The Adventures of Champion Season 1

195526 Episodes
E1

The Saddle Tramp

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23 Sept 195530m

A down-on-luck prospector and spinner of tall tales helps Ricky capture a gang of rustlers.

E2

Crossroad Trail

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30 Sept 195527m

A young ranch hand nearly falls in with bad companions until Ricky is blinded from a fall sustained when fleeing the two men and needs his assistance.

E3

Salted Ground

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7 Oct 1955

Ricky and Sandy try to prevent a gullible general store owner from being fleeced by a couple of con men trying to sell a salted mine.

E4

The Medicine Man Mystery

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15 Oct 1955

Sandy investigates Ricky's wild tale of a medicine show operator who he saw stuff a small boy into a box. The Norths learn that Doc Terwilliger, the show's owner, is a ventriloquist who uses his dummy, Wilbur, to draw in crowds. A trio of jewel thieves find Wilbur fascinating as well, since their leader hid the gems from his latest heist in the dummy's stomach.

E5

Lost River

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22 Oct 1955

In a drought, Ricky and Sandy search for a legendary lost river. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Edna Holland.

E6

Renegade Stallion

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29 Oct 1955

The sheriff blames Champion for the trampling of a prospector. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Francis McDonald, William Tannen, Chris Alcaide, Ewing Mitchell, Rex Lease.

E7

Canyon of Wanted Men

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5 Nov 1955

A horse trader tries to dupe Sandy North. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, George J. Lewis.

E8

Challenge of the West

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8 Nov 1955

Ricky tries to prove that an outlaw's son wasn't responsible for a robbery at Sandy's ranch.

E9

The Outlaw's Secret

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15 Nov 1955

A thief confesses to a stage robbery---and implicates a banker. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Howard J. Negley, Leonard Penn.

E10

Hangman's Noose

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22 Nov 1955

When a crooked ranch foreman discovers oil on a neighboring spread, he plots with a businessman to grab the property by killing one rancher and framing the other for the crime. When Ricky stumbles upon a pair of oil-soaked boots near the murder scene, he becomes the target for the real killers.

E11

King of the Rodeo

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29 Nov 1955

Ricky and Sandy try to rescue Champ from a carnival owner who has captured the horse and uses him as an attraction, offering a large prize to anyone who can ride him.

E12

A Bugle for Ricky

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6 Dec 1955

Ricky soon finds a use for his new musical instrument - signaling for help using a cavalry bugle call when he is trapped in a barn by outlaws.

E13

The Stone Heart

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13 Dec 1955

Ricky tries to help a wounded prisoner who was forced to participate in a jail break and becomes the target of the rest of the gang of counterfeiters.

E14

The Deer Hunters

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20 Dec 1955

Ricky tries to rescue a fawn from a snare and incurs the trappers' wrath. The men are trying to provide meat for a railroad construction crew but are wiping out the native game in the process. Ricky, Sandy and an Eastern conservationist try to convince the railroad construction boss to find a new source of meat for his men.

E15

The Golden Hoax

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27 Dec 1955

When Champion discovers that a gang of stagecoach robbers stash their loot in an abandoned mineshaft, Ricky and Sandy try to apprehend the gang.

E16

Johnny, Hands Up

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3 Jan 1956

Ricky and Sandy come to the assistance of a young lawman who is being held responsible for the mistakes of his predecessor.

E17

Black Kachina

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10 Jan 1956

An evil medicine man holds the tribe's chief captive while plotting a new Indian war against the territory's ranchers.

E18

Mystery Mountain

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17 Jan 1956

When a naive Easterner is duped into performing gold assays for a swindler, Ricky and Sandy come to the rescue.

E19

Rails West

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26 Jan 1956

Ricky and Sandy persuade a railroad line to bypass the range where Champion and his remuda live, but removing prospectors who try to claim the same valley after stumbling onto what they think is gold-bearing rock proves a tougher nut to crack.

E20

The Real Unfriendly Ghost

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2 Feb 1956

Ricky and Sandy search for a missing politician in a ghost town and encounter one eccentric living resident and, apparently, a lively dead one, too.

E21

Andrew and the Deadly Double

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13 Feb 1956

Mary Jane, Ricky's young neighbor, is upset when she learns that Uncle Andrew, her newly appointed guardian, plans to sell the ranch she lives on and force her to move East with him. While Ricky and Sandy try to convince the Easterner of the virtues of ranch life, Mary Jane learns that the man is an impostor and is taken captive by a crooked land-grabbing lawyer.

E22

Bad Men of the Valley

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14 Feb 1956

An ex-convict trying to go straight and his pretty wife buy the ranch next to the North's. He has a chance meeting with his former gang members who threaten his wife if he doesn't cooperate with their bank robbing scheme. Ricky, Champ and Rebel help the young man bring his former confederates to justice.

E23

The Return of Red Cloud

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24 Feb 1956

When a Indian chief who has just returned to his tribe is framed for murder, Ricky and Sandy try to prove his innocence before this followers go on the warpath.

E24

Brand of the Lawless

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27 Feb 1956

An outlaw who has escaped from custody joins his old gang and plans his next robbery - a rich bank that's not too far away. With a posse pursuing them, the gang leader decides to pick up a grubstake from his law-abiding sister by blackmailing her.

E25

The Die-Hards

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3 Mar 1956

Rebel is hurt by a Porcupine and Ricky gets help for him from a new Southern Doctor who just arrived in town. However, persistent prejudices for Southerners that linger long after the civil war, engender hatred and turmoil for the Doctor and his Wife to endure until the prejudiced perpetrator's gunshot wound is treated by the doctor.

E26

Calhoun Rides Again

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3 Mar 1956

An old cowboy returns to visit Ricky and Sandy and help them round up a gang of desperadoes.