Aired: 9/10/1981
Sam arrives in town intending to run the general store, then runs into all kinds of trouble after turning down the protection racket.
Aired: 9/17/1981
Sam must face a prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes ill on his way through town.
Aired: 10/1/1981
The Square Deal Saloon's new cook is the Calico Kid; he has sworn to never again kill anything he can't eat.
Aired: 10/15/1981
Sam goes out on a limb and manages to save Tillman from a lynch mob, but at the trial, his mixed-up testimony has him back at the end of a rope.
Aired: 10/22/1981
Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling.
Aired: 10/29/1981
Sam loses his badge in a special election to Tillman's squeaky-clean candidate.
Aired: 11/5/1981
Daniel is as surprised as anyone when a few innocent kisses lead to a shotgun wedding.
Aired: 11/12/1981
Laney is smitten with a smoothie who bids high for her at a social—but he turns out to be a low-down heel.
Aired: 10/8/1981
Elvira's die-hard Confederate father (Andy Griffith) stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town. His wife is trying to patch things up with their daughter; she married a Yankee!
Aired: 11/19/1981
Sam and Tillman try hard to convince the railroad to come to Copper Creek.
Aired: 11/26/1981
Sam's image as a lawman quickly loses its edge after he manages to shoot himself in the leg; the jail collapsing around him doesn't help.
Aired: 12/17/1981
Sam doesn't pay attention to signs of discontent from Elvira until the day he comes home to finds her packed to leave.
Aired: 1/7/1982
Frog meets a woman who was recently jilted by her beau, but neither realizes he wants her back.
Aired: 1/14/1982
The reformed Calico Kid decides he wants to be a United States Marshal. But he lacks one qualification: a third-grade education.
Aired: 1/21/1982
Tillman has been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom, but the Copper Creek citizens have no intention of paying up.
Aired: 1/28/1982
Doc's mail-order bride has a vivid personality with a past to match it.
Aired: 2/12/1982
Elvira and her stepson explore an abandoned outlaw cave, unaware that it is booby-trapped to collapse.
Aired: 2/19/1982
Daniel's refusal to fight a relentless bully leads to Sam having to fight the bully's father.
Aired: 2/26/1982
Sam is handcuffed to his prisoner—a flirtatious female outlaw—for an overnight journey.
Aired: 6/7/1982
Elvira's former fiance' comes to town, intent on taking her away with him.
Aired: 6/14/1982
Sam receives an anonymous threatening note.
Aired: 6/21/1982
Sam and Tillman try to foil a holdup by holding a funeral for Frog; the coffin contains the $20,000 the thieves are after.