Tales of Wells Fargo

Top Cast

Dale Robertson as Jim Hardie
Jack Ging as Beau McCloud
Mary Jane Saunders as Mary Gee Swenson
Claude Akins as Jefferson
Hal Needham as 2nd Cowhand
Robert Vaughn as Billy the Kid
Kit Carson as Stage Shotgun
Alan Napier as Colonel Decatur
Martin Smith as Cliff Arden
Kate Manx as Julie

Seasons

Season 1 (1957) - (14 Episodes)

Season 2 (1957) - (38 Episodes)

Season 3 (1958) - (39 Episodes)

Season 4 (1959) - (37 Episodes)

Season 5 (1960) - (39 Episodes)

Season 6 (1961) - (34 Episodes)

Season 1 (1957)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Thin Rope (1957-03-18)

Jim Hardie is assigned to ride shotgun on a stagecoach that was held up carrying a valuable cargo of gold, but has to contend with a driver who thinks he can handle any outlaws he meets with all by himself.
Ep. 2: The Hasty Gun (1957-03-25)

Aging, honest Marshall Ogburn shoots an unarmed suspect in heat of a violent burglary of a Wells Fargo bank and is fired. Jim is sent to investigate the robbery and try to recover the stolen money. It may lead to more than the money.
Ep. 3: Alder Gulch (1957-04-08)

In Montana the only men getting rich are the outlaws stealing it off Wells Fargo stagecoaches and freight wagons. Hardie goes undercover to the town of Alder Gulch to try to infiltrate the outlaw gang operating in the area and.
Ep. 4: The Bounty (1957-04-15)

Jim is sent to Moose Creek, Canada to identify the corpse of an outlaw only he has seen but the man was killed with a shotgun blast to the face making him hard to identify. In addition, a woman there claims the body is that of her brother.
Ep. 5: A Time to Kill (1957-04-22)

A son of a dead man accused of robbing a Wells Fargo stage discovers an empty strong box in the attic of his farmhouse. The boy is still convinced that his father has been falsely accused and hopes Jim Hardie finds the real culprits.
Ep. 6: Shotgun Messenger (1957-05-07)

A rich gold strike in Pleasant Valley has the Wells Fargo Co. setting up a new stagecoach run linking the boom town with San Francisco. Hardie over the objections of the branch manager selects the son of a disgraced Wells Fargo employee.
Ep. 7: The Lynching (1957-05-13)

After meeting a Basque sheepherder new to the U.S. who speaks no English with his brother on a stage, Hardie learns on a return trip he is about to be lynched when a town's hard cases accuse him of abduction of a young girl.
Ep. 8: Renegade Raiders (1957-05-20)

Jim goes undercover as a trainee for Wells Fargo to try and find out who is supplying renegade Indians with the guns they are using on their murderous raids. Something is strange with the Cheyenne stealing money for which they have no use.
Ep. 9: Rio Grande (1957-06-03)

Hardie picks up a valuable shipment in Matamoras, Mexico and isn't pleased when a dude and beautiful woman insist on becoming passengers with him on the route he will use to deliver the money to Laredo fighting Mexican bandits all the way.
Ep. 10: Sam Bass (1957-06-10)

Sam Bass and his gang have a hideout in Texas so secluded that no lawman has ever located it. From this stronghold they strike repeatedly. Jim is ordered to infiltrate the gang so that he can learn where Bass's gang holes up between raids.
Ep. 11: The Hijackers (1957-06-17)

Hardie's vacation is cut short when a stage disappears crossing the Rocking Horse Hills badlands. He backtracks its route and finds it left with a wealthy man's son and the young man's fiancee who are missing but no money was on the stage.
Ep. 12: Stage to Nowhere (1957-06-24)

While transporting Dan Lingle to stand trial for robbery and murder, Hardie's stagecoach is attacked by the outlaw's gang. Among the passengers on the coach are Lingle's estranged wife and son and the outlaw determines to stand with them.
Ep. 13: Jesse James (1957-07-01)

When a Wells Fargo train shipment is robbed in Missouri, Jesse James and his gang are suspected. Jim Hardie disguises himself as a photographer and attempts to locate the money and the outlaws who killed his friend on the train.
Ep. 14: The Silver Bullets (1957-07-08)

In Rainbow's End, a mining town, Wells Fargo agent Roy Fulton was killed and $15,000 disappeared. Jim Hardie goes there to investigate. He goes undercover taking a job as a guard at the roulette table where Fulton was killed.