The Iron Horse

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  • Premiered: Sep 1966
  • Episodes: 47
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Unknown
  • Western

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Season 1
1x1
Joy Unconfined
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Air date
Sep 12, 1966
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1x2
The Dynamite Driver
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Air date
Sep 19, 1966
Calhoun is under contract to deliver a herd of cattle, but a ruthless opponent of his is determined that he not succeed, and dynamites the bridge that was on the main route.
1x3
High Devil
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Air date
Sep 26, 1966
Calhoun's attempts to acquire a right of way from a said-to-be merciless woman killer are complicated by the woman's demand for marriage as payment and the plans of a ruthless saloon owner to outmaneuver him.
1x4
Right Of Way Through Paradise
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Air date
Oct 03, 1966
Calhoun's plans to obtain a right of way through the town of Paradise are jeopardized by four Confederate former comrades-in-arms he has hired. The mens' rowdy behavior and total .. show full overview
1x5
Pride At The Bottom Of The Barrel
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Oct 10, 1966
When starving Apaches leave their reservation in search of food, and encounter a brutal Cavalry commander, Ben seeks a peaceful resolution.
1x6
Broken Gun
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Air date
Oct 17, 1966
A gunslinger-turned-traveling salesman seeks revenge against the bushwhacker who crippled his drawing hand.
1x7
Cougar Man
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Air date
Oct 24, 1966
Calhoun decides to go into the rugged Apache country hills for a fight to the death against Cougar Man, an Apache who has killed five of Calhoun's men and who believes himself cursed to kill as many men as possible until he himself is killed.
1x8
War Cloud
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Air date
Oct 31, 1966
Calhoun must transport an Army unit which has captured the renegade Sioux chief War Cloud and is bringing him to stand trial for numerous murders. This comes at a bad time for Calhoun, .. show full overview
1x9
No Wedding Bells For Tony
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Air date
Nov 07, 1966
Calhoun arrives in a small town to attend the wedding of an old friend. But he can find no trace of the man and everyone in town just wants Calhoun to either leave or be killed, .. show full overview
1x10
The Man From New Chicago
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Air date
Nov 14, 1966
After Dave is captured and forced to work in a town of outlaw forced laborers, Calhoun decides to infiltrate it in the hopes of getting him out, though he might not get out himself if his cover is blown.
1x11
Explosion At Waycrossing
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Air date
Nov 21, 1966
One of Ben's trains is robbed of $50,000 and the thief is to be hanged for the crime. Deciding the sentence is unjust, Ben goes to extraordinary means to save the man's life.
1x12
Through Ticket To Gunsight
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Air date
Nov 28, 1966
After a boiler on the train blows, Calhoun offers to refund all the passengers... but a headstrong woman is determined to continue on as planned to the mine her grandfather left to her. .. show full overview
1x13
Town Full Of Fear
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Air date
Dec 05, 1966
Ben needs the right of way for his railroad in a near ghost town. But a dark secret is being kept by the last of the citizens and they would rather Ben is killed than have it revealed.
1x14
Big Deal
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Air date
Dec 12, 1966
Despite Calhoun's best efforts at providing security while a millionaire industrialist and his wife are on the train, a group of outlaws too easily manages to break through and kidnap the man.
1x15
A Dozen Ways To Kill A Man
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Air date
Dec 19, 1966
Calhoun learns from Dave and Barnabas that all of the railroad's crew has been lured away by the promise of gold from a nearby mine. Actually, it is all part of a plot to lure Calhoun away in the hope of stealing the railroad.
1x16
Hellcat
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Air date
Dec 26, 1966
After Calhoun rescues a headstrong young Indian woman from two buffalo hunters who were abusing her, he asks her to be his scout through dangerous terrain on his way to meet with a Sioux .. show full overview
1x17
Welcome For The General
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Air date
Jan 02, 1967
As Calhoun rides on the train with General Sherman on his tour, Dave, Barnabas, and the entire population of one of the train's stops are taken prisoner by a former Confederate officer and his group, who plan to assassinate the General.
1x18
The Pembrooke Blood
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Air date
Jan 09, 1967
Ben Calhoun gets to end of beating line alive, then is invited for a last dinner before being shot. Ben wins his life back in a poker game, but Pembrooke reneges, and Ben runs away for his life and kills his pursuers.
1x19
Volcano Wagon
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Air date
Jan 16, 1967
A cave-in traps Nils, another crewman, and a little boy in a tunnel. While Dave and others work to dig them out, Calhoun and Barnabas rush to retrieve a batch of nitro to free them. But .. show full overview
1x20
The Bridge At Forty-Mile
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Air date
Jan 23, 1967
A man who sold lumber to Calhoun's railroad has disappeared, and his brother thus refuses to unload the lumber unless and until he is found to prove the sale was made. Suspecting two .. show full overview
1x21
Shadow Run
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Air date
Jan 30, 1967
At a stop in town, Calhoun is forced to shoot a man. Unaware of who he is, two men then hire him to kill Ben Calhoun. Calhoun decides to play along with the plot in the hope of discovering who is behind it.
1x22
Banner With A Strange Device
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Air date
Feb 06, 1967
While the train is stopped in the town of Banner, where Calhoun is making a major business deal with town founder Big Jim Banner, Barnabas is attacked by Banner's son, who thinks .. show full overview
1x23
Appointment With An Epitaph
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Air date
Feb 13, 1967
Six people from a stagecoach board Calhoun's train, all in fear for their lives after being followed for miles by a notorious gunman, who also boards the train. Calhoun puts him off, but .. show full overview
1x24
The Red Tornado
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Air date
Feb 20, 1967
Calhoun finds an eight-year-old Arapaho boy alive as the only survivor of a battle with the Shoshone. He wants to bring him back to his people, but the Shoshone want him brought to them, .. show full overview
1x25
Decision At Sundown
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Air date
Feb 27, 1967
With Calhoun away, the train is taken over by a group of ruthless outlaws who demand that Dave turn over a large fortune in bonds that is being delivered. Dave tells them that they will .. show full overview
1x26
The Passenger
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Air date
Mar 06, 1967
Calhoun is under orders from President Grant himself to safely transport Pierre Le Druc, an associate of Mexico's deposed puppet emperor Maximilian, to a meeting with his French .. show full overview
1x27
The Execution
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Air date
Mar 13, 1967
When Calhoun's railroad is given the contract to haul for a mining company, it effectively puts the owner of the old coach freight line, who had the contract before, out of business. The .. show full overview
1x28
Death By Triangulation
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Air date
Mar 20, 1967
Calhoun wins a high stakes poker game against outlaw gambler Dan Patrick. But Patrick says he does not have the money on him, and offers a beautiful young Spanish noblewoman as .. show full overview
1x29
The Golden Web
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Air date
Mar 27, 1967
Ben Calhoun is forced into a business transaction with conman Preston Webb. When he joins fellow grifter Helen Garth into convincing the locals of a machine that finds gold Calhoun and his friends endeavor to expose them.
1x30 Season finale
Sister Death
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Air date
Apr 03, 1967
Calhoun learns that he is transporting three female prisoners to Kansas City, and that one of them is the only witness against a ruthless mob boss being tried for murder. But the man has .. show full overview

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