Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans — Season 1

Aired 3 April 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye returns to his home.

Aired 10 April 1957 • 30 min

A group of settlers from England head for the wilderness guided by two malevolent men posing as scouts. In the depths of the Huron territory they find themselves at the mercy of two men. Hawkeye and Chingachgook, suspicious when the settlers are not heard from, let out to find them.

Aired 17 April 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook call on Ben Franklin for help to prevent a dictator from taking over a frontier town.

Aired 24 April 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook come to the aid of a young Indian doctor who attempts to practice in an intolerant town.

Aired 1 May 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook learn that the Delaware, an Indian tribe that is close to Chingachgook, are being framed by white men for looting, pillaging and murder. They race to the nearest fort to report to the commandant.

Aired 8 May 1957 • 30 min

Tom Morgan flees from a Huron attack on Morgansboro, thinking his father, Will, is dead. But Will is rescued by Hawkeye and Chingachgook-and labels Tom as a coward.

Aired 15 May 1957 • 30 min

Sent to investigate a complaint that Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys are committing crime verging on treason, Hawkeye and Chingachgook discover that the local sheriff and tax collector are victimising local settlers.

Aired 22 May 1957 • 30 min

Weird incidents terrorize a frontier town. in spite of Hawkeye's efforts to disprove the witch stories, strange murders increase the settlers' horror.

Aired 29 May 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook find, Wenatchgo, an old medicine man of the Conestoga tribe wandering in the wilderness. He tells them he has been driven out by Shenahbe, an ambitious young brave.

Aired 5 June 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook are given authority to investigate the claims that servants are being sold into bondage. They learn that an unscrupulous farmer is behind the illegal transactions.

Aired 12 June 1957 • 30 min

After rescuing an elderly white woman from the Indian warriors, Hawkeye and Chingachgook learn that she has been a slave since her husband was killed, 18 years previous.

Aired 19 June 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook try to help a young Indian boy who has been raised by the white man. They learn that the youngster is really the son of a Cree chief.

Aired 26 June 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook are assigned to investigate a series of robberies of Army payrolls.

Aired 3 July 1957 • 30 min

McKenzie, an unscrupulous fur trader, organises the Huron tribes to destroy a nearby settlement where a rival trader has taken away his business.

Aired 10 July 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye tries to help his friend, the chief of the Tuscarora tribe, who is threatened with starvation during a harsh winter.

Aired 17 July 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook are taken prisoners by a band of warriors, and learn they have been accused of wounding a young brave.

Aired 24 July 1957 • 30 min

A kindly man with the mentality of a child is forced to join a gang of marauding desperados.

Aired 31 July 1957 • 30 min

A leader of a group of settlers, ignores warnings and lead his people into hostile Huron territory.

Aired 7 August 1957 • 30 min

A fierce, degenerate brave of the Tuscarora tribe plots to overthrow Chief Tawenduma. Hawkeye and Chingachgook come onto the scene in time to save the Chief from ambush, but can they save his honor?

Aired 14 August 1957 • 30 min

An unscrupulous girl uses trickery to anger the Iroquois tribe into war against the whites.

Aired 21 August 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook are called upon to investigate a problem between the Indians and the army.

Aired 28 August 1957 • 30 min

A young man on his way to be married finds that his fiancee and her family have been massacred, apparaently by marrauding Huron braves.

Aired 4 September 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook join a pirate band to rescue two women.

Aired 11 September 1957 • 30 min

Attempting to prove that Chief Black Wolf and his Indians are innocent of attacking settlers in violation of a peace treaty, Hawkeye and Chingachgook realise that a military scout is responsible for the disturbances.

Aired 18 September 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook save a pretty girl and a young prospector from angry trappers who feel that the newcomers are threatening their hunting and trapping preserves.

Aired 25 September 1957 • 30 min

When a party of women insist on taking a legendary pass to join their husbands, Hawkeye attempts to save them from treachery.

Aired 2 October 1957 • 30 min

A young lieutenant comes home to find his boyhood friend an enemy.

Aired 9 October 1957 • 30 min

Victor LaSalle and two other greedy fortune hunters hire Hawkeye and Chingachgook to help them find the rumoured treasure of the great explorer Sieur de LaSalle. When Hawkeye learns that the location is in the heart of a Dakota burial ground, he tries to stop them.

Aired 16 October 1957 • 30 min

While taking a lietenant accused of violating an Indian treaty to trial, Hawkeye and Chingachgook stop at an Indian village

Aired 23 October 1957 • 30 min

A gang of desperadoes raid trappers and isolated settlers wearing special masks, so their raids will be blamed on a certain Indian tribe.

Aired 30 October 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook, on the trail of the notorious renegade Simon Girty, defy a warning that Morristown is barred to all newcomers because of the Black Plague and enter the town secretly.

Aired 6 November 1957 • 30 min

A young lieutenant has sworn vengeance against all Shawnee Indians because his parents were murdered by the war chief of of the tribe. When Nangus, a Shawnee chief, is killed during a peace pow-wow, the lieutenant is blamed. Hawkeye and Chingachcook believe that he is innocent.

Aired 13 November 1957 • 30 min

When two thieves masquerade as Hawkeye and Chingachgook, the pathfinder and his friend have ten days to clear their names.

Aired 20 November 1957 • 30 min

Hawkeye and Chingachgook are commisioned by the Attorney-General to guide an orphaned boy, Greg, heir to a silver mine, to the frontier home of his aunt and uncle whom he has never seen. But just outside the settlement an attempt is made on the boy's life.

Aired 27 November 1957 • 30 min

A young couple who own a trading post is terrorized by Millard Cressing, Who claims to own the territory by Royal Grant.

Aired 4 December 1957 • 30 min

Angry settlers blame gunsmith Eben Cotton and his daughter Beth for illegally selling rifles to the Ojibwas.

Aired 11 December 1957 • 30 min

Arriving in a frontier town to deliver type from Benjamin Franklin to printer Nathan Peale, Hawkeye and Chingachgook find themselves involved in the midst of a battle for freedom of the press. Peale is arrested for the murder of his brother-in-law.

Aired 18 December 1957 • 30 min

An unscrupulous medicine man, Redwing, of the Turtle tribe, administers a drug to Snowbird, daughter of Chief Killbuck, to discredit Hawkeye and all white men in the eyes of his people. He accuses Hawkeye of casting an evil spell on the little girl.

Aired 25 December 1957 • 30 min

A young army lietenant whose family has been wiped out by Indians has developed a fanatical hatred of the Red Man. He attempts to kill or injure any Indian who crosses his path. When Hawkeye and Chingachgook enter the territory they hear of the Indians anger and their desire for revenge that can only lead to full scale war.