The Wide Country

  • Premiered: Sep 1962
  • Episodes: 28
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Thursday at 19
  • Sport Western

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Season 1
1x1
The Royce Bennett Story
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 20, 1962
Royce Bennett's wife Ella is worried about him. Although he has been a champion rodeo performer for years, his recent work has not been up to par and he has become moody and difficult to live with.
1x2
A Guy For Clementine
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 27, 1962
Clementine, the estranged daughter of broken-down rodeo hand Barney Hamlin, shows up and invites her father to her wedding, which results in a fiery family reunion with ex-wife Sabina. .. show full overview
1x3
Journey Down a Dusty Road
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Air date
Oct 04, 1962
Mitch Guthrie learns a hard lesson in loyalty and sacrifice when he hitches a ride in a broken-down old pickup truck with a three-generation family of migrant farm workers.
1x4
Who Killed Eddie Gannon?
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Air date
Oct 11, 1962
Mitch Guthrie's Korean War unit reunites for the dedication of a monument to their fallen comrade Eddie Gannon. The reunion quickly devolves into a series of painful recollections of the night Eddie died. A compelling character study.
1x5
What Are Friends For?
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 18, 1962
Mitch agrees to testify in a hearing as a favor to ex-rodeo hand Barney, who is now a small town sheriff. But the town's power brokers have bigger plans, plotting to use Mitch as a pawn and a patsy in their political campaign.
1x6
Straitjacket For An Indian
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1962
The best laid plans of Mitch Guthrie go awry when he asks his Indian friend Bullriver to drive twenty wild broncs from the Indian reservation to the rodeo arena two states away.
1x7
Our Ernie Kills People
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 01, 1962
Andy is savagely beaten with a lug wrench by Ernie Stannard, the sixteen-year-old son of wealthy, doting parents. Is the boy a pathological criminal or a victim of society? Will justice or his parents' pull in the community prevail?
1x8
A Devil In The Chute
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Air date
Nov 08, 1962
En route to a rodeo, Mitch and Andy pick up an ex-con with a chip on his shoulder and a longstanding score to settle.
1x9
The Girl In The Sunshine Smile
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Air date
Nov 15, 1962
Andy falls hard for a carnival dancer, much to Mitch's displeasure. This leads to friction between the brothers, and causes Andy to feel the need to prove his independence by signing up to ride a bull in the rodeo.
1x10
Tears On A Painted Face
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 1962
A veteran rodeo clown is noticeably slowing down due to arthritis, leading to an injury when a bull knocks him over. Everyone is encouraging him to retire, but he refuses because he wants to continue to make money to support his spendthrift son.
1x11
The Bravest Man In The World
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Air date
Dec 06, 1962
Andy is impressed by the stories Warren Price tells him about all of his exploits, which have even been put into a book. But Mitch is highly skeptical of Price's claims and suspects that they are all made up.
1x12
Good Old Uncle Walt
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 1962
Mitch and Andy cross paths with their Uncle Walt, a curmudgeonly old con man running rigged shell games and selling shares in a phony uranium mine. Can a kindly widow's back rubs and oatmeal rehabilitate the reprobate grifter?
1x13
My Candle Burns At Both Ends
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 20, 1962
Both Mitch and Andy fall for the same young woman, but she falls more for Mitch, to Andy's disappointment. What neither brother knows is that her zest for life and adventure masks the fact that she is dying of leukemia.
1x14
Memory Of A Filly
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 1963
Mitch and Andy escort their friend Slim's kid sister to her far backwoods home town. Not so easy, as the girl has a mind of her own and is the one who really turns out to be in control of the trip.
1x15
Step Over The Sky
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Air date
Jan 10, 1963
Mitch's old mentor and idol Johnny Prewitt is now aged, crippled, and embittered. His one goal in life is to capture and break the wild stallion that crippled him. Mitch tries to help .. show full overview
1x16
A Cry From The Mountain
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Air date
Jan 17, 1963
After their plane crashes in a remote area, Andy must travel down a mountain to get help for a seriously injured Mitch.
1x17
Don't Cry For Johnny Devlin
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 24, 1963
Mitch is distraught with guilt after his bet with Johnny Devlin, a young rodeo rider from his home town, keeps escalating to higher stakes rides, eventually resulting in Johnny's death.
1x18
Speckle Bird
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 31, 1963
Wealthy rancher and one-time rodeo rider Lynn Horn has no sympathy or understanding of his sensitive son Gabriel's interest in drawing, and pushes him into doing something more manly. .. show full overview
1x19
The Man Who Ran Away
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 07, 1963
Andy is accused of hit-and-run after a little girl identifies him in a lineup as the one who hit her, but he insists that he is innocent, and Mitch tries to prove it.
1x20
Whose Hand At My Throat?
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 1963
A brilliant surgeon who fled Hungary for America finds it too difficult and time-consuming to obtain a license to practice here, so he has been working as a veterinarian instead. But he .. show full overview
1x21
The Judas Goat
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Air date
Feb 21, 1963
A friend of Mitch, a popular country singer, is suggested by his wife as the ideal gubernatorial candidate whom a newspaper editor is looking for to defeat the crooked incumbent. But .. show full overview
1x22
To Cindy, With Love
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Air date
Feb 28, 1963
When young Cindy Hopkins' beloved horse breaks her leg, the vet tells her that she must be put down, but Cindy refuses to accept it. Another vet, an old friend of Mitch and Andy, thinks .. show full overview
1x23
The Quest for Jacob Blaufus
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Air date
Mar 07, 1963
Mitch and Andy become involved in the dispute between an Amish farmer and his son. The son wants to read books on many subjects, such as dinosaurs and rockets, but his father strongly .. show full overview
1x24
Farewell to Margarita
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 21, 1963
Delirious after being hit by a car, Mitch rides a bus deep into Mexico, where he is taken in by a beautiful young Mexican woman. She tells him she works as a secretary, but he learns .. show full overview
1x25
The Girl From Nob Hill
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Air date
Mar 28, 1963
Mitch develops an attraction for a socialite who he first met when she picked him out on her scavenger hunt when she was looking for a cowboy, though Andy tries to warn him not to get involved with her.
1x26
Yanqui, Go Home!
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 04, 1963
Mitch and Andy pick up Carlos Rodriguez and his girlfriend and take them back to their hometown, where a charity rodeo is planned in which the young man hopes to earn some money so he .. show full overview
1x27
The Lucky Punch
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 18, 1963
Mitch knocks out a man with a lucky punch in a barroom brawl, only to then learn that the man in Tom Kidwell, a contender for world heavyweight champion. The good-hearted Tom is totally .. show full overview
1x28 Show finale
The Care and Handling of Tigers
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 25, 1963
While driving through a town Mitch and Andy almost hit a boy who is running away from his classmates. Soon they learn why: the boy is the son of the manager of the mill which the town .. show full overview

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