The Richard Boone Show

- Season 1

(1963)

Assistant State's Attorney Chris Dale (Boone) heads to a small town to get a statement from murder suspect Ellen Dudley (Leslie), who has been captured there and is accused of killing her husband. Dale's arrogant attitude is revealed by his treatment of his assistant (Rainey), the town sheriff (Stevens), and particularly his own wife (Nolan). While interrogating Ellen, Dale comes to see parallels between the way her husband treated her and the way he treats his wife.

After failing to find success in the big city, banjo player Luke Stringer (Boone) returns to his home town, where he becomes acquainted with a young woman known as the "Snake Woman" (Leslie) and her blind daughter.

Korean War veteran Cal Brown (Stevens) recreates a war zone in the high-rise office where he is working at night---using automatic weapons, grenades, barbed wire, and booby traps---and forces all his co-workers to participate in conquering the perceived "hill".

Seriocomic story about three bumbling types (Boone, Morgan, and Blake) who decide to rob the safe of a neighborhood bar owner. But things don't quite go as planned.

A group of people live in isolation, all unhappy with their lives. A strange boy without any worldly knowledge comes into their lives, but his blissful ignorance only causes them to look deep into their own hatreds and frustrations.

Fisherman Sorofino (Blake) just wants to use the pearl he found to pay off his debts, but the American (Boone) that he sold it too thinks it may be worth far more, and soon the entire population of the Mexican fishing village is trying to persuade Sorofino to buy it back and sell it for a much higher price and share it with the rest of them. A bidding war ensues.

Elderly bag lady Jessie McCoony (Nolan) and her neighbors in a run-down tenement area are all surprised to find that the picture Jessie posed for is being used in the campaign against a slum-clearance proposition. A young woman from the area (Devon) fears she will end up just like Jessie unless she can get out. Soon she meets the man leading the proposition's supporters (Stevens).

In a lonely desert stop in the Southwest, Jim Hensel (Boone), long devoted to his invalid wife (Leslie), still finds himself drawn to the tacky, flirtatious new waitress (Devon) at the local diner, run by his only friend (Morgan).

Visiting Mexico, a sea captain (Boone) becomes friendly with a girl (Devon) who desperately wants to go to America for employment, so he promises to find her one, but his secret is that he's really a lowly dockworker masquerading as a captain.

When a college girl (Harding) tells her mother (Leslie) she's pregnant by a married man and threatens to kill herself, her well-to-do father (Bochner) desperately sets out to find her in time.

"Big Mitch" (Boone) has to face the uncertainty of life, his sense of uselessness, and loneliness after his daughter (Leslie) announces her plans to get married

A former boxer (Blake) is deemed rehabilitated enough to leave a mental institution, and goes aboard a train to find work in a distant city. Along the way he goes through painful memories of past indignities, but meets a blind girl (Harding) who offers hope.

When master criminal Zondakes (Stevens) goes to prison for a three-year stretch, IRS agent Sidney Hagen (Morgan) is sure he can find the million dollars the crook has hidden away; but after two years, Zondakes is about to be released early and Hagen has come up empty. He's convinced that Zondakes stashed his money with a young waitress named Norma Jean Freiberger (Harding) who was a witness at Zondakes' trial and lives in mortal fear of him. Desperate, Hagen calls on young colleague Ray March (Stockwell) who specializes in romancing women to uncover tax frauds. Posing...

Exiled mobster Frank Richie (Boone) agrees to come back to the U.S. to testify against his Mafia associates, if he is allowed to spend one hour with his estranged son. But many in the organization are determined that he never make it back to the States alive. Not trusting anyone, he asks an apparently innocent young woman (Devon) to assist him.

In this light Western episode, loud and pushy Steve Gregg (Boone), threatened with foreclosure of his ranch, is down to the last two people who owe him money who can pay him enough to save it. The first, a saloon owner (Rainey) is broke, leaving him one more, Maurice Holden, who has just died, and his widow (Nolan) refuses to pay until tomorrow when she's through grieving. But Gregg insists he needs the money today.

Top national reporter Dan Wilson (Stevens) returns to his home town, hoping to rekindle his relationship with long-time flame Min Adams (Leslie). But he doesn't tell her that he is terminally ill.

Father Leonard Winger (Stockwell), a young priest planning his first sermon, encounters a young man (Blake) in his church who tells him he has just killed a young woman at a masquerade party. Believing the girl may still be alive, the priest heads to the party to find her. But he is torn between his duty as a priest and his duty as a citizen to tell the police all he knows.

Betty Haist (Devon) gets a visit from a strange woman (Nolan) who claims that the man Betty's been seeing (Stockwell) behind her husband's back is putting her in some kind of great danger. But it soon becomes apparent that the woman is seriously disturbed, and she is the one Betty's in danger from.

Boone plays a Paladin-like gun for hire type, tough, an expert in weapons and philosophy. A reporter (Leslie) gives him the job of body guard for an ex-mobster (Rainey) just let out of prison and traveling to Mexico, but the route bristles with determined hit men.

A couple (Stevens, Leslie) hires a professional hit man (Stockwell) to kill a man (Bochner) who's been blackmailing them. But as part of his cover, the hit man insists on dating their talented but sheltered daughter (Harding).

A drug addict shoots a cop while burglarizing a drug store, then hijacks a car with a woman in it. He forces her to her job in a loan office after hours, but can't open the time-locked safe. He takes her to his squalid flat where his worn down girlfriend lives and ties her up.

District Attorney Joe Campbell (Bochner), running for the Senate to end an entrenched political dynasty, finds that among the decisions which could affect his chances is whether to try a 17-year-old murder suspect (Harding) as a juvenile or as an adult, as potential backers are attempting to influence his decision.

With the nominating convention deadlocked, Joe Campbell (Bochner) faces increasingly intense political pressure to try Jeannette Brown (Harding) for murder as an adult. But he refuses to commit to a decision, even despite additional evidence that the deceptively sweet-looking teenager may be incorrigible.

Carl Macklin (Stevens) arrives in Europe to reunite with members of the resistance group he worked with in World War II. He is persuaded by Paul Marchand (Boone) to help free Marchand's brother, who is somewhere in Spain after escaping from prison there. But Macklin soon learns he may be being used for another more sinister purpose.

An American general (Boone) and attorney Paul Welles (Stockwell) arrive in a revolt-torn Southeast Asian nation to find the truth about the ambush which killed the general's soldier-son. Information leads both to believe that the son may have been betrayed by people he trusted.