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Season 1

1. How Death Valley Got Its Name  

First aired: 12/10/1952    Production Code: 2102

A group of pioneers finds a desolate wasteland on their way to California, which they aptly name Death Valley.

2. She Burns Green  

First aired: 11/14/1952    Production Code: 2143

The story of Aaron Winters and his wife Rosie and their discovery of borax in Death Valley.

3. The Death Valley Kid  

First aired: 10/10/1952    Production Code: 2446

After pursuing a young outlaw in the Death Valley region, a sheriff discovers that the boy is his brother.

4. The Lost Pegleg Mine  

First aired: 10/17/1952    Production Code: 2101

Coming soon........

Writer: Ruth Woodman
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: Ralph Sanford (Pegleg)

5. The Little Bullfrog Nugget  

First aired: 10/15/1952    Production Code: 2100

Coming soon........

Writer: Ruth Woodman
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: Gail Davis (Mamie)

6. Self-Made Man  

First aired: 12/12/1952    Production Code: 2447

A hard-rock miner and champion driller is encouraged by a dance-hall girl to study law after he loses an arm in a shooting fracas.

7. The Chivaree  

First aired: 1/7/1953    Production Code: 2294

A Bostonian who has married a local girl in a desert mining town refuses to invite the townspeople into his home on his wedding night, thereby instigating a three-day chivaree which occupies the citizens and affords a needy old woman a chance to locate her claim.

8. The Little Dressmaker of Bodie  

First aired: 11/12/1952    Production Code: 2144

A quiet and retiring dressmaker for the dance hall girls in a western mining camp is discovered to be Tiger Lil, a former dance hall queen of Virginia City.

9. Cynthy's Dream Dress  

First aired: 3/3/1953    Production Code: 2538

After being robbed of a large sum of money, an embittered prospector denies his wife a purple silk dress which has become a symbol of beauty in her life.

11. The Rival Hash Houses  

First aired: 2/3/1953    Production Code: 2292

A young widow from the East offers serious competition to the proprietor of a Nevada café when she opens a rival restaurant and discovers gold on property which she purchased from him.

12. Swamper Ike  

First aired: 2/3/1953    Production Code: 2291

A young man who was reared as an Indian after the death of his parents in Death Valley is obliged to prove his identity in order to marry a white girl whom he loves.

13. The Bell of San Gabriel  

First aired: 3/17/1953    Production Code: 2690

A young man adopted by a Spanish nobleman and is raised as his son and heir but he rebels and becomes a Franciscan monk. On his way to the San Gabriel Mission he gets lost and ends up in Death Valley.

14. Claim Jumping Jennie  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 3/31/1953    Production Code: 2691

Claim jumper Jennie attempts to jump the mining claim of Buck Hansen near Rhyolite, Nevada. Then Jennie's finishing school daughter, Linda arrives planning to surprise her allegedly "wealthy gold-mine-owning" mother. Disillusioned by her mother's rough occupation, Linda decides to return home, but meets and falls in love with a young mining engineer, John. Meanwhile, Buck is reported lost in Death Valley without food or water. How Buck is rescued by "Claim Jumping Jennie" and resolves the mother-daughter problem is dramatically narrated in this action-packed true western. (Synopsis from "Death Valley Days" official website)

15. The Bandits of Panamint  

First aired: 3/31/1953    Production Code: 2692

Two men running from a posse find a rich silver deposit, now they must find a way to stake their claim without going to jail.

16. Sego Lillies  

Community Score

8.0 Great
First aired: 4/28/1953    Production Code: 2945

A group of Mormons decides to set up a settlement in Utah.

17. Little Oscar's Millions  

First aired: 1/1/2006    Production Code: 2947

A man arrives in Rawhide, Nevada and spends his last 10 dollars on a town lot. The lot winds up being a gold mine.

18. Land of the Free  

First aired: 5/26/1953    Production Code: 2946

Two slaves are given permission to go west and pan gold in order to earn their freedom.

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