Tonight's episode involves a modern-day Indian uprising to gain water for their reservation. Laura McAdams, one of Jim's ranching neighbors, runs for councilwoman and loses.
Johnny is a modern-day cattle rustler. He works rounding up cattle, so they can be butchered on the spot and the carcasses loaded into refrigerated trucks. Whatever he "earns" he mostly loses at poker played under the influence of alcohol.
Jim Redigo drops his ranch duties to search for a runaway boy. Redigo first meets the boy, Carlos, when he appears at the ranch looking for work as a "cowboy."
Redigo (Richard Egan) hires the son (Nico Minardos) of a slain Latin American dictator to hide him from the pursuing assassins. They show up, as expected, with submachine guns loaded, but Redigo, also as expected, foils their murder plans.
Economic ruin threatens Jim Redigo and his fellow ranchers when a landslide closes the main irrigation channel, turning their grazing lands to dust.
Jim Redigo befriends a girl, and winds up fighting her knife-wielding former boyfriend.
Jim Redigo is struck down by a truck and awakens in a distant town, his memory blank.
Redigo tries to prevent a romance between Sada, a Korean orphan he befriended while in military service, and Chick Logan.
A rancher finds the body of a diseased deer on his land and dumps it onto Redigo's ranch.
Jim Redigo has a plan to keep a cougar from killing his lambs, but it is foiled by a houseguest who wants to shoot the animal.
Redigo hires an ex-convict who was once in love with his fiancee.
An old friend wishes to continue his role as a hero, long after the war is over.
The wife of a famous writer pleads with Jim Redigo to help prolong the life of her fatally ill husband.
In Bonnie-and-Clyde style, two gunmen invade the Redigo spread and take Jim (Richard Egan) hostage.
Redigo tries to prevent a rancher from faking unfair advantage of an Indian who was caught trespassing.