Death Valley Days
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1. How Death Valley Got Its Name
First aired: 12/10/1952 Production Code: 2102A 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: 2143The story of Aaron Winters and his wife Rosie and their discovery of borax in Death Valley.
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: Donna Martell (Rosie Winters), James Griffith (Aaron Winters), Allan Nixon, Hank Patterson, Rosa Turich
3. The Death Valley Kid
First aired: 10/10/1952 Production Code: 2446After pursuing a young outlaw in the Death Valley region, a sheriff discovers that the boy is his brother.
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: Richard Emory (The Death Valley Kid), Ann McCrea, Bruce Edwards (Sheriff)
4. The Lost Pegleg Mine
First aired: 10/17/1952 Production Code: 2101Coming soon........
5. The Little Bullfrog Nugget
First aired: 10/15/1952 Production Code: 2100Coming soon........
6. Self-Made Man
First aired: 12/12/1952 Production Code: 2447A 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.
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: William A. Henry, Doris Merrick, House Peters Jr.
7. The Chivaree
First aired: 1/7/1953 Production Code: 2294A 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: 2144A 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.
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: Tracey Roberts (Lil), Myron Healey, Arthur Space, Dick Alexander, Ray Bennett
9. Cynthy's Dream Dress
First aired: 3/3/1953 Production Code: 2538After 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.
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: Virginia Lee, Brad Johnson (I), Helen Brown
11. The Rival Hash Houses
First aired: 2/3/1953 Production Code: 2292A 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: 2291A 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.
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: Tex Terry, Henry Rowland, Hank Patterson, Jock Mahoney, Margaret Field, Denver Pyle
13. The Bell of San Gabriel
First aired: 3/17/1953 Production Code: 2690A 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 |
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: 2692Two 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 |
A group of Mormons decides to set up a settlement in Utah.
Director: Stuart McGowan
Guest star: Charles Hayes, John Halloran, John Dierkes, Ella Ethridge, Robert Hutton, Sally Mansfield, Hank Patterson
17. Little Oscar's Millions
First aired: 1/1/2006 Production Code: 2947A 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: 2946Two slaves are given permission to go west and pan gold in order to earn their freedom.
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