Lucky Luke

Seasons

1984

7.2

An adaptation of the long-running Western comedy comic book series "Lucky Luke" (1946-) by Morris. The eponymous character Lucky Luke is a solitary cowboy traveling through the Old West. His only regular traveling companions are his faithful horse Jolly Jumper and the wandering prison guard dog Rantanplan (who has trouble locating the prison where he lives and tends to follow Luke around). Luke is a street-smart gunslinger, known as the "man who shoots faster than his shadow". Though he has lightning-quick reflexes and above average boxing skills, what typically gives Luke an edge over his opponents is his ability to outwit them. He tends to remain calm and rational even in stressful situations. Luke variously works as a bodyguard for traveling actresses and politicians, a stagecoach guard for Wells Fargo, a training instructor for the young riders of the Pony Express, a security guard for the crews who construct railroads and telegraph lines, and several other temporary jobs. He typically avoids staying in any location for more than a few months, riding towards the sunset when a mission has been completed. He has many foes, but his archenemies are the four Dalton brothers (Joe, William, Jack, and Averell). The four outlaws look alike but have different personalities. Joe is a mean-spirited dwarf (little person) who serves as the gang's mastermind, but he is often blinded by his passionate hatred for Luke and his never-ending fury against various other foes. William and Jack are men of average height and mellow tempers. They alternate between following Joe's orders, and trying to calm him down. When on their own, they have exhibited skills in white-collar crimes. Averell is the gentle giant of the group. He is unusually tall and strong, but he is dim-witted, good-natured, and rather passive. Averell is depicted as having a food obsession, and his hobbies include dancing, sewing, and unarmed combat. Unlike his perpetually celibate brothers, Averell has had several love interests and he has attempted to settle down into married life. Their mother is the aging gunslinger Ma Dalton, a mostly retired female outlaw. She treats her grown-up sons as if they were still children, and forbids them to use abusive language. She typically gets along well with Luke. She knows that he keeps having her sons incarcerated for crimes, but she appreciates that he goes out of his way to prevent their deaths.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Ma Dalton

Nobody is surprised when the Daltons escape again. Lucky is waiting in their home town when they rejoin their penniless mother, whom shop-keepers just allow to rob them daily, as she was their only visitor and smuggled in a file. Despite guard dog Rataplan, who causes trouble to whomever he follows, and ma Dalton's cat, Lucky can handle the boys, and her albeit it with much more effort.

S1 • E2

Le pied tendre

S1 • E3

Les Dalton dans le blizzard

After the Daltons latest escape, Joe vows to avoid being brought back by Lucky Luke by moving to Canada under the aliases Frank, Louis, Robert and Jim 'Imbecile' Jones. Their trail of crimes is easily followed anyhow, and over the border Lucky, having no jurisdiction, teams up with Mounties corporal Winston Pendergast, who has reports of their first crime in Canada. The chase proves long and eventful.

S1 • E4

En remontant le Mississipi

Lucky and Jolly looked to boarding the river boat Daisyy Belle for Minneapolis in New Orléans. However Lucky can't resist assisting the old captain Barrows in a race dare against the Low River, whose captain spares no dirty tricks,, largely depending on moody, gullible ship mechanic Banks.

S1 • E5

Calamity Jane

While investigating the theft of army weapons, Lucky Luke meets famous Wild West personality Calamity Jane.

S1 • E6

Les Dalton se rachètent

Against his better judgment, Lucky accepts to supervise the Daltons as ultimate test for a humanitarian senator's experimental rehabilitation program. Luke stops the Daltons escaping to offer them a full pardon if they spend the next month clean as a whistle. Even Joe commits to seeking an honest job for the time, so he can legally take revenge on Lucky afterward, but a clerical error spoils this game.

S1 • E7

Des rails sur la prairie

S1 • E8

Phil Defer

S1 • E9

L'élixir du Docteur Doxey

Quack 'doc' Doxey sells lemonade as a panacea. When he's run out of town, Lucky provides him a safe escort to Green Valley, where the quack's 'elixir' rendered everyone green, and so on following his colorful trail. Lucky catches up and disguises as a golden 'miner' mark.

S1 • E10

Hors la loi

A journalist by the name of Scribbs is writing a colourful history of the Wild West and its most notorious characters. Lucky Luke tells him a history of the Daltons in episodic form.

S1 • E11

Billy the Kid

Lucky is hired to escort wanted adolescent Billy the Kid from Texas to stand trial in New Mexico. Clumsy rowdy Malloy was hired to free Billy, but rather causes physical danger, mostly for himself and bystanders, worse then Rantanplan. When Luke gets his job done, the result is most disappointing.

S1 • E12

La diligence

After helping to stop the robbery of a stage coach, Lucky Luke is hired by the stage coach company to guard a gold transport headed for San Francisco. He is accompanied by prison dog Rantanplan (a. k. a. Rin-Tin-Can / Bushwack).

S1 • E13

Le grand duc

Washington summons Lucky to give a Russian grand duke a tour including cattle crime capital Abilene, Kansas, as his adventurous highness otherwise refuses to sign a crucial US-Russian treaty. A foreign spy tries to sabotage them. Next the aristocrat insists on other risky detours, so Lucky and the US Cavalry must even fake an Indian attack.

S1 • E14

À l'ombre des derricks

S1 • E15

Le magot des Dalton

S1 • E16

Le cavalier blanc

S1 • E17

Sur la piste des Dalton

S1 • E18

L'escorte

S1 • E19

Les rivaux de Painful Gulch

S1 • E20

Le fil qui chante

S1 • E21

Jesse James

S1 • E22

Des barbelés sur la prairie

S1 • E23

Les collines noires

S1 • E24

Dalton City

Arresting a local tyrant crook, Lucky reduces his HQ to a phantom town. A telegraph error sees Joe Dalton released instead of another Joe, and he manages to free his brothers. They head to the ghost town, which they declare Dalton City, under mayor Joe's pirate flag, hoping to found a crime free-haven. Luke heads there and bizarrely advises Joe how to run the town.

S1 • E25

La caravane

Lucky Luke reluctantly accepts to escort an atypical convoy: a caravan of single women for a desperately male-only town, across Comanche Indian territory. The Daltons escaped again, a pro criminal reportedly infiltrates cross-dressing, and Luke worries about a mystery admirer.