Shotgun Slade Season 1, Episode 3: Too Smart to Live

The Missing Train

Slade is hired to locate a train car with $1 million in coins that disappeared into thin air.

The Salted Mine

Alice Batson hires Slade, a private detective, to determine whether she has been swindled in her purchase of a worthless mine. (Pilot for the series. This production appeared on Schlitz Playhouse of Stars)

30 min

Barbed Wire, Keep Out

Mesa of Missing Men

Freight Line

A freight-liner needs to renew its contract in order to stay in business. Several accidents have put the renewal in jeopardy. Slade is called in to put a stop to the "accidents."

30 min

Treasure Trap

30 min

A Flower for Jenny

Slade serves as bodyguard to primadonna performer Jenny DuPree, who is receiving death threats and a dwindling number of roses from an assassin who bills himself as her "ultimate admirer."

30 min

Crossed Guns

A hook-handed gunslinger nursing a grudge lures Slade to Grover's Bend for a showdown with his fast-drawing young protégé, Billy.

30 min

Sudden Death

30 min

The Spanish Box

30 min

Backtrack

30 min

Ring of Death

An unscrupulous young woman devises a cruel plan to cash in on her fiance's recent cattle sale. Scott Brady, Bethel Leslie, H.M. Wynant, Richard Crane.

30 min

A Flower on Boot Hill

Two escaped convicts, a grieving woman, and a widowed doctor who faithfully lays flowers on his wife's grave are among the seemingly incongruous elements factoring into Slade's investigation of a baffling bank robbery.

30 min

The Charcoal Bullet

An alcoholic drifter is the only witness to a bank robbery. Scott Brady. Eli: Ned Glass. Peggy: Jacqueline Holt.

30 min

Lost Gold

30 min