The Tall Man

S01E15: Billy's Baby

It is the Christmas season and Billy is partying at the local salon with his girlfriend, Maria. A visiting Texan taks offense to Billy and a fight errupts, leaving the Texan shot and left for dead. Billy runs towards Mexico to avoid arrest but runs into trouble with Apaches. Garrett attempts to bring Billy in but ends up fighting Apaches with him. In the end Garret's faith in Billy the kid and Billy's loyalty to his lawman friend are tested.

Overview

The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.

Episodes

S01E01 Garrett and the Kid

September 10, 1960 30 min
Paul Mason is trying to take over Lincoln county and buys off everyone except Pat Garrett. Billy is determined to help Pat out even though Pat tells him to stay out of it. This episode...

S01E02 Forty-Dollar Boots

September 17, 1960 30 min
Billy's friend Charlie Evers offers him a new pair of boots in exchange for his help rustling cattle. Billy is torn between his desire for the outlaw life and his loyalty to Pat Garrett, his...

S01E03 Bad Company

September 24, 1960 30 min
Karl Negal is a rigid, german father to his soon-to-be a man son, Johnny. Johnny idealizes Billy and, wanting to be like him, robs a grocery store and kills the owner. After Pat Garett kills...

S01E04 The Shawl

October 1, 1960 30 min
The Roberts brothers are gunning for Billy,but they kill his sweetheart, Mariea, instead. Meanwhile, Billy is heading home with a fancy shawl as a gift for his girl.

S01E05 The Lonely Star

October 8, 1960 30 min
Sheriff Brady is shot down and deputy Pat Garrett must decide if he will run for sheriff in a corrupt election run by local cattle baron Andy Gorman.The odds against Pat are big until Billy...

S01E06 A Bounty for Billy

October 15, 1960 30 min
Newly elected sheriff Pat Garrett is gunned down in the dark during an express office robbery. Deputy Johnny Swift believes the shooter is Billy the Kid. With Pat unconsious and the town out for blood,...

S01E07 The Parson

October 29, 1960 30 min
A new Parson comes to Lincoln and builds a successful ministry until it is discovered that he is an ex-gunslinger. Ben Meyers and his son Jebul have come to town with an old grudge and...

S01E08 Night Train to Tularosa

November 15, 1960 30 min
Garrett is taking killer Dan Rees to prison aboard the night train to Tularosa and , so far as he is concerned, justice has never been sweeter. Rees had married and caused the death of...

S01E09 Larceny and Young Ladies

November 19, 1960 30 min
Teenagers June and May McBean are making a living stealing horses when they make the mistake of stealing Pat Garrett""s horse. Pat tracks and arrests the girls and then intrusts them to Billy while he...

S01E10 Counterfeit Law

November 26, 1960 30 min
Billy delivers a herd of cattle to Barlows place in Gunsite county. He is robbed and put in jail by ""Judge Barlow"" and his assistants. Pat Garrett is riding his rounds in the territory and...

S01E11 And the Beast

November 26, 1960 30 min
Pat Garrett arrives at the Corbin ranch to find everyone murdered but the housekeeper, Agatha. Subsequent murders lead Garret to the truth. However when it becomes time to arrest the murderer, Garrett finds Billy has...

S01E12 Bitter Ashes

December 3, 1960 30 min

S01E13 McBean Rides Again

December 10, 1960 30 min
The teenage troublemakers June and May McBean team up to cause Pat, Billy and their dad headaches over illegal brewing of whiskey. It looks like everyone but the culprits will end up in jail. In...

S01E14 Tiger Eye

December 17, 1960 30 min
Billy and Pat rescue a young apache man from being staked out by his tribe. Billy takes the young man under his wing and insists on bring the Apache to town to live as a...

S01E15 Billy's Baby

December 24, 1960 30 min
It is the Christmas season and Billy is partying at the local salon with his girlfriend, Maria. A visiting Texan taks offense to Billy and a fight errupts, leaving the Texan shot and left for...

S01E16 One of One Thousand

December 31, 1960 30 min
Pat Garrett wins an expensive rifle in a shooting contest in Fort Sumner. When he goes to collect the rifle he finds that the rifle has been stolen and the gunsmith murdered. The two suspects...

S01E17 First Blood

January 7, 1961 30 min
Hendry Grant, a renouned gunfighter is hired by cattle baron, Andy Gorman to kill Billy the Kid and thereby establish Gorman's power over John Tundall in Lincoln county. Garrett, a longtime acquaintance of Grant's tries...

S01E18 A Gun Is for Killing

January 14, 1961 30 min
Deputy Johnny Swift angers cattle drover Blanchard and a subsequent gun battle leaves Johnny dead by accident at the hand of his friend Pat Garrett. Pat, in his guilt,, abandons his office and leaves the...

S01E19 The Grudge Fight

January 21, 1961 30 min
Billy and a young man named , Denver, are constantly butting heads as rival gunslingers and ladies men. Garrett throws them out of town and orders them to go their seperate ways. However, they make...

S01E20 The Best Policy

January 28, 1961 30 min
Cattleman John Miller adds a few of his branded animals to a herd belonging to Pat and Billy . Then Miller accuses the boys of rustling.

S01E21 The Reversed Blade

February 4, 1961 30 min
John Tundall, Billy's boss, discovers that his ex-wife and her new husband, Ben Webster, have returned to Lincoln with a plot to blackmail him. Garrett and Billy are at a loss to prevent the subsequent...

S01E22 Dark Moment

February 11, 1961 30 min
Francisco, a tenant farmer, accidently shoots his landlord to death during an argument.Judy,the landlords daughter and the only witeness, is also wounded. When Garrett arrives, Judy is near death and is only able to point...

S01E23 The Reluctant Bridegroom

February 18, 1961

S01E24 Maria's Little Lamb

February 25, 1961 30 min
Billy goes for Maria in a big way. Her father, however is a sheep rancher,which traditionally means troble with the local cattle ranchers.Torn between Maria and Garrett, who is siding with the cattlemen, Billy isn't...

S01E25 Big Sam's Boy

March 4, 1961 30 min
A pair of schemers named Jarrico and Clegg decide to capitalize on the death of Lonnie, an army buddy wwho was the long-lost son of wealthy Sam Masters.Jarrico and Clegg talk a third man into...

S01E26 The Last Resource

March 11, 1961 30 min
Marshall Ben Hartley comes to Lincoln to arrest Billy Bonney for the murder of his 12 yeaar old daughter in Prescott., Az. Pat initially helps Hartley arrest Billy but becomes suspicious when Hartley uses unorthodox...

S01E27 Rovin' Gambler

March 18, 1961 30 min
When Doc. Holiday comes to Lincoln, he is falsely accused by his estranged girlfriend, Kate Elder, of robbing a stagecoach and killing the driver. Although they are longtime friends, Garrett is forced to arrest Holiday.Holiday...

S01E28 Hard Justice

March 25, 1961 30 min
Vince Ober is suppose to be buying cattle for the army, but he is really trying to arrange a deal that will profit only himself.He asks Billy to rustle some cattle,and,when Billy refuses, sends a...

S01E29 The Legend and the Gun

April 1, 1961 30 min
Billy's step-father, Bill Antrim, is gunned down by a trio of gunmen. When the news reaches town, Billy vows vengeance on the murderers and, despite Garrett's warning, takes the law into his own hands.

S01E30 A Kind of Courage

April 8, 1961 30 min
Ex-gunfighter and town drunk Clint Latimer vows revenge against Billy Bonney for teaching Latimers son Jody gunfighting. The boy is wounded in a gunfight and Latimer sobers up and practices his draw in preparaion to...

S01E31 Millionaire McBean

April 15, 1961 30 min
Tomboys, June and May McBean are up to their old tricks. They figure that if people thought their Pa was rich, they might land a husband, so they plant some gold in the old man's...

S01E32 A Scheme of Hearts

April 22, 1961 30 min
Nita Jardine, the wife of an ex-con comes to Lincoln looking to escape the pursuit of her husband. She flirts with both Billy and Pat in the hope of convincing them to protect her against...

S01E33 The Cloudbusters

April 29, 1961 30 min
Lincoln is in the middle of a drought and Apache Mike Grey Eagle has the only water in town. He has a stranglehold on the town with his high water prices so the town council...

S01E34 Ransom of a Town

May 6, 1961 30 min
Lincoln's Padre is kidnapped by an outlaw named Ledall and held for ransom. When the town can't come up with the money fast enough, Billy the Kid takes matters into his own hands. While Billy...

S01E35 Ladies of the Town

May 20, 1961 30 min
Silver Creek is a boom town in Lincoln county run by the corrupt Jason Clarey. Sheriff Pat Garrett rides out to restore order and finds that the respectable woman of the town are organizing to...

S01E36 Death or Taxes

May 27, 1961 30 min
A railroad land purchaser named Fallon has secured the right-of- way through town. But he refuses to pay the required taxes and backs up his stand with a gang of gunmen.

S01E37 The Great Western

June 3, 1961 30 min
Garrett thinks it would be a good idea to clean up the town before territorial governor Lew Wallace arrives. He plans to runout a saloonkeeper named Big Mamacita. Her plans are to stay right where...

Cast

Clu Gulager
Clu Gulager
Billy the Kid
Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan
Pat Garrett

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