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- CreatorSamuel A. PeeplesStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA tyrannical owner of a vast ranch recruits his two estranged and vastly opposite sons to maintain an uneasy alliance as they fight off forces that would destroy the ranch.
- DirectorLeo PennStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganScott catches one of the robbers who was trying to rob a store in a nearby town. The robber turns out to be a young woman, and Scott is deputized to keep an eye on her. It's not so easy, as the girl is a wild young hellion who does whatever she can to cause trouble.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA boy found wandering on the Lancer ranch wants to hire Johnny to kill the ranchers he says murdered his homesteader father. The boy's sister tells a much different story about how their father died, but after learning that the boy's story is closer to the truth, Johnny decides to stay on with them, if only to prevent the kid from following the path he did when young.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganJelly has fallen for a young widow, not knowing that she is involved in a plot to have him killed after he purchases an insurance policy.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganFor Murdoch's birthday, Scott, Johnny, and Jelly each have a gift they've already picked out -a stereopticon, a priceless rifle, and a prize sow -but each run into people who may need them even more.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganJohnny falls for a young missionary, but he will have competition in the duty she feels toward the downtrodden people she is working with, especially a crippled man and homeless Indians.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganJelly buys a white Brahma bull at an auction, and becomes the butt of jokes around town because of it, as most ranchers in the area are unfamiliar with the breed. One rancher, however, is determined to either get the bull for himself or make sure it is killed.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganScott's grandfather pays a visit to Lancer with the intention of persuading Scott - through fair means or foul - to return with him to Boston to live.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganSent by Murdoch to check out a long-neglected piece of land he owns, Johnny finds it occupied by a young woman and her son. She claims to be a Lancer and chases off anyone who sets foot on her land. Johnny persuades her to let him stay and help. Soon another man arrives who may really be dangerous to her, but she seems less suspicious of him than she is of Johnny.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganScott tries to shape up a town drunk who once was a famous lawman. The man is now being treated as the town fool by the sadistic town boss. But his grandson, who has mainly known of his grandfather through the legends told of him, still believes he's a hero, and Scott hopes the boy will not be disappointed by the truth.
- DirectorAlan A. ArmerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganJohnny is wounded in the leg while coming to the aid of a hillbilly brother and sister from a group of hostile cowhands. He is forced to run with the two, as the cowhands pursue them. The brother and sister have come West to settle a feud with a family with a name that sounds like 'Lankry', and say they plan to kill any members of the family still living.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganJelly thinks he's hit the jackpot when he acquires a gold mine, but the men who've sold it to him have not told him the fine print. And what's worse, getting the gold out requires blasting, which will cut off a stream of vital importance to the Lancer spread.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganAfter sheepherder Gabe Lincoln saves Johnny from a charging bull, Johnny allows him to temporarily let his sheep graze on Lancer land until his ewes give birth. This does not sit well with the cattleman's association, who threaten to drive the sheep away by force if necessary. But Gabe does not believe in fighting back, and complicating matters more, he and Johnny's girlfriend are becoming attracted to each other.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganMurdoch decides to allow his land to be used as an experimental prison farm. But he has to deal with hard-nosed guards as well as with the distrust of the convicts, and even his sons' well-meaning interference inadvertently causes trouble.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganAfter collapsing in the hot Badlands, Scott's life is saved by a group of miners and their families who are on the run after a riot in which several people were killed. Scott vows to not tell who they are when he goes back to Morro Coyo to buy food for them. But the store owner who sells the food to them recognizes the leader of the miners and tells the sheriff. After they have gone, the owner also realizes that the vegetables he sold them are contaminated, and Johnny and the sheriff rush to find Scott and the miners to warn them.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganMurdoch brings three orphaned Modoc children to an Indian school taught by a determined teacher who unfortunately has little understanding or respect for Indian traditions, a fact which only further angers a former Army scout who has returned to his people and blames the whites for destroying their way of life.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA band of outlaws with a Gatling gun takes over the Lancer ranch and holds Scott hostage, demanding in turn that the town turn over its tax collection money to them. The outlaw leader Drago thinks Scott is Johnny, whom Drago is jealous of because his girlfriend Violet was once involved with Johnny and always compares Drago with him, and Violet tells Scott he'd be better off pretending to be Johnny.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganChad, the newest member of the Lancer family, assists an old visionary who plans to build a flying machine, using a hill as his workshop and base for takeoff. This exposes Chad and the old man not only to ridicule, but to the hostility of a big rancher and others who want to use the hill for watering purposes.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganPowerful land baron Buck Addison is determined to squeeze out Lancer. He has bought out all the surrounding ranches save one, which is owned by a widowed friend of Murdoch's, whom Addison has now asked to marry him.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganWhen Jelly comes down sick after getting a bad prediction from a young woman who claims to be able to see the future, the Lancers attribute it to his superstitious nature. But then the cattle start dying in droves, and everybody starts wondering if they have been cursed.
- DirectorLeo PennStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganBlinded by an outlaw's bullet, Johnny finds succor and love with a young mute woman as he struggles to evade the outlaw and his brothers, who plan to finish Johnny off.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganWhen Jelly is seriously mauled by a cougar, the closest thing to a doctor Murdoch can find to treat him is a man in jail for practicing without a license. The man is brought out to treat Jelly, but a local town boss wants him back in jail for leaving his son crippled after an operation.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA friend of Johnny's is killed in a bar by Tom Nevill, the son of the powerful rancher who runs the town. Johnny is wounded while fighting with Tom, and flees town as he is accused of the killing. He finds shelter at a farm, but the girl who finds him is engaged to Tom, whose father has ordered his men to kill Johnny when they find him. The girl still helps Johnny, but her mother is most concerned with how she can benefit financially.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA dying man, believing his land to be cursed, wills it back to the Devil, even though he has a young son. Surprisingly, a claimant shows up: a strange man who seems to know everyone's name and around whom strange things occur.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganMurdoch promises an old friend before he dies that he will watch after his daughter, a child entertainer at a mining camp, and the fortune he says he has left for her, if it can be found before three men intent on taking it do. The girl's prim aunt, who accompanies them, objects to her upbringing.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganMurdoch's old friend Lizzie Cramer comes to the Lancer ranch, hoping to start a new life with her daughter when she arrives---and breaking with the outlaw gang she's been leading. But the gang does not want to let go of her so easily.
- DirectorSam WanamakerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganFaced with continual raids by the Pardee gang, California rancher Murdoch Lancer seeks the help of his estranged sons: dapper Bostonian Scott Lancer and border-town gunslinger Johnny Madrid.
- DirectorGene NelsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganThe Lancers help a 10-year-old orphan who wants to meet his outlaw father.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganUsed to blowing in the wind, Johnny rebels against his new circumscribed lifestyle.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganScott is caught up in a family war when a young pregnant woman shoots her abusive husband and escapes in Scott's buckboard, sending the husband's family after both of them in revenge.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganTrouble brews when a washed-up marshal - to whom Murdoch once promised a share in the Lancer ranch - shows up with a group of deputies and a prisoner who claims to know Johnny.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganAfter meeting a young woman, Scott is waylaid by two unscrupulous bounty hunters who claim he is the girl's outlaw brother whom they have been pursuing. The local sheriff gives Johnny two days to find the girl and prove Scott innocent, but the bounty hunters have no intention of waiting that long.
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganMurdoch meets an old flame, now widowed, and brings her to the ranch, where they rekindle their romance. But this is all threatened when her son comes to the ranch with another prisoner after their escape from an Army barracks, in which a guard was killed.
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganThe Lancers take in supposedly injured stranger Jelly Hoskins, unaware that he is hiding money pilfered from bank robbers so that he can care for eight orphan boys.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganWhen Charlie Poe and his wife are forced off their land by land grabbers claiming an old Spanish grant, Johnny, Scott, and Charlie decide to break jail and stop the train carrying the papers the land grabbers hope to use to make their claim official. But Charlie enlists an old friend who may plan to take more than just the papers.
- DirectorGene NelsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA pretty young woman and her grandfather try to con the Lancers out of $500 to pay a gambling debt.
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganJohnny gets more than he bargained for when he goes after a horse trader who cheated him and ends up taking care of the trader's feisty 10-year-old niece.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganThree men come to Morro Coyo to kill Scott, who they are convinced is responsible for the deaths of a group of fellow inmates during an escape from a Confederate prison during the Civil War.
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganScott and his friend Josh, a Lancer ranch hand, try to rescue Josh's fiancée, who was kidnapped by outlaws during the wedding ceremony.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA man with a vicious dog and a grudge against Jelly terrorizes Murdoch, Teresa and Jelly at Lancer while Scott and Johnny are away on a cattle drive.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganScott is duped by the attractive daughter of an Irish con artist whose family is robbing and intimidating the community.
- DirectorOtto LangStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganWhen Murdoch goes to the town of Mesa Roja to bury the hatchet with an old enemy, he is shot in the back and then disappears.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganTrying to avoid violence, Johnny ends up on the wrong side of a range war against Murdoch and the other ranchers of the valley.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganThe Lancers' plan to build a jail in Spanish Wells unintentionally sets an old handyman against his former protégé, a saloon owner who is the puppet of the leader of a gang of toughs.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganTeresa's mother - a ne'er-do-well who ran off when Teresa was born - returns to demand custody of her daughter.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA grifter comes to town to cheat the locals in a phony land deal, straining the friendship between Murdoch and a neighbor who once saved Murdoch's life.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganMurdoch sends Scott and Johnny to rescue an old friend's daughter, who is about to marry a charming, manipulative and abusive man.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganAfter a family of highway robbers shoots Scott and kidnaps Teresa, she begins to sympathize with one of her captors.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganWhen Sheriff Val Crawford is injured, newcomer to Green River, Clay Crisswell takes over temporarily. His civilized ways and the ability to subdue the rougher element of Green River without a gun make him popular with the businessmen, but things may not be what they seem.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganAfter being stranded in the desert, Scott is found and taken in to an abandoned mine by an inquisitive young boy. But the boy's family includes an outlaw uncle who plans to kill Scott and pass the body off as his own.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganA schoolteacher encounters hostility and harassment when he arrives to start a school in a ranching community that has had no teacher before. When the teacher disappears after being taken out of town by night riders, his wife decides to continue in his place, and Johnny assists her despite continued resistance from children's parents.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsJames StacyWayne MaunderAndrew DugganMurdoch leaves on a stage for Yuma in hope of disproving assumptions that he's getting too old to take care of himself. But on the way, he and the stage driver are held up and left for dead. They walk to the town of Blessing, which they find is run by a crooked town boss who has the stage robbers in his employ.