Black Saddle

Season 1

After his brothers are killed in a shootout, a gunfighter decides to hang up his guns and uphold the law by becoming a lawyer.

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20 Episodes

Client: Travers
E1
Client: TraversEx-gunfighter Clay Culhane plans to represent his clients with law books than as a hired gun. Culhane arrives in Latigo to argue his first case and learns that Pardee, the local land baron, is forcing the town's residents to leave for more friendly places because they wouldn't name the man who killed his drunken son in a fair fight. Clay quickly learns that his fists and pistols are better weapons when fighting Pardee and his henchmen.
Client: Meade
E2
Client: MeadeA family argument that ends in a fight results in a man being charged with murder. He asks Clay to represent him.
Client: McQueen
E3
Client: McQueenAn old friend of Clay's gets in touch with him, and tells him that he's lost his ranch to a crooked foreman. He asks Clay's help in getting it back.
Client: Dawes
E4
Client: DawesWealthy Ben Dawes sent for a mail-order bride, but instead of being married and happy he wound up married and dead. His brother hires Clay to check out Ben's new "wife", who is about to inherit all of Ben's considerable estate.
Client: Starkey
E5
Client: StarkeyJune Starkey arrives in town to ask Culhane to find her missing husband.
Client: Tagger
E6
Client: TaggerRoy Tagger is released from prison after serving many years for a murder he says he didn't commit. He asks Clay for help in clearing his name.
Client: Robinson
E7
Client: RobinsonYoung Wayne Robinson and his friends "celebrate" his birthday by going to the saloon for his first glass of whiskey., and winds up in a fight at the saloon because a loudmouth ridicules his religious beliefs. When Wayne's uncle--a fanatically religious man who has forbidden Wayne from drinking or going near the saloon--finds out what happened, he gives Wayne a public whipping in the middle of town. Later the loudmouth who started the brawl is found murdered, and Gib arrests Wayne for it. Clay doesn't believe Wayne did it and sets out to clear him before he's hanged for the murder.
Client: Martinez
E8
Client: MartinezCulhane is hired to fight the extradition of Juan Martinez whom murderous lawmen in the employ of the current regime turn up in Latigo with papers to arrest and return the Mexican revolutionary to return to his homeland.
Client: Northrup
E9
Client: NorthrupTy Northrup, ex-lawman turned renegade, and his wife arrive in Latigo, but Marshal Gib Scott orders them out of town. Mrs. Northrup is unable to travel, and Clay Culhane tries to talk Scott into allowing them to stay until the woman is well enought to move on.
Client: Steele
E10
Client: SteeleLawyer Clay Culhane agrees to defend Bill Steele, one of three men being held by Marshal Gib Scott for robbery.
Client: Mowery
E11
Client: MoweryGrat Mowery, a notorious gunfighter, is dying and asks Clay's help in writing his will, as he has a considerable sum of money to leave to his heirs. Culhana has no idea, however, that Mowery's "estate" consists of money stolen in a bank robbery in Durango.
Client: Braun
E12
Client: BraunA recluse hires Clay Culhane to obtain an injunction keeping trespassers off his property. While attending to this matter, the lawyer is startled by an encounter with a famous general who is believed to have died heroically.
Client: Banks
E13
Client: BanksYoung Dick Banks is fascinated by guns, despite his father's opposition to them. Clay, seeing that the boy's growing interest in guns parallels his own start as a professional gunfighter, takes the boy under his wing.
Client: Jessup
E14
Client: JessupLon Jessup has been a trustworthy citizen in Latigo for many years, but now he was being tried for bank robbery and murder. Clay's able to get him off, but is surprised when his wife comes into town claiming Lon lied in court and tried to kill her when she wanted a divorce.
Client: Frome
E15
Client: FromeA man who never came home from the Civil War and was declared legally dead suddenly shows up back in town. He finds that his wife has remarried and is in possession of everything he owns. He hires Clay to locate a particular legal document that will restore to him both his possessions and his wife.
Client: Nelson
E16
Client: NelsonClay comes upon two men engaged in a terrific brawl. After he separates them, he learns that each claims he is a lawman and that the other is a notorious outlaw who is his prisoner. Later, in town, he learns that one of the men is Nora's brother-in-law.
Client: Neal Adams
E17
Client: Neal AdamsNeal Adams, an old friend of Clay's, shows up injured and pursued by a bounty hunter for a crime Neal says he didn't commit. He asks Clay for help in proving him innocent of the crime before the bounty hunter finds him and kills him.
Client: Brand
E18
Client: BrandBrand rides into town and kills a man he says was trying to kill him. Clay and Nora both say he killed in self-defense, so he's let off but ordered out of town by sundown - six o'clock. Clay proceeds to try to talk Marshal Scott out of having a showdown with him because he knows the Marshal is too slow. But the Marshal is stubborn and orders Clay to stay out of his business. But when Brand stats treating others unkindly.
Client: Reynolds
E19
Client: ReynoldsJealousy causes misfortune between two females and one greedy gambler.
Client: Vardon
E20
Client: VardonFrank Vardon, a disgruntled teller at the Latigo Bank, gets together with his friend Roy Corey and plans a fake hold-up of the bank, in which Roy will be the bank robber and Frank will hand over all the money. At the last minute, however, Frank backs out, and when Roy insists on going through with the plan, Frank pulls out a gun and fires at him. Wounded, Roy stumbles outside where he sees Clay and shoots at him, forcing Clay to fire back. As he lay dying, Roy exposes his and Frank's scheme. Marshal Scott arrests Frank, but Clay decides to defend him.