Hondo

Season

1967

USA

7.3

Hondo, an embittered former rebel officer, travels to Arizona Territory in the 1870s with his dog Sam. Often clashing with the local cavalry, which he holds responsible for the death of his Indian wife.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Hondo and the Eagle Claw

In post Civil War Arizona territory, a former Confederate officer, Hondo Lane, becomes a scout attached to Fort Lowell. Apache are attacking soldiers and settlers. He also meets a pretty young widow and her son.

S1 • E2

Hondo and the War Cry

An Army captain blames Vittoro's people for an attack on a mine committed by renegade Indians.

S1 • E3

Hondo and the Singing Wire

An Apache is cutting new telegraph wires as soon as they are put up, and Hondo tries to stop him and find out why he is so determined to cut them.

S1 • E4

Hondo and the Superstition Massacre

When Hondo meets the surveyor who has come to check for gold at Superstition Mountain, he viciously attacks him---the man led the raid in which Hondo's wife was killed.

S1 • E5

Hondo and the Savage

Hondo befriends an Apache prince just as Fort Lowell is visited by a martinet Cavalry general whose by-the-book and show-them-no-mercy approach to the Indians threatens to upend the fragile friendship and peace forged by Hondo.

S1 • E6

Hondo and the Apache Kid

While under escort of two Army soldiers from the fort to Yuma, Arizona to be tried for murder, the Apache Kid overcomes the soldiers and escapes. Hondo and Buffalo Baker are dispatched to bring the kid in.

S1 • E7

Hondo and the War Hawks

When the calvary decides to confiscate the guns of the Apache, Chief Vittoro vows to resist. Hondo becomes involved when he encounters unscrupulous weapon dealers.

S1 • E8

Hondo and the Mad Dog

A trooper holding a grudge against Hondo vows revenge. He takes advantage of a rabies outbreak and Hondo's dog is at risk.

S1 • E9

Hondo and the Judas

A rebel Colonel, thought to be dead, surprises his comrades by bringing them back together for a final crime. Hondo rejoins the group, unaware of the Colonel's plan to get revenge on whoever ambushed him.

S1 • E10

Hondo and the Comancheros

When Angie Dow is kidnapped and held hostage by a band of Hispanic outlaws, the Comancheros, led by lustful and arrogant ringleader, Rodrigo, Hondo must gather enough money to pay the ransom amount of 3,000 dollars to rescue Angie and bring her home. Meanwhile, blonde-haired Angie is threatened by Teresa, Rodrigo's murderously jealous girlfriend, who, feeling that Angie's presence is threatening her relationship with her boyfriend, will do anything to get her out of the way.

S1 • E11

Hondo and the Sudden Town

An aging mayor is convinced by his scheming advisor to participate in a scheme in the founding a never-heard-of town by finding silver in an abandoned silver mine. Unbeknownst to everyone (with the exception of Hondo and Buffalo), the silver mine is located in Native Indian territory. When a local town drunk is found dead and scalped, everyone points at the Indians. Only Hondo sees a flaw in the drunk's death and his suspicions lead him to uncovering a dark motive behind the scheme.

S1 • E12

Hondo and the Ghost of Ed Dow

Angie's father-in-law arrives from the East. After learning only half of the truth from Tribolet about how his son was killed, he comes to the false conclusion that Angie and Hondo conspired to kill him, and thus he decides to take Johnny away back East with him. Unfortunately to do this he has allied with some ruthless company.

S1 • E13

Hondo and the Death Drive

Hondo is ordered by the government to bring a flock of sheep to Indians on the reservation. On the way Hondo and his companions run into opposition from a local cattle boss and his posse.

S1 • E14

Hondo and the Hanging Town

Hondo and Buffalo Baker are tasked with escorting a soldier to a town to face a murder charge. A priest was killed and local tempers are high. Along the way, they meet up with Professor Phineas Blackstone, alias of a former prosecutor who convicted an innocent man. A former Confederate colonel leads a lynching party. Can Hondo get the prisoner to court safely?

S1 • E15

Hondo and the Gladiators

Hondo takes on the job of protecting a government peace envoy to the Apaches but he's distracted. He's distraught by the abduction of his beloved dog Sam by a scoundrel intent on turning the gentle dog into a pit fighter.

S1 • E16

Hondo and the Apache Trail

Hondo is escorting the vicious killer Apache Kid to an army post for trial when he escapes. Tracking him, Hondo sees more destruction caused by the murderer and swears to Chief Vittoro that justice will come in the Indian fashion.

S1 • E17

Hondo and the Rebel Hat

Hondo is sent on a mission by the Army to acquire horses but on the way, is robbed of his hat containing gold coins by a local peasant who needs the money to pay off Diablo, (Jack Elam) for protection services.