Chuck Connors
Captain Jason McCord
Series SeasonSeason 2 episodes1965
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Season 2
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Episode 130 min1965-09-12
Judge Not
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Episode 230 min1965-09-19
Now Join the Human Race
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Episode 330 min1965-09-26
Mightier than the Sword
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Episode 430 min1965-10-03
I Killed Jason McCord
A drifter robs McCord,stealing his horse. When he strolls into a saloon looking for trouble, the bandit winds up getting killed. After finding a letter addressed to Jason in the dead man's belonings, the town turns the young man who killed Jason McCord into a hero. That is, until the real Jason McCord shows up and wants his name back.
Episode 530 min1965-10-10
The Bar Sinister
McCord gets caught up in a land use battle revolvoing around the seemingly orphaned son of an old friend. When the boy's estranged Uncle shows up to take the boy and the land rights he now owns, it's up to McCord to get the boy's Indian housekeeper, Neela, to speak up about her connection to the boy and his father.
Episode 630 min1965-10-17
Seward's Folly
McCord is paid to survey the newly acquired US possession of Alaska, where he finds evidence of gold and oil in abundance. But others want to steal the report to monopolize the find for themselves.
Episode 730 min1965-10-24
Salute the Soldier Briefly
McCord saves a man who claims to have witnessed the massacre at Bitter Creek. The witness agrees to testify to the Army that McCord didn't run out on the battle but something about the story doesn't seem to ring true for Jason.
Episode 830 min1965-10-31
The Richest Man in Boot Hill
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Episode 930 min1965-11-07
Fill No Glass for Me (1)
Another flashback episode, McCord stops off at the grave of a friend and remembers the incident that brought them together. Both captured by Indians, the Chief makes the coward and the Black soldier fight to the death.
Episode 1030 min1965-11-14
Fill No Glass for Me (2)
Macon and McCord are forced to fight to the death.
Episode 1130 min1965-11-21
The Greastest Coward on Earth
McCord's skills as a fighter cause him to turn down an offer from P.T. Barnum. Barnum uses McCord's name and the massacre at Bitter Creek as the basis for his new Wild West Show, which irritates McCord. To get Barnum to drop the Bitter Creek reenactment, McCord engineers the merger between the Barnum & Bailey circuses.
Episode 1230 min1965-11-28
$10,000 for Durango
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Episode 1330 min1965-12-05
Romany Roundup (1)
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Episode 1430 min1965-12-12
Romany Roundup (2)
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Episode 1530 min1965-12-19
A Proud Town
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Episode 1630 min1966-01-02
The Golden Fleece
McCord is picked up by a group of soldiers who say they will try him not only for cowardice in the deadly Indian raid that killed everyone but him, but for complicity in planning it! However, the action is a ruse set up by President Ulysses S. Grant himself (Grant and McCord's father are longtime Army buddies and Grant believes in McCord).
Episode 1730 min1966-01-09
The Wolfers
McCord happens across a young Indian woman and a dead companion while traveling. He tries to help the women only to run afoul of a trio of wolf trappers, one of whom has taken the Indian as his own. Classic 60's Bruce Dern psycho performance.
Episode 1830 min1966-01-16
This Stage of Fools
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Episode 1930 min1966-01-23
A Destiny Which Made Us Brothers
McCord in awakened by a messenger from President Grant, bearing a bottle of whiskey. McCord remembers a chance meeting during the Civil War with the future President when they were both captured by Confederate soldiers.
Episode 2030 min1966-01-30
McCord's Way
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Episode 2130 min1966-02-06
Nice Day for a Hanging
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Episode 2230 min1966-02-13
Barbed Wire
A feud between two wealthy and powerful ranchers reaches a new level when one of them (McCord's friend) imports barbed wire from the East and plans to use it to fence in his herd. The other rancher, believing in the open range and gathering up as many unbranded "mavericks" as possible en route to market, sets up a stampede to wipe out the new fence, and who cares about the consequences. Sherry Jackson plays the young daughter of the friendly rancher who takes matters, literally, into her own hands with near-disastrous results.
Episode 2330 min1966-02-20
Yellow for Courage
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Episode 2430 min1966-02-27
Call to Glory (1)
Jason McCord is sent undercover by the President to gain information on a potential Presidential bid by General George Armstrong Custer. Because McCord and Custer are old Academy buddies, President Grant hopes that Jason can uncover information on a plot to incite an Indian war that will place Custer in the Oval Office.
Episode 2530 min1966-03-06
Call to Glory (2)
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Episode 2630 min1966-03-13
Call to Glory (3)
The crisis averted and Custer's political ambitions quelled for now, McCord and Custer part ways as Custer tells his friend he is on his way to a place called Little Big Horn.
Episode 2730 min1966-03-20
The Ghost of Murietta
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Episode 2830 min1966-03-27
The Assassins (1)
McCord returns to Washington once again only to find himself in the middle of a plot to assassinate the President. McCord discovers the plot only to wind up unconscious and captured by the assassins.
Episode 2930 min1966-04-03
The Assassins (2)
McCord escapes his captors after finding out that the President will be poisoned by a performer at a costume party that night. Jason runs into Ashley and knocks him out, taking his costume and invitation. McCord saves the President in front of most of Washington and his Grandfather, erasing most people's notion that he was ever a coward.
Episode 3030 min1966-04-10
Headed for Doomsday
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Episode 3130 min1966-04-17
Cowards Die Many Times
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Episode 3230 min1966-04-24
Kellie
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