About this season
Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
Episodes (14)
1. Guns Across the Border
Aired 19 September 1952 • 30 min
A fast-shooting woman marshal interferes with the efforts of Hopalong Cassidy and his sidekick Red Connors to track down the bandits who stole a shipment of Army rifles.
2. The Knife of Carlos Valero
Aired 25 September 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy and Red hide an innocent young Mexican from a lynch mob and then go after the murderer who framed the boy.
3. The Trap
Aired 26 September 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy tries to help an ex-convict, hoping to go straight, who is being blackmailed into joining a plot to rob the Cattlemen's Association.
4. Alien Range
Aired 1 October 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy and Red combat a rancher and a crooked lawyer who are trying to drive immigrant settlers off their land.
5. The Feud
Aired 28 October 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy saves an innocent man from hanging and tracks down a murderer who's manipulating the feud between two rival ranchers.
6. Ghost Trails
Aired 28 October 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy tries to prove that a traveling preacher is behind a series of robberies by three men who have a habit of vanishing into thin air.
7. Marked Cards
Aired 28 October 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy uses an incriminating letter and a crooked card deck to hunt down the murderers of a small boy's parents.
8. Don Colorado
Aired 1 December 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy's efforts to save a young woman's mine from swindlers are complicated when Red Connors develops amnesia and claims to be a Spanish nobleman.
9. Black Waters
Aired 1 December 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy uses an intricately carved bracelet to trap some swindlers who are trying to cheat the Indians out of their oil-rich reservation lands.
10. Blind Encounter
Aired 1 December 1952 • 30 min
A blind Mexican woman asks Hoppy to help her fugitive son, who's been falsely accused of murder.
11. The Promised Land
Aired 10 December 1952 • 30 min
When Red Connors buys some arid land on the strength of a promised irrigation project, Hoppy investigates and learns that the promoters of the scheme are guilty of forgery, embezzlement and murder.
12. The Vanishing Herd
Aired 12 December 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy helps government agents search for a herd of 625 stolen horses intended for the Spanish-American War, but when he finds the animals, he has to save them from a grass fire.
13. Black Sheep
Aired 26 December 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy and Red try to settle a dispute between cattle ranchers and sheep grazers.
14. Lawless Legacy
Aired 31 December 1952 • 30 min
Hoppy helps a young man and woman who are framed as counterfeiters just before they are to claim their uncle's estate.