Hec Ramsey

NBC (ended 1974)
  • Season 2
    • Ep 5
      Only Birds and Fools
      4/7/74
      8.9
      The town is buzzing over the impossible dream of man in flight. Two men arrive to test a glider and become suspects in the murder of a rival flyer.
    • Ep 4
      Scar Tissue
      3/10/74
      8.4
      A hotheaded young man comes to town looking for his father, who deserted he and his mother many years before. When the father turns up dead Hec tries to prove that the young man is not guilty.
    • Ep 3
      Dead Heat
      2/3/74
      8.6
      A healthy looking young man dies of heart failure, but Hec is convinced that he was a victim of foul play.
    • Ep 2
      The Detroit Connection
      12/30/73
      6.9
      A crime syndicate based in Detroit comes to New Prospect and begins victimizing oildrillers who are tricked into accepting loans from the syndicate. When one of the drillers is murdered it's up to Hec Ramsey to play Eliot Ness against this early version of the Purple Gang.
    • Ep 1
      A Hard Road to Vengeance
      11/25/73
      7.7
      13 years ago, outlaw Jamie Redsmith was shot dead by lawman Virgil Bassett. Now, with the passage of time, Redsmith has become a hero and Bassett the villain of the piece. The town of New Prospect plans to erect a monument honoring Jamie but Bassett shows up in town demanding that his side of the story be heard.moreless
  • Season 1
    • Ep 5
      The Mystery of Chalk Hill
      2/18/73
      8.0
      Hec hunts the killers of his fiancee, Norma Muldoon and her son Andy during a stagecoach robbery. His chief suspect is the son of an old friend and fellow lawman.
    • Ep 4
      The Mystery of the Yellow Rose
      1/28/73
      10
      Hec acts as lawyer to a former galpal who is accused of killing the son of the richest man in New Mexico.
    • Ep 3
      The Green Feather Mystery
      12/17/72
      7.5
      Hec sets out to clear innocent Native Americans and catch the real killers of three ranchers. Color blindness is a strange key to solving the mystery.
    • Ep 2
      Hangman's Wages
      10/29/72
      8.8
      The electric chair is about to make its Western debut with a captured killer, but someone is making anonymous threats that there will be a murder a day until the condemned man is set free.
    • Ep 1
      The Century Turns
      10/8/72
      8.3
      Hec Ramsey, an aging lawman in the turn-of-the century West, finds himself out of step with the times and reluctantly accepts a job as a deputy to an inexperienced college-educated Police Chief in the town of New Prospect, Oklahoma. He uses his brain along with the primitive beginnings of early-day criminal science to solve crimes.moreless