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The High Chaparral — Storyline
The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
Cast & Crew
- Created by: David Dortort
- Starring: Henry Darrow, Cameron Mitchell, Leif Erickson, Linda Cristal
The High Chaparral — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1967-09-10 |
| Seasons | 4 |
| Episodes | 98 |
| Genre | Western, Drama |
| Language | English |
| Network | NBC |
| Status | Ended |
| Rating | 6.8/10 (26 votes) |
The High Chaparral — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: Destination Tucson (1) (1967-09-10) — This pilot launches the saga of the Cannon family as they fight to establish a ranch in the Arizona territory of the 1870s. Marauding Apaches led by Cochise are on the warpath. The
- E2: The Arrangement (2) (1967-09-10) — John Cannon's first wife is killed during an Apache raid. Buck, his brother, can't stop Mexican bandits from rustling cattle. Unable to fight on two fronts — against Mexican mar
- E3: The Ghost of Chaparral (1967-09-17) — Victoria's efforts to overcome husband John Cannon's memory of his first wife are thwarted when Apaches lay siege to their ranch, and she is kidnapped.
Victoria is exchanged for a
- E4: Best Man for the Job (1967-09-24) — John Cannon must decide whether to send his son to possible death to save their besieged ranch.
Three army deserters, who have murdered Apaches on Cannon land, are taken prisoner
- E5: A Quiet Day in Tucson (1967-10-01) — Buck, Manolito and Billy Blue are sent to Tucson for food, supplies and boots, but are sidetracked instead by women and song.
While John Cannon awaits his trio's return with the g
- E6: Young Blood (1967-10-08) — The future of the ranch is jeopardized when bandits steal a prize bull and breeding stock which Billy Blue Cannon and Manolito Montoya have bought in Mexico with the last of the Ca
- E7: Shadows on the Land (1967-10-15) — John Cannon needs cattle from Mexican ranchers for his Army beef contract, but finds the frightened men are being forced to sell at cheap prices to a ruthless cattle buyer.
When J
- E8: The Filibusteros (1967-10-22) — Buck, Victoria and Manolito return to the Montoya Ranch and become prisoners, with Don Sebastian, of a degraded former Civil War friend of Buck.
Lanier and his disheveled army ann
- E9: The Doctor from Dodge (1967-10-29) — When Billy Blue Cannon is forced into a showdown with wanted gunfighters, he is saved by a wandering dentist who proves to be fast with a gun. John Cannon returns the favor to Doc
- E10: Sudden Country (1967-11-05) — Mistakes of an inexperienced eastern bank clerk who attempts to settle on a ramshackle ranch near the Cannon family threaten to wipe out the cattle industry of the territory.
When
- E11: A Hanging Offense (1967-11-12) — Billy Blue Cannon faces possible hanging when he is court-martialed on the charge of killing an army general's son.
Billy Blue saves an Indian girl from advances by a drunken army
- E12: The Price of Revenge (1967-11-19) — Buck Cannon goes to work as foreman for a lovely neighboring widow, and clashes with his brother John when the job appears permanent.
Buck falls in love with the widow, Melanie Ca
- E13: The Widow from Red Rock (1967-11-26) — Billy Blue Cannon faces possible hanging when he is court-martialed on the charge of killing an army general's son.
Billy Blue saves an Indian girl from advances by a drunken army
- E14: Mark of the Turtle (1967-12-10) — John Cannon risks breaking a mutual defense agreement with Victoria's father and dissolution of his marriage when his ranch hands join a posse searching for marauding bandits in Me
- E15: The Terrorist (1967-12-17) — Henry Silva guest-stars as a revolutionary who plans to assassinate Benito Juarez, exiled President of Mexico, on the Cannon Ranch.
Manolito frees his old friend Santos from a Mex
- E16: The Firing Wall (1967-12-31) — Fernando Lamas guest-stars as a Mexican bandit turned revolutionary who captures and prepares to execute the Cannon Ranch hands to prove his power.
Manolito is jailed by El Caudil
- E17: The Assassins (1968-01-07) — An Apache renegade and his followers plan to kill Cochise's peace representative in the Cannon ranch house and start a new Indian war.
Medicine man Nock-Ay-Del explains that Cochi
- E18: Survival (1968-01-14) — John Cannon and Billy Blue are captured by Apaches far from home and made to face death from lack of water.
John and Billy force a wounded Indian, Klosen, to lead them toward wate
- E19: Gold Is Where You Leave It (1968-01-21) — John Cannon drives gold seekers from an abandoned mine on his land and they retaliate by plotting to kill the Cannons.
Lije Driskill, Johnny Faro and Shorty Bleeson fail in an att
- E20: The Kinsman (1968-01-28) — The Cannons care for a wounded relative who repays them by stealing the ranch payroll.
Uncle Dan Brookes arrives suddenly after a 15-year absence seeking safety in the heavily for
- E21: Champion of the Western World (1968-02-04) — Billy Blue Cannon plans to earn money for an expensive silver saddle by boxing.
Billy Blue learns Killian and his ranch hands have entered every event in the Fourth of July rodeo
- E22: Ride the Savage Land (1968-02-11) — Buck and Manolito invade the Apache stronghold to rescuer a captive white girl.
Ann, an Apache slave for five years, is rescued by Buck and Manolito as she flees from her captors,
- E23: Bad Day for a Thirst (1968-02-18) — Buck Cannon jeopardizes his life, when he tries to turn two Apaches into wranglers.
Sourdough and Saddleblanket quickly become valuable hands. When an Apache war party kills thre
- E24: Tiger by the Tail (1968-02-25) — Ricardo Montalban guest-stars as a wounded bandit leader who is captured by the Cannons and tells them his followers will destroy them unless he is released.
When El Tigre's broth
- E25: The Peacemaker (1968-03-03) — Billy Blue Cannon quits the ranch after a quarrel with his father and leads a peace representative of the President to Cochise.
On the trail Blue falls in love with Kelly's adopte
- E26: The Hair Hunter (1968-03-10) — A bounty on Apache scalps disrupts peace between the Cannons and the Indians.
When Apache raids close Judah Austin's mine, he offers Stoner a bounty for Indian scalps despite John
- E27: A Joyful Noise (1968-03-24) — Ramon Novarro, silent film notable is guest star as Padre Guillermo, who flees Mexico to escape the vendetta of a twisted killer.
The padre is accompanied by two nuns and Maria.
- E28: Threshold of Courage (1968-03-31) — John Cannon is forced to relive his final days in the Civil War by a man he disfigured in combat.
Vengeful Finley Carr and his brother Stacy kidnap Victoria and head for high coun
Season 2
- E1: The Stallion (1968-09-20) — An Indian outbreak threatens to erupt when Billy Blue Cannon and an Apache boy fight over a wild horse.
Chatto, son of an Apache chief, first discovers the prized stallion, but fa
- E2: Ten Little Indians (1968-09-27) — When John Cannon feeds hungry Apache children orphaned by Pima Indian attacks, his ranch is threatened by the two tribes.
Buck and Billy Blue find the young Apaches in the desert
- E3: Follow Your Heart (1968-10-04) — Ranch foreman Sam Butler returns to his native border town to avenge the death of his daughter.
Sam, raised by his adopted father Ben Lynch, learns his daughter has been killed by
- E4: Tornado Frances (1968-10-11) — Buck Cannon's plans to open a saloon are threatened by a temperance group led by spirited Frances O'Tolle.
Oscar Hipple sells his saloon to Buck, but conceals the fact it was wrec
- E5: The Covey (1968-10-18) — Mexican bandit El Lobo breaks jail and plots to plunder the Cannon Ranch supplies to avenge his imprisonment by Manolito.
When heavy rain prevents wagons from reaching the ranch w
- E6: The Promised Land (1968-10-25) — Don Sebastian Montoya repudiates his promise to sell a small village on his land to tenants after Vaquero obtains the purchase money.
Vaquero received the money from a dying frien
- E7: Ebenezer (1968-11-01) — Crusading editor Ebenezer Binns risks his life against extortionists and killers.
John Cannon persuades Binns to establish Tucson's first newspaper in hope of running the lawless
- E8: North to Tucson (1968-11-08) — When Victoria saves the life of a man injured in a stagecoach plundered by Comancheros, she learns the man has sworn to kill her husband.
The injured man, James Forrest, blames Jo
- E9: The Deceivers (1968-11-15) — Chio, an Apache half-breed and his renegades, capture Cannon's supply wagons. Just as food and ammunition for High Chaparral runs out, Chio is captured and brought to the ranch.
- E10: The Buffalo Soldiers (1968-11-22) — ""A factual drama based on the 10th Cavalry, a Negro regiment formed in 1866. Lawlessness in Tucson brings martial law–and the 10th–into open conflict with the town's white popul
- E11: For What We Are About to Receive (1968-11-29) — John Cannon quarrels with a neighbor and Indians, and interrupts Thanksgiving plans.
Victoria persuades John to buy the last turkey from argumentative neighbor Fergus McLeish. Th
- E12: A Way of Justice (1968-12-13) — John Cannon is accused of killing the daughter of a Mexican sheepherder and is condemned to death unless steep ransom is paid.
Escaped convicts Mitch, Cable, and Kolos accidentall
- E13: Our Lady of Guadalupe (1968-12-20) — Ricardo Montalban guest-stars as a priest who obtains money from the Cannon family, presumably to finance his search for a religious statue, but channels the funds to the poor.
Fa
- E14: Sea of Enemies (1969-01-03) — An Army deserter accused of murder takes Billy Blue as hostage.
Graham Jessup enlists Billy Blue to help him escape by fabricating a story that he has been mistreated because he i
- E15: Shadow of the Wind (1969-01-10) — The celebration of a peace treaty with the Indians is cut short for the Cannons by scalp hunters disguised as lawmen.
Nickanora, an old friend of Manolito and Victoria, admits he
- E16: No Irish Need Apply (1969-01-17) — Against John Cannon's advice, Mano helps Sean McLaren, an Irish miner, and his friends in their strike against dangerous working conditions.
McLaren and his friend Scanlon are sen
- E17: The Last Hundred Miles (1969-01-24) — Lucien Charot raises his freight prices by having Indian attacks faked against his wagons. John interests an El Paso stage and freight line in extending operations to Tucson with
- E18: The Glory Soldiers (1969-01-31) — Manolito leaves the routine of the Cannon Ranch searching excitement and becomes involved with three uniformed musicians.
Mano contemplated joining El Lobo, his old bandit friend,
- E19: Feather of an Eagle (1969-02-07) — Billy is taken hostage by Apaches after he ignores Buck's advice and frees a white girl from them.
Buck learns Apache leader Santos considers himself to be Sarah's husband. Buck
- E20: Once on a Day in Spring (1969-02-14) — Victoria, feeling ignored, leaves her husband John but finds little peace of mind at her father's ranch.
Manolito joins Victoria at the Montoya Ranch and vies with his father, Don
- E21: Stinky Flanagan (1969-02-21) — A flamboyant Irishman cons Buck into buying a camel, promising it will revolutionize the cattle industry.
Cavalry trooper Flanagan misinterprets an order to ""shoe"" his camel Til
- E22: Surtee (1969-02-28) — A dishonest Indian agent jeopardizes the future of an Apache reservation started by John Cannon.
Capt. Albert Surtee threats the hungry reservation Indians harshly. John takes th
- E23: A Fella Named Kilroy (1969-03-07) — Buck hires saddle tramp Orville Kilroy, who hides his criminal past and quickly becomes the most popular hand on the Cannon Ranch.
Blue admires Kilroy's ability with a gun, the bu
- E24: No Bugles, No Drums (1969-03-14) — Buck tries to find and return the missing husband of Ann Simmons, an old girlfriend.
Ann gives Buck a valuable diamond ring to identify him as her representative if he finds her h
- E25: The Lion Sleeps (1969-03-28) — Don Sebastian, wounded by a would-be assassin, plays on the sympathy of his family and friends in a scheme to gain control of the Cannon Ranch.
On his pretended death bed, Don Seb
- E26: For the Love of Carlos (1969-04-04) — Victoria reopens Tucson's only school and befriends a troubled Mexican boy, but is kidnapped by the boy's father.
Alberto Ruis, wanted in a slaying, abandons his son Carlos to fle
Season 3
- E1: Time of Your Life (1969-09-19) — A gunfighter attempts to goad Blue into a shootout.
Participating in his first trails-end celebration that traditionally follows a grueling cattle drive, Blue joins his father Joh
- E2: A Time to Laugh, a Time to Cry (1969-09-26) — For the first time in his life, Manolito falls seriously in love but his romance takes a tragic turn when Comancheros decide to settle a debt.
Enamored of beautiful Mercedes Vega
- E3: The Brothers Cannon (1969-10-03) — Buck angrily parts company with his brother John when a long-smoldering family feud is brought out into the open.
Fed up with menial jobs on the Chaparral, Buck is ignored when he
- E4: A Piece of Land (1969-10-10) — After accidentally uncovering a silver deposit, an excited Buck Cannon wastes no time in talking Manolito into joining him in a major real estate investment.
Unable to raise the d
- E5: Bad Day for Bad Men (1969-10-17) — Bandits take advantage of Manolito's affinity for a pretty face by absconding with one of his girlfriends and cash, the theft of which threatens the loss of the Cannon ranch.
Entr
- E6: To Stand for Something More (1969-10-24) — Left in charge of the Chaparral, Blue fails in his first major test of responsibility and then takes drastic steps to redeem himself.
In the absence of his father, John Cannon, hi
- E7: Trail to Nevermore (1969-10-31) — Stranded in the desert following an attack by bandits, John, Victoria and Manolito add to their troubles when they seek shelter in what they assume to be a deserted ghost town.
Wh
- E8: Apache Trust (1969-11-07) — Billy Blue is captured by the Apaches, who use him as a pawn in a bartering game to stave off an impending cavalry attack.
Although he denies pillaging an army weapons patrol, Apa
- E9: Lady Fair (1969-11-14) — Joanna Moore stars as the pretty head of a struggling freight company to whom smitten Buck Cannon not only offers his help but a proposal of marriage.
Buck is swept off his feet b
- E10: The Lost Ones (1969-11-21) — Because she once ""magically"" saved the life of an Indian brave, Victoria is forcibly brought to an Apache camp to treat the chief's dying son.
In awe of Victoria, who he believe
- E11: The Legacy (1969-11-28) — Blue falls in love with an attractive houseguest but the romance is marred when the girl and her father reveal the true purpose of their visit.
Promoter Gar Burnett and daughter T
- E12: Alliance (1969-12-12) — The Cannon Ranch is threatened by an Indian war when the military sends a bounty hunter after an Apache brave accused of murder.
Johnny Ringo reveals to his old friend Manolito th
- E13: The Little Thieves (1969-12-26) — Victimized by two amateur but charming teen-aged cattle rustlers, Buck and Manolito make the mistake of trying to reform them.
Intent on impressing her outlaw father, Annie Croswe
- E14: The Long Shadow (1970-01-02) — The Cannon Ranch faces wholesale resignations by hired hands because of a series of attacks on men and cattle by an unknown assailant.
Convinced that the source of the fear is a f
- E15: The Journal of Death (1970-01-09) — A former prison doctor accused of malpractice becomes the only man to whom John Cannon can appeal in efforts to save the life of his seriously ill wife.
Lawman Tad Garnet requests
- E16: Friends and Partners (1970-01-16) — Tired of the daily grind as cowhands on the Cannon Ranch, Manolito and Buck leave to operate their own recently-purchased spread and find they have only added to their woes.
Convi
- E17: Jelks (1970-01-23) — Joe, foreman of the Cannon Ranch, threatens to quit over John Cannon's mistrust of a new hired hand but later realizes that John's suspicions were well-founded.
In need of new hel
- E18: The Guns of Johnny Rondo (1970-02-06) — A former gunfighter's new life as a Cannon ranchhand is jeopardized by four enemies.
Other Cannon ranchhands and Johnny's teen-age son, Dan, who are unaware of Johnny's reputation
- E19: Mi Casa, Su Casa (1970-02-20) — Told to make himself at home while a houseguest at the Cannon ranch, Don Sebastian Montoya, father of Victoria and Manolito, does just that and inadvertently provokes an Indian att
- E20: The Lieutenant (1970-02-27) — Men of the Cannon ranch are caught in the middle of a confrontation between a neighboring rancher and a young cavalry officer determined to arrest him.
When Lt. Jason Adams reveal
- E21: The Reluctant Deputy (1970-03-06) — Blue is the victim of a practical joke that finds him enlisted as a temporary lawman
Tricked into being sworn in as a deputy marshal by Manolito and his Uncle Buck, Blue is forced
- E22: New Hostess in Town (1970-03-20) — Victoria is kidnapped by outlaws and forced to work as a cantina waitress.
Enroute to the Montoya Ranch with a large sum of cash for a cattle purchase, Victoria and Buck are overp
- E23: Too Many Chiefs (1970-03-27) — Convinced by Victoria that he needs a vacation, John reluctantly leaves Buck, Manolito and Blue in charge of the ranch and returns to an Indian uprising.
Victoria convinces John t
- E24: Auld Lang Syne (1970-04-10) — Buck becomes involved in gold robbery by helping an old Army buddy.
A happy reunion between Buck Cannon and Army Sgt. Travis Winslow leads to Buck's hiring as a scout for Winslow
- E25: Generation (1970-04-17) — Determined to seek a new career as an artist, Blue announces his decision to leave the Cannon Ranch for good.
Blue is chided by men of the Chaparral for assuming his drawings have
- E26: No Trouble at All (1970-05-05) — Victoria's life is imperiled when she insists upon crossing dangerous Indian country to go to the aid of a friend.
Separated from her escorts Buck and Manolito when they are attac
Season 4
- E1: An Anger Greater Than Mine (1970-09-18) — Embittered former revolutionary Diego De La Paula leads his newly-formed army of liberation in a series of harassing raids on the vast lands and herds of the Cannons and Montoyas.
- E2: Spokes (1970-09-25) — Needing to get away temporarily from the rigors of ranch life, Buck chooses the raucous Fourth of July holiday for the time and the roughest town in the territory for the place
So
- E3: Only the Bad Come to Sonora (1970-10-02) — A half-breed Indian lad whose life has been saved by men of the Cannon ranch strives to repay the debt.
John Cannon, Buck and Manolito intervene when ranchers Fraley and Henderson
- E4: Wind (1970-10-09) — Returning home from a visit to her father's ranch, Victoria and her escorts Sam and Pedro find infant Joey, the only survivor of an Indian raid on his parent's wagon. When the b
- E5: A Matter of Survival (1970-10-16) — Returning home from a visit to her father's ranch, Victoria and her escorts Sam and Pedro find infant Joey, the only survivor of an Indian raid on his parent's wagon. When the b
- E6: It Takes a Smart Man (1970-10-23) — Fearing for the life of his threatened brother Buck, John Cannon accepts the demands of a blackmailer.
Confronted by the demands of one-time gunman Tulsa Red, John has little choi
- E7: A Good Sound Profit (1970-10-30) — John Cannon faces alienation of family and friends when he maintains his decision to aid a band of revolutionists.
John Cannon, seeing a financial windfall in the sale of guns, am
- E8: Too Late the Epitaph (1970-11-06) — Manolito is jailed in a case of mistaken identity on charges of holdup and murder.
En route back to the Cannon ranch from a cattle purchase, Manolito is arrested when mistakenly i
- E9: The Forge of Hate (1970-11-13) — Efforts of a young Apache warrior to make peace with the white man are undermined by the belligerence of his long-embittered tribal chief.
Determined to ease the ever-present thre
- E10: Fiesta (1970-11-20) — En route to a bordertown fiesta, Buck invites trouble when he befriends a Mexican boy.
Buck encounters Homero Jose, an itinerant promoter whose income comes from fights he stages
- E11: A Matter of Vengeance (1970-11-27) — Embittered over the loss of his home and grandson in fire during a bandit raid, Casement vows to track down Reese, Gail and Wiley, the men responsible. He trails them to Tucson wh
- E12: Pale Warrior (1970-12-11) — Claiming to have been imprisoned by the Apaches for 15 years, a white man is befriended by the Cannons who soon regret their helpfulness.
After aiding Talbot whom they find injure
- E13: The Badge (1970-12-18) — In a flashback sequence, John Cannon and brother Buck retrace their lives of years ago when lawman John captures Buck, who is wanted for bank robbery and murder. En route to town
- E14: The New Lion of Sonora (1) (1971-02-19) — Gilbert Roland guest stars as the surprise heir to the Montoya ranch in this special two-hour presentation.
The sudden, peaceful passing of Don Sebastian Montoya brings his daught
- E15: The New Lion of Sonora (2) (1971-02-19) — Gilbert Roland guest stars as the surprise heir to the Montoya ranch in this special two-hour presentation.
The sudden, peaceful passing of Don Sebastian Montoya brings his daught
- E16: Sangre (1971-02-26) — An all-out Indian war is threatened when a wounded Apache leader is held hostage at the Cannon ranch.
Although the original intent to bring wounded Apache warrior Sangre to the Ca
- E17: The Hostage (1971-03-05) — This episode involves the suspenseful moments spent by innocent bystanders taken hostage during an attempted bank robbery.
During what he hoped to be the last robbery of his crime
- E18: A Man to Match the Land (1971-03-12) — Albert Salmi is the sole survivor of an Indian battle who decides to live as an Apache.
Needing to fulfill an Army contract for the sale of horses, John Cannon, Buck, Manolito and
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does The High Chaparral have? 4 season(s) with 98 episodes.
Who created The High Chaparral? David Dortort.
Where can I watch The High Chaparral? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
