Alias Smith and Jones

- Season 2

(1971)

Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to the town and sees Curry in the audience; the man on trial is an impostor who didn't commit the murder he's accused of.

Three ne'er-do-wells - a man and two women - hold Curry hostage. The price for his safe return is for Hayes to go through a step-by-step instruction to the man of how to blow up a unique bank safe. Hayes suspects they will kill him and Curry afterwards, and has to think fast to trick the group.

Heyes and Curry are deputized by the sheriff of Big Bend, to take some outlaws to Junction City. The sheriff there knows them by sight, but a local judge may save them from the law.

During a poker game the guys meet an old timer along with a sharp-shooter and they decide to mine an unknown vein of gold. But things turn ugly when one of them decides he's unwilling to share the gold strike with the others.

Unable to shake a trailing posse the guys shelter in the remote Jordan family cabin. Their teenage daughters are so taken with them, that when the posse takes them away, they spring them. But then the mother faces prison for what they did.

Hank Henderson has hired Heyes and Curry to find his runaway wife and bring her home. She agrees, but her friend Jim tries to stop her. When Hank is killed, and Jim arrested, they try to prove he's innocent with an unheard of technique.

Apache Springs is where the guys meet a troubled traveling minister, a government envoy and his disillusioned wife, and a widow desperate to recover the gold she had buried in a place now controlled by marauding Indians.

After meeting an old miner, he gives the guys and four other men a map to his mine. All goes well with the mining until an unexpected blizzard snows them all inside their cabin for the winter, and somebody steals Heyes' and Curry's gold.

Heyes and Curry agree to help two traveling nuns, not realizing that one of them has stolen $30,000 and is being chased by Harry Briscoe, who hopes her capture will get his job back with the Bannerman Detective Agency.

Clementine Hale asks for the guy's help in recovering $50,000 from a crook who had stolen it and then framed her father. As an incentive she reminds them of a group photo of them that would make it impossible for them to evade the law.

Heyes and Curry are among seven people ambushed by outlaws and held hostage in a way station. The leader of the gang, knowing Heyes are Curry are in touch with Sheriff Lom Trevors, politely outlines his plan to assassinate the sheriff when he comes looking for our heroes, in revenge for the death of his brother by Lom (actually, one of his deputies). The gang is prepared to wait a day and a night for Lom, forcing the group to do the same and try to think of ways to warn Lom before he gets bushwhacked. The mercurial leader (Neville Brand) is the biggest threat. The ...

Ex-slave Joe Sims has a cheerful demeanor that masks intensive hatred for the white racists who have dogged him all his life. He has an uncanny ability to track down Heyes and Curry wherever they go and trap them, planning to turn them in for the reward money and methodically ignoring their pleas that they have reformed. After witnessing some of Sims' confrontations with vicious whites, Heyes and Curry are sympathetic to his plight and try to help him, but Sims won't let them go.

Two guys, passing themselves off as Heyes and Curry, rob a bank. The real Heyes and Curry, concerned about losing their amnesty, arrive in town to find out what really happened and who's behind the scheme.

It will take a Miracle at Santa Marta for Curry to escape a firing squad after a wealthy visitor to a Mexican resort town's murdered. Heyes discovers a case of identity theft, in which 2 women claim to be the same socialite, but how, or why this is relevant to the murder, as well as who can save Curry from death takes some time.

Unable to find work , Heyes and Curry accept a rancher's offer of pay if they can help herd cattle to a Colorado town. Soon, one of the cattle hands is dead - and suspicion falls upon Curry. The next night, it happens again. Then again. Someone isn't who - or what - they pretend to be

'Big Mac' MacCreedy hires Smith and Jones to steal it (again ) -the Cesar's bust from Arminderez but Heyes refuses (but agrees to teach one of MacCreedy's men how to do it , instead.) Heyes and Curry agree to escort the bust from a pre-arranged going spite too San Fransisco, where is to be auctioned. Whilst Heyes and Curry wait at the town near three deep-spot, they meet the town bully. Though they keep backing down, the bully keeps pushing, and Curry starts losing his temper.

While playing cards on a train with banker Chester Powers, our heroes are recognized by another banker, Winford Fletcher (the villain of "Dreadful Sorry, Clementine," Fletcher pulls a gun on the group and says the 2 cost him a great deal of money to get out of trouble (apparently, he bought his way out of prison time on top of being swindled for $50,000). Powers bluffs Fletcher with a hidden "gun" and Fletcher backs down. That gives Powers an idea. He has speculated with and lost all the securities and bonds in his bank. The cash is still there, but there will be a ...

Heyes and Curry are captured by a farm family and brought into Hadleyburg. The farmer wants the bounty money, but has a change of heart and helps them escape. That puts the farmer and his wife into very hot water and make Heyes and Curry very ashamed. Help comes from detective Harry Briscoe, who's investigating a crooked gambling house in another town. Heyes goes to the house and plays blackjack, notices a marked deck at the start of the card game, and gets it replaced with an unmarked deck. He counts the cards in the old sharpie's trick and only making big bets when ...

On a lazy Sunday afternoon, Curry and Heyes (now played by Roger Davis) relax in a gully when a satchel of money literally lands in their laps, thrown from a passing carriage. Heyes opens it and finds $200,000 -- every bill of it a bad counterfeit. Heyes thinks it over for a few seconds and then comes up with a brilliant plan. After shaving off his mustache (Roger Davis had one in real life; after the first day of filming, Universal executives told Davis the mustache looked "sinister" and Roy Huggins wrote the comment into a scene where Heyes shaves), Joshua Smith ...

To stop the MacCreedy-Armindariz feud from coming to a rope's end, Heyes and Curry ride to the aid of their former employer Patrick "Big Mac" MacCreedy, who is accused of murdering the foreman of his across-the-Rio-Grande neighbor Armindariz's ranch. In fact, MacCreedy only witnessed the shooting and has no idea who the killer is (viewers don't either; the killer is never revealed). While hurrying to help the dying man, MacCreedy saw a neer-do-well drifter (Neville Brand) swipe the man's rifle and take off with it. Heyes and Curry find that the drifter has gone to ...

Heyes is cheated at poker by big, obnoxious Wheelwright. Georgette Sinclair, in the second of three appearances, is hired to help Heyes carry out the title phrase, which Heyes utters while leaving. "Wheelwrong" also cheats George and gives her a literal horselaugh when she tries to bewitch him with a string of pearls. The group goes to Silky O'Sullivan, who lent them the necklace to begin with, and after enduring his rage talk him into lending them money to "ransom" the necklace.

Mia Bronson doesn't like being accused of crooked gambling and has the guys beaten up. They're rescued by George Austin and his daughter, another victim of Mia's, and he's discovered a way to copy any printed material - including money.

Georgette Sinclair hooks the guys into a plan to find a hidden diamond worth a small fortune. Watching them is the town's sheriff and a mystery man hoping to collect the reward if it's found and returned to the rightful owner.