1981
30m

Summary The Wild West misadventures of a mild-mannered store owner turned town Marshal. View more details

1981
30m

Best of the West

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Carlene Watkins Joel Higgins Valri Bromfield Meeno Peluce

All cast & crew

7.6

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Genres : Comedy Western

Release date : Sep 9, 1981

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA

Production companies : Paramount Television Weinberger/Daniels Productions

Summary The Wild West misadventures of a mild-mannered store owner turned town Marshal. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Western

Release date : Sep 9, 1981

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA

Production companies : Paramount Television Weinberger/Daniels Productions

Photos

Tracey Walter and Darrell Zwerling in Best of the West (1981)

Valri Bromfield, Leonard Frey, Joel Higgins, Carlene Watkins, and Darrell Zwerling in Best of the West (1981)

Leonard Frey and Tracey Walter in Best of the West (1981)

Joe Regalbuto in Best of the West (1981)

John Calvin and Carlene Watkins in Best of the West (1981)

Dixie Carter and Joel Higgins in Best of the West (1981)

James Calvert, Jack O'Halloran, and Meeno Peluce in Best of the West (1981)

Leonard Frey, Joel Higgins, Jack O'Halloran, and Tracey Walter in Best of the West (1981)

Meeno Peluce and Carlene Watkins in Best of the West (1981)

Leonard Frey and John Dennis Johnston in Best of the West (1981)

Robert Carnegie, Leonard Frey, and Walter Robles in Best of the West (1981)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 09, 1981

Pilot

Immediately after the Civil War, a union soldier takes his southern belle wife to Montana, planning to open a general store and helping change part the wilderness into a thriving community. He has to battle not only the crooked town boss, a notorious gunfighter but his family that are desperate to return to civilization.

Episode 2 • Sep 16, 1981

The Prisoner

When Sheriff Lattimer arrives with a prisoner and gets ill from an embedded arrowhead, Sam has to take over. He has to then deal with the eight brothers who arrive to set him free.

Episode 3 • Sep 23, 1981

Mail Order Bride

Doc sends for a mail order bride. And when she arrives the gang learns that she's more experienced than Doc thinks she is. And it's at the wedding that she reveals the truth.

Episode 4 • Sep 30, 1981

The Calico Kid Returns

When the Calico Kid arrives he announces his retirement as an outlaw and takes on a chef's role at the saloon. However, when a gunslinger challenges him to a gunfight, a plan is needed to avoid bloodshed.

Episode 5 • Oct 07, 1981

The Reunion

Elvira's father, a Confederate Colonel who stopped talking to her because she married a Yankee, Sam, comes for a visit. But he's still not talking to her. Sam tries to fix things between them.

Episode 6 • Oct 14, 1981

The Hanging of Parker Tillman

Tillman is accused of rustling and is cleverly saved from a lynching mob by Sam. A trial is held, but Tillman's witness doesn't help his case and he is found guilty and promptly sentenced to be hanged.

Episode 7 • Oct 21, 1981

The Hanging of Parker Tillman: Part II

Posing as Patch Beaudrey, Sam Best enters a den of thieves to find evidence of Parker Tillman's innocence.

Episode 8 • Oct 28, 1981

The New Marshal

Tillman's candidate for new town marshal, Nat Lindsay, wins the election, but he is not as suitable a choice as he seems to be. Everyone, including Tillman, are affected and he has to be stopped.

Episode 9 • Nov 04, 1981

Daniel's First Love

According to the mountain man father, his daughter is married to 10-year-old Daniel, after a shotgun wedding. Sam seeks advice on the legalities.

Episode 10 • Nov 11, 1981

Laney in Love

Laney gets a date with Tom Hudson, who bids for her at the Copper Creek Box Social. Elvira and Sam help her dress up herself (and her cabin) for the big evening of surprises.

Episode 11 • Nov 18, 1981

The Railroad

When the railroad is planning to choose between two locations for their line and one of them is Copper Creek. So the town needs to send someone to meet with the railroad to convince them to choose them. And the ones who are chosen are Sam and Tillman. When they get there, the railroad is looking for a respectable town and Tillman says they are; they even have a church which they don't. The railroad decides to pick Copper Creek. But when a representative from the railroad shows up they need to pretend that they are a congregation. The representative tells Sam that the they are not going through their and why the railroad said they chose their town.

Episode 12 • Nov 25, 1981

The New Jail

Sam accidentally shoots himself in the leg and the townspeople think it happened when he went after the Barlow Gang. Despite his embarrassment when they find out, they show confidence in him as their marshal.

Episode 13 • Dec 16, 1981

A Man, a Woman, and a Horse

Sam is puzzled when Elvira leaves home after he brings home a horse for her, when she is unhappy about her lifestyle. He has to find a way for her to return home and be happy.

Episode 14 • Jan 06, 1982

Frog's First Gunfight

Amos Skinner comes to town to marry his unhappy girlfriend Merilee, but finds she has been flirting with Frog and wants to kill him. This leads to a confrontation in the saloon.

Episode 15 • Jan 13, 1982

The Calico Kid Goes to School

The Calico Kid wants to marry his girlfriend Nora and, since he needs a steady job, wants to apply for Marshal at Twin Forks. However, he needs some schooling and to pass the third grade test to get the job.

Episode 16 • Jan 20, 1982

Tillman Held for Ransom

Tillman announces the opening of the first bank of Copper Creek - in his office. He is captured by outlaws who hold him for $10,000 ransom. However, the townspeople are reluctant to help him.

Episode 17 • Feb 11, 1982

The Cave-In

Elvira is not happy that her stepson Daniel has not yet fully accepted her as his mother. While exploring the outlaw caves out of town, an accident brings them closer together.

Episode 18 • Feb 18, 1982

Daniel Fights a Bully

Sam confronts the father of a boy who is bullying Daniel and tells Big John Fletcher to make his boy stop. However, the two end up fighting in an arranged boxing match.

Episode 19 • Feb 25, 1982

The Pretty Prisoner

Sam apprehends a female outlaw. Sam has to bring her in for trial. And Elvira is uncomfortable because she's an attractive woman. Later she escapes and when Sam tells them what happened, it's hard for anyone to believe that she outwitted him. Especially since she comes back and says it's because of him.

Episode 20 • Jun 06, 1982

Elvira's Old Beau

A man Elvira was engaged to but because he was shot during the war, she met and married Sam instead, has come to town. He tells Sam that he wants her and intends to ask her to go with him. Sam is told by the gang not to do it. But he lets her go anyway. Tillman then tells him that he can spy on them if he wants to through the bear on the wall.

Episode 21 • Jun 13, 1982

Sam's Life Is Threatened

Sam learns that a man he arrested escaped and is probably on his way to get him. So he and the others wonder how he will do it. And Frog points out that a woman who just came to town, appears to more familiar with the town for someone who just came. So Sam asks Tillman to go talk to her but what they don't know is that she is the man in disguise.

Episode 22 • Jun 20, 1982

The Funeral

In order to outwit the Dugan Gang, Sam agrees to a plan to transport $20,000 contained in a coffin to Silver City. Frog hides in disguise in the coffin to enable the plan to succeed.

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