading the cattle drive, Bill is allowed to take his herd across a powerful rancher's land. On the way across, he finds a woman who claims she is fleeing from the rancher's advances. But he soon learns that she has not told the whole truth.

25m Nov 22, 1959

Cowards Don't Die,

A former lawman, now a storekeeper, has lost his nerve after a shooting incident, and is now being harassed by a gang of outlaws led by the brother of a man he once killed. The ex-lawman's daughter refuses to let him put on a gun again.

25m Nov 29, 1959

Border Incident,

Bill travels to Ciudad Juarez to accept a job working for a cattleman and his fiancée, only to soon find out he has been set up as the scapegoat in a counterfeiting scheme.

25m Dec 6, 1959

Dangerous Ground,

A rancher warns Bill and the railroad workers not to put track down through the land his cattle graze on, even though it is government land. Later he shoots and seriously wounds one of the workers as they are riding in a wagon.

25m Dec 13, 1959

End Of The Track,

Bill tries to find out who's been supplying whiskey to railroad workers during their working hours, thus slowing down their progress. He first suspects a lady saloon owner, but it soon becomes apparent she's not the one.

25m Dec 20, 1959

Friend Of The Family,

Bill's former Civil War commander asks him to take his oldest son with him on the trail to make a better man out of him. Bill agrees to this, but he detects that the son has an intense bitterness toward his father.

25m Jan 3, 1960

The Taming Of Rio Nada,

Longley has been a special marshal to the Texas town of Rio Nada. The area has been plagued by Mexican bandits who have used to the cross the border into the United States and raid the countryside.

25m Jan 10, 1960

After acting marshal Bill orders no guns to be worn on the streets of Rio Nada, a local casino owner sends for two notorious gunmen to kill him.

25m Jan 17, 1960

The Terrified Town,

Bill is brought by two bounty hunters to the Governor, who hires him as a marshal to clean up a border area which is being run by an outlaw known as El Sombro.

25m Jan 24, 1960

Thirty Hours To Kill,

Bill is forced to kill one of the Dawson brothers after a fight when the man draws on him, and then he must contend with three other brothers who vow to kill him.

25m Jan 31, 1960

After Bill, again working with the railroad, turns down a bribe from a landowner to detour the track through his town, the man then forces a doctor to quarantine the railroad workers, falsely claiming a case of cholera.

25m Feb 7, 1960

Buried Treasure,

Bill finds an old prospector almost dead from thirst, and brings him in to the railroad workers camp. But men from a rival outfit talk the old man into spreading a story about finding gold, hoping to lure the workers away from their job.

25m Feb 14, 1960

A group of convicts take over the work train, killing their guards, and hold the entire crew at the construction site hostage. Bill, who they think they also killed on the train, makes it back to the site and must figure out a way to stop them.

25m Feb 21, 1960

With his job about done, Bill is planning to leave the railroad workers camp and move on, until a former crewman once fired by MacMorris shows up to make trouble.

25m Feb 28, 1960

The Governor's Lady,

Bill saves a government agent from ambush. The agent is carrying a list of landowners who are refusing to pay their taxes, and the daughter of one of those landowners---the one who the attempted killers are working for---is engaged to the governor.

25m Mar 13, 1960

Bill finds a town engulfed by a feud between two ranchers. He also learns that his former commanding officer, now a doctor, has turned to drinking, and that a young man blames him for crippling his arm. Bill tries to talk the doctor into staying.

25m Mar 20, 1960

The Guilty And The Innocent,

A lynch mob wants to hang a young man convicted of killing a family of homesteaders. Bill rides in with a stay of execution from the governor just as the mob is about to break into the jail and the desperate prisoner escapes.

25m Mar 27, 1960

Presentation Gun,

Bill stops to visit his friend, a well-respected sheriff, only to find that the man has been jailed for killing an unarmed youth, and the whole town has turned against him, including his own son. Bill seeks to find the real truth.

25m Apr 3, 1960

Bill comes to the defense of an unassuming man who is being bullied and tries to encourage him to stand up for himself. Soon the man asks Bill to teach him how to use a gun.

25m Apr 17, 1960

Bill takes the job of escorting a convicted killer to his hanging, knowing that the man's sons and gang members are in the area planning to free him.

25m Apr 24, 1960

Lady Tenderfoot,

An Easterner and his daughter hire Bill to guide them in the search for a wild stallion whom they hope to breed. But an old enemy plans to follow them on the search and rob the horse breeder and get revenge on Bill.

25m May 8, 1960

The Invisible Noose,

Bill goes after three men who forced him to accompany them on a bank robbery and framed him for it.

25m May 15, 1960

Bill befriends an overeager young man named Johnny Tuvo who plans to challenge him in the upcoming horse race. But two other men at the event have more sinister plans for how to take advantage of it.

25m May 29, 1960

Bill is captured by a posse and accused of being one of the men who robbed the bank and shot the banker. Unfortunately, the victim claims Bill was the robber who shot him. Only the sheriff is inclined to believe Bill.

25m Jun 5, 1960

Mission To Monterrey,

Bill is sent into Mexico to investigate and put an end to a counterfeiting ring that's been operating there making phony American currency. The lawman he was to contact is ambushed and killed, leaving Bill to handle the situation alone.

25m Jun 12, 1960

Bill escorts a prisoner to Pueblo for trial. He is also to deliver money to the prisoner's mother for his daughter, whom she has custody of. On the way the two men encounter a dust storm, which forces them to take refuge in a ghost town.

25m Jun 19, 1960

24 Hours To Live,

Bill hopes to prove that his friend Steve Murrow is innocent of killing the man who married the girl he was hoping to marry. But he only has 24 hours to do it before Steve is hung.

25m Sep 4, 1960