Alias Smith and Jones
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks".
Genre: Western
Cast:Ben Murphy , Roger Davis , Pete Duel , Walt Davis , Dennis Fimple , J.D. Cannon , Ford Rainey , Bill Fletcher , Burl Ives , Jon Lormer , Monty Laird , Slim Pickens , Mills Watson , John Russell , Bill McKinney , Steve Gravers , Gary Van Ormand , Clarke Gordon
S2.E1 ∙ The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to the town and sees Curry in the audience; the man on trial is an impostor who didn't commit the murder he's accused of.
S2.E2 ∙ How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson
Three ne'er-do-wells - a man and two women - hold Curry hostage. The price for his safe return is for Hayes to go through a step-by-step instruction to the man of how to blow up a unique bank safe. Hayes suspects they will kill him and Curry afterwards, and has to think fast to trick the group.
S2.E3 ∙ Jailbreak at Junction City
Heyes and Curry are deputized by the sheriff of Big Bend, to take some outlaws to Junction City. The sheriff there knows them by sight, but a local judge may save them from the law.
S2.E4 ∙ Smiler with a Gun
During a poker game the guys meet an old timer along with a sharp-shooter and they decide to mine an unknown vein of gold. But things turn ugly when one of them decides he's unwilling to share the gold strike with the others.
S2.E5 ∙ The Posse That Wouldn't Quit
Unable to shake a trailing posse the guys shelter in the remote Jordan family cabin. Their teenage daughters are so taken with them, that when the posse takes them away, they spring them. But then the mother faces prison for what they did.
S2.E6 ∙ Something to Get Hung About
Hank Henderson has hired Heyes and Curry to find his runaway wife and bring her home. She agrees, but her friend Jim tries to stop her. When Hank is killed, and Jim arrested, they try to prove he's innocent with an unheard of technique.
S2.E7 ∙ Six Strangers at Apache Springs
Apache Springs is where the guys meet a troubled traveling minister, a government envoy and his disillusioned wife, and a widow desperate to recover the gold she had buried in a place now controlled by marauding Indians.
S2.E8 ∙ Night of the Red Dog
After meeting an old miner, he gives the guys and four other men a map to his mine. All goes well with the mining until an unexpected blizzard snows them all inside their cabin for the winter, and somebody steals Heyes' and Curry's gold.
S2.E9 ∙ The Reformation of Harry Briscoe
Heyes and Curry agree to help two traveling nuns, not realizing that one of them has stolen $30,000 and is being chased by Harry Briscoe, who hopes her capture will get his job back with the Bannerman Detective Agency.
S2.E10 ∙ Dreadful Sorry Clementine
Once again, Clementine asks the guys to help get the money which had been stolen returned, and have a crook who'd stolen it (and framed her father) arrested.
S2.E11 ∙ Shootout at Diablo Station
Heyes and Curry are among seven people ambushed by outlaws and held hostage in a way station. The leader of the gang, knowing Heyes are Curry are in touch with Sheriff Lom Trevors, politely outlines his plan to assassinate the sheriff when he comes looking for our heroes, in revenge for the death of his brother by Lom (actually, one of his deputies). The gang is prepared to wait a day and a night for Lom, forcing the group to do the same and try to think of ways to warn Lom before he gets bushwhacked. The mercurial leader (Neville Brand) is the biggest threat. The American flag outside the way station plays a key part in the plot.
S2.E12 ∙ The Bounty Hunter
Ex-slave Joe Sims has a cheerful demeanor that masks intensive hatred for the white racists who have dogged him all his life. He has an uncanny ability to track down Heyes and Curry wherever they go and trap them, planning to turn them in for the reward money and methodically ignoring their pleas that they have reformed. After witnessing some of Sims' confrontations with vicious whites, Heyes and Curry are sympathetic to his plight and try to help him, but Sims won't let them go.
S2.E13 ∙ Everything Else You Can Steal
Two guys, passing themselves off as Heyes and Curry, rob a bank. The real Heyes and Curry, concerned about losing their amnesty, arrive in town to find out what really happened and who's behind the scheme.
S2.E14 ∙ Miracle at Santa Marta
It will take a Miracle at Santa Marta for Curry to escape a firing squad after a wealthy visitor to a Mexican resort town's murdered. Heyes discovers a case of identity theft, in which 2 women claim to be the same socialite, but how, or why this is relevant to the murder, as well as who can save Curry from death takes some time.
S2.E15 ∙ 21 Days to Tenstrike
Unable to find work , Heyes and Curry accept a rancher's offer of pay if they can help herd cattle to a Colorado town. Soon, one of the cattle hands is dead - and suspicion falls upon Curry. The next night, it happens again. Then again. Someone isn't who - or what - they pretend to be
S2.E16 ∙ The McCreedy Bust: Going, Going, Gone
'Big Mac' MacCreedy hires Smith and Jones to steal it (again ) -the Cesar's bust from Arminderez but Heyes refuses (but agrees to teach one of MacCreedy's men how to do it , instead.) Heyes and Curry agree to escort the bust from a pre-arranged going spite too San Fransisco, where is to be auctioned. Whilst Heyes and Curry wait at the town near three deep-spot, they meet the town bully. Though they keep backing down, the bully keeps pushing, and Curry starts losing his temper.
S2.E17 ∙ The Man Who Broke the Bank at Red Gap
While playing cards on a train with banker Chester Powers, our heroes are recognized by another banker, Winford Fletcher (the villain of "Dreadful Sorry, Clementine," Fletcher pulls a gun on the group and says the 2 cost him a great deal of money to get out of trouble (apparently, he bought his way out of prison time on top of being swindled for $50,000). Powers bluffs Fletcher with a hidden "gun" and Fletcher backs down. That gives Powers an idea. He has speculated with and lost all the securities and bonds in his bank. The cash is still there, but there will be a run on the bank if word of his other losses gets out. So he robs the bank himself and ... you got it ... pins it on Heyes and Curry, giving them a chunk of the money to buy their silence. The boys pretend to accept, but scheme to pit Powers and Fletcher - who have reached a secret deal to jointly testify against Heyes and Curry - against each other. They take their share of the stolen money and give it to Fletcher in return for his testimony that they DIDN'T rob the bank when it was knocked over a second time (which is exactly what they do). Now to get Powers and Fletcher, along with U.S. Treasury agents, into the fray with one another ...
S2.E18 ∙ The Men That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Heyes and Curry are captured by a farm family and brought into Hadleyburg. The farmer wants the bounty money, but has a change of heart and helps them escape. That puts the farmer and his wife into very hot water and make Heyes and Curry very ashamed. Help comes from detective Harry Briscoe, who's investigating a crooked gambling house in another town. Heyes goes to the house and plays blackjack, notices a marked deck at the start of the card game, and gets it replaced with an unmarked deck. He counts the cards in the old sharpie's trick and only making big bets when the deck is near the bottom and he can tell what he's likely to get on the last few hands. Briscoe watches incognito as Heyes wins $32,000. After realizing that Heyes is counting cards, the casino manager orders regular shuffles of the deck, at which time Heyes stops playing and reveals a collection of marked decks that the casino has hidden. Briscoe steps forward and busts the casino owner and dealer. With the money, Heyes and Curry go on a spending spree all over Hadleyburg, making so many civic improvements to the town that it's impossible to field a jury that hasn't been touched by their generosity (smooth lawyer Adam West helps out as well). When Briscoe is called to the stand, he testifies that Heyes and Curry came by the money honestly and are doing all this just to be nice. The judge does not direct an acquittal, rather, the farmer and his wife are pronounced "not guilty" by the jury.
S2.E19 ∙ The Biggest Game in the West
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, Curry and Heyes (now played by Roger Davis) relax in a gully when a satchel of money literally lands in their laps, thrown from a passing carriage. Heyes opens it and finds $200,000 -- every bill of it a bad counterfeit. Heyes thinks it over for a few seconds and then comes up with a brilliant plan. After shaving off his mustache (Roger Davis had one in real life; after the first day of filming, Universal executives told Davis the mustache looked "sinister" and Roy Huggins wrote the comment into a scene where Heyes shaves), Joshua Smith goes to a bank and asks to put the satchel in a safety-deposit box for the time being. He and Thaddeus Jones are wealthy land buyers, he says, and he wants people to know he has enough money to buy his way into anything. That includes a famous weekly poker game where all the big ranchers join once a week. The banker spreads the word, and Smith is quickly invited to the game, where he soon wins $35,000. But that's when two members of the Devil's Hole Gang (Kyle McMurtry and a masked, non-speaking extra filling in as Wheat Carlson) raid the game and clear the table. That's bad enough, but the banker has also looked inside the safe deposit box and found the money. He threatens to denounce Smith and Jones to the ranchers, and meanwhile the local sheriff has picked up on the name "Wheat" and is looking for the other members of the Devil's Hole Gang, which of course include Heyes and Curry. Our heroes' only chance is for Curry to ride ninety to nothing to Devil's Hole and get the other ranchers' share -- which also equals $200,000 -- back while leaving them the amount Heyes won before the robbery. Then Heyes opens the banker's safe, takes out the counterfeit money and replaces it with the real stuff, which a U.S. Treasury agent verifies. As soon as the Treasury agent leaves, Heyes rushes the $200,000 back to the poker table (minus a $100 bill he dropped and stuck in his pocket), sticks the bad money in the Treasury agent's satchel, and hightails it with Curry to a freight train just before the sheriff figures things out. About two-thirds of this episode was re-shot over four and a half days of filming to replace Pete Deuel's scenes (Davis had to exactly mimic him); a few new scenes include the opening titles and a still picture of Smith and Jones getting off a stagecoach.
S2.E20 ∙ Which Way to the O.K. Corral?
To stop the MacCreedy-Armindariz feud from coming to a rope's end, Heyes and Curry ride to the aid of their former employer Patrick "Big Mac" MacCreedy, who is accused of murdering the foreman of his across-the-Rio-Grande neighbor Armindariz's ranch. In fact, MacCreedy only witnessed the shooting and has no idea who the killer is (viewers don't either; the killer is never revealed). While hurrying to help the dying man, MacCreedy saw a neer-do-well drifter (Neville Brand) swipe the man's rifle and take off with it. Heyes and Curry find that the drifter has gone to Tombstone, Arizona -- home to Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, who both play major roles in the story. They acquire a warrant for the drifter's arrest as a material witness, but it's not an extradition warrant. Thus they need to lure or trick the drifter back to Texas. To do so, they ask a lady friend named Georgette Sinclair who is what would later be called a nightclub singer, meeting her in Tombstone and letting her "woo" the drifter while they watch and play poker. The idea is to get the drifter to fall in love with the singer, agree to go to Colorado with her -- stopping for half a minute in Texas along the way.
S2.E21 ∙ Don't Get Mad, Get Even
Heyes is cheated at poker by big, obnoxious Wheelwright. Georgette Sinclair, in the second of three appearances, is hired to help Heyes carry out the title phrase, which Heyes utters while leaving. "Wheelwrong" also cheats George and gives her a literal horselaugh when she tries to bewitch him with a string of pearls. The group goes to Silky O'Sullivan, who lent them the necklace to begin with, and after enduring his rage talk him into lending them money to "ransom" the necklace.
S2.E22 ∙ What's in It for Mia?
Mia Bronson doesn't like being accused of crooked gambling and has the guys beaten up. They're rescued by George Austin and his daughter, another victim of Mia's, and he's discovered a way to copy any printed material - including money.
S2.E23 ∙ Bad Night in Big Butte
Georgette Sinclair hooks the guys into a plan to find a hidden diamond worth a small fortune. Watching them is the town's sheriff and a mystery man hoping to collect the reward if it's found and returned to the rightful owner.
