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196360 minEnded

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Network:ABC

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S01E26 - "The Day of the Reckoning"

Aired on Mar 15, 1964, 5:00 PM

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A young boy (Kurt Russell) and his con man father (Dan O'Herlihy) travel west on a wagon train in the 1840s. The series aired for one season on ABC in 1963-64. This new hour-long dramatic series is based on Robert Lewis Taylor's Pulitzer Prize novel. It's about the Kentucky-to-California journey undertaken by SardĂ­us McPheeters and his 12-year-old son Jaimie during the gold rush days of 1849.

Details

Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
September 15, 1963
Ended
March 15, 1964

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Episodes (1 Season · 26 Episodes)

The Day of Leaving

Doc and Jaimie try to get out of Paducah and away from their creditors, but thugs capture the boy and hold him for ransom. 

Sep 15, 1963

The Day of the First Trail

New passengers join Doc and Jaimie on the wagon train. 

Sep 22, 1963

The Day of the First Suitor

Jenny (Donna Anderson) faces a problem: two men she hardly knows think she'd make a perfect wife.

Sep 29, 1963

The Day of the Golden Fleece

Oct 6, 1963

The Day of the Last Bugle

The Beaver Company comes across a cavalry officer whose men have been killed by the Kiowa Indians.

Oct 13, 1963

60 min

The Day of the Skinners

Oct 20, 1963

The Day of the Taboo Man

When Jaimie finds an old Indian staked out and left for dead, Doc insists on bringing him in and trying to save his life, though Coulter warns him that interfering with tribal custom by doing so could put the lives of everyone on the wagon train at risk.

Oct 26, 1963

The Day of the Giants

Nov 3, 1963

The Day of the Long Night

Jaimie and a young girl befriend a big, simple-minded man named Angus, who is traveling alone with his sister. Unfortunately Angus, though gentle with children and animals, has a problem controlling his temper and does not know his own strength.

Nov 10, 1963

The Day of the Killer

Jaimie finds a man with a bullet wound, and the wagon takes him in, though he is still being hunted by the bandits who shot him.

Nov 17, 1963

The Day of the Flying Dutchman

In a lighter episode, Jaimie, stricken with a high fever due to chicken pox, conjures up the story of a sea captain and his converted ship traveling through the West, guided by only the stars at night and his wife's astrological expertise. Unfortunately the captain makes a deal with the unscrupulous Murrel and his cohort Shep which could get him into deep trouble---with the Indians as well as the crooks. Buck Coulter appears for the last time here despite his fate in the previous episode.

Dec 1, 1963

The Day of the Homeless

When Jaimie encounters a runaway boy, they are both captured and taken to a run-down orphanage where all the boys are shackled together, beaten, and forced to work the fields. Only the female indentured servant of the ruthless headmaster is able to get to Doc and Linc and try to let them know what is going on. Linc Murdock becomes the new wagon train guide beginning with this episode.

Dec 8, 1963

60 min

The Day of the Misfits

A father kidnaps Doc to tend his pregnant daughter (Mariette Hartley) and perhaps marry her. A group of miners come to Doc with gold nuggets and offer to show him the location of the mine if he will attend to the pregnant daughter of the camp's leader. When he hesitates, their guns give him no choice in the matter. Jaimie secretly follows him to the camp, where Doc learns that the young woman is four months from giving birth, and that the miners want him to stay with her for at least that long

Dec 15, 1963

The Day of the Pawnees: Part One

Indians capture Jaimie (Kurt Russell), intending to trade him for horses. 

Dec 22, 1963

The Day of the Pawnees: Part Two

Dec 29, 1963

The Day of the Toll Takers

Jan 5, 1964

The Day of the Wizard

A traveling fortune teller plans to pass off Jaimie as the long-missing son of a couple who is offering a large reward for his return. To do this, he convinces Jaimie that he is destined to accidentally kill his own father unless he comes away with him and participates in the fraud.

Jan 12, 1964

60 min

The Day of the Search

Jaimie and Linc come across a bounty hunter and his prisoner, a mountain man who he is bringing in to hang. The mountain man talks Jaimie into releasing him with a tall tale of a fortune in gold over the hill.

Jan 19, 1964

60 min

The Day of the Haunted Trail

Beaver Compary has some problems: There's no pass through the mountains, threre's no water and they've encountered a 10-foot ghost that looks like a monk. Doc and Jaimie find a diary in an old wrecked stagecoach, which gives apparent instructions about how to find the way out of the dry valley in which the wagon train is trapped with Linc way overdue to return. Then Jaimie decides to go looking for the mysterious robed figure that is occasionally seen up on the hill. Jaimie, and Doc following after him, discover an amazing secret.

Jan 26, 1964

60 min

The Day of the Tin Trumpet

Three new passengers join the wagon train: a drunken blowhard, a killer posing as a marshal and a wounded traveler. Seeing an old derelict being harassed by thugs, Doc and Jaimie invite the man to join them on the wagon train. The old codger interests Jaimie and the other kids with his stories about past adventures on the frontier. But he doesn't tell anyone that he recognizes the "U.S. Marshal" who stops by with his wounded prisoner as a killer outlaw, because the outlaw knows a secret about the old man that he'd rather not have revealed as well.

Feb 2, 1964

60 min

The Day of the Lame Duck

Jaimie (Kurt Russell) meets political has-been Piggy Trewblood---in the act of committing suicide. When Jaimie stops Piggy Trewblood from hanging himself, he doesn't realize the mess that it all leads to. Piggy hopes to buy back his wife, Zoe Pigalle, who he gambled away for 700 dollars. But his efforts to do this land himself, Linc, and Doc in jail, and Jaimie being held as ransom for the money.

Feb 9, 1964

60 min

The Day of the Picnic

Jaimie tells a friend about an early incident on the trip—when Billy Slocum was to be hanged for horse stealing. 

Feb 16, 1964

60 min

The Day of the 12 Candles

Feb 23, 1964

The Day of the Pretenders

Mar 1, 1964

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