The Adventures of Champion (1955)
Synopsis
The Adventures of Champion follow a wild stallion named Champion, who remarkably becomes friends with a young boy named Ricky North.The show followed the boy and the horse as they went on crazy adventures in the Southern West during the late 1800s.
First Air Date: 1955-09-23
Last Air Date: 1956-03-03
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 26
Networks: CBS
Top Cast
- Champion as Champion, the Wonder Horse
- Barry Curtis as Ricky North
- Jim Bannon as Sandy North
- Blaze as Rebel, the Dog
- Bob Woodward as Stage Driver
- Francis McDonald as Grubstake Smith
- Chris Alcaide as Rustler
- William Tannen as Rustler
- Myron Healey as Jake Webster
- Ewing Mitchell as Sheriff Tom Powers
Seasons
Season 1 (1955)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Saddle Tramp
A down-on-luck prospector and spinner of tall tales helps Ricky capture a gang of rustlers.
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Ep. 2: Crossroad Trail
A young ranch hand nearly falls in with bad companions until Ricky is blinded from a fall sustained when fleeing the two men and needs his assistance.
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Ep. 3: Salted Ground
Ricky and Sandy try to prevent a gullible general store owner from being fleeced by a couple of con men trying to sell a salted mine.
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Ep. 4: The Medicine Man Mystery
Sandy investigates Ricky's wild tale of a medicine show operator who he saw stuff a small boy into a box. The Norths learn that Doc Terwilliger, the show's owner, is a ventriloquist who uses his dummy, Wilbur, to draw in crowds. A trio of jewel thieves find Wilbur fascinating as well, since their leader hid the gems from his latest heist in the dummy's stomach.
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Ep. 5: Lost River
In a drought, Ricky and Sandy search for a legendary lost river. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Edna Holland.
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Ep. 6: Renegade Stallion
The sheriff blames Champion for the trampling of a prospector. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Francis McDonald, William Tannen, Chris Alcaide, Ewing Mitchell, Rex Lease.
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Ep. 7: Canyon of Wanted Men
A horse trader tries to dupe Sandy North. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, George J. Lewis.
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Ep. 8: Challenge of the West
Ricky tries to prove that an outlaw's son wasn't responsible for a robbery at Sandy's ranch.
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Ep. 9: The Outlaw's Secret
A thief confesses to a stage robbery---and implicates a banker. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Howard J. Negley, Leonard Penn.
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Ep. 10: Hangman's Noose
When a crooked ranch foreman discovers oil on a neighboring spread, he plots with a businessman to grab the property by killing one rancher and framing the other for the crime. When Ricky stumbles upon a pair of oil-soaked boots near the murder scene, he becomes the target for the real killers.
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Ep. 11: King of the Rodeo
Ricky and Sandy try to rescue Champ from a carnival owner who has captured the horse and uses him as an attraction, offering a large prize to anyone who can ride him.
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Ep. 12: A Bugle for Ricky
Ricky soon finds a use for his new musical instrument - signaling for help using a cavalry bugle call when he is trapped in a barn by outlaws.
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Ep. 13: The Stone Heart
Ricky tries to help a wounded prisoner who was forced to participate in a jail break and becomes the target of the rest of the gang of counterfeiters.
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Ep. 14: The Deer Hunters
Ricky tries to rescue a fawn from a snare and incurs the trappers' wrath. The men are trying to provide meat for a railroad construction crew but are wiping out the native game in the process. Ricky, Sandy and an Eastern conservationist try to convince the railroad construction boss to find a new source of meat for his men.
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Ep. 15: The Golden Hoax
When Champion discovers that a gang of stagecoach robbers stash their loot in an abandoned mineshaft, Ricky and Sandy try to apprehend the gang.
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Ep. 16: Johnny, Hands Up
Ricky and Sandy come to the assistance of a young lawman who is being held responsible for the mistakes of his predecessor.
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Ep. 17: Black Kachina
An evil medicine man holds the tribe's chief captive while plotting a new Indian war against the territory's ranchers.
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Ep. 18: Mystery Mountain
When a naive Easterner is duped into performing gold assays for a swindler, Ricky and Sandy come to the rescue.
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Ep. 19: Rails West
Ricky and Sandy persuade a railroad line to bypass the range where Champion and his remuda live, but removing prospectors who try to claim the same valley after stumbling onto what they think is gold-bearing rock proves a tougher nut to crack.
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Ep. 20: The Real Unfriendly Ghost
Ricky and Sandy search for a missing politician in a ghost town and encounter one eccentric living resident and, apparently, a lively dead one, too.
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Ep. 21: Andrew and the Deadly Double
Mary Jane, Ricky's young neighbor, is upset when she learns that Uncle Andrew, her newly appointed guardian, plans to sell the ranch she lives on and force her to move East with him. While Ricky and Sandy try to convince the Easterner of the virtues of ranch life, Mary Jane learns that the man is an impostor and is taken captive by a crooked land-grabbing lawyer.
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Ep. 22: Bad Men of the Valley
An ex-convict trying to go straight and his pretty wife buy the ranch next to the North's. He has a chance meeting with his former gang members who threaten his wife if he doesn't cooperate with their bank robbing scheme. Ricky, Champ and Rebel help the young man bring his former confederates to justice.
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Ep. 23: The Return of Red Cloud
When a Indian chief who has just returned to his tribe is framed for murder, Ricky and Sandy try to prove his innocence before this followers go on the warpath.
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Ep. 24: Brand of the Lawless
An outlaw who has escaped from custody joins his old gang and plans his next robbery - a rich bank that's not too far away. With a posse pursuing them, the gang leader decides to pick up a grubstake from his law-abiding sister by blackmailing her.
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Ep. 25: The Die-Hards
Rebel is hurt by a Porcupine and Ricky gets help for him from a new Southern Doctor who just arrived in town. However, persistent prejudices for Southerners that linger long after the civil war, engender hatred and turmoil for the Doctor and his Wife to endure until the prejudiced perpetrator's gunshot wound is treated by the doctor.
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Ep. 26: Calhoun Rides Again
An old cowboy returns to visit Ricky and Sandy and help them round up a gang of desperadoes.
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