Long Hot Summer
ABC (ended 1966)
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Season 1
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3/9/66Angry because his father passed him over for a promotion at the bank, Jody leaves home and goes to work for Ben.
3/2/66
2/23/66Clara's old friend Katy is returning from Europe with her Italian fiance, and Clara, depressed because she thinks it's time she found a husband herself, proposes to Ben.
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12/30/65Joe Hagen, an enemy of Ben's father, escapes jail and hides out near Frenchman's Bend determined to prove he is innocent of Murder. Ben becomes involved initially against his will.
12/16/65
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11/18/65Desperate for harvest hands, Ben hires a couple who once crossed Varner - and whom Varner has told to get out of town
11/11/65Senator Jonathan Dane's daughter is acting quite mysteriously. or.. A disturbed girl's charges, cause Ben to be jailed, and Clara sets out to prove his innocence
11/4/65Pro-football star Scott Manning returns to Frenchman's Bend and gets a hero's welcome from everyone except Clara, who is deeply disturbed by his homecoming
10/28/65Varner disapproves of daughter Clara's romance with Charles Pettigrew, a scholarly college student whom he considers a weakling
10/21/65Lonnie McBain claims that Varner is trying to force him and his deaf-mute sister off their land
10/14/65Willow's continuing pursuit of Ben leads to tragic consequences for someone, and jail for Ben.
10/7/65Willow Sterne comes to Frenchman's Bend looking for former boyfriend Ben Quick - whom she hopes to lure back with her sizable divorce settlemen
9/30/65On his way home for his 21st birthday party, Jody stops to pick up a young hitchhiker - a girl who has two men following her
9/23/65Varner learns that Ben Quick needs a bank loan to rebuild his farm, and Varner means to make sure he doesn't get itNEXT EPISODE AIRS 9/16/1965 AT 10PM ON ABC
9/16/65Ben Quick arrives back in Frenchman's Bend to re-build and work his father's farm, much to the displeasure of Will Varner.
