Episode
The Young Riders: Requiem for a Hero
Overview
Cody meets and learns from his doomed Old West hero Hezekiah Horn.
Details
- Series
- The Young Riders
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1990-11-17
Episode context
Requiem for a Hero is Episode 8 in Season 2 of The Young Riders. It aired on 1990-11-17.
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Episode 7: Blood Money
The Kid catches Dyson, a would-be horse thief, who apparently hangs himself while in the custody of a corrupt marshal.
Episode 9: Bad Company
Hickok leaves to become sheriff of the lawless town of Regrets, haoping to meet death quickly as retribution for accidentally killing a young woman during a gunfight.
More episodes from this season
Episode 6: The Littlest Cowboy
Ike, bitter after being beaten by men who take advantage of his handicap, befriends Arthur, a terminally ill boy.
Episode 10: Star Light, Star Bright
At Chrismastime the riders believe they own half a gold mine as repayment for Hickok's kindness to old prospector Cyrus.
Episode 5: Pride and Prejudice
Buck finds Tompkins' long-missing wife and child assimilated into the Sioux tribe which took them.
Episode 11: The Play's the Thing
Cody considers joining a theater troupe, and unknowingly enters a ploat to assassinate a U.S. General.
Episode 4: Blood Moon
Fear of a cholera outbreak turns the citizens of Sweetwater into a mob intent on lynching a deaf-mute boy suspected of being the carrier.
Episode 12: Judgement Day
Still affected by Hezekiah Horn's death, Cody seeks guidance from a preacher-vigilante.
Episode 3: Dead Ringer
Hickok sets out to catch a vicious gunman impersonating him.
Episode 13: Kansas
Noah is taken into slavery when he tries to free his former teacher Calvin (Roundtree).
Episode 2: Ghosts
The ""ghost"" of one of Teaspoon's victims returns for revenge.
Episode 14: The Peacemakers
Hickok falls for Alice, a woman from an ostracized religious group, and settles an old score with a gunfighter named Tyler.