The Adventures of Champion

Season 1

26 episodes · Sep 23, 1955

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  • S1E1

    The Saddle Tramp

    Sep 23, 195530m

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

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  • S1E2

    Crossroad Trail

    Sep 30, 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.

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  • S1E3

    Salted Ground

    Oct 7, 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.

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  • S1E4

    The Medicine Man Mystery

    Oct 15, 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.

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  • S1E5

    Lost River

    Oct 22, 1955

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

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  • S1E6

    Renegade Stallion

    Oct 29, 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.

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  • S1E7

    Canyon of Wanted Men

    Nov 5, 1955

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

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  • S1E8

    Challenge of the West

    Nov 8, 1955

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

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  • S1E9

    The Outlaw's Secret

    Nov 15, 1955

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

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  • S1E10

    Hangman's Noose

    Nov 22, 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.

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  • S1E11

    King of the Rodeo

    Nov 29, 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.

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  • S1E12

    A Bugle for Ricky

    Dec 6, 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.

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  • S1E13

    The Stone Heart

    Dec 13, 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.

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  • S1E14

    The Deer Hunters

    Dec 20, 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.

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  • S1E15

    The Golden Hoax

    Dec 27, 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.

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  • S1E16

    Johnny, Hands Up

    Jan 3, 1956

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

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  • S1E17

    Black Kachina

    Jan 10, 1956

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

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  • S1E18

    Mystery Mountain

    Jan 17, 1956

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

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  • S1E19

    Rails West

    Jan 26, 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.

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  • S1E20

    The Real Unfriendly Ghost

    Feb 2, 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.

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  • S1E21

    Andrew and the Deadly Double

    Feb 13, 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.

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  • S1E22

    Bad Men of the Valley

    Feb 14, 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.

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  • S1E23

    The Return of Red Cloud

    Feb 24, 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.

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  • S1E24

    Brand of the Lawless

    Feb 27, 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.

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  • S1E25

    The Die-Hards

    Mar 3, 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.

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  • S1E26

    Calhoun Rides Again

    Mar 3, 1956

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

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