The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

5.3 / 10
1963
1 season
26 episodes
Western

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is an American western television series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Robert Lewis Taylor. The show aired on ABC in the 1963-1964 television season and was produced by MGM Television. The series introduces Dan O'Herlihy as a charming Scotsman of the frontier, Dr. Sardius McPheeters. As with many such charmers, Doc is missing something commonsense-wise. Fortunately his 12-year-old son, Jaimie (Kurt Russell), makes up for it by being as sharp as Daddy is gullible. The production is slick, authentic and brisk.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Day of Leaving

    15-09-1963

    Jaimie is chased by his father's creditors while traveling on a riverboat. After falling overboard, he is then captured and held for ransom by a pair of rascals.

  • Ep 2

    2.The Day of the First Trail

    22-09-1963

    This episode concerns a gun-happy youth who kills an Indian woman.

  • Ep 3

    3.The Day of the First Suitor

    29-09-1963

    The Beaver Company stops at Whiskey springs during a July Fourth celebration, and Jenny receives her first marriage proposal from a young stranger.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Day of the Golden Fleece

    06-10-1963

    Special guest star James Whitmore plays Foxy Smith, a swindler (with a heart of gold) holed up in a cave hiding from Indians who want his scalp. Jaimie offers to help him.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Day of the Last Bugle

    13-10-1963

    The wagon train finds an entire Army regiment wiped out by Indians, except for a wounded young lieutenant, and Coulter wonders how he alone was able to survive the attack.

  • Ep 6

    6.The Day of the Skinners

    20-10-1963

    A girl runs away from a band of buffalo skinners and seeks shelter with the wagon train. The ruthless leader of the skinners demands her return, but Coulter refuses. Then an old ne...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Day of the Taboo Man

    26-10-1963

    When Jaimie finds an old Indian staked out and left for dead, Doc insists on bringing him in and trying to save his life, though Coulter warns him that interfering with tribal cust...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Day of the Giants

    03-11-1963

    Coulter meets some old acquaintances from his past, who try to use an old secret to weaken his leadership of the wagon train when the threat of Indian attack compels him to make di...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Day of the Long Night

    10-11-1963

    Jaimie and a young girl befriend a big, simple-minded man named Angus, who is traveling alone with his sister. Unfortunately Angus, though gentle with children and animals, has a p...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Day of the Killer

    17-11-1963

    Jaimie finds a man with a bullet wound, and the wagon takes him in, though he is still being hunted by the bandits who shot him.

  • Ep 11

    11.The Day of the Flying Dutchman

    01-12-1963

    In a lighter episode, Jaimie, stricken with a high fever due to chicken pox, conjures up the story of a sea captain and his converted ship traveling through the West, guided by onl...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Day of the Homeless

    08-12-1963

    When Jaimie encounters a runaway boy, they are both captured and taken to a run-down orphanage where all the boys are shackled together, beaten, and forced to work the fields. Only...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Day of the Misfits

    15-12-1963

    A group of miners come to Doc with gold nuggets and offer to show him the location of the mine if he will attend to the pregnant daughter of the camp's leader. When he hesitates, t...

  • Ep 14

    14.The Day of the Pawnees: Part One

    22-12-1963

    Jaimie is captured by the Pawnee. Murrel and Shep come across the band and devise a scheme to sell Jaimie back to his father.

  • Ep 15

    15.The Day of the Pawnees: Part Two

    29-12-1963

    After escaping from the Pawnees, Jaimie is again captured by Murrel. Meanwhile, the wagon train is held up when a passenger is mauled by a rabid wolf, giving Doc some time to try a...

  • Ep 16

    16.The Day of the Toll Takers

    05-01-1964

    The boss of a river town refuses to let the wagon train use his ferry service unless Doc can cure his wife, who has been mentally disturbed since the death of her son.

  • Ep 17

    17.The Day of the Wizard

    12-01-1964

    A traveling fortune teller plans to pass off Jaimie as the long-missing son of a couple who is offering a large reward for his return. To do this, he convinces Jaimie that he is de...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Day of the Search

    19-01-1964

    Jaimie and Linc come across a bounty hunter and his prisoner, a mountain man who he is bringing in to hang. The mountain man talks Jaimie into releasing him with a tall tale of a f...

  • Ep 19

    19.The Day of the Haunted Trail

    26-01-1964

    Doc and Jaimie find a diary in an old wrecked stagecoach, which gives apparent instructions about how to find the way out of the dry valley in which the wagon train is trapped with...

  • Ep 20

    20.The Day of the Tin Trumpet

    02-02-1964

    Seeing an old derelict being harassed by thugs, Doc and Jaimie invite the man to join them on the wagon train. The old codger interests Jaimie and the other kids with his stories a...

  • Ep 21

    21.The Day of the Lame Duck

    09-02-1964

    When Jaimie stops Piggy Trewblood from hanging himself, he doesn't realize the mess that it all leads to. Piggy hopes to buy back his wife, Zoe Pigalle, who he gambled away for 700...

  • Ep 22

    22.The Day of the Picnic

    16-02-1964

    In a light episode, Jaimie relates the story of the time he worked to save a strong, simple-minded young man from a hanging by finding the real perpetrator of the attempted murder.

  • Ep 23

    23.The Day of the 12 Candles

    23-02-1964

    Jaimie finds a baby Arapaho boy near the body of his dead mother, one of many slaughtered by an Army contingent. In spite of Linc's warning that bringing the baby on the wagon trai...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Day of the Pretenders

    01-03-1964

    After the wagon train stops an attack on an old European and his nephew, Jaimie is then taken by men who have mistaken him for the boy, who is apparently really a prince who they h...

  • Ep 25

    25.The Day of the Dark Deeds

    08-03-196460m

    Doc and Jaimie come across a wounded Army lieutenant, who begs Doc to deliver the pouch he is carrying to Fort Dexter. The pouch contains money to be paid to the Nez Perce for food...

  • Ep 26

    26.The Day of the Reckoning

    15-03-1964

    Stopping with Jaimie in a dusty old town, Linc meets up with his old flame Maria, whom he had thought was dead. She is now married to a bitter enemy of his, one of three crooked br...

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