26 Men Season 2, Episode 17: Ranger Without a Badge

1

The Glory Road

A preacher with a past is blackmailed into helping a murderer escape from jail.

30 min

2

Show of a Doubt

A green ranger, accused of cowardice by his fellow lawmen, must lead his compatriots in a desperate attack on an Apache camp to rescue a young captive.

30 min

3

Man in Hiding

A miner (Harry Shannon) informs the Rangers that a wanted killer is in hiding---but he won't say where.

30 min

4

Cross and Doublecross

The wary Rangers allow an outlaw to lead them to a den of thieves.

30 min

5

The Last Rebellion

When an Apache inadvertently kills an elderly chief, the Rangers set out to defend him against his Apache accusers.

30 min

6

Brief Glory

A meek, hen-pecked bank teller is accused of complicity in a bank hold-up when he is the only employee in the bank when an outlaw gang robs the Bisbee bank. The teller is so taken with the attention and publicity his case is garnering that he refuses to admit that he had nothing to do with the crime. Rynning is convinced of the man's innocence and grants the gang's leader a 24-hour immunity to testify at the man's trial.

30 min

7

Dog Eat Dog

The people of Durando are caught in a power duel between their marshal and their sheriff.

30 min

8

Judge Not

A rancher recently released from a mental hospital avenges himself upon the men who committed him.

30 min

9

My Brothers Keeper

When two of his sons return from Cuban POW camps after the Spanish-American War, a rancher decides it's time to reopen a feud between his kin and a rancher who purchased most of his land when he failed to pay his real estate taxes.

30 min

10

Run No More

With only hours left before a hanging, Rynning desperately seeks evidence that might stay the accused's execution. Meanwhile the real murderers threaten the life of the witness whose perjured testimony sent the wrong man to the gallows.

30 min

11

Manhunt

A poker game in Nogales, Arizona turns sour when one of the participants is accused of crooked dealing. After the accused shoots the accuser and makes off with all the cash, the manhunt for the perpetrator quickly leads to an arrest - the real killer's identical twin brother. The rangers desperately search for murderer before a lynch mob hangs an innocent man.

30 min

12

The Avenger

A young man joins the Arizona Rangers and dedicates himself to becoming a quick draw artist. Rynning learns that the new lawman forged his letter of introduction and is only interested in avenging himself upon the man who killed his outlaw father - Clint Travis.

30 min

13

False Witness

When a wealthy land owner accused of murder can't bribe the circuit judge, he turns to witness intimidation to escape conviction. The judge requests Capt. Rynning to protect those called to testify.

30 min

14

The Torch

When teacher after teach is run out of a small gold mining town, Rynning is order to investigate. His first day in the schoolhouse involves some two-fisted lessons.

30 min

15

Trail of Revenge

A murderous escaped prisoner returns to his ranch and finds his wife has departed. He forces one of her old friends to find her while he holds the friend's wife as a hostage.

30 min

16

The Hellion

A young man, recently found not guilty of being a thief, is framed for the murder of his girlfriend by a romantic rival.

30 min

17

Ranger Without a Badge

A card shark agrees to help Rynning and Travis break up a gang of sheep rustlers.

30 min

18

Showdown

Ralph Kincaid, a wealthy rancher, catches his son, Juro, stealing money from his desk so he can pay his gambling debts and brutally beats him. The next day, the father is found murdered and the evidence seems to point to his son as the killer. During the trial, Captain Rynning discovers incontrovertible that the young man was incarcerated in another town at the time of the murder after suffering from a blackout. The ranger thinks the explanation is too pat, though, and searches for Juro's murderous accomplice.

30 min

19

Long Trail Home

A convict breaks out of Yuma prison and offers to help Captain Rynning round up the rest of his outlaw gang.

30 min

20

Death in the Dragoons

Rynning must make a difficult decision when he learns that the woman he rescued is wanted for murder.

30 min

21

Ricochet

Three wild brothers who were driven out of town years ago return to warn the citizens of an impending attack by a gang of outlaws, but their warning isn't believed when one of their bullets ricochet's off a church bell and kills a man.

30 min

22

House Divided

A man whose wife was killed during an Indian raid is incensed when his brother takes an Apache woman to be his wife and encourages other Indians to settle in the town of which he is one of the founders. The man takes his racial prejudice so far as to hire a gang of gunslingers to drive the Indians from the town and his brother's wife along with them.

30 min

23

Profane Masquerade

An outlaw's girlfriend convinces her sister, a nun, to lend her a habit so she can travel to Nogales to be with him.

30 min

24

Dead or Alive

Rynning runs into unexpected trouble while investigating a murder.

30 min

25

The Has-Been

The territorial governor orders Rhynning to clean up prize fighting in Arizona. The Ranger captain focuses his attention on Barker, a promoter who offer $500 to anyone who can stay in the ring for four rounds with his champion. The problem is that, while suckers throw their money away betting on the challenger, there's nothing illegal about the promoter's activities.

30 min

26

The Unwanted

The economic recession afflicting Arizona after the Spanish-American War hits the young veterans returning to civilian life the hardest. A young veteran, his sister and three friends try to make a go of farming by squatting on land claimed by other homesteaders resulting in bloodshed. The sister decides to become a dance hall girl to raise enough money for the group to eat with only to find out that the hall's owner is interested in more than her ability to dance the Can-Can.

30 min

27

Live and Let Die

An ex-convict, declared legally dead by his wife when he went to prison under an assumed name, returns to Yuma to kill her new husband, a former partner-in-crime who has reformed.

30 min

28

Trial at Verde River

A young lawyer returns home to litigate water rights controlled by a crooked businessman and learns his senior partner has been bribing witnesses to aid the company he is representing.

30 min

29

Scorpion

Ben Haddock, a recently hired trail boss, is fired by Red Emerson for dating his daughter. The two men have an argument over the money owed to the foreman resulting in the Ben shooting Red and taking the money he feels he is owed. Travis rides out to arrest Haddock but is stung by a scorpion and cowhand flees leaving the ranger to die.

30 min

30

The Last Kill

While Travis tries to convince a representative from Washington that Arizona no longer subscribes to gun law, Rynning tries to prevent an ex-convict from exacting revenge upon a Yuma businessman whose perjured testimony sent him to prison.

30 min

31

Redskin

A decorated Indian war hero becomes involved with a quack who's selling phony cure-alls after he finds his own tribe will have nothing to do with him.

30 min

32

Cave-In

A crusading editor learns that funds for mine safety equipment have been embezzled.

30 min

33

Terror in Paradise

Two saloon girls witness a prominent business man murder his partner. After giving evidence at the coroner's hearing, an agent for the accused tries to bribe them to leave town. When they refuse, the agent hires a gunman to kidnap the women so they can't testify at the trial.

30 min

34

Fighting Men

Rynning offers Vin Carter, Tucson's tough and honest marshal, a position in the Rangers, but Vin turns him down because of his sour relationship with the town's business community. When Carter's fiancée is seriously injured and desperately needs an operation, Vin begins to reconsider his stance on integrity.

30 min

35

Tumbleweed Ranger

Rynning orders Frank Seldom to meet a stagecoach heading from New Mexico to Wilcox, Arizona to ensure its cargo of six lovely mail-order brides arrive unscathed. Seldom has his hands full fending off marauding Apache Indians, crooked stagecoach drivers and an outlaw gang who intends to kidnap the women and sell them to white slavers in Mexico.

30 min

36

The Tiger

When a gang of American outlaws takes over a Mexican border town, Colonel Kesterlitzky aka 'El Tigre' of the Mexican Rurales requests the assistance of Captain Rynning to recapture the town.

30 min

37

Abandoned

One of Kelton's riders reports that his son has been abducted by a group of Apaches led by Cochise himself. Rynning quickly organizes a posse to pursue the renegades, but their rescue mission is dogged by misfortune and, eventually, murder. The rangers begin to suspect that a member of their posse is in cahoots with the abductors, who may not be Indians after all.

30 min

38

Bandit Queen

Rynning and his rangers try to outwit a beautiful, clever outlaw.

30 min

39

Refuge at Broken Bow

A young boy must choose between respect for the law and loyalty to his two outlaw uncles.

30 min