About this season
The Dakotas is an ABC/Warner Brothers western television series starring Larry Ward and featuring Jack Elam broadcast during 1963. The short-lived program is considered a spin-off of Clint Walker's Cheyenne. The Dakotas is perhaps most notable for the fact that it was cancelled one week after heavy viewer protest over an objectionable scene.
Episodes (19)
1. Return To Drydock
Aired 7 January 1963 • 60 min
Deputy J.D.Smith was run out of town when he was a gunfighter. He had only one friend stand behind him & now that man has been murdered. J.D. intends to find out who & why.
2. Red Sky Over Bismarck
Aired 14 January 1963 • 60 min
Marshal Ragan becomes involved with a woman and her half breed son. The woman asks that he help as she is afraid of the local justive of the peace.
3. Mutiny At Fort Mercy
Aired 21 January 1963 • 60 min
The deputies return a escapee to Fort Mercy. It is run by a brutal Captain Ridgeway. After inhumane treatment a full scale riot erupts.
4. Trouble At French Creek
Aired 28 January 1963 • 60 min
A woman mineowner drives her employees at work beyond their endurance. Things get so bad that the men walk out. The woman hires gunslingers to control the men. Marshal Ragan is called in to put things under control.
5. Thunder In Pleasant Valley
Aired 4 February 1963 • 60 min
A rancher's daughter has been kidnapped & held for ransom. There is a conflict between Marshal Ragan who wants to catch the kidnappers & the rancher who only wants his daughter back.
6. Crisis At High Banjo
Aired 11 February 1963 • 60 min
Marshal Ragan's wife had been murdered several years ago. He runs across Johnny Fox who admits he was paid to do it. A conflict arises in the Marshal who wants to kill Fox & a part of him who wants to find why she was murdered.
7. Requiem At Dancer's Hill
Aired 18 February 1963 • 60 min
Morgan Jackson, the town's bad boy has been killed by a posse. He was accused of murdering Lucy Christian .Hatred of the boy is led by Ross Kendrick.Dark family secrets lead to a astonishing conclusion.
8. Fargo
Aired 25 February 1963 • 60 min
Deputy J.D. Smith has a big problem. Local sheriff has been running his small hometown like a king.Merchants & citizens alike must submit to his ruthless demands & tribute.
9. Incident At Rapid City
Aired 4 March 1963 • 60 min
It appears that lloyd Mitchell has given the calvary spoiled food & poisoned some of them. The calvary demands that deputy Del Stark turn the man over to them. But it appears to Del that the calvary men he sees are renegades or deserters.
10. Justice At Eagle's Nest
Aired 11 March 1963 • 60 min
Classic case of farmers vs the cattlemen.Farmers near Eagle's Nest bring in Judge Daniel Harvey to enforce the law,their version. As it looks like war will ensue. Marshal Ragan decided to investigate the old judge.
11. Walk Through The Badlands
Aired 18 March 1963 • 60 min
Story of Marshal Ragan & his deputies, a group of outlaws,some calvalry men all meet together in the wilderness. Who's chasing who?
12. Trial At Grand Forks
Aired 25 March 1963 • 60 min
A German Countess is sentenced to death for killing her husband in a trial at Grand Forks. Marshal Ragan tries to find out why the woman would not defend herself at the trial. But he has little time before the execution.
13. Reformation At Big Nose Butte
Aired 1 April 1963 • 60 min
Deputy J.D.Smith once was a outlaw.His former leader is now free out of prison & wants to start the gang back up. He is summoned to go back to the old ways.
14. One Day In Vermillion
Aired 8 April 1963 • 60 min
A Sioux chief is brought to Vermillion by Marshal Ragan for the signing of a peace treaty. But it is not peace that is coming their way!.
15. Terror At Heart River
Aired 5 April 1963 • 60 min
The railroad is coming thru Heart River. But the railroad has abandoned the workers with no money or food.As the workers come into town it is apparent the people are not going to welcome them & there is going to be real trouble
16. The Chooser Of The Slain
Aired 22 April 1963 • 60 min
Del & Vance admit killing a man in self defense but no one believes them. Marshal Ragan must find the only witness to the shooting or the two deputies are to be hanged.
17. Feud At Snake River
Aired 29 April 1963 • 60 min
Two brothers are aiming to become wealthy enterprizers.But when brother Simon starts running farmers off their land he & his brother George become apposed to one another. Marshal Ragan tries to rally the rest of the farmers against Simon.
18. Sanctuary At Crystal Springs
Aired 6 May 1963 • 60 min
Del & D.J. kill two Barton brothers as they take over a church & hold the pastor hostage. A third brother says he will kill the pastor if Del & D.J. don't turn themselves into him.
19. A Nice Girl From Goliath
Aired 13 May 1963 • 60 min
A girl's lying testimony sends a man to be hanged.Now she has learned the man's brother is coming after her & ask's Del for protection.