Lancer

1968 - 1970 NR 1h 00m 7.1

A tyrannical owner of a vast ranch recruits his two estranged and vastly opposite sons to maintain an uneasy alliance as they fight off forces that would destroy the ranch.

Lancer is the story of a rancher who struggles to hang onto his vast holdings in California's San Joaquin Valley with the help of his two sons and his ward. Scott, whose mother died in childbirth, is Murdoch Lancer's older son. He was raised by his maternal grandfather in Boston. Younger son Johnny was taken from his father by his Mexican mother when he was only around two. He grew up around the Mexican border and went by the name "Johnny Madrid", under which he earned a reputation as a fast gun. Deservedly so apparently, as men from his past occasionally showed up to cause problems for Johnny and his newfound family. Teresa O'Brien, daughter of Murdoch's murdered ranch foreman is Murdoch's ward and a surrogate sister to the two boys.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 The High Riders

1. The High Riders

Aired: Sep 24, 1968

Faced with continual raids by the Pardee gang, California rancher Murdoch Lan...

Episode 2 Blood Rock

2. Blood Rock

Aired: Oct 1, 1968

The Lancers help a 10-year-old orphan who wants to meet his outlaw father.

Episode 3 Chase a Wild Horse

3. Chase a Wild Horse

Aired: Oct 8, 1968

Used to blowing in the wind, Johnny rebels against his new circumscribed life...

Episode 4 Foley

4. Foley

Aired: Oct 15, 1968

Scott is caught up in a family war when a young pregnant woman shoots her abu...

Episode 5 The Lawman

5. The Lawman

Aired: Oct 22, 1968

Trouble brews when a washed-up marshal - to whom Murdoch once promised a shar...

Episode 6 Julie

6. Julie

Aired: Oct 29, 1968

After meeting a young woman, Scott is waylaid by two unscrupulous bounty hunt...

Episode 7 The Prodigal

7. The Prodigal

Aired: Nov 12, 1968

Murdoch meets an old flame, now widowed, and brings her to the ranch, where t...

Episode 8 Jelly

8. Jelly

Aired: Nov 19, 1968

The Lancers take in supposedly injured stranger Jelly Hoskins, unaware that h...

Episode 10 Glory

10. Glory

Aired: Dec 10, 1968

A pretty young woman and her grandfather try to con the Lancers out of $500 t...

Episode 12 The Escape

12. The Escape

Aired: Dec 31, 1968

Three men come to Morro Coyo to kill Scott, who they are convinced is respons...

Episode 13 The Wedding

13. The Wedding

Aired: Jan 7, 1969

Scott and his friend Josh, a Lancer ranch hand, try to rescue Josh's fiancée,...

Episode 14 Death Bait

14. Death Bait

Aired: Jan 14, 1969

A man with a vicious dog and a grudge against Jelly terrorizes Murdoch, Teres...

Episode 15 The Black McGloins

15. The Black McGloins

Aired: Jan 21, 1969

Scott is duped by the attractive daughter of an Irish con artist whose family...

Episode 16 Yesterday's Vendetta

16. Yesterday's Vendetta

Aired: Jan 28, 1969

When Murdoch goes to the town of Mesa Roja to bury the hatchet with an old en...

Episode 17 Warburton's Edge

17. Warburton's Edge

Aired: Feb 4, 1969

Trying to avoid violence, Johnny ends up on the wrong side of a range war aga...

Episode 18 The Fix-It Man

18. The Fix-It Man

Aired: Feb 11, 1969

The Lancers' plan to build a jail in Spanish Wells unintentionally sets an ol...

Episode 20 The Great Humbug

20. The Great Humbug

Aired: Mar 4, 1969

A grifter comes to town to cheat the locals in a phony land deal, straining t...

Episode 21 Juniper's Camp

21. Juniper's Camp

Aired: Mar 11, 1969

Murdoch sends Scott and Johnny to rescue an old friend's daughter, who is abo...

Episode 22 The Knot

22. The Knot

Aired: Mar 18, 1969

After a family of highway robbers shoots Scott and kidnaps Teresa, she begins...

Episode 25 The Measure of a Man

25. The Measure of a Man

Aired: Apr 8, 1969

A schoolteacher encounters hostility and harassment when he arrives to start ...

Episode 26 Devil's Blessing

26. Devil's Blessing

Aired: Apr 22, 1969

Murdoch leaves on a stage for Yuma in hope of disproving assumptions that he'...

Info about Lancer

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Genres: Western