
Laredo
★ 6.4 · 1965 · 60m · Western
Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo, Texas. The program was produced by Universal Television. The pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBC's The Virginian under the title, "We've Lost a Train". It was released theatrically in 1969 under the title Backtrack. Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas.
Episodes
24. It's the End of the Road, StanleyReese pretends to be a cattle buyer at Martha Tuforth's way station where outlaws Jack Hanks, Paco and Crazy John Holden are awaiting the arrival of Benny Murphy, who has their money to travel to Mexico with. Crazy John recognizes Reese as a ranger and they take him prisoner. Councilman Willburn and his wife Letty arrive shortly after and also find themselves hostages. Paco spends his time romancing Letty Willburn and Maryanne, Martha Tuforth's niece. Joe shows up disguised as a traveling salesman named Stanley. He is soon found out to be a ranger and joins Reese, tied to a chair. He tells Reese and the outlaws that Benny Murphy has been captured. Reese and Joe trick Crazy John into challenging Paco to draw and Paco kills him. Paco picks young Maryanne as the hostage to take with them along with the rangers when they leave. Martha breaks a glass and hands a broken piece to Joe who manages to cut through his ropes. A fist ensues and Reese and Joe capture the outlaws.▶25. A Very Small AssignmentReese has a toothache and is sent to retrieve the overdue school teacher from the train station at Gutter's Gulch. While there Reese brags that he is there to pick up the most important man ever to come to Laredo, which is overheard by recently released convict Anson Jones, a man Reese helped put behind bars. Pringle comes walking into the station as he got off the train when it made a brief stop and was left behind. Pringle has never ridden a horse so Reese has to time him to his mount. Jones and his gang try to kidnap Pringle unsuccessfully. The next day Reese's tooth is worse and he decides to take a detour to Doc Severnson's but walks into the Jones Gang's hideout in doing so. The Doc treats Jones bullet wound, inflicted by Reese. Reese, Doc Severnson and Pringle overcome the bandits but Severnson cannot pull Reese's tooth as his arm was broken in the fight against the outlaws. During the fight Reese is hit in the cheek. When he returns with Pringle the toothache is gone a▶26. Quarter Past ElevenReese decides to throw a party for Captain Parmalee's fourth anniversary with Company B. Chad and Joe are sent after robbers to recover Press Wasco's money and to unofficially pick up whiskey for the party. In the meantime Reese is busy trying to get a cake baked. The cook at the Laredo Saloon quit and left town so Reese ends up baking the cake with a little help from Joe. Gunslinger Mike Kelly shows up in town and challenges Parmalee to a gunfight at a quarter past eleven. Parmalee remembers Kelly's face and eventually discovers Kelly's real name is Fallon, a revenge minded man from his past. Reese, Chad and Joe convince Kelly they will gun him down from behind if he draws on the Captain. Kelly and Parmalee face each other but Kelly backs off as he hears each of the Rangers guns being cocked behind him. Parmalee isn't quite sure why Kelly backed off and everyone celebrates his anniversary, although Reese's party is a day early, with the whiskey and the cake Reese baked that re▶27. The Deadliest Kid in the WestLance Mabry joined a gang of war buddies for a train robbery and is now on the run with the money. He hides out at his farm and learns his young daughter Missy is there, having run away from boarding school. Reese, Chad and Joe arrive and are all slightly injured or kept at bay by Missy, who thinks they are the outlaw gang after her father. The Rangers are soon won over by Missy and they try to work out a way to avoid her finding out her dad is a train robber. They concoct a story of how they killed the outlaw gang and recovered the stolen loot. During the telling of this story to Captain Parmalee it is also conveyed that Mabry died fighting the outlaw gang. Unknown to the Rangers Mabry has already turned himself in to Parmalee, knowing it was best for himself and Missy. Reese, Chad and Joe receive a week of stable duty.▶28. Sound of TerrorMurders begin occurring the day Shamus McCloud arrives in town. At first the murder of Doctor Ingram's dog seems to be possible revenge by Shamus McCloud for the death of his brother at the doctor's hands. More murders take place and McCloud is blamed, the believed reason being he is taking revenge on the town too. The Rangers investigate other people who came to town the same day, such as Prof. Smythe and his traveling Museum of Horrors. One of the victims is a gambler that Joe owed money to so even he falls under suspicion. Shamus finally asks to be put in jail so he'll be cleared when the next murder happens. While he is playing cards with Chad and Joe in the jail the three of them figure out the killer is someone who can't tolerate high-pitched noise.▶29. The Would-Be Gentleman of LaredoReese ""saves"" three con artists from robbers and Don Miguel's ""dying"" wish is that Reese have 10% of his estate. It turns out the estate is the entire city of Laredo and the surrounding county, which Don Carlos de Laredo and his ""sister"" Dona Dolores are claiming the right to with a recently discovered Mexican land grant. Don Carlos makes arrangements for the former landowners to pay to keep their land while Reese spends time with Dona Dolores. His new role as a gentleman prompts Chad and Joe to put Reese through a Pollyanna transformation. Captain Parmalee suspects something is wrong and secretly ""borrows"" the land grant to have it checked out.▶30. A Taste of MoneyReese's inventor friend Major John Cane is called upon to open a locked bank vault. Outlaw Ezekiel Fry sees him do it and tricks him into helping his gang rob the Porfirio Bank. Reese, Chad and Joe are sent to Porfirio to investigate the robbery. Realizing he's been deceived the Major refuses to help rob the Cattleman's Exchange until Fry and his gang kidnap Reese and threaten to harm him. Then Cane invents a precision plan that requires the outlaws to practice their parts in a barn. Chad and Joe follow a dog that has hung around them since they arrived in Porfirio, hoping it will lead them to Reese. Major Cane cuts Reese lose while the outlaws are practicing the robbery and the fight begins just as Chad, Joe and the dog arrive.









