
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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
15-09-1963Jaimie 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
22-09-1963This episode concerns a gun-happy youth who kills an Indian woman.
- Ep 3
3.The Day of the First Suitor
29-09-1963The 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
06-10-1963Special 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
13-10-1963The 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
20-10-1963A 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
26-10-1963When 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
03-11-1963Coulter 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
10-11-1963Jaimie 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
17-11-1963Jaimie 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
01-12-1963In 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
08-12-1963When 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
15-12-1963A 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
22-12-1963Jaimie 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
29-12-1963After 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
05-01-1964The 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
12-01-1964A 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
19-01-1964Jaimie 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
26-01-1964Doc 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
02-02-1964Seeing 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
09-02-1964When 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
16-02-1964In 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
23-02-1964Jaimie 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
01-03-1964After 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
08-03-196460mDoc 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
15-03-1964Stopping 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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