The Iron Horse
The Iron Horse
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The Iron Horse

6.8 / 10
1966
2 seasons
47 episodes
Western

The Iron Horse is an American Western television series that appeared on ABC from 1966 to 1968 and featured Dale Robertson as fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron Ben Calhoun. Costars included Gary Collins, Robert Random and Ellen Burstyn.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Rail Runs West

    12-09-196660m

    Ben Calhoun sells a herd of horses, uses the proceeds to get into a poker game, and wins the BPS&D railroad. He learns the railroad is broke but is determined to lay tracks to Scal...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Dynamite Driver

    19-09-196660m

    Calhoun is under contract to deliver a herd of cattle, but a ruthless opponent of his is determined that he not succeed, and dynamites the bridge that was on the main route.

  • Ep 3

    3.High Devil

    26-09-196660m

    Calhoun's attempts s to acquire a right of way from a said to be merciless woman killer are complicated by the woman's demand for marriage as payment and the plans of a ruthless sa...

  • Ep 4

    4.Right of Way Through Paradise

    03-10-196660m

    Calhoun's plans to obtain a right of way through the town of Paradise are jeopardized by four Confederate former comrades-in-arms he has hired. The men's rowdy behavior and total d...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Pride of the Bottom of the Barrel

    10-10-196660m

    When starving Apaches leave their reservation in search of food, and encounter a brutal Cavalry commander, Ben seeks a peaceful resolution.

  • Ep 6

    6.Broken Gun

    17-10-196660m

    A gunslinger turned traveling salesman seeks revenge against the bushwhacker who crippled his drawing hand.

  • Ep 7

    7.Cougar Man

    24-10-196660m

    Calhoun decides to go into the rugged Apache country hills for a fight to the death against Cougar Man, an Apache who has killed five of Calhoun's men, and who believes himself cur...

  • Ep 8

    8.War Cloud

    31-10-196660m

    Calhoun must transport an Army unit which has captured the renegade Sioux chief War Cloud and is bringing him to stand trial for numerous murders. This comes at a bad time for Calh...

  • Ep 9

    9.No Wedding Bells for Tony

    07-11-196660m

    Calhoun arrives in a small town to attend the wedding of an old friend. But he can find no trace of the man, and everyone in town just wants Calhoun to either leave or be killed, i...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Man from New Chicago

    14-11-196660m

    After Dave is captured and forced to work in a town of outlaw forced laborers, Calhoun decides to infiltrate it in the hopes of getting him out, though he might not get out himself...

  • Ep 11

    11.Explosion at Waycrossing

    21-11-196660m

    One of Ben's trains is robbed of $50,000 and the thief is to be hanged for the crime. Deciding the sentence is unjust, Ben goes to extraordinary means to save the man's life.

  • Ep 12

    12.Through Ticket to Gunsight

    28-11-196660m

    After a boiler on the train blows, Calhoun offers to refund all the passengers, but a headstrong woman is determined to continue on as planned to the mine her grandfather left to h...

  • Ep 13

    13.Town Full of Fear

    05-12-196660m

    Ben needs the right of way for his railroad in a near ghost town. But a dark secret is being kept by the last of the citizens and they would rather Ben is killed than have it revea...

  • Ep 14

    14.Big Deal

    12-12-196660m

    Despite Calhoun's best efforts at providing security while a millionaire industrialist and his wife are on the train, a group of outlaws too easily manages to break through and kid...

  • Ep 15

    15.A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man

    19-12-196660m

    Calhoun learns from Dave and Barnabas that all of the railroad's crew has been lured away by the promise of gold from a nearby mine. Actually, it is all part of a plot to lure Calh...

  • Ep 16

    16.Hellcat

    26-12-196660m

    After Calhoun rescues a headstrong young Indian woman from two buffalo hunters who were abusing her, he asks her to be his scout through dangerous terrain on his way to meet with a...

  • Ep 17

    17.Welcome for the General

    02-01-196760m

    As Calhoun rides on the train with General Sherman on his tour, Dave, Barnabas, and the entire population of one of the train's stops are taken prisoner by a former Confederate off...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Pembrooke Blood

    09-01-196760m

    Ben Calhoun gets to end of beating line alive, then is invited for a last dinner before being shot. Ben wins his life back in a poker game, but Pembrooke reneges, and Ben runs away...

  • Ep 19

    19.Volcano Wagon

    16-01-196760m

    A cave-in traps Nils, another crewman, and a little boy in a tunnel. While Dave and others work to dig them out, Calhoun and Barnabas rush to retrieve a batch of nitro to free them...

  • Ep 20

    20.The Bridge at Forty-Mile

    23-01-196760m

    A man who sold lumber to Calhoun's railroad has disappeared, and his brother thus refuses to unload the lumber unless and until he is found to prove the sale was made. Suspecting t...

  • Ep 21

    21.Shadow Run

    30-01-196760m

    At a stop in town, Calhoun is forced to shoot a man. Unaware of who he is, two men then hire him to kill---Ben Calhoun. Calhoun decides to play along with the plot in the hope of d...

  • Ep 22

    22.Banner with a Strange Device

    06-02-196760m

    While the train is stopped in the town of Banner, where Calhoun is making a major business deal with town founder Big Jim Banner, Barnabas is attacked by Banner's son, who thinks B...

  • Ep 23

    23.Appointment with an Epitaph

    13-02-196760m

    Six people from a stagecoach board Calhoun's train, all in fear for their lives after being followed for miles by a notorious gunman, who also boards the train. Calhoun puts him of...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Red Tornado

    20-02-196760m

    Calhoun finds an eight-year-old Arapaho boy alive as the only survivor of a battle with the Shoshone. He wants to bring him back to his people, but the Shoshone want him brought to...

  • Ep 25

    25.Decision at Sundown

    27-02-196760m

    With Calhoun away, the train is taken over by a group of ruthless outlaws who demand that Dave turn over a large fortune in bonds that is being delivered. Dave tells them that they...

  • Ep 26

    26.The Passenger

    06-03-196760m

    Calhoun is under orders from President Grant himself to safely transport Pierre Le Druc, an associate of Mexico's deposed puppet emperor Maximilian, to a meeting with his French co...

  • Ep 27

    27.The Execution

    13-03-196760m

    When Calhoun's railroad is given the contract to haul for a mining company, it effectively puts the owner of the old coach freight line, who had the contract before, out of busines...

  • Ep 28

    28.Death by Triangulation

    20-03-196760m

    Calhoun wins a high stakes poker game against outlaw gambler Dan Patrick. But Patrick says he does not have the money on him, and offers a beautiful young Spanish noblewoman as col...

  • Ep 29

    29.The Golden Web

    27-03-196760m

    Ben Calhoun is forced into a business transaction with conman Preston Webb. When he joins fellow grifter Helen Garth into convincing the locals of a machine that finds gold Calhoun...

  • Ep 30

    30.Sister Death

    03-04-196760m

    Calhoun learns that he is transporting three female prisoners to Kansas City, and that one of them is the only witness against a ruthless mob boss being tried for murder. But the m...

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