Alias Smith and Jones

A conniving bank employee is caught swindling the bank and kills his boss, blows the safe to get the money inside, then blames the robbery on Heyes and Curry. Banker August Binford (John McGiver) quotes the wanted poster descriptions of our heroes in this elaborate frame up and even clobbers himself on the head with a crow-bar to complete the picture. Heyes and Curry set out to clear their names and pull another sting, this time involving a fake diamond mine. With some help for an old pal (Sam Jaffe) they masquerade as diamond miners who want a safe-deposit box at the bank. The shifty banker refuses to sell them one until he knows what they are going to stash in it. They show him the diamonds and his eyes light up. This is another episode where yet another actor (Mike Road)incarnates Sheriff Lom Trevors. The sting itself is no great shakes, but the success that our heroes have in convincing the villain to turn himself in is truly extraordinary. Talk about good citizenship! At the outset of the show, Binford brandishes a gun to kill his boss, but we never see him fire the fatal shot. Ostensibly, our heroes manage to clear their names and at the same time persuade a felon to give himself up based on his own struggle with his conscience.