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13 Episodes 1982 - 1983
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 28, 1982
The kids band together to show they can help with the work that would be too much for Moses to do alone as well as know how like canning fruits/veges so Murphy and Mae can go on a much needed honeymoon in Mae's hometown of Omaha Nebraska.
Episode 2
Tue, Oct 5, 1982
Sarah Timmons brings her son Josh to Gold Hill after she determines that the problems he has been having are being caused by his abusive father. When the father comes to forcibly retrieve Josh, Murphy accidentally kills him. When Josh rejects Murphy, the man has trouble getting to grips for what he did. Ultimately he makes Josh confront his feelings, and they both heal.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 26, 1982
A writer by the name of Clemens comes to Jackson to start a newspaper and is impressed by Will and Ephram's ingenuity at getting other kids to help them paint a fence for free--for which they are being paid.
Episode 4
Tue, Nov 9, 1982
A man visits Gold Hill to inform one of the orphans that s/he might have been named by a lately-deceased aunt to inherit her fortune--but is he really there to take him/her to the reading of the will as he says?
Episode 5
Tue, Nov 16, 1982
Murphy and Mae start out with the excitement of knowing that they're expecting. Keeping it secret, Murphy starts to build an extra room onto their house. Will confronts Murphy, and gets the wrong idea that the room is for him. He gets jealous after finding out about the baby--and even more jealous after it arrives. Murphy does not help by not realizing that Will feels hurt. Will decides that he would be better off heading to St. Louis.
Episode 6
Tue, Nov 23, 1982
Will falls in with a group of orphan street kids taught to steal by an elderly lady who cooks and cares for them and helps them find jobs. Murphy is in St. Louisestaying with the photographer that visited Gold Hills trying to find Will.
Episode 7
Tue, Nov 30, 1982
Lizette gets a job sewing and finds out about the ups and downs of adolescence.
Episode 8
Tue, Dec 7, 198260 mins
In a town that doesn't know them, John Murphy and Moses Gage are mistaken for two notorious outlaws--one a big white man like Murphy who goes by "Big Jake", the other a Black man like Moses who's known as "Black Jack."
Episode 9
Tue, Dec 14, 198260 mins
While on a freight run with Murphy, Matt Sims witnesses a bank robbery by his friend Nolan and Nolan's two very bad brothers. Matt struggles with the disappointment that someone he looked up to could let him down so much. Nolan struggles when he realizes he made a mistake robbing with his brothers. Events lead Matt to turn Nolan in after promising that he wouldn't. Then all at Gold Hill must figure out a way to keep Nolan from hanging for the crime.
Episode 10
Tue, Dec 21, 198260 mins
A gunfighter rolls into Jackson, bent on changing his ways and visiting his son, who is housed at Gold Hill. Adults and children alike are excited by the idea of a famous gunfighter in their town. But can the gunfighter get people to leave him alone? Should he tell his son that he is his father?
Episode 11
Tue, Dec 28, 198260 mins
A 16-year-old girl finds out she is pregnant, then finds out the father has run back to Kansas City--to his wife. Distraught, she runs away from home and nearly drowns. The Gold Hill folks nurse her back to health and love her, and she pays the ultimate price for her child.
Episode 12
Wed, Jun 1, 198360 mins
Garrett ruins Gold Hill's benefit Fourth of July show by stealing all the fireworks from Murphy's barn and putting them in his saloon safe. A comical old safecracker, an escaped convict, befriends Murphy and the kids and liberates the firecrackers.
Episode 13
Sun, Sep 18, 1983
Three of the kids decide that Moses needs some romance in his life, so they send away for a mail-order bride. Her arrival brings joy to everyone except Moses. By the time Moses realizes that she's the perfect woman to be his wife, she goes back to her boyfriend back East after she receives a letter from him stating that he wants to marry her.