About this season
Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territory about Stillwater. The program aired 50 one-hour episodes from September 29, 1960, to May 10, 1962. The first season was shot in black-and-white, the second in color. Co-starring with MacLane in the 1960–1961 season was Don Collier as deputy marshal Will Foreman. In the second season, MacLane left the program, and Collier was promoted to full marshal, with Bruce Yarnell joining the cast as deputy marshal Chalk Breeson. Jock Gaynor appeared in the first season as deputy Heck Martin, the on-screen nephew of Will Foreman. Slim Pickens appeared as "Slim" in the second season. Judy Lewis also appeared the second season as Connie Masters, an employee of the Wells Fargo office in Stillwater. The dog who appeared in Walt Disney's Old Yeller was also cast in The Outlaws. Others who appeared on the program on at least three occasions were Vic Morrow, Cliff Robertson, Pippa Scott, and Harry Townes. In addition, John Anderson, Edgar Buchanan, Jackie Coogan, Bruce Gordon, Robert Harland, Robert Lansing Cloris Leachman, Robert Karnes, Brian Keith, Larry Pennell, Chris Robinson, William Shatner, Ray Walston, Jack Warden, and David Wayne each appeared twice in the series.
Episodes (26)
1. Thirty a Month
Aired 29 September 1960 • 60 min
2. Ballad for a Badman
Aired 6 October 1960 • 60 min
3. Beat the Drum Slowly
Aired 20 October 1960 • 60 min
Two cowboys join a crooked judge who plans the robbery of a casino that cheated them out of nearly 3500 dollars, unaware the judge is very murderous.
4. The Rape of Red Sky
Aired 27 October 1960 • 60 min
5. Shorty
Aired 3 November 1960 • 60 min
6. Last Chance
Aired 10 November 1960 • 60 min
7. Starfall: Part 1
Aired 24 November 1960 • 60 min
8. Starfall: Part 2
Aired 1 December 1960 • 60 min
9. The Fortune Stone
Aired 15 December 1960 • 60 min
10. The Quiet Killer
Aired 29 December 1960 • 60 min
11. The Waiting Game
Aired 19 January 1961 • 60 min
12. The Daltons Must Die: Part 1
Aired 26 January 1961 • 60 min
13. The Daltons Must Die: Part 2
Aired 2 February 1961 • 60 min
14. Assassin
Aired 9 February 1961 • 60 min
15. Culley
Aired 16 February 1961 • 60 min
16. The Bill Doolin Story
Aired 2 March 1961 • 60 min
17. The Bell
Aired 9 March 1961 • 60 min
18. No More Pencils - No More Books
Aired 16 March 1961 • 60 min
19. Blind Spot
Aired 30 March 1961 • 60 min
20. Outrage at Pawnee Bend
Aired 6 April 1961 • 60 min
21. The Avenger
Aired 13 April 1961 • 60 min
22. The Sooner
Aired 27 April 1961 • 60 min
Impoverished farmer Gregor Zacod has been making extra money by hiding people who are on the run. When three men offer him more money to take them to where he hid one of their confederates in a robbery who kept the money for himself, Zacod refuses, so they force him to cooperate by kidnapping his wife.
23. Sam Bass
Aired 4 May 1961 • 60 min
24. The Brothers
Aired 11 May 1961 • 60 min
25. The Little Colonel
Aired 18 May 1961 • 60 min
26. Return to New March
Aired 25 May 1961 • 60 min