The Roy Rogers Show Season 1, Episode 18: The Hermit's Secret

1

Jailbreak

Dale helps a young man to escape from jail after he has been falsely accused of the murder of his intended bride's father.

30 min

2

Doc Stevens' Traveling Store

Crafty old Doc Stevens drives around with a ""traveling store,"" actually a bilnd for a transmitter used to send information to a gang of dangerous criminals.

30 min

3

The Set-Up

Roy blocks a gang's attempts to murder trapper Granny Hobbs when she refuses to sell her land. When the outlaws threaten to have Granny declared insane in order to take over her property, the clever old lady helps Roy and Dale to set a trap for them.

30 min

4

The Treasure of Howling Dog Canyon

A scheming saloon hostess who married a miner and then had him murdered after gaining control of his treasure map, menaces her stepson in order to take possession of the third of the map which he holds.

30 min

5

The Train Robbery

The local postmaster, who also runs the general store, hires two crooks to blow up and rob a train carrying a valuable bank shipment.

30 min

6

Badman's Brother

Eleven-year-old Larry Trumball is loyal to his brother Stu, and thus keeps Roy and Dale from catching Stu after he has killed a man and committed a robbery. Although Larry appears incorrigible, Dale believes that ""fundamentally, he's a fine boy,"" so she and Roy set out to teach him about misplaced loyalty.

30 min

7

Outlaw's Girl

Thelma Young, a waitress in Dale's cafe, is interrogated by an FBI agent because she is romantically involved with Chick Dillon, a cheap thug who subsequently returns to Mineral City and kidnaps Dale and the foolish Thelma.

30 min

8

The Desert Fugitive

Bill Harris is mistaken for his twin brother Jim, who was convicted for stealing important government documents.

30 min

9

Outlaws' Town

A town in the desert, not surveyed and thus under no township or county's jurisdiction, is a haven for criminals who are safe from the law in their community. Roy and Pat pose as outlaws in order to invade ""No Man's Land"" and lead the criminals away from their protected area.

30 min

10

The Unwilling Outlaw

Bank Employee Jed Collins is framed for embezzlement by the bank's head bookkeeper, who is in cahoots with the notorious Lawson gang. Jed is forced to join the gang until Roy can help prove his innocence, to the delight of Jed's trusting little daughter.

30 min

11

Dead Men's Hills

Roy, Dale and Pat help a wounded sheriff to hold the Hannon gang at bay in a desert oasis town near Dead Man's Hills.

30 min

12

The Minister's Son

A government agent poses as a minister's son in order to capture a gang of counterfeiters.

30 min

13

Ghost Gulch

Jim Barton finds himself in considerable trouble, much to the distress of his wife and housekeeper. He is captured by an unscrupulous rancher who wants to buy his ranch, on which a gold mine has been discovered.

30 min

14

Ride in the Death Wagon

An elderly invalid donates a large sum of money in cash for the construction of a clinic. When her cash is inadvertently turned over to a crook posing as an armed guard, Roy and Dale must track down the imposter.

30 min

15

Peril from the Past

Dude Dalhart and Cherokee Tim arrive in Mineral City and blackmail a bank teller who once killed a man and served a prison term. They threaten to reveal his past unless he helps them stage a bank robbery.

30 min

16

The Ride of the Ranchers

Don Jose traditionally leads the annual Ride of the Ranchers in Paradise Valley. This year, during his absence, a gang of outlaws attack his hacienda where Dale and the other women are gathered. Roy returns in time to prevent Don Jose's strongbox from being taken.

30 min

17

Shoot to Kill [aka Pat Brady, Outlaw]

Dale is on a stagecoach carrying her father's cattle money, as is a picture-taking dude named Elmer Kirby. Elmer asks Pat Brady to pose as a desperado for a photograph. He later tells everyone that the picture depicts vicious outlaw Mark Opal.

30 min

18

The Hermit's Secret

Indian Ruby Barton's husband has been murdered by a former racketeer, now posing as a harmless old invalid. When guilt seems to point to Ruby's uncle, Roy and Dale investigate the case and clear the Indian of all charges.

30 min

19

Haunted Mine of Paradise Valley

A dying prospector tells Roy the map of his gold mine is hidden in the lower end of a shaft in the old Bedford Mine. When his widow arrives in Mineral City, Roy and Dale help her to find the map.

30 min

20

Ghost Town Gold

Pat Brady buys a disreputable old ghost town called Lucky Springs, inhabited by an old desert rat named Webb Jenkins who has found a cache of counterfeit gold pieces.

30 min

21

The Doublecrosser

Dale pretends to have funds she wants Mayor Ralph Colton to help her invest-actually a pretext for her visit to the town where Colton is suspected of being dishonest. Coincidentally, the mayor's mother arrives in town along with Roy and Dale, unaware that her son is being blackmailed into shielding an outlaw gang.

30 min

22

Carnival Killer

A young whip artist in a carnival is framed in the murder of his boss, who has opposed the young man's courtship of his daughter.

30 min

23

Flying Bullets

Pat Brady is elected sheriff of Martin County just in time to apprehend the man who shot Appalachian mountaineer Cliff Miller.

30 min