
An unwitting city slicker is made the marshal of a lawless town in this absurdist Western that pokes gentle but clever fun at the genre's stock plots and characters.…
NR • Comedy, Western • Series • 1981 • 1 season
Starring: Joel Higgins, Carlene Watkins, Meeno Peluce
S1 E1 - Pilot
Sam arrives in town intending to run the general store, then runs into all kinds of trouble after turning down the protection racket.
Sep 10, 1981 • 30m
S1 E2 - The Prisoner
Sam must face a prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes ill on his way through town.
Sep 17, 1981 • 30m
S1 E3 - The Calico Kid Returns
The Square Deal Saloon's new cook is the Calico Kid; he has sworn to never again kill anything he can't eat.
Oct 1, 1981 • 30m
S1 E4 - They're Hanging Parker Tillman (1)
Sam goes out on a limb and manages to save Tillman from a lynch mob, but at the trial, his mixed-up testimony has him back at the end of a rope.
Oct 15, 1981 • 30m
S1 E5 - They're Hanging Parker Tillman (2)
Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling.
Oct 22, 1981 • 30m
S1 E6 - The New Marshal
Sam loses his badge in a special election to Tillman's squeaky-clean candidate.
Oct 29, 1981 • 30m
S1 E7 - Daniel's First Love
Daniel is as surprised as anyone when a few innocent kisses lead to a shotgun wedding.
Nov 5, 1981 • 30m
S1 E8 - Laney in Love
Laney is smitten with a smoothie who bids high for her at a social—but he turns out to be a low-down heel.
Nov 12, 1981 • 30m
S1 E9 - The Reunion
Elvira's die-hard Confederate father (Andy Griffith) stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town. His wife is trying to patch things up with their daughter; she married a Yankee!
Oct 8, 1981 • 30m
S1 E10 - The Railroad
Sam and Tillman try hard to convince the railroad to come to Copper Creek.
Nov 19, 1981 • 30m
S1 E11 - The New Jail
Sam's image as a lawman quickly loses its edge after he manages to shoot himself in the leg; the jail collapsing around him doesn't help.
Nov 26, 1981 • 30m
S1 E12 - A Man, a Woman, and a Horse
Sam doesn't pay attention to signs of discontent from Elvira until the day he comes home to finds her packed to leave.
Dec 17, 1981 • 30m
S1 E13 - Frog's First Gunfight
Frog meets a woman who was recently jilted by her beau, but neither realizes he wants her back.
Jan 7, 1982 • 30m
S1 E14 - The Calico Kid Goes to School
The reformed Calico Kid decides he wants to be a United States Marshal. But he lacks one qualification: a third-grade education.
Jan 14, 1982 • 30m
S1 E15 - Tillman Held for Ransom
Tillman has been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom, but the Copper Creek citizens have no intention of paying up.
Jan 21, 1982 • 30m
S1 E16 - Mail Order Bride
Doc's mail-order bride has a vivid personality with a past to match it.
Jan 28, 1982 • 30m
S1 E17 - The Cave-In
Elvira and her stepson explore an abandoned outlaw cave, unaware that it is booby-trapped to collapse.
Feb 12, 1982 • 30m
S1 E18 - Daniel Fights a Bully
Daniel's refusal to fight a relentless bully leads to Sam having to fight the bully's father.
Feb 19, 1982 • 30m
S1 E19 - The Pretty Prisoner
Sam is handcuffed to his prisoner—a flirtatious female outlaw—for an overnight journey.
Feb 26, 1982 • 30m
S1 E20 - Elvira's Old Beau
Elvira's former fiance' comes to town, intent on taking her away with him.
Jun 7, 1982 • 30m
S1 E21 - Sam's Life Is Threatened
Sam receives an anonymous threatening note.
Jun 14, 1982 • 30m
S1 E22 - The Funeral
Sam and Tillman try to foil a holdup by holding a funeral for Frog; the coffin contains the $20,000 the thieves are after.
Jun 21, 1982 • 30m
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Best of the West
An unwitting city slicker is made the marshal of a lawless town in this absurdist Western that pokes gentle but clever fun at the genre's stock plots and characters. Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982.
NR • Comedy, Western • TV Series • 1981